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Life's Simple 7 and Incident Heart Failure: The Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
Background The American Heart Association introduced the Life's Simple 7 ( LS 7) metrics to assess and promote cardiovascular health. We sought to examine the association betwee...
An International MDS/MPN Working Group's perspective and recommendations on molecular pathogenesis, diagnosis and clinical characterization of myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms
In the 2008 WHO classification, chronic myeloid malignancies that share both myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative features define the myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative group,...
Assessment of quality of life in surgery
Abstract The concept patient's quality of life is assuming increasing importance in modern medicine and surgery. Interventions are increasingly being assessed in terms of their ...
Cost-Effectiveness of a Hospital-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention
Providing brief smoking cessation advice to hospitalized smokers is relatively inexpensive, cost-effective, and should become a part of the standard of inpatient care.
Male behaviour and territoriality in the Yellow‐bellied marmot
Five populations of marmots were studied in Colorado from 1962 through 1972. Males are classified by age as yearlings, two‐year olds, and adults. Socially, marmots are colonial,...
Controlled clinical trials of drug treatment for hypertension. A review.
We reviewed the designs and major results of 17 large-scale, controlled, clinical trials that reported the effects of drug treatment for hypertension on morbidity or mortality. ...
XXVII. On the statistical estimation of mean life-times
Abstract Statistical methods of estimation of the mean life-times of unstable particles from cloud chamber photographs are discussed (i) for decaying particles only, (ii) when n...
Atrial fibrillation in elderly patients: prevalence and comorbidity in general practice
Patients with atrial fibrillation have an increased risk of thromboembolic complications and mortality.1 To estimate the impact of prophylactic treatment in the general populati...
Parity induces differentiation and reduces Wnt/Notch signaling ratio and proliferation potential of basal stem/progenitor cells isolated from mouse mammary epithelium
Abstract Introduction Early pregnancy has a strong protective effect against breast cancer in humans and rodents, but the underlying mechanism is unknown. Because breast cancers...
Ideas in pathology. Pivotal role of increased cell proliferation in human carcinogenesis.
Cancer develops secondary to multiple genetic events. Each time a cell divides there is a rare chance that a genetic error related to the carcinogenic process will occur. Thus, ...