Research Insights
This section focuses on the most recent research and discoveries across the globe in the various healthcare disciplines.
Association Between Pseudoexfoliation and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Brain Atrophy
Pseudoexfoliation PEX syndrome is an agerelated disorder characterized by the accumulation of extracellular material in the anterior eye segment PEX pathogenesis is not fully understood but amyloid which accumulates in the brain of patients with Alzheimers disease
Coronary Heart Disease and Ischemic Stroke Polygenic Risk Scores and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in a Diverse, Population-Based Cohort Study
We examined whether two previously validated PRS for CHD and IS predict ASCVD outcomes in White and Black participants aged to years over a tenyear risk prediction period within the prospective Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities
Genetic Regulators of Sputum Mucin Concentration and Their Associations With COPD Phenotypes
Hypersecretion andor hyperconcentration of mucus is a defining feature of multiple obstructive lung diseases including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD Mucus itself is composed of a mixture of water ions salt and proteins
Phase Angle Is Related to Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Biomarkers in Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women million new cases in and the second among all populations worldwide Nearly of all new diagnoses will progress and become metastatic diseases
Pulmonary Function Following Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A Longitudinal Observational Study
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy HBOT is known to be associated with pulmonary oxygen toxicity However the effect of modern HBOT protocols on pulmonary function is not completely understood
Perceptions and conducts of oral and maxillofacial surgeons during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study
The aim of this study was to explore the conducts and perceptions of oral and maxillofacial surgeons during the COVID pandemic in Brazil Nine individuals mean age years men were included in the study
Quantitative cardiovascular magnetic resonance findings and clinical risk factors predict cardiovascular outcomes in breast cancer patients
Cardiac magnetic resonance CMR global longitudinal strain and circumferential strain abnormalities have been associated with left ventricular ejection fraction LVEF reduction and cardiotoxicity from oncologic therapy
A cross-circulatory platform for monitoring innate allo-responses in lung grafts
Lung transplantation is the only curative option for endstage chronic respiratory diseases However the survival rate is only about at years
Patient groups in Rheumatoid arthritis identified by deep learning respond differently to biologic or targeted synthetic DMARDs
Cycling of biologic or targeted synthetic disease modifying antirheumatic drugs btsDMARDs in rheumatoid arthritis RA patients due to nonresponse is a problem preventing and delaying disease control
Machine learning to predict bacteriologic confirmation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in infants and very young children
Diagnosis of tuberculosis TB among young children years is challenging due to the paucibacillary nature of clinical disease and clinical similarities to other childhood diseases