BACKGROUND Cerebral infarction caused by different reasons seems differ in fibrinogen levels, so the current work intends to explore the relationship between the fibrinogen level and subtypes of the TOAST criteria in the acute stage of ischemic stroke. METHODS A total of 577 case research objects were treated acute ischemic stroke patients in our hospital from December 2008 to December 2010, ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of the present study was to assess the diagnostic usefulness of early diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) and MR angiography (MRA) in patients with ischemic stroke. Past approaches to stroke diagnosis required a series of diagnostic tests over several days of hospitalization. New magnetic resonance methodologies that include DWI and MRA may allow more rapid character...

AIM To investigate the influence of the Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment (TOAST) subtypes in doctors' decisions to use antihypertensive prescriptions at discharge for ischemic stroke patients in a real-world setting. METHODS Using the China National Stroke Registry, we analyzed data from 12,063 hospitalized patients who had been diagnosed with ischemic stroke. The cause of ischemi...

Junk foods are rich in calories, salt and fats. Excess consumption of junk foods leads rise to wide variety of health disorders. School canteens are offering foods high in fat and sugar which actually contributing to the youth weight gain along with other problems like infections, food poisonings and dental diseases. Consuming junk foods might stop the children from taking healthy meals either ...

BACKGROUND Bread types with high contents of whole grains and rye are associated with beneficial health effects. Consumer characteristics of different bread consumption patterns are however not well known. OBJECTIVE To compare bread consumption patterns among Swedish adults in relation to selected socio-demographic, geographic, and lifestyle-related factors. For selected consumer groups, the ...

ON the 18th August, 1963, an elderly woman, who was a patient in a general medical unit at the Belfast City Hospital, developed severe diarrhaea. This was the beginning of an outbreak of S. IeideIberg infection which lasted two and a half months; nineteen persons became infected, five had symptoms and there was one death. THE WARD UNIT. The unit consists of a male and a female ward, each with t...

Introduction: Diabetes is one of the most common endocrine diseases. With regard to the importance of blood glucose regulation in prevention of diabetic complications, glycemic and insulinemic response determination of foods containing carbohydrates is greatly important. The purpose of the present study, therefore, was to determine the effect of low glycemic index foods taken at dinner on fasti...