A Portable Multi-Modal Cushion for Continuous Monitoring of a Driver's Vital Signs.

With higher levels of automation in vehicles, the need for robust driver monitoring systems increases, since it must be ensured that the driver can intervene at any moment. Drowsiness, stress and alcohol are still the main sources of driver distraction. However, physiological problems such as heart attacks and strokes also exhibit a significant risk for driver safety, especially with respect to the ageing population.

Multi-step ahead predictive model for blood glucose concentrations of type-1 diabetic patients.

Continuous monitoring of blood glucose (BG) levels is a key aspect of diabetes management. Patients with Type-1 diabetes (T1D) require an effective tool to monitor these levels in order to make appropriate decisions regarding insulin administration and food intake to keep BG levels in target range. Effectively and accurately predicting future BG levels at multi-time steps ahead benefits a patient with diabetes by helping them decrease the risks of extremes in BG including hypo- and hyperglycemia.

Macroscopic picture of gastric mucosa in endoscopic examination of patients with chronic gastritis and food allergy.

Introduction: The aim of the study was to evaluate the difference in macroscopic picture of the stomach in patients with food allergy and in non-atopic patients with H. pylori infection.

Material And Methods: In the study, patients with atopic diathesis, suffering from dyspepsia or abdominal pain were analysed.

Evaluating the profile of selected cytokines in patients with food allergy and chronic gastritis.

Introduction: Evaluating the profile of selected cytokines in patients with food allergy and chronic gastritis. Cytokines are produced by many cells and they play a role of mediators in the development of local and systemic inflammatory reaction. The aim of the study was to determine serum concentrations of IL-4, IL-5, IL-8, TNF alpha in patients with chronic gastritis and food allergy, who had been infected with H.

Correlation between Helicobacter pylori infection and food allergy in chronic gastritis.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the intensity of gastric inflammatory changes in atopic patients infected with H. pylori, and to find out whether a long-term exposure to a sensitizing allergen intensified the acuteness of inflammatory changes. The examinations were performed on patients with atopic diathesis who suffered from dyspepsia and gastralgia.

[The frequency of atopy in lung cancer patients].

The controversial opinions on adverse correlation between atopy and incidence of lung cancer made us to undertake the research in that field in patients, treated in Department of Lung Diseases of University School of Medicine in Bydgoszcz. In 45 histologically diagnosed lung cancer patients in III and IV stage of the disease the tendency to atopy was assessed. In above mentioned patients the serum level of total IgE, the number of eosinophyls in peripheral blood and skin tests with popular allergens such as: home-dust, feather, grass particles, fungus and mould.

[Eosinophilic activation based on measurements of eosinophil cationic protein in patients with acute myocardial infarction and patients with angina pectoris].

Increased activation of polymorphonuclear neutrophils in the wideness of irreversible myocardial injury was described by many authors. Released proteolytic enzymes may cause deliquescence of necrotic muscle tissue and attenuate collagenic structure of myocardium, lead to endothelium damage and generate free oxygen radicals. Eosinophilic leucocytes reveal also enhanced proinflammatory activation.

[IgE mediated food allergy: pathomechanism, clinical picture and perspectives of new therapy].

Diagnosis, pathomechanism and therapy of IgE mediated food allergy are discussed in aspects of new the rapentic problems. Stanworth's is noticed as a new tool for control of allergic IgE mediated reactions.

[Changeability of respiratory tract and skin symptoms in patients with asthma-prurigo syndrome under the influence of emotional and environmental factors].

In a group of 228 patients suffering from asthma-prurigo syndrome the influence of emotional state, permanent residence and season time on dynamic of the clinical symptoms were studied. The evaluation of emotional state in 80 adult patients was carried-out by means of Eysenck Personality Inventory. The emotional state had less negative influence on the exacerbation of the symptoms upon children then in adults (especially on their skin symptoms).

[Some clinical symptoms and allergens on asthma-prurigo syndrome].

The group of 146 patients suffering from asthma-prurigo syndrome (85 adults and 64 children) have been inquired in many various clinical centers. It was established that in 79.6% of the patients the first symptoms of illness appeared already in infancy and only 28.

[Early post myocardial infarction syndrome--a trial of assessment based on clinical course and immunologic tests].

The study analysed clinical and immunological course of 22 patients (aged 56.3 +/- 9.5) with fever (38.

[Efficacy of flunisolide in treatment of patients with bronchial asthma].

In 30 patients with bronchial asthma an influence of flunisolid (Bronilide) on spirometric values, bronchial reactivity and pathological signs was evaluated. No changing in spirometric values and bronchial reactivity and decrease complaints during the treatment with higher doses of Bronilide were noticed. No significant side effects were observed.

Anaphylactic histamine release from human gastric and duodenal mast cells.

Mast cells from human gastric and duodenal walls were isolated using a collagenase dispersion technique. The reactivity of both mast cell populations with anti-human IgE antibodies and specific antigens was tested in an in vitro model of anaphylactic reaction. Mast cell populations were sensitive to the action of anti-IgE, and histamine release was 17.

[Clinical characterization of "asthma-prurigo" syndrome with emphasis on risk factors].

In a group of 228 patients with Asthma-Prurigo syndrome in 82.5% of patients the onset of skin lesions was earlier than the onset of asthma. It was found that the early onset of atopic dermatitis suggests the greater probability of subsequent asthma.

[Evaluation of heart function during endoscopic examination of the upper gastrointestinal tract together with a trial of direct provocation of the sensitizing allergen--initial report].

The heart function was evaluated during endoscopy examination connected with the gastric challenge with the sensitizing allergen. The study involved 13 patients with diagnosed pollinosis and without any disorder of the cardiovascular system. The heart function was evaluated by Holter monitoring, performed both in 24 hours of control before endoscopy examination and in 24 hours of exposure during and after gastric challenge with the sensitizing allergen.

[Therapeutic examination of efficiency for vaccine desensitization with grass pollen catalet].

The results of a 5-year studies on the therapeutical efficiency of Catalet--desensitization vaccine containing grass pollen antigens adsorbed on aluminium hydroxide--are discussed. Catalet vaccine is manufactured by Sera and Vaccines Works in Kraków in the doses of 25 PNU/ml, 250 PNU/ml, 2500 PNU/ml, and 10,000 PNU/ml. It was found that Catalet possesses a strong antigenic properties and enables complete or partial intensivity to grass pollens in the majority of treated patients.