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Risk Factors for Delayed Diagnosis of Acute Cholecystitis among Rural Older Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Medicina, 2022
Background and objectives: Acute cholecystitis causes acute abdominal pain and may necessitate emergency surgery or intensive antibiotic therapy and percutaneous drainage, depending on the patient’s condition. The symptoms of acute cholecystitis in older
Hirotaka Ikeda, Ryuichi Ohta, Chiaki Sano   +2 more
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Cognitive Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis: The Role of Clinical and Sociodemographic Factors ‐ A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Cognitive impairment (CI) affects the quality of life in multiple sclerosis (MS). Identifying influencing factors is key to improving CI monitoring. This systematic review and meta‐analysis examines clinical and sociodemographic variables impacting the cognitive screening Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT) performance across MS ...
Katalin Lugosi, Marie A. Engh, Tamás Kói, Zsolt Molnár, Gábor Csukly, Klaudia Horváth, Emma Hargitai, Péter Hegyi, Zsolt Mezei   +8 more
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Influencing Factors on Buying Health Supplemental Insurance by the Staff of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences [PDF]

Journal of Health Management & Informatics, 2019
Introduction: One of the most reliable sources of financing healthcare costs is healthinsurance. Covering all the services by basic health insurance is not affordable economically, so that some services are covered by supplementary health insurances ...
Zahra Kavosi, Effat Norouz Sarvestani, Najmeh Bordbar, Mohsen Bayati, Farhad Lotfi   +4 more
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Chronic Pain in Parkinson’s Disease: Prevalence, Sex Differences, Regional Anatomy and Comorbidities

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
Chronic pain affected 66.2% of 10,631 individuals with Parkinson's disease, with higher prevalence and severity in females. Pain most often involved the buttocks, lower back, neck, and knees, and was linked to depression, sleep disorders, and osteoarthritis.
Natalia S. Ogonowski, Freddy Chafota, Fangyuan Cao, Amanda Wei Yin Lim, Victor Flores‐Ocampo, Santiago Díaz‐Torres, Zuriel Ceja, Luis M. García‐Marín, Scott F. Farrell, Kishore R. Kumar, Jane Alty, George D. Mellick, Trung Thành Ngô, Miguel E. Rentería   +13 more
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Implementation Smart City Concepts for Mobility, Case Study of World Logistic Models on the Smart Principles

Logi, 2020
The aim of the article is to present the logistic models of world cities, their benefits and limitations, which serve as best practices for others, which are based on a secondary analysis of case studies.
Šulyová Dominika, Vodák Josef, Koman Gabriel   +2 more
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Pre‐Diagnostic Features of Multiple Sclerosis in a Diverse UK Cohort: A Nested Case–Control Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Many patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) experience nonspecific symptoms prior to diagnosis. This period—the 'MS prodrome'—has been described in socio‐economically homogeneous cohorts to date. It remains unclear to what extent events prior to an MS diagnosis differ according to social determinants of health. Methods We conducted a
Pooja Tank, Benjamin M. Jacobs, Jonathan Bestwick, Ruth Dobson   +3 more
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Genetic Modifiers of Parkinson's Disease: A Case–Control Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine the associations of LRRK2 p.G2019S, GBA1 p.N409S, polygenic risk scores (PRS), and APOE E4 on PD penetrance, risk, and symptoms. Methods We conducted a US‐based observational case–control study using data from the 23andMe Inc. and Fox Insight Genetic Substudy (FIGS) databases.
Matthew J. Kmiecik, Michael V. Holmes, Pierre Fontanillas, Giulietta M. Riboldi, Ruth B. Schneider, Jingchunzi Shi, Anna Guan, Susana Tat, Steven Micheletti, Keaton Stagaman, Josh Gottesman, David A. Hinds, Joyce Y. Tung, 23andMe Research Team, Stella Aslibekyan, Lucy Norcliffe‐Kaufmann   +15 more
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Building an international precision medicine platform trial for the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS): an expert consensus project report

Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation
Background Almost all large-scale trials of disease-modifying therapeutic agents in critical care have failed to show benefit for patients, which may be explained in part by the clinical and biological heterogeneity inherent in virtually all critical ...
Kiran Reddy, Neil Aggarwal, Narges Alipanah-Lechner, Djillali Annane, David B Antcliffe, Daphne Babalis, J Kenneth Baillie, Abigail Beane, Lieuwe DJ Bos, Aidan Burrell, Carolyn S Calfee, Kiki Cano-Gamez, Victoria R Cornelius, Mary Cross, Emma Davenport, Lorenzo del Sorbo, Laura Esserman, Eddy Fan, Vito Fanelli, Niall D Ferguson, D Clark Files, Christoph Fisser, Shigeki Fujitani, Ewan C Goligher, Anthony C Gordon, Giacomo Grasselli, Fergus Hamilton, Rashan Haniffa, Andrea Haren, Daniel JR Harvey, Leanne M Hays, Anna Heath, Nicholas Heming, Susanne Herold, Tim Hicks, Nao Ichihara, Vinod Jaiswal, Jun Kataoka, Julian C Knight, Patrick R Lawler, Kathleen Liu, John C Marshall, David M Maslove, Michael A Matthay, Daniel F McAuley, Nuala J Meyer, Jonathan A Millar, Holger Müller-Redetzky, Alistair Nichol, John Norrie, Marlies Ostermann, Andrew Owen, Cecilia M O’Kane, Dhruv Parekh, Rachel Phillips, Duncan Richards, Bram Rochwerg, Anthony J Rostron, Hiroki Saito, Romit J Samanta, Vittorio Scaravilli, Wesley Self, Manu Shankar-Hari, A John Simpson, Pratik Sinha, Marry R Smit, Jonathan Stewart, B Taylor Thompson, István Vadász, Ed Waddingham, Steve Webb, Graham Wheeler, D Martin Witzenrath, Mark M Wurfel, Thomas R Martin   +74 more
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Prediction of Kidney Graft Rejection Using Artificial Neural Network [PDF]

Healthcare Informatics Research, 2017
ObjectivesKidney transplantation is the best renal replacement therapy for patients with end-stage renal disease. Several studies have attempted to identify predisposing factors of graft rejection; however, the results have been inconsistent. We aimed to
Leili Tapak, Omid Hamidi, Payam Amini, Jalal Poorolajal   +3 more
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Characteristics of Cerebral Palsy in the Midwestern US

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common lifelong motor disability worldwide. Yet, data is limited on how CP manifests in the US. Our objective was to characterize and determine factors affecting functional outcomes in a large population of young people with CP in the Midwestern US.
Susie Kim, Kelsey Steffen, Lauren Gottschalk‐Henneberry, Jennifer Miros, Amy Robichaux‐Viehoever, Karen Taca, Bhooma R. Aravamuthan   +6 more
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