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2,317,300 | Anorexia nervosa. | Anorexia nervosa is characterised by a low body mass index (BMI), fear of gaining weight, denial of current low weight and its impact on health, and amenorrhoea. Estimated prevalence is highest in teenage girls, and up to 0.7% of this age group may be affected. While most people with anorexia nervosa recover completely... |
2,317,301 | Breast pain. | Breast pain may be cyclical (worse before a period) or non-cyclical, originating from the breast or the chest wall, and occurs at some time in 70% of women. Cyclical breast pain resolves spontaneously in 20% to 30% of women, but tends to recur in 60% of women. Non-cyclical pain responds poorly to treatment but tends to... |
2,317,302 | [Imagings of glaucoma: characteristics of ocular configurations and automated diagnosis]. | Glaucoma is characterized by the coexistence of structural changes in the fundus and the corresponding functional abnormalities. The advances in imaging devices that reveal structural changes in glaucoma should facilitate reliable diagnosis of early or preperimetric glaucoma and a proper evaluation of glaucoma progress... |
2,317,303 | Hormone replacement therapy in gynecologic cancer survivors: why not? | As a result of treatment, many women with gynecologic malignancies will go through menopause and display climacteric symptoms at an earlier age than occurs naturally. Iatrogenic menopause may adversely affect quality of life and health outcomes in young female cancer survivors. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has oft... |
2,317,304 | Tapered anaerobic hybrid reactor--a better option for treating low-strength wastewaters. | Anaerobic biofilm reactors have limitations in treating wastewaters with low organic substrate concentrations (COD value below 1000 mg/L) because the substrate cannot reach the microorganisms present in the interior part of the biogranules. Hence, the performance of these reactors is mainly influenced by the size of th... |
2,317,305 | The role of mammography screening attendance and detection mode in predicting breast cancer survival-is there added prognostic value? | The aim of this study was to examine whether screening exposure status, defined as detection mode (screening, interval or symptomatic) combined with breast cancer screening attendance prior to diagnosis, had any additional value over detection mode in predicting breast cancer survival. We also assessed the effect of ho... |
2,317,306 | Patterns of damage in chronic angle-closure glaucoma compared to primary open-angle glaucoma. | To compare patterns of damage in chronic angle-closure glaucoma (CACG) to a control group of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG).</AbstractText>Retrospective cross-sectional study.</AbstractText>setting: Academic tertiary-care glaucoma clinic. study population: Thirty-two eyes of 32 patients with CACG and ... |
2,317,307 | Estradiol 1 mg and drospirenone 2 mg as hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal Chinese women. | Drospirenone is a novel progestogen that, combined with 17β-estradiol, reduces the frequency and severity of menopausal vasomotor symptoms (VMS) in different populations. This double-blind, multicenter study compared the efficacy, safety and tolerability of 2 mg drospirenone/1 mg estradiol (DRSP/E2) vs. placebo i... |
2,317,308 | Bioremediation of 2-chlorophenol containing wastewater by aerobic granules-kinetics and toxicity. | 2-Chlorophenol (2-CP) degrading aerobic granules were cultivated in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) in presence of glucose. The organic loading rate (OLR) was increased from 6.9 to 9.7 kg COD m(-3)d(-1) (1150-1617 mg L(-1)COD per cycle) during the experiment. The alkalinity (1000 mg L(-1) as CaCO(3)) was maintained th... |
2,317,309 | OLAND is feasible to treat sewage-like nitrogen concentrations at low hydraulic residence times. | Energy-positive sewage treatment can, in principle, be obtained by maximizing energy recovery from concentrated organics and by minimizing energy consumption for concentration and residual nitrogen removal in the main stream. To test the feasibility of the latter, sewage-like nitrogen influent concentrations were treat... |
2,317,310 | Nutrients removal and recovery from anaerobically digested swine wastewater by struvite crystallization without chemical additions. | Anaerobically digested swine wastewater contains high concentrations of phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N). A pilot-scale experiment was carried out for nutrients removal and recovery from anaerobically digested swine wastewater by struvite crystallization. In the pilot plant, a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) and a contin... |
2,317,311 | Effect of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on periodontal status of postmenopausal women. | The risks/benefits balance of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is controversial. The aim of this study was to assess the periodontal status of a postmenopausal women group receiving HRT and to determine the effects of HRT on clinical measures of periodontal disease.</AbstractText><AbstractText Label="MATERIAL/METHODS"... |
2,317,312 | Does hormone replacement therapy cause breast cancer? An application of causal principles to three studies: Part 1. The Collaborative Reanalysis. | BACKGROUND Concern that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may cause breast cancer has existed since the time it was introduced, and based on evidence in three studies, the Collaborative Reanalysis (CR), the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) and the Million Women Study (MWS), it is claimed that causality is now establishe... |
