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The AST/ALT ratio as a mediator of heavy metal exposure and diabetic kidney disease (DKD) risk: A NHANES study

Yu Li, Juan Chai, Jinjuan Chen, Jiayin Du et al. • Scientific Reports (2025)

Abstract The potential impact of heavy metal exposure on the progression of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) remains a subject of scientific inquiry. While some studies have hinted at a correlation, definitive evidence is still lacking. It is ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-23843-w

Associated Factors of Pre-Anesthesia Blood Pressure Elevation in Elective Non-Cardiac Surgical Patients: A Case-Control Study Comparing Two Diagnostic Thresholds

Li XM, Yang Y, Pan H, Li W et al. • Risk Management and Healthcare Policy (2026)

Xiao-Min Li,1 Yan Yang,1 Hao Pan,2 Wang Li,2 Ge-Yi Ai,2 Xi-Jiang Liu,2 Guang-Fen Zhang,2 Jie Guo31Department of Anesthesiology, Zibo Central Hospital, Zibo, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Anesthesiology, Shandong Provincial Hosp...

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Plasma Exchange for ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: An International Survey of Patient PreferencesPlain Language Summary

David Collister, Mark Farrar, Lesha Farrar, Paul Brown et al. • Kidney Medicine (2023)

Rationale & Objective: We sought to elicit patient preferences regarding the use of plasma exchange in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) and its tradeoffs of risk of kidney failure and risk of serious infec...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2022.100595

Predicting hospital admissions from individual patient data (IPD): an applied example to explore key elements driving external validity

Rafael Perera, Marjan Van Den Akker, Kym I E Snell, Joerg J Meerpohl et al. • BMJ Open (2021)

Objective To explore factors that potentially impact external validation performance while developing and validating a prognostic model for hospital admissions (HAs) in complex older general practice patients.Study design and setting Using ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045572

Hyperuricemia and dementia – a case-control study

Bettina Engel, Willy Gomm, Karl Broich, Wolfgang Maier et al. • BMC Neurology (2018)

Abstract Background There is evidence that uric acid may have antioxidant and neuroprotective effects and might therefore alter the risk for neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia. So far, the relation between serum uric acid (SUA) lev...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12883-018-1136-y

First seroprevalence survey of bovine anaplasmosis: an emerging tick-borne disease in commercial livestock and dairy farms in Bangladesh

Md. Makshuder Rahman Zim, Nurnabi Ahmed, Mostak Ahmed, Md. Abu Haris Miah et al. • Parasitology (2024)

Bovine anaplasmosis is an infectious, tick-borne disease caused by Anaplasma species, which is accountable for huge economic loss in dairy industry. This study was aimed to determine the seroprevalence of bovine anaplasmosis on randomly sel...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1017/S0031182024001495

Gender Differences in the Association Between Serum Uric Acid and Arteriosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk Among Chinese Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Yang H, Gao J, Li S, Xia H et al. • International Journal of General Medicine (2021)

Hua Yang,1,* Jian Gao,2,* Shuyu Li,1 Huiling Xia,1 Zhangyan Chen,1 Shanzhu Zhu,1 Zhigang Pan1 1Department of General Practice, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, 200030, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Nutrit...

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Quality of life, psychological distress and violence among women in close relationships: a population-based study in Finland

Tomomi Hisasue, Marie Kruse, Jani Raitanen, Eija Paavilainen et al. • BMC Women's Health (2020)

Abstract Background The aim of this study was to examine associations between exposure to violence, quality of life, and psychological distress. Women aged 19–54 years who had been exposed to violence by someone in a close relationship were...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12905-020-00950-6

Dentists’ perception and use of AI and robotics in the care of persons with disabilities

Najla A. Barnawi, Fay A. AlAmmar, Sultan A. Aldabeis, Salma M. Alahmar et al. • Scientific Reports (2025)

