Publications by authors named "A J Grau"
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- Family members of individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) often struggle with mental health issues like depression and anxiety, leading to a significant burden.
- Family Connections (FC) is an effective program designed for these relatives, and this study aimed to compare its impact against standard treatment in a Spanish population through a randomized clinical trial.
- Although no major statistical differences were found between FC and the usual treatment, results indicated that FC led to improved outcomes in burden, stress, and quality of life for both family members and patients, highlighting the value of involving families in treatment for psychological disorders.
Signal denoising methods based on deep learning have been extensively adopted on electroencephalogram devices. However, they are unable to deploy on edge-based portable or wearable (P/W) electronics due to the high computational complexity of the existed models. To overcome such issue, we propose an edge-based lightweight Kalman filter network (EKFNet) that does not require manual prior knowledge estimation.
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- Atrial fibrillation (AF) significantly increases the risk of stroke, and identifying risk factors for strokes in AF patients remains complicated, suggesting that existing scoring systems don't capture all relevant details.
- In a study analyzing patients from the ARENA project, it was found that those with a history of cerebrovascular events (CVE) were generally older, had higher CHADS-VASc scores, and larger left atrial diameters compared to those without CVE.
- The prognosis for AF patients with CVE was notably worse; they had higher mortality rates and higher stroke occurrences within a year, indicating that factors like atrial remodeling and underlying heart disease may contribute to their increased risk.
Safety of immunotherapy with glutaraldehyde-polymerized allergen extract in adults and children.
Allergol Immunopathol (Madr)
November 2024
Background: Allergies to fungi, such as , are significant contributors to respiratory conditions like asthma and rhinitis. Immunotherapy with native extracts often results in high rates of adverse reactions. This study evaluates the safety of immunotherapy using glutaraldehyde-polymerized extracts in both pediatric and adult populations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDisease recurrence in patients undergoing mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ.
Breast Cancer Res Treat
November 2024
Purpose: With DCIS incidence on the rise, up to 30% of patients undergo mastectomy for Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) (Nash and Hwang, in: Ann Surg Oncol 30(6):3206-3214, 2023). Local recurrence rates after mastectomy for DCIS are reportedly low, but risk factors for recurrence are not known (Kim et al., in: J Cancer Res Ther 16(6):1197-1202, 2020).
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