OBJECTIVE The rupture of unstable carotid atherosclerotic plaques is one of the main causes of cerebrovascular ischemic events. There is need for circulating markers that can predict plaque instability and risk of stroke. Proinflammatory chemerin, leptin, and resistin, along with anti-inflammatory adiponectin, are adipokines with direct influence on vascular function. We investigated the associ...

The state suicide rates of American Indians in 1980 showed a very different pattern of associations with state social variables than did the state suicide rates of Whites. In contrast, the homicide rates had similar associations, in particular with an index of social instability. The implications of these findings for theory are examined, and suggestions made for further research.

A randomized, controlled study was carried out to assess the effect of a series of 10 sessions of high-frequency rTMS to the right DLPFC in 10 Borderline Personality Disorder patients. Patients in the rTMS group showed improvements in anger, affective instability (Borderline Personality Disorder Severity Index) and planning (Tower Of London). Two smoking cessations were observed.

In this paper, we continue to investigate the thermodynamic properties of stellar self-gravitating system arising from the Tsallis generalized entropy. In particular, physical interpretation of the thermodynamic instability, as has been revealed by previous paper(Taruya & Sakagami, Physica A 307 (2002) 185), is discussed in detail based on the framework of non-extensive thermostatistics. Examin...

In this paper orbital stability of solutions of weakly coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations is studied. It is proved that ground state solutions-scalar or vector ones-are orbitally stable, while bound states with Morse index strictly greater than one are not stable. Moreover, an instability result for large exponent in the nonlinearity is presented.

The dynamics and stability of spike-type patterns to a sub-diffusive Gierer-Meinhardt reaction – diffusion system is studied in a one dimensional spatial domain. A differential algebraic system (DAE) is derived to characterise the dynamics of an n-spike quasi-equilibrium pattern in the presence of subdiffusion. With sub-diffusive effects it is shown that quasi-equilibrium spike patterns exist f...

OBJECTIVES We prospectively studied the relationship between left ventricular (LV) dilation, dysfunction, electrical instability and death in patients after a first myocardial infarction (MI) without symptoms of heart failure and ischemia. BACKGROUND Mechanisms linking LV dysfunction and sudden death in patients after MI remained controversial. METHODS Left ventricular volumes, hemodynamics...

BACKGROUND Historically, a lateral retinacular release was one of the primary surgical interventions used to treat lateral patellar instability. However, disruption of the lateral structures during this procedure has been associated with medial instability of the patella. HYPOTHESIS We hypothesize that good to excellent outcomes can be achieved at midterm follow-up after lateral patellotibial...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to compare hip range of motion between a lumbar stability group and a lumbar instability group, and to evaluate the effectiveness of hip exercises for low-back pain patients with lumbar instability. [Subjects] Seventy-eight patients with chronic low-back pain were the subjects. [Methods] The patients were divided into two groups: a lumbar stability group ...

BACKGROUND Patellar stabilizing braces are used to alleviate pain and prevent subluxation/dislocation by having biomechanical effects in terms of improved patellar tracking. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of the dynamic patellar realignment brace, Patella Pro (Otto Bock GmbH, Duderstadt, Germany), on disease determinants in subjects with patellofemoral instability using upr...