Abstract Despite the growing role of AI and robotics in healthcare, little is known about their integration into dental care for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Saudi Arabia. This study aimed to assess dentists’ perceptions and attitude...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-10988-x

The Role and Application of Matrices in Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Methods, and Advancements

Raviraju Balappa D, Gautam Kumar Rajput • Shodh Sari (2025)

Matrices are foundational to artificial intelligence (AI), serving as critical tools for data representation, manipulation, and transformation across various applications. From machine learning algorithms to neural network architectures, ma...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: https://doi.org/10.59231/SARI7840

Hyperbolic Neural Networks

Octavian-Eugen Ganea, Gary Bécigneul, Thomas Hofmann • arXiv (Cornell University) (2018)

Hyperbolic spaces have recently gained momentum in the context of machine learning due to their high capacity and tree-likeliness properties. However, the representational power of hyperbolic geometry is not yet on par with Euclidean geomet...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1805.09112

Development and validation of an online dynamic nomogram based on the atherogenic index of plasma to screen nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Hewei Peng, Junchao Zhang, Xianhua Huang, Miao Xu et al. • Lipids in Health and Disease (2023)

Abstract Background Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a common liver disease worldwide, can be reversed early in life with lifestyle and medical interventions. This study aimed to develop a noninvasive tool to screen NAFLD accuratel...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12944-023-01808-0

Tumor probability mapping of fluorescence intensity during image-guided surgery of head and neck cancer

Akhilesh M Wodeyar, Sherin James, Benjamin B. Kasten, Nicolaus D. Knight et al. • Scientific Reports (2026)

Abstract Achieving negative surgical margins remains a critical determinant of local recurrence and survival in head and neck cancer (HNC) surgery. Current intraoperative margin assessment techniques, including frozen section analysis, suff...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-56078-4

Prevalence of comorbid depression and associated factors among hospitalized patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Hunan, China

Rehanguli Maimaitituerxun, Wenhang Chen, Jingsha Xiang, Atipatsa C. Kaminga et al. • BMC Psychiatry (2023)

Abstract Background Depression and diabetes are major health challenges, with heavy economic social burden, and comorbid depression in diabetes could lead to a wide range of poor health outcomes. Although many descriptive studies have highl...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12888-023-04657-4

Lessons Learned From a Sequential Mixed-Mode Survey Design to Recruit and Collect Data From Case-Control Study Participants: Formative Evaluation

Amanda D Tran, Alice E White, Michelle R Torok, Rachel H Jervis et al. • JMIR Formative Research (2024)

BackgroundSequential mixed-mode surveys using both web-based surveys and telephone interviews are increasingly being used in observational studies and have been shown to have many benefits; however, the application of this survey design has...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/56218

Living standard and access to tetanus toxoid immunization among women in Bangladesh

Ummay Nayeema Islam, Kanchan Kumar Sen, Wasimul Bari • BMC Public Health (2022)

Abstract Background Although Bangladesh has an impressive track record in the reduction of maternal and child mortality, tetanus, a dreadful disease, impedes the way to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in this respect. Sufficient ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13448-7

Identification of confounders and estimating the causal effect of place of birth on age-specific childhood vaccination

Ashagrie Sharew Iyassu, Haile Mekonnen Fenta, Zelalem G. Dessie, Temesgen T. Zewotir • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2024)

Abstract Background In causal analyses, some third factor may distort the relationship between the exposure and the outcome variables under study, which gives spurious results. In this case, treatment groups and control groups that receive ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12911-024-02827-2

Methodological framework to identify possible adverse drug reactions using population-based administrative data [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/3ys]

Brian Sauer, Jonathan Nebeker, Shuying Shen, Randall Rupper et al. • F1000Research (2014)

Purpose: We present a framework for detecting possible adverse drug reactions (ADRs) using the Utah Medicaid administrative data. We examined four classes of ADRs associated with treatment of dementia by acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (ACh...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.4816.1