Trends in incidence, survival and initial treatments of gynecological sarcoma: a retrospective analysis of the United States subpopulation.

Background: To estimate the incidence, prevalence and incidence-based mortality in patients with gynecologic sarcoma (GS), and described the trends of survival and initial treatments in the US by using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database.

Methods: GS cases aged 20 years or older between 1975 and 2015 were identified from SEER 9 registries. Incidence, prevalence, and incidence-based mortality were estimated, all rates were age adjusted to the 2000 US standard population and presented as per 100,000 persons.

Differences between primary peritoneal serous carcinoma and advanced serous ovarian carcinoma: a study based on the SEER database.

Objective: This study aimed to compare clinical features and overall survival (OS) between patients with primary peritoneal serous carcinoma (PPSC) and those with advanced serous ovarian carcinoma (ASOC) and to identify prognostic factors.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with PPSC and ASOC from 2010 to 2015 from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database were enrolled. Pearson's chi-square test was used to compare clinical features.

Nerve growth factor is closely related to glucose metabolism, insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion in the second trimester: a case-control study in Chinese.

Objective: Inflammation-related factors have been shown to play a significant role throughout pregnancy. In this study, we aimed to explore the relationships between selected inflammatory cytokines and gestational diabetes (GDM) in Chinese pregnant women.

Design And Methods: This was a 1:1 matched case-control study that included 200 pairs of subjects in the second trimester and 130 pairs of subjects in the third trimester.

Serum growth differentiation factor 15 is associated with glucose metabolism in the third trimester in Chinese pregnant women.

Objective: Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) has been demonstrated to increase in diabetes as a protective factor. However, studies assessing relationships between GDF15 levels and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are limited. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether GDF15 levels are related to GDM in Chinese subjects.

[Association of colorectal adenoma and metabolic syndrome and relevant parameters].

Objective: To evaluate the association of colorectal adenoma with metabolic syndrome (MS) and relevant parameters.

Methods: Clinical data of 289 subjects who underwent screening colonoscopy in the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital from January 2014 to June 2015 were retrospectively analyzed, including 130 normal subjects (normal group) and 159 cases with colorectal adenoma confirmed by pathology(adenoma group). Levels of MS-associated parameters were compared between the two groups, and the association of metabolic diseases with colorectal adenoma was examined.