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TL;DR: In this paper, a search for the rare decays Bs->mu+mu- and B0->Mu+Mu- is performed using data collected in 2011 and 2012 with the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.
Abstract: A search for the rare decays Bs->mu+mu- and B0->mu+mu- is performed using data collected in 2011 and 2012 with the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The data samples comprise 1.1 fb^-1 of proton-proton collisions at sqrt{s} = 8 TeV and 1.0 fb^-1 at sqrt{s}=7 TeV. We observe an excess of Bs -> mu+ mu- candidates with respect to the background expectation. The probability that the background could produce such an excess or larger is 5.3 x 10^-4 corresponding to a signal significance of 3.5 standard deviations. A maximum-likelihood fit gives a branching fraction of BR(Bs -> mu+ mu-) = (3.2^{+1.5}_{-1.2}) x 10^-9, where the statistical uncertainty is 95% of the total uncertainty. This result is in agreement with the Standard Model expectation. The observed number of B0 -> mu+ mu- candidates is consistent with the background expectation, giving an upper limit of BR(B0 -> mu+ mu-) < 9.4 x 10^-10 at 95% confidence level.
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University of Hamburg1, Thomas Jefferson University2, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center3, University of Antwerp4, University of Bern5, Humboldt University of Berlin6, King's College London7, Université libre de Bruxelles8, Université catholique de Louvain9, Maastricht University10, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center11, University of Turin12, Hannover Medical School13, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven14, University of Groningen15, Medical University of Graz16, University of Liverpool17, Boston University18, University of Reading19, Medical University of Vienna20, University of Upper Alsace21
TL;DR: The screening of patients, optimization of therapeutic schemes, monitoring of cardiovascular function during treatment, and the management of cardiovascular side effects are likely to become increasingly important in cancer patients.
Abstract: The reductions in mortality and morbidity being achieved among cancer patients with current therapies represent a major achievement. However, given their mechanisms of action, many anti-cancer agents may have significant potential for cardiovascular side effects, including the induction of heart failure. The magnitude of this problem remains unclear and is not readily apparent from current clinical trials of emerging targeted agents, which generally under-represent older patients and those with significant co-morbidities. The risk of adverse events may also increase when novel agents, which frequently modulate survival pathways, are used in combination with each other or with other conventional cytotoxic chemotherapeutics. The extent to which survival and growth pathways in the tumour cell (which we seek to inhibit) coincide with those in cardiovascular cells (which we seek to preserve) is an open question but one that will become ever more important with the development of new cancer therapies that target intracellular signalling pathways. It remains unclear whether potential cardiovascular problems can be predicted from analyses of such basic signalling mechanisms and what pre-clinical evaluation should be undertaken. The screening of patients, optimization of therapeutic schemes, monitoring of cardiovascular function during treatment, and the management of cardiovascular side effects are likely to become increasingly important in cancer patients. This paper summarizes the deliberations of a cross-disciplinary workshop organized by the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (held in Brussels in May 2009), which brought together clinicians working in cardiology and oncology and those involved in basic, translational, and pharmaceutical science.
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University of Queensland1, University of Adelaide2, University of Cambridge3, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention4, University of Groningen5, Boston Children's Hospital6, University of Liverpool7, Imperial College London8, Australian National University9, Harvard University10, Norwegian Institute of Public Health11
TL;DR: The present variation in stillbirth rates across and within high-income countries indicates that further reduction inStillbirth is possible, and international consensus on definition and classification related to stillbirth is a priority.
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TL;DR: The results showed that a test of visual skills was significantly related to the reading ability of the children in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but not to theReading of the British children, and the nature of rhyme and phoneme deletion skills differed in children from Britain and Hong Kong.
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TL;DR: In patients receiving high insulin doses plus insulin sensitizers who had their baseline insulin reduced by 50%, dapagliflozin decreased A1C, produced better FPG and PPG levels, and lowered weight more than placebo.
Abstract: OBJECTIVE To determine whether dapagliflozin, which selectively inhibits renal glucose reabsorption, lowers hyperglycemia in patients with type 2 diabetes that is poorly controlled with high insulin doses plus oral antidiabetic agents (OADs). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was a randomized, double-blind, three-arm parallel-group, placebo-controlled, 26-center trial (U.S. and Canada). Based on data from an insulin dose-adjustment setting cohort ( n = 4), patients in the treatment cohort ( n = 71) were randomly assigned 1:1:1 to placebo, 10 mg dapagliflozin, or 20 mg dapagliflozin, plus OAD(s) and 50% of their daily insulin dose. The primary outcome was change from baseline in A1C at week 12 (dapagliflozin vs. placebo, last observation carried forward [LOCF]). RESULTS At week 12 (LOCF), the 10- and 20-mg dapagliflozin groups demonstrated −0.70 and −0.78% mean differences in A1C change from baseline versus placebo. In both dapagliflozin groups, 65.2% of patients achieved a decrease from baseline in A1C ≥0.5% versus 15.8% in the placebo group. Mean changes from baseline in fasting plasma glucose (FPG) were +17.8, +2.4, and −9.6 mg/dl (placebo, 10 mg dapagliflozin, and 20 mg dapagliflozin, respectively). Postprandial glucose (PPG) reductions with dapagliflozin also showed dose dependence. Mean changes in total body weight were −1.9, −4.5, and −4.3 kg (placebo, 10 mg dapagliflozin, and 20 mg dapagliflozin). Overall, adverse events were balanced across all groups, although more genital infections occurred in the 20-mg dapagliflozin group than in the placebo group. CONCLUSIONS In patients receiving high insulin doses plus insulin sensitizers who had their baseline insulin reduced by 50%, dapagliflozin decreased A1C, produced better FPG and PPG levels, and lowered weight more than placebo.
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Lei Jiang | 170 | 2244 | 135205 |
Gregory Y.H. Lip | 169 | 3159 | 171742 |
Ian J. Deary | 166 | 1795 | 114161 |
Nicholas J. White | 161 | 1352 | 104539 |
Tomas Hökfelt | 158 | 1033 | 95979 |
William J. Sutherland | 148 | 966 | 94423 |
Tommaso Dorigo | 141 | 1806 | 104276 |
Paul Jackson | 141 | 1372 | 93464 |
Andrew Askew | 140 | 1496 | 99635 |
Stephen Wimpenny | 138 | 1489 | 104084 |
Robin Erbacher | 138 | 1721 | 100252 |
Andrew Mehta | 137 | 1444 | 101810 |
Tim Jones | 135 | 1314 | 91422 |
Christophe Delaere | 135 | 1320 | 96742 |
Sinead Farrington | 133 | 1422 | 91099 |