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Arterial stiffness and 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in chronic kidney disease patients.

Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) Oct 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: Arterial stiffness refers to arterial wall rigidity, particularly developing in central vessels. Arterial stiffness increases in early stage chronic kidney disease (CKD), and it is a strong predictor of cardiovascular and all cause mortali...
Statistics, Nonparametric Reference Values Turkey Sex Factors Radioimmunoassay Reference Standards Vitamin D Deficiency Blood Pressure Vascular Stiffness Pulse Wave Analysis Humans Female Prevalence Aged Time Factors Cross-Sectional Studies Renal Insufficiency, Chronic Male Glomerular Filtration Rate Middle Aged Vitamin D
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Application of a Natural Language Processing Algorithm to Asthma Ascertainment. An Automated Chart Review.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine Aug 15, 2017
RATIONALE: Difficulty of asthma ascertainment and its associated methodologic heterogeneity have created significant barriers to asthma care and research.
Electronic Health Records Female Reproducibility of Results Risk Factors Asthma Cohort Studies Humans Child, Preschool Retrospective Studies Child Natural Language Processing Sensitivity and Specificity Minnesota Male Prevalence Adolescent
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Deep Learning in Mammography: Diagnostic Accuracy of a Multipurpose Image Analysis Software in the Detection of Breast Cancer.

Investigative radiology Jul 1, 2017
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a multipurpose image analysis software based on deep learning with artificial neural networks for the detection of breast cancer in an independent, dual-center mammography d...
Mammography Breast Aged Humans Aged, 80 and over Machine Learning Middle Aged Adult Retrospective Studies Prevalence Breast Neoplasms Female ROC Curve Reproducibility of Results Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Follow-Up Studies
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Intelligent diagnosis of jaundice with dynamic uncertain causality graph model.

Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B May 1, 2017
Jaundice is a common and complex clinical symptom potentially occurring in hepatology, general surgery, pediatrics, infectious diseases, gynecology, and obstetrics, and it is fairly difficult to distinguish the cause of jaundice in clinical practice,...
Humans Sensitivity and Specificity Prevalence Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted Decision Support Systems, Clinical Causality Machine Learning Algorithms Computer Simulation Models, Statistical Reproducibility of Results Bayes Theorem Jaundice Computer Graphics
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Prevalence of cytomegalovirus disease in kidney transplant patients in an intensive care unit.

Revista Brasileira de terapia intensiva Jan 1, 2017
OBJECTIVES: To define the frequency of cytomegalovirus disease among kidney transplant patients in an intensive care unit in which this complication was suspected and to identify predisposing factors and their possible impact on clinical outcome.
Middle Aged Prevalence Time Factors Female Immunosuppressive Agents Humans Aged Logistic Models Cytomegalovirus Adult Kidney Transplantation Cytomegalovirus Infections Male Retrospective Studies Polymerase Chain Reaction Intensive Care Units Antilymphocyte Serum
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An Infrared Thermal Images Database and a New Technique for Thyroid Nodules Analysis.

Studies in health technology and informatics Jan 1, 2017
Thyroid nodules diseases are a common health problem and thyroidal cancer is becoming increasingly prevalent. They appear in the neck and bottom neck region, superficially over the trachea. Cancer tissues are characterized by higher temperatures than...
Thyroid Nodule Infrared Rays Thermography Humans Artificial Intelligence Databases, Factual Prevalence
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Prevalence and risk factors of chronic kidney disease in an african semi-urban area: Results from a cross-sectional survey in Gueoul, Senegal.

Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation : an official publication of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Saudi Arabia Jan 1, 2017
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health priority worldwide; however, its prevalence and incidence are difficult to assess. In Africa, few studies have been conducted on the prevalence of CKD. This study sought to describe the epidemiological ...
Humans Female Risk Factors Aged Aged, 80 and over Diabetes Mellitus Adult Urban Health Cross-Sectional Studies Metabolic Syndrome Male Obesity Proteinuria Middle Aged Health Surveys Senegal Risk Assessment Kidney Prevalence Hypertension Severity of Illness Index Renal Insufficiency, Chronic Glomerular Filtration Rate
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Current state of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in Egypt.

Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation : an official publication of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Saudi Arabia Jan 1, 2017
Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) continue to increase in number worldwide, especially in developing countries. Although continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) has comparable survival advantages as hemodialysis (HD), it is greatl...
Egypt Dialysis Solutions Peritoneal Dialysis, Continuous Ambulatory Practice Patterns, Physicians' Nephrologists Male Middle Aged Prevalence Treatment Outcome Kidney Failure, Chronic Humans Female Biomarkers Risk Factors Retrospective Studies Adult Cross-Sectional Studies
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Prevalence Estimation of Protected Health Information in Swedish Clinical Text.

Studies in health technology and informatics Jan 1, 2017
Obscuring protected health information (PHI) in the clinical text of health records facilitates the secondary use of healthcare data in a privacy-preserving manner. Although automatic de-identification of clinical text using machine learning holds mu...
Prevalence Natural Language Processing Confidentiality Medical Records Humans Machine Learning Electronic Health Records Sweden
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The prevalence of statistical reporting errors in psychology (1985-2013).

Behavior research methods Dec 1, 2016
This study documents reporting errors in a sample of over 250,000 p-values reported in eight major psychology journals from 1985 until 2013, using the new R package "statcheck." statcheck retrieved null-hypothesis significance testing (NHST) results ...
Humans Prevalence Bias Behavioral Research
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