For richer, for poorer: marriage and casualized sex in East African artisanal mining settlements [PDF]
, 2014 Migrants to Tanzania's artisanal gold mining sites seek mineral wealth, which is accompanied by high risks of occupational hazards, economic failure, AIDS and social censure from their home communities. Male miners in these settlements compete to attract
Bryceson D.F +17 more
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Thyroid hormone levels within reference range are associated with heart rate, cardiac structure, and function in middle-aged men and women [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Triiodothyronine (T3) has many effects on the heart, and marked changes in cardiac function and structure occur in patients with (subclinical) thyroid disease. We investigated whether between-subject variation in thyroid hormone levels within
De Buyzere, Marc +6 more
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Diagnosis and management of treatment-refractory hypothyroidism: an expert consensus report [PDF]
, 2017 There is a frequently encountered subset of hypothyroid patients who are refractory to standard thyroid hormone replacement treatment and require unexpectedly high doses of levothyroxine.
Benvenga, S +2 more
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Triiodothyronine and free thyroxine levels are differentially associated with metabolic profile and adiposity-related cardiovascular risk markers in euthyroid middle-aged subjects [PDF]
, 2014 Background: We previously showed that in healthy young men a less favorable body composition is associated with higher FT3 levels within the euthyroid range.
De Buyzere, Marc +6 more
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A 73‐Year‐Old Man With Several Years of Difficulty Climbing Stairs and Frequent Tripping
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A 73‐year‐old man presented with progressive weakness and atrophy predominantly affecting the distal finger flexors and quadriceps muscles. Electrophysiological studies demonstrated mixed myogenic and neurogenic features. Muscle MRI showed inflammatory changes, and muscle biopsy revealed granulomatous myositis with histologic features ...
Mehmet Can Sari +3 more
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Ожирение и метаболизм, 2013 Obesity and hypothyroidism are common diseases, and consequently clinicians should be particularly alert to the possibility of thyroid dysfunction in obese patients.
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Thyroid-hormone therapy and thyroid cancer: a reassessment. [PDF]
, 2005 Experimental studies and clinical data have demonstrated that thyroid-cell proliferation is dependent on thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), thereby providing the rationale for TSH suppression as a treatment for differentiated thyroid cancer.
BIONDI, BERNADETTE +2 more
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The Clinical Significance of Subclinical Thyroid Dysfunction. [PDF]
, 2008 Subclinical thyroid disease (SCTD) is defined as serum free T(4) and free T(3) levels within their respective reference ranges in the presence of abnormal serum TSH levels.
BIONDI, BERNADETTE, COOPER DS
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Selenium‐incorporated polymerized nonfullerene acceptor PCB2Se forms a strong supramolecular complex with SWCNTs, enabling a record‐high zT of 0.29. Sequential N‐DMBI doping, mediated through a polymer‐assisted electron‐transfer pathway, successfully converts the PCB2Se/SWCNT composite into an efficient n‐type material with an impressive power factor ...
Chi‐Chun Tseng +8 more
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Fast Supervised Hashing with Decision Trees for High-Dimensional Data [PDF]
, 2014 Supervised hashing aims to map the original features to compact binary codes that are able to preserve label based similarity in the Hamming space.
Hengel, Anton van den +4 more
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