Latest AI and machine learning research in primary care for healthcare professionals.
BACKGROUND: Clinically significant portal hypertension (CSPH) drives decompensation and mortality in advanced chronic liver disease (ACLD). Although non-selective β-blockers (NSBB) reduce risk, accurate identification of patients with CSPH requires invasive hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) measurement. The non-invasive Baveno-VII CSPH criteria based on liver stiffness measurement (LSM) and ...
BACKGROUND: Youth-onset diabetes mellitus (DM) is an increasing public health concern, especially among adolescents facing socioeconomic challenges. Food insecurity (FI), a key social determinant of health, has been linked to adverse metabolic outcomes, but its association with youth-onset DM and the role of preventive care remain unclear. METHODS: Using repeated cross-sectional data from the Nati...
Artificial intelligence (AI) health-care technologies offer a means of addressing the growing gap between health-care capacity and demand. However, fe...
Obesity is a major health challenge resulting from the interaction of genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors. In recent years, several convent...
BACKGROUND: Lung cancer (LC) remains the deadliest cancer, often diagnosed at advanced stages. Screening reduces mortality in high-risk individuals. E...
To assess the feasibility of an electronic nose (e-nose) for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to classify respiratory diseases and establish a protoc...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) continues to outpace development of new therapeutics. Many interventions focus on treating infection after it occurs, b...
PURPOSE: This study aimed to evaluate the validity and feasibility of home obstructive sleep apnea screening using a sleep sound analysis smartphone a...
Despite advances in lipid-lowering and anti-inflammatory medications, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) continues to be the leading cause...
INTRODUCTION: The C-reactive protein to albumin ratio (CAR), an integrative biomarker of inflammation and malnutrition, has shown prognostic value in ...
BACKGROUND: Older adults in affordable housing face heightened risks of social isolation and loneliness due to limited social networks, transportation...
Moore, SR, Cantú, EI, Brantner, CL, Britton, ME, DelBiondo, GM, Blue, MNM, Bruinvels, G, Hackney, AC, Register-Mihalik, JK, and Smith-Ryan, AE. Using ...
The assessment of physical education programs is associated with various contradictory standards, ambiguity, and subjective judgment of the experts, a...
Quantifying muscle health at scale has been limited by the difficulty of segmenting individual muscles on MRI. We developed an automated 3D deep-learn...
Diabetes mellitus is a common type of metabolic illness that is very common worldwide, and in most cases, it results in serious effects like heart dis...
Oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs), particularly leukoplakia, represent critical precursors to oral cancer requiring systematic monitoring. ...
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), essential tremor (ET), multiple sclerosis (MS), and Parkinson's disease (PD) are c...
BACKGROUND: Heatstroke (HS) encompasses acute multi-organ dysfunction and increases susceptibility to subsequent heat-related conditions, making timel...
Diabetic retinopathy (DR), a major cause of blindness worldwide, poses a substantial and escalating burden on public health. The limitations of curren...
BACKGROUND: Hearing loss (HL) is common in older adults and is associated with substantial functional decline, yet community-based evidence on its det...