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Are Complementary Therapies and Integrative Care Cost-Effective? A Systematic Review of Economic Evaluations
(BMJ Group, 2012)Objective: A comprehensive systematic review of economic evaluations of complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) to establish the value of these therapies to health reform efforts. Data sources PubMed, CINAHL, AMED, ... -
Are Dietary Bioactives Ready for Recommended Intakes?12
(American Society for Nutrition, 2013)Research has shown that numerous dietary bioactive components that are not considered essential may still be beneficial to health. The dietary reference intake (DRI) process has been applied to nonessential nutrients, such ... -
Are family, neighbourhood and school social capital associated with higher self-rated health among Croatian high school students? A population-based study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)Objectives: We investigated the associations between self-rated health and social capital among Croatian high school students. Design: A cross-sectional survey among high school students was carried out in the 2013–2014 ... -
Are Maternal Social Networks and Perceptions of Trust Associated with Suspected Autism Spectrum Disorder in Offspring? A Population-Based Study in Japan
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Objective: To investigate the associations of maternal social networks and perceptions of trust with the prevalence of suspected autism spectrum disorders in 18-month-old offspring in Japan. Methods: Questionnaires included ... -
Are Meaningful Use Stage 2 certified EHRs ready for interoperability? Findings from the SMART C-CDA Collaborative
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2014)Background and objective Upgrades to electronic health record (EHR) systems scheduled to be introduced in the USA in 2014 will advance document interoperability between care providers. Specifically, the second stage of the ... -
Are obesity risk genes associated with binge eating in adolescence?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015)Objective: Cognitions and behaviors characteristic of binge eating are associated with a polymorphism in the FTO gene, robustly related to body mass index (BMI) and obesity risk. We investigated the association between ... -
Are Onconeural Antibodies a Clinical Phenomenology in Paraneoplastic Limbic Encephalitis?
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNSs) occur in patients with cancer and can cause clinical symptoms and signs of dysfunction of the nervous system that are not due to a local effect of the tumor or its metastases. ... -
Are patients more likely to have hip osteoarthritis progression and femoral head collapse after hip steroid/anesthetic injections? A retrospective observational study
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Are Preterm Newborns Who Have Relative Hyperthyrotropinemia at Increased Risk of Brain Damage?
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2014-11)Background We sought to disentangle the contributions of hyperthyrotropinemia (an indicator of thyroid dysfunction) (HTT) and intermittent or sustained systemic inflammation (ISSI) to structural and functional indicators ... -
Are Statins Anti-Inflammatory?
(BioMed Central, 2000)Large scale clinical trials demonstrate significant reductions in cardiovascular event rates with statin therapy. The observed benefit of statin therapy, however, may be larger in these trials than that expected on the ... -
Are Survey-based Estimates of the Burden of Drug Resistant TB Too Low? Insight from a Simulation Study
(Public Library of Science, 2008)Background: The emergence of tuberculosis resistant to multiple first- and second-line antibiotics poses challenges to a global control strategy that relies on standard drug treatment regimens. Highly drug-resistant strains ... -
Are there mappable genes for family resemblance for the magnitude of intra-individual variation in systolic blood pressure?
(BioMed Central, 2003)Background: The genetic regulation of variation in intra-individual fluctuations in systolic blood pressure over time is poorly understood. Analysis of the magnitude of the average fluctuation of a person's systolic blood ... -
Are ulcers a marker for invasive carcinoma in barrett's esophagus? data from a diagnostic variability study with clinical follow-up
(Springer Nature, 2002)OBJECTIVE: We correlated follow-up information from 138 patients with Barrett's esophagus and varying degrees of dysplasia with the presence of ulcers. METHODS: A group of pathologist participants were asked to contribute ... -
Are We Heeding the Warning Signs? Examining Providers’ Overrides of Computerized Drug-Drug Interaction Alerts in Primary Care
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Background: Health IT can play a major role in improving patient safety. Computerized physician order entry with decision support can alert providers to potential prescribing errors. However, too many alerts can result in ... -
Arenavirus Z protein controls viral RNA synthesis by locking a polymerase–promoter complex
(National Academy of Sciences, 2011)Arenaviruses form a noncytolytic infection in their rodent hosts, yet can elicit severe hemorrhagic disease in humans. How arenaviruses regulate gene expression remains unclear, and further understanding may provide insight ... -
The Arf-like GTPase Arl8b is essential for three-dimensional invasive growth of prostate cancer in vitro and xenograft formation and growth in vivo
(Impact Journals LLC, 2016)Cancer is a multistep process that requires cells to respond appropriately to the tumor microenvironment, both in early proliferative stages and in later invasive disease. Arl8b is a lysosome localized Arf-like GTPase that ... -
ARF1 and GBF1 Generate a PI4P-Enriched Environment Supportive of Hepatitis C Virus Replication
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Cellular levels of phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PI4P) have been shown to be upregulated during RNA replication of several viruses, including the HCV replicon model. However, whether PI4P is required in an infectious ... -
Arginine dependence of tumor cells: targeting a chink in cancer’s armor
(Springer Nature, 2016)Arginine, one among the twenty most common natural amino acids, plays a pivotal role in cellular physiology as it is being involved in numerous cellular metabolic and signaling pathways. Dependence on arginine is diverse ... -
ARID1B is a specific vulnerability in ARID1A-mutant cancers
(2014)Summary Recent studies have revealed that ARID1A is frequently mutated across a wide variety of human cancers and also has bona fide tumor suppressor properties. Consequently, identification of vulnerabilities conferred ... -
Armodafinil-induced wakefulness in animals with ventrolateral preoptic lesions
(Dove Medical Press, 2014)Armodafinil is the pharmacologically active R-enantiomer of modafinil, a widely prescribed wake-promoting agent used to treat several sleep-related disorders including excessive daytime sleepiness associated with narcolepsy, ...