Publications by authors named "A Kapasi"

Background: The Wound Care Collaborative Community (WCCC) aims to assess current usable real-world data (RWD) sources to determine which real-world databases (DBs) are suitable and usable for studying the natural history of chronic wounds. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) do not fully reflect the complexity of patients with chronic wounds. Using RWD, establishment of a scientifically grounded "road map" for RCTs is needed to better navigate the real-world complexity of the patients with chronic wounds.

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  • - The paper explores using Large Language Models (LLMs) to streamline data wrangling and automate tasks in data discovery and harmonization, crucial for making biomedical data AI-ready by developing Common Data Elements (CDEs).
  • - A human-in-the-loop approach was utilized to ensure the accuracy of generated CDEs from various studies and databases, achieving a high accuracy rate where 94.0% of fields required no manual changes, with an interoperability mapping rate of 32.4%.
  • - The resulting CDEs are designed to improve dataset compatibility by measuring how well different data sources align with these standards, ultimately enhancing the efficiency and scalability of biomedical research efforts.
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Financial and health literacy is essential for older adults to navigate complex decision processes in late life. However, the neurobiological basis of age-related decline in financial and health literacy is poorly understood. This study aimed to characterize progression of neurodegenerative and vascular conditions over time, and to assess how these changes coincide with declining financial and health literacy in old age.

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Older adults with greater scam susceptibility are at greater risk for mild cognitive impairment and incident Alzheimer's dementia, regardless of baseline cognition. This, combined with documented associations between scam susceptibility and beta amyloid at death suggests that scam susceptibility may be an earlier indicator of pathological aging than cognition. Little, however, is known about whether in vivo neuroimaging markers of early-stage risk for Alzheimer's dementia are also related to scam susceptibility; such knowledge will inform upon the associations of neurodegenerative processes with scam susceptibility and may help identify vulnerable individuals.

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Grey matter ageing-related tau astrogliopathy (ARTAG) pathology is common in aged brains and detected in multiple brain regions. However, the associations of grey matter ARTAG with Alzheimer's disease and other common age-related proteinopathies, in addition to clinical phenotypes, including Alzheimer's dementia and cognitive decline, remain unclear. We examined 442 decedents (mean age at death = 90 years, males = 32%) from three longitudinal community-based clinical-pathological studies.

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