Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is a prevalent and debilitating complication of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Although glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is a primary metric for glycemic control, ...

A Japanese retrospective cohort linked daily ward rosters with 77,289 admissions (median age 69.3 years; 53.2% surgical) to evaluate mortality, 7–30-day readmissions, and length of stay. Understaffing ...

Background Recurrent mitral regurgitation (MR) remains a major limitation of mitral valve (MV) repair in patients with advanced degenerative MR (asDMR) and left ventricular (LV) enlargement. We ...

1 Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), University of Liverpool and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK 2 School of Pharmacy and ...

Background and Objectives: Flow diverters (FDs) have been increasingly used in treating unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIAs). However, comparative studies between the novel Lattice Flow Diverter ...

ABSTRACT: Background: Propensity score methods have become a cornerstone of modern causal inference, enabling researchers to approximate the conditions of randomized experiments in observational ...

1 Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. 2 School of International Education, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. 3 Guangdong ...

Objectives Against the heavy burden of non-communicable diseases and the lack of preventive behaviours (PB) in China, health shocks (HSs), as a trigger, provide the teachable moment for promoting PB ...

Background Middle meningeal artery embolization (MMAE) is a promising treatment for non-acute subdural hematoma (NASDH), but trial evidence is limited by heterogeneity and open label design bias. This ...

The albumin-to-alkaline phosphatase ratio (AAPR) has recently emerged as a novel prognostic biomarker in various solid tumors. However, its clinical value in lower-grade glioma (LGG) remains unclear.