Sandborn, William J; Cyrille, Marcoli; Hansen, Mark Berner; Feagan, Brian G; Loftus, Edward V; Rogler, Gerhard; Vermeire, Severine; 3938; Cruz, Martha L; Yang, Jun; Boedigheimer, Michael J;
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: The α4β7 integrin is a validated target in inflammatory bowel disease. This randomized, phase 2b, placebo-controlled, double-blind study evaluated the efficacy and safety of the anti-α4β7 antibody abrilumab in patients with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis despite treatment with conventional therapies. METHODS: Patients (tot...
Zhu, Jiajie Guo, Yu Liu, Shan Su, Xiaolan Li, Yijie Yang, Yang Hou, Liwei Wang, Guishu Zhang, Jiaxin Chen, Jiande Jd
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Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society
PROSPERO Systematic review registration no. CRD42016041916.
Rodolico, Vito Di Carlo, Paola Gulotta, Gaspare D'Arpa, Francesco Salamone, Giuseppe Cocorullo, Gianfranco Agrusa, Antonino Giammanco, Anna Sergi, Consolato
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Journal of clinical pathology
To evaluate the contribution of light microscopy to detecting Candida spp infection in patients with complicated intra-abdominal infections (IAIs) admitted for acute abdomen to a quality assurance (QA)-certified surgical emergency ward. We conducted a retrospective study (2008-2012) of 809 abdominal intraoperative or biopsy tissue specimens obtaine...
Chiang, Jui-Kun Chih-Wen, Lin Kao, Yee-Hsin
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BMJ open
Liver cancer is a growing global public health problem. Ultrasonography is an imaging tool widely used for the early diagnosis of liver cancer. However, the effect of ultrasonography surveillance (US) on the survival of patients with liver cancer is unknown. Therefore, this study examined the association between survival and US frequency during the...
Goodchild, George Gooding, Ian Goodey, Tina
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Postgraduate medical journal
Biagi, Federico Vattiato, Claudia Burrone, Marco Schiepatti, Annalisa Agazzi, Simona Maiorano, Gregorio Luinetti, Ombretta Alvisi, Costanza Klersy, Catherine Corazza, Gino Roberto
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Journal of clinical pathology
The utility of the 7 level Marsh-Oberhuber classification of mucosal damage in patients with coeliac disease has recently been criticised. Analysis of duodenal biopsies with dissecting microscopy is an unsophisticated method that, however, provides useful information in cases of frank villous atrophy. In the last 15 years, we have always analysed d...
Muka, Taulant Kraja, Bledar Ruiter, Rikje de Keyser, Catherine E Hofman, Albert Stricker, Bruno H Kiefte-de Jong, Jessica C Franco, Oscar H
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Journal of epidemiology and community health
Taken together, these findings suggest that high levels of serum total cholesterol increase CRC risk, but this risk may be reduced by high dietary PUFAs intake.
Keng, Li-Ta Tsou, Ping-Hsien
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Postgraduate medical journal
Crooks, C J West, J Card, T R
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BMJ open
Hospital admission records provide snapshots of clinical histories for a subset of the population admitted to hospital. In contrast, primary care records provide continuous clinical histories for complete populations, but might lack detail about inpatient stays. Therefore, combining primary and secondary care records should improve the ability of c...
Zimmermann, Esther Gamborg, Michael Holst, Claus Baker, Jennifer L Sørensen, Thorkild I A Berentzen, Tina L
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BMJ open
The relation between childhood overweight and adult non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is largely unknown. We investigated if weight and weight gain in childhood increases the risk of being diagnosed with NAFLD in routine clinical settings in adulthood. We studied 244,464 boys and girls, born between 1930 and 1989, who attended school in Cop...