Background Psychological factors influence quality of life, disease perception, engagement and adherence to treatment in patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). While anxiety and/or depression have been often documented JIA, alexithymia has seldom investigated. Objectives 1.To investigate the frequency psychic symptoms JIA at a single tertiary care center, including depressive, alexi...

INTRODUCTION Childhood obesity has become a worldwide epidemic in Western and in developing countries and has been accompanied by many serious and severe comorbidities, such as diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea syndrome, depression, dyslipidemia, impaired glucose homeostasis, steatohepatitis, and intracranial hypertension, as well as medical concerns unique to youth, such as accelerated puber...

BACKGROUND Canine ventral atlantoaxial (AA) stabilization is most commonly performed in very small dogs and is technically challenging due to extremely narrow bone corridors. Multiple implantation sites have been suggested but detailed anatomical studies investigating these sites are lacking and therefore current surgical guidelines are based upon approximate anatomical landmarks. In order to s...

2. Nusrin S, Khan GY, Bhuiyan NA, Ansaruzzaman M, Hossain MA, Safa A, et al. Diverse CTX phages among toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 strains isolated between 1994 and 2002 in an area where cholera is endemic in Bangladesh. J Clin Microbiol. 2004;42:5854–6. DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.12.5854-5856.2004 3. Nair GB, Faruque SM, Bhuiyan A, Kamruzzman M, Siddique AK, Sack DA. New variants of Vibrio c...

IgG reactivity to phospholipid–bound b2-glycoprotein I is the main determinant of the fraction of lupus anticoagulant activity quenched by addition of hexagonal (II) phase phospholipid in patients with the clinical suspicion of antiphospholipid-antibody syndrome OMID SAFA ,*^ LUCIANO CRIPPA,* PATRIZIA DELLA VALLE,* MARIA GRAZIA SABBADINI,° SILVANA VIGANÒ D’ANGELO,* ARMANDO D’ANGELO * *Coagulati...

The use of dietary pattern specifically fatty acids intake should prove to be an informative and powerful means to augment our understanding of the role of diet in chronic disease particularly CHD. Cross sectional study was implemented to describe the nutrients intake specifically fatty acids intake of 4 (four) ethnic groups in Indonesia, such as Minangkabau, Sundanese, Javanese and Buginese. T...

This research was supported by a Specialized Center on Thrombosis grant awarded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (grant no. P50 HL54502; NLE). CTE is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and holds the Lloyd Noble Chair in Cardiovascular Research at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. *O. Safa current address: Biomerieux...