BackgroundObstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with hypertension; however, the associations between cardinal features of OSA, such as intermittent hypoxia (IH) and sleep fragmentation (SF), and blood pressure remain unclear.We performed this study to address this issue.MethodWe investigated 335 subjects with the polysomnography (PSG) tests.D
There are several diseases that can affect pets.Recognize the infirm at risk of death would allow early medical interventions and the establishment of different monitoring protocols, increasing survival.The objective of this work was to analyze the potential for prognostic markers of clinical and laboratory accessible variables in 185 hospitalized
Abstract Unremitting head and neck pain (UHNP) is a commonly encountered phenomenon in Headache Medicine and may be seen in the setting of many well-defined headache types.The prevalence of UHNP is not clear, and establishing the presence of UHNP may require careful questioning at repeated patient visits.The cause of UHNP in some patients may be co
This discourse analytic study examines how violence can be constructed as an honourable course of action, using the example of a leaflet circulated in the loyalist Donegall Pass area of Belfast urging the removal of the minority Chinese population.Starting from the assumptions that racism is an ideological practice that Compression Sock naturalises
Two Atlantic Forests and two Cerrado areas in Brazil were sampled for non-flying small mammal fauna.In each biome one area with altered and another with almost unaltered vegetation (national parks), were chosen to investigate these fauna.Species richness of Atlantic Forest and Game Console Cerrado was comparable in the conserved as well as in the a