2,317,313 | Performance of a sulfide-oxidizing, sulfur-producing membrane biofilm reactor treating sulfide-containing bioreactor effluent. | Sulfide-containing waste streams are generated in mining, petrochemical plants, tanneries, viscose rayon manufacture, and the gasification of coal. Colorless sulfur bacteria can oxidize sulfide to elemental sulfur (S°), which can be recovered, when oxygen is their electron acceptor. This study evaluated sulfide ox... |
2,317,314 | Phytoremediation of domestic wastewater using Eichhornia crassipes. | Safe, economic and effective treatment of domestic wastewater is the biggest challenge the world experienced in modern times. Phytoremediation studies were undertaken in a laboratory scale using shallow pond water hyacinth (Echhornia crassipes) system and analytical data was collected before and after treatment. The st... |
2,317,315 | An update on hormone replacement therapy: health and medicine for women: a multidisciplinary, evidence-based review of mid-life health concerns. | The Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the Yale School of Medicine hosted a daylong continuing medical education (CME) symposium titled "Health and Medicine for Women: A Multidisciplinary, Evidence-Based Review of Mid-Life Health Concerns" in September 2010. A number of speakers discusse... |
2,317,316 | Evaluation of performance and microbial community in a two-stage UASB reactor pretreating acrylic fiber manufacturing wastewater. | A two-stage UASB reactor was employed to pretreat acrylic fiber manufacturing wastewater. Mesophilic operation (35 ± 0.5°C) was performed with hydraulic retention time (HRT) varied between 28 and 40 h. Mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS) in the reactor was maintained about 8000 mg/L. The results showed COD a... |
2,317,317 | Inherited variants in mitochondrial biogenesis genes may influence epithelial ovarian cancer risk. | Mitochondria contribute to oxidative stress, a phenomenon implicated in ovarian carcinogenesis. We hypothesized that inherited variants in mitochondrial-related genes influence epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) susceptibility.</AbstractText>Through a multicenter study of 1,815 Caucasian EOC cases and 1,900 controls, we i... |
2,317,318 | Nitrification of high-strength ammonium landfill leachate with microbial community analysis using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). | Nitrification of mature sanitary landfill leachate with high-strength of N-NH(4) + (1080-2350 mg L(-1)) was performed in a 10 L continuous nitrification activated sludge reactor. The nitrification system was acclimatized with synthetic leachate during feed batch operation to avoid substrate inhibition before being fed ... |
2,317,319 | Hormone therapy for postmenopausal endometrial cancer survivors: a survey among Greek obstetricians-gynaecologists. | In this study we evaluated the prescription attitude of Greek obstetricians-gynaecologists towards hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for endometrial cancer survivors.</AbstractText>An anonymous questionnaire was sent to 900 members of the Hellenic Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, presenting a hypothetical case of... |
2,317,320 | Strategies to suppress hydrogen-consuming microorganisms affect macro and micro scale structure and microbiology of granular sludge. | Treatment of anaerobic granules with heat and two chemical treatments, contacting with 2-bromoethanesulfonate (BES) and with BES + Chloroform, were applied to suppress hydrogen-consuming microorganisms. Three mesophilic expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB) reactors-R(Heat), R(BES), and R(BES + Chlo)--were inoculated wit... |
2,317,321 | European clinical guidelines for Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders. Part III: behavioural and psychosocial interventions. | This clinical guideline provides recommendations for the behavioural and psychosocial interventions (BPI) of children and adolescents with tic disorders prepared by a working group of the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome (ESSTS). A systematic literature search was conducted to obtain an update on the... |
2,317,322 | Changes in retinal nerve fibre layer, optic nerve head morphology, and visual field after acute primary angle closure. | <AbstractText Label="AIMS/PURPOSE" NlmCategory="OBJECTIVE">To determine and correlate the long-term changes in retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) thickness, optic nerve head (ONH) morphology, and visual fields after a single episode of acute primary angle closure (APAC).</AbstractText>This was a cross-sectional comparati... |
2,317,323 | Wastewater treatment in an anaerobic filter using small lava stones as filter media without temperature control. | For their simplicity and using cheap support materials, biological filtration of municipal wastewater can be adequate for developing countries where the legislation is not as strict as in other countries, like the members of the European Union. Biological filters are fixed biomass reactors where the suspended pollutant... |
2,317,324 | Hybrid activated sludge/biofilm process for the treatment of municipal wastewater in a cold climate region: a case study. | A hybrid activated sludge/biofilm process was investigated for wastewater treatment in a cold climate region. This process, which contains both suspended biomass and biofilm, usually referred as IFAS process, is created by introducing plastic elements as biofilm carrier media into a conventional activated sludge reacto... |
