ICD implantation in small children (body weight <20 to 25 kg) is more challenging. They are too small for a transvenous or subcutaneous system, so an epicardial system is needed. Various techniques have been utilized, but for an infant weighing less than 5 kg, the most reliable system cons...
The NHIS-HEALS cohort consists of health examination records including demographic and anthropometric data as well as laboratory test details. Health-related behaviors, such as smoking status and drinking habit, were evaluated using self-reported questionnaire. BP was measured at mobile examination center...
(icd-10-cm d10-d49) were not considered. the main outcome of the study was defined as a first diagnosis of cancer after the date of recruitment or a cancer-related death. similarly, secondary outcomes of the study were considered for the most common cancer types: breast, colon, lung, ...
Mortality data were sent to the Min- istry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and the underlying cause of death was coded as per the National Vital Statistics requirements based on the "International Statistical Classifi- cation of Diseases," 9th revision (ICD-9) in 1993−1994 and the 10th ...
It may be worthwhile to undertake a second individual participant meta-analysis, to test if anti-hypertensive medications may modulate the U-shaped relationships that we defined, more than a decade ago. Reference 1. Blood Pressure, Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease: The OPTIMA Longitudinal Study ...
HBIGDA stipulates that a patient must meet the diagnostic criteria for gender identity disorders as defined by either the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV) or the International Classification of Diseases–10 (ICD-10). ...
To further test for a possible association with pleiotropy, we reconstructed a GRS excluding SNPs associated with any type of well-known cardiovascular risk factors or disease. We performed a sensitivity analysis to check that the association between elevated systolic BP and VHD is not an epi...
While diastolic blood pressure among persons in the lowest quartile of plasma ascorbic acid increased by 5.97 mmHg (95% CI 3.82 to 8.13 mmHg) from year 9 to year 10, those in the highest quartile of plasma vitamin C increased by only 0.23 mmHg (95% CI -1.90 to ...
d, Blood parameters and response to perturbation conditions were associated with clinical phenotypes such as ICD10 diagnostic codes and lab measurements. e, The perturbation screening setting yielded many genetic associations that were specific to blood cell types and environmental stimuli. By comparing ...
To minimize bias due to racial differences and sample overlap, GWAS data for IBD from the FinnGen database (https://www.finngen.fi/en, R8 released in 2023) were used for the primary analysis17. In this data, UC and CD were strictly diagnosed by ICD codes and required KELA and at lea...