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..This study aimed to investigate physicians' perceptions of stroke prevention management and patients' knowledge of AF and warfarin therapy in Hong Kong (HK)...

..To investigate the impact of the Pharmacy Outreach Service (POS) on blood pressure (BP) and disease knowledge among community-dwelling elderly patients with hypertension, and to evaluate the sustainability of such impact of POS...

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..The study aimed to investigate the clinical impact of pharmacist-physician co-managed programme on the management of hyperlipidaemia...

..This study aimed to investigate the clinical efficacy of rosuvastatin in LDL cholesterol lowering therapy for new or switched hyperlipidaemic Chinese patients...

..pylori test), an office-based serological test and to compare relative performances with endoscopy, including biopsy urease tests (Clotest), histology, and culture when applied to dyspeptic adult patients in Hong Kong Chinese...

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..Multiple factors can affect the anticoagulation effect of warfarin. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between different clinical factors and outcomes of warfarin therapy in Hong Kong Chinese patients...

..Our study aimed to assess the effectiveness of esomeprazole or rabeprazole in combination with amoxicillin and clarithromycin for the eradication of Helicobacter pylori in Hong Kong non-ulcer dyspepsia (NUD) patients...

..The cost of hospitalisation associated with inadequately controlled hypertension was estimated...

..As compared with subjects with the c.421CC genotype, those with the c.421AA genotype showed a 6.9% greater reduction in LDL-C level, which would be equivalent to the effect obtained by doubling the dose of rosuvastatin...

..To investigate the relative performance of T(2) weighted short tau inversion-recovery (STIR) and fat-suppressed T(1) weighted gadolinium contrast-enhanced sequences in depicting active inflammatory lesions in ankylosing spondylitis (AS)...

..To evaluate the economic impact of celecoxib therapy vs. diclofenac plus omeprazole therapy for the treatment of arthritis in Chinese patients with a high risk of bleeding, from the perspective of a public health organization in Hong Kong...

..The present study was undertaken to determine the health and economic impacts of ILIs under different environmental conditions on the working population of a large corporation...

..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical and economic benefits of routine infant vaccination with seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (7vPCV) in Hong Kong...

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..Currently, the pharmacogenetic approach has been used mainly to study drug-drug interactions so there is considerable potential to extend this to the study of herb-drug interactions in vivo...

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..guidelines also recommend clopidrogel for patients who have major gastrointestinal intolerance of aspirin. We compared clopidogrel with aspirin plus esomeprazole for the prevention of recurrent bleeding from ulcers in high-risk patients...

..A neutral gastric pH is critical for the stability of clots over bleeding arteries. We investigated the effect of preemptive infusion of omeprazole before endoscopy on the need for endoscopic therapy...

..5%) and procedural cost (11.6%). According to our analytical model, the overall cost impact between clopidogrel plus aspirin versus aspirin alone in the 2 groups of patients was similar...

..However, there have been concerns that the therapeutic effects of many forms of TCM are due to the presence of corticosteroids. The purpose of this study was to evaluate if common corticosteroids are present in PentaHerbs capsules...

..The study was carried out in a group of Hong Kong Chinese patients attending a government hospital. The economic impact of Type 2 DM on local and governmental healthcare expenditure was also examined...

..To assess the annual direct, indirect and total societal costs, quality of life (QoL) of AS in a Chinese population in Hong Kong and determine the cost determinants...

..In this study we investigate the resistance mechanism and the antimicrobial susceptibilities of clarithromycin, metronidazole, amoxicillin, tetracycline and telithromycin against levofloxacin-resistant H. pylori in Hong Kong...

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..We evaluated the effects of longterm antioxidant vitamins on markers of oxidative stress and antioxidant defense and endothelial function in 39 patients with SLE...