The available data regarding the association between metabolic syndrome (MS) or MS components and ischemic stroke in type 2 diabetics are limited and inconsistent. This study aimed to investigate ...these associations.
Five hundred ninety-nine consecutive type 2 diabetic patients (mean age 60.4+/-9.6 years, 54% men) were followed-up for 10.1 years (median period). Baseline clinical and laboratory characteristics and the occurrence of a first-ever ischemic stroke during follow-up were recorded.
Seventy-eight patients developed a first-ever ischemic stroke. According to Cox proportional hazard model, waist circumference (hazard ratio, HR:1.006, 95% CI:1.002 to 1.010, P=0.003) and age (HR:1.061, 95% CI:1.002 to 1.125, P=0.04) were significant predictors. After incorporating various combinations of MS components in multivariate models, only age and waist circumference remained significant.
MS per se at baseline or combinations of its components do not predict the development of ischemic stroke in type 2 diabetic patients. Waist circumference represents an independent prognostic factor and could be used as a clinical tool for stroke prevention in this population.
New horizons in industry, business and education Papadourakis, George M; Taousanidis, Nikolaos I; Antoniadou, Myrofora A ...
Industry & higher education,
04/2010, Letnik:
24, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Cyber crime in Greece: How bad is it? Papanikolaou, Alexandros; Vlachos, Vasileios; Papathanasiou, Anastasios ...
2013 21st Telecommunications Forum Telfor (TELFOR),
11/2013
Conference Proceeding
During the past years, the Internet has evolved into the so-called "Web 2.0". Nevertheless, the wide use of the offered Internet services has rendered individual users a potential target to ...cyber-criminals. The paper presents a review and analysis of various cyber crimes and compares these findings to those of our previous work. The presented results cover all the cases that were reported to the Cyber Crime and Computer Crime Unit of the Greek Police Force.
The field of multi-agent systems has reached a significant degree of maturity with respect to frameworks, standards and infrastructures. Focus is now shifted to performance evaluation of real-world ...applications, in order to quantify the practical benefits and drawbacks of agent systems. Our approach extends current work on generic evaluation methodologies for agents by employing fuzzy weighted trees for organizing evaluation-specific concepts/metrics and linguistic terms to intuitively represent and aggregate measurement information.Furthermore, we introduce meta-metrics that measure the validity and complexity of the contribution of each metric in the overall performance evaluation. These are all incorporated for selecting optimal subsets of metrics and designing the evaluation process incompliance with the demands/restrictions of various evaluation setups, thus minimizing intervention by domain experts. The applicability of the proposed methodology is demonstrated through the evaluation of a real-world test case.
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