We have previously reported that the majority of sudden cardiac death (SCD) events were associated with postprandial hyperlipidemia in Japanese subjects. In this investigation, we have compared LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) and remnant-like lipoprotein particles (RLP) as cardiovascular risk factors in SCD cases, especially in Pokkuri death syndrome (PDS) cases who had nearly normal coronary arteries....

The authors examined the relationship between ethnicity and treatment utilization by individuals with personality disorders (PDs). Lifetime and prospectively determined rates and amounts of mental health treatments received were compared in over 500 White, African American, and Hispanic participants with PDs in a naturalistic longitudinal study. Minority, especially Hispanic, participants were ...

The Planetary Data System (PDS) data model was developed in the late 1980’s and models the entities and relationships of interest within the Planetary Science Community. It was developed to both prescribe the metadata to be collected for the planetary science data archive and to design the PDS Catalog, a high level inventory of the data holdings in the archive. This catalog, an inventory of ove...

It has been suggested that patients with Parkinson's disease (PDs) may have problems processing visuo-spatial information and that this deficiency may contribute to the motor control problems observed in PD. However, most studies reporting visuo-spatial deficits are equivocal; they confound perceptual and motor processes. To address this issue, the present experiment systematically compared the...

OBJECTIVE To examine prospectively the course of major depressive disorder (MDD) and to test for the moderating effects of personality disorder (PD) comorbidity on relapse after remission from an episode of MDD. METHOD Participants were 303 patients (196 women and 107 men) with current DSM-IV-diagnosed MDD at baseline enrollment in the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study. M...

Pinocytosis was measured in monkey aortic smooth muscle cells (SMC), bovine aortic endothelial cells, and Swiss 3T3 cells in culture as cellular uptake of [U-(14)C]sucrose and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) from the tissue culture medium. Monkey arterial SMC and Swiss 3T3 cells were maintained in a quiescent state of growth at low cells density in medium containing 5 percent monkey plasma-derived...

BACKGROUND The authors measured the awareness of the dental home concept among pediatric dentists (PDs) and general practice dentists (GPs) in Ohio and determined whether they included dental home characteristics for children 5 years and younger into their practices. METHODS The authors sent a pretested 20-question survey to all Ohio PDs and to a random sample of approximately 20 percent of G...

Aim: The aim of this survey was to study the rationale for maintaining a public dental service (PDS) in Finland, Norway and Sweden, and to confirm its current responsibilities, resources, leadership, incentives used and desired changes. Methods: Postal questionnaires were sent to the chief dental managers in the PDS in Finland (n=30), Norway (n=27) and Sweden (n=26). Data were analysed using st...

X-ray and multi-wavelength observations of the most luminous known local (z < 0.3) AGN, the recently discovered radio-quiet quasar PDS 456, are presented. The spectral energy distribution shows that PDS 456 has a bolometric luminosity of 10 erg/s, peaking in the UV. The X-ray spectrum obtained by ASCA and RXTE shows considerable complexity. The most striking feature observed is a deep, highlyio...

One of the core propositions in most clinical and descriptive models of personality disorders (PDs) is that these conditions are stable over time. However, the available empirical literature suggests that PDs are far less stable than these models imply. The present study examines the 10-year stability of PDs in a sample of depressed outpatients who were assessed for the full range of Axis II co...