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... body of epidemiological evidence in recent years documenting the health impacts of racism, the cumulative evidence base has yet to be synthesized in a comprehen- sive ... See full document

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... depression and anxiety associated to life-threatening diseases. The aim of this work was to perform a systematic review with meta-analysis of clinical trials to assess the ... See full document

... 1. Taminato M, Fran D, Grothe C, Preira RRF, Belasco A, Barbosa D. Prevalence of infection in kidney transplantation from living versus deceased donor: systematic review and ... See full document

... measure of GERD, with one requiring only severe symptoms refractory to medical therapy ...RCTs and in 10 of the cohort studies a gastrostomy tube was a co-intervention for select ...12 of 14 ... See full document

... vessels of neck, invariably increasing the length of surgery. For T1 and T2 lesions disease free survival is higher after surgery (100% and 79%, respectively) than radiation the- rapy (71% ... See full document

... subgroup analysis using primary measurement units ...area, and adjustment status (adjusted/not) for BMI for potential divergences within sub- groups, which showed no substantial change (Table ... See full document

... indicator of treatment effectiveness in patients with diabetes [2], because it reflects average glycemia over several months and is strongly correlated with diabetes complications ...changes of LDL- ... See full document

... present meta-analysis has the following limitations that must be taken into ...generation and blinding tended to increase the risk of ...lack of toxicity comparison between ART ... See full document

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... analyses, and meta-regression To explore further the heterogeneity among studies of PEX and vascular disease, we performed subgroup and sensitivity ...subgroup analysis was ... See full document

... diagnosis of NCC is currently based on a set of criteria including clinical evaluation, radiological, immunological and epidemiological data, that results in two categories of diagnostic ... See full document

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... public health problem and although more common in women, can also affect ...nature of the problem, it is difficult to collect accurate figures on the scale of domestic violence, but a study by ... See full document

... seven of them studied oral bisphosphonates (alendronate, risedronate and ibandronate) and the secondary adverse outcomes reported were gastrointestinal (GI) events such as upper GI irritation, ... See full document

... mechanism of action through which selenium exerts its effects with respect to ...carcinogenesis. Of these, 37 showed results supporting an anticancer effect for selenium, two showed mixed results suggesting ... See full document