2,317,325 | Potential impact of process parameters upon the bacterial diversity in the mesophilic anaerobic digestion of beet silage. | The impact of the process parameters hydraulic retention time (HRT), organic loading rate (OLR) and substrate upon bacterial diversity was analyzed. Therefore, a controlled anaerobic fermentation (1755 days) of beet silage, only initially inoculated with manure, was monitored by the amplified "ribosomal DNA" restrictio... |
2,317,326 | Hydrodynamic behaviors in fermentative hydrogen bioreactors by pressure fluctuation analysis. | Three bioreactor configurations were employed in these investigations, which consisted of working volumes of 10, 1.2 and 1.2L. Power spectrum diagrams of bed pressure fluctuation were used with hydraulic retention times (HRT) and geometric factors to identify the flow regimes in the bioreactors, where HRT varied from 8... |
2,317,327 | Insulin resistance and management of the menopause: a clinical hypothesis in practice. | Insulin resistance (IR) is associated with a number of metabolic abnormalities including glucose intolerance, dyslipidemia and central obesity (the metabolic syndrome), which predispose to cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus and some cancers. The incidence of many of these conditions increases after the menopause... |
2,317,328 | Compounded or confused? Bioidentical hormones and menopausal health. | The aim of this article is to focus on compounded bioidentical hormone (BH) formulations for menopausal symptoms and to discuss the impact of these on women's choice of treatment. The practice of compounding BHs for individualized treatment of women with menopausal symptoms has developed in the USA. In spite of claims ... |
2,317,329 | Women's perceptions of the effects of menopause and hormone replacement therapy on skin. | Although women frequently associate skin issues with menopause and hormone replacement therapy (HRT), little work has been done to investigate a possible relationship. A questionnaire was given to women attending a specialist menopause clinic; 87 women responded. Skin problems generally were common, with over 64% of re... |
2,317,330 | Inter-ethnic variation of ocular traits-design and methodology of comparison study among American Caucasians, American Chinese and mainland Chinese. | To summarize the design and methodology of a multi-center study. With the existed ethnic differences of glaucoma, this survey will explore the differences with regard to anterior and posterior ocular segment parameters between Caucasians and Chinese.</AbstractText>In this study, four cohorts including American Caucasia... |
2,317,331 | Recovery of ovarian function and pregnancy in a patient with AML after myeloablative busulphan-based conditioning regimen. | We report a rare case of ovarian function recovery and pregnancy after hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) in the acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) patient in third complete remission received hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) with busulphan-based conditioning regimen. Successful engraftment of the donor cel... |
2,317,332 | [Clinical characteristics of eyes with unilateral disc hemorrhage in normal tension glaucoma patients]. | To investigate the clinical characteristics of the eyes with unilateral disc hemorrhage (DH) in normal tension glaucoma (NTG) patients.</AbstractText>37 normal-tension glaucoma patients with unilateral DH were studied. Extensive parameters were analyzed to evaluate which parameters differ significantly between the DH e... |
2,317,333 | Molecular mechanisms of steroid receptor-mediated actions by synthetic progestins used in HRT and contraception. | Synthetic progestins are used by millions of women as contraceptives and in hormone replacement therapy (HRT), although their molecular mechanisms of action are not well understood. The importance of investigating these mechanisms, as compared to those of progesterone, has been highlighted by clinical evidence showing ... |
2,317,334 | The lid wiper and muco-cutaneous junction anatomy of the human eyelid margins: an in vivo confocal and histological study. | The inner border of the eyelid margin is critically important for ocular surface integrity because it guarantees the thin spread of the tear film. Its exact morphology in the human is still insufficiently known. The histology in serial sections of upper and lower lid margins in whole-mount specimens from 10 human body ... |
2,317,335 | [Effect of internal recycle ratio on nitrogen and phosphorus removal characteristics in A2/O-BAF process]. | The behaviors of biological phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) removal in a lab-scaled anaerobic/anoxic/oxic-biological aerated filter (A2/O-BAF) combined system were investigated during the treatment of real domestic wastewater with the temperature at 15 degrees C, the C/N ratio of 4.9 and internal recycle ratio of 100%,... |
2,317,336 | The menopause 'It's somewhere between a taboo and a joke'. A focus group study. | To explore the menopause from the perspective of women in the community, with specific emphasis on their experience of menopausal symptoms, management strategies and support post the Women's Health Initiative trial.</AbstractText>Four focus groups were conducted with 14 middle-aged women living in the Grampian region o... |
2,317,337 | Experimental studies and mathematical modeling of an up-flow biofilm reactor treating mustard oil rich wastewater. | Bioremediation of lipid-rich model wastewater was investigated in a packed bed biofilm reactor (anaerobic filter). A detailed study was conducted about the influence of fatty acid concentration on biomethanation of the high-fat liquid effluent of edible oil refineries. The biochemical methane potential (BMP) of the liq... |
