Publications by authors named "Eunice Y S Chan"
Background: Surgery is an indispensable component of a functional healthcare system. To date there is limited information regarding how many people die during the perioperative period globally. This study describes a protocol for a systematic review and multilevel meta-regression to evaluate time trends regarding the odds of perioperative mortality among adults undergoing a bellwether surgical procedure while accounting for higher order clustering at the national level.
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- Cardiometabolic diseases are linked to low-grade inflammation that starts early in life and can last into old age, providing a chance for early detection and lifestyle changes.
- Current biomarker tests for early-stage inflammation are inconsistent, prompting advancements in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for more reliable metabolic profiling.
- H-NMR technology can detect stable signals related to inflammation, such as GlycA and GlycB, which may outperform traditional inflammatory markers and have potential for predicting health conditions like prediabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
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- - The study aims to quantify COVID-19's impact on mortality relative to the top three causes of death in all countries by analyzing data and creating contour plots that capture uncertainty in key parameters like case fatality rates and under-reporting levels.
- - Findings suggest that in countries severely affected by COVID-19 during 2020, it often ranks among the top three causes of death, while in less affected nations like China and India, it generally does not.
- - The research highlights the feasibility of using contour graphs to estimate COVID-19 death rates in relation to other leading causes of death, helping to better contextualize COVID-19's impact even when comprehensive data is lacking.
This paper quantifies the net impact (direct and indirect effects) of the pandemic on the United States population in 2020 using three metrics: excess deaths, life expectancy, and total years of life lost. The findings indicate there were 375,235 excess deaths, with 83% attributable to direct, and 17% attributable to indirect effects of COVID-19. The decrease in life expectancy was 1.
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