Ss were 40 male patients hospitalized on a psychiatric ward and defined as maladjusted and 40 male patients hospitalized on a medical-surgical ward and defined as adjusted. The medical and psychiatric groups were each composed of equal subgroups of low-competence repressers, low-competence sensitizers, high-competence repressers, and high-competence sensitizers. All Ss completed a social desira...

OBJECTIVE Dementia is a common neurological disease that substantially affects public health. A previous study revealed that dementia occurs when the body's immune system attacks the cells of the brain, indicating that dementia may be similar to autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs). In the current retrospective cohort study, we focused on middle-aged ARD patients (45 years or older) to investig...

Functional outcomes for long-term survivors of acute liver failure (ALF) are not well characterized. The aim of this prospective study was to determine health-related quality of life in long-term adult ALF survivors. Acute Liver Failure Study Group registry participants completed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health-Related Quality of Life 14 and Short Form 36 (SF-36) questionn...

Twenty seven patients with primary or possible Sjögren's syndrome with neurological manifestations were compared immunologically with 21 patients with Sjögren's syndrome with an intact nervous system. Patients with Sjögren's syndrome were divided into seropositive and seronegative subgroups with respect to the occurrence of one or more autoantibodies (antinuclear antibodies, rheumatoid factor, ...

in this paper a first step in classifying the fuzzy normalsubgroups of a finite group is made. explicit formulas for thenumber of distinct fuzzy normal subgroups are obtained in theparticular cases of symmetric groups and dihedral groups.

a subgroup x of a group g is said to be an h -subgroup if n_g(x) ∩ x^g ≤ x for each element g belonging to g. in [m. bianchi e. a., on finite soluble groups in which normality is a transitive relation, j. group theory, 3 (2000), 147–156] the authors showed that finite groups in which every subgroup has the h -property are exactly soluble groups in which normality is a transitive relation. here ...

Numerous studies have focused on the association between heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) gene promoter polymorphisms and susceptibility to cancer; however, results remain ambiguous. The present systematic Human Genome Epidemiology review and meta-analysis aimed to clarify this association. A systematic search was used to assess the association of HO-1 gene polymorphisms with cancer susceptibility in th...

OBJECTIVE To derive and validate a predictive model and novel emergency medical services (EMS) screening tool for severe sepsis (SS). DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING A single EMS system and an urban, public hospital. PATIENTS Sequential adult, nontrauma, nonarrest, at-risk, EMS-transported patients between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2012 were included in the study. At-ri...

BACKGROUND The purposes of the study were to compare serum total cortisol (STC), salivary cortisol (SaC) and calculated free cortisol (cFC) levels at baseline and after the adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) stimulation test in patients with severe sepsis (SS) and determine the suitability of use of SaC and cFC levels instead of STC for the diagnosis of adrenal insufficiency (AI) in patients w...

PURPOSE To investigate whether cilostazol has a protective effect on acute ischemia and reperfusion of hind limbs of rats through study of biochemical variables in blood and urine. METHODS Forty six animals were randomized and divided into two groups. Group I received a solution of cilostazol (10 mg/Kg) and group II received saline solution 0.9% (SS) by orogastric tube after ligature of the a...