Eleven healthy free-living adults (six women, five men) weighed and recorded all food and drink consumed and collected all urine for two non-consecutive 7-day periods whilst eating their usual diet (Period 1) and attempting to reduce salt intake (Period 2). Bread (including pitta bread) provided on average a quarter of total Na intake of subjects in Period 1 so that wholemeal bread made without added salt was made available in Period 2. All subjects achieved substantial reductions (mean 65%) in Na intake in Period 2 with no change in K intake so that the Na:K molar ratio fell from 1.3 to 0.5. Urinary Na output closely followed intakes and there was a large increase (mean 11.2 μg/d) in aldosterone excretion with a non-significant increase in K output. Simple linear relationships which allow prediction of Na and K intake from the more easily measured urinary output were derived. 相似文献
The duration of the late exteroceptive suppression period (ES2) of temporal muscle EMG activity has been reported to be reduced in patients suffering from chronic tension-type headache. Methods of recording and analysing ES2 have varied between centers and reproducibility of results within subjects , although insufficiently studied, has generally been poor. ES2 was investigated in 30 healthy subjects, using a computerized technique of recording, rectifying and averaging the EMG signals. Hour to hour and week to week variations of ES2 durations were calculated, and the influence of pain during a cold pressor test and of sustained muscle contraction on ES2 durations was investigated. The intra-individual variation of ES2 durations was 16.0% from hour to hour and 20.7% from week to week. The inter-individual variation was 36.7%. The present method for analysis of ES2 periods proved to be reliable, as the intra-observer variation was 4.2% and the inter-observer variation 4.6%. ES2 periods were significantly shorter on the first compared to the second day of examination ( p = 0.006) and during experimental pain ( p = 0.0005). We recommend the use of the computerized averaging technique in future studies and caution against the dependence of results upon factors such as conditioning and pain. 相似文献
The present study was designed to investigate the presynaptic alpha 2-adrenoceptor function to inhibit norepinephrine (NE) release in blood vessels of reduced renal mass salt hypertensive rats (Na-loaded HT). Isolated perfused mesenteric vasculatures were prepared from Na-loaded HT and normotensive control rats (NT-control), and the NE release and vascular responsiveness were examined. Periarterial nerve stimulation caused a significantly greater release of NE and pressor responses in Na-loaded HT than in NT-control. Yohimbine, a potent alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonist, demonstrated the facilitatory effects on NE release during nerve stimulation. The effects were significantly attenuated in Na-loaded HT compared with NT-control. These results demonstrate that vascular sympathetic nervous activity might be enhanced in Na-loaded HT. Furthermore, the increased NE release from vascular adrenergic neurons in Na-loaded HT could partially depend on impaired presynaptic alpha 2-adrenoceptor-mediated modulation, which might contribute to the pathogenesis and maintenance of this form of salt-dependent hypertension. 相似文献
The objective of this study was to assess the effects of ascorbic acid supplementation, 500 mg twice daily in the treatment of pressure ulcers as an adjunct to standardized treatment.
The design consisted of a multicenter blinded randomized trial. The control group received 10 mg of ascorbic acid twice daily.
Patients from 11 nursing homes and 1 hospital participated.
Main outcome measures included wound survival, healing rates of wound surfaces, and clinimetric changes over 12 weeks.
Eighty-eight patients were randomized. Intention-to-treat analysis showed that the wound closure probability per unit time (i.e., the closure rate) was not higher in the intervention group than in the control group (Cox hazard ratio of 0.78 [90% precision interval, 0.44–1.39]). Mean absolute healing rates were 0.21 and 0.27 cm2/week in the intervention and control group, respectively (PI of the adjusted difference: −0.17 to 0.13). Relative healing rates and healing velocities did not show favorable results of ascorbic acid supplementation, either. A panel scored slides of the ulcers with a report mark between 1 (bad) and 10 (excellent). The improvement was 0.45 and 0.72 points per week in the intervention and control group, respectively (PI of the adjusted difference: −0.50 to 0.20). With another clinimetric index we could not show any differences, either.
These data do not support the idea that ascorbic acid supplementation (500 vs. 10 mg twice daily) speeds up the healing of pressure ulcers. 相似文献
Object: Diesel soot has been recognized as probably carcinogenic to humans. Elemental carbon (also called black carbon) in soot
is considered at the moment as the most significant surrogate to be measured for assessing the exposure to this pollutant.
Its analysis is done by combustion in an oven and determination of the CO2 formed, after elimination of the organic fraction of the soot by heating and/or by solvent extraction. The analysis allows
determination of both fractions of the soot: “elemental carbon” (EC) and organic carbon␣(OC). The sum of EC and OC is called
TC (total carbon). Method: An informal European coordination group organized two round robin tests on filter samples collected from diluted diesel
emissions. The first round (RRT1) was performed on 13 different samples analyzed by ten laboratories. The range of loading
was 2.5 to 150 μg/cm2 of EC. No evaluation of the precision within laboratories could be made since each laboratory gave only one result per sample.
Therefore a second round (RRT2) was organized with two samples and a blank filter sent in several portions to 11 laboratories.
It should be stressed that each laboratory used its own method and that no standardization was planned at this stage. Results: Results of RRT1 showed that the coefficient of variation between laboratories decreased with higher loading and was around
10% to 15% for EC above about 20 μg/cm2. Dispersion of the results varied and it appeared that the way OC is removed from the soot is probably the most important
factor of influence. The correlation between the laboratories was good as a whole but some systematic differences could be
detected. Besides the different techniques to remove the organic carbon, the pretreatment of the filter by HCl (either as
a vapor or as a solution) to remove the inorganic carbonates (potential interference sources), is probably also a significant
factor of influence in the dispersion of the results between laboratories. It is not yet clear from these results whether
the “environmental” laboratories give different results from the “occupational” laboratories, but it is clear that their objectives
differ since for the “environmentalists”, EC is not a specific marker of diesel immissions, in contrast to the “occupationalists”.
Conclusion: It can be concluded that, although significant differences exist between laboratories they can be attributed mainly to the
narrow distribution of the results within a single laboratory, and that the overall agreement of the results for EC and TC
is fairly good. These results obtained with pure diesel engine emissions, should be complemented by field samples, but they
have already achieved relevant findings in the performance of the procedures used to assess exposure to diesel soot.
Received: 30 December 1996 / Accepted: 21 February 1997 相似文献