2,317,338 | Body fat distribution is associated with lumbar spine bone density independently of body weight in postmenopausal women. | To assess the association between the body fat distribution and axial bone mineral density (BMD) in postmenopausal women with or without hormone replacement therapy (HRT).</AbstractText>Cross-sectional population-based study.</AbstractText>University of Eastern Finland, Bone and Cartilage Research Unit, Kuopio, Finland... |
2,317,339 | Metabolic and cardiovascular outcomes in a group of adult patients with Turner's syndrome under hormonal replacement therapy. | Turner's syndrome (TS) is a rare genetic disorder caused by complete or partial X chromosome monosomy in a phenotypic female, and it is associated with increased morbidity and mortality for cardiovascular diseases, impaired glucose tolerance, and dyslipidemia.</AbstractText>In 30 adult TS patients under chronic hormona... |
2,317,340 | Comparison of UASB and EGSB reactors performance, for treatment of raw and deoiled palm oil mill effluent (POME). | Anaerobic digestion of palm oil mill effluent (POME) and deoiled POME was investigated both in batch assays and continuous reactor experiments using up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) and expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB) reactors. The methane potential determined from batch assays of POME and deoiled POME was 5... |
2,317,341 | Novel two stage bio-oxidation and chlorination process for high strength hazardous coal carbonization effluent. | Effluent generated from coal carbonization to coke was characterized with high organic content, phenols, ammonium nitrogen, and cyanides. A full scale effluent treatment plant (ETP) working on the principle of single stage carbon-nitrogen bio-oxidation process (SSCNBP) revealed competition between heterotrophic and aut... |
2,317,342 | The role of estrogen deficiency in skin ageing and wound healing. | The links between hormonal signalling and lifespan have been well documented in a range of model organisms. For example, in C. elegans or D. melanogaster, lifespan can be modulated by ablating germline cells, or manipulating reproductive history or pregnenolone signalling. In mammalian systems, however, hormo... |
2,317,343 | Effect of hydraulic retention time on the performance of down-flow hanging sponge system treating grey wastewater. | Grey wastewater (GW) treatment via down-flow hanging sponge (DHS) system was the subject of the study. The reactor was operated at different hydraulic retention times (HRTs) of 11.7, 5.8 and 2.9 h, corresponding to organic loading rates (OLRs) of 1.9, 3.6 and 6.8 kgCOD/m3 day, respectively. The results obtained reveale... |
2,317,344 | Brain tumors and hormonal factors: review of the epidemiological literature. | To date, the etiology of primary tumors of the central nervous system (mainly gliomas and meningiomas) is poorly understood. The role of sex hormones has been suggested, based on clinical, experimental, biological, and epidemiological data.</AbstractText>To review the epidemiological studies on the relation between hor... |
2,317,345 | HRT in difficult circumstances: are there any absolute contraindications? | Many traditional contraindications to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are based on the theoretical potential for these hormones to worsen a disease process and are rarely based on supporting data. This review addresses the available data and lack of data that make the prescription of HRT difficult in a variety of com... |
2,317,346 | Benefits and risks during HRT: main safety issue breast cancer. | To assess the benefits and risks during hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in postmenopausal women, the only placebo-controlled study testing clinical endpoints with high statistical power has been the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). Although this trial, conducted mainly in older high-risk women, might not reflect the ... |
2,317,347 | Enhancement of bioenergy production from organic wastes by two-stage anaerobic hydrogen and methane production process. | The present study investigated a two-stage anaerobic hydrogen and methane process for increasing bioenergy production from organic wastes. A two-stage process with hydraulic retention time (HRT) 3d for hydrogen reactor and 12d for methane reactor, obtained 11% higher energy compared to a single-stage methanogenic proce... |
2,317,348 | Continuous production of 1,3-propanediol using raw glycerol with immobilized Clostridium beijerinckii NRRL B-593 in comparison to suspended culture. | The continuous production of 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PDO) was investigated with Clostridium beijerinckii NRRL B-593 using raw glycerol without purification obtained from a biodiesel production process. Ceramic rings and pumice stones were used for cell immobilization in a packed-bed bioreactor. For comparison purpose, a c... |
2,317,349 | Serum osteoprotegerin levels are related to height loss: the Tromsø Study. | Severe loss of body height is often a consequence of osteoporotic vertebral fractures. Osteoprotegerin (OPG) and receptor activator of nuclear factor-kB ligand (RANKL) are cytokines essential for the regulation of bone resorption. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between the OPG/RANKL system and hei... |
2,317,350 | Influence of operational parameters (sludge retention time and hydraulic residence time) on the removal of estrogens by membrane bioreactor. | This paper deals with the removal of two natural estrogens, estrone (E1) and 17β-estradiol (E2) and a synthetic one 17α ethinylestradiol (EE2) from wastewater in a laboratory-scale membrane bioreactor (MBR).</AbstractText>The effects of both solid retention time (SRT) and hydraulic residence time (HRT) were... |
