Background: It is recommended that in diabetes mellitus patients all risk factors for cardiovascular disease should be controlled. Aim: To evaluate the rate of reaching all glycemic, lipids …
Background: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with sphincterotomy has become an important technique in the diagnosis and treatment of biliary and pancreatic …
Background/Aims: To examine the effects of a 3-month multidisciplinary intervention on anthropometric measures, physical activity patterns and fitness, inflammatory cytokines, …
Inflammation plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of atherothrombosis. Our aim was to examine the association between plasma concentrations of inflammatory biomarkers and …
Background and objective Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive lung disease with poor prognosis. Activated fibroblasts are the key effector cells in fibrosis, producing …
… We conducted a prospective study of hypothyroid patients referred to the endocrine outpatient clinic (Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel) and patients that underwent thyroidectomy …
Background: The occurrence of asthma has geographic variations and is lower in developing compared with industrialized countries. Both environmental and genetic factors may …
Background Endothelial dysfunction has been previously described in severely hypertensive rats with renal mass reduction (RMR) receiving large dietary Na loads. Because …
BACKGROUND Wrong blood in tube (WBIT) errors are a preventable cause of ABO‐mismatched RBC transfusions. Electronic patient identification systems (eg, scanning a patient's …
Objectives : The goal of this study was to assess soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1) level as a predictor of future acute coronary events in patients with chronic …