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Medicina (Kaunas)
December 2024
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital, College of Medicine, Hallym University, 94-200 Yeongdeungpo-Dong, Yeongdeungpo-Ku, Seoul 07247, Republic of Korea.
Slit1 is a secreted protein that is closely related to cell movement and adhesion. Few studies related to fibrosis exist, and the preponderance of current research is confined to the proliferation and differentiation of neural systems. Hypertrophic scars (HTSs) are delineated by an overproduction of the extracellular matrix (ECM) by activated fibroblasts, leading to anomalous fibrosis, which is a severe sequela of burns.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
December 2024
Department of Surgery, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
As new artificial intelligence (AI) tools are being developed and as AI continues to revolutionize healthcare, its potential to advance health equity is increasingly recognized. The 2024 Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Consortium National Conference session titled "Artificial Intelligence: Safely, Ethically, and Responsibly" brought together experts from diverse institutions to explore AI's role and challenges in advancing health equity. This report summarizes presentations and discussions from the conference focused on AI's potential and its challenges, particularly algorithmic bias, transparency, and the under-representation of minority groups in AI datasets.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExp Gerontol
January 2025
Department of pharmacy, Heyuan People's Hospital, Heyuan, China.
Background: As unhealthy diets have proliferated, there has been an increasing trend in the prevalence of obesity along with socioeconomic progress. WWI, mainly representing weight-independent central obesity, is a more accurate indicator of obesity than BMI and WC. Klotho is known to be one of the root causes of several age-related illnesses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Trauma Acute Care Surg
January 2025
From the Department of Surgery (A.H.H., N.M.C., B.T.S.), Division of Trauma, Burn, and Critical Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (E.B., D.N., B.T.S., A.M., E.M.B., J.W.S.), and Department of Health Metrics Sciences (J.L.D., J.W.S.), Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington; Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (D.Z.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington.
Background: Despite advances in trauma care, the effects of social determinants of health continue to be a barrier to optimal health outcomes. Health-related social needs (HRSNs), now the basis of a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services national screening program, may contribute to poor health outcomes, inequities, and low-value care, but the impact of HRSNs among injured patients remains poorly understood at the national level.
Methods: Using data from the nationally representative 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, injured patients were matched with uninjured controls via coarsened exact matching on age and sex.
Rev Sci Instrum
January 2025
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
The Particle Time of Flight (PTOF) diagnostic is a chemical vapor deposition diamond-based detector and is the only diagnostic for measuring nuclear bang times of low yield (<1013) shots on the National Ignition Facility. Recently, a comprehensive study of detector impulse responses revealed certain detectors with very fast and consistent impulse responses with a rise time of <50 ps, enabling low yield burn history measurements. At the current standoff of 50 cm, this measurement is possible with fast 14 MeV neutrons from deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion plasmas.
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