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(JAMA Network Open, 2019-04)IMPORTANCE Asia is home to the largest diabetic populations in the world. However, limited studies have quantified the association of diabetes with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Asian populations. OBJECTIVES ...
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(JAMA Network Open, 2019-11)IMPORTANCE Despite the rapidly changing policy environment regarding substance use during pregnancy, information is lacking on the association of state policies with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). OBJECTIVE To ...
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(JAMA Network Open, 2019-05)IMPORTANCE The American Heart Association 2020 Strategic Impact Goals target an improvement in overall cardiovascular health, as assessed by 7 health metrics (smoking, body weight, physical activity, diet, plasma glucose ...
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(BMJ Open, 2019-10)Objective To explore how three indicators of social capital (ie, group membership, social support and cognitive social capital and specific types within each type) are associated with infant birth weight. Study design ...
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(Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2019)Purpose: Recent studies have found associations of increased brain amyloid beta (A beta) accumulation and several abnormal sleep-wake patterns, including shorter latency and increased fragmentation in preclinical Alzheimer's ...
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(Journal Of Happiness Studies, 2022-12-17)Psychological well-being is linked to healthy aging in older women, but associations with health behaviors are not well understood. Our study aims to evaluate the relationships between objectively-measured physical behavior ...
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(Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2019-11)Background. Loiasis is mostly considered a relatively benign infection when compared with other filarial and parasitic diseases, with Calabar swellings and eyeworm being the most common signs. Yet, there are numerous reports ...
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(2018-03-23)Pseudarthrosis following spinal fusion remains problematic despite modern surgical and grafting techniques. In surgical spinal fusion, new bone forms via intramembranous and endochondral ossification, with endochondral ...
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(Chest, 2022-06-15)BACKGROUND: Combination intrapleural fibrinolytic and enzyme therapy (IET) has been established as a therapeutic option in pleural infection. Despite demonstrated efficacy, studies specifically designed and adequately ...
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(Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019-08-07)Exposure to social stress is a well-established risk factor for the development and recurrence of depression. Reduced neural responsiveness to monetary reward has been associated with greater symptoms following stress ...
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(Neuroimage, 2020-04-15)The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) is emerging as a critical region in multiple psychiatric disorders including anxiety, PTSD, and alcohol and substance use disorders. In conjunction with growing knowledge of ...
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(2018-12-29)Bone fractures create five problems that must be resolved: bleeding, risk of infection, hypoxia, disproportionate strain, and inability to bear weight. There have been enormous advancements in our understanding of the ...
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(Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 2022-12-17)Background: This study examined neuropathological findings of patients who died following hospitalization in an intensive care unit with SARS-CoV-2.Methods: Data originate from 20 decedents who underwent brain autopsy ...
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(NEPHROLOGY DIALYSIS TRANSPLANTATION, 2019-05)Kidney transplantation (KT) is the optimal therapy for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), resulting in significant improvement in survival as well as quality of life when compared with maintenance dialysis. The burden of ...
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(Frontiers in Immunology, 2019-08-13)Multiple effector layers in the immune system ensure an optimal temporal and spatial distribution of immune defense. Cytotoxic innate lymphoid natural killers (NK) and adaptive CD8(+) T lymphocytes (CTL) interact to elicit ...
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(NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, 2019-05)The t(8;21) is one of the most frequent chromosomal translocations associated with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We found that t(8; 21) AML were extremely sensitive to THZ1, which triggered apoptosis after only 4 h. We ...
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(Annals of Global Health, 2019-06)Background: Contextual research evidence is needed to reduce morbidity and mortality due to chronic but preventable diseases in low- and middle-income countries. Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is particularly ...
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(BMJ Open, 2019-06)Objectives (1) To compare changes in vulnerability after hospital discharge among older patients with cardiovascular disease who were discharged home with self-care versus a home healthcare (HHC) referral and (2) to examine ...
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(Respiratory Reserarch, 2019-06-10)BackgroundSingle birth cohort studies have been the basis for many discoveries about early life risk factors for childhood asthma but are limited in scope by sample size and characteristics of the local environment and ...
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(Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 2020-01)Background We determined the association between ratios of plasma ceramide species of differing fatty-acyl chain lengths and incident dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia in a large, community-based sample. Methods ...