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CornealRefractivePowerandItsAssociationswithOcularandGeneralParameters:

TheCentralIndiaEyeandMedicalStudy  OriginalResearchArticle

Ophthalmology,Volume118,Issue9,September2011,Pages1805-1811

JostB.Jonas,VinayNangia,AjitSinha,RajeshGupta

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Purpose

Toinvestigatethenormaldistributionofcornealrefractivepower（CRP）anditsassociationswithotherocularandsystemicparametersintheCentralIndianpopulation.

Design

Population-basedstudy.

Participants

TheCentralIndiaEyeandMedicalStudyisapopulation-basedstudyperformedinaruralregionofCentralIndia.Thestudycomprised4711subjectsaged30+years.

Methods

Adetailedophthalmicandmedicalexaminationwasperformed.HorizontalandverticalCRPweremeasuredusinganon-automatickeratometer.

MainOutcomeMeasures

Cornealrefractivepower.

Results

Afterexcludingpseudophakicoraphakiceyes,keratometricmeasurementswereavailableon9024eyesof4617studyparticipants（98.0%）withameanageof49.1±13.2years（range,30–100years）andameanrefractiveerrorof−0.20±1.52diopters（D）.MeanhorizontalCRPwas44.60±1.68D（mean±standarddeviation;range,36.5–52.0D）,andverticalCRPwas44.62±1.74D（range,37.75–52.0D）withnosignificantdifferencebetweenbothparameters（P=0.27）.Inmultivariateanalysis,CRPwassignificantly（P<0.001）associatedwiththesystemicparametersofincreasingage（P<0.001）,lowerlevelofeducation（P=0.02）,andlowerbodyheight（P<0.001）,andwiththeocularparametersofthinnercentralcornealthickness（P<0.001）,deeperanteriorchamber（P<0.001）,shorteraxiallength（P<0.001）,andmyopicrefractiveerror（P<0.001）.TheresultsremainedunchangedifeyeswithCRP≥48Dwereexcluded.

Conclusions

HorizontalCRPincreasedwithhigherage,lowerlevelofeducation,lowerbodyheight,thinnercentralcornea,deeperanteriorchamber,shorteraxiallength,andmyopicrefractiveerror.Theassociationwithagemaybeofimportanceforrefractivesurgery.Theassociationofasteepercorneawithashorterbodystatureandashorteraxiallengthparallelsanassociationbetweenshorterbodylengthandshorteraxiallengthwithoutassociationwithrefractiveerror.Theassociationamongsteepercornea,shorterbodylength,andlowereducationallevelcomplementstheassociationbetweenshorterbodylengthandlowereducationallevel.Thecorrelationbetweensteepercorneaanddeeperanteriorchambermaybeexplainedgeometrically.

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Techno-economicevaluationofmembranetechnologyforpre-combustiondecarbonisation:

Water-gasshiftversusreforming  OriginalResearchArticle

EnergyProcedia,Volume4,2011,Pages723-730

JanWilcoDijkstra,GunabalanRaju,GerardPeppink,DanielJansen

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Atechno-economicevaluationoftheapplicationofmembranereactorsinnaturalgascombinedcycleswithCO2captureispresented.Theelectricalefficiency,captureefficiency,requiredmembranesurfaceareaandcostofCO2avoidedarepresentedforpowerplantsintegratedwithmembranereformersaswellasmembranewatergasshiftreactors.ForapplicationsinCO2capture,membranewater-gas-shiftismoresuitedthanmembranereforming.ThelowerhydrogenpartialpressureinamembranereformercomparedtomembraneWGScauseshighinvestmentcosts,becausethemembraneareaishighandcompressionofthehydrogenfuelbeforeenteringthegasturbineisnecessary.Asignificantincreaseinoperatingtemperature,possiblycombinedwithahigherfeedpressurecouldimprovetheperformanceofmembranereformers.Forthevariousoptionsofupstreamreforminginmembranewater-gasshift,gasheatedreformingisthepreferredoptionwithautothermalreformingassecondbest.

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RandomizedComparisonofSystemicAnti-inflammatoryTherapyVersusFluocinoloneAcetonideImplantforIntermediate,Posterior,andPanuveitis:

TheMulticenterUveitisSteroidTreatmentTrial  OriginalResearchArticle

Ophthalmology,InPress,CorrectedProof,Availableonline15August2011

TheMulticenterUveitisSteroidTreatment（MUST）TrialResearchGroupWritingCommittee,JohnH.Kempen,MichaelM.Altaweel,JanetT.Holbrook,DouglasA.Jabs,ThomasA.Louis,ElizabethA.Sugar,JenniferE.Thorne

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Objective

Tocomparetherelativeeffectivenessofsystemiccorticosteroidsplusimmunosuppressionwhenindicated（systemictherapy）versusfluocinoloneacetonideimplant（implanttherapy）fornoninfectiousintermediate,posterior,orpanuveitis（uveitis）.

