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Depression and anxiety in inflammatory bowel disease: A review of comorbidity and management
(Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 2009-07)
While there has been a great deal of speculation over the years on the importance of emotional factors in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), it is only in the last decade or so that studies with stronger designs have been ...
Stress coping, distress, and health perceptions in inflammatory bowel disease and community controls
(American Journal Gastroenterology, 2009-12)
OBJECTIVES:
This study compares a community inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) sample of individuals with a matched non-IBD community sample of individuals on psychological functioning and health perceptions.
METHODS:
P ...
Subgroup Analysis of Trials Is Rarely Easy (SATIRE): a study protocol for a systematic review to characterize the analysis, reporting, and claim of subgroup effects in randomized trials
(2009-11-09)
Abstract
Background
Subgroup analyses in randomized trials examine whether effects of interventions differ between subgroups of ...
Study protocol for the translating research in elder care (TREC): building context through case studies in long-term care project (project 2)
(2009-08-11)
Abstract
Background
The organizational context in which healthcare is delivered is thought to play an important role in mediating ...
The Manitoba IBD Index: Evidence for a New and Simple Indicator of IBD Activity
(American Journal Gastroenterology, 2009-07)
OBJECTIVES:
A single-item indicator of disease activity over an extended period of time, the Manitoba Inflammatory Bowel Disease Index (MIBDI), is introduced and compared against several standard measures for assessing ...
Asthma and genes encoding components of the vitamin D pathway
(2009-10-24)
Abstract
Background
Genetic variants at the vitamin D receptor (VDR) locus are associated with asthma and atopy. We hypothesized ...
Body Mass and Composition Affect Bone Density in Recently Diagnosed Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The Manitoba IBD Cohort Study
(Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 2009-01)
BACKGROUND:
This prospective study was undertaken to clarify the role of body mass and composition as a determinant of bone mineral density (BMD) in recently diagnosed inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
METHODS:
A nested ...
In-Network Adaptation of Video Streams Using Network Processors
(2009-7-1)
The increasing variety of networks and end systems, especially wireless devices, pose new challenges in communication support for, particularly, multicast-based collaborative applications. In traditional multicasting, the ...
Computational Procedures for a Class of GI/D/k Systems in Discrete Time
(2009-11-5)
A class of discrete time GI/D/
systems is considered for which the interarrival times have finite support and customers are served in first-in first-out (FIFO) order. The system is formulated as a single server queue with ...