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Socioeconomic Status and Subclinical Coronary Disease in the Whitehall II Epidemiological Study [PDF]
Background: There are pronounced socioeconomic disparities in coronary heart disease, but the extent to which these primarily reflect gradients in underlying coronary artery disease severity or in the clinical manifestation of advanced disease is ...
Andrew Steptoe +12 more
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Prevalence and factors associated to diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in gout [PDF]
Aim: To evaluate the prevalence, associated factors, and the impact of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) in patients with gout. Methods: Patients with gout entering into an inception cohort were evaluated for either spinal or peripheral ...
Fernando Pérez-Ruiz +5 more
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Calcific myonecrosis is a rare complication of limb trauma, that may occur after many years. It is characterized by dystrophic calcification that develops in the late period following compartment syndrome usually in the lower limb. We present a 66-year-old man who developed calcific myonecrosis 35 years after surgical intervention for compartment ...
Melih, Güven +5 more
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Determination of Pericardial Adipose Tissue Increases the Prognostic Accuracy of Coronary Artery Calcification for Future Cardiovascular Events [PDF]
Objectives: Pericardial adipose tissue (PAT) is associated with coronary artery plaque accumulation and the incidence of coronary heart disease. We evaluated the possible incremental prognostic value of PAT for future cardiovascular events.
Ziegler, Franz von +11 more
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Histopathologic changes in aborted placenta
Introduction: Histopathological examination of the placenta with clinical implications helps to make the diagnosis and deduce the cause of abortion, fetal mortality, morbidity, and pregnancy complications.
A R. Guheina Ashour +2 more
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Thermodynamic and Kinetic Aspects of Calcium Oxalate Crystallization and Renal Lithiasis
Thermodynamic factors (supersaturation of substances that form crystals) and kinetic factors (heterogeneous nucleants and crystallization inhibitors) affect the formation of crystals and stones in the urinary tract.
Jaume Dietrich +2 more
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CALCIFICATION AND OSSIFICATION [PDF]
It is the merit of Jacques Loeb to have shown us the necessity of simplifying our methods of attacking biologic problems. Instead of investigating the effects of complex substances on still more complex living organisms, he took up the simplest things imaginable, the familiar inorganic salts, and for his living subject the least complex complete ...
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Influence of Supersaturation Level on the Efficacy of Crystallization Inhibitors
This in vitro study examined the influence of supersaturation level on the efficacy of different inhibitors in preventing the crystallization of calcium oxalate, uric acid, and cystine.
Jaume Dietrich +3 more
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Background/Objectives: 7-Methylxanthine (7-MX) is a naturally occurring metabolite of caffeine and theobromine that can inhibit the crystallization of monosodium urate (MSU) and may be useful for the prevention or treatment of gout.
Miguel D. Ferrer +6 more
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Relationship between calcification, atherosclerosis and matrix proteins in the human aorta
INTRODUCTION: Extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins have been associated with atherosclerotic complications, such as plaque rupture, calcification and aneurysm.
Aleksandra Kuzan +5 more
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