sublingual nitroglycerin (tng) has been introduced as a promising provocative agent for tilt table testing, but it has not been compared directly with the standard isoproterenol (iso) infusion test previously. we tried to assess the diagnostic value and safety of tng tilt testing as compared with iso infusion in patients with unexplained syncope. tng and iso tilt tests were performed in two suc...

conclusions hemodynamic response to the hutt was associated with age. cardioinhibitory response became less frequent with age due to exaggerated vagal activity in the younger patients as compared with the older subjects. background the head-up tilt test (hutt) is a useful diagnostic tool for syncope. objectives we sought to investigate the outcome of the hutt in syncope patients and identify th...

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to develop a time-efficient tilt table test. BACKGROUND Current protocols of tilt table testing are quite time-consuming. This study was designed to assess the diagnostic value, tolerance and procedural time of a single-stage isoproterenol tilt table protocol. METHODS A single-stage isoproterenol tilt table test was compared with the passive tilt table te...

The prevalence of ascariasis is very high in parts of rural areas in southern China. The high prevalence of ascariasis is one of the most neglected public health problems. A longitudinal investigation on the prevalence of ascariasis in a rural community in China was reported previously. In this article, we re-analyze the reported age specific prevalence of ascariasis using a life table method. ...

CONTEXT The age at sexual debut is declining in China, but little is known about the relationship between the social and demographic characteristics of Chinese youth and the timing of debut. METHODS Data were drawn from the 2009 National Youth Reproductive Health Survey, which collected background information and age at sexual debut from 22,300 unmarried youth aged 15-24. Life table analysis ...

This study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of the traditional method of ankle bandaging and the new method of ankle taping for judo athletes in Japan, and to introduce a functionally effective taping method for judo players. Four university judo athletes with ankle instability were selected to undertake radiography of the ankles before and after exercise, with bandaging at one time a...

A stationary stimulus is perceived to drift in the opposite direction after adaptation to a moving stimulus (static motion aftereffect (MAE)). It is commonly assumed that positional effects from the static motion aftereffect are mediated by early visual areas. Here we psychophysically showed that these positional effects did not modulate illusory line-tilt aftereffect (TAE). Since illusory cont...