2,317,351 | The removal of ammonia from sanitary landfill leachate using a series of shallow waste stabilization ponds. | This study evaluated the efficiency of a shallow (0.5 m deep) waste stabilization pond series to remove high concentrations of ammonia from sanitary landfill leachate. The pond system was located at EXTRABES, Campina Grande, Paraiba, Northeast Brazil. The pond series was fed with sanitary landfill leachate transported ... |
2,317,352 | Removal of phenols, thiocyanate and ammonium from coal gasification wastewater using moving bed biofilm reactor. | A laboratory-scale moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) with a volume of 4 L was used to study the biodegradation of coal gasification wastewater. Maximum removal efficiencies of 81%, 89%, 94% and 93% were obtained for COD, phenols, SCN(-) and NH(4)(+)-N, respectively. NO(2)(-)-N accumulation induced increase of effluent ... |
2,317,353 | Sulfidogenic biotreatment of synthetic acid mine drainage and sulfide oxidation in anaerobic baffled reactor. | The treatment of synthetic acid mine drainage (AMD) water (pH 3.0-6.5) containing sulfate (3.0-3.5 g L(-1)) and various metals (Co, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, and Zn) was studied in an ethanol-fed sulfate-reducing 4-compartment anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) at 32°C. The reactor was operated for 160 days at different chemic... |
2,317,354 | Modeling of the denitrification/anaerobic digestion process of salmon fishery wastewater in a biofilm tubular reactor. | The literature has paid scarce attention to the modeling of the denitrification-anaerobic digestion process in packed bed biofilm tubular reactors used to treat wastewater. The present study obtained a steady-state model for industrial salmon fishery wastewater treatment in a biofilm tubular reactor, including pH as a ... |
2,317,355 | Evaluation of a combined index of optic nerve structure and function for glaucoma diagnosis. | The definitive diagnosis of glaucoma is currently based on congruent damage to both optic nerve structure and function. Given widespread quantitative assessment of both structure (imaging) and function (automated perimetry) in glaucoma, it should be possible to combine these quantitative data to diagnose disease. We ha... |
2,317,356 | Change in the frequency of HRT use from 2000 to 2005 and reasons to discontinue: follow-up of a normal cohort in Finland. | To examine frequencies of the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in a follow-up cohort of women aged 57-61 years in 2005 and to discover reasons why the women who used HRT in 2000 discontinued it.</AbstractText>Questionnaire survey.</AbstractText>Five-year cross-sectional follow-up study.</AbstractText>Cohort of ... |
2,317,357 | The dietary flavonoid apigenin enhances the activities of the anti-metastatic protein CD26 on human colon carcinoma cells. | There is accumulating evidence that secondary plant metabolites such as flavonoids may have anti-cancer properties, and yet the molecular pathways that lead to alterations in cancer cell behaviour remain unclear. We investigated the possible actions of apigenin, a flavone present in leafy vegetables like parsley, on th... |
2,317,358 | Application of Box-Wilson experimental design method for 2,4-dinitrotoluene treatment in a sequential anaerobic migrating blanket reactor (AMBR)/aerobic completely stirred tank reactor (CSTR) system. | A sequential aerobic completely stirred tank reactor (CSTR) following the anaerobic migrating blanket reactor (AMBR) was used to treat a synthetic wastewater containing 2,4-dinitrotoluene (2,4-DNT). A Box-Wilson statistical experiment design was used to determine the effects of 2,4-DNT and the hydraulic retention times... |
2,317,359 | Treatment of osteoporosis and reduction in risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women with raloxifene. | Raloxifene, a non-steroidal selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM), offers a new dimension for the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis and risk reduction of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal populations at high risk. Both osteoporosis and breast cancer are important public health issues for postmenopa... |
2,317,360 | Hormone replacement therapy and some risk factors for breast cancer among Slovenian postmenopausal women. | The aim of the study was to examine the influence of the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and of some generally recognized risk factors on breast cancer risk among Slovenian postmenopausal women.</AbstractText>Eligible women diagnosed with breast cancer and a control group of women of the same age and ethnicity... |
2,317,361 | Factorial experimental designs for enhancement of concurrent poly(hydroxyalkanoate) production and brewery wastewater treatment. | The influence of four main process parameters--solids retention time (SRT), hydraulic retention time (HRT), anoxic-oxic cycling, and carbon-to-nitrogen ratio (C/N ratio)--on poly(hydroxyalkanoate) (PHA) production, while treating brewery wastewater, was studied. Two sets of two-level, three-factor experimental designs ... |
2,317,362 | The effects of nutrient limitation (nitrogen and phosphorus) on BOD removal from post-coagulated Pinus radiata sulfite pulp and paper mill wastewater in a baffled aerated stabilisation basin-laboratory pilot scale study. | The use of coagulation and flocculation for tertiary treatment of pulp and paper mill effluent was investigated, where the evaluation was based on the removal of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and BOD from post-coagulated wastewater. The study was undertaken on laboratory scale aerobic stabilisation basins (ASB). Two pos... |
