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BMC Medicine

Ausgabe 1/2009

Inhalt (81 Artikel)

Open Access Research article

The association of posttraumatic stress disorder and metabolic syndrome: a study of increased health risk in veterans

Pia S Heppner, Eric F Crawford, Uzair A Haji, Niloofar Afari, Richard L Hauger, Boris A Dashevsky, Paul S Horn, Sarah E Nunnink, Dewleen G Baker

Open Access Research article

Inhaled drugs to reduce exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a network meta-analysis

Milo A Puhan, Lucas M Bachmann, Jos Kleijnen, Gerben ter Riet, Alphons G Kessels

Open Access Editorial

BMC Medicine celebrates its 5thanniversary

Joanne M Appleford, Robin L Cassady-Cain, Jigisha Patel, Melissa L Norton

Open Access Research article

The relationship between trust in mass media and the healthcare system and individual health: evidence from the AsiaBarometer Survey

Yasuharu Tokuda, Seiji Fujii, Masamine Jimba, Takashi Inoguchi

Open Access Research article

Trait-specific tracking and determinants of body composition: a 7-year follow-up study of pubertal growth in girls

Sulin Cheng, Eszter Völgyi, Frances A Tylavsky, Arja Lyytikäinen, Timo Törmäkangas, Leiting Xu, Shu Mei Cheng, Heikki Kröger, Markku Alèn, Urho M Kujala

Open Access Research article

Development of the probability of return of spontaneous circulation in intervals without chest compressions during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: an observational study

Kenneth Gundersen, Jan Terje Kvaløy, Jo Kramer-Johansen, Petter Andreas Steen, Trygve Eftestøl

Open Access Minireview

Recent developments in Alzheimer's disease therapeutics

Michael S Rafii, Paul S Aisen

Open Access Research article

Lack of utility of risk score and gynecological examination for screening for sexually transmitted infections in sexually active adolescents

Eleuse MB Guimarães, Mark DC Guimarães, Maria Aparecida S Vieira, Nádia M Bontempo, Mirian SS Seixas, Mônica SD Garcia, Lyana ES Daud, Rejane LM Côrtes, Maria de Fátima C Alves

Open Access Research article

A compact VEGF signature associated with distant metastases and poor outcomes

Zhiyuan Hu, Cheng Fan, Chad Livasy, Xiaping He, Daniel S Oh, Matthew G Ewend, Lisa A Carey, Subbaya Subramanian, Robert West, Francis Ikpatt, Olufunmilayo I Olopade, Matt van de Rijn, Charles M Perou

Open Access Research article

Estimation of proteinuria as a predictor of complications of pre-eclampsia: a systematic review

Shakila Thangaratinam, Arri Coomarasamy, Fidelma O'Mahony, Steve Sharp, Javier Zamora, Khalid S Khan, Khaled MK Ismail

Open Access Commentary

Proteinuria as a predictor of complications of pre-eclampsia

G Justus Hofmeyr, Michael Belfort

Open Access Commentary

Sex differences in rheumatoid arthritis: more than meets the eye...

Ronald F van Vollenhoven

Open Access Research article

Intradermal influenza vaccination of healthy adults using a new microinjection system: a 3-year randomised controlled safety and immunogenicity trial

Jiri Beran, Arvydas Ambrozaitis, Alvydas Laiskonis, Narseta Mickuviene, Patrick Bacart, Yvan Calozet, Etienne Demanet, Stephane Heijmans, Paul Van Belle, Françoise Weber, Camille Salamand

Open Access Research article

Different atrophy-hypertrophy transcription pathways in muscles affected by severe and mild spinal muscular atrophy

Caterina Millino, Marina Fanin, Andrea Vettori, Paolo Laveder, Maria Luisa Mostacciuolo, Corrado Angelini, Gerolamo Lanfranchi

Open Access Research article

Patient to patient transmission of hepatitis B virus: a systematic review of reports on outbreaks between 1992 and 2007

Simone Lanini, Vincenzo Puro, Francesco N Lauria, Francesco M Fusco, Carla Nisii, Giuseppe Ippolito

Open Access Research article

The risk of colorectal cancer with symptoms at different ages and between the sexes: a case-control study

William Hamilton, Robert Lancashire, Debbie Sharp, Tim J Peters, KK Cheng, Tom Marshall

Open Access Research article

Rifampin pharmacokinetics in children, with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection, hospitalized for the management of severe forms of tuberculosis

Hendrik Simon Schaaf, Marianne Willemse, Karien Cilliers, Demetre Labadarios, Johannes Stephanus Maritz, Gregory D Hussey, Helen McIlleron, Peter Smith, Peter Roderick Donald

