A number of studies have investigated two common polymorphisms in the β 2 -adrenoceptor
gene, Arg/Gly16 and Gln/Glu27, in relation to asthma susceptibility. The authors performed …

… Rate of progression to infarction (Figure 1, area c) depends on the degree of collateral
arterial circulation, duration of insult, and functional and metabolic cellular state. The term “brain …

… Hence, multiple QDs with different sizes and therefore different emission wavelengths can
be excited with a single source (Figure 2C). Excitation of multiple wavelengths in this way is …

Background Baricitinib is an oral selective Janus kinase 1/2 inhibitor with known anti-inflammatory
properties. This study evaluates the efficacy and safety of baricitinib in combination …

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant public health problem, and recent genetic studies
have identified common CKD susceptibility variants. The CKDGen consortium performed …

Background Patients with peripheral artery disease have an increased risk of cardiovascular
morbidity and mortality. Antiplatelet agents are widely used to reduce these complications. …

… For example, a Mendelian randomization analysis for C-reactive protein (CRP) may be
conducted using variants in the neighbourhood of the CRP gene region (which encodes C-…

Objectives To re-examine the epidemiology of acute lung injury (ALI) in European intensive
care units (ICUs). Design and setting A 2-month inception cohort study in 78 ICUs of 10 …

… We call this case (c), which can be written as … We would then assess whether directional
pleiotropy is present by fitting model (c) and calculate the heterogeneity about this model via …

… Since LDL-c levels are closely related and highly correlated with other lipid fractions, we
selected the 57 variants that were more strongly associated with LDL-c than with triglycerides or …