BACKGROUND Patients with cardiovascular disease who underwent coronary angiography at the National Institute of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiological Intervention (INCCI) in Luxembourg were surveyed for cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) (hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, obesity, physical inactivity, tobacco consumption). In 2013/14, their life satisfaction (LS) was also assessed. Our ...

Sitagliptin is a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP IV, CD26) inhibitor indicated for treatment of Type II diabetes as a second line therapy after metformin. We report fifteen sitagliptin intolerant patients who developed anterior and posterior rhinorrhea, cough, dyspnea, and fatigue. Symptoms typically developed within 1 to 8 weeks of starting, and resolved within 1 week of stopping the drug. Peak ex...

This paper evaluates an adaptive staircase procedure for threshold estimation that is suitable for unforced-choice tasks-ones with the additional response alternative don't know. Within the framework of a theory of indecision, evidence is developed that fluctuations of the response criterion are much less detrimental to unforced-choice tasks than to yes/no tasks. An adaptive staircase procedure...

The most persistently troubling empirical result in the contingent valuation method literature is the tendency for hypothetical willingness to pay to overestimate real willingness to pay. We suggest a new approach to test and correct for hypothetical bias using a latent choice multinomial logit (LCMNL) model. To develop this model, we extend Dempster, Laird, and Rubin’s (1977) work on the EM al...

The Two-Way Task: Run1: TAC-M, TS-M, and Tri-BM Run2: TAC-M, TS-M, and BoW-BM Run3: TAC-M, TS-M, NE-M, & Tri-BM, BoW-BM The Three-Way Task: Run1: TAC-M, TS-M, and Tri-BM, BoWBM Run2: TAC-M, TS-M, NE-M (partial), and Tri-BM, BoW-BM Run3: TAC-M, TS-M, NE-M, and Tri-BM, BoW-BM From Two-Way to Three-Way: If BoW-BM=YES & Tri-BM=NO then CONTRADICTION If BoW-BM=YES & Tri-BM=YES then ENTAILMENT Others ...

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IN THIS ISSUE of the Journal of Applied Physiology, the article “Time course of changes in inflammatory markers during a 6-mo exercise intervention in sedentary middle-aged men: a randomized-controlled trial” by Thompson and colleagues (6), independent of the specific sets of results presented in the manuscript, addresses a more general question that many laboratories, in a variety of forms, ha...