A blood test is the analysis of a blood sample from a patient to find naturally-occurring or foreign chemical or cellular components. A blood test can be done to analyze your blood for signs of problems, such as abnormal electrolyte balance, abnormal kidney function, abnormal liver functions, ...
Some sexually transmitted infections (STIs), also known as STDs, can be detected with a blood test, so you can avoid having to be swabbed.
A method of blood sample preparation for liver function test and the sample paper is disclosed here. The method according to this invention comprises: inject a kind of galactose composition into a subject; take proper quantities of the subject 's blood to drop on a filter paper for drying in...
Meaning These findings suggest that clinicians should emphasize SBP control as a means of stroke prevention regardless of patient race or ethnicity. Abstract Importance Stroke risk varies by systolic blood pressure (SBP), race, and ethnicity. The association between cumulative mean SBP and incident str...
To represent the distance between samples, the NMDS of Bray-Curtis dissimilarity was carried out using PAST3 (http://folk.uio.no/ohammer/past/), in which non-parametric multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA) was used to test significant difference among groups. To measure a difference ...
Meaning Systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher should be treated to prevent death and cardiovascular disease, whereas treatment may be considered in patients with coronary heart disease and systolic blood pressure below 140 mm Hg, but not for primary prevention. Abstract Importance High bloo...
The term polypeptide includes proteins and fragments thereof The polypeptides can be “exogenous,” meaning that they are “heterologous,” i.e., foreign to the host cell being utilized, such as human polypeptide produced by a bacterial cell. Polypeptides are disclosed herein as amino acid residue...
The meaning of the point of maximum oscillations in cuff pressure in the indirect measurement of blood pressure. 1. Cardiovasc Res Cent Bull 1969; 8: 15–25. 4 Ayman D, Goldshine AD. Blood pressure determination by patients with essential hypertension. 1. The difference between clinic and ...
The primary endpoint was defined as proportion of patients with an objective CNS response, meaning a volumetric reduction in CNS lesions of 50% or more. Overall, 66% of the patients had a partial remission [107]. However, the data are based on only a small study population. The so-called...
The sequence of presentation parallels efforts from our own laboratory, first to analyze the data we observed experimentally and then to decipher the meaning of our observations. The presentation focuses on ACTH because our work has been predominantly with this hormone. Glucocorticoid time series will...