Publications by authors named "Ivy Li"
The fusion of synthetic biology and materials science offers exciting opportunities to produce sustainable materials that can perform programmed biological functions such as sensing and responding or enhance material properties through biological means. Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a unique material for this challenge due to its high-performance material properties and ease of production from culturable microbes. Research in the past decade has focused on expanding the benefits and applications of BC through many approaches.
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- A study aimed to improve the identification of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) who are at risk for major cardiovascular events by combining clinical risk scores with a genetic coronary heart disease (CHD) polygenic risk score (PRS).
- The research involved analyzing data from 10,556 T2D individuals aged 40-79, finding that the CHD PRS could significantly enhance risk prediction for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), especially among those initially classified at low risk.
- The results indicated that using the CHD PRS alongside traditional clinical risk assessments provided better forecasting of cardiovascular risks, potentially allowing for more tailored treatment strategies.
Environmental concerns are driving interest in postpetroleum synthetic textiles produced from microbial and fungal sources. Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a promising sustainable leather alternative, on account of its material properties, low infrastructure needs and biodegradability. However, for alternative textiles like BC to be fully sustainable, alternative ways to dye textiles need to be developed alongside alternative production methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/aims: Efficacy and safety data of alirocumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody to proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9), is not yet well established in the Korean population. We assessed them in ODYSSEY-KT through the pre-specified Korean subanalysis.
Methods: In the ODYSSEY-KT study, South Korean and Taiwanese patients with hypercholesterolemia and high cardiovascular risks were randomized (1:1) to alirocumab or placebo.
Background: Alirocumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody to proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9, has been shown to provide significant reductions in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). Data about its efficacy and safety in patients from South Korea and Taiwan are limited.
Objective: ODYSSEY KT assessed the efficacy and safety of alirocumab in patients from South Korea and Taiwan.
Objectives: A lack of understanding in menopausal and postmenopausal women's (PMW) risk perception towards osteoporosis and breast cancer still exists, which is explored in this study. This information might allow health professionals to conduct interventions to improve health behaviors before menopause-related diseases are imminent.
Methods: Between 10 December 2015 and 31 January 2016, 573 menopausal or PMW were successfully interviewed on 17 questions, comprising separate sections for osteoporosis and breast cancer.
Aims: To assess the effects on glycaemic control of lixisenatide vs placebo as add-on treatment to basal insulin (BI) ± metformin and effects on glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) reduction in patients with insufficiently controlled type 2 diabetes (T2D).
Methods: Patients (n = 448) with inadequately controlled T2D were randomized (1:1) to lixisenatide or placebo as add-on to BI ± metformin for 24 weeks after an 8-week run-in phase, during which BI was titrated to a target self-monitored plasma glucose (SMPG; 4.4-5.
Background: Alternative training methods are needed for resident physicians to ensure that care is not compromised should they practice in settings without well-established Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) programs.
Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of a simulation-based sexual assault response course for resident physicians at an institution without an on-site SANE program.
Methods: Educational intervention study of 12 emergency medicine residents using a low-fidelity hybrid simulation model.