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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Assessing the validity and reliability of the Pool Activity Level (PAL) Checklist for use with older people with dementia.
Activity is key to maintaining physical and mental health and well-being. However, as dementia affects the ability to engage in activity, care-givers can find it difficult to ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Movement in mind: The relationship of exercise with cognitive status for older adults in the Swedish National Study on Aging and Care (SNAC).
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of light and strenuous exercise, and self-reported change in exercise status, with different ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Social networks and depressive symptoms among elderly women and men in Havana, Cuba.
Objectives: To examine the main and the stress-buffering effects of social networks on depressive symptoms among elderly Cuban men and women living in La Havana. Method: Information was gathered from a representative sample ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Memory complaints in healthy young and elderly adults: Reliability of memory reporting.
The relationship between memory complaints and objective memory performance remains poorly understood, particularly in young and middle aged people. We studied the relationship between reports of memory complaints and objective memory performance, and the ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The influence of lifetime depression on self-reported memory and cognitive problems: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication.
The current study investigated the association between lifetime major depressive disorder (MDD) and self-reported memory and cognitive problems in a general population sample. The study was based on data ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
A study into the psychosocial determinants of perceived forgetfulness: implications for future interventions.
Many healthy individuals perceive themselves as forgetful and are interested in interventions to decrease their worries and increase their memory functioning. Educational interventions can be more effective when determinants are targeted that are ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
New perspectives on subjective memory complaints.
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Impact of an intervention to control risk associated with patient transfer.
QUESTION UNDER STUDY: Hospitals transferring patients retain responsibility until admission to the new health care facility. We define safe transfer conditions, based on appropriate risk assessment, and evaluate the impact of this strategy as implemented ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Publication and non-publication of clinical trials: longitudinal study of applications submitted to a research ethics committee.
BACKGROUND: Not all clinical trials are published, which may distort the evidence that is available in the literature. We studied the publication rate of a cohort of clinical trials and ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Obesity in Switzerland: do estimates depend on how body mass index has been assessed?
BACKGROUND/AIM: In Switzerland monitoring of obesity in the general population is based on body mass index (BMI) derived from self-reported weight and height. This approach may lead to misclassification of obese subjects ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Alpha-1 antitrypsin: now available, but do we need it?
Severe a1-antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency is the best characterised genetic risk factor for the development of emphysema. AAT has a wide spectrum of antiprotease activity and its primary function is inhibition of neutrophil elastase in the lung. Smokers ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Differences in insulin sensitivity, pancreatic beta cell function and circulating adiponectin across glucose tolerance status in Thai obese and non-obese women.
Although adiponectin levels are associated with obesity and insulin insensitivity, the role of adiponectin in the progression to diabetes in non-obese subjects is unclear. Therefore, ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Influence of short- and long-term treadmill exercises on levels of ghrelin, obestatin and NPY in plasma and brain extraction of obese rats.
This study aims to clarify the effects of exercise on levels of appetite regulatory hormones in plasma and hypothalamus of obese rats. Diet-induced obese ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Mutation spectrum in HNPCC in the Israeli population.
Hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer is caused by mutations in DNA mismatch repair genes. The mutation spectrum in the Israeli population is poorly documented except for the c.1906G>C Ashkenazi founder mutation in the hMSH2 gene. To report our experience ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Cascade genetic testing for mismatch repair gene mutations.
Mismatch repair gene mutation carriers have a high risk of developing colorectal cancer, and can benefit from appropriate surveillance. A combined population based ascertainment cascade genetic testing approach provides a systematic and potentially effective strategy for identifying such ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The factorial structure of the Chronic Liver Disease Questionnaire (CLDQ).
OBJECTIVE: The Chronic Liver Disease Questionnaire (CLDQ) is a disease-specific instrument designed to assess health-related quality of life in patients with chronic liver disease. The aim of this paper is to present the psychometric properties of ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Screening for urinary tract cancer with urine cytology in Lynch syndrome and familial colorectal cancer.
Aim The aim of this study was to evaluate if Urine Cytology (UC) is an appropriate screening procedure for detecting urinary tract neoplasia at an early stage in persons at risk ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Listen to their answers! Response behaviour in the measurement of physical and role functioning.
BACKGROUND: Quality of life (QoL) is considered to be an indispensable outcome measure of curative and palliative treatment. However, QoL research often yields findings that raise questions about what QoL measurement instruments ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Reliability and validity of childhood asthma control test in a population of Chinese asthmatic children.
BACKGROUND: No quick and easy assessment tool is presently available to measure asthma control and outcome in Chinese children. METHODS: We translated an established seven-item questionnaire into the Chinese Childhood Asthma ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Protective effects of N-acetylcysteine in isoproterenol-induced myocardium injury in rats.
Isoproterenol (ISO) has been found to cause severe injury in the myocardium. The aim of this study was to investigate the protective effects of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) on ISO-induced myocardial injury in rats and its underlying mechanisms. ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The spectrum of FMF mutations and genotypes in the referrals to molecular genetic laboratory at Kirikkale University in Turkey.
Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder characterised by recurrent and self-limited abdominal pain, synovitis and pleuritis. MEFV gene mutations are responsible from the ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
RNAi-mediated knock-down of gene mN6A1 reduces cell proliferation and decreases protein translation.
Methyltransferases play essential roles in modulating important cellular and metabolic processes. A mouse putative N6-DNA methyltransferase gene (GenBank No AY456393) is a novel gene named mN6amt1(mN6A1). To investigate its function in cell fate and ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Benthic foraminifera from polluted marine environment of Sulaibikhat Bay (Kuwait).
Quantitative analyses of recent benthic foraminiferal assemblages (living and dead) were carried out on the surface sediments of Sulaibikhat Bay. Marked contrast in foraminiferal assemblages between the shallow tidal mudflats and the deep tidal channel and ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The sweet potato sporamin promoter confers high-level phytase expression and improves organic phosphorus acquisition and tuber yield of transgenic potato.
The sweet potato sporamin promoter was used to control the expression in transgenic potato of the E. coli appA gene, which encodes a bifunctional enzyme exhibiting ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
A prospective study of educational background and breast cancer among Japanese women.
OBJECTIVE: This prospective cohort study examined the association between educational level and breast cancer incidence in Japan. METHOD: A baseline survey was conducted between 1988 and 1990 among 110,792 residents of 45 areas, aged ...
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