Depression is one of the major causes of disability worldwide, but the complete etiology of depression is not fully understood. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its sulphated form DHEA(S) have been associated with mood and healthy aging. Associations with mental illness over the middle to late years of life have not yet been extensively investigated in large, western community-dwelling samples...

AIMS Very little is known regarding the time required to diagnose and treat patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in Canada. We sought to quantify diagnostic and treatment intervals for NSCLC care in Alberta and identify risk factors for delays. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Alberta Cancer Registry identified all cases of stage I-III NSCLC diagnosed and treated in Alberta, Canada from ...

M?ori are the indigenous people of New Zealand, and suffer disparate health outcomes compared to non-M?ori. Waikato District Health Board provides level III intensive care unit services Zealand’s Midland region. In 2016, our institution formalised a corporate strategy eliminate inequities for M?ori. Our study aimed describe in identify inequities. We performed retrospective audit prospectively ...

T164, A0969, page 1442, journal of the American Society of Nephrology, September 1996, Volume 7, #9 Link not available Abstract: We performed a cross-sectional study of BIA (Bioelectrical impedance analysis, BIA 101-Q, RJL Systems, Clinton Township, MI) in 3009 HD (hemodialysis) patients with follow-up to 12 (median 8) months to evaluate the relation between impedance and survival. 296 deaths w...

Rock glaciers are an integral part of the periglacial environment. At regional scale in Greater Caucasus, there have been no comprehensive systematic efforts to assess distribution rock glaciers, although some individual parts ranges mapped before. In this study we produce first inventory from entire Caucasus region—Russia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. A remote sensing survey was conducted using Ge...

Background—Experimental studies suggest that transplantation of blood-derived or bone marrow–derived progenitor cells beneficially affects postinfarction remodeling. The safety and feasibility of autologous progenitor cell transplantation in patients with ischemic heart disease is unknown. Methods and Results—We randomly allocated 20 patients with reperfused acute myocardial infarction (AMI) to...