Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of oral corticosteroid therapy in patients with stable
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Data Identification: An English-language literature …

Background: The quadriceps weakness commonly associated with osteoarthritis of the knee
is widely believed to result from disuse atrophy secondary to pain in the involved joint. …

Background. The optimal short-term, symptomatic therapy for osteoarthritis of the knee has
not been fully determined. Accordingly, we compared the efficacy of a nonsteroidal …

Objective To determine whether baseline lower extremity muscle weakness is a risk factor
for incident radiographic osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. Methods This prospective study …

BACKGROUND: The etiology of autoimmune diseases is not fully clarified and the mechanisms
underlying their initiation and progression are still obscure. It is becoming clear that in a …

Objective To confirm preclinical data suggesting that doxycycline can slow the progression
of osteoarthritis (OA). The primary outcome measure was joint space narrowing (JSN) in the …

BackgroundRepeated Chlamydia trachomatis infections are common among young sexually
active women. The relative frequency of reinfection and antibiotic treatment failure is …

… Harezlak, and BP Katz contributed to data analysis and manuscript preparation. All of the
authors critically … Katz BP. A computer enhanced runs test for smoothed data. Stat Med. …

Lactobacillus-dominated vaginal microbiotas are associated with reproductive health and STI
resistance in women, whereas altered microbiotas are associated with bacterial vaginosis (…

We examined the relationship between articular cartilage degeneration, as visualized
arthroscopically, and joint space narrowing (JSN) in standing anteroposterior knee radiographs of …