Suicides in Late Life
Assessment of Anorexia Nervosa ...
Anorexia nervosa is a debilitating illness that affects mostly females and their families. Multiple physiologic disturbances are present and can be ...
Suicides in Late Life
Suicide in late life is an enormous public health problem that will likely increase in severity as adults of the baby boom generation age. Data from ...
Use of Testosterone Replacement ...
Prostate cancer is among the more common and less lethal malignancies, yielding a large population of survivors. The incidence of hypogonadism incre ...
Induction and Activation of Ada ...
Background Dextran sodium sulphate (DSS) is commonly used to induce intestinal inflammation in rodents. Despite its continuing importance as a model ...
miR-137 Is Frequently Down-Regu ...
Introduction MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small (19–25 nucleotides) noncoding RNAs that regulate the expressions of a wide variety of genes, in ...
Pancreatic Cancer Cells Resista ...
Background Tumor resistance to chemoradiation therapy is partly attributed to the presence of apoptosis-resistant cancer stem cells (CSCs). Chemorad ...
Subtypes of Irritable Bowel Syn ...
Introduction Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has traditionally been classified by stooling pattern (e.g., diarrheapredominant). However, other patter ...
Characteristics of Small Bowel ...
Background A few reports suggest that the emergence of double balloon endoscopy (DBE) has likely changed the clinical picture of small bowel tumors ...
Fecal Calprotectin Is a Useful ...
Background Studies evaluating the correlation between endoscopic disease activity and noninvasive markers are scarce in inflammatory bowel disease ( ...
Infection with Specific Helicob ...
Background The cag pathogenicity island (cag-PAI) is one of the major virulence factors of Helicobacter pylori, showing considerable geographic vari ...
Nicorandil Associated Colonic U ...
Background Nicorandil is widely accepted in the therapeutic armamentarium of ischemic heart disease and, although nicorandil-induced oral and anal u ...
Role of a Short-Term Stent-Tria ...
In portal hypertensive biliopathy (PHB) secondary to portal thrombosis, multiple factors can lead to symptoms and alteration of liver tests. The com ...
Antiglycan Antibodies in Greek ...
Background Antiglycan antibodies have recently been reported to be associated with Crohn’s disease (CD). These antibodies include anti-Saccharomyces ...
Prediction of Sustained Virolog ...
Background Sustained virological response (SVR) rates in patients with hepatitis C are heterogeneous and are influenced by a wide range of host and ...
Small Intestinal Bacterial Over ...
Background Experimental and clinical studies suggest an association between small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) and nonalcoholic steatohepa ...
Gender Bias in Gastroparesis: I ...
Accumulating evidence suggests that genderrelated differences are prominent in gastric motility functions in both health and disease. Women are more ...
Endoscopic Ultrasound in Patien ...
Background The data on the safety and utility of EUS in patients over 80 years of age is limited. Objective We investigated the indications, feasibi ...
Validation of the Psychometric ...
Background The psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score (PHES) is a battery of neuropsychological tests used in the diagnosis of minimal hepatic en ...
Toxocariasis Masquerading as Li ...
Background There are sporadic reports in the literature in which radiologic liver and lung lesions found incidentally during follow-up metastatic su ...
The Role of the Epiglottis in t ...
Repeatable epiglottic movement patterns were recorded during a videofluoroscopic swallow evaluation of 95 patients who had undergone a total or part ...
Videofluorographic Evaluation o ...
A videofluorographic (VF) swallowing study was performed on 22 healthy volunteers to observe the complete mastication and swallowing phases for Japa ...
Nucleophosmin Delocalization in ...
Nucleophosmin (NPM) is a multifunctional nucleolar protein that, depending on the context, can act as oncogene or tumour suppressor. Mutations of th ...
Well-Differentiated Thyroid Car ...
Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) are the most common differentiated thyroid cancers. Previous studies report ...
BMI, waist circumference, and c ...
Objective To examine whether the association between waist circumference (WC) and clustering of cardiovascular risk factors varies with obesity (BMI ...
Evaluation of anthropometric pa ...
Objectives We evaluated anthropometric parameters and physical fitness in elderly Japanese. Methods A total of 2,106 elderly Japanese (749 men and ...