Publications by authors named "M de la Hera"
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- Altered mental status is a symptom rather than a disease, signaling various potential diagnoses, particularly when it appears with fever.
- A structured assessment can effectively diagnose underlying causes and differentiate between structural and medical issues based on neurological findings.
- A study conducted in Bangladesh found that among 100 patients with febrile illness and altered consciousness, common causes included pneumonia (26%), urinary tract infections (22%), and meningitis (18%).
Motivation: Functional profiling of metagenomic samples is essential to decipher the functional capabilities of microbial communities. Traditional and more widely used functional profilers in the context of metagenomics rely on aligning reads against a known reference database. However, aligning sequencing reads against a large and fast-growing database is computationally expensive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMotivation: The increasing number and volume of genomic and metagenomic data necessitates scalable and robust computational models for precise analysis. Sketching techniques utilizing -mers from a biological sample have proven to be useful for large-scale analyses. In recent years, FracMinHash has emerged as a popular sketching technique and has been used in several useful applications.
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- * A study conducted in Bangladesh found that 66% of 50 patients with acute bacterial meningitis were hyponatremic, with a mean sodium level of 130.66 mmol/L.
- * Most hyponatremic patients (78.79%) had mild hyponatremia, while a smaller percentage experienced moderate (18.18%) and severe (3.03%) cases.
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- - The study investigated the links between sleep duration, stress levels, and gastric cancer (GC) by analyzing data from five case-control studies, which included 1,293 GC cases and 4,439 controls.
- - Findings revealed that sleeping 9 hours or more is associated with a higher risk of GC (OR = 1.57) and that stress levels also increase the risk of developing GC (OR = 1.33), particularly for noncardia GC.
- - The correlations between stress and GC risk varied based on factors like smoking and socioeconomic status, indicating that long sleep duration and heightened stress are important risk factors for different types of gastric cancer.