Publications by authors named "Ling-Ying Ma"
Association of famine exposure and the serum calcium level in healthy Chinese adults.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)
August 2022
Article Synopsis
- Famine exposure is linked to higher serum calcium levels, which increases the risk of various health issues such as Alzheimer's, diabetes, and osteoporosis.
- A study involving over 9,000 Chinese adults determined the reference range for total serum calcium, finding it to be between 2.122 and 2.518 mmol/L.
- Those who experienced famine as children showed a significantly increased risk of having elevated calcium levels, particularly among females, highlighting the long-term effects of childhood nutritional deficits.
Objective: To investigate the utility of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG-PET/CT) in assessing disease activity in Takayasu arteritis (TA).
Methods: Ninety-one patients with TA were recruited from a Chinese cohort. Clinical data, acute-phase reactants and 18F-FDG-PET/CT findings were simultaneously recorded.
Objectives: We aimed to construct and validate a risk assessment model to identify risk factors for heart failure (HF) in patients with Takayasu's arteritis (TAK).
Methods: Three hundred sixty-five patients with TAK were recruited in the East China Takayasu Arteritis Cohort from January 2012 to December 2019. Patients were assigned into training and validation sets following a 2:1 ratio according to the date of enrollment.
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to find key ultrasonography markers and clinical signs that can predict the progression of carotid artery involvement in patients with Takayasu's arteritis over a one-year period.
- - Out of 77 patients, 16 showed progression in carotid artery issues during the follow-up, with younger age, thicker vessel walls, and a higher prevalence of refractory disease being significant indicators of this progression.
- - The findings suggest that younger patients with thicker carotid walls (≥1.9 mm) and refractory disease are at a greater risk for carotid progression, indicating the need for closer monitoring in these individuals.
Aims: To assess the value of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) for monitoring disease activity of Takayasu arteritis (TA).
Methods: TA patients were recruited in a Chinese TA clinical center from January 2016 to September 2017. The physician global assessment was used as the referential standard for disease activity.
The prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) is growing in the young population. We aimed to investigate the association between serum uric acid (SUA) levels and cardiovascular involvement in individuals under 45 years old diagnosed with early-onset CAD (EOCAD). Seven hundred eighty-six EOCAD patients were recruited and stratified into four groups by SUA levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: No generally accepted thresholds for quantitative ultrasound (QUS) parameters to screen individuals at high risk of osteoporotic fractures have been defined.
Objective: We sought to define appropriate cutoff points for osteoporotic fractures of calcaneus ultrasound according to participants' prevalent osteoporotic fractures.
Design And Setting: This was a cross-sectional, population-based study conducted in Shanghai, China.