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Telemed J E Health
January 2025
Medical Department, Medical Sciences and Life School, Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) burden is strongly associated with an increased risk of stroke, which, in most cases, can be prevented through earlier detection of AF and the timely initiation of anticoagulation therapy. Smartphone devices can provide a simple, non-invasive, cost-effective early AF detection solution. PubMed, Embase, and Scopus databases were searched for studies comparing smartphone-based photoplethysmography (PPG) with standard electrocardiogram for AF detection.
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January 2025
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Importance: Ultraprocessed foods (UPF), characterized as shelf-stable but nutritionally imbalanced foods, pose a public health crisis worldwide. In adults, UPF consumption is associated with increased obesity risk, but findings among children are inconsistent.
Objectives: To examine the associations among UPF intake, anthropometric adiposity indicators, and obesity status in Canadian children.
J Am Acad Orthop Surg
January 2025
From the Holland Bone and Joint Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Boyer, Burns, Razmjou, Renteria, Sheth, Richards, and Whyne), the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Burns, Sheth, Richards, and Whyne), the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Boyer, Burns, and Whyne), the Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Razmjou), and the Sunnybrook Orthopaedic Upper Limb (SOUL), Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Sheth, Richards, and Whyne).
Introduction: Exercise-based physiotherapy is an established treatment of rotator cuff injury. Objective assessment of at-home exercise is critical to understand its relationship with clinical outcomes. This study uses the Smart Physiotherapy Activity Recognition System to measure at-home physiotherapy participation in patients with rotator cuff injury based on inertial sensor data captured from smart watches.
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January 2025
Department of Dermatology, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Background: Pediatric psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that poses unique challenges in diagnosis and management. While studies from high-income countries have reported rising incidence trends, global data on the incidence of pediatric psoriasis remain scarce.
Objective: To provide a comprehensive description of pediatric psoriasis incidence at the global, regional, and national levels.
Drug Deliv Transl Res
January 2025
Amrita School of Nanosciences & Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India.
Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most prevalent gynecological malignancy, characterized by high mortality rates due to its late-stage diagnosis and frequent recurrence. The current standard of care for ovarian cancer is a combination of debulking surgery followed by the conventional mode of chemotherapy. Despite significant advances in therapeutic modalities, the overall survival rate of EOC continues to be poor, mainly because low concentrations of the chemotherapeutics reach the peritoneum, which is the primary site of ovarian cancer, leading to disease relapse.
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