Relation of urinary bisphenol concentration and diabetes or prediabetes in French adults: A cross-sectional study.

Background: International research has recently shown an association between exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) and the risk of diabetes, although limited results are available for exposure to bisphenol S (BPS) and bisphenol F (BPF). The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between impregnation with BPA, BPS, and BPF and the prevalence of diabetes or prediabetes in the French adult population.

Methods: Based on the Esteban cross-sectional study, 852 adults aged 18 to 74 years living in France were included.

Establishing a priori and a posteriori predictive models to assess patients' peak skin dose in interventional cardiology. Part 2: results of the VERIDIC project.

Background: Optimizing patient exposure in interventional cardiology is key to avoid skin injuries.

Purpose: To establish predictive models of peak skin dose (PSD) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention (CTO), and transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedures.

Material And Methods: A total of 534 PCI, 219 CTO, and 209 TAVI were collected from 12 hospitals in eight European countries.

New image quality and dose reduction technique for pediatric digital radiography.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to test a new post-processing and denoising engine for patient dose reduction while maintaining diagnostic image quality (IQ) in pediatric digital radiography (DR).

Materials And Methods: Pediatric DR images of the thorax, pelvis, abdomen and spine obtained in 174 patients (102 males, 72 females; mean age, 2±1.8 [SD] years; age range: 6 months-9 years) were retrieved.

Thrombus Length Predicts Lack of Post-Thrombolysis Early Recanalization in Minor Stroke With Large Vessel Occlusion.

Background and Purpose- Whether bridging therapy, that is, intravenous thrombolysis [IVT] followed by mechanical thrombectomy, is beneficial as compared with IVT alone in minor stroke (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale ≤5) with large vessel occlusion is unknown and should be tested in randomized trials. To help select the most appropriate candidates for such trials, we aimed to identify strong predictors of lack of post-IVT early recanalization (ER)-a surrogate marker of poor outcome. Methods- From a large multicenter French registry of patients with large vessel occlusion referred for thrombectomy immediately after IVT start between 2015 and 2017, we extracted 97 minor strokes with ER evaluated on first angiographic run or noninvasive imaging ≤3 hours from IVT start.