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Ectopy on a single 12‐lead ECG, incident cardiac myopathy, and death in the community [PDF]

, 2017
BackgroundAtrial fibrillation and heart failure are 2 of the most common diseases, yet ready means to identify individuals at risk are lacking. The 12-lead ECG is one of the most accessible tests in medicine.
Alonso, Alvaro, Chen, Lin Y, Dewland, Thomas A, Dukes, Jonathan W, Gottdiener, John S, Heckbert, Susan R, Marcus, Gregory M, Nguyen, Kaylin T, Psaty, Bruce M, Soliman, Elsayed Z, Stein, Phyllis K, Vittinghoff, Eric   +11 more
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Impact of breast cancer subtypes on 3-year survival among adolescent and young adult women. [PDF]

, 2013
IntroductionYoung women have poorer survival after breast cancer than do older women. It is unclear whether this survival difference relates to the unique distribution of hormone receptor (HR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-defined ...
Clarke, Christina A, DeRouen, Mindy C, Gomez, Scarlett L, Keegan, Theresa HM, Kurian, Allison W, Press, David J, Tao, Li   +6 more
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smoothHR: An R Package for Pointwise Nonparametric Estimation of Hazard Ratio Curves of Continuous Predictors

Comput. Math. Methods Medicine, 2013
The Cox proportional hazards regression model has become the traditional choice for modeling survival data in medical studies. To introduce flexibility into the Cox model, several smoothing methods may be applied, and approaches based on splines are the ...
Luís Meira-Machado, C. Cadarso-Suárez, F. Gudé, Artur Araújo   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Preoperative neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and outcome from coronary artery bypass grafting [PDF]

, 2007
Background: An elevated preoperative white blood cell count has been associated with a worse outcome after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Leukocyte subtypes, and particularly the neutrophil-lymphocyte (N/L) ratio, may however, convey superior ...
Buchan, Keith G., Croal, Bernard L., Cuthbertson, Brian, El-Shafei, Hussein, Gibson, George, Gibson, Patrick H., Hillis, Graham S., Ifezulike, Ada I., Jeffrey, Robert R., Small, Gary R.   +9 more
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Survival Outcomes and Complications Among Canadian Children With Retinoblastoma: A Population‐Based Report From CYP‐C

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common pediatric ocular cancer, yet population‐based data on survival and risk factors remain limited. This study aimed to describe survival in a large national RB cohort and identify predictors of death and complications.
Samuel Sassine, Ofélie Trudeau‐Ferrin, Caroline Laverdière, Patrick Hamel, Rosanne Superstein, Bénédicte Koukoui, Carole Provost, Paul C. Nathan, Vijay Ramaswamy, Furqan Shaikh, Brenda Gallie, Ashwin Mallipatna, Stephanie Kletke, Helen Dimaras, Hallie Coltin   +14 more
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Bone mineral density and risk of heart failure in older adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study [PDF]

, 2017
Background Despite increasing evidence of a common link between bone and heart health, the relationship between bone mineral density ( BMD ) and heart failure ( HF
Bartz, Traci M, Brown, David L, Carbone, Laura D, Chaves, Paulo H.M., Civitelli, Roberto, Fohtung, Raymond B, Kestenbaum, Bryan R, Kizer, Jorge R, Koh, William J.H., Stein, Phyllis K   +9 more
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Landslide hazard zonation mapping using frequency ratio and fuzzy logic approach, a case study of Lachung Valley, Sikkim

Geoenvironmental Disasters, 2015
BackgroundSikkim Himalaya is under consistent distress due to landslides. Abrupt thrust on infrastructure development in the valley regions of Sikkim Himalaya has led to a need for a prior planning to face landslide hazard.
Rathinam Anbalagan, Rohan Kumar, K. Lakshmanan, Sujata Parida, S. Neethu   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Personalized Selumetinib Dosing in Pediatric Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Insights From a Pilot Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate selumetinib exposure using therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and plexiform neurofibromas (PN), assess interpatient pharmacokinetic variability, and explore the relationship between drug exposure, clinical response, and adverse effects.
Janka Kovács, Zoltán Köllő, Balázs Gellért Karvaly, Mahmoud Obeidat, Rita Nagy, Péter Hegyi, Brigitta Teutsch, Eszter Tuboly, Miklós Garami   +8 more
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Association Between Atopic Keratoconjunctivitis and the Risk of Recurrent Corneal Erosion

Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
Purpose: To investigate the risk of recurrent corneal erosion (RCE) in patients with atopic keratoconjunctivitis (AKC).Methods: This national, retrospective, matched cohort study enrolled 184,166 newly-diagnosed AKC patients, selected from the Taiwan ...
Ren-Long Jan, Ren-Long Jan, Shih-Feng Weng, Jhi-Joung Wang, Jhi-Joung Wang, Jhi-Joung Wang, Sung-Huei Tseng, Sung-Huei Tseng, Yuh-Shin Chang, Yuh-Shin Chang   +9 more
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Adherence to Protocol Recommendations for Children With Wilms Tumour in Two Consecutive Studies in the United Kingdom and Ireland—Does Variation Matter?

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Wilms tumour (WT) has excellent event‐free and overall survival (OS). However, small differences exist between countries participating in the same international study. This led us to examine variation in adherence to protocol recommendations as a potential contributing factor.
Suzanne Tugnait, R. Al‐Saadi, A. Lopez‐Cortes, K. Dzhuma, M. Oostveen, J. Brok, S. Irtan, M. Weeks, J. Bate, S. Baker, R. Williams, M. Powis, D. Saunders, O. Olsen, T. Watson, S. Shelmerdine, S. Vaidya, L. Howell, C. Duncan, G. M. Vujanic, C. Stiller, G. P. Balchin, T. Chowdhury, K. Pritchard‐Jones   +23 more
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