There are two primary challenges for establishing nuclear third party liability (TPL) regimes within multilateral nuclear approaches (MNA) to nuclear fuel cycle facilities in the Asian region. The first challenge is to ensure secure and prompt compensation, especially for transboundary damages, which is also a challenge for a nation-based facility. One possible solution is that in order to shar...

OBJECTIVE To examine the longitudinal effects of medication nonadherence (MNA) on key costs and estimate potential savings from increased adherence using a novel methodology that accounts for shared correlation among cost categories. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Veterans with type 2 diabetes (740,195) were followed from January 2002 until death, loss to follow-up, or December 2006. A novel mul...

PURPOSE This study investigated relationships between neuroblastomas (NBs) imaging phenotypes, tumor genomic profile and patient outcome. PATIENTS AND METHODS This IRB-approved retrospective observational study included 133 NB patients (73 M, 60 F; median age 15 months, range 0-151) treated in a single institution between 1998 and 2012. A consensus review of imaging (CT-scan, MRI) categorized...

The capacity of malnutrition screening to predict the onset sarcopenia is unknown. Our first objective explore association between and incidence then, assess added value diagnosis over a 5-year follow-up. Malnutrition was screened at baseline according MNA short-form (MNA-SF) long-form (MNA-LF) diagnosed by GLIM definition. Sarcopenia defined using European Working Group on in Older People (EWG...

BACKGROUND Disturbed phosphate homeostasis in early Parkinson's disease (PD) may originate from a stress-related condition and nutritional status among other risk factors, age, and gender. METHODS Risk of malnutrition using Mini-nutritional assessment (MNA score) and plasma levels of protein markers and daytime cortisol at the time of diagnosis in PD (n = 75) were compared with a control grou...

Background: Undernutrition/nutritional risk were evaluated longitudinally in 531 hospitalized elderly by four validated methods to appraise the most feasible for routine use. Design: Within 48hrs of admission&24hrs before discharge: the following data were collected: clinical data, nutritional status (BMI, %weight loss) & risk (MNA, MUST), energy requirements (Owen et al), diet. Results: Signif...

BACKGROUND & AIMS This cohort study aimed to investigate and compare the ability to predict malnutrition in a group of frail older hospital patients in the United Kingdom using the nutritional risk screening tools, MUST (malnutrition universal screening tool), MNA-SF(®) (mini nutritional assessment-short form) and bioelectrical impedance assessment (BIA) of body composition. METHODS MUST and ...

AIM AND OBJECTIVES To determine whether a modified version of the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) without body mass index (BMI) can effectively identify individuals at risk of malnutrition among patients with neuropsychiatric disorders. BACKGROUND Neuropsychiatric patients have an additional risk of nutritional disorder due to functional impairments and drug effects. However, their nutritio...

BACKGROUND Buffalo/Mna rats spontaneously develop a nephrotic syndrome (NS). We have demonstrated that this rat nephropathy recurs after renal transplantation. We studied this recurrence by kinetic analysis of graft lesions, infiltrating cells and cytokines. METHODS Kidneys from LEW.1 W rats were grafted into proteinuric Buff/Mna or healthy Wistar Furth recipients. Kidney samples were harvest...

This investigation examined whether low sodium (Na+) (LNA; 68 mEq Na+.d-1) or moderate Na+ (MNA; 137 mEq Na+.d-1) intake allowed humans to maintain health, exercise, and physiologic function during 10 days of prolonged exercise-heat acclimation (HA). Seventeen volunteers, ages 19 to 21, consumed either LNA (n = 8) or MNA (n = 9) during HA (41 degrees C, 21% RH; treadmill walking for 30 min.h-1,...