Mass retraction movement of the ...
Background Several studies have demonstrated the application of mini-implants in the orthodontic treatment as anchorage during the retraction moveme ...
Socioeconomic status and bone h ...
Summary The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and bone health, specifically in men, is unclear. Based upon data from the large prospect ...
Fracture prediction and calibra ...
Summary A new Canadian WHO fracture risk assessment (FRAX®) tool to predict 10-year fracture probability was compared with observed 10-year fracture ...
Low bone mineral density is ass ...
Summary We studied the nature of the relationship between bone mineral density (BMD) and the risk of death among elderly men. BMD was associated wit ...
Sunlight exposure or vitamin D ...
Summary Vitamin D deficiency is very common in nonwestern immigrants. In this randomized clinical trial, vitamin D 800 IU/day or 100,000 IU/3 months ...
Impact of smoking on bone miner ...
Summary Our cross-sectional analysis of 1,576 men aged ≥65 years examined smoking effects on bone status. Number of smoking years was associated wit ...
Prevalence of osteoporosis and ...
Summary European observational 1-year study assessed osteoporosis and fracture patterns in 3,402 postmenopausal women prescribed osteoporosis medica ...
Availability and use of hip pro ...
Summary Potential predictors of availability and use of hip protectors were studied in residents of 48 nursing homes. The likelihood of being offere ...
Epigenetic influences in the de ...
Osteoporosis is a major public health problem due to consequent fragility fractures; data from the UK suggest that up to 50% of women and 20% men ag ...
Advancing maternal age is assoc ...
Summary Advancing maternal age has been related to increased risk of fetal death and morbidity, as well as higher fracture risk during childhood, in ...
Performance of comorbidity meas ...
Summary The performance of five comorbidity measures, including the Charlson and Elixhauser indices, was investigated for predicting mortality, hosp ...
Seasonal variation of serum 25- ...
Summary Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at risk of osteoporosis. Vitamin D (vitD) deficiency is known as a risk factor of osteopo ...
Fracture rate and back pain dur ...
Summary In this observational study in postmenopausal women with severe osteoporosis, the incidence of fractures was decreased during 18 months of t ...
Prevalence and costs of osteopo ...
Summary This study assesses prevalence of subsequent fractures during the year after incident osteoporosis-related non-vertebral fractures among pri ...
A Juvenile Murine Heart Failure ...
Persistent pressure overload can cause cardiac hypertrophy and progressive heart failure (HF). The authors developed a pressure-overload HF model of ...
PPARم and chronic kidney diseas ...
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-م (PPARم) agonists, exemplified by the thiazolidinediones (TZDs), have been used extensively for their be ...
Cyclophosphamide in steroid-dep ...
In order to determine the long-term effects of cyclophosphamide (CPO) and to identify parameters associated with sustained remission, we retrospecti ...
Genetics Talks to Epigenetics? ...
Transcription is regulated by two major mechanisms. On the one hand, changes in DNA sequence are responsible for genetic gene regulation. On the othe ...
The Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase P ...
The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway is frequently activated in human cancer and represents an attractive target for therapies based on small ...
Defining Features and Exploring ...
RNA interference (RNAi) is an evolutionary conserved mechanism by which small double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) – termed small interfering RNA (siRNA) – in ...
The Effect of Serum on the PEG- ...
A polymeric crosslinker poly(ethylene glycol) derivative with dioleyl groups as hydrophobic group at both ends was developed for promoting cellular s ...
CT colonography: patient tolera ...
Purpose: The aim of our prospective study was to compare patient tolerance of laxative free fecal tagging regimen (LFT) versus traditional cathartic ...
Partial preparation computed to ...
We retrospectively evaluated computed tomographic colonography examinations of patients who have had a partial bowel preparation and compared the qu ...
Long-term clinical and radiolog ...
Purpose Although posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) using stand-alone cages was a popular arthrodesis method, the effectiveness of using such ...
Accuracy of freehand fluoroscop ...
Background The C1 lateral mass and C2 isthmic stabilization, as introduced by Goel and Laheri and by Harms and Melcher, is a well-known fixation tec ...