Health-related quality of life measurement in chronic liver disease patients
Conclusions Quality of life instruments are potentially powerful tools for evaluating the functional status, presenting gains of treatment and reflecting patients’ ability to return to a normal lifestyle in CLD patients. More attention should be paid by clinicians for integrated use of clinical tests together with HRQOL instruments in liver transplantation for establishing the reference levels of mental, physical, and role-social functioning. (Source: Medicina)
Source: Medicina - December 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Regional inequalities of hospital morbidity and associations with mortality in Lithuania
Conclusions Despite national efforts to decrease hospital care, our study detected the failure of hospitalization reduction and revealed an increase of hospitalization with the existing regional inequalities in Lithuania. (Source: Medicina)
Source: Medicina - December 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Spinal posture in different DanceSport dance styles compared with track and field athletes
Conclusions The results of the present study suggest that smaller S-shaped vertebral curvatures of DanceSport athletes compared with track and field athletes are permanent changes rather than habitual. (Source: Medicina)
Source: Medicina - December 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Evaluation of low-dose proton beam radiation efficiency in MIA PaCa-2 pancreatic cancer cell line vitality and H2AX formation
Conclusions Our data demonstrate that low-doses proton beam irradiation had an effect on MIA PaCa-2 pancreatic carcinoma cell line. Full extent of irradiation had an impact only 24h postirradiation, triggering DNA arrested cell cycle in G1/0 phase. Formed DNA DSBs were found to be repaired via the NHEJ pathway mechanism within 72h. Unsuccessful repaired DSBs induced apoptotic cell death. After 72h reparation processes were completed, and cell cycle was released from arrest in G1/0 phase. (Source: Medicina)
Source: Medicina - December 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Treatment procedures and referral patterns of general dentists in Lithuania
Conclusions There is a clear need for Lithuanian dental practitioners to refer patients to all types of dental specialists. Undergraduate dental education program and postgraduate training should be more directed toward the extraction of teeth and roots, treatment of young children and provision of dental prostheses to patients. (Source: Medicina)
Source: Medicina - December 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
The influence of the extended indications for sentinel node biopsy on the identification of metastasis-free and metastatic sentinel nodes
Conclusions The extension of indications for SNB did not reduce the rates of SN identification or did not create any impact on the rate of metastatic SNs. (Source: Medicina)
Source: Medicina - December 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Correlation between throat-related symptoms and histological examination in adults with chronic tonsillitis
Conclusions Assessment of throat-related symptoms is complementary to histological examination in adults with chronic tonsillitis. (Source: Medicina)
Source: Medicina - December 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Cesarean section rates in Lithuania using Robson Ten Group Classification System
Conclusions Women in Groups 1, 2 and 5 were the largest contributions to the overall CS rate in Lithuania. It seems that efforts to reduce the overall CS rate should be directed on increasing vaginal birth after CS and reducing CS rates in nulliparous women with single cephalic full-term pregnancy (Groups 1 and 2). (Source: Medicina)
Source: Medicina - December 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Factors associated with bone mineral density loss in patients with spondyloarthropathies: A 4-year follow-up study
Conclusion Baseline BMD, anti-TNFα treatment, PAGDA score, spinal mobility tests and disease activity markers are useful factors in predicting the BMD loss in SpA patients and can provide surrogate information on BMD status. (Source: Medicina)
Source: Medicina - December 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Distribution of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in tumor islets and stroma from patients with non-small cell lung cancer in association with COPD and smoking
Conclusions According to our data, COPD but not smoking seems to be associated with higher infiltration of CD8+ T cells in the tumor stroma of patients with NSCLC. It allows us to hypothesize that NSCLC patients with coexisting COPD may have a more favorable outcome due to anticancer properties of stromal CD8+ T cells. (Source: Medicina)
Source: Medicina - December 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Early sport practice is related to lower prevalence of cardiovascular and metabolic outcomes in adults independently of overweight and current physical activity
Conclusions Independently of obesity and current physical activity, early sport practice in early life was positively associated with lower occurrence of chronicle diseases in adulthood. (Source: Medicina)
Source: Medicina - December 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative effects of herbal preparation EM 1201 in adjuvant arthritic rats
Conclusions The present study suggests that EM 1201 has protective activity against arthritis and demonstrated its potential beneficiary effect analogical to diclofenac. Anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative effect of EM 1201 in rats with AA support the need of further investigations by using it as supplementary agent alone or together with other anti-arthritic drugs in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. (Source: Medicina)
Source: Medicina - December 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Effect of physical training on indices of platelet aggregation and fibrinogen concentration in patients with chronic heart failure
Conclusions Physical training reduces fibrinogen concentration in patients with CHF. It remains unclear whether physical training can have an effect on the decrease in platelet aggregation in patients who have long-term physical training applied. (Source: Medicina)
Source: Medicina - December 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Nutritional habits among high-performance endurance athletes
Conclusions The diet of highly trained endurance athletes does not fully meet their requirements and in this situation cannot ensure maximum adaptation to very intense and/or long-duration physical loads. The diet of highly trained endurance athletes must be optimized, adjusted and individualized. Particular attention should be focused on female athletes. (Source: Medicina)
Source: Medicina - December 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Distribution of human papillomavirus type 16 variants in Lithuanian women with cervical cancer
Conclusions European HPV 16 L83V variant is usually associated with high risk for cervical cancer women. However, statistically meaningful difference was not achieved when comparing difference of L83V variants between investigated groups and in HPV 16 L83V variant and prototype distribution in CIN3/Ca in situ and cancer. (Source: Medicina)
Source: Medicina - December 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
