Sichuan Da Xue Xue Bao Yi Xue Ban
September 2024
The rapid development of digital intelligence technologies is providing a powerful boost to the high-quality development of the healthcare system. Considering the current state of our healthcare services and guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping's insights on new quality productive forces and the directives from Third Plenary Session of Communist Party of China's 20th Central Committee, the high-quality development of the healthcare service system should focus on digital intelligence technologies such as cloud computing, big data, privacy computing, blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile computing, and AI. The key measures should include the optimization of production factors, services, and governance.
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September 2024
Background: Early identification of children at high risk of developing myopia is essential to prevent myopia progression by introducing timely interventions. However, missing data and measurement error (ME) are common challenges in risk prediction modelling that can introduce bias in myopia prediction.
Methods: We explore four imputation methods to address missing data and ME: single imputation (SI), multiple imputation under missing at random (MI-MAR), multiple imputation with calibration procedure (MI-ME), and multiple imputation under missing not at random (MI-MNAR).
This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia (VBD) in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and analyze its role in gray matter changes, white matter (WM) microstructure and network alterations in PD. This is a cross-sectional study including 341 PD patients. Prevalence of VBD in these PD patients was compared with general population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFollowing the marketization of China's health system in the 1980's, the government allowed public hospitals to markup the price of certain medications by 15% to compensate for reduced revenue from government subsidies. This incentivized clinicians to induce patient demand for drugs which resulted in higher patient out-of-pocket payments, higher overall medical expenditure, and poor health outcomes. In 2009, China introduced the Zero Markup Drug Policy (ZMDP) which eliminated the 15% markup.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe rapid acceleration of global warming has led to an increased burden of high temperature-related diseases (HTDs), highlighting the need for advanced evidence-based management strategies. We have developed a conceptual framework aimed at alleviating the global burden of HTDs, grounded in the One Health concept. This framework refines the impact pathway and establishes systematic data-driven models to inform the adoption of evidence-based decision-making, tailored to distinct contexts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn order to study the effect of temperature on the structure and mechanical properties of coal with different metamorphic degree. Three coal samples with varying degrees of metamorphism were chosen for analysis. The discrete element software PFC2D is used to simulate the heat treatment and compression of coal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Cerebellum modulates the amplitude of resting tremor in Parkinson's disease (PD) via cerebello-thalamo-cortical (CTC) circuit. Tremor-related white matter alterations have been identified in PD patients by pathological studies, but in vivo evidence is limited; the influence of such cerebellar white matter alterations on tremor-related brain network, including CTC circuit, is also unclear. In this study, we investigated the cerebral and cerebellar white matter alterations in PD patients with resting tremor using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Leaves are important organs for photosynthesis in plants, and the restriction of leaf growth is among the earliest visible effects under abiotic stress such as nutrient deficiency. Rapidly and accurately monitoring plant leaf area is of great importance in understanding plant growth status in modern agricultural production.
Method: In this paper, an image processing-based non-destructive monitoring device that includes an image acquisition device and image process deep learning net for acquiring (rapeseed) leaf area is proposed.
Bacterial leaf blight (BLB) caused by pv. () is a highly destructive bacterial disease. Traditional prevention methods have utilized antibiotics to target bacterial growth, which has accelerated the emergence of resistant strains.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Since 2015, China has been rolling out the pricing reform for drugs and medical services (PRDMS) in the urban public hospitals in order to reduce drug expenditures and to relieve financial burdens of patients. This study aims at evaluating the effectiveness of the reform and investigating its positive impacts and unintended consequences to provide evidence basis for further policy making.
Methods: The Difference-in-difference (DID) approach was employed to analyze the reform impacts on the 31 provincial administrative areas in China based on data abstracted from China Statistics Yearbooks and China Health Statistics Yearbooks from 2012 to 2018.
Sheng Wu Yi Xue Gong Cheng Xue Za Zhi
December 2019
The clinical manifestations of patients with schizophrenia and patients with depression not only have a certain similarity, but also change with the patient's mood, and thus lead to misdiagnosis in clinical diagnosis. Electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis provides an important reference and objective basis for accurate differentiation and diagnosis between patients with schizophrenia and patients with depression. In order to solve the problem of misdiagnosis between patients with schizophrenia and patients with depression, and to improve the accuracy of the classification and diagnosis of these two diseases, in this study we extracted the resting-state EEG features from 100 patients with depression and 100 patients with schizophrenia, including information entropy, sample entropy and approximate entropy, statistical properties feature and relative power spectral density (rPSD) of each EEG rhythm (δ, θ, α, β).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe choice of the reference electrode scheme is an important step in event-related potential (ERP) analysis. In order to explore the optimal electroencephalogram reference electrode scheme for the ERP signal related to facial recognition, we investigated the influence of average reference (AR), mean mastoid reference (MM), and Reference Electrode Standardization Technique (REST) on the N170 component via statistical analysis, statistical parametric scalp mappings (SPSM) and source analysis. The statistical results showed that the choice of reference electrode scheme has little effect on N170 latency ( > 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present study examined the factor structure and measurement invariance of the shortened versions of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU) with data from multiple informants. Five short versions of the ICU proposed in previous studies were tested and compared through confirmatory factor analysis. The measurement invariance across different informants (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe current study assesses the factor structure and construct validity of the self-reported Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU) in 637 Chinese community adults (mean age = 25.98, SD = 5.79).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe gene product of SPINT 2, that encodes a transmembrane, Kunitz-type serine protease inhibitor independently designated as HAI-2 or placenta bikunin (PB), is involved in regulation of sodium absorption in human gastrointestinal track. Here, we show that SPINT 2 is expressed as two species of different size (30-40- versus 25-kDa) due to different N-glycans on Asn-57. The N-glycan on 25-kDa HAI-2 appears to be of the oligomannose type and that on 30-40-kDa HAI-2 to be of complex type with extensive terminal N-acetylglucosamine branching.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe type 2 transmembrane serine protease matriptase is under tight control primarily by the actions of the integral membrane Kunitz-type serine protease inhibitor HAI-1. Growing evidence indicates that HAI-2 might also be involved in matriptase inhibition in some contexts. Here we showed that matriptase inhibition by HAI-2 depends on the subcellular localizations of HAI-2, and is observed in breast cancer cells but not in mammary epithelial cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe type 2 transmembrane serine protease matriptase is broadly expressed in human carcinomas and hematological cancers. The proteolytic activity of matriptase is a potential target of drugs and imaging probes. We assessed the fate of active matriptase following the induction of matriptase zymogen activation.
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