Publications by authors named "Robert A Schuff"
Article Synopsis
- The text discusses the challenges in understanding long COVID (PASC) due to varied terminologies and inconsistent methods in studies, making it hard to compare findings.
- It highlights the importance of using the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) to create standardized terminology for clinical manifestations associated with long COVID, facilitating better data integration across research studies.
- The authors curated relevant studies and identified 287 unique clinical findings, noting that while fatigue was the most reported symptom, there was a wide range of reports and terminology used by different studies.
Article Synopsis
- * Conducted from 1996 to 2003, the research involved 384 participants, assessing their baseline CRP and DD levels, and monitoring their health over an average of 38.4 months through various tests and evaluations.
- * Results showed that while nearly half of the subjects experienced disease progression, there was no significant difference in progression rates between patients with high CRP levels and those with low levels; however, those with elevated DD did show different outcomes in some cases.
Purpose: There have been few studies of the natural history of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), and none have used serial noninvasive laboratory examinations for the objective quantification of disease progression. The relationship between the site of initial symptoms of PAD (lower-extremity disease [LED] vs cerebrovascular disease [CVD]) and the site of subsequent symptomatic progression (LED vs CVD vs coronary heart disease [CHD]) has not been examined.
Methods: This is a long-term, blinded prospective clinical research study of the relationship of PAD progression to multiple clinical, laboratory, and noninvasive vascular laboratory parameters.