Chinese Med J Peking
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Chinese Med J Peking · May 2000
Interaction of alcohol and the G to a substitution at the promoter region of the apolipoprotein AI gene in determining plasma apolipoprotein AI levels in Yi and Han Chinese.
To investigate the influence on plasma lipid levels of alcohol and a common polymorphism in the human apolipoprotein AI gene promoter at a position 75 bp upstream of the transcription start site. ⋯ The present data suggest that moderate alcohol consumption and the G to A substitution could lower the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), but the beneficial effects of one will be negated by the other.
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Chinese Med J Peking · Apr 2000
Multicenter Study Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical TrialRecombinant bovine basic fibroblast growth factor accelerates wound healing in patients with burns, donor sites and chronic dermal ulcers.
To evaluate the effect of recombinant bovine basic fibroblast growth factor (rbFGF) on accelerating healing of burn wounds, donor sites and chronic dermal ulcers in multicenters. ⋯ rbFGF is effective in shortening the wound healing time and improving the wound healing quality. Accelerating wound healing is of clinical benefit in reducing the length of hospitalization, costs and emotional burden of the patient.
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Chinese Med J Peking · Apr 2000
Effect of intravenous nitroglycerin on hemodynamics in infants and children with congestive heart failure.
To understand the effect of intravenous nitroglycerin (NTG) on hemodynamics in infants and small children with congestive heart failure secondary to congenital cardiac defect of left to right shunt. ⋯ Congestive heart failure secondary to congenital cardiac defect of left to right shunt in infants and small children is the indication of using intravenous NTG which could improve hemodynamics. There was different selectivity in dosage between arterial and venous vasodilatation, and the change in hemodynamics was independent of dosage. The dosages of 0.5-1.0 microgram.kg-1.min-1 NTG are recommended when the decrease of cardiac preload is the main point of therapy of heart failure.
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Chinese Med J Peking · Mar 2000
Pulmonary function changes following surgical correction for pectus excavatum.
To assess whether and to what extent pulmonary function returns to normal after surgical correction for pectus excavatum. ⋯ Preoperative symptoms improved substantially after operation. Little airway obstruction was observed postoperatively, suggesting that patients with pectus excavatum should have surgery as early in life as possible, preferably by age 3.