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Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: A pooled analysis of 1018…

2018

Background: Change in the prevalence of raised blood pressure could be due to both shifts in the entire distribution of blood pressure (representing the combined effects of public health interventions and secular trends) and changes in its high-blood-pressure tail (representing successful clinical interventions to control blood pressure in the hypertensive population). Our aim was to quantify the contributions of these two phenomena to the worldwide trends in the prevalence of raised blood pressure. Methods: We pooled 1018 population-based studies with blood pressure measurements on 88.6 million participants from 1985 to 2016. We first calculated mean systolic blood pressure (SBP), mean dia…

Using VIS/NIR and IR spectral cameras for detecting and separating crime scene details

2012

Detecting invisible details and separating mixed evidence is critical for forensic inspection. If this can be done reliably and fast at the crime scene, irrelevant objects do not require further examination at the laboratory. This will speed up the inspection process and release resources for other critical tasks. This article reports on tests which have been carried out at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland together with the Central Finland Police Department and the National Bureau of Investigation for detecting and separating forensic details with hyperspectral technology. In the tests evidence was sought after at an assumed violent burglary scene with the use of VTT's 500-900 nm wave…

Intravenous iron therapy in patients with heart failure. A double-edged sword

2013

We read with interest the article of Beck-da-Silva et al., who recently concluded that intravenous (IV) iron seems to be superior over oral supplementation for improving functional capacity of heart failure patients [1]. Irrespective of the study design, involving comparison of functional outcomes between two different means of iron supplementation, we raise some clinical issues about the rationale underlying this investigation. According to the data published by Beck-da-Silva et al., the modest number of patients (n = 23) enrolled in this multicenter investigation had moderate anemia (i.e., hemoglobin concentration comprised between 90 and 120 g/L) but no evidence of iron deficiency, which…

Impacto del quimerismo hematopoyético precoz en el injerto tras trasplante alogénico de progenitores de sangre de cordón umbilical de donante no empa…

2013

El trasplante de sangre de cordón umbilical (TSCU) ha experimentado un auge muy importante en los últimos años como alternativa a la médula ósea y sangre periférica, debido a la dificultad de encontrar donantes altruistas de estas fuentes de progenitores hematopoyéticos. Los datos clínicos disponibles hasta la fecha muestran una supervivencia libre de enfermedad similar a la observada con el trasplante de médula ósea (TMO) o sangre periférica (TSP). Sin embargo, como consecuencia de la baja dosis celular contenida en la SCU, la tasa de fallo de injertos es más elevada y el tiempo hasta la recuperación de la neutropenia más prolongado. Gran parte de la investigación en el terreno del TSCU se…

Vascular Aging effect on Medial aorta degeneration: focus on blood keukocyte telomere lenght in Hypertensive and old patients with sporadic thoracic …

2012

Platelet cut-off for anticoagulant therapy in thrombocytopenic patients with blood cancer and venous thromboembolism: an expert consensus

2019

Background. Management of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients with haematologic malignancies and thrombocytopenia is clinically challenging due to the related risks. No prospective studies or clinical trials have been carried out and, therefore, no solid evidence on this compelling issue is available. Methods. Given this, an expert panel endorsed by the Gruppo Italiano Malattie Ematologiche dell'Adulto Working Party on Thrombosis and Haemostasis was set up to produce a formal consensus, according to the RAND method, in order to issue clinical recommendations about the platelet (PLT) cut-off for safe administration of low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) in thrombocytopenic (PLT <100×…