CIRCULATING TESTOSTERONE LEVELS AND HEALTH OUTCOMES IN CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE: RESULTS FROM ECLIPSE AND ERICA

Circulating testosterone levels and health outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: results from ECLIPSE and ERICA

Aim To determine whether serum testosterone levels predict hospitalised acute exacerbations of COPD (H-AECOPD), cardiovascular disease outcome, and mortality in people with COPD.Methods Separate analyses were carried out on two observational, multicentre COPD cohorts, Evaluation of COPD Longitudinally to Identify Predictive Surrogate End-points (EC

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The Sociolinguistics of Thanking in Akan

The Akan cherish people who are grateful.The Towel Bar paper addresses the language of thanking in Akan under expressive speech acts and linguistic routines.The paper gives ethnographic situations and communicative events for thanking including, (1) thanking after child birth; (2) thanking in joyful occasions: marriage and wedding; survival from ac

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Histopathological Confirmed Polycythemia Vera with Transformation to Myelofibrosis Depicted on [18F]FDG PET/CT

We present a case of a 59-year-old male diagnosed with polycythemia vera (PV) for many years, who presented with a relatively Photo Album abrupt onset of heavy constitutional symptoms, including fatigue, night sweats, and a 10% weight loss over 6 weeks.Despite the known initial diagnosis of PV, the presence of profound B-symptoms prompted further i

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