OBJECTIVES To provide evidence of underdiagnosis of coeliac disease and to describe the main presenting symptoms of coeliac disease in primary care. DESIGN Case finding in a primary care setting by testing for coeliac disease by using the endomysial antibody test. SETTING Nine surgeries in and around a market town in central England, serving a population of 70 000. PARTICIPANTS First 1000...

Celiac disease has been associated with other autoimmune disorders such as autoimmune hepatitis, moreover it is known that T cell mediated immune response to dietary gluten and released cytokines are important for the entheropathy seen in celiac disease. We investigated celiac autoantibodies in patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), and chronic hepatitis B (CHB).Sera from 84 patients with Au...

The aim of this study was to compare the efficiencies of six reference laboratories for serologic testing for celiac disease. Serum from 20 patients with untreated celiac disease and from 20 controls was thawed, divided, and distributed to each participating laboratory, which performed endomysial antibody tests. Five laboratories also performed antigliadin antibody tests. Sensitivity for endomy...

This review determines the significance, usefulness, and application of the endomysial antibody test for coeliac disease in clinical practice.

Myocardial connective tissue probably provides passive support for regulating heart tensile strength and stiffness and ultimately for controlling heart mechanics through its endomysial part. However, endomysial collagen micro-arrangement is still a matter of debate. In order to define the fine distribution of left ventricle endomysial collagen, we applied the NaOH-scanning electron microscopy (...

exophthalmos, myxedema, and acropachy are collectively named exophthalmos myxedema acropachy (ema) syn-drome, which is a rare syndrome associated with hypertcardiotrophia. among patients with hyperthyreosis, ema has an incidence less than 1%. here, we reported a case of ema and explored its diagnosis and treatment.

Graft polymerization of acrylic acid (AA) and ethyl methacrylate (EMA) onto starch (St) were carried out in aqueous solution using ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) as redox system under N2 atmosphere. The effect of pH, reaction time, temperature, concentrations of CAN, St, and monomers on the graft yield was investigated. Monomer reactivity was in the following order: AA>EMA.<em...

The objective of this research is to control the nitrate-nitrogen concentration in surface water to 11.3 mg l (EU standards) and determine the exact nitrogen amount that has to be applied to achieve this limitation and calculate the corresponding plant uptake. The method used in this study is a combination between DRAINMOD-N model and Environmental Management for Agriculture (EMA), applying the...

BACKGROUND Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) may elicit physical activity (PA) estimates that are less prone to bias than traditional self-report measures while providing context. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to examine the convergent validity of EMA-assessed PA compared with accelerometry. METHODS The participants self-reported their PA using International Physical Activi...