BACKGROUND Mindfulness-based therapies are being used in a wide range of common chronic conditions in both treatment and prevention despite lack of consensus about their effectiveness in different patient categories. OBJECTIVE To systematically review the evidence of effectiveness MBSR and MBCT in different patient categories. METHODS A systematic review and meta-analysis of systematic revi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Arterial spin-labeling MR imaging with multiple postlabeling delays has a potential to evaluate various hemodynamic parameters. To clarify whether arterial spin-labeling MR imaging can identify CBF and perfusion delay in patients with Moyamoya disease, we compared arterial spin-labeling, DSC, and 15O-gas PET in terms of their ability to identify these parameters. MATERI...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION Resting energy expenditure was associated with a serum bone turnover marker in postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes (T2DMPW) in the present cross-sectional study. To clarify the fundamental pathological factor for the correlation of bone metabolism and basal metabolism in type 2 diabetes, a 6-month prospective follow-up study was carried out with supplementation of vitami...

Abstract Bikaner–Nagaur basin is located in the northwestern part of India and lies on rising flank Punjab platform Middle Indus Pakistan. Existence Neoproterozoic-Cambrian petroleum system was confirmed by exploration activities western periphery basin, whereas vast areas central eastern parts remain unexplored. Knowledge this unexplored limited due to non-availability data. Recently, 2525 lin...

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to list the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius luteus) as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (Act). If we finalize this rule as proposed, it would extend the Act’s protections to this subspecies and its critical habitat. The effect of these regulations will be to conserve the New Mexico meadow jumping mo...

BACKGROUND The study of illnesses causing absence of workers from work in industries is a practical method to study the health status of industrial workers and to identify occupational health hazards. The iron and steel industries are particularly hazardous places of work. Published data from India on health status of iron and steel workers is limited, therefore this study was undertaken to inv...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Data from randomized trials assert that asymptomatic patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy (CEA) must live 3 to 5 years to realize the benefit of surgery. We examined how commonly CEA is performed among asymptomatic patients with limited life expectancy. METHODS Within the American College of Surgeons National Quality Improvement Project we identified 8 conditions ...

Given the significance of cholesteryl ester (CE) accumulation in macrophage foam cell formation, we hypothesized that inhibitors of acyl-CoA:cholesterol O-acyltransferase (ACAT) would produce a histologically stable lesion by limiting macrophage enrichment and thereby a source of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Male New Zealand White rabbits were sequentially fed a cholesterol/fat diet for 9 ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS We compared chromosome number (CN) variation in the nearly antipodean Italian and New Zealand floras to verify (i) whether patterns of variation reflect their similar latitudinal ranges or their different biogeographic/taxonomic contexts, (ii) if any differences are equally distributed across major taxa/lineages and (iii) if the frequency, number and taxonomic distribution o...