General Department of Preventive Medicine

Obesity is associated with macrophage accumulation in adipose tissue

Obesity alters adipose tissue metabolic and endocrine function and leads to an increased release of fatty acids, hormones, and proinflammatory molecules that contribute to obesi...

Obesity is associated with macrophage accumulation in adipose tissue

Obesity alters adipose tissue metabolic and endocrine function and leads to an increased release of fatty acids, hormones, and proinflammatory molecules that contribute to obesi...

A Prediction Rule to Identify Low-Risk Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

The prediction rule we describe accurately identifies the patients with community-acquired pneumonia who are at low risk for death and other adverse outcomes. This prediction ru...

Severe functional declines, work disability, and increased mortality in seventy‐five rheumatoid arthritis patients studied over nine years

Abstract Seventy‐five patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were reviewed 9 years after an extensive evaluation which included quantitative measures of functional capacity. Th...

Long-term Survival and Function After Suspected Gram-negative Sepsis

At the onset of suspected gram-negative sepsis, severity of underlying illness and in-hospital use of vasopressors are strong and consistent predictors of short- and long-term s...

The Value of Screening for Psychiatric Disorders in Rheumatology Referrals

Forty percent of patients referred to a rheumatology clinic in this study had a psychiatric disorder, and its presence predicted a lower likelihood of a connective tissue diseas...

Contribution of a Measure of Disease Complexity (COMPLEX) to Prediction of Outcome and Charges Among Hospitalized Patients