The American Journal of Managed Care

Geographical Variation in Kidney Function Testing and Associations With Health Care Costs Among Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease and Type 2 Diabetes

OBJECTIVES: Clinical practice guidelines recommend at least annual testing of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and urine albumin-creatinine ratio (uACR) for patients with chronic kidney ...
Nature

Diurnal variation of endothelial function and arterial stiffness in hypertension

We studied 35 individuals with hypertension (14 men) recruited from the hypertension clinic of our hospital. A diagnosis of hypertension was established when systolic arterial pressure was >140 mm Hg ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Variation in Dopamine Function Impacts Cost/Benefit Decisions

(HealthDay News) – Variation in human dopamine function is associated with cost/benefit preferences. Michael T. Treadway, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, and colleagues measured dopamine ...
JSTOR Daily

Geographical Variation and Functions of Song Types in Warblers (Parulidae)

Chestnut-sided Warblers (Dendroica pensylvanica) and Blue-winged Warblers (Vermivora pinus) sing different song types in different contexts. Local dialects exist in the "Unaccented Ending" songs ...
JSTOR Daily

The Spaces of Functions of Finite Upper $p$-Variation

Let $Y$ be a Banach space, $1 \leqslant p < \infty$, and $U_p$ be the seminormed space of $Y$-valued Bochner measurable functions of a real variable which have finite ...