On subgroup analysis of the three RCTs that included only
NERD patients, results were similar; 5.7% of patients in the on-demand PPI group and 12.1% of patients in the daily PPI group discontinued treatment prematurely (OR = 0.44; 95% CI = 0.29 to 0.66).
PGD2 and PGE2, which are counteracted by the products of cyclooxygenase, are known to be closely related to the pathogenesis of
NERD, but their use as biomarkers is still limited.
(2016): 'Are you a
nerd, or a geek?', in Infotoday.com (May, 11).
A--First off, I want people in the South to be proud to be a geek or
nerd. It's a badge of honor for me and I want to share that pride with anyone who wants to join me.
Ken Levine: There is this thing going on now which is really baffling: A lot of guys are challenging women who claim to be
nerds as to the veracity of their herd cred.
In Analysis 1, BMI had no effect on baseline heartburn in patients with
NERD. Specifically, 21.4% of overweight and obese individuals had no heartburn symptoms at baseline, while 35.9%, 32.5%, and 10.2% had mild, moderate, and severe symptoms, respectively.
Think of
nerds and the popular image is of a bespectacled brainbox with obsessive sci-fi knowledge but few social skills.
This year's lovely calendar from a national conservation organization includes a photo captioned thus: "Due to their formidable stingers and poor public perception, people might overlook the beauty of bees and the importance of their survival." The Word
Nerd supposes that people with formidable stingers might indeed be more likely to disregard a bee than those of us less formidably endowed.
However, the
nerd inclusion of homosexual males receives much fuller treatment in the third of the Revenge movies, Revenge of the
Nerds: The Next Generation ("Revenge: TNG").(7) That inclusion also demonstrates a change in conceptions of
nerds as an outsider group to nerdism as a condition to which anyone may be susceptible.