Open Access Research article

Regional block versus general anaesthesia for caesarean section and neonatal outcomes: a population-based study

Charles S Algert, Jennifer R Bowen, Warwick B Giles, Greg E Knoblanche, Samantha J Lain, Christine L Roberts

Open Access Research article

The pediatric NAFLD fibrosis index: a predictor of liver fibrosis in children with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Valerio Nobili, Anna Alisi, Andrea Vania, Claudio Tiribelli, Andrea Pietrobattista, Giorgio Bedogni

Open Access Research article

Zinc and copper supplementation in acute diarrhea in children: a double-blind randomized controlled trial

Archana Patel, Michael J Dibley, Manju Mamtani, Neetu Badhoniya, Hemant Kulkarni

Open Access Research article

Sodium bicarbonate-based hydration prevents contrast-induced nephropathy: a meta-analysis

Pascal Meier, Dennis T Ko, Akira Tamura, Umesh Tamhane, Hitinder S Gurm

Open Access Research article

Trace elements in hemodialysis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Marcello Tonelli, Natasha Wiebe, Brenda Hemmelgarn, Scott Klarenbach, Catherine Field, Braden Manns, Ravi Thadhani, John Gill

Open Access Review

Varicella vaccination in Europe – taking the practical approach

Paolo Bonanni, Judith Breuer, Anne Gershon, Michael Gershon, Waleria Hryniewicz, Vana Papaevangelou, Bernard Rentier, Hans Rümke, Catherine Sadzot-Delvaux, Jacques Senterre, Catherine Weil-Olivier, Peter Wutzler

Open Access Research article

Calculating the return on investment of mobile healthcare

Nancy E Oriol, Paul J Cote, Anthony P Vavasis, Jennifer Bennet, Darien DeLorenzo, Philip Blanc, Isaac Kohane

Open Access Research article

Measuring the effect of enhanced cleaning in a UK hospital: a prospective cross-over study

Stephanie J Dancer, Liza F White, Jim Lamb, E Kirsty Girvan, Chris Robertson

Open Access Commentary

New perspectives in human stem cell therapeutic research

Alan Trounson

Open Access Review

Modeling influenza epidemics and pandemics: insights into the future of swine flu (H1N1)

Brian J Coburn, Bradley G Wagner, Sally Blower

Open Access Research article

Recent trends in breast cancer incidence in US white women by county-level urban/rural and poverty status

Amelia K Hausauer, Theresa HM Keegan, Ellen T Chang, Sally L Glaser, Holly Howe, Christina A Clarke

Open Access Research article

Effects of clinical pathways in the joint replacement: a meta-analysis

A Barbieri, K Vanhaecht, P Van Herck, W Sermeus, F Faggiano, S Marchisio, M Panella

Open Access Research article

Treating 4,000 diabetic patients in Cambodia, a high-prevalence but resource-limited setting: a 5-year study

Marie-Eve Raguenaud, Petros Isaakidis, Tony Reid, Say Chy, Lim Keuky, Gemma Arellano, Wim Van Damme

Open Access Research article

Identification of pediatric septic shock subclasses based on genome-wide expression profiling

Hector R Wong, Natalie Cvijanovich, Richard Lin, Geoffrey L Allen, Neal J Thomas, Douglas F Willson, Robert J Freishtat, Nick Anas, Keith Meyer, Paul A Checchia, Marie Monaco, Kelli Odom, Thomas P Shanley

Open Access Research article

RNA viruses in community-acquired childhood pneumonia in semi-urban Nepal; a cross-sectional study

Maria Mathisen, Tor A Strand, Biswa N Sharma, Ram K Chandyo, Palle Valentiner-Branth, Sudha Basnet, Ramesh K Adhikari, Dag Hvidsten, Prakash S Shrestha, Halvor Sommerfelt

Open Access Research article

Hospital variation in transfusion and infection after cardiac surgery: a cohort study

Mary AM Rogers, Neil Blumberg, Sanjay Saint, Kenneth M Langa, Brahmajee K Nallamothu

Open Access Commentary

Does blood transfusion harm cardiac surgery patients?

