A Study on Diagnostic Accuracy of Dipsi Method Over Traditional Oral Glucose Tolerance Test Among Antenatal Women by Vijayadevi Shanmugam, Dharani Sudha Gopalraj, Shruthi Nanjudappan, Rajeswari Ravindran

“…Participants underwent both OGTT (using WHO criteria) and DIPSI tests. The blood sugar values were classified, and diagnostic accuracy was measured using sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV). …”
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Hyperkalemia or Not? A Diagnostic Pitfall in the Emergency Department by Frank-Peter Stephan, Florian N. Riede, Luca Ünlü, Gioele Capoferri, Tito Bosia, Axel Regeniter, Roland Bingisser, Christian H. Nickel

“…Two groups were established based on potassium levels in the initial and repeat blood tests: 1) True hyperkalemia, characterized by consistently elevated potassium levels in both the initial and repeat samples; and 2) Factitious hyperkalemia, defined by an elevated initial potassium level while the repeat blood test showed a normal potassium level. …”
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God's omnipotence and human freedom by A. van de Beek

“…We can, however, hardly overestimate the role of the church in this. That was true for the origins of apartheid, and is also true for its abolition. …”
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Haematological, Liver Function Parameters and Heavy Metal Assessment of KWMC Workers at Roadside and Mixed Waste Dumpsites in Kwara State, Nigeria by D.T. Ogundele, V.T. Olayemi, F.M. Folaranmi, O.E. Oludele, A.A. Oladejo

“…Zero difference existed between Cr concentrations in blood samples of both groups. However, results showed true difference between baseline Pb and Cd concentrations of the groups. …”
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Christ's crucifixion as a medico-historical event by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…There is no reason to consider this as proof of a functioning blood circulation indicating apparent rather than true death. …”
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WGCNA and integrative network analysis identify CHRNA5 and CTLA4 as potential therapeutic targets against angiosarcoma by Trishla Bhatnagar, Madiha Haider, Mohd Yasir Khan, Mohammad Zahid Ashraf

“…Angiosarcomas are a type of soft-tissue sarcoma characterized by aggressive malignant tumors originating from endothelial cells of blood vessels or lymphatic vessels. Limited studies have been done to explore the molecular pathophysiology of the disease, with rather limited studies involving transcriptomic analyzes. …”
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Machine learning for classifying chronic kidney disease and predicting creatinine levels using at-home measurements by Brady Metherall, Anna K. Berryman, Georgia S. Brennan

“…Using 10-fold cross-validation, we calculate metrics such as accuracy, true positive rate (TPR), true negative rate (TNR), and mean squared error. …”
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Automatic Detection and Classification of Eye Diseases from Retinal Images Using Deep Learning: A Comprehensive Research on the ODIR Dataset by Asadi Srinivasulu, Clement Varaprasad Karu, G Sreenivasulu, Gayathri R

“…The methodologies under consideration encompass machine learning, filtering-based, and model-based approaches, with performance assessment based on a range of metrics, including true positive rate, true negative rate, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, false discovery rate, Matthews's correlation coefficient, and accuracy. …”
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Bacteraemia in a Nigerian hospital: Implementing antimicrobial resistance surveillance by Adewale A. Amupitan, Adeyemi T. Adeyemo, Adefunke O. Amupitan, Temitope O. Obadare, Aaron O. Aboderin

“…Bacterial identification, antibiotic susceptibility testing and detection of AMR genes followed standard protocols. Results: Aerobic blood cultures were conducted in a third of clinical sepsis cases (n = 601/1851), of which 114 (19.0%) were true positives, with a 2.2% contamination rate. …”
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Is HbA1c Predictive for Screening and Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus? by Neslihan Yerebasmaz, Oya Aldemir, Şeyma Asıltürk, Deniz Esinler, Ertuğrul Karahanoğlu, Ömer Kandemir, Serdar Yalvaç

“…Further studies are needed to evaluate true cut-off values for using HbA1c for screening and diagnosing GDM. …”
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Serum hepcidin level with iron profile assay might replace bone marrow iron study as a diagnostic tool for evaluation of anemia in elderly without chronic renal disease by Sukdev Manna, Sankha Shubhra Chakrabarti, Rohit Singh, Indrajeet Singh Gambhir

“…All patients were evaluated with history, clinical examination, routine investigations (complete blood count, liver, and kidney function tests), iron profile, and serum hepcidin. …”
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Patient experience and burden of haemolytic disease of the foetus and newborn: a systematic review by P. Maurice, J. McCallion, M. Fitzgibbon, J. N. Barthelmes, W. Karmous, E. J. Hardy, S. A. Mitchell, C. R. Mitchell, J. Lee, W. Noel, Andras Borsi, J. M. Jouannic

“…Abstract Background Haemolytic disease of the foetus and newborn (HDFN) is an immune disorder driven by maternal alloimmunisation against foetal/newborn red blood cell antigens. HDFN can cause significant morbidity and mortality, with symptoms in the foetus ranging from mild anaemia to hydrops fetalis. …”
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