Growing Old with HIV
Use of MRI in the Assessment of ...
Multimodal neuroimaging is assuming an increasingly important role in the initial evaluation and management of acute stroke patients in parallel wit ...
Stroke Prevention Treatment of ...
Atrial fibrillation is the most common cause of cardioembolic ischemic stroke and has a rising prevalence worldwide. Stroke prevention in this condi ...
Current Status of Antiplatelet ...
Stroke is one of the leading causes of disability; most are due to atherothrombotic mechanisms. About one third of ischemic strokes are preceded by ...
Prospects for Development of a ...
Avaccine against recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC) would benefit a large number of women who suffer from this debilitating syndrome. To date ...
Inflammatory Markers Associated ...
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is an inflammatory process that takes decades to develop. In HIV-seronegative persons, high-sensitivity C-reactive prot ...
The Rapidly Evolving Research o ...
With ongoing improvement in antiretroviral therapy, mortality among HIV-infected persons has dramatically decreased. For HIV-infected persons who re ...
Growing Old with HIV
The intersection of chronic HIV infection, its treatment, and lifestyle with aging has become a topic of considerable fascination during this, the t ...
Comprehensive Approaches to the ...
For every two people starting on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), five become infected with HIV. Current prevention strategies are inadequ ...
When to Start Antiretroviral Th ...
Antiretrovirals perform superbly in combating HIV infection. But when to initiate therapy in asymptomatic, nonpregnant, hepatitis-free, HIV-infected ...
2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1 ...
The 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) was responsible for the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century. The virus— a previously unknown triplerea ...
Posttransplant Lymphoproliferat ...
Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLD) are a life-threatening complication following solid organ transplantation. Many posttransplant l ...
Current Views on the Pathophysi ...
GB virus C (GBV-C), a member of the Flaviviridae family of viruses, recently received considerable attention largely owing to its potential role in ...
Update on Strongyloidiasis in t ...
Immunocompromised persons are the most vulnerable population at risk for developing life-threatening clinical syndromes associated with strongyloidi ...
Current Concepts of the Intesti ...
The human gastrointestinal tract is populated by a vast and diverse community of microbes. This gut microbiota participates in host metabolism, prot ...
Current Status of Nonantibiotic ...
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a leading cause of nosocomial infections and the most important cause of health care-associated diarrhea wo ...
Probiotics and Prebiotics for t ...
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality in premature infants. Although the pathogenesis of NEC rema ...
Manifestations of HIV in the He ...
The worldwide incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is increasing. The head and neck is a primary site for numerous manifestations of HIV ...
Novel Approaches to Oral Immuni ...
Hepatitis B is a necroinflammatory liver disease manifested with subacute to acute symptoms, liver cirrhosis, and mortality. Parenteral alum-adsorbe ...
Endothelial Damage and Regenera ...
The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) is part of the blood pressure regulating system. Its main effector peptide is angiotensin II (Ang II ...
Renin and Prorenin Receptor in ...
The (pro)renin receptor, PRR, was initially characterized as a component of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS). PRR-bound renin and prorenin display ...
Dual-Acting Angiotensin Recepto ...
Lowering blood pressure by pharmacologic intervention reduces the incidence of cardiovascular events. Nevertheless, despite the widespread availabil ...
The DASH Diet and Insulin Sensi ...
Lifestyle modifications, including adoption of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) dietary pattern, weight loss in individuals who ar ...
Metabolic Syndrome: From the Ge ...
The metabolic syndrome (MS) constitutes a combination of underlying risk factors for an adverse outcome, cardiovascular disease. Thus, the clinical ...
Genetics of Salt-Sensitive Hype ...
The assessment of salt sensitivity of blood pressure is difficult because of the lack of universal consensus on definition. Regardless of the variab ...
Genetics of Hypertension and Ca ...
Blood pressure (BP), hypertension (HT) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are common complex phenotypes, which are affected by multiple genetic and en ...