Gavin J Murphy

Open Access Research article

Increased urine IgM excretion predicts cardiovascular events in patients with type 1 diabetes nephropathy

Rafid Tofik, Ole Torffvit, Bengt Rippe, Omran Bakoush

Open Access Research article

Modelling the progression of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in Vietnam and the opportunities for reassortment with other influenza viruses

Maciej F Boni, Bui Huu Manh, Pham Quang Thai, Jeremy Farrar, Tran Tinh Hien, Nguyen Tran Hien, Nguyen Van Kinh, Peter Horby

Open Access Research article

Safety and tolerability of the antimicrobial peptide human lactoferrin 1-11 (hLF1-11)

Walter JFM van der Velden, Thijs MP van Iersel, Nicole MA Blijlevens, J Peter Donnelly

Open Access Research article

Seasonal transmission potential and activity peaks of the new influenza A(H1N1): a Monte Carlo likelihood analysis based on human mobility

Duygu Balcan, Hao Hu, Bruno Goncalves, Paolo Bajardi, Chiara Poletto, Jose J Ramasco, Daniela Paolotti, Nicola Perra, Michele Tizzoni, Wouter Van den Broeck, Vittoria Colizza, Alessandro Vespignani

Open Access Research article

Childhood emotional problems and self-perceptions predict weight gain in a longitudinal regression model

Andrew Ternouth, David Collier, Barbara Maughan

Open Access Research article

Sequelae due to bacterial meningitis among African children: a systematic literature review

Meenakshi Ramakrishnan, Aaron J Ulland, Laura C Steinhardt, Jennifer C Moïsi, Fred Were, Orin S Levine

Open Access Minireview

Human cellular restriction factors that target HIV-1 replication

Klaus Strebel, Jeremy Luban, Kuan-Teh Jeang

Open Access Research article

Evaluation of a multiple ecological level child obesity prevention program: Switch®what you Do, View, and Chew

Douglas A Gentile, Greg Welk, Joey C Eisenmann, Rachel A Reimer, David A Walsh, Daniel W Russell, Randi Callahan, Monica Walsh, Sarah Strickland, Katie Fritz

Open Access Research article

Quality of medication use in primary care - mapping the problem, working to a solution: a systematic review of the literature

Sara Garfield, Nick Barber, Paul Walley, Alan Willson, Lina Eliasson

Open Access Commentary

The economics of treating stroke as an acute brain attack

Julien Bogousslavsky, Maurizio Paciaroni

Open Access Research article

Who uses firearms as a means of suicide? A population study exploring firearm accessibility and method choice

Helen Klieve, Jerneja Sveticic, Diego De Leo

Open Access Research article

Self-perceived psychological stress and ischemic stroke: a case-control study

Katarina Jood, Petra Redfors, Annika Rosengren, Christian Blomstrand, Christina Jern

Open Access Research article

Chemical and environmental vector control as a contribution to the elimination of visceral leishmaniasis on the Indian subcontinent: cluster randomized controlled trials in Bangladesh, India and Nepal

Anand B Joshi, Murari L Das, Shireen Akhter, Rajib Chowdhury, Dinesh Mondal, Vijay Kumar, Pradeep Das, Axel Kroeger, Marleen Boelaert, Max Petzold

Open Access Editorial

A vision of the future for BMC Medicine: serving science, medicine and authors

Robin L Cassady-Cain, Joanne M Appleford, Jigisha Patel, Mick Aulakh, Melissa L Norton

Open Access Commentary

Inclusion of women in clinical trials

Jesse A Berlin, Susan S Ellenberg

Open Access Research article

An evaluation of exclusionary medical/psychiatric conditions in the definition of chronic fatigue syndrome

James F Jones, Jin-Mann S Lin, Elizabeth M Maloney, Roumiana S Boneva, Urs M Nater, Elizabeth R Unger, William C Reeves

Open Access Commentary

Chronic fatigue syndrome: identifying zebras amongst the horses

Samuel B Harvey, Simon Wessely

Open Access Correspondence

Trends of public health research output from India during 2001-2008

Lalit Dandona, Magdalena Z Raban, Rama K Guggilla, Aarushi Bhatnagar, Rakhi Dandona

Open Access Research article

Suicidal ideation during treatment of depression with escitalopram and nortriptyline in Genome-Based Therapeutic Drugs for Depression (GENDEP): a clinical trial

Nader Perroud, Rudolf Uher, Andrej Marusic, Marcella Rietschel, Ole Mors, Neven Henigsberg, Joanna Hauser, Wolfgang Maier, Daniel Souery, Anna Placentino, Aleksandra Szczepankiewicz, Lisbeth Jorgensen, Jana Strohmaier, Astrid Zobel, Caterina Giovannini, Amanda Elkin, Cerisse Gunasinghe, Joanna Gray, Desmond Campbell, Bhanu Gupta, Anne E Farmer, Peter McGuffin, Katherine J Aitchison

Open Access Research article

Genomic and epigenetic evidence for oxytocin receptor deficiency in autism

Simon G Gregory, Jessica J Connelly, Aaron J Towers, Jessica Johnson, Dhani Biscocho, Christina A Markunas, Carla Lintas, Ruth K Abramson, Harry H Wright, Peter Ellis, Cordelia F Langford, Gordon Worley, G Robert Delong, Susan K Murphy, Michael L Cuccaro, Antonello Persico, Margaret A Pericak-Vance

Open Access Commentary

Defective oxytocin function: a clue to understanding the cause of autism?

