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ObjectiveTo study the prevalence and correlates of increased urinary albumin excretion (UAE) in an Iranian type 2 diabetic population.Methods:Over a one year period since October 2002, 400 consecutive type 2 diabetic patients referred to an outpatient diabetes clinic, were enrolled in a cross sectional study. Subjects had no history of renal impairment or overt proteinuria. Data concerning demographic characteristics and cardiovascular risk factors were recorded and height, weight and blood pressure were measured. Glucose, cholesterol, HDL-C, LDL-C, triglyceride, apoprotein B, lipoprotein a, creatinine, and HbA1c were measured in fasting blood samples.

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UroToday.com - While erectile dysfunction has been described since ancient times, adequate treatment has only been available for the last three decades. Modern penile prosthetic devices were first developed in the early 1970s when Small et al. along with Scott et al.

Fingerprints can reveal critical evidence, as well as an identity, with the use of a new technology developed at Purdue University that detects trace amounts of explosives, drugs or other materials left behind in the prints. The new technology also can distinguish between overlapping fingerprints left by different individuals - a difficult task for current optical forensic methods.

The University of Houston department of health and human performance is launching an international effort to recruit 500 participants for a study promoting healthy dietary habits and physical activity. The study will take place entirely in the virtual world of Second Life (SL).

Bayer Diabetes Care announced a new chapter in its partnership with Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of the bestselling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, and a new partnership with Fit4D™, an organization that provides personalized diabetes coaching.

Chronic kidney disease doubles the risk of heart attack, stroke, and early mortality, even among young and middle-aged adults, according to results of a nationwide screening program. Chronic kidney disease is a recognized risk factor for cardiovascular disease in elderly people.

Every year over 13 million working days are lost in the UK due to stress and stress-related symptoms, and experts believe it affects everyone at least every two weeks. Instead of letting the stress take over, there are positive steps you can take to minimise its detrimental effects.

Does your child have frequent temper tantrums? Are they always fidgeting, running around screaming or falling over? Perhaps you teach a child like that. If so, the chances are there's nothing to worry about and they are just being boisterous. But for five to ten percent of children it isn't that simple.

The bird enthusiast who chronicled the adventures of a flock of red-headed conures in his book "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" knows most of the parrots by name, yet most of us would be hard pressed to tell one bird from another. While it has been known for a long time that we can become acutely attuned to our day-to-day environment, the underlying neural mechanism has been less clear.

Barry R. Bloom, Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, today expressed "deep concern regarding the detention by Iranian authorities of Dr. Kamiar Alaei, a 2007 Masters of Science graduate of our School, and of his brother, Dr. Arash Alaei. The brothers are Iranian physicians working on the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, an important public health problem in their country.

Objectives * Provide an overview of the prostatitis syndromes * Present a practical approach to diagnosis * Summarize current treatment options Materials and Methods The recent literature on the prostatitis syndromes was reviewed with particular reference to randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs).

Dynavax Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:DVAX) and Merck & Co., Inc. announced today top-line immunogenicity results from a Phase 3 clinical trial comparing HEPLISAV™, an investigational hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine, to a currently marketed HBV vaccine, Engerix-B® (1). The study achieved its primary endpoint.

UroToday.com - The introduction of PSA as a marker for prostate cancer has dramatically altered how prostate cancer is diagnosed and treated. Along with the improvements in diagnosis and treatment options has come the realization that as men age prostate cancer is relatively common and that not all prostate cancer is fatal and necessarily needs to be actively treated.

With the approval, the U.S. FDA has targeted three new strains of 'flu. Six pharma firms will benefit from the approval, including GlaxoSmithKline, MedImmune (part of AstraZeneca), and Sanofi Pasteur.

As people age, their cells become less efficient at getting rid of damaged protein - resulting in a buildup of toxic material that is especially pronounced in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders.