The role of C-reactive protein and genetic predisposition in the risk of psoriasis: results from a national prospective cohort.

Background: Psoriasis is an immune-mediated chronic inflammatory disease associated with multiple factors. To evaluate the extent to which C-reactive protein (CRP) and genetic predisposition affect the incidence of psoriasis.

Methods: The cohort study retrieved 420,040 participants without psoriasis at baseline from the UK Biobank.

A wearable triboelectric impedance tomography system for noninvasive and dynamic imaging of biological tissues.

Tissue imaging is usually captured by hospital-based nuclear magnetic resonance. Here, we present a wearable triboelectric impedance tomography (TIT) system for noninvasive imaging of various biological tissues. The imaging mechanism relies on the obtained impedance information from the different soft human tissues.

Burden of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Its Underlying Etiologies in China, 1990-2021: Findings From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.

Purpose: The incidence and mortality of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and its underlying etiologies in China are still unclear. Therefore, this study used the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021 to evaluate the incidence and mortality of HCC and its underlying etiologies in China.

Methods: We extracted the incident cases, incidence rate, deaths, and mortality rate of HCC and its underlying etiologies in China in 1990 and 2021 from the GBD database.

Fine-grained Patient Similarity Measuring using Contrastive Graph Similarity Networks.

Predictive analytics using Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have become an active research area in recent years, especially with the development of deep learning techniques. A popular EHR data analysis paradigm in deep learning is patient representation learning, which aims to learn a condensed mathematical representation of individual patients. However, EHR data are often inherently irregular, i.