... Comparison of upper gastrointestinal toxicity of rofecoxib and naproxen in patients with rheumatoid arthritis VIGOR Study Group N Engl J Med 2000, 343:1520-1528 Spiegel BMR, Chiou CF, Ofman J: ... hospital, and another (3.8%) died within months of the diagnosis The median duration of hospitalisation was 9.0 days (range to 87 days); 11 patients spent up to days in the intensive care unit and ... 0.50 to 1.67 0.77 Preferential COX-2 inhibitors (1.0%) 12 (4.2%) 0.22 0.03 to 1.71 0.20 Proton pump inhibitors 14 (13.5%) 77 (27.1%) 0.42 0.23 to 0.78 0.005 H2RAs (3.8%) (3.2%) 1.22 0.37 to 4.06...
... Comparison of upper gastrointestinal toxicity of rofecoxib and naproxen in patients with rheumatoid arthritis VIGOR Study Group N Engl J Med 2000, 343:1520-1528 Spiegel BMR, Chiou CF, Ofman J: ... hospital, and another (3.8%) died within months of the diagnosis The median duration of hospitalisation was 9.0 days (range to 87 days); 11 patients spent up to days in the intensive care unit and ... 0.50 to 1.67 0.77 Preferential COX-2 inhibitors (1.0%) 12 (4.2%) 0.22 0.03 to 1.71 0.20 Proton pump inhibitors 14 (13.5%) 77 (27.1%) 0.42 0.23 to 0.78 0.005 H2RAs (3.8%) (3.2%) 1.22 0.37 to 4.06...
... 4.5% of disability-adjusted lifeyears (DALYs) are lost due to poor nutrition, with an additional 3.7% and 1.4% due to obesity and physical inactivity – a total of 9.6%, compared with 9% due to ... other forms of exercise are easy and safe, and address non-motorised modes of transportation The provision of safe cycling and walking paths to schools could be one means to address the particular ... information to the consumer, what are the major nutrients, and categories of products, to be considered and why? – Which kind of education is required in order to enable consumers to fully understand...
... development of national standards, profiles and benchmarks Two summary reviews of the research literature on factors related to the development of literacy and research on the teaching and learning of ... develop listening and oral language skills through story reading and discussion, particularly in the early stages of learning to read; exposureto interesting picture and story books to encourage ... Commission of Victoria is funding an evaluation of the impact of different approaches to the teaching of literacy in Victorian Catholic schools (Ainley and Fleming, 2000) A study of the effectiveness of...
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... experiments conducted from our group at the University of Minnesota that were specifically designed to identify the routes of PRRSV transmission andto develop protocols of biosecurity to reduce this risk. All protocols have been, and continue to be ... House flies and mosquitoes can serve as mechanical vectors of PRRSV and can transport the virus at least 2.4 km from an infected farm. The site of retention of the virus in the fly is the GI tract and the rate of viral decay over time is influenced by quantity ... Fomites and personnel Pitkin AN, Deen J and Dee SA. Further assessment of fomites and personnel as vehicles for the mechanical transport and transmission of porcine reproductive and respiratory ...
... questions needed to be answered to allow these tools to handle longitudinal data and dynamic network simulations, as well as to use sampled and incomplete data to parameterize, model and simulate ... considerable work since then, and in particular, recent work building off of new behavioural and biological data, and a decade of intervening methodological development, confirms and extends the basic ... so is counterproductive In contrast to Sawers and Stillwaggon, I end with a call to leave open all promising areas Page ofof research in trying to solve one of the world’s greatest public health...
... rest of this paper Let I be the total number of frames in Vc Let M be the total number of pixel rows in each frame of Vc , and let N be the total number of pixel columns in each frame of Vc ... for image halftoning frame This causes each subsequent frame to converge to a halftone which has a lot of pixels that not toggle (with respect to the preceding halftone frame), particularly when ... frame of the standard caltrain sequence [10] was independently halftoned using Ulichney’s 32-by-32 void -and- cluster mask [9] Figures and show the first continuous-tone frame and first halftone frame,...
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... normalizer of Γ0 (m), European Journal of Combinatorics 27 (2006) 193-206 the electronic journal of combinatorics 16 (2009), #R116 17 [10] J Lehner and M Newman, Weierstrass points of Γ0 (n), Annals of ... in N (Γ0 (N)), then the order of A depends on q and a + d If a + d = 0, then the order of A is If a + d = ±1, then the order of A is equal to 3, and when q is 1, and respectively(see [2] for more ... subgroup of the normalizer of Γ0 (N) Moreover, any element of Γ+ (N) is 0 an Atkin-Lehner involution of Γ0 (N) Recall that an Atkin-Lehner involution wq of Γ0 (N) is an element of determinant of the...
