Publications by authors named "Mengbing Li"
Determining causes of deaths (CODs) occurred outside of civil registration and vital statistics systems is challenging. A technique called verbal autopsy (VA) is widely adopted to gather information on deaths in practice. A VA consists of interviewing relatives of a deceased person about symptoms of the deceased in the period leading to the death, often resulting in multivariate binary responses.
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- A one-health approach suggests new insights into the transmission of pathogenic bacteria responsible for serious infections in humans, which primarily originate from food animals.
- Research analyzing over 3,100 samples reveals that approximately 8% of extraintestinal infections, mainly urinary tract infections, are linked to foodborne zoonotic strains, which show similar disease severity as non-foodborne strains.
- Specific lineages of these foodborne strains, ST131-22 and ST58, display high virulence, and this study's methods could help identify and mitigate risks from these strains in future public health efforts.
Background: Venous thromboembolism is a leading cause of death in patients with cancer. Inferior vena cava filters are utilized to mitigate the risk of pulmonary embolism for patients who have contraindication to, or failure of, anticoagulation.
Methods: We reviewed an insurance claims database to identify adults receiving cancer-directed therapy and had a new diagnosis of venous thromboembolism.
This paper is concerned with using multivariate binary observations to estimate the probabilities of unobserved classes with scientific meanings. We focus on the setting where additional information about sample similarities is available and represented by a rooted weighted tree. Every leaf in the given tree contains multiple samples.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer associated thrombosis (CAT) is a leading cause of death among patients with cancer. It is not clear if non-clinical factors are associated with anticoagulation receipt. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of Optum's de-identified Clinformatics® Database of adults with cancer diagnosed between 2009 and 2016 who developed CAT, treated with an outpatient anticoagulant (warfarin, low molecular weight heparin (LMWH), or a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC)).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEssentials It is not clear if patients are less adherent to low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) compared to direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) for cancer-associated thrombosis (CAT). We evaluated medication adherence among two propensity-matched groups of patients with CAT by comparing the proportion of days covered (PDC). Median treatment persistence on DOACs was more than 80 days longer than LMWH.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Every effort should be made to optimize surgical techniques and to minimize potential morbidity rates associated with live donor operations. Advances in a minimally invasive approach by robotic surgery to donor nephrectomy have raised the possibility of applying this technique to live donor bowel resections for intestinal transplantation.
Methods: We report the first 5 consecutive cases of a robotic-assisted live donor ileal segmentectomy.