OBJECTIVE: Prophylactic central lymph node dissection(CLND) is a controversial issue in papillary thyroid microcarcinoma( PTMC) patients without lymphatic metastasis. Artificial neural network(ANN) has been proposed as an alternative statistical tech...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
A dissertation project at the Witten/Herdecke University [1] is investigating which (nursing sensitive) patient characteristics are suitable for predicting a higher or lower degree of nursing workload. For this research project four predictive modell...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
The study demonstrated an application of machine learning techniques in building a depression prediction model. We used the NSHAP II data (3,377 subjects and 261 variables) and built the models using a logistic regression with and without L1 regulari...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
: Fatty liver disease (FLD) is considered the most prevalent form of chronic liver disease worldwide. The prediction of fatty liver disease is an important factor for effective treatment and reduce serious health consequences. We, therefore construct...
Restorative neurology and neuroscience
Jan 1, 2018
BACKGROUND: Robotic walking training improves probability to reach an autonomous walking in non-ambulant patients affected by subacute stroke. However, little information is available regarding the prognostic factors for identifying best responder pa...
BACKGROUND: Available therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) can only alleviate and delay the advance of symptoms, with the greatest impact eventually achieved when provided at an early stage. Thus, early identification of which subjects at high risk...
Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University
Dec 1, 2017
BACKGROUND: Osteoprotegerin (OPG) is an arterial calcification marker which has been associated with vascular damage. Elevated OPG concentrations associated with low-grade inflammatory processes are found in diabetic subjects.
PURPOSE: A possible association between metformin use and the development of prostate cancer (PCa) has been reported. However, there is limited information on the impact of long-term metformin use on serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels. We i...
We aimed to investigate the dose-response associations between chronic kidney disease (CKD), and short and long-term cardiovascular outcomes, to characterize these associations by drawing dose-response curves based on a Chinese rural ST-segment eleva...
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