Clinical evidence for an LH 'ceiling' effect induced by administration of recombinant human LH during the late follicular phase of stimulated cycles in World Health Organization type I and type II anovulation

Background: Diabetes is defined by the World Health Organization as a metabolic disorder characterized by chronic hyperglycemia with disturbances of carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. Families are co-regulating systems in which the stresses and strains of one family member affect the well-being of another member of the family. Caregivers of children with chronic illness report experiencing more parental stress than parents of healthy children. Objective: A descriptive cross-sectional study had been conducted in four centers of endocrine diseases in Baghdad city and data was collected by using self-administered questionnaire regarding quality of life adapted from World Health Organization. The study was conducted on six hundred participants. Data analysis was done by using frequency, percentage and mean and analytical statistics using Chi Square test. P value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The study showed that social domain had the highest mean score of (51.1) and that environmental domain had the lowest mean score of (38.9). The physical domain’s mean score was (40.2), while mean score of psychological domain was (46.2). The study reported that mothers of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus were more affected than fathers in physical, psychological and environmental domains. There was no difference between mothers and fathers in social domain of quality of life. Conclusion: It was concluded from the study that parents of diabetic children had generally poor quality of life that merits further investigations.

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The M-OVIN study: does switching treatment to FSH and / or IUI lead to higher pregnancy rates in a subset of women with world health organization type II anovulation not conceiving after six ovulatory cycles with clomiphene citrate – a randomised controlled trial

BMC Women s Health ◽

10.1186/1472-6874-13-42 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Marleen J Nahuis ◽

Nienke S Weiss ◽

Fulco van der Veen ◽

Ben Willem J Mol ◽

Peter G Hompes ◽

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Keyword(s):

Randomised Controlled Trial ◽

World Health Organization ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Clomiphene Citrate ◽

Pregnancy Rates ◽

World Health ◽

Type Ii ◽

Health Organization ◽

Randomised Controlled ◽

Switching Treatment

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Haemorrhagic smallpox

Epidemiology and Infection ◽

10.1017/s0022172400042078 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 67 (4) ◽

pp. 619-629 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

A. W. Downie ◽

D. S. Fedson ◽

L. St Vincent ◽

A. R. Rao ◽

C. H. Kempe

Keyword(s):

Neutralizing Antibodies ◽

Public Health Service ◽

Complement Fixation ◽

World Health ◽

Soluble Antigen ◽

Type I ◽

Type Ii ◽

Fixation Technique ◽

Agar Gel ◽

Health Organization

SUMMARYIn practically all acute fulminating smallpox infections—haemorrhagic type I cases—there is severe viraemia with 104 or more infective particles of virus per ml. of blood. In most of these patients soluble antigen can be demonstrated in serum by precipitation in agar gel tests, or by the complement-fixation technique. In late haemorrhagic cases (type II) the degree of viraemia is less and soluble antigen is less often demonstrated in the blood. Five of forty type II patients recovered. The majority of the 77 patients studied were adults and bore scars of previous vaccination. Thirteen were pregnant women and 10 of these suffered from type I infections.The antibody response in patients who survived 6 days or longer as determined by the estimation of precipitins, CF antibodies and neutralizing antibodies in serum, was considerably less than that seen in non-haemorrhagic smallpox patients.In acute fulminating smallpox infections, the finding of virus or soluble antigen in the blood is of value in establishing the diagnosis. Soluble antigen is usually found in the blood of patients suffering from severe viraemia and with the methods used has been demonstrated only in patients who are to die of their disease. Haemorrhagic smallpox represents a generalized virus infection of unusual severity in patients who show little resistance to their infection. The cause of this unusual susceptibility is unknown but there is little evidence that specific allergy to the virus is a feature of this form of the disease.This investigation was supported in part by Public Health Service Grant AI–1632–16 VR from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, by the World Health Organization and by the Marcus T. Reynolds III Fund.

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18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in different histological subtypes of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

The Journal of Laryngology & Otology ◽

10.1017/s002221510800368x ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 123 (6) ◽

pp. 656-661 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M-C Chang ◽

S-C Tsai ◽

W-Y Lin

Keyword(s):

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma ◽

Primary Tumour ◽

World Health ◽

Type I ◽

Type Ii ◽

Type Iii ◽

Positron Emission ◽

The Mean ◽

Health Organization ◽

The Relationship

AbstractObjective:The study aimed to delineate the relationship between18F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake and histological findings in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.Methods:We conducted a retrospective review of 88 patients referred to our positron emission tomography department with newly diagnosed, biopsy-proved nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Hospital records were reviewed for demographic and clinical data, including age, gender, body weight, histological analysis and clinical tumour stage.Results:Nineteen out of the 88 patients (22 per cent) had nasopharyngeal carcinoma of World Health Organization type I, 39 (44 per cent) had type II and 30 (34 per cent) had type III. The mean standardised uptake value for the primary tumour was 9.4 ± 5.0, ranging from 2.2 to 27.1. The mean standardised uptake values were 8.0 ± 3.9 for type I tumours, 9.7 ± 4.4 for type II tumours and 10.1 ± 6.3 for type III tumours (p = 0.451).Conclusions:Our study found that type III nasopharyngeal carcinoma exhibited a higher18F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake than either type II or type I nasopharyngeal carcinoma. However, this difference was not statistically significant.

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