Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 65
Association of Expired Nitric Oxide with Occupational Particulate Exposure
(2003)
Particulate air pollution has been associated with adverse respiratory health effects. This study assessed the utility of expired nitric oxide to detect acute airway responses to metal-containing fine particulates. Using ...
The Upper Airway Response to Pollen is Enhanced by Exposure to Combustion Particulates: A Pilot Human Experimental Challenge Study.
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2003)
Although human experimental studies have shown that gaseous pollutants enhance the inflammatory response to allergens, human data on whether combustion particulates enhance the inflammatory response to allergen are limited. ...
Antiviral Combination Therapy with Interferon/Peginterferon Plus Ribavirin for Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C in Germany: A Health Technology Assessment Commissioned by the German Agency for Health Technology Assessment
(German Medical Science, 2003)
Objective: The purpose of this health technology assessment (HTA), commissioned by the German Agency for HTA at the German Federal Ministry of Health and Social Security, was to systematically review the evidence on ...
Reconsidering the Use of Rankings in the Valuation of Health States: A Model for Estimating Cardinal Values from Ordinal Data
(BioMed Central, 2003)
Background: In survey studies on health-state valuations, ordinal ranking exercises often are used as precursors to other elicitation methods such as the time trade-off (TTO) or standard gamble, but the ranking data have ...
Airborne Rhinovirus Detection and Effect of Ultraviolet Irradiation on Detection by a Semi-Nested RT-PCR Assay
(BioMed Central, 2003)
Background: Rhinovirus, the most common cause of upper respiratory tract infections, has been implicated in asthma exacerbations and possibly asthma deaths. Although the method of transmission of rhinoviruses is disputed, ...
Effect of Human Leukocyte Antigen Heterozygosity on Infectious Disease Outcome: The Need for Allele-Specific Measures
(BioMed Central, 2003)
Background: Doherty and Zinkernagel, who discovered that antigen presentation is restricted by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC, called HLA in humans), hypothesized that individuals heterozygous at particular MHC ...
Introduction of Article-Processing Charges for Population Health Metrics
(BioMed Central, 2003)
Population Health Metrics is an open-access online electronic journal published by BioMed Central – it is universally and freely available online to everyone, its authors retain copyright, and it is archived in at least ...
A QTL Genome Scan of the Metabolic Syndrome and its Component Traits
(BioMed Central, 2003)
Background: Because high blood pressure, altered lipid levels, obesity, and diabetes so frequently occur together, they are sometimes collectively referred to as the metabolic syndrome. While there have been many studies ...
Firefighters and On-duty Deaths From Coronary Heart Disease: A Case Control Study
(BioMed Central, 2003)
Background: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is responsible for 45% of on-duty deaths among United States firefighters. We sought to identify occupational and personal risk factors associated with on-duty CHD death. Methods: ...
Lack of reproducibility of linkage results in serially measured blood pressure data
(BioMed Central, 2003)
Background: Using the longitudinal Framingham Heart Study data on blood pressure, we analyzed the reproducibility of linkage measures from serial cross-sectional surveys of a defined population by performing genome-wide ...