Conclusions: High levels of sporting
activities can be detrimental to the long-term success of hip resurfacing devices, independently from other risk factors. Patients seeking hip resurfacing are usually young and should limit their involvement in sports to levels that Acalabrutinib Angiogenesis inhibitor the implant construct will be able to tolerate.”
“Background and aims: Epidemiological prospective data on cardiovascular (CV) events in elderly subjects from Mediterranean populations are lacking. We aimed to investigate 15-year incidence of CV events and to evaluate the association with CV risk factors in an elderly Mediterranean population.
Methods and results: The population of a small Sicilian village were enrolled, visited and a blood sample was drawn at baseline. CV events were recorded in the 15 years of follow-up. From 1351 subjects (75% of the resident population); 315 were in the age range 65-85 years; 266 subjects free from CV disease were analysed.
Seventy-seven CV events were recorded in 73 out of 266 subjects, with a 19.7% rate (in
10 years). Hypertension (HTN) (hazards ratio = 2.1) and diabetes mellitus (DM) (hazards ratio = 1.8) were independently Belnacasan mouse associated with CV events. Subjects with both DM and HTN showed a lower survival free of CV events compared to those with DM or HTN.
Conclusions: In a 15-year follow-up of an elderly Mediterranean population free from CV disease, diabetes mellitus and hypertension were related to CV events. The control of risk factors in the elderly needs to be reinforced to achieve better results in terms of CV prevention. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.”
“Peculiarities of broadband ferromagnetic resonance response of conducting magnetic bilayer films have
been studied theoretically. The film thickness was assumed to be smaller than the microwave magnetic skin depth. Excitation of magnetization precession by a homogeneous microwave field incident from one surface of the film has been considered, which mimics the BI-D1870 microwave field of a wide microstrip transducer. Strong asymmetry of the response has been found. Depending on the order of layers with respect to the transducer location either the first higher-order standing spin-wave mode or the fundamental mode shows the largest response. This effect is explained as shielding of the transducer field by eddy currents in the films. This shielding remains very efficient for films with thicknesses below the microwave magnetic skin depth. This effect may be useful for studying buried magnetic interfaces and should be accounted for in future development of broadband inductive ferromagnetic resonance methods. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3187547]“
“Background: There is controversy regarding the influence of glycemic control in diabetic patients with frozen shoulder.