conclusions multiple prescription drug abuse and salt/salty food addiction usually reflects a personality of addiction, which leads to harmful use and dependence. case presentation a 28-year-old woman presented with tetany due to hypocalcemia, hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia. she had a history of laxative and diuretic abuse, and salt craving. psychiatric evaluation revealed a disturbed social hi...

Abstract Rationale On Wright-stained sputum cytospins, eosinophil differential of ≥ 1.2% is considered abnormal, and 2.3% identifies an eosinophilic endotype. We hypothesized that failure to consider free granules (FEG), the re-emergence (unmasking) eosinophilia due various reasons underestimate prevalence Methods This a retrospective analysis our Institutional Review Board-approved clinical da...

conclusions using baseline measurements of lipids led to considerable underestimation in the association of these factors with cvd outcome in tlgs. the underestimation increased with time interval between baseline and follow-up measurements for tc and tg. tc had more attenuation on estimated hr due to stronger relation with cvd risk. results by parametric method, based on reexamination three ye...

The underestimation of data points by a convex quadratic function is a useful tool for approximating the location of the global minima of potential energy functions that arise in protein-ligand docking problems. Determining the parameters that define the underestimator can be formulated as a convex quadratically constrained quadratic program and solved efficiently using algorithms for semidefin...

Mesozooplankton abundance and species composition in the upper 200 m at seven sites in Lützow-Holm Bay, Antarctica, were compared using plankton nets with 60, 100 or 330 mm mesh during the austral summer of 2007–2008. While the collection efficiency of the 330 mm mesh was low, ranging from 2.0 to 5.6%, owing to the significant underestimation of small copepod species, no significant underestima...

Body Mass Index is associated with endurance performance in athletes. Reported and measured values of body mass and body height in 1,618 endurance athletes (1,358 men, 260 women) showed that men and women both underestimated their body mass and overestimated their body height, leading to an underestimation of Body Mass Index. There were age and sex differences in estimates of height and weight;...