Towfida Jahan Siddiqua, Shaikh Meshbahuddin Ahmad, Khalid Ahsan, Mamunur Rashid et al.
Purpose Poor vitamin B12 (B12) status is associated with adverse outcomes in pregnancy and infancy. Little is known about effects of B12 supplementation on immune function. The present study aimed to evaluate effects of pre- and postnatal B12 supplementation on biomarkers of B12 status and vaccine-s...
Paras Karmacharya, Anthony A. Donato, Madan Raj Aryal, Sushil Ghimire et al.
OBJECTIVES: Remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting oedema (RS(3)PE) syndrome is a rare inflammatory arthritis, characterised by symmetrical distal synovitis, pitting oedema of the hands and feet, absence of rheumatoid factor, and favourable response to glucocorticoids. The aim of ...
Daniela Hampel, Setareh Shahab‐Ferdows, M Munirul Islam, Janet M Peerson et al.
Human milk is the subject of many studies, but procedures for representative sample collection have not been established. Our improved methods for milk micronutrient analysis now enable systematic study of factors that affect its concentrations. We evaluated the effects of sample collection protocol...
Elizabeth Centeno Tablante, Helena Pachón, Heather Guetterman, Julia L. Finkelstein
BACKGROUND: Folate is a B-vitamin required for DNA synthesis, methylation, and cellular division. Wheat and maize (corn) flour are staple crops consumed widely throughout the world and have been fortified with folic acid in over 80 countries to prevent neural tube defects. Folic acid fortification m...
Pravesh Kumar Bundhun, Kumari Alka, Feng Huang
BACKGROUND: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) affects people in childhood (childhood onset) or in adulthood (adult onset). Observational studies that have previously compared childhood-onset versus adult-onset SLE were often restricted to 1 ethnic group, or to a particular area, with a small sample...
Behnam Sharif, Jacek A. Kopec, Nick Bansback, Mamunur Rahman et al.
Objectives To estimate the future direct cost of OA in Canada using a population-based health microsimulation model of osteoarthritis (POHEM-OA). Methods We used administrative health data from the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada, a survey of a random sample of BC residents diagnosed with ...
Rui Dong, Yunyao Wu, Shibing Xu, Lei Zhang et al.
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to systemically review the effectiveness of aquatic exercise (AQE) compared to land-based exercise (LBE) in treating knee osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS: The Medline, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Clinical Trials, CINAHL, and psyclNFO data...
Carine Ronsmans, David J. Fisher, Clive Osmond, Barrie Margetts et al.
BACKGROUND: Multiple micronutrient deficiencies are common among women in low-income countries and may adversely affect pregnancy outcomes. OBJECTIVE: To conduct a meta-analysis of the effects on stillbirths and on early and late neonatal mortality of supplementation during pregnancy with multiple m...
Md. Nazrul Islam, Mohsin HOSSAIN, Syed Atiqul Haq, Mohammad Noor A Alam et al.
Abstract Aim: A prospective open‐label study comparing the efficacy and safety of methotrexate (MTX) and chloroquine (CQ) in articular and cutaneous manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods: Consecutive SLE patients were randomly assigned to either 10 mg MTX weekly or 150 mg CQ ...
Maeve Kerr, M. Barbara E. Livingstone, Christopher J. Bates, Ian Bradbury et al.
OBJECTIVES: Folate and the metabolically related B vitamins are an important priority throughout life, but few studies have examined their status through childhood and adolescence. The aims of the current study were to investigate age, gender, and lifestyle factors as determinants of folate, related...
Luisa Costa, Francesco Caso, Roberta Ramonda, Antonio Del Puente et al.
The aim of the study was to evaluate the influence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) on achieving minimal disease activity (MDA) in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients treated with anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α with a follow-up period of 24 months. A cohort of PsA patients was assessed at the Univers...
Cecil Armstrong
The stresses to which articular cartilage is subjected during its normal function undoubtedly influence its useful life. A simple yet rigorous approximate analysis of cartilage loading has been developed which allows cartilage stresses, strains and deformations to be determined from the thickness an...
Cynthia S. Crowson, Elena Myasoedova, John M. Davis, Eric L. Matteson et al.
OBJECTIVE: to examine whether patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with no overt cardiovascular disease (CVD) have a higher prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) than subjects without RA or CVD. We also examined whether RA disease characteristics are associated with the presence of MetS in RA p...
Changqing Zhao, Da Liu, Hai Li, Lei‐Sheng Jiang et al.
STUDY DESIGN: Human herniated disc tissues and rat nucleus pulposus (NP) cells were used following approval by the authors' institutional Human Ethics Review Committee and Animal Care and Use Committee. OBJECTIVE: To determine the expression of leptin and its functional receptor in herniated disc ti...
M. Ulmansky, E. Hjørting‐Hansen, Finn Prætorius, Mohammed Fazlul Haque
This article includes five new cases of benign cementoblastoma. The study includes a review on 66 previously published cases that we consider to be bonafide cases. It is considered that benign cementoblastoma continues to be an infrequent entity that particularly affects young patients under the age...