Patients with higher carotid artery stiffness were older and had greater body mass index, systolic pressure and PP, fasting glucose, and PAI‑1 levels than patients with better carotid stiffness profile, whereas no differences were observed in fibrinogen, D‑dimer, and homocysteine.
Sample text:```The admission assessment included determining the risk factors for cerebral infarction,13,14 clinical ischemic stroke category (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke1), and disease severity using the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.15
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Abbreviations
AF = Atrial fibrillation
LAA = Left atrial appendage
LAA eV = LAA emptying flow velocity
LAD = Left atrial dimension
LAWV = LAA peak wall velocity
ROC = Receiver operating characteristic
SEC = Spontaneous echocardiographic contrast
TEE = Transesophageal echocardiography
TTE = Transthoracic echocardiography
We defined patients who had no histories of AF and no documented AF on continuous electrocardiographic monitoring during hospitalization as the sinus rhythm group, patients who had histories of AF before admission and/or continuously documented AF on continuous electrocardiographic monitoring during hospitalization as having chronic AF, and patients who had AF at admission and recovered to normal sinus rhythm during hospitalization and/or showed sinus rhythm at admission and documented transient AF on continuous electrocardiographic monitoring during hospitalization as having paroxysmal AF.```
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Sample text:```Consistent with our results, there was no significant association of 25(OH)D and mortality in a 3-year follow-up study of 230 Chinese patients with a median peritoneal dialysis duration of 26 months [7].```
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Sample text:```Laboratory parameters considered in this study were those already found significantly different between early PMF and WHO-ET: Hb (g/dL), WBC (3109/L), PLT (3109/L), and LDH (mU/mL).```
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Sample text:```Similarly, a synergistic effect of sequence differences at the resistin locus on obesity and risk of type II diabetes has been observed (Ma et al, 2002).```
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Sample text:```It has been suggested that biphasic theory may explain the apparent viscoelastic behavior of single fascicles [9].```
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Sample text:```Trials were considered eligible if they satisfied the following inclusion criteria: (1) RCTs comparing RIC versus no conditioning in patients with AMI; (2) patients were treated by primary PCI or thrombolysis; (3) RIC was induced by intermittent limb ischemia–reperfusion; and (4) trials at least reported one of the following outcome measures, including enzymatic myocardial infarction size as assessed by serum peak creatine```
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Sample text:```After 50 min of acclimatization and cardiovascular recordings, measurements of the respiratory frequency (Rf) were also performed by using the whole-body plethysmography method (20).```
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Sample text:```The stronger association observed between BMI and TBF than between BMI and PBF is consistent with several previous investigations (7, 21, 32).```
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Sample text:```Similarly, a synergistic effect of sequence differences at the resistin locus on obesity and risk of type II diabetes has been observed (Ma et al, 2002).```
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Sample text:```For example, we have shown that a depressive mood state and poor quality of life are less likely in elderly individuals who meet empirical minimum standards of habitual physical activity: >4,000 steps/day or >5 min/day at an intensity ≥3 metabolic equivalents (METs; Yasunaga et al., 2006; Yoshiuchi et al., 2006).```
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Sample text:```Prior CLHNS studies noted that CRP levels were substantially lower in the Philippines than in the USA [9, 10].```
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Sample text:```Trials were considered eligible if they satisfied the following inclusion criteria: (1) RCTs comparing RIC versus no conditioning in patients with AMI; (2) patients were treated by primary PCI or thrombolysis; (3) RIC was induced by intermittent limb ischemia–reperfusion; and (4) trials at least reported one of the following outcome measures, including enzymatic myocardial infarction size as assessed by serum peak creatine```
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Sample text:```Our results on working memory performance are similar to those of earlier studies (e.g. Archbold et al., 2009; Cosentino et al., 2008; Naegele et al., 2006) in showing impaired working memory in the OSA group.```
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Sample text:```It has been suggested that biphasic theory may explain the apparent viscoelastic behavior of single fascicles [9].```
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Sample text:```Consistent with our results, there was no significant association of 25(OH)D and mortality in a 3-year follow-up study of 230 Chinese patients with a median peritoneal dialysis duration of 26 months [7].```
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Sample text:```In men, two studies [36, 43], indicated that obesity was associated with lower CRC screening rates.```
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