While the therapeutic effect of the balloon was superior to that of the IUD, no significant differences were observed in the one-month and two-month IUD groups. Trial registration This research was registered in the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (http://www.chictr.org.cn/enIndex.aspx); ...
A study that compared the clinical outcomes of COVID-19 between Italy and China using records from the National Italian Institute of Health and the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the COVID-19 mortality rate was significantly higher in Italy than in China (OR 3.18...
To bridge this gap, we propose an analytical framework, based on three-way sparse canonical correlation analysis (T-SCCA), to explore the intrinsic associations among genetic markers, imaging QTs, and clinical scores of interest. We perform an empirical study using the Alzheimer's Disease ...
In the field of RA treatment, significant progress has been achieved with the introduction of anti-TNF biologic therapy [8]. Although TNF-blockade therapy constitutes a spectacular advance in the RA treatment, approximately one-third of patients do not respond to this therapeutic approach [9,10]....
China 4 Department Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianyou Hospital of Tongji University, No. 528 of Zhennan Road, Putuo District, Shanghai 200331, P.R. China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Introduction Adjuvant chemotherapy (ACT) improves survival in ...
4. Interactions between co-infecting fish pathogens, the host, and environmental influences 5. Incidence of co-infections and clinical outcome in fish 7. Conclusions and future directions Data availability statement Funding CRediT authorship contribution statement Declaration of Competing Interest Data availa...
Pregnant women with a singleton pregnancy and a fetus in cephalic presentation at term (≥ 259 days of gestation) were recruited when presenting for delivery or prelabor examination. Women were excluded if they had a primary Cesarean section. Other exclusion criteria were premature rupture of the ...
of 10 years. We assessed the repair of sexual activities, quality of sexual life, and the prevalence of pregnancies after the procedure. In addition, general health status was assessed using the EuroQol-5D questionnaire. Of the 513 women operated on during the period of January 2009 until ...
Soluble isoforms of RAGE (sRAGE) may constitute further new and interesting biomarkers for CABG outcome and severe periodontitis. As the sRAGE forms lack the transmembrane and cytosolic domain, subsequent downstream signaling is not possible. Therefore, sRAGE is thought to act as a competitive inhibito...
The exclusion criteria for the study were patients with an incomplete medical record, patients with diagnoses of other primary infections or with concomitant diseases related to the previous administration of immunosuppressive drugs. A total of 50 patients were included, of which 28 were discharged due...