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Application of the Poincaré plot to heart rate variability: a new measure of functional status in heart failureAbstract Background: Conventional methods of quantifying heart rate variability using summary statistics have shown that decreased variability is associated with increased mortality in heart failure. However, many patients with heart failure have arrhythmias which make the ‘raw’ heart rate variability data less suitable for the use of sum... ...
Tập 25 Số 1 - Trang 18-26 - 1995
Uncovering a multitude of sins: medication management in the home post acute hospitalisation among the chronically illAbstract Background: Sub‐optimal use of prescribed medication is often associated with unplanned hospitalisation among the chronically ill. Aims: To examine the extent of sub‐optimal use of prescribed medication in a ‘high risk’ patient cohort recently discharged from acute hospital care. Methods: Chronically ill patients discharged f... ...
Tập 29 Số 2 - Trang 220-227 - 1999
THE SYDNEY AIDS PROJECT: DEVELOPMENT OF ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME IN A GROUP OF HIV SEROPOSITIVE HOMOSEXUAL MENAbstract: The Sydney AIDS Project is a prospective immunoepidemiological study of 996 homosexual/bisexual men enrolled between February 1984 and January 1985. By January 1987, 32 of 386 homosexual men who were seropositive at enrolment in the study had developed AIDS, yielding a crude progression rate of between 2.8% and 4.2% per annum. Of these subjects, 23 (72%) d... ...
Tập 18 Số 1 - Trang 8-15 - 1988
Acute stroke outcome: effects of stroke type and risk factorsAbstract: We studied 925 consecutive patients hospitalised with acute stroke to determine how stroke type, age, gender and risk factors influence acute, in‐hospital outcome. Stroke types included carotid territory cortical or large subcortical infarction (52%), vertebrobasilar infarction (12%), lacunar infarction (11%), intracerebral haemorrhage (16%), and subarachn... ...
Tập 22 Số 1 - Trang 30-35 - 1992
Lipoprotein(a) levels in chronic renal disease states, dialysis and transplantationAbstract: Lipoprotein(a) is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Lipoprotein(a) levels were measured in 196 patients (103 Male [M]: 93 Female [F]) with chronic renal diseases and in 116 controls. Median levels of Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] were found to be significantly elevated in patients with untreated chronic renal disease (285, 285 mg/L; M, F; ran... ...
Tập 22 Số 3 - Trang 243-248 - 1992
A controlled trial of a killed Haemophilus influenzae vaccine for prevention of acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitisAbstract Sixty‐four patients with chronic bronchitis with a history of recurrent respiratory tract infections were admitted to a double‐blind randomised controlled study in which the efficacy of an oral vaccine containing killed Haemophilus influenzae in preventing acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis was compared with placebo. Patient...
Tập 21 Số 4 - Trang 427-432 - 1991
INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION: A DOUBLE–BLIND CROSSOVER TRIAL OF PENTOXIFYLLINEAbstract: The influence of the xanthine derivative pentoxifylline (‘Trental’ or BL191; Hoechst–Roussel) on exercise tolerance was measured in 38 subjects with stable, severe to moderately severe, intermittent claudication who completed a randomised, double–blind, placebo controlled, cross–over clinical trial. Patients received placebo tablets or 400 mg slow–release ...
Tập 15 Số 4 - Trang 402-409 - 1985
Allergic bronchopulmonary fungal disease caused by Bipolaris and CurvulariaAbstract Allergic bronchopulmonary fungal disease (ABPFD) usually manifests in asthmatics as allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. In a few instances other fungi have been implicated. Serological testing in Western Australia between 1979 and 1986 revealed precipitins to Bipolaris and Curvularia species in 40 of...
Tập 21 Số 6 - Trang 871-874 - 1991
The Aetiology of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Current Ideas on Breathing and Sleep and Possible Links to Deranged Thiamine NeurochemistrySummary: The aetiology of the sudden infant death syndrome: Current ideas on breathing and sleep and possible links to deranged thiamine Neurochemistry.The sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is now the commonest cause of death between one week and one year of age in most western countries. An asphyxia/ death, with unrecognised hypoxic episodes duri... ...
Tập 8 Số 3 - Trang 322-336 - 1978
THE NEUROLOGICAL FEATURES OF EARLY AND ‘LATENT’ HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTIONAbstract Neurological manifestations of unknown cause occurring in patients who become or are HIV antibody positive with presumed normal immune function have been described recently. This report adds a further six cases, all of whom had normal CD4 + cell counts either throughout the period of observation or after the episode of seroconyersion. Three had an acute pre... ...
Tập 19 Số 6 - Trang 700-705 - 1989