Allergens and viruses act together to worsen asthma
...ted to hospital over a year with acute asthma were matched with two controls: patients with stable asthma and patients admitted to hospital with non-respiratory diseases (inpatient controls). Skin tests for dust mite, cat, dog, and grass allergens were performed on all patients. A significantly higher propor...Aspirin resistance increases risk of death
...8 aspirin-therapy patients who were age and gender matched and did not have an event during follow-up were used as controls. Patients were free to select aspirin doses ranging from 80mg to 325mg a day. When the researchers divided the cases and controls into quartiles based on 11-dehydro thromboxane B2 leve...Doctors need training courses in communication skills
...did not attend a course. These objective findings matched the doctors own subjective reports on how they perceived changes in their communication style with patients. These findings are important because there are many examples of positive benefits for patients when doctors adopt a patient-centred approach ...Surgeons dont offer women choices of treatment as often as they could
...stectomy (MAS) and breast-conserving surgery (BCS) matched the surgeons perceptions of giving a choice, and to assess if factors influencing the womens choice of surgery were the same as the factors which influenced the surgeons recommendations. She found that even when surgeons considered that it was medic......e, off-white and light brown. He also consistently matched the synesthetic colors of 12 words with colors from a Pantone palette containing more than 1,000 shades.These associations are highly reliable. WO says that the colors have stayed the same all of his life and our observations lend credence to his cla...Profiles of myocardial infarction among South Asian Canadians
... studied 553 South Asians and 553 non-South Asians matched by age, sex, discharge date and hospital of admiss...myocardial infarction in South Asian Canadians and matched control subjects S. Anand et al...Steroid nasal spray more effective against hay fever
...00 hay fever season in Chicago. The patients were matched for allergy severity and divided into two groups. One group (29) received fluticasone once a day, plus placebo pills. The other group (31) received a placebo nasal spray plus loratadine and montelukast once a day. Two weeks later, the nasal spra...IVF children at increased risk of neurological disorders
...oblems in 5680 children born after IVF with 11,360 matched controls. For 2060 twins born after IVF, a second set of 4120 control children (who were all twins) were studied. IVF children were around three times more likely to have cerebral palsy than children from the general population (IVF multiple-births ...New research shows workplace homicides more likely at smaller businesses open late, Saturdays
... agencies to the FBI. Another is that it carefully matched cases with control workplaces over time. Limitations include that the authors could not assess the contribution of personal characteristics or behaviors to the risk of homicides on the job with available data. This study constitutes a significant ste...New pilot study suggests flaxseed and low-fat diet can be protective against prostate cancer
...he study. Thetumors of those on the diet were then matched with 25 historic cases, equal in age, race, PSA level atdiagnosis and biopsy Gleason sum (a scoring system used to grade prostate tumors) to compare tumorprogression and biomarkers after the dietary intervention. The men were on the low-fat, flax......n March 1982 and October 1985. The children were matched with controls to determine whether the measles vaccine improved the long-term survival of vulnerable children, which included children of low socioeconomic status, females, and children of mothers with little education. According to the research resu...Gender differences in general aviation crashes
... and 287 male pilots aged40-63. Female pilots were matched with male pilots in a 1:2 ratio, by age, classes of medical and pilot certificates, state or area of crash, and year of crash. Then the circumstances of the crashes and the pilot error involved were categorized and coded without knowledge of pilot ge...Science for global health - World Health Day 2001
...ses such as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria is not matched by a similar effort to build research infrastructure, expertise, and new knowledge that will enable people in the developing world to address their growing burden of mental illness. Shortages of trained mental health care workers at all levels, and ...Hand size counts in safe handgun use
...inch (6.4 mm). The resulting measure, which can be matched to corresponding handgun data, is designated trigger grip length. Although the .25-inch factor can be expected to vary with body size and gender, its variation should be small, and it should not affect trigger grip length appreciably. Trigger grip le...Other highlights in the October 15 issue of JNCI
...llected information on 73 African American and 126 matched white women, and of these women, 43 white and 93 African American women had undergone adjuvant chemotherapy. They found that African American women had lower white blood cell counts at baseline and after treatment and required a longer treatment dura...Treatment helps dyslexics significantly improve reading, shows brain changes as children learn
... 13 years and the dyslexic and control groups were matched for age, IQ and head size, but not in reading skills. The controls were above average readers for their age and learned to read very easily. The dyslexics had delayed reading skills and were reading well below average for their age group. They also......eived care on phase II cancer clinical trials were matched based on age, gender, type of cancer, stage of the disease and treatment period to 35 control patients who received standard care. (A phase II clinical trial tests the safety of a drug and begins to evaluate how well a new drug works, and phase II s...UI study: first-generation antihistamine has more impact than alcohol on driving performance
...n taking fexofenadine or the placebo, participants matched the speed of the lead car and followed it at a safer distance than when they received alcohol. Subjects had greater trouble steering and crossed the centerline more frequently after alcohol and diphenhydramine use. However, they did not experience ...New DNA chip method could improve cancer diagnosis
...lusters to the known AML and ALL classes, the data matched effectively,suggesting that this was a fast, viable and highly promising method for cancerdiagnosis. "Although DNA arrays have been used in expression profiling of healthy anddiseased cells, this is the first time that the technology has been appli...Discarded thymus tissue provides life for infants with DiGeorge Syndrome
...one-fourth of children with this severe form havea matched sibling who can be used as a source of donor T cells, which cures thedisease. For the remaining infants, there is no long-term treatment short of thekind of thymus transplant the Markert team performed to replace T cell immunity,she said. Several pre...