Background and Methods The role of colonoscopy in screening for colorectal cancer is
uncertain. At 13 Veterans Affairs medical centers, we performed colonoscopy to determine the …

Background Fecal occult-blood testing and sigmoidoscopy have been recommended for
screening for colorectal cancer, but the sensitivity of such combined testing for detecting …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Antiplatelet drug resistance has been associated with
thromboembolic complications in patients after coronary stent placement. It has not been well-…

Altered mucin glycosylation and the de novo appearance of gastric mucin antigens have been
described in colonic adenomas. The purpose of our study was to determine if expression …

Despite the established role of cigarette smoking in the causation of chronic air-flow obstruction
(CAO), only a small proportion of regular cigarette smokers develop significant clinical …

Dipeptidylpeptidase IV (DPP IV) is a serine exopeptidase that has been implicated in cell‐extracellular
matrix interactions and bioactive peptide/cytokine/growth factor metabolism. The …

One-third of convalescent-phase serum samples (6 of 18) from patients with Clostridium
difficle-associated diarrhea demonstrated neutralization of the clostridial enterotoxin, toxin A. …

BACKGROUND Pathologic grade and/or histologic score, extraprostatic extension indicated
by invasion of the prostatic capsule, margin, and/or seminal vesicles by prostate cancer cells…

OBJECTIVE: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is more prevalent in US veterans attending
Veterans Affairs Medical Centers than in the general population. The purpose of this study was …

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