In addition to these chronically co-infected patients, HIV/HCV co-infected patients who had cleared their HCV after a successful anti-HCV therapy, as evaluated by a negative HCV RNA six months after the end of anti-HCV treatment could be included.
In Hong Kong, in addition to western medicine, chronically ill patients may also seek advice from TCM practitioners and use Chinese medicines.
This is in addition to the effect that chronically elevated levels of stress hormones have on the entire body, such as increasing the risk of chronic obesity, heart disease and depression.
In addition to these growth factors, chronically inflamed RA synovia contain a multitude of inflammatory mediators that may act in concert with each other.
In addition to improving the care given to chronically ill children, we suggest that more attention should be paid to the needs of the parents.
In addition to the aggressive ulcerative forms, chronically inflammatory forms and spontaneous remissions are described.
In addition to this direct oncogenic effect, a chronically inflamed microenvironment possesses many mechanisms with which to promote progression of a preneoplastic lesion, as described elsewhere in this series of review articles.
In addition to the above, the aging patients were chronically exposed to higher cortisol levels following an impairment of the negative feedback at the hippocampus with aging [ 32].
One possibility could be that FLS cells from chronically inflamed joints secrete, in addition to PGE2, other mediators that counteract the PGE2 effect.
FeNO levels have been reported to be chronically reduced in cigarette smokers, in addition to the acute effects immediately after smoking [ 33- 35].
Tanzania's national Demographic and Health Survey data released in 2005 indicated that there were approximately 40,000 severely malnourished children in the country, in addition to about 450,000 moderately wasted children and 2.4 million chronically malnourished children.
