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ABC-GOALScl score predicts admission to the intensive care unit and mortality of COVID-19 patients over 60 years of age

BMC Geriatrics, 2023
Background One of the risk factors for getting seriously ill from COVID-19 and reaching high mortality rates is older age. Older age is also associated with comorbidities, which are risk factors for severe COVID-19 infection.
María Elena Camacho-Moll, Zayra Ramírez-Daher, Brenda Leticia Escobedo-Guajardo, Julio César Dávila-Valero, Brenda Ludmila Rodríguez-de la Garza, Mario Bermúdez de León   +5 more
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A 71-Year-Old Man From Ecuador With a History of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia and Lung Cavitation Associated With Triple Infection With , , and

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2022
Unvaccinated patients with comorbidities that impair the immune function, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, are more likely to develop severe COVID-19. The COVID-19-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome has raised new concerns in intensive care ...
Killen H. Briones-Claudett MD, MSc, Mónica H. Briones-Claudett MSc, MD, Francisco Javier Cordova Loor MD, MSc, Roger Alexander Murillo Vasconez MD, Carolina del Rosario Rivera Salas MD, Cynthia K. Bajaña Huilcapi MD, Domenica F. Estupinan Vargas MD, Stalin E. Rodriguez Garcia MD, Jaime Benitez Sólis MD, MSc, Killen H. Briones Zamora MS, Diana C. Briones Marquez MD, Michelle Grunauer MD, PhD   +11 more
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Social engineering: Concepts, Techniques and Security Countermeasures [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
The purpose of this report is to research the topic called Social Engineering in Cyber Security and present the explanation of the meaning, concepts, techniques, and security countermeasures of Social Engineering based on factual academic research.
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Health spillover studies of long-term care insurance in China: evidence from spousal caregivers from disabled families

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023
Background To alleviate the shortage of caregivers associated with disabled persons, China has implemented a pilot policy for long-term care insurance. This policy has the characteristics of "familialization" and "de-familialization" policy orientation ...
Wenjing Jiang, Hongyan Yang
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Adverse Selection in the Annuity Market and the Role for Social Security

Journal of Political Economy, 2015
I study the role of social security in providing insurance when there is adverse selection in the annuity market. I calculate welfare gain from mandatory annuitization in the social security system relative to a laissez-faire benchmark, using a model in ...
R. Hosseini
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Measurement of Gallbladder Volume with Ultrasonography in Pregnant Women

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2000
Fasting and postprandial gallbladder volumes were investigated using ultrasonography in three groups (10 subjects in each) of healthy women: third trimester pregnant women, postpartum women up to 10 days after giving birth and nonpregnant controls.
Sait Kapicioglu, Sevgi Gürbüz, Ahmet Danalioglu, Ömer Sentürk, Mehmet Uslu   +4 more
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Aging, Social Security Design, and Capital Accumulation

Social Science Research Network, 2015
This paper analyzes the impact of aging on capital accumulation and welfare in a country with a sizable unfunded social security system. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with endogenous retirement decisions, the paper shows that the type ...
Antoine Dedry, Harun Onder, P. Pestieau
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Exploiting Data Sparsity in Secure Cross-Platform Social Recommendation [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Social recommendation has shown promising improvements over traditional systems since it leverages social correlation data as an additional input. Most existing work assumes that all data are available to the recommendation platform. However, in practice, user-item interaction data (e.g.,rating) and user-user social data are usually generated by ...
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An Unusual Case of Severe Pneumonia Caused Due With a Favorable Clinical Response to Antifungals in a Nonimmunocompromised Patient From the Community

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2023
Severe pneumonia due to Candida tropicalis infection mainly occurs in immunosuppressed patients or those currently receiving broad-spectrum antibiotics. Herein, we report a case of severe pneumonia caused due to C tropicalis in an elderly patient.
Killen H. Briones-Claudett MD, MSc, H. Mónica Briones-Claudett MSc, MD, Roger Alexander Murillo Vasconez MD, Cynthia K. Bajaña Huilcapi MD, Carolina del Rosario Rivera Salas MD, Jaime Benitez Sólis MD, MSc, Domenica F. Estupinan Vargas MD, Henry Parra-Vera MSc, Killen H. Briones Zamora MS, Diana C. Briones Marquez MD, Michelle Grunauer MD, PhD   +10 more
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Social Media Networks Attacks and their Preventive Mechanisms: A Review [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
We live in a virtual world where actual lifestyles are replicated. The growing reliance on the use of social media networks worldwide has resulted in great concern for information security. One of the factors popularizing the social media platforms is how they connect people worldwide to interact, share content, and engage in mutual interactions of ...
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