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Lack of replication of thirteen single-nucleotide polymorphisms implicated in Parkinson's disease: a large-scale international study
(2006)
Background: A genome-wide association study identified 13 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) significantly associated with Parkinson's disease. Small-scale replication studies were largely non-confirmatory, but a ...
The revised international autoimmune hepatitis score in chronic liver diseases including autoimmune hepatitis/overlap syndromes and autoimmune hepatitis with concurrent other liver disorders
(2007)
Background. We conducted a study in order to determine the usefulness and diagnostic value of International Autoimmune Hepatitis Group (IAHG) score in non-autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) hepatic disorders as well as in AIH/overlap ...
Increasing incidence of melanoma in central Greece: A retrospective epidemiology study
(2005)
The increasing incidence of melanoma in the general population during the last few decades has provoked a great deal of research, aiming to identify the possible relationship between old and new etiological factors involved ...
Computed tomography study of radial head morphology
(2008)
Computed tomography scans of 22 cadaveric adult elbows were obtained in 3 forearm positions: full supination, neutral, and full pronation. The radial head dimensions, the radiocapitellar joints, and the proximal radioulnar ...
The impact of migratory separation from parents on the health of adolescents in the Philippines
(2012)
In the Philippines, as in several other low and middle-income countries in the world, it is usual for parents to leave the country to work abroad in order to improve the situation of their children who remain behind. ...
Intervention on strategy use and on motivation of Greek pupils' reading comprehension in english classes
(2003)
Although less skilled learners may improve their abilities through training in strategies used by successful learners, only a few studies have addressed the question of metacognitive strategy training in contexts in which ...
The trainability of adolescent soccer players to brief periodized complex training
(2018)
Purpose: To investigate the effect of a complex, short-term strength/power training protocol on performance and body composition of elite early adolescent soccer players. Methods: Twenty-two players (14-15 y) were randomly ...
Self-Assessment of Health Professionals’ Cultural Competence: Knowledge, Skills, and Mental Health Concepts for Optimal Health Care
(2022)
Current research often refers to cultural competence to improve health care delivery. In addition, it focuses on the cultural uniqueness of each health service user for optimal personalized care. This study aimed to collect ...
‘A smile stands for health and a bed for illness’: Graphic cues in children’s drawings
(2019)
Objective: The study aimed to investigate whether children use specific types of graphic cues (facial, postural, contextual) in their drawings of healthy and ill persons and whether these cues differ as a function of age. ...
Does the ISNT rule apply to the radial peripapillary capillary vessel density in OCT angiography?
(2022)
Purpose: To investigate the applicability of ISNT (inferior ≥ superior ≥ nasal ≥ temporal), IST (inferior ≥ superior ≥ temporal), and T min (temporal quadrant with the minimum value) rules to the peripapillary nerve fiber ...