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Endoscopic small bowel therapies for type 2 diabetes
Nutrition in Clinical Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Type 2 diabetes is a global epidemic despite current medical treatments. Many patients are not responsive to medications, and patients with obesity are hesitant about bariatric surgery. Studies investigating the metabolic effects of Roux‐en‐Y gastric bypass have increasingly demonstrated that the duodenum plays a key role in the ...
Roma Patel +4 more
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Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences, 2020 Background/aim Malnutrition is an important and commonly seen prognostic factor in patients with cirrhosis. The diagnosis of malnutrition in cirrhosis patients may be challenging, and an easily measured and widely usable marker is lacking.
Zuhal Dağ +2 more
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Estimation of malnutrition prevalence using administrative data: Not as simple as it seems. [PDF]
, 2015 Estimation of malnutrition prevalence using administrative data: Not as simple as it ...
Khalatbari-Soltani, S. +2 more
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A CHANGED VIEW OF SERUM PREALBUMIN IN THE ELDERLY: PREALBUMIN VALUES INFLUENCED BY CONCOMITANT INFLAMMATION [PDF]
Biomedical Papers, 2007 We are currently witnessing changes in views on the evaluation of serum proteins. A decrease may signal not only malnutrition. It may also be an indicator of simultaneously occurring inflammatory disease. Prealbumin, due to its short half-life, is a suitable indicator of changes in protein-energy balance, but its levels show, as with other serum ...
Dana, Hrnciarikova +7 more
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World Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programs are increasingly recognized as effective pathways to improve perioperative outcomes, yet their implementation across Latin America and the Caribbean remains poorly mapped. Understanding current strategies, clinical results, and economic implications is essential to identify regional gaps and guide ...
Lucas Ferreira Gomes Pereira +6 more
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021 Aim: The present study was established to investigate the use of the serum cystatin C/prealbumin (Cys-C/PAB) ratio as a predictive factor for long-term prognosis in patients with chronic heart failure.Methods: We divided our retrospective cohort of 6,311
Chuanhe Wang +5 more
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Sarcopenic Obesity: Correlation with Clinical, Functional, and Psychological Status in a Rehabilitation Setting [PDF]
, 2014 Obesity and sarcopenia combination, appropriately defined as sarcopenic obesity (SO), due to disproportionally reduced/low lean body mass compared to excess fat mass, may lead to disability.
DONINI, Lorenzo Maria +5 more
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Prealbumin: its association with amyloid. [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Pathology, 1987 In recent years prealbumin has been shown to be a major component of two forms of systemic amyloid, senile systemic amyloid (SSA), and familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP). Despite the fact that the amyloid fibril proteins associated with these two forms of amyloid, designated ASc1 and AF, respectively, share many similarities the clinical ...
G G, Cornwell +4 more
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Journal of Hepatocellular Carcinoma, 2023 Lin Xu,* Dongxu Zhao,* Pengcheng Tian,* Jiaan Ding,* Zhengyu Jiang, Guanyin Ni, Zhongheng Hou, Caifang Ni Department of Interventional Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China&ast ...
Xu L +7 more
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, 1982 Monthly newsletter providing updates of interest to the Boston University School of Medicine community.In Print, a listing of Boston University School of Medicine faculty ...
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