Objectives: To assess whether prolotherapy, an injection-based therapy, improves elbow pain, grip strength, and extension strength in patients with lateral epicondylosis. Setting: Outpatient Sport Medicine clinic. Study Design: Double-blind randomized…
Introduction: Risk prediction of gastric cancers is important to implement appropriate screening procedures. Although aberrant DNA methylation is deeply involved in gastric carcinogenesis, its induction by Helicobacter pylori, a strong…
Accumulating evidence suggests that intestinal microbial organisms may play an important role in triggering and sustaining inflammation in individuals afflicted with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Moreover, individuals with IBD are…
Background — Atherogenesis involves inflammatory processes in which infections are incriminated as possible contributors. Methods and Results — We evaluated cardiovascular risk factors as well as seropositivity to Chlamydia pneumoniae,…