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White race-consciousness manifests itself in two forms: as blessing and as burden.
[ 13 ] If managed care presents barriers to access to effective care, the elderly would be especially vulnerable because they have a higher burden of illness than the rest of the population.
Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether C-reactive protein's ongoing decline in former smokers simply indicates a prevalent underlying burden of atherosclerotic plaque, or “simmering” ongoing disease processes.
The ratio of total debt payments to total income is a common measure of a household's debt burden.
Additionally, it appears that the population sub-groups at greatest risk for gastric cancer have a limited ability to secrete ascorbic acid from the plasma through the mucosal and into the gastric lumen [ 30 ] . In a related study, supplementation with vitamin C reduces the degree of apoptosis and nitrotyrosine immunohistochemistry [ 13 ] , a marker of peroxynitrite formation [ 15 ] . NF-κB is activated in gastric epithelia with H. pylori infection, and clearance of this infection reduced NF-κB levels as well as expression of inducible nitric oxide [ 5 13 ] , thereby reducing the mucosal burden of nitric oxide and possibly peroxynitrite.