AIMS The management of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) is often inadequate due to deficient adherence to the guidelines. A nurse-led AF clinic providing integrated chronic care to improve guideline adherence and activate patients in their role, may effectively reduce morbidity and mortality but such care has not been tested in a large randomized trial. Therefore, we performed a randomize...

In black or nonblack patients with hyperten-sion, is amlodipine or lisinopril better than chlorthalidone for reducing cardiovascular disease (CVD)? Design: Randomized controlled trial (Anti-hypertensive and Lipid-lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial [ALLHAT]). Patients: 33 357 black and nonblack patients ≥ 55 years of age (mean age 67 y, 35% black, 53% men overall, 54% women among b...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background : supervised exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation programs (crp) have been suggested to all patients, especially after myocardial infarction. however, the effects of cardiac rehabilitation on systolic function are controversial. the aim of this study was to examine the effects of an 8-week cardiac rehabilitatio...

The oligosaccharide structures of total glycoproteins in suspension-cultured Arabidopsis thaliana MM2d cells are determined. The N-linked sugar chains released by hydrazinolysis were labeled with 2-aminopyridine, and analyzed by a combination of HPLC, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry, and exoglucosidase digestion. The glycan structures determined were...

Faculty of Engineering Yokohama National University, 79–5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240–8501, Japan, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, 79–7 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240–8501, Japan, and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3–1–1 Maidashi, Higashiku, Fukuoka 812–8582, Japan (Received March 15, 2002; Acc...

BACKGROUND The aim of this randomized controlled trial was to compare the efficacy of extended letrozole regimen with clomiphene citrate in women with unexplained infertility undergoing superovulation and intrauterine insemination (IUI). METHODS Two hundred and fourteen patients with unexplained infertility were randomized into two equal groups using computer generated list and were treated b...

The revival of Interest In Automatic Programming Is considered. The research Is divided Into direct efforts and theoretical developments and the successes and prospects of each are described. Note: This paper was solicited for the Communications of the ACM Anniversary Issue, August 1972. Comments received before May 1 may Influence the final version. This research was supported In part by the N...

Rumen degradation kinetics and effective degradability of individual amino acids, total analysed amino acids (TAA) and crude protein (CP) of soybean meal were measured on four rumen-cannulated wethers using the nylon bag technique. Microbial contamination of the incubated residues was corrected using a continuous 15N intraruminal infusion and isolated solid associated bacteria as a reference sa...

Background: P wave dispersion (PWD) is defined as the difference between the maximum P wave duration (Pmax) and the minimum P wave duration (Pmin) in 12-leads of the surface electrocardiography. The aim of this study was to evaluate the values of PWD during atrial fibrillation (AF) after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Methods: We prospectively evaluated atrial rhythms of 350 patients (251 m...

BACKGROUND Thrombolysis remains the treatment of choice in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) when primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) cannot be done within 90 min. However, the best subsequent management of patients after thrombolytic therapy remains unclear. To assess the best management, we randomised patients with STEMI treated by thrombolysis and abciximab at a...