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The Prostate Health Index in predicting initial prostate biopsy outcomes in Asian men with prostate-specific antigen levels of 4–10 ng/mL
To investigate the role of the Prostate Health Index (phi) in prostate cancer (PCa) detection in patients with a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level of 4–10 ng/mL receiving their first prostatic biopsy in an As...
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Carotid intima-media thickness in Chinese Type 2 diabetic subjects with or without microalbuminuria
Background: To examine the association of microalbuminuria (MAU) with the carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) in Chinese Type 2 diabetic subjects. Materials and methods: Two hundred and...
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Atorvastatin does not affect insulin sensitivity and the adiponectin or leptin levels in hyperlipidemic Type 2 diabetes
Background: In addition to lipid lowering, further pleotropic effects of statins have been postulated. We aimed to study if the various pleotropic effects are due indirectly to the modula...
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Children's stroke sequence errors in writing Chinese characters
Each Chinese character is a two dimensional logograph and if character writing is seen as drawing a diagram, then there is no obvious ‘correct sequence’ in the writing process. However, over the ages and to th...
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Children’s stroke sequence errors in writing Chinese characters
Each Chinese character is a two dimensional logograph and if character writing is seen as drawing a diagram, then there is no obvious ‘correct sequence’ in the writing process. However, over the ages and to th...
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Parathyroid hormone and parathyroid hormone related protein assays in the investigation of hypercalcemic patients in hospital in a Chinese population
There are many pathological causes and potential mechanisms for hypercalcemia. We measured intact parathyroid hormone (PTH) and parathyroid hormone related protein (PTHrP) in the hypercalcemic in-patients and ...
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Elevated plasma endothelin in patients with diabetes mellitus
Plasma concentrations of endothelin, a vasoconstrictor peptide released from vascular endothelial cells, have been measured by radioimmunoassay in 100 patients with diabetes mellitus and 19 healthy subjects. T...