BACKGROUND: Post-COVID-19 condition is emerging as a new epidemic, characterized by the persistence of COVID-19 symptoms beyond 3 months, and is anticipated to substantially alter the lives of millions of people globally. Patients with severe episode...
BACKGROUND: Hyperglycemic crisis is one of the most common and severe complications of diabetes mellitus, associated with a high motarlity rate. Emergency admissions due to hyperglycemic crisis remain prevalent and challenging. This study aimed to de...
INTRODUCTION: Khat chewing is a significant public health issue in Ethiopia, influenced by various demographic factors. Understanding the prevalence and determinants of khat chewing practices is essential to developing targeted interventions. Therefo...
This study explores the development of a deep learning model using a neck-wearable piezoelectric sensor to accurately distinguish severe sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) from habitual snoring, addressing the underdiagnosis of SAS in adults. From 2018 to 20...
OBJECTIVE: A report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information found unplanned hospital readmissions (UHR) common, costly, and potentially avoidable, estimating a $1.8 billion cost to the Canadian healthcare system associated with inpatient r...
BACKGROUND: Current treatment paradigms assume aortic regurgitation (AR) patients to be a homogenous population, but varied courses of disease progression and outcomes are observed clinically.
BACKGROUND: Early detection of clinical deterioration using machine-learning early warning scores may improve outcomes. However, most implemented scores were developed using logistic regression, only underwent retrospective validation, and were not t...
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have achieved expert-level performance in medical imaging applications. Notably, self-supervised vision-language foundation models can detect a broad spectrum of pathologies without relying on explicit trainin...
Chronic pain is prevalent and disproportionately impacts adults with a lower quality of life. Although subjective self-reporting is the "gold standard" for pain assessment, tools are needed to objectively monitor and account for inter-individual diff...
BACKGROUND: Undifferentiated arthritis (UA) often develops into rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but predicting disease progression from seronegative UA remains challenging because seronegative RA often does not meet the classification criteria. This study...