OBJECTIVES: Back pain is the most common reason for filing workers' compensation claims and often causes lost workdays. Data from 1988 National Health Interview Survey were analyzed to identify high-risk industries estimate prevalence of work-related back number workdays lost. METHODS: Analyses included 30074 respondents who worked during 12 months before interview. A case patient was defined as a respondent had every day week or more that period. RESULTS: The lost-workday 4.6%, individuals...

Purpose To determine whether whole-body total lesion glycolysis (TLG), which combines volumetric and metabolic information from fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed (CT), can provide a better evaluation of the prognosis for non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Materials Methods The institutional review board approved this retrospective study, requirement to obtain informed consent was waived. authors identified 105 consecutive patients with NSCLC...

Back pain accounts for about one fourth of workers' compensation claims in the United States. The Occupational Health Supplement to 1988 National Interview Survey provided an opportunity assess scope this problem. 30,074 respondents who worked 12 months before interview were defined as "workers", and those with back every day a week or more during that period "cases." A weighting factor was applied answers derive national estimates. In 1988, 22.4 million cases (prevalence 17.6%) responsible...

Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorder among Workers in Taiwan: A Nationwide Study: How‐Ran Guo, et al. Department Environmental and Occupational Health, Medical College, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan R.O.C — disorder (MSD) is a common problem workers. In spite the numerous reports on MSD various specific groups workers, few data prevalence general working population are available except for back pain. We analyzed information collected through nationwide survey 1994 to estimate by...

In dialysis patients, protein-energy wasting (PEW) is associated with high mortality, and some indicators of PEW, such as serum albumin value, subjective global assessment (SGA) score handgrip strength (HGS), may predict mortality. However, whether PEW poor renal outcomes the can in patients non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (CKD-ND) still unclear.We enrolled 128 clinically stable CKD-ND followed up for 33.8 ± 9.2 months. Baseline characteristics, echocardiographic information,...

Abstract Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and depression may be associated with each other pathophysiologically, but few studies have been conducted on the interplay between these two diseases using longitudinal measurement. Therefore, we used National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan to investigate bidirectional associations RA depression. One cohort was included analyze predicting onset a second for analysis RA. A sex- age-matched control group both. The incidence in subjects higher...

Interleukin-17 (IL-17) is a proinflammatory cytokine that most prominently produced by T-helper type 17 (Th17) cells, distinct CD4+ cell subset. The aim of this study was to investigate the level IL-17-producing cells in breast cancer tumour microenvironment and its prognostic role.A total 207 carcinoma specimens were assessed IL-17 immunohistochemistry, findings correlated with clinicopathological parameters. We found increased numbers high histological grade, negative ER/PR status,...

In a case-control study, we evaluated the association of risk menstrual disorders with four periconceptional factors: short preceding interpregnancy interval (<6 months), low (≤19 years) or high (≥40 maternal age at conception, and month conception. We divided 919 women who had visited fertility clinic between 1991 1995 into three categories: cases (with mean cycle length ≥42 ≤21 days, variation ≥14 days cycles, amenorrhea, N = 294), controls cycles within range 25–35 ≤7 520), intermediates...

RON and MET belong to a subfamily of tyrosine kinase receptors. They both can induce invasive growth, including migration, cell dissociation, matrix invasion. Cross-linking experiments show that form noncovalent complex on the surface cooperate in intracellular signaling. We wanted examine clinical significance expression patterns node-negative breast cancer.We studied protein expressions five cancer lines homogeneous cohort 103 T(1-2)N(0)M(0) carcinoma patients, 52 patients with distant...

Cigarette smoke is a major risk factor for bladder cancer. The main component in cigarette smoke, nicotine, can be detected the urine of smokers. Nicotine has been implicated as cocarcinogen that promotes lung cancer development through prosurvival pathways. Although mechanisms nicotine-induced cell proliferation have well studied epithelial cells, molecular mechanism its action cells still unclear. aims this study were to investigate whether there and identify signaling transduction pathway...

Pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) is relatively common in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), but it unclear whether there are differences between and without DM. We conducted a study to identify the possible factors that affect fatality.We included PLA treated at medical center from April 2001 March 2004 compared clinical characteristics of applied chi-square, Fisher's exact, t-tests evaluate two groups used logistic regressions predictors fatality.Of 377 included, 182 (48.3%) had Patients DM...

Abstract Background Poisoning is a significant public health problem worldwide and one of the most common reasons for visiting emergency departments (EDs), but factors that help to predict overall poisoning-related fatality have rarely been elucidated. Using 1512 subjects from hospital-based study, we sought describe demographic clinical characteristics poisoning patients identify predictors fatality. Methods Between January 2001 December 2002 prospectively recruited through EDs two medical...

Malignant gliomas are resistant to many kinds of treatments including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and other adjuvant therapies. Autophagy is a novel response cancer cells ionizing radiation (IR) or but its significance underlying mechanism remains largely elusive. Induction autophagy in glioma using irradiation arsenic trioxide (ATO) have been reported separately. However, the combined effects ATO IR on cell death processes malignant not thoroughly studied, especially U118-MG cells. In...