BACKGROUND: Lipid metabolism disorder, as one major complication in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), is tied to an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Traditional lipid-lowering statins have been found to have limited benefit ...
Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology : the journal of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Jan 7, 2022
The aim of this study is to analyse the determinants of women's vaginal dryness using machine learning. Data came from Korea University Anam Hospital in Seoul, Republic of Korea, with 3298 women, aged 40-80 years, who attended their general health ch...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Adequate serum phosphorus levels in patients with chronic kidney disease is essential for their clinical management. However, the control of hyperphosphatemia is difficult because is normally associated with increases in ser...
OBJECTIVE: To explore the feasibility of using random forest (RF) machine learning algorithm in assessing normal and malignant peripheral pulmonary nodules based on in vivo endobronchial optical coherence tomography (EB-OCT).
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
Sep 8, 2021
Obesity is associated with chronic inflammation, intestinal dysbiosis, and colorectal cancer risk. The anti-cancer effects of kefir are highlighted. Here, lactating Wistar rats were divided into: Normal litter (NL); Kefir normal litter (KNL); Small l...
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), the contribution of pathophysiological mechanisms other than amyloidosis and tauopathy is now widely recognized, although not clearly quantifiable by means of fluid biomarkers. We aimed to identify quantifiable protein bi...
While many diseases of aging have been linked to the immunological system, immune metrics capable of identifying the most at-risk individuals are lacking. From the blood immunome of 1,001 individuals aged 8-96 years, we developed a deep-learning meth...
BACKGROUND: Heart failure (HF) is associated with chronic inflammation, which is adversely associated with survival. Although sex-related differences in inflammation have been described in patients with HF, whether sex-related differences in inflamma...
Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology
May 18, 2021
Delayed graft function (DGF) is a strong risk factor for development of interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IFTA) in kidney transplants. Quantitative assessment of inflammatory infiltrates in kidney biopsies of DGF patients can reveal predicti...
Journal of gastrointestinal and liver diseases : JGLD
Mar 12, 2021
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Mucosal healing (MH) is associated with a stable course of Crohn's disease (CD) which can be assessed by confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE). To minimize the operator's errors and automate assessment of CLE images, we used a deep...
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