Closing the gap in dementia research by community-based cohort studies in the Chinese populationResearch in context by Xiaowen Zhou, Zhenxu Xiao, Wanqing Wu, Yuntao Chen, Changzheng Yuan, Yue Leng, Yao Yao, Qianhua Zhao, Albert Hofman, Eric Brunner, Ding Ding

“…We identified critical research gaps and propose future directions, including enhancing sample representativeness, investigating China-specific risk factors, expanding exposure measurements to the whole life-span, collecting objective data, conducting administer-friendly domain-specific cognitive assessments, adopting pathological diagnostic criteria, standardizing biobank construction, verifying multi-modal biomarkers, examining social and genetic-environmental aspects, and monitoring post-COVID cognitive health, to approach high quality of dementia studies that can provide solid evidence to policy making and promote global brain health research.…”
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Unveiling The Myth of High Recurrence Rate of Extracranial Arteriovenous Malformations of The Head and Neck: Systematic Review of Case Reports and Case Series [version 2; peer revi... by Sagung Rai Indrasari, Danu Yudistira, Camelia Herdini, Agustian Winarno Putra

“…The reviewed articles demonstrated that appropriate diagnostic tests were documented in 95% of the included studies. …”
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Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Saudi Arabia: an epidemiological population-based study by Mohammed A. Alshehri, Husain Y. Alkhlady, Zuhier A. Awan, Mohammed Ridha Algethami, Hadiah B. Al Mahdi, Hussam Daghistani, Khalid Orayj

“…Method: This is a cross-sectional study conducted from 2015 to 2022, using data from 42 branches of a major network of diagnostic laboratories in Saudi Arabia, covering the country's 13 administrative areas. …”
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A ribodepletion and tagging protocol to multiplex samples for RNA-seq based virus detection: application to the cassava virome by Daniel H. Otron, Justin S. Pita, Murielle Hoareau, Fidèle Tiendrébéogo, Jean-Michel Lett, Pierre Lefeuvre

“…Unfortunately, the relatively high cost makes it difficult to upscale this method to large epidemiological surveys and limits its adoption as a diagnostic tool. Results Here, we develop a high-throughput sequencing protocol, named Ribo-M-Seq, that combines plant rRNA ribodepletion, cDNA synthesis, tagging with a 96 multiplexing scheme and Illumina sequencing. …”
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Prospective Application of the Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) as a Possible Inflammatory Marker in Feline Patients by Eleonora Gori, Anna Pasquini, Saverio Paltrinieri, George Lubas, Carlo Militello, Daniela Diamanti, Carlo Carletti, Marianna Pantoli, Veronica Marchetti

“…Ill cats with full clinical medical records, hematobiochemical profiles, and diagnostic procedures to reach a final diagnosis were included. …”
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Anterior Resection Syndrome by Masaaki Miyo, Emi Akizuki, Koichi Okuya, Ai Noda, Masayuki Ishii, Ryo Miura, Momoko Ichihara, Maho Toyota, Kohei Okamoto, Tatsuya Ito, Yuji Akiyama, Ichiro Takemasa

“…Defecation disorders following rectal resection have long been overlooked as an inevitable surgical complication due to the lack of established diagnostic criteria or definitions. However, these disorders have been recently termed low anterior resection syndrome (LARS), which is a defecation disorder that occurs following rectal resection and impairs the patient's quality of life (QOL). …”
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Surgical delay-associated mortality risk varies by subtype in loco-regional breast cancer patients in SEER-Medicare by Macall Leslie Salewon, Rashmi Pathak, William C. Dooley, Ronald A. Squires, Hallgeir Rui, Inna Chervoneva, Takemi Tanaka

“…Exposure of this study was continuous time to surgery from diagnostic biopsy (TTS; days) in reference to TTS = 30 days. …”
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Construction of a miR-15a-based risk prediction model for vascular calcification detection in patients undergoing hemodialysis by Chen Fu, Yingjie Liu, Huayu Yang, Qiaojing Liang, Wenhu Liu, Weikang Guo

“…The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve had an area under the curve of 0.921, diagnostic threshold of 0.396, sensitivity of 0.722, and specificity of 0.932, indicating that this model had good discrimination. …”
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Complex Variant of Philadelphia Translocation Involving Chromosomes 9, 12, and 22 in a Case with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia by F. Malvestiti, C. Agrati, S. Chinetti, A. Di Meco, S. Cirrincione, M. Oggionni, B. Grimi, F. Maggi, G. Simoni, F. R. Grati

“…Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a hematopoietic stem cell disorder included in the broader diagnostic category of myeloproliferative neoplasms, associated with fusion by BCR gene at chromosome 22q11 to ABL1 gene at chromosome 9q34 with the formation of the Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome. …”
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Clinical and epidemiological analysis of COVID-19 in End-Stage Renal Disease patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis: A study from Golestan province by Samira Juibari, Anna Rashedi, Mohammad Mojerloo, Zeinab Mohammadi, Saied Amirkhanlou

“…The diagnosis was made based on diagnostic criteria and COVID-19 PCR test. Medical information of all participants was collected. …”
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CircRNAs in colorectal cancer: potential roles, clinical applications, and natural product-based regulation by Jingjing Yang, Jingjing Yang, Qiqi Fan, Yiyun Wang, Yuanyue Liu, Xiaoning Xu, Yeqi Liang, Jiakang Xie, Jiajie Li, Fengting Ai, Yong Cao, Shangzhen Yu, Jinman Liu

