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Grethe Albrektsen, Tom Wilsgaard, Ivar Heuch, Maja‐Lisa Løchen et al. • Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
(2023)
Background The atherosclerotic effect of an adverse lipid profile is assumed to accumulate throughout life, leading to increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI). Still, little is known about age at onset and duration of unfavorable lipid...
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DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.122.030010
Xue Yang, Jian Chen, An Pan, Jason H.Y. Wu et al. • Diabetes & Metabolism Journal
(2020)
BackgroundTo examine the prospective association between higher blood pressure (BP) and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in middle-aged and elderly Chinese adults.MethodsA total of 9,642 middle-aged and elderly Chinese adults (≥45 ye...
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DOI: 10.4093/dmj.2019.0081
Xiaohang Chen, Xin Zhou, Yan Xu, Li Pan et al. • Frontiers in Public Health
(2024)
BackgroundThe current rate of organ donation in China falls significantly below the global average and the actual demand. Nursing students play a crucial role in supporting and promoting social and public welfare activities. This study prim...
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DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1370635
Yuxin Yang, Xuxiang Shen, Keyong Huang, Hongwei Liu et al. • Fundamental Research
(2026)
Lifestyle factors and clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) both contribute to the risk of developing coronary artery disease (CAD), but whether a healthy lifestyle could attenuate CHIP-related CAD risk is unknown. A total ...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.fmre.2025.09.012
Seyedeh Saeedeh Mousavi, Shima Haghani, Fatemeh Harati Kabir, Maryam Keshavarz • Majallah-i Zanān, Māmā̓ī va Nāzā̓ī-i Īrān
(2025)
Introduction: Skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby is very important in the first minutes after birth. Despite the great emphasis on its implementation, due to the lack of manpower and the numerous responsibilities of midwives, it i...
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DOI: 10.22038/ijogi.2025.83361.6263
Lawrence T. Lam, Lawrence T. Lam, Lawrence T. Lam, Mary K. Lam • Frontiers in Psychiatry
(2025)
BackgroundThis study aims to validate the Chinese version of the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) by employing both Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) approaches.MethodsData were gathered thr...
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1528509
Vladimir Tesar, Conor Judge, John Kelleher, Zdenka Hrušková et al. • RMD Open
(2024)
Objective ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a relapsing-remitting disease, resulting in incremental tissue injury. The gold-standard relapse definition (Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score, BVAS>0) is often missing or inaccurate in re...
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DOI: 10.1136/rmdopen-2023-003962
Satish Khurana • Journal of Womens Health Issues and Care
(2021)
In today’s medical field technology plays a big role when it comes to patient care. Technology is huge when it comes to giving the patient the best type of quality care when they are in the hospital. In the old days people would just write ...
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Rani Mohanraj, Shuba Kumar, Sylvia Jayakumar, Shanmugam Shobana et al. • Social Sciences and Humanities Open
(2026)
Polished white rice (WR), high in refined carbohydrates, the main staple in South India is associated with enhanced risk of diabetes. Brown Rice (BR), with lower glycemic load, high fibre content and micronutrients, is a healthier choice. T...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.102385
Sazin Islam, Md. Shariful Islam, Sharmin Akter, A. M. Mujahidul Islam et al. • American Journal of Men's Health
(2025)
Male infertility is an escalating global health concern, yet it remains under-researched in Bangladesh. The factors contributing to this issue have not been thoroughly studied. This study aims to identify the factors associated with male in...
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DOI: 10.1177/15579883251372452
Peng Wang, Ying Li, Lu Li, Rong Zhong et al. • Frontiers in Oncology
(2021)
ObjectiveA hot genetic variant, rs641738 within the membrane-bound O-acyltransferase domain containing 7(MBOAT7) and transmembrane channel-like 4 (TMC4), was recently reported to be associated with several liver diseases. However, the resul...
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DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.639438
David J. Spiegelhalter, Jonathan P. Myles, David R.H. Jones, Keith R. Abrams • BMJ
(1999)
Methods in health service research: An introduction to bayesian methods in health technology and assessment...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.319.7208.508
PMC: 1116393
Spiegelhalter, Myles, Jones, Keith R. Abrams • Health Technology Assessment
(2000)
BACKGROUND: Bayesian methods may be defined as the explicit quantitative use of external evidence in the design, monitoring, analysis, interpretation and reporting of a health technology assessment. In outline, the methods involve formal co...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/hta4380
Lauren E. McCollum, Sandhitsu R. Das, Long Xie, Robin de Flores et al. • NeuroImage: Clinical
(2021)
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can be an early manifestation of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology, other pathologic entities [e.g., cerebrovascular disease, Lewy body disease, LATE (limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy)], ...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102717
Yundong He, Ting Wei, Zhenqing Ye, Jacob J. Orme et al. • Nature Communications
(2021)
Resistance to second generation anti-androgen therapies such as enzalutamide (ENZ) can emerge in prostate cancer patients. Here, the authors identify an ENZ-resistant mechanism driven by AR-dependent transcription of noncanonical targets th...
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21860-7
Ruxandra-Cristina Marin, Horia Păunescu, Călin Muntean, Daniel Vasile Balaban et al. • Diagnostics
(2026)
Background/Objectives: Liver cirrhosis (LC) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality requiring continuous monitoring and early recognition of clinical deterioration. Home telemonitoring is increasingly considered a supportive strategy fo...
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DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics16162635
Jieming Lu, Zhebin Yu, Xiaocong Zhang, Mengyin Wu et al. • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
(2020)
Abstract Background Population aging is an inevitable trend and previous studies have showed the relationship between social health related factors and health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) in the elderly. The objective of this study is t...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12955-020-01358-4
Willassen Nils P, Flå Tor, Thorvaldsen Steinar • BMC Bioinformatics
(2010)
Abstract Background Statistical bioinformatics is the study of biological data sets obtained by new micro-technologies by means of proper statistical methods. For a better understanding of environmental adaptations of proteins, orthologous ...
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DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-573
Behrouz Bokharaeian, Alberto Diaz, Nasrin Taghizadeh, Hamidreza Chitsaz et al. • Journal of Biomedical Semantics
(2017)
Abstract Background Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are among the most important types of genetic variations influencing common diseases and phenotypes. Recently, some corpora and methods have been developed with the purpose of extra...
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DOI: 10.1186/s13326-017-0116-2
Monika Czerwińska, Marcin Gruszecki, Jacek Rumiński, Rita Hansdorfer-Korzon • BMC Women's Health
(2025)
Abstract Background Lipedema is an adipose tissue disorder involving mostly women. One of the most characteristic lipedema symptoms is painful accumulation of adipose tissue in lower and upper extremities leading to disproportion. Due to th...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12905-025-03834-9