BACKGROUND: Death from coronary heart disease is increasing and this study is to evaluate the effect of longitudinal changes of lifestyle and biological parameters on the blood lipid levels, as the risk factor of the coronary heart disease. METHODS: Total cholesterol and total cholesterol to HDL-cholesterol ratio (atherosclerogenic index) as an indicator for risk of coronary heart disease were examined longitudinally in a sample (n = 463) of middle-aged men by 2 years. The independent variables were body mass index, smoking, alcohol, exercise, diastolic blood pressure, uric acid. All data was drawn from questionnaire, blood chemistry, and review of chart. RESULTS: ANOVA test according to categorized variables revealed that for total cholesterol, uric acid (P<0.01) and diastolic blood pressure (P<0.01), and for atherosclerogenic index, and body mass index (P<0.001) were significant. In correlation analysis, total cholesterol was associated with uric acid (r=0.20, P<0.001), diastolic blood pressure (r=0.15, P <0.001) and body mass index (r=0.03, P<0.05), and for atherosclerogenic index so was body mass index (r=0.18, P<0.001). In regression, uric acid (beta=6.07, P <0.001), diastolic blood pressure (beta=0.36, P <0.01) for total cholesterol, and body mass index (beta=0.22, P <0.001) for atherosclerogenic index were significant. But changes in alcohol consumption, smoking, and exercise were not statistically significant. CONCLUSION: In order to reduce risks of coronary heart disease, the more aggressive medical intervention for the uric acid, DBP, and BMI, would be essential. This study was done without medical intervention. So, further study with intervention, adequate duration and intensity for parameters modification is required.
Alcohol Drinking ; Blood Pressure ; Body Mass Index ; Chemistry ; Cholesterol ; Coronary Disease ; Humans ; Life Style* ; Male ; Middle Aged* ; Risk Factors ; Smoke ; Smoking ; Uric Acid ; Surveys and Questionnaires

BACKGROUND: Recent increase in use of the periodic health screening is due to a concern for health. But study of patient's compliance with recommended periodic health screening has not yet been conducted. This study was accomplished to clarify which aspect to be considered in order to increase patient's compliance after health screening. METHODS: This study was done from March 3 to May 15 in 1997 by Hanil health care center, Among 370 workers in a state-run corporation who received health screening tw? years ago, 170 men were advised to receive an additional laboratory test or treatment at the time. They were asked to fill out a questionnaire and were inte?iewed by doctors to evaluate their compliance. 162 of 170 patients(95.3%) were enrolled in the study, except 8 patients who did not answer the questionnaire. RESURTS: The mean age of patients was 54 years. Most of them were technicians and managers, graduated from high school or higher, and had an annual income of at least 35,000,000 won. The disease of requiring an additional test or treatment were in the order of liver disease, hypertension, gastrointestinal disease, urologic disease and abnormal urinalysis. 68 patients(42%) were compliant and 94 patients(58%) were noncompliant. For reasons of noncompliance,27 patients(28.7%) answered "because l had no symptoms", 20 patients(21.2%) answered "because I didn't think I needed the test or the treatment" and 12 patients(12.7%) answered "because I was busy". The factors influencing compliance were analyzed through chi-square or Fisher's exact test. Their compliance was highly related to the patients'insight into the necessity of the test. the existing disease, and the reporting method of the health screening results. It was not associated with the patients'feeling about their health status, the health behaviors such as smoking and drinking, occupational factors, distance from shire homes to the hospital, or the presence of a hospital near home for those who didn't live in Seoul. The independent effect of the factors influencing the compliance was evaluated by means of stratified analysis. The only independent factor associated with the compliance was the patients' insight. The compliance according to diseases was higher than average in hypertension, liver disease, diabetes mellitus and urologic disease, and lower than average in pulmonary disease, gastrointestinal disease, thyroid disease, cardiac disease, opthalmologic disease and abnormal urinalysis. CONCLUSIONS: The most influencing factor related to compliance was the patient's insight into the necessity of the further testing. We should consider a proper way to increase compliance on health screening. Direct counseling, if possible, is recommended following health screening and way to increase patient's compliance utiliging mail report as another.
Compliance* ; Counseling ; Delivery of Health Care ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Drinking ; Gastrointestinal Diseases ; Health Behavior ; Heart Diseases ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Liver Diseases ; Lung Diseases ; Male ; Mass Screening* ; Postal Service ; Seoul ; Smoke ; Smoking ; Thyroid Diseases ; Urinalysis ; Urologic Diseases ; Surveys and Questionnaires

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify degrees of fatigue and influencing factors for fatigue in cancer patients. METHOD: Data was collected by questionnaires from 115 cancer patients at 3 hospitals in Seoul. The research instruments utilized in this study were fatigue, physical symptoms, depression, family support, and health promoting behaviors. Data was analyzed using the pearson correlation, t-test, ANOVA, and stepwise multiple regression with SPSS/WIN 12.0. RESULT: The mean score of fatigue for cancer patients was 12.90(range: 6-36). Fatigue for cancer patients according to age group and weight change showed a significant difference. Fatigue for cancer patients showed a significantly positive correlation to physical symptoms and depression. There was a negative correlation between family support and health promoting behaviors. The significant factors influencing fatigue for cancer patients were physical symptoms, health promoting behaviors, depression, and age group, which explained about 45.9%. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that symptoms and depression management, nursing interventions and practices for providing health promoting behaviors according to age are needed to manage the fatigue in cancer patients.
Adult ; Aged ; Analysis of Variance ; Attitude to Health ; Demography ; Fatigue/*etiology ; Female ; Health Promotion ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Models, Nursing ; Neoplasms/*complications/nursing ; Questionnaires

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OBJECTIVETo analyze and compare the volatile constituents from M. biondii and M. liliflora.

