of life (QOL) is paramount. For patients, he emphasizes that you need to work with your doctor--IBD is not a DIY disease. Conversely, for physicians, he walks through his knowledge, studies he has carried out, and other published material on the SCD and how it relates to the microbiome...
The only physical performance test routinely used to assess patients with SCD is the six-minute walk test (6MWT), a measure of cardiorespiratory function and screening tool for pulmonary hypertension [14]. It has limited utility as it does not include assessments of strength or balance, which ...
of life (QOL) is paramount. For patients, he emphasizes that you need to work with your doctor--IBD is not a DIY disease. Conversely, for physicians, he walks through his knowledge, studies he has carried out, and other published material on the SCD and how it relates to the microbiome...
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Autophagy is an intracellular degradation system that removes unnecessary or dysfunctional components and recycles them for other cellular functions. Over the years, a mutual regulation between lipid metabolism and autophagy has been uncovered. This is a
Dr. Cappellini discussed the Italian experience with 11 thalassemia patients followed by a network survey who developed COVID-19 in the northern part of Italy, where the pandemic has been most widespread. SUGGESTED for you There are no published data focusing specifically on SARS-CoV-2 infection ...
How- ever, the role of plasma sCD14-ST in COPD has not been addressed. Therefore, we designed this study to test the util- ity of plasma sCD14 and sCD14-ST in diagnosing COPD and predicting AECOPD. For this study, COPD patients admitted into the First Affili- ated Hospital of ...
Methods This is a retrospective analysis of patients who established care at the Johns Hopkins Sickle Cell Center for Adults' Young Adult Clinic (YAC), which serves young adults with SCD <31 years. The survey is administered to all new patients, consists of 10 questions and has a Flesch-...
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is associated with many acute and chronic complications which require management with pharmacologic agents. Advances in health care and public policies have successfully reduced the mortality in children with SCD and has led to its evolution into a chronic disease in adults...
Zinc has been reported to play an important role in lipid metabolism. The zinc content was significantly lower in patients with alcoholic liver disease (64). In contrast, zinc supplementation significantly reduced total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglycerides in a meta-analysis of 24 studies...