Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Dec 22, 2015
OBJECTIVES: Inconsistent findings have been published regarding vitamin D status among patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and the association with disease severity. We aimed to perform a meta-analysis evaluating serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D and 1,25 de...
BACKGROUND: Despite advances in pain management, inadequate pain relief and opioid-related adverse events remain common challenges in perioperative care, often contributing to prolonged recovery and reduced quality of life. The perioperative opioid a...
In longitudinal observational studies with time-varying confounders, the generalized computation algorithm formula (g-formula) is a principled tool to estimate the average causal effect of a treatment regimen. However, the standard non-iterative g-fo...
IMPORTANCE: Norepinephrine is the first-line vasopressor for patients with septic shock. When and whether a second agent, such as vasopressin, should be added is unknown.
INTRODUCTION: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a proven effective treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD). However, titrating DBS stimulation parameters is a labourious process and requires frequent hospital visits. Additionally, its current applicatio...
INTRODUCTION: Anaemia during pregnancy is a widespread health burden globally, especially in low- and middle-income countries, posing a serious risk to both maternal and neonatal health. The primary challenge is that anaemia is frequently undetected ...
BACKGROUND: Residual confounding presents a persistent challenge in observational studies, particularly in high-dimensional settings. High-dimensional proxy adjustment methods, such as the high-dimensional propensity score (hdPS), are widely used to ...
INTRODUCTION: Chuna manual therapy (CMT) is a type of manual medicine practiced by Korean medical doctors in South Korea. Spinal diagnosis in CMT uses a system that applies manual diagnostic and X-ray tests to detect specific vertebral malpositions, ...
An increasing number of recent studies have suggested that doubly robust estimators with cross-fitting should be used when estimating causal effects with machine learning methods. However, not all existing programs that implement doubly robust estima...
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