BACKGROUND/AIMS Neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease (AD) are highly prevalent. We sought to determine whether neuropsychiatric symptoms were related to global functional impairment at baseline and over a 3-year period in older normal control (NC), mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and mild AD dementia subjects. METHODS Eight hundred and twelve subjects (229 NC, 395 MCI, 188 AD) fro...

the aim was to compare the predictive power for type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm) using dynamic change (difference) of metabolic syndrome (ms), difference of fasting plasma glucose (fpg), baseline ms and fpg in cohort study.overall, 3461 subjects were recruited from prevention of multiple metabolic disorders and ms in jiangsu of china study with 3.8 years follow-up. cox proportional-hazards regre...

Jacobson, MS., J. Lehel and L.M. Lesniak, @threshold and $-tolerance chain graphs, Discrete Applied Mathematics 44 (1993) 191-203. In this paper we introduce a class of graphs called $-threshold graphs which generalize threshold graphs. These graphs are studied for various functions I+? that include “max” and “min” as special cases. The graphs are then shown to fit into the more general setting...

There seems to be something in the air: democratic societies around the world have had a rough time recently. Some, such as Turkey, Hungary and Poland, appear to be moving towards what Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, calls an “illiberal democracy,” soft authoritarianism veiled in the trappings of traditional democracies. The United Kingdom votes to Brexit from the European Union, leadin...

OBJECTIVE To estimate mortality from diabetes mellitus (DM) for the period 2001-2011 in the Republic of Panama, by province/indigenous territory, and determine its relationship with biological and socioeconomic risk factors. METHODS Cases for the years 2001-2011 with DM listed as the principal cause of death were selected from Panama's National Mortality Registry. Crude and adjusted mortality...