AIM To evaluate the effectiveness and tolerability of exenatide once weekly (EQW) compared with basal insulin (BI) among injectable-drug-naïve patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) who are elderly or have renal impairment (RI). MATERIALS AND METHODS Initiators of EQW and BI with T2DM were identified for the period 2012 to 2015 within a US electronic health record database and matched ...

Thermooxidative degradation of poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) is inevitable during processing of PVC. Recycling of this polymer requires reprocessing in most of the cases, and due to the low thermal stability of PVC, it is of paramount importance to reveal the effect of thermooxidation on the thermal stability of this commercially important polymer. However, detailed systematic investigations are l...

On the other hand, the less stabilized tris(4chlorophenyl)methyl cation (1 b) was reported to initiate the polymerization of isobutene3). In accordance, p-methoxy and p-methyl substituted tritylium ions do not initiate the polymerization of a-methylstyrene, in contrast to the less stable 1 a and 1 b4). Only for few reactive monomers, however, the initiation was proven to proceed via addition of...

INTRODUCTION Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) must remain adherent and persistent on antidiabetic medications to optimize clinical benefits. This analysis compared adherence and persistence among adults initiating dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors (DPP-4is), sulfonylureas (SUs), and thiazolidinediones (TZDs) and between patients initiating saxagliptin or sitagliptin, two DPP-4is. ...

The synthesis of original co-telomers based on 3,3,3-trifluoropropene (TFP) and vinylidene fluoride (VDF) with a general formula: RF-[CH2-CF2]n-[CH2-CH(CF3)]m-I (where n=1-63, m=2-640, and RF=(CF3)2CF) was achieved by sequential and random cotelomerizations in the presence of RFI. The radical cotelomerizations were initiated by thermal decomposition of different peroxide and persulfate initiato...

Pluronic poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(propylene oxide)-b-poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO-PPO-PEO) block copolymers are grafted with poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) by free radical polymerization of vinyl pyrrolidone with simultaneous chain transfer to the Pluronic in dioxane. This modified polymer has both thermal responsiveness and remarkable capacity to interact with a wide variety of hydrophilic and hydrop...

An anionic clay, magnesium–aluminum layered double hydroxide (Mg2Al–NO3–LDH), was prepared by a co-precipitation method and intercalated with poly(oxypropylene)–amindocarboxylic acid (POP– amido acid). Depending on the POP-intercalating agents with molecular weight at 2000 or 400 g/mol, the intercalated LDHs were analyzed to have d spacing of 6.8 or 2.7 nm and organic incorporation of 80 and 55...

a copolymer of styrene and methyl styrene was synthesized by nitroxide - mediated “living” free radical polymerization )nmp). n-bromosuccinimide was used as a brominating agent to obtain a copolymer with bromine as its end group. this brominated copolymer was used as macro initiators for atom transfer  radical  polymerization  (atrp).  chemical  modifcation  of  the  clay  and transformation of...

OBJECTIVES To compare the proportion, timing and hazards of non-AIDS death and AIDS death among men and women who initiated HAART at different CD4 cell counts to mortality risks of HIV-uninfected persons with similar risk factors. DESIGN Prospective cohort studies. METHODS We used parametric mixture models to compare proportions of AIDS and non-AIDS mortality and ages at death, and multivar...

exfoliated poly (chloromethyl styrene-co-styrene)-g-polyacrylonitryle/organo- modified montmorillonite [p(cmst-co-st)-g-pan/o-mmt] nanocomposite was synthesized through solution intercalation method by using atom transfer and nitroxide mediated radical polymerization. at first, poly (chloromethyl styrene-costyrene) copolymer was synthesized by nitroxide - mediated “living” free radical polyme...