Aug 12, 2021

The segmentation results of retinal vessels have a significant impact on the automatic diagnosis of retinal diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and other ophthalmic dis...

Aug 12, 2021

Intermittent hypoxaemia is a risk factor for numerous diseases. However, the reverse pathway remains unclear. Therefore, we investigated whether pre-existing hypertension, diabetes or cardiovascular d...

Aug 12, 2021

Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a type of vasculitis that mainly affects small and medium-sized blood vessels. The clinical presentation can be nonspecific as weight loss, abdominal pain, and hypertensi...

Aug 12, 2021

Underlying mechanisms associated with vascular dysfunction in metabolic syndrome (MetS) remain unclear and can even vary from one vascular bed to another.In this study, MetS was induced by a high-fat,...

Aug 12, 2021

Dyslipidemias are common among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and are a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. This study aimed to investigate the association between early-stage CK...

Aug 12, 2021

Osteopontin is implicated in atherosclerosis, and its expression is upregulated in response to brain injury. The aim of this study was to prospectively investigate the associations between plasma oste...

Aug 12, 2021

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with significantly impaired quality-of-life. Iron deficiency (ID) is prevalent in patients with AF. Correction of ID in other patient populations with intravenou...

Aug 09, 2021

Acute cerebral infarction (ACI) includes cardiogenic ACI treated with anticoagulants and atherosclerotic ACI treated with antiplatelet agents. The differential diagnosis between cardiogenic and athero...

Aug 09, 2021

To investigate the clinical characteristic of coagulation, possible causes and countermeasures of patients with severe corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19).The clinical data of the 142 patients diagno...

Aug 09, 2021

Current guidelines recommend a risk-adjusted treatment strategy for the management of acute pulmonary embolism. This is a particular patient category for whom optimal treatment (anticoagulant treatmen...

Aug 09, 2021

Daytime sleepiness is known to be related to stroke, but whether daytime sleepiness is a risk factor for stroke remains unclear. We conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization study to assess the r...

Aug 09, 2021

This article presents a novel approach to anomia therapy (i.e., BAbSANT: Bilingual Abstract Semantic Associative Network Training) for bilingual persons with aphasia (B-PWA) that capitalizes both on l...

Aug 09, 2021

Older patients are underrepresented in landmark randomized trials for stable ischemic heart disease (SIHD). Therefore, we sought to evaluate the benefits of revascularization in patients ≥80 years...

Aug 09, 2021

A best evidence topic in cardiac surgery was written according to a structured protocol. The question addressed was: In low-risk patients aged >70-75 with severe aortic stenosis, is transcatheter s...

Aug 09, 2021

The relationships between intracoronary imaging modalities and outcomes among Japanese patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) based on the type of medical facility providing outpatient care remai...

Aug 09, 2021

The co-amorphous (CAM) technology has attracted extensive attention in recent years because it can improve the solubility and provide a formulation strategy for fixed dose combination for poorly water...

Aug 09, 2021

Concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) with three-weekly high-dose cisplatin (100 mg/m) is a standard treatment for locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), but compliance with ci...

Aug 09, 2021

Digital therapeutics are an emerging type of medical therapy and are defined as evidence-based therapeutic interventions for patients by means of qualified software programs to prevent, manage, or tre...

Aug 09, 2021

Plasma odd-chain saturated fatty acids (OCFA) are inversely associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk and may serve as biomarkers for dairy fat intake. Their distribution across different lipid class...

Aug 09, 2021

Qi-deficiency also called energy deficiency, which approximates to the term of sub-health in contemporary medical theory. Diabetes is similar to the symptoms of "xiaoke" in traditional Chinese medicin...