Review of nutritional approaches to fibromyalgia.

Context: A multidisciplinary approach has been suggested to be the optimal form of treatment of fibromyalgia (FM). A research focus on nutritional therapy has developed in recent years, and this approach has been more frequently integrated into the recovery plan of patients with FM.

Objectives: The interaction between the nutritional status and health of patients with FM is highlighted in this review, and possible dietary approaches to ameliorating the disease's effects are discussed.

Budd-Chiari syndrome in Behçet's disease: a retrospective multicenter study.

Objective: To compare the clinical features, laboratory findings, and prognosis of Behçet's disease (BD) patients with and without Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS).

Methods: This multicenter retrospective study investigated 61 (M/F: 41/20) patients with BD, having coexistent BCS, and 169 (M/F:100/69) BD patients as the control group without BCS from 22 different centers of Turkey diagnosed between 1990 and 2017.

Results: Of the total 61 BD patients with BCS, the onset of the first symptom and the median age of diagnosis were earlier in contrast to BD patients without BCS (p = 0.

A real-world application of Markov chain Monte Carlo method for Bayesian trajectory control of a robotic manipulator.

Reinforcement learning methods are being applied to control problems in robotics domain. These algorithms are well suited for dealing with the continuous large scale state spaces in robotics field. Even though policy search methods related to stochastic gradient optimization algorithms have become a successful candidate for coping with challenging robotics and control problems in recent years, they may become unstable when abrupt variations occur in gradient computations.

Low Serum Uric Acid Predicts Risk of a Composite Disease Endpoint.

Mortality may increase in hypouricemia as well as inhyperuricemia. We assessed the predictive value of low serum uric acid (SUA) levels on the risk of overall mortality or a composite endpoint of death and nonfatal events. In 1013 community-based middle-aged adults, free of uncontrolled diabetes and coronary heart disease at baseline, the association of sex-specific SUA tertiles with defined outcomes was evaluated prospectively by logistic regression, stratified to gender and presence of type-2 diabetes, using recent criteria.