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Preferences for post‐traumatic osteoarthritis prevention strategies in individuals with anterior cruciate ligament injury

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objectives There is growing interest in evaluating new strategies to delay or prevent post‐traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) in individuals who have sustained anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. This study sought to determine characteristics of potential treatments that are acceptable to patients with ACL injury.
Kevin Kennedy, Lily Waddell, Adam Easterbrook, Jeffrey N. Katz, Cale Jacobs, Morgan Jones, Faith Selzer, Elena Losina, Liana Fraenkel, Nick Bansback   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hearts apart: sex differences in cardiac remodeling in health and disease

The Journal of Clinical Investigation
Biological sex is an important modifier of physiology and influences pathobiology in many diseases. While heart disease is the number one cause of death worldwide in both men and women, sex differences exist at the organ and cellular scales, affecting ...
Thomas G. Martin, Leslie A. Leinwand
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Gender Bias and Organ Transplantation in Nepal [PDF]

, 2016
Women in Nepal are less likely to receive proper, high quality medical care than their male relatives. Live-donor kidney transplantation provides a compelling example of such disparities, as 84% of recipients are male, 75% of donors are female and most ...
Paneru, Pragya, Rasmussen, Sarah, Shrestha, Kalpana, Shrestha, Pukar C.   +3 more
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Effects of physical exercise on adiponectin, leptin, and inflammatory markers in childhood obesity: systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2018
Background: New findings on adipose tissue physiology and obesity-Associated inflammation status suggest that modification of the adipokine level can be relevant for the long-Term prevention of obesity-Associated chronic disease. Objectives: The scope of
Bianco, Antonio, Castaldo, Clotilde, D'Alicandro, Giovanni, Di Meglio, Franca, Montagnani, Stefania, Nurzynska, Daria, Sirico, Felice, Spera, Rocco   +7 more
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Assessment of Skin in Patients With Systemic Sclerosis Using High‐Frequency Ultrasound and Shear Wave Elastography: A Comparative Study With Histology, Molecular, and Clinical Parameters

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Ultrasound (US) has been proposed as a potential tool for assessing skin fibrosis in systemic sclerosis (SSc). However, a large‐scale comparison of US‐based assessment with histologic markers of skin fibrosis has not been reported. We evaluated US‐based skin assessments for their face validity (differentiation between involved SSc and healthy
Ruhani Desai, Filemon Tan, Minghua Wu, Jeffery L. Browning, Samuel Theodore, Meng Zhang, Brian Skaug, Harshdeep Singh Chawla, Manmohan Singh, Salavat Aglyamov, Kirill V. Larin, Maureen Mayes, Shervin Assassi   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk assessment of medical exposure in X-ray examinations of children

Радиационная гигиена, 2017
The use of the effective dose (the concept of which was developed for radiation protection of workers and public) and the nominal risk coefficients, averaged by sex and age, to assess the radiation risks of medical exposure has some significant ...
I. G. Shatsky
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Performance Characteristics of Anti‐Collagen II Antibodies in Relapsing Polychondritis and Related Diseases: Prospective Analysis, Systematic Review, and Meta‐Analysis

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Background Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare disease defined by recurrent cartilaginous inflammation. Anti‐collagen II (anti‐Col2) antibodies have been proposed as a diagnostic biomarker for RP, but their performance characteristics are not well defined.
Karyssa Stonick, Marcela A. Ferrada, Alice Fike, Kaitlin A. Quinn, Benjamin A. Turturice, Casey Stein, Peter C Grayson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Safety of Subcutaneous Belimumab in Pediatric Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Multicenter, Open‐Label Trial

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective This study aimed to characterize the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, safety, and exploratory efficacy of subcutaneous belimumab in pediatric patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) receiving standard therapy. Methods This single‐arm, multicenter, open‐label trial (GSK study 200908; NCT04179032) used three‐weight‐band ...
Hermine I. Brunner, Jordi Antón, Inmaculada Calvo‐Penadés, Richard Dimelow, Gerd Horneff, Sylvia Kamphuis, Rebecca Marino, Andre van Maurik, Kirsten Minden, Masaaki Mori, Josephine Ocran‐Appiah, Christel Wilkinson, Yuichi Yamasaki, Deepak Assudani, for the Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborative Study Group (PRCSG) and Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO) network investigators   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monte Carlo quantification of organ doses and risks in chest X-ray projections

Advances in Biomedical and Health Sciences
Background: X-ray imaging is a pivotal diagnostic tool that poses health risks from absorbed radiation doses. This study aimed to determine the variation in the effective dose between posterior–anterior (PA) and anterior–posterior (AP) projections and ...
Hussein M. Elmehdi, Krithikadevi Ramachandran, Mohamed M. Abuzaid, Wiam Elshami   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical and serological features of systemic sclerosis in a multicenter African American cohort: Analysis of the genome research in African American scleroderma patients clinical database. [PDF]

, 2017
Racial differences exist in the severity of systemic sclerosis (SSc). To enhance our knowledge about SSc in African Americans, we established a comprehensive clinical database from the largest multicenter cohort of African American SSc patients assembled
Boin, Francesco, Carns, Mary, Chung, Lorinda, Criswell, Lindsey A, Derk, Chris T, Domsic, Robyn T, Gladue, Heather, Goldberg, Avram, Gordon, Jessica K, Gourh, Pravitt, Hsu, Vivien, Jan, Reem, Kastner, Daniel L, Khanna, Dinesh, Mayes, Maureen D, Medsger, Thomas A, Morgan, Nadia D, Ramos, Paula S, Remmers, Elaine F, Saketkoo, Lesley A, Schiopu, Elena, Shah, Ami A, Shanmugam, Victoria K, Silver, Richard M, Steen, Virginia D, Trojanowski, Marcin A, Valenzuela, Antonia, Varga, John, Wigley, Fredrick M   +28 more
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