BACKGROUND Multiple treatments for painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy are available. PURPOSE To evaluate the comparative effectiveness of oral and topical analgesics for diabetic neuropathy. DATA SOURCES Multiple electronic databases between January 2007 and April 2014, without language restriction. STUDY SELECTION Parallel or crossover randomized, controlled trials that evaluated pha...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Intracranial hemodynamic status varies in patients with unilateral significant carotid artery stenosis. It ranges from normal, because of sufficient collaterals, to poor, because of a severely reduced blood supply that puts the patient at an increased risk of stroke or cerebral ischemia. The present study examined patterns of abnormal cerebrovascular hemodynamics in patie...

BACKGROUND There is increasing recognition that the use of certain medications contributes to falls in seniors. Our objective was to update a previously completed meta-analysis looking at the association of medication use and falling to include relevant drug classes and new studies that have been completed since a previous meta-analysis. METHODS Studies were identified through a systematic se...

BACKGROUND We observed that some patients with clinical leptospirosis supported by positive results of rapid tests were negative for leptospirosis on the basis of our diagnostic gold standard, which involves isolation of Leptospira species from blood culture and/or a positive result of a microscopic agglutination test (MAT). We hypothesized that our reference standard was imperfect and used sta...

BACKGROUND To test if the critical power (CP) concept can be utilized to determine the critical rest interval (CRI) using repeated sprint ability (RSA) testing with varying work-to-rest ratios. METHODS Twelve recreationally trained men (mean±SD; age 24.1±3.6 years) completed a graded exercise test and three RSA protocols with 6-second maximal sprints and varying rest intervals (12-36 s) on a ...

A source of illumination with good color properties, daylight or electric, should reveal a full range of colors, should enable good color discrimination between objects of similar spectral reflectance, and should not distort colors. We presently have only one recognized measure of color rendering in the lighting industry, color rendering index (CRI), developed in the early 1960s. However, CRI s...

One of the goals of psychological assessment focuses on the adaptation of its instruments to different populations. The objective of this study is to establish the psychometric properties and dimensional structure of the Spanish version of the Coping Responses Inventory-Adult Form (CRI-Adult, Moos, 1993). The following criteria were analyzed: a) descriptive statistics; b) internal consistency r...

Black Americans experience a disproportionate burden of ESRD compared with whites. Whether this is caused by the increased prevalence of chronic renal insufficiency (CRI) among blacks or by their increased progression from CRI to ESRD was investigated. A birth cohort analysis was performed using data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the United States Renal Dat...