BACKGROUND Deteriorating renal function in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients is commonly associated with reduced haemoglobin levels, adding to the already considerable humanistic burden of CKD. This analysis evaluated the impact of anaemia on disease burden in patients with CKD stages 3-4, and in those on dialysis. METHODS This was a descriptive, cross-sectional analysis of European data ...

BACKGROUND Symptoms tend to occur in what have been called symptom clusters. Early symptom cluster research was imprecise regarding the causal foundations of the coordinations between specific symptoms, and was silent on whether the relationships between symptoms remained stable over time. This study develops a causal model of the relationships between symptoms in cancer palliative care patient...

Vehicle users are facing a number of health problems, which create complicated situations. Some cases are very serious in which the road accidents create fetal or long term disabilities. Risk prediction systems (RPS) and health monitoring systems (HMS) have been used for a number of e-Health applications, which are basics to some serious diseases. In this paper, tiredness while driving (TWD) is...

Today, researches for singing by computer have attracted attention. VOCALOID is an application to realize that aim. By inputing lyrics and melody, users can make songs sung by the computer. In order to make the singing voice more human , users must control frequency curve very carefully. Comparing with inputing lyrics or melody, this controlling presents heavy overhead for users. In this resear...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether doses of the pineal hormone melatonin alleviate jet lag. DESIGN Double blind, placebo controlled crossover trial. SETTING Long haul return flights from Auckland, New Zealand, to London and back. SUBJECTS Twenty volunteers with experience of transcontinental flights (eight women and 12 men aged 28 to 68). INTERVENTIONS Melatonin (or placebo) 5 mg three days...

Objective. Evaluate in postmenopausal women the effect of red clover extract (RCE) isoflavones over subjective status of skin, appendages, and several mucosal sites. Method. Postmenopausal women (n = 109) were randomly assigned to receive either two daily capsules of the active compound (80 mg RCE, Group A) or placebo of equal appearance (Group B) for a 90-day period. After a washout period of ...

I started experiencing symptoms of extreme tiredness and severe lethargy about 18 years ago, a short while after an angina attack. I thought the symptoms were related to my angina and I did not immediately seek help.

The first aim for this paper was to examine gender and age differences in the intensity of usage of information and communication technology (ICT: computer for digital playing, writing and e-mailing and communication, and Internet surfing, and mobile phone). Second, we modelled the possible mediating role of sleeping habits and waking-time tiredness in the association between ICT usage and perc...