2,317,363 | The role of Tc-99m-2-Methoxy-Isobutyl-Isonitrile Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography in visualizing anterior mediastinal tumor and differentiating histologic type of thymoma. | To evaluate the usefulness of (99m)Tc-2-Methoxy-Isobutyl-Isonitrile Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (MIBI-SPECT) for assessing anterior mediastinal mass, and distinguishing the grade of malignancy of thymic epithelial tumors to offer guidance for decision making.</AbstractText>From January 2006 to November 2... |
2,317,364 | A population-based cohort study of HRT use and breast cancer in Korea. | The incidence of breast cancer has recently been ranked first in Korea. This is a population-based cohort study that aims to evaluate the risk of breast cancer from the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). A total of 9579 participants were observed between January 1998 and June 2004; 6108 women who took HRT consti... |
2,317,365 | Determinants of image quality of Heidelberg Retina Tomography II and its association with optic disc parameters in a population-based setting. | To assess the determinants of image quality of Heidelberg Retina Tomography II (HRT II) and its association with optic disc parameters in a population-based setting.</AbstractText>Population-based, cross-sectional study involving 3280 (78.7% response) Asian Malays aged 40 to 80 years.</AbstractText>Three thousand fifty... |
2,317,366 | Cytotoxicity micropollutant removal in a crossflow membrane bioreactor. | The application of membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology was investigated with the aim of evaluating its potential for cytostatic drug and cytotoxicity bioremoval. The toxicity removal was assessed from biomarker test. CP removal of up to 80% was achieved under the operating conditions studied (HRT of 48 h and a SRT of ... |
2,317,367 | Mammographic density and hormone receptor expression in breast cancer: the Multiethnic Cohort Study. | It is unclear whether mammographic breast density, a strong risk factor for breast cancer, predicts subtypes of breast cancer defined by estrogen receptor (ER) and/or progesterone receptor (PR) expression.</AbstractText>In a nested case-control study, we compared the breast density of 667 controls and 607 breast cancer... |
2,317,368 | MBBR evaluation for oil refinery wastewater treatment, with post-ozonation and BAC, for wastewater reuse. | This work evaluated the performance of a Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) in the treatment of an oil refinery wastewater. Also, it investigated the possibility of reuse of the MBBR effluent, after ozonation in series with a biological activated carbon (BAC) column. The best performance of the MBBR was achieved with a ... |
2,317,369 | Longitudinal change detected by spectral domain optical coherence tomography in the optic nerve head and peripapillary retina in experimental glaucoma. | To investigate whether longitudinal changes deep within the optic nerve head (ONH) are detectable by spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SDOCT) in experimental glaucoma (EG) and whether these changes are detectable at the onset of Heidelberg Retina Tomography (HRT; Heidelberg Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany)... |
2,317,370 | The impact of prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy on menopausal symptoms and sexual function in women who carry a BRCA mutation. | Prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy is recommended to women who carry a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation to reduce the risks of breast, ovarian and fallopian tube cancer. We measured the impact of prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy on menopausal symptoms and sexual functioning in women with a BRCA mutation.</AbstractText>Women w... |
2,317,371 | Risk of venous thromboembolic disease in postmenopausal women taking oral or transdermal hormone replacement therapy. | The influence of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on hemostasis processes depends on the type of hormone, the combination of doses, the time of taking HRT, and the route of administration (oral, transdermal, implanted). The aim of the current study was to assess some parameters of coagulation, especially tissue factor... |
2,317,372 | Confocal microscopic evaluation of cornea after AquaLase liquefaction cataract extraction. | The most recent and innovative AquaLase liquefaction technology has offered an alternative to lens extraction. Many studies have investigated its functions and advantages. This article focuses on evaluating the in vivo microscopic cornea changes after AquaLase liquefaction by using a laser confocal microscope.</Abstrac... |
2,317,373 | [Hormone replacement therapy at women with fertility problems and proofs of hypergonadotropic hypoovarism]. | The premature ovarian failure (POF), is the main precondition for the origin and the progress of the hypergonadotropic hypoovarism in part of the women with infertility. The significant decrease of the ovarian reserve, makes the treatment of these patients very difficult and problematic, still pregnancy is observed at ... |
2,317,374 | [Feminorm good night to treat the menopause]. | Hot flashes are a common and distressing symptom of menopause, affecting approximately 62-83% of women undergoing the menopausal transition. Several pharmacologic treatments for hot flashes, including hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have been shown to reduce the frequency and intensity of hot flashes. However, some w... |
2,317,375 | Autotrophic denitrification for nitrate and nitrite removal using sulfur-limestone. | Sulfur-limestone was used in the autotrophic denitrification process to remove the nitrate and nitrite in a lab scale upflow biofilter. Synthetic water with four levels of nitrate and nitrite concentrations of 10, 40, 70 and 100 mg N/L was tested. When treating the low concentration of nitrate- or nitrite-contaminated ... |
