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Three-dimensional aesthetic assessment of class II patients before and after orthognathic surgery and its association with quantitative surgical changes.
Maxillofac Surg (2017) Abstract: The aim of this study was to compare evaluations of the aesthetic outcome of class II orthognathic patients, as performed by observers with varying expertise using ...
Prevalence of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Europe: The Past and the Future.
European ancestry. Risk profiles and treatment options have changed considerably over the years, which may have affected disease prevalence and outcome. We determined the prevalence of early and late AMD in ...
Impact of caspase-1/11,-3,-7, or IL-1/IL-18 deficiency on rabies virus-induced macrophage cell death and onset of disease.
of disease, but did not prevent final lethal outcome. Interestingly, deficiency of caspase-1/11, the key executioner of pyroptosis, aggravated disease severity caused by ERA virus, whereas wild-type ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to functional limitations using a multinomial outcome: results for the older population in Belgium and Brazil
increase with age. The attribution method has been proposed to identify which conditions contribute most to disability using cross-sectional data. Although the original method was based on binary outcomes ...
Immediate referral to colposcopy versus cytological surveillance for low-grade cervical cytological abnormalities in the absence of HPV test: A systematic review and a meta-analysis of the literature.
comparing immediate colposcopy to cytological surveillance in women with ASCUS / LSIL. The outcomes of interest were occurrence of different histological grades of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and ...
Antimicrobial resistance surveillance in Escherichia coli by using normalized resistance interpretation.
not susceptible. CONCLUSIONS: NRI was shown to be a valid method to define the WT population for disk diffusion outcomes, provided a normal distribution of the susceptible bacterial species population is present. ...
DLL4 expression is a prognostic marker and may predict gemcitabine benefit in resected pancreatic cancer.
potential therapeutic target to improve outcome for patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). METHODS: Using immunohistochemistry (IHC) and tissue microarray (TMA), we assessed the expression ...
Cryptococcus neoformans population diversity and clinical outcomes of HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis patients in Zimbabwe.
sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the available information, little is known about cryptococcal population diversity and its association with clinical outcomes in patients with HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis ...
BruxAir. Short-term health effects of air pollution in the Brussels Capital Region 2004-2011: an epidemiological time series approach.
harmful even at current levels. These levels tend to be higher in densely urbanised zones; in cities. As such, almost everybody is exposed to outdoor air pollution. The health outcomes include the full ...
Regional differences in the validity of self-reported use of health care in Belgium: selection versus reporting bias.
with register-based data from the Belgian compulsory health insurance (BCHI). The latter were compared with similar estimates from a random sample of the BCHI to investigate the selection bias. Outcome ...