... high, with 348 or 88% of the women able to read and 332 or 86% of them able to write Most of the women were married and living with their spouse (348 or 88%), while 44 (11%) were single mothers and ... urban location of women and willingness to accept HIV testing In the assessment of factors associated with the willingness to accept HIV testing, no confounding factors were identified and therefore ... [16] and we projected the acceptance rates to be 45% in the rural setting Using a two sided alpha level of 5%, a sample size of 165 per group would provide a power of 80% to detect a difference of...
... separate, well-formed andof normal size and course collecting systems It was apparent on the one hand that no attempt of endovascular exclusion of the aneurysm could be performed without compromising ... other hand, surgical implantation of a graft needs to be individually designed and focused on the prevention of renal ischaemia This particular problem was solved by creating an axillofemoral ... Page of individually, based on anatomic considerations and the surgeon’s opinion A variety of protective techniques, including shunting, cooling and passive use of collaterals have been used to...
... been shown to improve attitudes toand reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety [27] It is based on clinical practice guidelines [39] as well as on reviews of evidence of alternative and lifestyle ... prevalence of 3.6% in the population It is also associated with suicide attempts, and work impairment, and has not been found to differ substantially in profile from clinical GAD [8] The cost of GAD to ... might need to see a health professional because of problems with your emotions or nerves?” [53] The following measures will be included to assess outcome predictors and potential mediators of the...
... a total of courses After randomization, patients were seen every weeks for clinical evaluation to record any exacerbations and adverse events, andto dispense the medication course Adherence to ... (LRTI) with the exception of confirmed pneumonia, all requiring intervention (start of systemic antibiotic and/ or start of systemic steroid and/ or hospitalization within days of the start date of ... Figure Clinical efficacy of moxifloxacin vs placebo (a) Per-protocol end -of- treatment (PP EOT) and intent -to- treat (ITT) populations according to the primary and secondary definitions of an exacerbation,...
... mortality, emergence of resistance, and toxicity A quality review of each RCT was performed by examining details of randomization, generation of random numbers, details of double-blinding procedure, ... local administration of antibiotics for the prevention of development of colonization and infection of the respiratory tract Specifically, prevention of colonization of the respiratory tract by highly ... of the five RCTs included in our study (evaluating the presence of randomization and blinding, their appropriateness, and the presence of information on withdrawals) showed that the quality of...
... was well tolerated among patients aged 50 years and older and induced an immunogenic response not inferior to that of subjects 60 and older and thereby provided an immunological bridge to vaccine ... prior to the availability of data on the clinical efficacy of such a vaccine Structurally, this previous model differs from ours due to a different and less detailed utilisation of pain states and ... those aged 60 to 69 results in ICERs of £10,639 and £9,742, and vaccinating all persons aged 65 and older results in ICERS of £14,385 and £14,294, from a NHS and societal perspectives respectively...
... mortality, in patients with acute lung injury and also is likely to prevent the development of lung injury when used as the initial mode of ventilation [11-14] Therefore, the clinically relevant ... have been exposed to large tidal volumes, an important clinical issue Additionally, low-tidal-volume ventilation has become the standard of care in critically ill patients because of studies showing ... can diminish the severity of lung injury when used in conjunction with low-tidal-volume ventilation in the presence of acute lung injury due to sepsis or other etiologies and whether inhaled APC...
... 3) selection of theory-based methods and practical strategies, 4) development of the intervention program, 5) development of an adoption and implementation plan, and 6) development of an evaluation ... determinants and correlates of childhood obesity, the role of predefined behavioral risk factors in the development of childhood obesity (i.e physical activity, dietary behavior and stress) and its ... of different socioeconomic backgrounds, teachers and community leaders to identify local barriers, difficulties and influencing factors of the predefined target behaviors The focus group protocol...
... adaptation of the nine-step grammar lesson format of Paulston and Bruder (1976) to the real situation and conditions of teaching and learning at EPU with some modification The procedures consist of steps ... be useful to teachers and learners of English in general andto my colleagues and first-year students at EPU in particular References Brown, H.D (1994) Principles of Language Learning and Teaching ... Type of activity: group work Aim: To predict a story from pictures andto match lines of a story to pictures Grammar: Past Simple: regular verbs Preparation: Copy the worksheet for each group of...