INTRODUCTION A Polish EQ-5D normative study published in 2010 was conducted in 2008 as a pilot study. The group of respondents was relatively small and had limited representativeness. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to derive population norms for the 3-level EQ-5D (EQ-5D-3L) questionnaire in Poland using a large, representative sample. RESPONDENTS AND METHODS Stratified random sampling ...

This study aimed to assess health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of Heilongjiang adult populations by using the EuroQol five-dimension three-level (EQ-5D-3L) questionnaire and to identify factors associated with HRQOL. Data from the National Health Services Survey (NHSS) 2008 in Heilongjiang province were obtained. Results of EQ-5D-3L questionnaires completed by 11,523 adult respondents (18 ye...

1Human Neurotransmitters Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC 8008, Australia 2Nucleus Network Ltd., Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC 8008, Australia 3Endocrinology and Metabolic Disease, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA 4Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Science...

a School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash Water for Liveability, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia b School of Social Sciences, Monash Water for Liveability, Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia c School of Social Sciences, Monash Water for Liveability, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Aust...

R. Schnittker1,* and S.D. Marshall2,3 1 Monash Injury Research Institute, Monash University, Building 70, 21 Alliance Lane, Clayton Campus, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia, 2 Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia, and 3 Monash Simulation Centre, Monash Health, 823-865 Centre Road, East Bentleigh, Melbourne, VIC 3165, Australia *Corr...

Hyperpolarization-activated HCN pacemaker channels are critical for the generation of spontaneous activity and the regulation of excitability in the heart and in many types of neurons. These channels produce both a voltage-dependent current (I(h)) and a voltage-independent current (I(inst) or VIC). In this study, we explored the molecular basis of the voltage-independent current. We found that ...

Vegetative incompatibility in fungi has long been known to reduce the transmission of viruses between individuals, but the barrier to transmission is incomplete. In replicated laboratory assays, we showed conclusively that the transmission of viruses between individuals of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica is controlled primarily by vegetative incompatibility (vic) genes. By r...

OBJECTIVES To compare the discriminative power of the five-level version of the EuroQol five-dimensional questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L [5L]) and its three-level version (EQ-5D-3L [3L]) in patients with diabetes in Singapore. METHODS A consecutive sample of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) self-completed the two versions of the EQ-5D in the clinic. The 3L index score was calculated from...

1 Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources Group, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 2 Law School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3 Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia, 4 Institute for Water Education, IHE Delft, Delft, Netherlands, 5 The Murray Darling Freshwater Rese...

1 Oral Health Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 2 Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 3 Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Institute of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 4 Center for Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 5 Exper...