Perioperative myocardial infarction is a leading cause of postoperative morbidity and mortality (1). The etiology of postoperative MI is the subject of some debate but is thought to include prolonged ischemia resulting from tachycardia (2). Perıoperatıve blockade could prevent perioperative cardiac damage and improve long-term cardiac outcome in noncardiac surgical patients. The beneficial effe...

In recent decades, a health-risk transition with changes in diet and lifestyle in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) led to an emergence of chronic diseases. These trends in Southeast Asian LMICs are not well studied. Here, we report on transitional dietary patterns and their socio-demographic predictors in Thai adults. Dietary data in 2015 were from a random sub-sample (N = 1075) of 42,78...

BACKGROUND We recently reported the age interval 2-6y being the earliest and most critical for adult overweight. We now aim to determine which age intervals are predictive of cardiometabolic risk at young adulthood. METHODS AND FINDINGS We analyzed data from 642 18-28 years olds from the Terneuzen Birth Cohort. Individual BMI SDS trajectories were fitted by a piecewise linear model. By multip...

BACKGROUND Both fatigue and reduced physical activity are important consequences of multiple sclerosis (MS). However, their mutual association is poorly understood. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to determine the relation between perceived fatigue and home-based recording of motor activity in patients with MS. METHODS Found associations were checked for confounding by age, Expande...

BACKGROUND Discrepancies exist between osteoarthritic joint changes and pain severity before and after total hip (THR) and knee (TKR) replacement. This study investigated whether the interaction between pre-operative widespread hyperalgesia and severity of radiographic osteoarthritis (OA) was associated with pain severity before and after joint replacement. METHODS Data were analysed from 232...

Three experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of dietary supplementation of a ß-(1,3)(1,6)-D-glucan derived from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, on growth performance parameters and intestinal functionality in mirror carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) and on progression of a chronic, pre-existing mycobacteriosis in zebrafish (Danio rerio). The 1 experiment revealed that mirror carp fed...

BACKGROUND Rapid action stopping leads to global motor suppression. This is shown by studies using transcranial magnetic stimulation to measure corticospinal excitability of task-unrelated effectors (e.g., from the hand during speech stopping). We hypothesize that this global suppression relates to the STN of the basal ganglia. Several STN local field potential studies in PD patients have shown...

The first part of this paper is concerned with global characterizations of both the multivariate ß-spline and the multivariate truncated power function as smooth piecewise polynomials. In the second part of the paper we establish combinatorial criteria for the linear independence of multivariate ß-splines corresponding to certain configurations of knot sets.