Geriatrics

Random field image representations speed up binary discrimination of brain scans and estimate a phenotype glioblastoma cancer cell model.

MRI brain scans alone are not a definitive measure of dementia. Deep-learning algorithms (DLA) and p...

Identification of shared mechanisms between Alzheimer's disease and atherosclerosis by integrated bioinformatics analysis.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) and atherosclerosis (AS) are two interacting diseases mostly affecting aged...

Association of sarcopenia with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in cancer patients: development and validation of a 3-year and 5-year survival prediction model.

BACKGROUND: Sarcopenia is a clinicopathological condition characterized by a decrease in muscle stre...

The value of radiomics features of white matter hyperintensities in diagnosing cognitive frailty: a study based on T2-FLAIR imaging.

BACKGROUND: White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are closely associated with cognitive frailty (CF)....

A Novel Dynamic Neural Network for Heterogeneity-Aware Structural Brain Network Exploration and Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis.

Heterogeneity is a fundamental characteristic of brain diseases, distinguished by variability not on...

A labeled dataset for osteoporosis screening based on electromagnetic attenuation.

Continuous Assessment of Daily-Living Gait Using Self-Supervised Learning of Wrist-Worn Accelerometer Data.

Physical activity and mobility are critical for healthy aging and predict diverse health outcomes. W...

Digital health technologies in swallowing care from screening to rehabilitation: A narrative review.

OBJECTIVES: Digital health technologies (DHTs) have rapidly advanced in the past two decades, throug...

12-Month trajectories of physical and mental symptom scores after COVID-19 hospitalization and their role in predicting "very long" COVID.

BACKGROUND: Long COVID syndrome (LCS) represents a significant global health challenge due to its wi...

Resting-State Functional MRI Reveals Altered Seed-Based Connectivity in Diabetic Osteoporosis Patients.

BACKGROUND: Diabetic osteoporosis (DOP) can cause abnormal brain neural activity, but its mechanism ...

Predicting Postoperative Blood Transfusion in Elderly Patients Undergoing Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Using Machine Learning Models.

PURPOSE: With the aging population, the demand for total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthr...

A web-based tool for predicting gastric ulcers in Chinese elderly adults based on machine learning algorithms and noninvasive predictors: A national cross-sectional and cohort study.

BACKGROUND: As the Chinese population continues to age, the prevalence of gastric ulcers, a common n...

A pathway-informed disease-related gene identification approach and its application to screen novel risk genes for Alzheimer's disease.

BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a severe neurodegenerative disorder, yet its molecular mecha...

Adaptive Diversity Induced Reweighting for long-tailed classification.

Real-world large-scale data often exhibit a long-tailed distribution, making a classifier difficult ...

Informal caregivers' attitudes towards care robots: A mixed methods systematic review.

BACKGROUND: Care Robots (CRs) are capable of performing a multitude of caregiving tasks, demonstrati...

Uncemented hip arthroplasty and denosumab: increased postoperative dipeptide concentrations and identification of potential new bone turnover biomarkers.

Denosumab is a potent antagonist of RANKL and is widely used to treat severe postmenopausal osteopor...

A Comparison of Machine Learning-Based Models and a Simple Clinical Bedside Tool to Predict Morbidity and Mortality After Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery in the Elderly.

Frailty in the elderly population is associated with increased vulnerability to stressors, including...

Layer-Specific Colocalization of Microglia with Amyloid Plaques in the Middle Temporal Gyrus Predicts Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Disease.

Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, is marked by cognitive decline and amylo...

Gender-specific sarcopenia screening in hemodialysis: insights from lower limb strength and physiological indicators.

OBJECTIVE: Maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients often suffer from sarcopenia, affecting lower lim...

A review on adverse drug reaction related to medication in health sector: an account of what we have discovered and implemented-pharmacovigilance.

Despite the extensive research on medication-related adverse events (MRAEs) in healthcare, the asses...

Functional MRI Analysis of Cortical Regions to Distinguish Lewy Body Dementia From Alzheimer's Disease.

OBJECTIVE: Cortical regions such as parietal area H (PH) and the fundus of the superior temporal sul...