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OBJECTIVES Cardiovascular disease is an important comorbidity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We aimed to systematically review the evidence for: (1) risk of myocardial infarction (MI) in people with COPD; (2) risk of MI associated with acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD); (3) risk of death after MI in people with COPD. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis...

In this note, G is a compact connected Lie group. We are concerned with the torsion of the cohomology ring H*(G; Z) of G over the integers, certain commutative subgroups of G, and relations between these two questions. NOTATION. E(mi, • • • , mr) or £ A ( ^ I , • • • , mr) denotes the exterior algebra over the ring A of a free .4-module with r generators of respective degrees wi, • • • , mr; p ...

In this paper, RF MEMS switch with capacitive contact is designed and analyzed for Ka band application. A fixed-fixed beam/meander configuration has been used to design the frequency 10 GHz 40 GHz. Electromagnetic electromechanical analysis of three-dimensional (3D) structure/design in multiple finite element method (FEM) based full-wave simulator (Coventorware high-frequency structure simulato...

Introduction: Impaired wound healing in diabetic patients is a major clinical problem, which is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Estrogen has positive effects on neoangiogenesis, reepithelialization and cell proliferation. In this research, effect of estrogen on wound healing in diabetic male rats was investigated. Methods: This study was performed on male Wistar rats (bo...

BACKGROUND We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the association between polymorphisms of GSTM1 null genotype and coronary artery disease (CAD) risk. MATERIAL AND METHODS Published literature from PubMed, EMBASE, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) were retrieved before March 2014. All studies reporting adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of CAD risk ...

OBJECTIVES This analysis from the PROactive (PROspective pioglitAzone Clinical Trial In macroVascular Events) study assesses the effects of pioglitazone on mortality and macrovascular morbidity in patients with type 2 diabetes and a previous myocardial infarction (MI). BACKGROUND People with type 2 diabetes have an increased incidence of MI compared with the general population. Those with dia...

BACKGROUND Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI) and post-MI fatality compared with the general population. In a previous study examining post-MI treatment in RA compared with controls we noted that a higher proportion of the RA patients had experienced MI following a surgical procedure. The aim of this study was to compare the risk of MI a...

IMPORTANCE Myocardial infarction (MI) is an established risk factor for atrial fibrillation (AF). However, the extent to which AF is a risk factor for MI has not been investigated. OBJECTIVE To examine the risk of incident MI associated with AF. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A prospective cohort of 23,928 participants residing in the continental United States and without coronary heart ...