Abstract Introduction While positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy is the most efficacious and widely used treatment for sleep disordered breathing (SDB), initial discomfort associated with PAP use poor experienced by patients SDB contribute to non-adherence. Women report poorer quality have lower adherence rates than men. Previous interventions improve rarely targeted women. Acceptance Commitm...

Purpose: Because of its high expression on various types of tumors and its restricted distribution in normal tissues, chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan-4 (CSPG4) represents an attractive target for the antibodybased therapy of several solid tumors. We tested whether T cells transduced with a CSPG4-specific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) inhibited the growth of CSPG4-expressing tumor cells both ...

Using Holrer recordings and based on the principie that most of the survivors of acute rnyocardiai infarction who are going o~ diu suddcniy after hospital discharge are those who present ventricular premarure beats (VPB), the authors have studicd the effecr of three different antidysrhythmic drugs — procainamide (PA), oxprenolol (OX) and amiodarones. (AMIOD) — in late phase of acute myocardial ...

PURPOSE The purposes of this study were to assess the level of foot self-care performed in a rural, multiethnic population of older adults and to identify factors associated with foot self-care. METHODS The Evaluating Long-term Diabetes Self-management Among Elder Rural Adults study included a random sample of 701 African American, Native American, and white adults from 2 rural North Carolina...

This work was supported by ESPRIT Basic Research Action P3020 \Integration", by CICYT under grant TIC 91-0425 and by \Progetto Finalizzato Sistemi Informatici e Calcolo Parallelo of C.N.R." under grant n.9100880.PF69 Departamento de Sistemas Inform aticos y Computaci on, Universidad Polit ecnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, Apdo. 22012, 46020 Valencia, Spain. Dipartimento di Informatica, Un...