2,317,376 | Estrogen, hormonal replacement therapy and cardiovascular disease. | Premenopausal women have a lower risk and incidence of hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared to age-matched men and this sex advantage for women gradually disappears after menopause, suggesting that sexual hormones play a cardioprotective role in women. However, randomized prospective primary or second... |
2,317,377 | Menopause and mental well-being: timing of symptoms and timing of hormone treatment. | In the aftermath of the Women's Health Initiative studies, both the clinical and basic science communities had to sort out divergent results among experimental findings, observational data and randomized controlled trials in order to establish a shared analysis. The scientific community formally debates the role of dif... |
2,317,378 | Combined evaluation of frequency doubling technology perimetry and scanning laser ophthalmoscopy for glaucoma detection using automated classification. | To develop a diagnostic setup with classification rules for combined analysis of morphology [Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT)] and function [frequency doubling technology (FDT) perimetry] measurements.</AbstractText>We used 2 independent case-control studies from the Erlangen eye department as learning and test data f... |
2,317,379 | Comparison between laser scanning in vivo confocal microscopy and noncontact specular microscopy in assessing corneal endothelial cell density and central corneal thickness. | To compare central corneal thickness (CCT) and endothelial cell density (ECD) with laser scanning confocal microscope Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT) II Rostock Corneal Module and noncontact specular microscope Tomey EM-3000 and to assess intra- and interobserver agreement in normal corneas.</AbstractText>This prospe... |
2,317,380 | Use and discontinuation of hormone replacement therapy in women with myocardial infarction: a nationwide study. | General use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) dropped drastically after 2002 when pivotal randomized trials showed increased risk of coronary artery disease and other complications with HRT. HRT is not recommended for primary or secondary prevention of coronary heart disease and guidelines recommend discontinuation ... |
2,317,381 | Novel Heidelberg retina tomograph-based morphological parameters derived from optic disc cupping surface processing. | To explore new features of the optic nerve head morphology using the Heidelberg retina tomograph (HRT) and to assess their discriminating power between glaucomatous patients and normal subjects.</AbstractText>HRT reports, exported as TIFF images, from 97 normal subjects and 97 primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) patient... |
2,317,382 | Agreement between the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT) stereometric parameters estimated using HRT-I and HRT-II. | To assess agreement between Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT)-I and HRT-II stereometric parameters and to determine whether parabolic error correction (PEC) to the topographies improves agreement.</AbstractText>University of California San Diego Diagnostic Innovations in Glaucoma Study participants with two HRT-II exam... |
2,317,383 | Influence of long-term postmenopausal hormone-replacement therapy on estimated structural bone strength: a study in discordant monozygotic twins. | Although postmenopausal hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) is known to prevent fractures, knowledge on the influence of long-term HRT on bone strength and its determinants other than areal bone mineral density is scarce. This study used a genetically controlled design with 24 monozygotic female twin pairs aged 54 to 72 ... |
2,317,384 | Optic nerve head morphology assessed by laser scanning tomography in normal Japanese subjects. | To study the optic disc characteristics using the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT) II in normal Japanese subjects.</AbstractText>A total of 1060 eyes of 530 normal subjects with reliable HRT images, who participated in the community health checkup in the city of Akita, Japan, were included in the study. Optic disc par... |
2,317,385 | The "ISN'T rule" in healthy participant optic nerve head by confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy. | In normal patients the rim had a characteristic configuration with the rim width being broadest in the inferior disc region, followed by the superior, the nasal, and the temporal sector. The aim of this study was to assess whether the rim shape as measured by the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph 3 (HRT3) followed the ISN'T ... |
2,317,386 | The use of HRT with and without the aid of disc photographs. | To evaluate the measurement of optic disc morphology using Heidelberg Retinal Tomography (HRT) with and without the aid of optic disc photos.</AbstractText>One hundred three children (aged 11 and 12 y, 52 boys) were selected randomly from the Singapore Cohort study of Risk Factors for Myopia. Optic nerve head topograph... |
2,317,387 | Diagnostic assessment of normal and pale optic nerve heads by confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope and stereophotography. | To evaluate the diagnostic assessment of optic nerve heads (ONH) by stereophotography (SP) and Heidelberg retina tomograph (HRT) in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP).</AbstractText>This study involved 53 consecutive patients with RP and 24 controls who underwent ONH examination by SP and HRT. On the basis of the ... |
