Latest AI and machine learning research in primary care for healthcare professionals.
BACKGROUND: While older adults' social media use has been widely studied for its instrumental benefits, such as accessing health information or maintaining family ties, research has largely focused on identity-based platforms that mirror offline social networks, leaving pseudonymous, interest-driven environments such as Reddit underexplored. Although older adults actively participate in these spac...
BACKGROUND: The management of type 2 diabetes requires sustained self-management across diet, physical activity, medication adherence, and blood glucose monitoring; however, maintaining these behaviors in daily life remains difficult for many patients. Artificial intelligence-enabled and mobile health interventions have shown promise in supporting diabetes education and self-management, but eviden...
OBJECTIVE: To develop and externally validate a multimodal artificial intelligence framework for opportunistic detection of preclinical type 2 diabete...
CONTEXT: Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) remains a major therapeutic challenge, affecting millions of patients globally who do not respond to convention...
BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a complex, chronic condition that imposes a substantial burden on health care systems. Prevention and early detec...
INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: Despite advances in AI-based periodontitis screening, quantifiable and interpretable biomarkers from intraoral photographs rema...
AIMS: To evaluate whether predominantly peripheral lesions (PPLs) and other imaging biomarkers on ultra-widefield (UWF) photography can predict the pr...
Nerve pain screening in patients with headache disorders requires specialized clinical knowledge that is frequently not readily accessible at the init...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has become a major global public health issue. Due to its insidious onset and atypical early symptoms, patients often fai...
Kidney stone disease is a significant public health threat, with its prevalence escalating due to evolving dietary habits, rising rates of obesity, ot...
INTRODUCTION: Healthcare systems worldwide face unprecedented challenges, including escalating costs, workforce shortages, and access disparities, whi...
Red blood cell distribution width (RDW)-derived indicators have increasingly been recognized as biomarkers reflecting systemic inflammation and hemato...
Early non-invasive prediction of cardiovascular risk is an essential prerequisite for preventive medicine, especially in resource-limited settings. Re...
BACKGROUND: Aortic arch calcification (AoAC) is an established independent predictor of coronary heart disease and broader cardiovascular outcomes. We...
BACKGROUND: Lean metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is increasingly recognized but often goes unnoticed during health checku...
BACKGROUND: The rising incidence of youth-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), along with the risk of early cardiovascular complications, is concern...
BACKGROUND: Parkinson's disease (PD) exhibits substantial heterogeneity in clinical presentation and longitudinal progression, complicating prognosis,...
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Dilong, the dried body of Pheretima aspergillum, is a classic traditional Chinese medicine that has been clinically us...
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most prevalent genetic cardiac disease and a leading cause of heart failure, arrhythmia, and sudden cardiac d...
BACKGROUND: American Indian and Alaska Native communities experience disproportionately high suicide rates. While machine learning (ML) models leverag...