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Survey of methadone-drug interactions among patients of methadone maintenance treatment program in Taiwan.
(Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy, 2012-03-20)
BACKGROUND: Although methadone has been used for the maintenance treatment of opioid
dependence for decades, it was not introduced in China or Taiwan until 2000s. Methadone-drug
interactions (MDIs) have been shown to cause ...
Comparison of a reduced carbohydrate and reduced fat diet for LDL, HDL, and VLDL subclasses during 9-months of weight maintenance subsequent to weight loss.
(Lipids Health Dis, 2010-06-01)
OBJECTIVES: This study compared LDL, HDL, and VLDL subclasses in overweight or obese
adults consuming either a reduced carbohydrate (RC) or reduced fat (RF) weight maintenance
diet for 9 months following significant weight ...
Use of 16S ribosomal RNA gene analyses to characterize the bacterial signature associated with poor oral health in West Virginia.
(BMC Oral Health, 2011-03-01)
BACKGROUND: West Virginia has the worst oral health in the United States, but the
reasons for this are unclear. This pilot study explored the etiology of this disparity
using culture-independent analyses to identify bacterial ...
Practice-Level Variation in Outpatient Cardiac Care and Association With Outcomes.
(J Am Heart Assoc, 2016-02-23)
BACKGROUND: Utilization of cardiac services varies across regions and hospitals, yet
little is known regarding variation in the intensity of outpatient cardiac care across
cardiology physician practices or the association ...
The role of therapeutic alliance in mindfulness interventions: therapeutic alliance in mindfulness training for smokers.
(J Clin Psychol, 2013-09)
OBJECTIVE: Mindfulness-based interventions have enjoyed a marked increase in support
within biomedical and psychological research and practice in the past two decades.
Despite the widespread application of these treatments ...
Randomized trial comparing mindfulness training for smokers to a matched control.
(J Subst Abuse Treat, 2014-09)
Smoking continues to take an enormous toll on society, and although most smokers would
like to quit, most are unsuccessful using existing therapies. These findings call
on researchers to develop and test therapies that provide ...
Hair cortisol as a biomarker of stress in mindfulness training for smokers.
(J Altern Complement Med, 2014-08)
OBJECTIVES: Stress is a well-known predictor of smoking relapse, and cortisol is a
primary biomarker of stress. The current pilot study examined changes in levels of
cortisol in hair within the context of two time-intensity ...
Randomized trial on mindfulness training for smokers targeted to a disadvantaged population.
(Subst Use Misuse, 2014-04)
We report the results of a randomized trial comparing a novel smoking cessation treatment
Mindfulness Training for Smokers (MTS) to a usual care therapy (Controls), which included
the availability of a tobacco quit line ...
Reported lifetime aberrant drug-taking behaviors are predictive of current substance use and mental health problems in primary care patients.
(Pain Med, 2008-11)
BACKGROUND: The aim of this report is to determine the frequency of aberrant drug
behaviors and their relationship to substance abuse disorders in a large primary sample
of patients receiving opioids for chronic pain. METHODS: ...
Genetic variants in the TEP1 gene are associated with prostate cancer risk and recurrence.
(Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis, 2015-12)
BACKGROUND: Telomere-related genes play an important role in carcinogenesis and progression
of prostate cancer (PCa). It is not fully understood whether genetic variations in
telomere-related genes are associated with development ...