Fiorella Gurrieri, Giovanni Neri

Open Access Debate

Transforming medical professionalism to fit changing health needs

Thomas Plochg, Niek S Klazinga, Barbara Starfield

Open Access Research article

Development of lower limb range of motion from early childhood to adolescence in cerebral palsy: a population-based study

Eva Nordmark, Gunnar Hägglund, Henrik Lauge-Pedersen, Philippe Wagner, Lena Westbom

Open Access Research article

Accumulation of neutral lipids in peripheral blood mononuclear cells as a distinctive trait of Alzheimer patients and asymptomatic subjects at risk of disease

Alessandra Pani, Antonella Mandas, Giacomo Diaz, Claudia Abete, Pier Luigi Cocco, Fabrizio Angius, Annalisa Brundu, Nico Muçaka, Maria Elena Pais, Antonio Saba, Luigi Barberini, Cristina Zaru, Manuela Palmas, Paolo F Putzu, Alessandra Mocali, Francesco Paoletti, Paolo La Colla, Sandra Dessì

Open Access Research article

Adherence to isoniazid prophylaxis among HIV-infected children: a randomized controlled trial comparing two dosing schedules

Stanzi M le Roux, Mark F Cotton, Jonathan E Golub, David M le Roux, Lesley Workman, Heather J Zar

Open Access Research article

STAT1-dependent expression of energy metabolic pathways links tumour growth and radioresistance to the Warburg effect

Sean P Pitroda, Bassam T Wakim, Ravi F Sood, Mara G Beveridge, Michael A Beckett, Dhara M MacDermed, Ralph R Weichselbaum, Nikolai N Khodarev

Open Access Research article

Human papillomavirus testing with Pap triage for cervical cancer prevention in Canada: a cost-effectiveness analysis

Shalini L Kulasingam, Raghu Rajan, Yvan St Pierre, C Victoria Atwood, Evan R Myers, Eduardo L Franco

Open Access Research article

Oral high dose ascorbic acid treatment for one year in young CMT1A patients: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase II trial

Camiel Verhamme, Rob J de Haan, Marinus Vermeulen, Frank Baas, Marianne de Visser, Ivo N van Schaik

Open Access Minireview

Migraine pathogenesis and state of pharmacological treatment options

Till Sprenger, Peter J Goadsby

Open Access Commentary

Can we improve outcomes in AF patients by early therapy?

Paulus Kirchhof

Open Access Research article

Post-exposure prophylaxis during pandemic outbreaks

Seyed M Moghadas, Christopher S Bowman, Gergely Röst, David N Fisman, Jianhong Wu

Open Access Minireview

Recent developments in multiple sclerosis therapeutics

Rebecca I Spain, Michelle H Cameron, Dennis Bourdette

Open Access Research article

Malaria paediatric hospitalization between 1999 and 2008 across Kenya

Emelda A Okiro, Victor A Alegana, Abdisalan M Noor, Juliette J Mutheu, Elizabeth Juma, Robert W Snow

Open Access Research article

Combination strategies for pandemic influenza response - a systematic review of mathematical modeling studies

Vernon J Lee, David C Lye, Annelies Wilder-Smith

Open Access Research article

A systems analysis of the chemosensitivity of breast cancer cells to the polyamine analogue PG-11047

Wen-Lin Kuo, Debopriya Das, Safiyyah Ziyad, Sanchita Bhattacharya, William J Gibb, Laura M Heiser, Anguraj Sadanandam, Gerald V Fontenay, Zhi Hu, Nicholas J Wang, Nora Bayani, Heidi S Feiler, Richard M Neve, Andrew J Wyrobek, Paul T Spellman, Laurence J Marton, Joe W Gray

Open Access Research article

Psychoeducation for depression, anxiety and psychological distress: a meta-analysis

Tara Donker, Kathleen M Griffiths, Pim Cuijpers, Helen Christensen

Open Access Research article

Patient-centred tuberculosis treatment delivery under programmatic conditions in Tanzania: a cohort study

Saidi Egwaga, Abdallah Mkopi, Nyagosya Range, Vera Haag-Arbenz, Amuri Baraka, Penny Grewal, Frank Cobelens, Hassan Mshinda, Fred Lwilla, Frank van Leth

Open Access Correspondence

Calculating the potential for within-flight transmission of influenza A (H1N1)

Bradley G Wagner, Brian J Coburn, Sally Blower

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