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(Journal of the American Heart Association, 2019-09-23)Background-Identification of occult diastolic dysfunction often requires invasive right heart catheterization with provocative maneuvers such as fluid challenge. Non-invasive predictors of occult diastolic dysfunction have ...
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(Public Health Nutrition, 2020-02)Objective: The present study aimed to examine the association between dietary pattern and the risk of high blood pressure (BP) and to estimate the attenuated effect by gender and obesity on the association using data from ...
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(BMJ Open, 2019-11)Introduction Non-attendance and delay in vaccination schedules remain a big challenge to healthcare workers. With the continuous growth of mobile network coverage and exponential penetration of mobile devices in the ...
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(Journal of Food Science and Technology-Mysore, 2020-01)The goal was to assess the effects of partial replacement of wholemeal rye flour with 30%, 40% and 50% of the high-fibre rye flour (HFRF) on nutritional quality and sensory and physicochemical characteristics of breads. ...
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(BMJ-British Medical Journal, 2019-09-11)OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of Helicobacter pylori treatment, vitamin supplementation, and garlic supplementation in the prevention of gastric cancer. DESIGN Blinded randomized placebo controlled trial. S ...
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(Hypertension, 2020-02)While hypertension and inflammation are physiologically inter-related, the effect of therapies that specifically target inflammation on blood pressure is uncertain. The recent CANTOS (Canakinumab Anti-inflammatory Thrombosis ...
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(Endoscopy International Open, 2020-03)Background and study aims Standard endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) of ileocecal valve (ICV) polyps is challenging. Cap-assisted endoscopic mucosal resection (C-EMR) can be performed when polyps are not easily amenable ...
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(JCO Precision Oncology, 2019-06-27)PURPOSE To study whether BRAF V600 mutations in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) may indicate sensitivity to the BRAF inhibitor vemurafenib, we included a cohort of patients with NSCLC in the vemurafenib basket (VE-BASKET) ...
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(Annals of Global Health, 2019)Objectives: To examine the job search, employment experiences, and job availability of recent global health-focused master's level graduates. Methods: An online survey was conducted from October to December 2016 based ...
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(Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, 2019-07)Objective- Activation of coagulation FXI (factor XI) by FXIIa (activated factor XII) is a prothrombotic process. The endothelium is known to play an antithrombotic role by limiting thrombin generation and platelet activation. ...
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(Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 2020-05)Background Teduglutide response, in terms of parenteral support (PS) volume reduction, is associated with specific disease characteristics among adults with short bowel syndrome-associated intestinal failure (SBS-IF). ...
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Epidemiological Characterists of Advanced Hepatocellular Cardinoma in the Northern Region of Vietnam (Cancer Control, 2019-07-10)Epidemiological characteristics of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Southern Vietnam has been well reported as in Globocan 2018 while data from the North has still not been fully presented. Therefore, we conducted this ...
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(Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2019-09-20)The extensive application of engineered nanomaterial (ENM) in various fields increases the possibilities of human exposure, thus imposing a huge risk of nanotoxicity. Hence, there is an urgent need for a detailed risk ...
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(Translational Psychiatry, 2020-02-03)Early life adversity and insecure attachment style are known risk factors for perinatal depression. The biological pathways linking these experiences, however, have not yet been elucidated. We hypothesized that overlap in ...
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(Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology, 2019-09)Background: Patients with gastrointestinal cancers and brain metastases (BM) represent a unique and heterogeneous population. Our group previously published the Diagnosis-Specific Graded Prognostic Assessment (DS-GPA) for ...
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(Clinincal Epidemiology, 2020)Purpose: Mortality among first-year hemodialysis (HD) patients remains unacceptably high. To address this problem, we estimate the proportions of early HD deaths that are potentially preventable by modifying known risk ...
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(Endoscopy International Open, 2019-09)Background and study aims Our academic lab has developed a novel, low-cost, disposable endoscope for assessment of the esophagus and stomach without need for large equipment or complex electronics. Usability and intuitiveness ...
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(Journals of Gerontology Series A-Biiological Sciences and Medicall Sciences, 2019-08)Background: It is unknown whether observational studies evaluating the association between antidiabetic medications and mortality adequately account for frailty. Our objectives were to evaluate if frailty was a potential ...
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(Advances in Therapy, 2019-09)Introduction As continuous exposure to anticholinergics has been associated with adverse outcomes, accurately measuring exposure is important. However, no gold standard measure is available, and the performance of existing ...
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(Trials, 2020-01-09)Background Ketogenic and low-glycemic-index diets are effective in treating drug-resistant seizures in children with Angelman syndrome. Cognition, mobility, sleep, and gastrointestinal health are intrinsically linked to ...