ABSTRACT
Forty-five subjects with a rising, progressively improving (RPI) audiometric pattern were considered for a 5-hour oral-glucose tolerance test. Results revealed that 2 nondiabetic subjects (4%) had a plasma glucose nadir of 49 mg/dl or lower and 7 nondiabetic subjects had a nadir between 50 and 57 mg/dl. A total of 21% of 42 subjects with data indicated abnormally low readings. An additional 7 subjects were found to be diabetic; 5 subjects had impaired glucose tolerance, and 9 other subjects had nondiagnostic glucose intolerance, totalling 47% of 45 subjects in the study with abnormally elevated plasma glucose levels. Therefore a total of approximately 68% of all subjects in our study indicated metabolic dysfunction based specifically on a RPI pattern.
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Audiometry, Pure-Tone , Audiometry , Blood Glucose/analysis , Diabetes Mellitus/physiopathology , Hearing Loss, Sensorineural/etiology , Hypoglycemia/physiopathology , Adult , Aged , Diabetes Mellitus/blood , Female , Hearing Loss, Sensorineural/blood , Humans , Hypoglycemia/blood , Male , Middle Aged , Speech Discrimination TestsABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not a rising, progressively improving (RPI) sensorineural hearing loss from lower toward higher frequencies might be related to or serve as an indicator or predictor of diabetes. Forty-five subjects between the ages of 21 and 79, demonstrating a RPI audiometric pattern, were considered for a 5-hour oral glucose tolerance test. Based on the National Diabetes Data Group standard, results showed that diabetes mellitus appeared in seven subjects; five subjects had impaired glucose tolerance; and nine subjects had mild but nondiagnostic glucose intolerance. Relatively normal glucose values were demonstrated by 53% of subjects. There may be some value in an RPI audiometric pattern as an indicator or early detection sign for diabetes, but further research is necessary before such conclusions can be drawn.
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Diabetes Complications , Hearing Loss, Sensorineural/etiology , Adult , Aged , Audiometry, Pure-Tone , Blood Glucose/analysis , Diabetes Mellitus/blood , Female , Glucose Tolerance Test , Humans , Male , Meniere Disease/diagnosis , Meniere Disease/etiology , Middle Aged , Speech Discrimination TestsABSTRACT
Male alcoholic subjects were asked to rate their own typical dysphoric mood states soon after admission for alcohol detoxification and again following 2 weeks of recovery from alcohol abuse. Self-ratings of typical dysphoric mood decreased following 2 weeks of recovery from alcohol abuse while self-ratings of typical impulsive behaviors remained unchanged. Within subjects, the magnitude of change in ratings of typical dysphoric mood during the first 2 weeks of recovery from alcohol abuse correlated highly with the level of typical dysphoric mood measured at the onset of alcohol treatment.
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Affective Symptoms , Alcoholism/psychology , Adult , Alcoholism/therapy , Humans , Male , Memory , Middle Aged , PsychopathologyABSTRACT
A program suitable for terminal, conversational-mode usage was developed in the BASIC language to compute the median effective dose (LD50), various error terms, and confidence intervals. The overall algorithm used in the program was based on a method described by Finney. The accuracy, speed and flexibility of the program makes the terminal approach an efficient alternative to simple graphic methods.
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Computers , Lethal Dose 50 , Statistics as TopicSubject(s)
Alcoholism/psychology , Dependency, Psychological , Personality , Humans , Male , Personality Inventory , RecurrenceABSTRACT
A basic symmetrically asymptotic Gompertz equation was extended to account for more complex growth and life-table data. This extended Gompertz or non-symmetric asymptotic regression equation was found to be suitable for fitting a large variety of data exhibiting growth and experimentally-induced regression effects expressed in the same curve. The statistical and computational properties of this fitting function are discussed in theory and example.
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Neoplasms/pathology , Regression Analysis , Statistics as Topic , Animals , Cell Count , Computers , Humans , Kinetics , Multiple Myeloma/pathology , Rats , Remission, SpontaneousSubject(s)
Alcoholism/complications , Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic/complications , California , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Male , Probability , Regression Analysis , Time FactorsSubject(s)
Illegitimacy , Personality , Postpartum Period , Pregnancy , Adolescent , Analysis of Variance , Factor Analysis, Statistical , Female , Humans , Perception , Personality Inventory , Self Concept , Set, PsychologyABSTRACT
A general social desirability factor emerged at the second-order level when a set of individual social desirability scale values were correlated between subjects (i.e., across items) and factor analysed. However, no such general factor emerged at the second-order level when the individual judgments were correlated between items (i.e., across subjects).
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Internship and Residency , Personality , Psychiatry , Adult , Factor Analysis, Statistical , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Psychological Tests , Social DesirabilityABSTRACT
The factorial structure of individual judgments of social desirability scale value (SDSV) was studied by factor analyzing a 112 (college students) by 100 (MMPI items) data matrix of individual judgments of SDSV in two ways. One analysis was factoring by item (R technique) while the second analysis was factoring by subject (Q technique). A large general SD factor appeared when subject intercorrelations were factored, but no such general factor was identified when item intercorrelations were factored. Evidence was also presented that the large general SD factor was highly correlated with mean or normative SDSVs.