Publications by authors named "Songpu Xie"
Introduction: Previous studies reported inconsistent results of the association between Helicobacter pylori infection and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
Methods: A cohort study of 2,063 adults without NAFLD at baseline, who participated in a repeated health checkup including a 13C-urea breath test and abdominal ultrasonography, was conducted to evaluate the link between H. pylori infection and NAFLD development.
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as biocompatible drug delivery vehicles due to their native ability to deliver bioactive cargo to recipient cells. However, the application of EVs as a therapeutic delivery vehicle is hampered by effective methods for endogenously loading target proteins inside EVs and unloading proteins after delivery to recipient cells. Most EV-based engineered loading methods have a limited delivery efficiency owing to their inefficient endosomal escape or cargo release from the intraluminal attachment from the EV membrane.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeveral descriptive studies have reported that higher neutrophil count (NC) may be correlated with poor prognosis in patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection. However, the findings from these studies are limited by methodology and data analysis. This study is a cohort study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Dyslipidaemia and male sex are associated with gallbladder polyp (GBP) formation. However, the potential relation between the non-high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol-to-high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (non-HDL-c/HDL-c) ratio and GBPs in men is unclear.
Methods: A total of 1866 eligible subjects were selected for this retrospective cohort study from Wuhan Union Hospital between April 1, 2013, and November 30, 2014.
Background: Changes in platelet count are common in COVID-19 patients. The platelet count reflects the thrombocyte turnover, acting as a sensitive indicator of illness severity that is of great clinical utility to monitor a quickly changing health condition of patients affected by aggressive viral infections. This study aims to investigate the significance of platelet count during the progression of the disease in COVID-19 patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This study aimed to develop mortality-prediction models for patients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19).
Methods: The training cohort included consecutive COVID-19 patients at the First People's Hospital of Jiangxia District in Wuhan, China, from 7 January 2020 to 11 February 2020. We selected baseline data through the stepwise Akaike information criterion and ensemble XGBoost (extreme gradient boosting) model to build mortality-prediction models.
Background And Aims: The role of monocyte lymphocyte ratio (MLR) in predicting the risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is unclear, although inflammation contributes to the development of CKD. This study aimed to investigate whether elevated MLR predicts new-onset CKD.
Methods: This study enrolled 14,033 consecutively Chinese participants.
Aims: To develop a precise personalized type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) prediction model by cost-effective and readily available parameters in a Central China population.
Methods: A 3-year cohort study was performed on 5557 nondiabetic individuals who underwent annual physical examination as the training cohort, and a subsequent validation cohort of 1870 individuals was conducted using the same procedures. Multiple logistic regression analysis was performed, and a simple nomogram was constructed via the stepwise method.