BACKGROUND Resistant hypertension is a well recognized clinical entity, which has been inadequately researched to date. METHODS A multivariable Cox model was developed to identify baseline predictors of developing resistant hypertension among 3666 previously untreated Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcome Trial (ASCOT) patients and construct a risk score to identify those at high risk. Secondary...

abstract in the dynamic and competitive market, managers seek to find effective strategies for new products development. since there has not been a thorough research in this field, this study is based on a review on the risks exist in the npd process and an analysis of risks through fmea approach to prioritize the existent risks and a modeling behavior of the npd process and main risks using sy...

PURPOSE This study involved a population-based survey to provide evidence of public awareness of risk factors of gastric cancer and to investigate attitudes for the screening of gastric cancer in the South Korean population. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using a nationwide random selection method, 2014 subjects were enrolled in the study between 5 September 2006 and 25 September 2006. RESULTS In te...

conclusions: the results obtained from this study support the idea that the timi and modified timi risk scores might be valuable tools that could be used to stratify the risk of patients with atypical chest pain in the emergency department. results: no significant difference could be observed between both groups regarding demographic characteristics, ejection fraction, left ventricle hypertroph...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study is to determine the usefulness of the risk model developed by van Ramshorst et al., and a modification of the same, to predict the abdominal wound dehiscence's risk in patients who underwent midline laparotomy incisions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Observational longitudinal retrospective study. SAMPLE Patients who underwent midline laparotomy incisions in the G...

Aims The high prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes and the risk for in general population is alarming. In addition, frequency coronary artery diseases (CAD) patients with higher than non-diabetic patients. This study aimed to investigate people at undergoing angiography (CAG) a university referral hospital Guilan Province, Iran. Methods & Materials this cross-sectional study, data from 300 wh...