Context Personal continuity is a widely accepted core value of primary care. Previous studies suggest that personal continuity is associated with fewer Potentially Inappropriate Prescription...
Retrospective review.To assess the impact of Body Mass Index (BMI) on patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) after cervical disc replacement (CDR).BMI may affect PROMs after spine surgery...
Asthma represents a significant global challenge that affects individuals across all age groups and imposes substantial social and economic burden. Due to heterogeneity of the disease, not a...
HSP is a heterogeneous group of rare genetic diseases. In childhood, little is known of the development and psychological manifestations.Retrospective analysis of 87 patients with childhood-...
Prior work has found relationships between childhood social adversity and biomarkers of stress, but knowledge gaps remain. To help address these gaps, we explored associations between socia...
Preschool-aged children with mild community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) routinely receive antibiotics even though most infections are viral. We sought to identify barriers to the implementation...
Genomic heterozygosity has been shown to confer a health advantage in humans and play a protective role in complex diseases. Given osteoarthritis (OA) is a highly polygenic disease, we set o...
The objective of this study was to explore the associations of body mass index (BMI), fat mass index (FMI), skeletal mass index (SMI) and secondary osteoporosis (OP) in patients with rheumat...
Positive emotions are a promising target for intervention in chronic pain, but mixed findings across trials to date suggest that existing interventions may not be optimized to efficiently en...
Hip arthroplasty effectively treats advanced osteoarthritis and has therefore been entitled as "operation of the 20th century." With demographic shifts, the USA alone is projected to perform...
Magnesium is a revolutionary biomaterial for orthopedic implants, owing to its eminent mechanical properties and biocompatibility. However, its uncontrolled degradation rate remains a severe...
Severe vision impairment and blindness in childhood have a significant health burden on the child, family and society. This review article seeks to provide a structured framework for managin...
Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, disproportionately affects individuals of African ancestry. We conducted a genome-wide association ...
Pathologic myopia (PM) is a common blinding retinal degeneration suffered by highly myopic population. Early screening of this condition can reduce the damage caused by the associated fundus...
In many sports, dynamic visual acuity is used. In order to improve dynamic visual acuity, it is important to understand the aspects of the visual system that can cause compromise.To investig...
To investigated the role of estrogen receptor-1 (ER-1) in maintaining homeostasis in ocular surface.ER-1-knockout (ER-1KO) mice were studied at 4 months of age. The ocular surface was examin...
Goal To conduct a systematic review to summarize current evidence on associations between social determinants of health (SDOH) indicators and dry eye in the U.S. Systematic review W...
To investigate the effect of salidroside (SAL) in protecting retinal ganglion cell (RGC) from pyroptosis and explore associated molecular network mechanism in diabetic retinapathy (DR) rats....
Using a Compass (CMP, Centervue, Padova, Italy) fundus perimeter, ZEST FAST strategy showed a significant reduction in examination time compared to ZEST, with good agreement in the quantific...
To assess the accuracy of ophthalmic information provided by an artificial intelligence chatbot (ChatGPT).Five diseases from 8 subspecialties of Ophthalmology were assessed by ChatGPT versio...
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