Publications by authors named "D Tab Rasmussen"
Article Synopsis
- - The ability of viruses to infect various hosts is typically limited by fitness trade-offs, where mutations that help in one host may harm another, a concept known as antagonistic pleiotropy.
- - However, there is increasing evidence of positive pleiotropy, where beneficial mutations can enhance fitness across multiple hosts, indicating that these mutations could help overcome fitness trade-offs.
- - A meta-analysis reveals that while both antagonistic and positive pleiotropy exist, positive pleiotropy is common, suggesting that many fitness trade-offs can be surmounted by evolution when proper selection pressures are applied.
Background: Patients with advanced chronic liver disease (ACLD) are at high risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Therefore, biannual surveillance is recommended. This large-scale multicenter study aimed to stratify the risk of HCC development in ACLD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Both adherence rates to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programmes and long-term attendance in exercise training after PR remain a challenge. In our previous randomised controlled trial (RCT), effects were positively associated with a dose-response pattern, regardless of whether PR contained conventional physical exercise training (PExT) or Singing for Lung Health (SLH) as a training modality within a 10 weeks' PR programme for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, long-term status of this RCT cohort remains unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Given their antioxidative stress, anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory, and immune-modulating effects, flavonoids are hypothesized to play a role in preventing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma.
Objectives: This cohort study aimed to examine associations between flavonoid intake and COPD, asthma, and lung function.
Methods: Among 119,466 participants of the UK Biobank, median [interquartile range] age of 60 [53, 65] y, we estimated intakes of flavonoids, flavonoid-rich foods, and a flavodiet score from 24-h diet assessments.
As reimbursement from the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) continues to decline, cuts to practice expense relative value units disproportionately impact office-based interventionalists and private practices that rely on high-cost equipment. For 195 codes, specialties such as radiation oncology, vascular surgery, and interventional radiology are paid at rates less than their direct costs calculated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services itself. While reimbursement in the office-based setting continues to decline, high-cost hospital settings receive more payment for the same services.
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