Design

Randomizedcontrolledparallelsuperioritytrial.

Participants

Patientswithactiveorrecentlyactiveuveitis.

Methods

Participantswererandomized（allocationratio1:

1）tosystemicorimplanttherapyat23centers（3countries）.Implant-assignedparticipantswithbilateraluveitiswereassignedtohaveeacheyethatwarrantedstudytreatmentimplanted.Treatment-outcomeassociationswereanalyzedbyassignedtreatmentforalleyeswithuveitis.

MainOutcomeMeasures

Maskedexaminersmeasuredtheprimaryoutcome:

changeinbest-correctedvisualacuityfrombaseline.Secondaryoutcomesincludedpatient-reportedqualityoflife,ophthalmologist-gradeduveitisactivity,andlocalandsystemiccomplicationsofuveitisortherapy.ReadingCentergradersandglaucomaspecialistsassessingocularcomplicationsweremasked.Participants,ophthalmologists,andcoordinatorswereunmasked.

Results

Onevaluationofchangesfrombaselineto24monthsamong255patientsrandomizedtoimplantandsystemictherapy（479eyeswithuveitis）,theimplantandsystemictherapygroupshadanimprovementinvisualacuityof+6.0and+3.2letters（P=0.16,95%confidenceintervalondifferenceinimprovementbetweengroups,−1.2to+6.7letters,positivevaluesfavoringimplant）,animprovementinvision-relatedqualityoflifeof+11.4and+6.8units（P=0.043）,achangeinEuroQol-EQ5Dhealthutilityof+0.02and−0.02（P=0.060）,andresidualactiveuveitisin12%and29%（P=0.001）,respectively.Overthe24monthperiod,implant-assignedeyeshadahigherriskofcataractsurgery（80%,hazardratio[HR]=3.3,P<0.0001）,treatmentforelevatedintraocularpressure（61%,HR=4.2,P<0.0001）,andglaucoma（17%,HR=4.2,P=0.0008）.Patientsassignedtosystemictherapyhadmoreprescription-requiringinfectionsthanpatientsassignedtoimplanttherapy（0.60vs0.36/person-year,P=0.034）,withoutnotablelong-termconsequences;systemicadverseoutcomesotherwisewereunusualinbothgroups,withminimaldifferencesbetweengroups.

Conclusions

Ineachtreatmentgroup,meanvisualacuityimprovedover24months,withneitherapproachsuperiortoadegreedetectablewiththestudy'spower.Therefore,thespecificadvantagesanddisadvantagesidentifiedshoulddictateselectionbetweenthealternativetreatmentsinconsiderationofindividualpatients'particularcircumstances.Systemictherapywithaggressiveuseofcorticosteroid-sparingimmunosuppressionwaswelltolerated,suggestingthatthisapproachisreasonablysafeforlocalandsystemicinflammatorydisorders.

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MaterialsandMethods

StudyDesign

EnrollmentofParticipants,DataCollection,andFollow-up

RandomTreatmentAssignment

Treatment

OutcomesandMasking

SampleSizeDetermination

StatisticalAnalyses

Results

VisualFunction

UveitisActivityandMacularEdema

OcularandSystemicComplications

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DifferentialImprovementsinLipidProfilesandFraminghamRecurrentRiskScoreinPatientsWithandWithoutDiabetesMellitusUndergoingLong-TermCardiacRehabilitation  OriginalResearchArticle

ArchivesofPhysicalMedicineandRehabilitation,Volume92,Issue9,September2011,Pages1382-1387

SeanCarroll,CostasTsakirides,JamesHobkirk,JamesW.A.Moxon,JamesW.D.Moxon,MichaelDudfield,LeeIngle

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CarrollS,TsakiridesC,HobkirkJ,MoxonJWA,MoxonJWD,DudfieldM,IngleL.DifferentialimprovementsinlipidprofilesandFraminghamrecurrentriskscoreinpatientswithandwithoutdiabetesmellitusundergoinglong-termcardiacrehabilitation.

Objective

Todeterminewhetherlipidprofilesandrecurrentcoronaryheartdisease（CHD）riskcouldbemodifiedinpatientswithandwithoutdiabetesmellitusunder