BACKGROUND Cardiac complications are common in familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP), in which heart rate variability (HRV) is reduced. Although autonomic disturbances are well-established, mechanisms for reduced HRV, their relationship with left ventricular (LV) function in FAP are not well understood. METHODS Twenty-nine FAP patients and 29 healthy controls were studied using Doppler ec...

BACKGROUND Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a clustering of cardiovascular risk factors responsible for the development of target organ damage. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the increasing number of MS risk factors on left ventricular function assessed by noninvasive methods. MATERIAL/METHODS The study included 204 subjects with MS and 76 controls with no MS risk factors. MS ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the left (LV) and right (RV) ventricular function in euthyroid Hashimoto's thyroiditis (eHT) patients. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Forty-five patients diagnosed with eHT and 45 age- and gender-matched control subjects were enrolled in this study. Echocardiographic parameters reflecting RV and LV functions such as chamber dimensions, ejection fraction, ...

This paper provides an introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), focused at bringing in newcomers who have to deal with a digital document project and are looking at the capacity that the TEI environment may have to fulfil his needs. To this end, we avoid a strictly technical presentation of the TEI and concentrate on the actual issues that such projects face, with parallel made on th...

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has provided a complex and comprehensive system of provisions for scholarly text encoding. Although a major focus of the ‘digital humanities’ domain, and despite much teaching effort by the TEI community, there is a lack of teaching materials available, which would encourage the adoption of the TEI’s recommendations and the widespread use of its text encoding ...

As trait emotional intelligence [TEI] is claimed to facilitate adaptation, study 1 (N= 80) investigated whether TEI would be associated with adaptative outcomes such as enhanced self-reported mental and physical health. As these assumptions were supported, study 2 (N= 75) tested the hypothesis of a moderating effect of TEI on the relationship between stress and psychological and somatic health....