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Illness Severity and Treatment Services for Dually Diagnosed Severely Mentally Ill Outpatients [PDF]

Schizophrenia Bulletin, 1997
This study of a frequently endorsed, but untested, model of outpatient treatment for persons with coexisting severe mental illness and substance use disorders assessed how the amount of treatment services delivered was related to an individual's global severity of illness, whether different modes of treatment were related to different aspects of ...
Katherine Anne Comtois, Richard K. Ries
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Hyperuricemia: An Early Marker for Severity of Illness in Sepsis

International Journal of Nephrology, 2015
Background. Uric acid can acutely activate various inflammatory transcription factors. Since high levels of oxyradicals and lower antioxidant levels in septic patients are believed to result in multiorgan failure, uric acid levels could be used as a ...
S. Akbar, D. Long, K. Hussain, A. Alhajhusain, U. Ahmed, H. Iqbal, Ailia W Ali, Rachel Leonard, Cheryl L Dalton   +8 more
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Biological plausibility for interactions between dietary fat, resveratrol, ACE2, and SARS-CoV illness severity

American Journal of Physiology. Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2020
The angiotensin converting enzyme-2 (ACE2) cellular receptor is responsible for the pathogenesis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), thus impacting the entrance and clearance of the virus.
Justine R. Horne, M. Vohl
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Downregulation of sST2, a decoy receptor for interleukin‐33, enhances subcutaneous tumor growth in murine pancreatic cancer cells

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Subcutaneous implantation of murine Panc02 pancreatic cancer cells depleted of sST2, a soluble decoy receptor for the proinflammatory interleukin‐33 (IL‐33), leads to a decreased number of GLUT4‐positive cancer‐associated adipocytes, reduced levels of the anti‐inflammatory molecule adiponectin, increased phosphorylation of IκBα, elevated Cxcl3 ...
Miho Akimoto, Nobuko Koshikawa, Takao Morinaga, Mimi Tamamori‐Adachi, Atsushi Takatori, Keizo Takenaga   +5 more
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A latent class analysis of parental bipolar disorder: examining associations with offspring psychopathology [PDF]

, 2015
Bipolar disorder (BD) is highly heterogeneous, and course variations are associated with patient outcomes. This diagnostic complexity challenges identification of patients in greatest need of intervention.
Freed, Rachel D., Henin, Aude, Nierenberg, Andrew A., Otto, Michael W., Tompson, Martha C.   +4 more
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Microbial profile of the appendix niche in acute appendicitis: a novel sampling approach

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This study utilized a novel sampling method, ERAT (i.e. endoscopic retrograde appendicitis treatment)‐guided lumen aspiration, to obtain samples from the appendix, and shotgun metagenomic sequencing was performed for in situ characterization of the appendix microbiome in patients with acute appendicitis.
Huimin Ma, Mingfei Wang, Yanhu Feng, Wanqi Zhang, Wenbo Wang, Yanfeng Xie, Guixiang Kong, Jie Feng, Pengfei Wang, Qi Wang, Xiaojun Huang   +10 more
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The Association of Zinc Serum Level with Age, Sex and Disease Severity in Acne Vulgaris Patients

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2012
Background: Acne vulgaris is a chronic inflammatory disease of pilosebaceous follicles. It is one of the most important skin disorders during adolescence. Zinc is one of essential trace elements in the body that has major roles in maintaining health. The
Gholam Hossein Ghafarpour, Vahid Ebrahimi, Mir Hadi Aziz Jalali   +2 more
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Association of Anthropometric Parameters and Severity of SARS-COV-2 Infection among Hospitalized Patients in a Tertiary care Center in Western Maharashtra – an Analytical Cross-Sectional Study

Central Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023
Background: On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed COVID-19 as a pandemic. COVID-19 has infected more than 5.5 million people worldwide, resulting in more than 3,47,000 fatalities.
Mamta Kishor Shewte, Rajeshree Sushil Dhok, Priyanka Narayanrao Pachange, Prachi Manohar Suryawanshi`, Naila Nazir Sayed   +4 more
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Disparity between General Symptom Relief and Remission Criteria in the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS): A Post-treatment Bifactor Item Response Theory Model. [PDF]

, 2017
Objective: Total scale scores derived by summing ratings from the 30-item PANSS are commonly used in clinical trial research to measure overall symptom severity, and percentage reductions in the total scores are sometimes used to document the efficacy of
Anderson, Ariana E, Bilder, Robert M, Han, Carol, Mansolf, Maxwell, Marder, Stephen R, Reise, Steven P   +5 more
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Point-of-care measurement of blood lactate in children admitted with febrile illness to an African District Hospital. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Lactic acidosis is a consistent predictor of mortality owing to severe infectious disease, but its detection in low-income settings is limited to the clinical sign of "deep breathing" because of the lack of accessible technology for its ...
Acierno, B. Amos, B. Nadjm, Day, English, English, English, F. Muro, G. Mtove, Gore, H. Reyburn, I. C. E. Hendriksen, J. Todd, Kahigwa, Krishna, Krishna, Maitland, Marsh, Marsh, Molyneux, Nadjm, Reyburn, Taylor   +22 more
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