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Relationship of troponins with in-hospital mortality in adults with covid-19 in a colombian caribbean city: a nested case-control study

Microbes, Infection and Chemotherapy, 2023
Background: myocardial injury, characterized by elevated cardiac troponin levels, is a common finding in severe COVID-19 cases, occurring in up to 38% of patients. It has been identified as an independent predictor of mortality. Objective: our aim is to
MARIA CLARA OSPINO GUERRA, Carlos H. Murgas-Cañas, Jessica L. Ospino-Guzman, Lourdes Varela-Prieto, Rodolfo Cano-Rivera, Rusvelt Vargas-Moranth   +5 more
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Abnormal eye movements: relationship with clinical symptoms and predictive value for Alzheimer’s disease

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
BackgroundAbnormal eye movements occur at the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the characteristics of abnormal eye movements of patients with AD and their relationship with clinical symptoms remain inconsistent, and their predictive ...
Jing Qi, Tenghong Lian, Peng Guo, Mingyue He, Jinghui Li, Jing Li, Dongmei Luo, Yanan Zhang, Yue Huang, Yue Huang, Gaifen Liu, Gaifen Liu, Zijing Zheng, Huiying Guan, Weijia Zhang, Hao Yue, Zhan Liu, Fan Zhang, Yao Meng, Ruidan Wang, Wenjing Zhang, Wei Zhang, Wei Zhang, Wei Zhang   +23 more
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Diagnostic efficacy and importance of fine-needle aspiration cytology of thyroid nodules

Journal of Cytology, 2014
Background: Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in the diagnosis of thyroid nodules is an easy and cost-effective method. The increase in malignancy rates of the excised nodules due to the high sensitivity and specificity rates of the FNAC is ...
Asli Muratli, Nilsen Erdogan, Sezgin Sevim, Isik Unal, Serap Akyuz   +4 more
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Effect of Using Personalized Estimates of Diabetes Risk During Primary Care Visits for People With Prediabetes

Learning Health Systems
Background To assess acceptability, feasibility, and effectiveness of incorporating individualized risk prediction into clinical assessment, decision making, and communication of risk of type 2 diabetes, with and without preventive interventions, in ...
Natalia Olchanski, Christine E. Skiro, Kristen Sonon, Sarah Kaus, Ericka C. Holmstrand, Elizabeth L. Ciemins, John K. Cuddeback, Francis R. Colangelo, David M. Kent   +8 more
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Brain functional magnetic resonance imaging in ICU patients who developed delirium

Frontiers in Physics
ObjectiveTo detect brain alterations in intensive care unit (ICU) patients who develop delirium using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and to determine their predictive value.MethodsFifty-two patients who ...
Ren-Jie Song, Fu-Jian Guo, Fu-Jian Guo, Xiao-Fei Huang, Mo Li, Yi-Yun Sun, An-Yong Yu, Tian-Xi Zhang   +7 more
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The relative value of operon predictions [PDF]

Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2008
For most organisms, computational operon predictions are the only source of genome-wide operon information. Operon prediction methods described in literature are based on (a combination of) the following five criteria: (i) intergenic distance, (ii) conserved gene clusters, (iii) functional relation, (iv) sequence elements and (v) experimental evidence.
Rutger W. W. Brouwer, Oscar P. Kuipers, Sacha A. F. T. van Hijum   +2 more
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Predictive biomarkers in the era of immunotherapy for gastric cancer: current achievements and future perspectives

Frontiers in Immunology
Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the primary contributors to cancer-related mortality on a global scale. It holds a position within the top five most prevalent malignancies both in terms of occurrence and fatality rates.
Fujing Sun, Xiaozhuo Gao, Wentao Wang, Xiaoyan Zhao, Xiaoyan Zhao, Jingdong Zhang, Yanmei Zhu   +6 more
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Relationship between preterm labor and the length of the cervical canal

Payesh, 2006
Objective (s): To determine the relationship between cervical length at 16 and 24 weeks of gestation and the occurrence of preterm labor. Methods: A prospective cohort study was performed on 153 pregnant women in two groups (75 and 78 person) after ...
Ghasemi A., Alimohammadian Sh., Davati A.   +2 more
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Association between multiple serum biomarkers and cerebral vasospasm in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

Frontiers in Neurology
BackgroundCerebral vasospasm (CVS) is a potentially life-threatening complication for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) patients, raising their risk of disability and mortality substantially.
Chenghao Yang, Fei Luo, Xi Chen, Yunliang Deng, Meirui Lan   +4 more
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Predictive Value of Lead Screening Practices

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1996
The prevalence of elevated blood lead levels and the accuracy of a lead screening questionnaire in an urban pediatric population were evaluated in the primary care clinics of 10 community health centers in the city and county of Denver, CO.
J Gordon Millichap
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