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The Rotterdam Daily Exercise Project leads to less overweight, improved fitness, healthier food habits and healthier exercise habits.
Life review therapy will have a positive effect on the level of depressive symptoms of nursing home inhabitants.
Primary 1. An immediate invasive approach (immediate angiography and revascularization when appropriate) results in a reduction of the combined incidence of death, re-infarction or recurrent ischemia at 30 days follow-up. Secondary 1. An immediate…
To identify high risk patient groups for development of knee osteoarthritis (OA) in a cohort 9-10 years after meniscus, cruciate ligament and cartilage lesions.
In this epidemiologic study a cohort of patients with MFT transferred and/or referred to the National Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology Ho Chi Minh City (NHOS-HCMC), Vietnam, was analyzed following the MFISS and FISS protocol. This study will give a…
The aim of the study is to optimize therapy of migraine patients, according to the Dutch GP Guideline for headache and consequently reduce the use of triptans. The project will explore the costs and effects of a proactive approach of patients with…
Cinacalcet is able to control hypercalciemia due to hyperparathyreoidism after renal transplantation ergo avoiding surgical removal of parathyroidtissue without jeopardizing renal function or eliciting serious adverse events.
A stepped care program in primary care for patients with depressive and/or anxiety disorders is more effective than care as usual.
urge incontinence is caused by overactivity of the detrusor muscle of the urinary bladder. Electrical stimulation of the pelvic floor muscles can suppress detrusor overactivity. The miniaturo tm-i system is designed to deliver mild electrical…
Combination therapy of steroids plus MTX induces remission faster and will therefor reduce steroid toxicity and disease damage.
We hypothesize that the use of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) reduces the incidence of (air) microembolism during aortic arch surgery, and that it also positively influences the gross neurologic and/or the neurocognitive outcome of this kind of surgery.
Botulinum toxin type A injection of the prostate causes relaxation and cellular apoptosis and by this way will relieve lower urinary tract symptoms in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia.
The promotion of safe sports participation proves effective in a physical education setting, resulting in a reduction of lower extremity injuries in children.
Many employees who are sicklisted do not really know how to handle the situation. Simple and specific education and individually based instructions through a website can possibly solve or reduce this problem. Besides, the website contains a…
Through stress the mast cells become activated and by their vaso-active substances the mucosa permeability will become increased. Therefore the mucosa is easier to penetrated by microbes and acid. This increased permeability will leads to…
A health education program for both patients and general practitioners will change behaviour by 15%.
By applying self monitoring of glucose, patients with diabetes type 2 may cope more independently with their disease. Self monitoring can aid in diabetes control by giving the patient the ability to make appropriate day-to-day treatment choices in…
We hypothesize that unfractionated heparin could be of benefit in treatment of ALI. Delivering heparin directly to the pulmonary compartment may attenuate fibrin depositions more effectively while reducing the risk of bleeding as a result of…
We hypothesise that basal ganglia are involved in sentence processing whenever a sentence structure deviates from the predicted structure and this in order to inhibit the irrelevant structure and to switch to a revision process.
Locoregional anesthesia does not work as well in patients with the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome as in people who do not have this syndrome.