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Bed-side inferior vena cava diameter and mean arterial pressure predict long-term mortality in hospitalized patients with heart failure: 36 months of…

2015

In discharged patients with heart failure (HF), diverse conditions can intervene to worsen outcome. We would investigate whether such factors present on hospital admission can affect long-term mortality in subjects hospitalized for acute HF.One hundred twenty-three consecutive patients hospitalized for acute HF (mean age 74.8 years; 57% female) were recruited and followed for 36 months after hospitalization.At multivariate Cox model, only inferior vena cava (IVC) diameter and mean arterial pressure (MAP) registered bed-side on admission, resulted, after correction for all confounders factors, the sole factors significantly associated with a higher risk of all-cause mortality in long-term (H…

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Obesity and reduction of the response rate to anti-tumor necrosis factor α in rheumatoid arthritis: an approach to a personalized medicine.

2013

Objective Obesity is a mild, long-lasting inflammatory disease and, as such, could increase the inflammatory burden of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The study aim was to determine whether obesity represents a risk factor for a poor remission rate in RA patients requiring anti–tumor necrosis factor α (anti-TNFα) therapy for progressive and active disease despite treatment with methotrexate or other disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs. Methods Patients were identified from 15 outpatient clinics of university hospitals and hospitals in Italy taking part in the Gruppo Italiano di Studio sulle Early Arthritis network. Disease Activity Score in 28 joints (DAS28), body mass index (BMI; categorized …

MaleSettore MED/16 - REUMATOLOGIAArthritisGastroenterologyReceptors Tumor Necrosis FactorEtanerceptEtanerceptArthritis RheumatoidRheumatoidMonoclonalReceptorsMedicineOutpatient clinicLongitudinal StudiesRegistriesPrecision Medicineskin and connective tissue diseasesHumanizedRemission InductionAntibodies MonoclonalIndividualized MedicineMiddle AgedTreatment OutcomeRheumatoid arthritisAntirheumatic AgentsFemaleDrugmedicine.drugmusculoskeletal diseasesmedicine.medical_specialtyAdalimumab; Aged; Antibodies Monoclonal; Antibodies Monoclonal Humanized; Antirheumatic Agents; Arthritis Rheumatoid; Dose-Response Relationship Drug; Etanercept; Female; Humans; Immunoglobulin G; Infliximab; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Middle Aged; Obesity; Precision Medicine; Receptors Tumor Necrosis Factor; Registries; Remission Induction; Treatment Outcome; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alphaAntibodies Monoclonal HumanizedAntibodiesDose-Response RelationshipRheumatologyInternal medicineAdalimumabHumansObesityRisk factorAgedDose-Response Relationship Drugbusiness.industryTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaArthritisAdalimumabmedicine.diseaseInfliximabRheumatologyInfliximabAged; Antibodies Monoclonal; Antibodies Monoclonal Humanized; Antirheumatic Agents; Arthritis Rheumatoid; Dose-Response Relationship Drug; Female; Humans; Immunoglobulin G; Individualized Medicine; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Middle Aged; Obesity; Receptors Tumor Necrosis Factor; Registries; Remission Induction; Treatment Outcome; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alphaImmunoglobulin GImmunologybusinessTumor Necrosis FactorArthritis careresearch
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A comparison of efficacy and safety of an ezetimibe/simvastatin combination compared with other intensified lipid-lowering treatment strategies in di…

2013

The low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) lowering efficacy of switching to ezetimibe/simvastatin (EZ/S) 10/20 mg versus doubling the run-in statin dose (to simvastatin 40 mg or atorvastatin 20 mg) or switching to rosuvastatin 10 mg in subjects with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes was assessed. Endpoints included percentage change in LDL-C and percentage of patients achieving LDL-C <70 mg/dL. Significantly greater reductions in LDL-C occurred when switching to EZ/S versus statin doubling in the overall population and in subjects treated with simvastatin 20 mg or atorvastatin 10 mg (all p < 0.001). The LDL-C reduction was numerically greater when switching to EZ/S vers…

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Linguistic and spatial skills predict early arithmetic development via counting sequence knowledge

2013

Utilizing a longitudinal sample of Finnish children (ages 6-10), two studies examined how early linguistic (spoken vs. written) and spatial skills predict later development of arithmetic, and whether counting sequence knowledge mediates these associations. In Study 1 (N = 1,880), letter knowledge and spatial visualization, measured in kindergarten, predicted the level of arithmetic in first grade, and later growth through third grade. Study 2 (n = 378) further showed that these associations were mediated by counting sequence knowledge measured in first grade. These studies add to the literature by demonstrating the importance of written language for arithmetic development. The findings are …

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Validating rationale of group-level component analysis based on estimating number of sources in EEG through model order selection

2012

This study addresses how to validate the rationale of group component analysis (CA) for blind source separation through estimating the number of sources in each individual EEG dataset via model order selection. Control children, typically reading children with risk for reading disability (RD), and children with RD participated in the experiment. Passive oddball paradigm was used for eliciting mismatch negativity during EEG data collection. Data were cleaned by two digital filters with pass bands of 1-30 Hz and 1-15 Hz and a wavelet filter with the pass band narrower than 1-12 Hz. Three model order selection methods were used to estimate the number of sources in each filtered EEG dataset. Un…

MaleSpeech recognitionMismatch negativityElectroencephalographyNeuropsychological TestsBlind signal separationModels Biologicalta3112DyslexiaComponent analysismedicineHumansComputer SimulationLongitudinal StudiesChildOddball paradigmEvoked PotentialsMathematicsta217Brain MappingPrincipal Component Analysismedicine.diagnostic_testFourier Analysista213General NeuroscienceReproducibility of ResultsElectroencephalographyFilter (signal processing)Principal component analysisFemaleDigital filterJournal of Neuroscience Methods
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The development and predictive relations of play and language across the second year

1999

The play and language development of 171 toddlers was examined at 14 and 18 months by observing their activities on the Symbolic Play Test and by assessing their language skills using the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (MCDI) and the Reynell Developmental Language Scales. Additionally, data from the Bayley Scales of Infant Development and the MCDI were obtained at 24 months, in order to investigate how play and language measures taken at 14 and 18 months predict children's development at the age of 2 years. The results showed that the vocabulary production and symbolic play of the 14-month-old toddlers made a unique contribution to their language and cognitive skills at the…

MaleSymbolismVocabularymedia_common.quotation_subjectLanguage DevelopmentBayley Scales of Infant DevelopmentDevelopmental psychologyArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Developmental and Educational PsychologyCognitive developmentHumansLongitudinal StudiesCognitive skillGeneral Psychologymedia_commonAnalysis of VarianceInfantRegression analysisGeneral MedicinePlay and PlaythingsTest (assessment)Language developmentChild PreschoolInfant BehaviorRegression AnalysisFemaleThe SymbolicPsychologyScandinavian Journal of Psychology
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White blood cell counts as risk markers of developing metabolic syndrome and its components in the Predimed study.

2013

Journal Article; Multicenter Study; Randomized Controlled Trial; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; TRIAL REGISTRATION Controlled-Trials.comISRCTN35739639. BACKGROUND The Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of metabolic abnormalities that includes hyperglucemia, hypertension, dyslipidemia and central obesity, conferring an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The white blood cell (WBC) count has been proposed as a marker for predicting cardiovascular risk. However, few prospective studies have evaluated the relationship between WBC subtypes and risk of MetS. METHODS Participants were recruited from seven PREDIMED study centers. Both a baseline cross-sectional (n = 4,377) and a prospe…

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Prevalence and Risk Factors Associated with Use of QT-Prolonging Drugs in Hospitalized Older People

2016

Aims: The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of the prescription of QT-prolonging drugs at hospital admission and discharge and the risk factors associated with their use in older people (aged 65 years and older). Methods: Data were obtained from the REPOSI (REgistro POliterapie SIMI [Società Italiana di Medicina Interna]) registry, which enrolled 4035 patients in 2008 (n = 1332), 2010 (n = 1380), and 2012 (n = 1323). Multivariable logistic regression was performed to determine the risk factors independently associated with QT-prolonging drug use. QT-prolonging drugs were classified by the risk of Torsades de Pointes (TdP) (definite, possible, or conditional) acc…

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Monitoring effectiveness and safety of Tafamidis in transthyretin amyloidosis in Italy: a longitudinal multicenter study in a non-endemic area

2016

Tafamidis is a transthyretin (TTR) stabilizer able to prevent TTR tetramer dissociation. There have been a few encouraging studies on Tafamidis efficacy in early-onset inherited transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) due to Val30Met mutation. However, less is known about its efficacy in later disease stages and in non-Val30Met mutations. We performed a multi-center observational study on symptomatic ATTR patients prescribed to receive Tafamidis. We followed up patients according to a standardized protocol including general medical, cardiological and neurological assessments at baseline and every 6 months up to 3 years. Sixty-one (42 males) patients were recruited. Only 28 % of enrolled subjects h…

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Hours of Television Viewing and Sleep Duration in Children

2014

This study used longitudinal data to examine potential associations between hours of television viewing and sleep duration in children.To examine the association between hours of television viewing and sleep duration in preschool and school-aged children.Longitudinal, multicenter study among birth cohorts in Menorca, Sabadell, and Valencia from the Spanish Infancia y Medio Ambiente (environment and childhood) project. The study sample included 1713 children (468 from Menorca, 560 from Sabadell, and 685 from Valencia).Parent-reported child television viewing duration measured in hours per day at 2 and 4 years of age in Sabadell and Valencia and at 6 and 9 years of age in Menorca.Parent-repor…

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