The impact of irbesartan treatment on biomarkers of low-grade inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, growth factors, and advanced glycation end products (AGEs) during the Irbesartan in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Microalbuminuria (IRMA 2) study was evaluated. IRMA 2 was a 2-year multicenter, randomized, double-blind trial in patients comparing irbesartan (150 or 300 mg once daily) versus ...

Our results show a good discrimination among the patient groups studied. Most thyrotoxic patients had TSH values below 0.2 milli-int. unitlL. Of the four patients whose values exceeded this, two were receiving anti-thyroid drugs, one was originally hypothyroid andovertreated, and the fourth was a previously thyrotoxic patient who had relapsed after withdrawal of drug therapy. All newly presenti...

INTRODUCTION Digital imaging has become the most prominent modality in medicine. Beside computed to-mography (CT) or nuclear medicine, which have been always digital, plain radiography, en-doscopy, and microscopy are nowadays captured directly digital, too. Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) have been established in the hospitals all over the world to manage these information re...

This study aims to describe a form of discourse analysis based on and text describing the factors that affect practice discourse. The goal prompted researchers examine in entitled "Critical Discourse Analysis “Novel Yusuf Mentari” by Irma Surya”. method used this research is descriptive qualitative. results showed that: first, critical see representation or description displayed events ranging ...