In general, there is a lack of awareness about possible risk factors, so the majority of CKD cases will not be recognized clinically or will be diagnosed at a later stage. Furthermore, it has been proven that the diagnosis of CKD will be delayed in patients with a positive attitude and s...
The prevalence of CKD in pregnancy is predicted to rise in the future due to increasing maternal age and obesity. Although CKD is not a barrier to reproduction in most women, the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes is increased in women with CKD including pre-eclampsia, fetal growth restriction...
Such functional differences between biomarkers are likely to give rise to a different clinical meaning. Nevertheless, the proof of a cause-effect relation between cardiovascular disease in humans and osteoprotegerin or fibulin-1 is still lacking and the role of both proteins for diagnosis or ...
The fitted model was fully adjusted for other covariates: sex, waist circumference, education level, income, energy intake, leisure-time physical activity, smoking status, T2D status, CKD, SF-36 mental component score, history of CVD, and history of cancer (Model 3). Second, to examine the ...
A significant proportion of end-stage organ failures, that in turn require organ transplantation, are caused by monogenic conditions, meaning that they are due to a single causative gene [1]. A major boost to the diagnosis of these monogenic diseases has been given by the technological advancemen...
We report the quantitative characteristics of the dataset (amount of individuals and percentage of individuals for each binary feature condition; median and mean for each numeric or category feature) in Table1, and the interpretation details (meaning, measurement unit, and value range in the dataset...
Ontologies, which formalize the meaning of terms used in discourse, are expected to play a major role in the automated integration of patient data with relevant information to support basic discovery and clinical research, drug formulation, and drug evaluation through clinical trials. Already, OWL on...
This description fits closely with the process of gist extraction that has been widely described in the scene processing literature. Gist extraction is a perceptual process that allows observers to quickly retrieve the global meaning, or gist, of visual input. After as little as 20–30 ms, ...
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[291], meaning that this sudden rise after exercise or treatment could be of benefit not only in the periphery, but acting centrally. It must be reminded that in our experience, IGF-1 treatment does not only raise IGF-1 plasma levels, but also stimulates tissues to synthesise their own ...