Hip fracture incidence in Leban ...
Summary Crude incidence rates for hip fractures in individuals aged 50 and above in Lebanon were determined using data from the national hip fractur ...
Prevalence of vertebral fractur ...
Summary The prevalence of vertebral fractures on routine chest radiographs of elderly Caucasian women was only 1.3 times higher than in African Amer ...
Low bone mineral density is ass ...
Summary The association between bone mineral density (BMD) and myocardial infarction (MI) was investigated in 6,872 men and women. For both men and ...
Relationships of muscle strengt ...
Summary This work explores the relationships of muscle strength and areal bone mineral density (aBMD) in ambulatory children with cerebral palsy (CP ...
Conflicting trends in fall-rela ...
Summary Despite advances in prevention, fall-related hospitalisation rates among older people are still increasing. Rates between 1998/1999 and 2008 ...
Clinical and Molecular Insights ...
Patients with tuberous sclerosis complex are at great risk of developing renal lesions as part of their disease. These lesions include renal cysts a ...
Effect of gender on intra-abdom ...
Background Adult men accumulate greater intra-abdominal fat (IAF) than adult women, a difference closely related to gender differences in cardiometa ...
Pediatric digital radiography e ...
Background Digital radiography (DR) is one of several new products that have changed our work processes from hard copy to digital formats. The trans ...
Cytosine Methyltransferases as ...
Changes in DNA methylation patterns is a prominent characteristic of human tumors. Tumor cells display reduced levels of genomic DNA methylation and ...
Monoclonal Antibodies as Innova ...
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) comprise the majority of protein candidates currently in clinical development because of their versatility as therapeuti ...
The Role of the COG Database in ...
A major breakthrough in classifying proteins from different microbial genomes in terms of sequence similarity was the development of the COG concept ...
The peroral pneumocolon revisit ...
The peroral pneumocolon represents a time-honored but somewhat forgotten and underutilized technique for improved ileocecal evaluation at small bowe ...
Arterial therapies of colorecta ...
Intra-arterial therapies directed to the liver take advantage that liver tumors are fed by the hepatic artery while the liver vascularization is 30% ...
Insulin autoantibody could help ...
Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) is characterized by a relatively mild diabetes onset, autoantibody positivity, and eventual requirement ...
Transaminase levels in the uppe ...
Incident diabetes and the worsening of diabetes have recently been linked to hepatic steatosis. Aim of our study was to determine whether oral hypog ...
The carriage of risk variants o ...
On chromosome 6q22.3, a cluster of singlenucleotide polymorphisms located in intron 5 of the cyclindependent kinase 5 (CDK5) regulatory subunit-asso ...
Bubbles in the head: a new meth ...
Background A key aspect of neurosurgery is the challenge of ensuring adequate visualization through brain retraction whilst ensuring that underlying ...
Intracranial clear cell meningi ...
Object Clear cell meningioma (CCM) is a rare histological variant of meningioma. CCM has a high recurrence rate and aggressiveness. In this study, w ...
Glutaminyl cyclase contributes ...
the hippocampal formation of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients, both focal and diffuse deposits of Ab peptides appear in a subregion- and layer-spec ...
Neuronal migration disorders in ...
Microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism (MOPD) is a rare microlissencephaly syndrome, with at least two distinct phenotypic and genetic ty ...
Mothers of children with attent ...
This study focuses on mothers of children diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and sets out (1) to characterize dimensions ...
Molecular characterization of a ...
Over 80% of the α-thalassemia cases in southern China are caused by large deletions involving the α-globin gene cluster on chromosome 16p13.3. Here, ...
Leukemias induced by altered TR ...
Rapamycin is a potent allosteric mTORC1 inhibitor with clinical applications as an anticancer agent. However, only a fraction of cancer patients res ...
Overexpression of the EZH2, RIN ...
Epigenetics refers to the study of clonally inherited changes in gene expression without accompanying genetic changes. Previous research on the epig ...
Prognostic impact of bleomycin- ...
Bleomycin-induced pneumonitis (BIP) has been well described in Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL) patients. The impact of BIP on patients uniformly treated wit ...