“…Aberrant expression of circRNAs holds great potential as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers as well as therapeutic targets for CRC. …”
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Three-Dimensional Assessment of Dental Enamel Microcrack Progression After Orthodontic Bracket Debonding Using Optical Coherence Tomography by Ahmed Haj Hamdan, Sm Abu Saleah, Daewoon Seong, Naresh Kumar Ravichandran, Ruchire Eranga Wijesinghe, Sangyeob Han, Jeehyun Kim, Mansik Jeon, Hyo-Sang Park

“…The current study aimed to quantify the length progression of enamel microcracks (EMCs) after debonding metal and ceramic brackets, implementing OCT as a diagnostic tool. The secondary objectives included a three-dimensional assessment of EMC width and depth and the formation of new EMCs. …”
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The impact of delay in HIV diagnosis on patient survival: analysis of HIV infection trends from 2007 to 2023 by Riyaz A. Shaik, Sharan K. Holyachi, Mohammad S. Ahmad, Mohammed Miraj, Syed Yousaf Kazmi, Mohammad Rehan Asad, Ali Faraz, Mirwais Ramozi, Ritu Kumar Ahmad

“…Programs to increase awareness and access to diagnostic and treatment services should be strengthened.…”
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Effect of gut microbiota changes on cytokines IL-10 and IL-17 levels in liver transplantation patients by Mohamed Abdel-Raoof Fouda, Mohamed Abdel-Wahhab, Ahmed Esmail Abdelkader, Mohsen El-Sayd Ibrahim, Taher Abozeid Elsheikh, Hisham Mohammad Aldeweik, Nora Elfeky

“…The examination of patient demographic and clinical data revealed no significant correlations between sex, age, or diagnostic categories and gut microbiota composition. …”
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Exploring nanocomposite materials in clinical dermatology: Innovations for treating skin diseases by Sandipan Dasgupta, Subhasundar Maji, Sanjay Dey, Moitreyee Chattopadhyay, Ananya Chanda, Satarupa Acharjee, Kousik Santra, Kazi Asraf Ali

“…Their ability to improve diagnostic imaging and facilitate tissue regeneration further expands their applications. …”
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Microbiota analysis of perimenopausal women experiencing recurrent vaginitis in conjunction with urinary tract infection by Yingying Bi, Yuezhu Wang, Wu Li, Yuhang Chen, Jinlong Qin, Huajun Zheng

“…This information will help characterize the relationship between the urogenital microbiota and RV/UTI, potentially aiding in the development of diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.…”
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Prevalence, influencing factors, and prediction model construction of anemia in ankylosing spondylitis based on real-world data: An exploratory study. by Yifan Gong, Kun Yang, Zhaoyang Geng, Hongxiao Liu

“…According to the anemia diagnostic criteria established by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2018, patients were divided into anemia group and non-anemia group. …”
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Brazilian Thoracic Association recommendations for the management of lymphangioleiomyomatosis by Bruno Guedes Baldi, Paulo Henrique Ramos Feitosa, Adalberto Sperb Rubin, Alexandre Franco Amaral, Carolina Salim Gonçalves Freitas, Cláudia Henrique da Costa, Eliane Viana Mancuzo, Ellen Caroline Toledo do Nascimento, Mariana Sponholz Araujo, Marcelo Jorge Jacó Rocha, Martina Rodrigues de Oliveira, Tatiana Senna Galvão, Pedro Paulo Teixeira e Silva Torres, Carlos Roberto Ribeiro Carvalho

“…In recent decades, a number of advances have been made in the understanding of the pathophysiology and management of LAM, leading to improvements in its prognosis: identification of the main genetic aspects and the role of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway; relationship with hormonal factors, mainly estrogen; characterization of pulmonary and extrapulmonary manifestations in imaging studies; identification and importance in the diagnosis of VEGF-D; a systematic diagnostic approach, often without the need for lung biopsy; use of and indications for the use of mTOR inhibitors, mainly sirolimus, for pulmonary and extrapulmonary manifestations; pulmonary rehabilitation and the management of complications such as pneumothorax and chylothorax; and the role of and indications for lung transplantation. …”
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Evaluation and practical application of prompt-driven ChatGPTs for EMR generation by Hanlin Ding, Wenjie Xia, Yujia Zhou, Lei Wei, Yipeng Feng, Zi Wang, Xuming Song, Rutao Li, Qixing Mao, Bing Chen, Hui Wang, Xing Huang, Bin Zhu, Dongyu Jiang, Jingyu Sun, Gaochao Dong, Feng Jiang

“…The findings highlight ChatGPT’s potential to enhance workflow efficiency and improve diagnostic processes in clinical settings.…”
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Development of a Copro-RPA-CRISPR/Cas12a assay to detect Echinococcus granulosus nucleic acids isolated from canine feces using NaOH-based DNA extraction method. by Guoqing Shao, Xiaowei Zhu, Ruiqi Hua, Yanxin Chen, Guangyou Yang

“…The developed assays surpassed previous detection methods in providing enhanced diagnostic sensitivity and enabling point-of-care testing. …”
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