BACKGROUND: Conversational agents (CAs) are increasingly used as a promising tool for scalable, accessible, and personalized self-management support of people with a chronic disease. Studies of CAs for self-management of chronic disease operate withi...
BACKGROUND: Managing chronic illness effectively depends not only on treatment availability but also on patients' ability to adhere to prescribed medications.
BACKGROUND: We aimed to quantify hepatic vessel volumes across chronic liver disease stages and healthy controls using deep learning-based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) analysis, and assess correlations with biomarkers for liver (dys)function and ...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Aug 9, 2025
BACKGROUND: Chronic wounds (CWs) represent a significant and growing challenge in healthcare due to their prolonged healing times, complex management, and associated costs. Inadequate wound assessment by healthcare professionals (HCPs), often due to ...
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Aug 2, 2025
OBJECTIVE: Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability, significantly impacting patients' mobility and quality of life. Robot-assisted gait therapy (RAGT) and high-intensity interval training (HIIT) have individually shown potential in improvin...
OBJECTIVE: This study examined the prevalence of pre-existing chronic conditions and their association with the receipt of specific cancer-directed treatments among older adults with incident primary Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC) using novel predictive...
OBJECTIVE: Chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) share common risk factors and frequently co-occur, leading to poorer outcomes. Life's Essential 8 (LE8), a novel metric for cardiovascular health, may provide insights i...
BACKGROUND: Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors have been identified as a major cause of numerous health issues, with a steady global increase in their prevalence. Addressing this challenge requires comprehensive behavioral changes to promote the adoption ...
Accurate monitoring of chronic wound progression is crucial for assessing healing dynamics. However, the current manual process of tissue segmentation and quantification, which is an indicator of the healing progress, is time-consuming and subject to...
Gut microbiota has been implicated in the pathogenesis of multiple gastrointestinal (GI) and systemic metabolic and inflammatory disorders where disrupted gut microbiota composition and function (dysbiosis) has been found in multiple studies. Thus, h...
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