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Is Food Insecurity Associated with HIV Risk? Cross-Sectional Evidence from Sexually Active Women in Brazil
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Background: Understanding how food insecurity among women gives rise to differential patterning in HIV risks is critical for policy and programming in resource-limited settings. This is particularly the case in Brazil, ... -
Is Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease a Result of Multiple Gait Impairments? Implications for Treatment
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)Several gait impairments have been associated with freezing of gait (FOG) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). These include deteriorations in rhythm control, gait symmetry, bilateral coordination of gait, dynamic ... -
Is Household Air Pollution a Risk Factor for Eye Disease?
(MDPI, 2013)In developing countries, household air pollution (HAP) resulting from the inefficient burning of coal and biomass (wood, charcoal, animal dung and crop residues) for cooking and heating has been linked to a number of ... -
Is Opium a Real Risk Factor for Esophageal Cancer or Just a Methodological Artifact? Hospital and Neighborhood Controls in Case-Control Studies
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Background: Control selection is a major challenge in epidemiologic case-control studies. The aim of our study was to evaluate using hospital versus neighborhood control groups in studying risk factors of esophageal squamous ... -
Is the Association of Airborne Particles with Daily Deaths Confounded by Gaseous Air Pollutants? An Approach to Control by Matching
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2004)Although particulate air pollution has been associated with increased numbers of daily deaths in dozens of cities around the world, issues still remain about the association. Some have questioned the complex modeling used ... -
Is the Kaiser Permanente Model Superior in Terms of Clinical Integration?: A Comparative Study of Kaiser Permanente, Northern California and the Danish Healthcare System
(BioMed Central, 2010)Background: Integration of medical care across clinicians and settings could enhance the quality of care for patients. To date, there is limited data on the levels of integration in practice. Our objective was to compare ... -
Is the Relationship between Prenatal Exposure to PCB-153 and Decreased Birth Weight Attributable to Pharmacokinetics?
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2013)Background: A recent meta-analysis based on data from > 7,000 pregnancies reported an association between prenatal polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)–153 exposure and reduced birth weight. Gestational weight gain, which is ... -
Is the way to man's heart (and lung) through the abdomen?
(BioMed Central, 2009)Intra-abdominal hypertension is increasingly recognized to be both prevalent and clinically important in medical and surgical intensive care units. Intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) can impact organ function throughout the ... -
Is There a Role for Treating Inflammation in Moyamoya Disease?: A Review of Histopathology, Genetics, and Signaling Cascades
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2013)Moyamoya disease is a slowly progressing steno-occlusive condition affecting the cerebrovasculature. Affecting the terminal internal carotid arteries (ICA) and there branches, bilaterally, a resulting in a fine vascular ... -
Is There Adaptation in the Ozone Mortality Relationship: A Multi-City Case-Crossover Analysis
(BioMed Central, 2008)Background: Ozone has been associated with daily mortality, mainly in the summer period. Despite the ample literature on adaptation of inflammatory and pulmonary responses to ozone, and the link, in cohort studies, between ... -
Is There an Association between Advanced Paternal Age and Endophenotype Deficit Levels in Schizophrenia?
(Public Library of Science, 2014)The children of older fathers have increased risks of developing schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and among those who develop these disorders, those with older fathers present with more severe clinical symptoms. However, ... -
Is There an Association between Component Separation and Venous Thromboembolism? Analysis of the NSQIP
(Wolters Kluwer Health, 2015)Background: Patients undergoing incisional/ventral hernia repair are at risk of developing several postoperative complications particularly venous thromboembolism (VTE), which is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. ... -
Is There an Association between Traumatic Dental Injury and Social Capital, Binge Drinking and Socioeconomic Indicators among Schoolchildren?
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Objectives: Traumatic dental injury is defined as trauma caused by forces on a tooth with variable extent and severity. The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of traumatic dental injury and its ... -
Ischemic Gastropathic Ulcer Mimics Gastric Cancer
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2016)Gastric ulcer due to mesenteric ischemia is a rare clinical finding. As a result, few reports of ischemic gastric ulcers have been reported in the literature. The diagnosis of ischemic gastropathy is seldom considered in ... -
Ischemic Stroke Activates Hematopoietic Bone Marrow Stem Cells
(American Heart Association, 2015)Rationale: The mechanisms leading to an expanded neutrophil and monocyte supply after stroke are incompletely understood. Objective: To test the hypothesis that transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAO) in mice ... -
The Islet Estrogen Receptor-α Is Induced by Hyperglycemia and Protects Against Oxidative Stress-Induced Insulin-Deficient Diabetes
(Public Library of Science, 2014)The female steroid, 17β-estradiol (E2), is important for pancreatic β-cell function and acts via at least three estrogen receptors (ER), ERα, ERβ, and the G-protein coupled ER (GPER). Using a pancreas-specific ERα knockout ... -
Islet Oxygen Consumption Rate (OCR) Dose Predicts Insulin Independence in Clinical Islet Autotransplantation
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Background: Reliable in vitro islet quality assessment assays that can be performed routinely, prospectively, and are able to predict clinical transplant outcomes are needed. In this paper we present data on the utility ... -
Islet β cell mass in diabetes and how it relates to function, birth, and death
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013)In type 1 diabetes (T1D) β cell mass is markedly reduced by autoimmunity. Type 2 diabetes (T2D) results from inadequate β cell mass and function that can no longer compensate for insulin resistance. The reduction of β cell ... -
Islets in Type 2 Diabetes: In Honor of Dr. Robert C. Turner
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Isoflurane-Induced Apoptosis: A Potential Pathogenic Link Between Delirium and Dementia
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2006)Background. Dementia and delirium have been postulated to share common pathophysiologic mechanisms; however, identification of these unifying mechanisms has remained elusive. The inhalation anesthetic isoflurane has been ...