Publications by authors named "Junheng Chen"

Biomedical texts provide important data for investigating drug-drug interactions (DDIs) in the field of pharmacovigilance. Although researchers have attempted to investigate DDIs from biomedical texts and predict unknown DDIs, the lack of accurate manual annotations significantly hinders the performance of machine learning algorithms. In this study, a new DDI prediction framework, Subgraph Enhance model, was developed for DDI (SubGE-DDI) to improve the performance of machine learning algorithms.

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Background: Millions of patients undergo cardiac surgery each year. The red blood cell distribution width (RDW) could help predict the prognosis of patients who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass surgery. We investigated whether the RDW has robust predictive value for the 30-day mortality among patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) after undergoing cardiac surgery.

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Background: Previous observational studies have indicated a complex association between chronic pain and frailty. This study aimed to examine the bidirectional causal relationship between frailty and chronic pain and to quantify mediating effects of known modifiable risk factors.

Methods: A bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomisation (MR) analysis was applied in this study.

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Background: The association between anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) drugs and ocular adverse events (AEs) has been reported, but large real-world studies of their association with systemic AEs are still lacking.

Methods: A disproportionality analysis of reports from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System from January 2004 to September 2021 was conducted to detect the significant ADR signals with anti-VEGF drugs (including aflibercept, bevacizumab, brolucizumab, pegaptanib, and ranibizumab).

Results: A total of 2980 reported cases with 7125 drug-AEs were included.

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Background: This study aimed to evaluate the association between the glucose-to-lymphocyte ratio (GLR) and in-hospital mortality in intensive care unit (ICUs) patients with sepsis.

Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study. Patients with sepsis from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-IV (MIMIC-IV) database had their baseline data and in-hospital prognosis retrieved.

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Study Objective: To review all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing the analgesic efficacy of adductor canal block (ACB), periarticular infiltration (PAI), and any other mode of these treatments in analgesia, such as PAI with liposomal bupivacaine (LB), continuous adductor canal block (cACB) or ACB + PAI, after total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

Design: Systematic review and network meta-analysis of RCTs.

Patients: We searched PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane database to detect all relevant RCTs on investigating the analgesic effects of ACB, PAI and LB for TKA published until April 2020.

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Several studies indicate that human exposure to plasticizers via dermal pathway is not negligible, but the dermal bioaccessibility of phthalates and alternative plasticizers from the important environmental matrix including indoor dust and clothing and the importance weight of dermal exposure to those pollutants have been poorly studied. An in vitro physiologically based extraction test was employed to investigate the dermal bioaccessibility of target phthalates and alternative plasticizers from indoor dust and clothing. Temperature, incubation time, sweat/sebum ratio and solid/liquid ratio were selected to study their effects on the bioaccessibility.

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The Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gp41 membrane proximal external region (MPER) is targeted by broadly neutralizing antibodies (e.g. 2F5, 4E10, Z13e and m66.

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