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Original Articles

• Simvastatin Effects on Androgens, Inflammatory Mediators, and Endogenous Pituitary Gonadotropins Among Patients With PCOS Undergoing IVF (15 December, 2015)

  Batool Rashidi, Jhila Abediasl, Ensiyeh Tehraninejad, Haleh Rahmanpour, Eric Scott Sills
• Efficacy, Tolerability, and Factors Affecting the Efficacy of the Sequential Therapy in Curing Helicobacter Pylori Infection in Clinical Setting (15 December, 2015)

  Antonio Tursi, Walter Elisei, GianMarco Giorgetti, Marcello Picchio, Giovanni Brandimarte
• Adiponectin Attenuates Hypoxia/Reoxygenation-Induced Cardiomyocyte Injury Through Inhibition of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress (15 December, 2015)

  Yun-fei Bian, Xiao-yan Hao, Feng Gao, Hui-yu Yang, Nana Zang, Chuan-shi Xiao
• Chromosome 9p21 Genetic Variants Are Associated With Myocardial Infarction But Not With Ischemic Stroke in a Taiwanese Population (15 December, 2015)

  Hsiu-Fen Lin, Pei-Chien Tsai, Yi-Chu Liao, Tsung-Hsien Lin, Chih-Ta Tai, Suh-Hang Hank Juo, Ruey-Tay Lin
• Elevated Serum Uric Acid Predicts Angiographic Impaired Reperfusion and 1-Year Mortality in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (15 December, 2015)

  Nurcan Basar, Nihat Sen, Firat Ozcan, Gonul Erden, Selcuk Kanat, Erdogan Sokmen, Ahmet Isleyen, Huseyin Yuzgecer, Mehmet Fatih Ozlu, Metin Yildirimkaya, Orhan Maden, Adrian Covic, Richard J. Johnson, Mehmet Kanbay
• Associations Between Genetic Variants in Vitamin D Metabolism and Asthma Characteristics in Young African Americans (15 December, 2015)

  Dinesh K. Pillai, Sabah F. Iqbal, Angela S. Benton, Jennifer Lerner, Andrew Wiles, Matthew Foerster, Tugba Ozedirne, Henry P. Holbrook, Perry W. Payne, Heather Gordish-Dressman, Stephen J. Teach, Robert J. Freishtat
• Relationship Between Clinicopathologic Variables and Serum and Tissue Levels of Dickkopf-1 in Patients With Rectal Cancer (15 December, 2015)

  Ozgur Kemik, Ahu Sarbay Kemik, Aziz Sumer, Huseyin Begenik, Sevım Purisa, Sefa Tuzun, Cetın Kotan
• Utility of Routine Hematological and Inflammation Parameters for the Diagnosis of Cancer in Involuntary Weight Loss (15 December, 2015)

  Cristian Baicus, Simona Caraiola, Mihai Rimbas, Ruxandra Patrascu, Anda Baicus
• Health Coverage and Its Relation to the Prevalence and Intensity of Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis (15 December, 2015)

  Jacob Clearfield, Neil A. Segal