closely controlled. The multi-infarct group had an -intermediate mean plasma carotene concentration and showed no significant correlation between plasma carotene and plasma vitamin A concentrations (Spearman coefficient 0 32). These findings very probably result from including patients who also have Alzheimer's disease in the multi-infarct group.5 The cause of carotenaemia in Alzheimer's diseas...

Methods Study was conducted in ART centre, IMS, BHU. Patients who failed on first line ART (NACO criteria) were included in the study after consent. Virological, immunological and clinical response was assessed at 24 weeks. Independent t-test /Mann-Whitney U test was used for making comparison among the independent groups. Chi-square test was used to test the association between categorical var...

PURPOSE To evaluate the validity and reliability of the telephone-administered long IPAQ version. METHODS The questionnaire was administered by telephone to adults on days 1 and 6. On day 1, the same questionnaire was administered by face-to-face interview, and accelerometers were delivered to subjects. Reliability was measured by comparing data collected using the telephone questionnaire on ...

AIM To investigate the relationship between glucose metabolism and glypican-3 (GPC3) expression in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS Immunohistochemical staining of pathological samples for GPC3 and glucose transporter 1 (GLUT1), and whole-body 18F-FDG PET/CT for measuring tumour glucose uptake were performed in 55 newly diagnosed HCC patients. The maximum standard uptake value (SUVmax)...

In this article we describe a new Hermite series based sequential estimator for the Spearman rank correlation coefficient and provide algorithms applicable in both stationary non-stationary settings. To treat setting, introduce novel, exponentially weighted correlation, which allows local nonparametric of bivariate data stream to be tracked. best our knowledge is first algorithm proposed estima...

BACKGROUND There is debate as to whether the association between C-reactive protein (CRP) and insulin resistance is independent of body fatness, particularly central obesity. Therefore, the association among CRP, insulin resistance and obesity was analyzed in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes. METHODS The study included 520 Chinese patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes with CRP levels n...

Performance of different organizations, such as hospitals is mainly influenced by their managers' performance. Nursing managers have an important role in hospital performance and their managerial skills can improve the quality of the services. Hence, the present study was conducted in order to assess the relationship between the managerial skills and the results of their performance evaluation ...

PURPOSE Plasma volume and blood volume are imaging-derived parameters that are often used to evaluation intracranial tumors. Physiologically, these parameters are directly related, but their two different methods of measurements, T1-dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE)- and T2-dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC)-MR utilize different model assumptions and approaches. This poses the question of whet...