METHODThe volatile constituents were extracted by head-space solid-phase microextraction, and analyzed by GC-MS.

RESULTSeventy two constituents were identified from M. biondii and M. liliflora, the content of the 25 constituents in both samples were similar, while the kinds of the constituents were obviously different.

CONCLUSIONThe volatile constituents were different between M. biondii and M. liliflora.

In order to established a method for simultaneous determination of isoquercitrin, astragaline, quercetin and kaempferol in Lysimachia clethroides, the ionic liquid 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([HMIM]PF6) methanol was used as the ultrasound-assisted extraction solvent combing with RP-HPLC. A Purospher star RP-C1 column was used with the mobile phase of aceto- nitrile, methanol and 0. 4% phosphate acid by gradient elution at the detection wavelength of 360 nm. The flow rate was 0.7 mL x min(-1), and the column temperature was the room temperature. Under the optimized conditions, the linear ranges were 2.54 x 10(-2)-2. 54, 2.50 x 10(-2)- 2.50, 1.54 x 10(-3)-0.154, 1.49 x 10(-3)-0.149 microg for isoquercitrin, astragaline, quercetin and kaempferol, respectively. The average recoveries of the four constituents were 101.1%, 98.90%, 101.0%, 101.6%, respectively. The method was green, simple, rapid and accurate, and provided a valid method for analysis of isoquercitrin, astragaline, quercetin and kaempferol in L. clethroides.
Chemical Fractionation ; instrumentation ; methods ; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; analysis ; isolation & purification ; Flavonoids ; analysis ; isolation & purification ; Ionic Liquids ; chemistry ; Primulaceae ; chemistry

Plants in Ainsliaea genus, belongs to Compositae family, are traditional Chinese medicine and widely used in folk. These plants contain various types of chemical components, and main components are sesquiterpene lactone and its glycosides. In addition, there are triterpenoids, flavonoids, steroids, phenolic acid, long chain fatty acid and volatile oils. Recently, much attention has been payed to varlous research of A. fragrans. This paper reviewed and summarized the chemical components to provide the theoretical basis for the use of Ainsliaea.
Asteraceae ; chemistry ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; chemistry ; pharmacology ; Molecular Structure

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Fetus* ; Humans ; Pregnancy, Twin*

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of a home based exercise program for patients with stomach cancer who were undergoing oral chemotherapy. METHODS: The home-based exercise program was developed from the study findings of Winningham (1990) and data from the Korea Athletic Promotion Association (2007). The home-based exercise program consisted of 8 weeks of individual exercise education and exercise adherence strategy. Participants were 24 patients with stomach cancer who were undergoing oral chemotherapy following surgery in 2007 or 2008 at a university hospital in Seoul. Patients were randomly assigned to either the experimental group (11) or control group (13). The effects of the home-based exercise program were measured by level of cancer related fatigue, NK cell ratio, anxiety, and quality of life. Data were analyzed using SPSS/WIN 13.0 version. RESULTS: The degree of cancer related fatigue and anxiety in the experimental group decreased compared to the control group. The NK cell ratio and the degree of quality of life of experimental group increased while that of the control group decreased. CONCLUSION: This study result indicate the importance of exercise and provide empirical evidence for continuation of safe exercise for patients with cancer during their chemotherapy.
Administration, Oral ; Adult ; Aged ; Antineoplastic Agents/*therapeutic use ; Anxiety ; *Exercise Therapy ; Fatigue ; Female ; Humans ; Killer Cells, Natural/immunology/metabolism ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Program Evaluation ; Quality of Life ; Stomach Neoplasms/*drug therapy/surgery ; Treatment Outcome

Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of intra-arterial thrombolysis with recombinant tissue-plasminogen ac-tivator(rt-RA) for treatment of acute cerebral infarction (ACI) .Methods The randomized controlled trials (RCT ) of intra-arterial thrombolysis with rt-PA for treatment of ACI were selected from Cochrane Library ,Medline ,Embase and CBM by the computer re-trieval .A meta analysis of the data were analyzed by using RevMan 5 .1 software .Results A total of 473 patients in 9 selected RCTs were involved in the systematic review .Meta-analysis results disclosed suggested that the effectiveness of intra-arterial thrombolysis treated ACI group was better than that of intravenous thrombolysis group [RR= 1 .26 ,95% CI(1 .09 ,1 .45) ,P=0 .002] .No difference was observed between the two groups in intracranial hemorrhage and mortality rate .Conclusion The current evidence showed that ,the clinical effect of intra-arterial thrombolysis with rt-PA for treatment of ACI was obviously superior to that of intravenous thrombolysis ,but the result still needs to be confirmed by large-sample RCTs .