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Cardiovasc Diabetol
June 2024
Yazd Cardiovascular Research Center, Non-Communicable Diseases Research Institute, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Background: Various surrogate markers of insulin resistance have been developed, capable of predicting coronary artery disease (CAD) without the need to detect serum insulin. For accurate prediction, they depend only on glucose and lipid profiles, as well as anthropometric features. However, there is still no agreement on the most suitable one for predicting CAD.
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November 2023
Department of Oncology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
Background: This study investigated changes in body weight, lean body mass (LBM), fat mass (FM), muscle strength and functional performance during radiation treatment in head and neck cancer (HNSCC) patients. Secondly, it investigated the impact of cisplatin-based chemoradiation (CCRT) on LBM loss compared with radiation alone.
Methods: 48 patients (all tumor sites) received either 6 weeks of radiation alone ( = 16) with 66-68 Gy in 33-34 Fx, 5-6 Fx/week or CCRT, adding weekly cisplatin or carboplatin ( = 32).
Environ Sci Technol
July 2023
Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Ottawa K1A 0H3, Ontario, Canada.
Whether perfluoroalkyl sulfonates (PFSAs) and perfluoroalkyl carboxylates (PFCAs) are responding to legislative restrictions and showing decreasing trends in top marine predators that range across the eastern North Pacific Ocean is unclear. Here, we examined longer-term temporal trends (1973-2019) of 4 PFSAs and 13 PFCAs, as well stable isotopes of δC and δN, in the eggs of 4 seabird species sampled along a nearshore-offshore gradient; double-crested cormorants (), pelagic cormorants (), rhinoceros auklets (), and Leach's storm-petrels () from the Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada. PFOS was the most abundant PFSA (79-94%) detected in all eggs regardless of colony and year, with the highest concentrations, on average, measured in auklet eggs (mean = 58 ng g, range = 11-286 ng g ww).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedicine (Baltimore)
June 2023
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
Background: Network meta-analyses (NMAs) are statistical techniques used to synthesize data from multiple studies and compare the effectiveness of different interventions for a particular disease or condition. They have gained popularity in recent years as a tool for evidence-based decision making in healthcare. Whether publications in NMAs have an increasing trend is still unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Assist Reprod Genet
August 2023
Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children, Sichuan University, Ministry of Education, Chengdu, China.
Purpose: Many studies have reported declines in semen quality mainly focused on total sperm counts (TSC) and sperm concentration (SC), ignoring the importance of progressive motile sperm (PR), total motile sperm (TM), and normal morphological sperm (NM). Therefore, we performed a comprehensive meta-analysis to explore the trend in semen quality of young men.
Methods: We searched 3 English databases and 4 Chinese databases from January 1980 to August 2022.
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