Is illness invalidation from spouse and family associated with depression in diabetic patients with first superficial diabetic foot ulcers?
This study demonstrated that illness invalidation from spouse and family is associated with diagnosis of depressive disorders and increased severity of depressive symptoms in diabetic patients with first superficial diabetic foot ulcers.
We have demonstrated that in fetuses delivered following preterm PROM there is a factor(s) capable of stimulating a local endothelial cell proinflammatory cytokine (IL-6) response. This factor(s) that we have demonstrated may be responsible for the increased cytokine production seen in fetuses with the fetal inflammatory response syndrome.