2,317,388 | The association between diurnal variation of optic nerve head topography and intraocular pressure and ocular perfusion pressure in untreated primary open-angle glaucoma. | To investigate the hypotheses that the topography of the optic nerve head (ONH) significantly changes during the day in untreated primary open-angle glaucoma (uPOAG) and healthy volunteers; and that there is a significant association with diurnal variations of intraocular pressure (IOP) and mean ocular perfusion pressu... |
2,317,389 | Retinal nerve fibre layer thickness in full-term children assessed with Heidelberg retinal tomography and optical coherence tomography: normal values and interocular asymmetry. | This study aimed to investigate normal values and interocular differences in retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) thickness, using optical coherence tomography (OCT) and Heidelberg retinal tomography (HRT), in 5-16-year-old children born at full-term with normal birthweights.</AbstractText>Fifty-six children with normal vi... |
2,317,390 | Non-contact in vivo confocal scanning laser microscopy in exfoliation syndrome, exfoliation syndrome suspect and normal eyes. | This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of non-contact confocal laser microscopy in detecting structural alterations of the cornea, iris and lens in fellow eyes of patients with clinically unilateral exfoliation syndrome (XFS) and XFS suspects.</AbstractText>In a prospective observational case series, eyes of 12 pati... |
2,317,391 | Combined effects of volume ratio and nitrate recycling ratio on nutrient removal, sludge characteristic and microbial evolution for DPR optimization. | The optimization of volume ratio (V<sub>An</sub>/V<sub>A</sub>/V<sub>O</sub>) and nitrate recycling ratio (R) in a two-sludge denitrifying phosphorus removal (DPR) process of Anaerobic Anoxic Oxic-Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (A<sup>2</sup>/O-MBBR) was investigated. The results showed that prolonged anaerobic retention t... |
2,317,392 | Performance of AnMBR in Treatment of Post-consumer Food Waste: Effect of Hydraulic Retention Time and Organic Loading Rate on Biogas Production and Membrane Fouling. | Anaerobic digestion of food waste (FW) is typically limited to large reactors due to high hydraulic retention times (HRTs). Technologies such as anaerobic membrane reactors (AnMBRs) can perform anaerobic digestion at lower HRTs while maintaining high chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiencies. This study evaluat... |
2,317,393 | Maca extracts and estrogen replacement therapy in ovariectomized rats exposed at high altitude. | Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and herbal remedies are often used to alleviate menopausal symptoms, but their effects and efficacy at high altitudes presents with several uncertainties. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether pre-treatment with maca (Lepidium meyenii</i> Walp) improved the tolerance to hig... |
2,317,394 | Biogas production by co-digestion of municipal wastewater and food waste: Performance in semi-continuous and continuous operation. | Municipal wastewater has recently attracted interest in relation to anaerobic wastewater treatments. Biogas production with co-digestion of mixed substrates has been proposed and has many potential benefits for municipal wastewater. The aim of this research was to assess the performance of biogas production during co-d... |
2,317,395 | Advances in biomaterials and regenerative medicine for primary ovarian insufficiency therapy. | Primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) is an ovarian dysfunction that affects more than 1 % of women and is characterized by hormone imbalances that afflict women before the age of 40. The typical perimenopausal symptoms result from abnormal levels of sex hormones, especially estrogen. The most prevalent treatment is horm... |
2,317,396 | The effect of brewery spent grain application on biogas yields and kinetics in co-digestion with sewage sludge. | The present study examines the effect of introducing dried brewery spent grain (BSG), known as the main solid by-product of the brewery industry on biogas yields and kinetics in co-digestion with sewage sludge (SS). The experiment was conducted in semi-continuous anaerobic reactors (supplied once a day) operating under... |
2,317,397 | Biodegradation of organophosphorus pesticides in moving bed biofilm reactors: Analysis of microbial community and biodegradation pathways. | We investigated the performance of a lab-scale moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) with respect to general bioconversion processes and biotransformation of two commonly used organophosphorus pesticides, Chlorpyrifos (CHL) and Malathion (MAL). The reactor was operated for 300 days under different organic loads by changing... |
2,317,398 | Tumour bleeding: Efficacy and outcome of haemostatic radiotherapy. | Management of tumour bleeding remains a challenge in oncology. With a number of methods available, radiotherapy still holds a crucial place. There are no standard guidelines for dose fractionation of haemostatic radiotherapy (HRT), and it varies from case to case. We aimed to study the effectiveness of HRT.</AbstractTe... |
2,317,399 | [Long-term functional outcomes after congenital cataract extraction with intraocular lens implantation in children of the first year of life]. | To study best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and identify its relationship with various factors in eyes with pseudophakia in long-term periods after removal of congenital cataract (CC) in the first year of life.</AbstractText>The study included 54 children (72 eyes) aged 4 to 12 years who had undergone CC removal with ... |
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