Albright Kusk

Osteoporosis has increased and developed into a serious public health concern worldwide. find more Despite the high prevalence, osteoporosis is silent before major fragility fracture and the osteoporosis screening rate is low. Abdomen-pelvic CT (APCT) is one of the most widely conducted medical tests. Artificial intelligence and radiomics analysis…[Read more]

Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) presents as gradual vision loss and associated visual hallucinations in a patient who is otherwise neurologically and psychiatrically intact. This syndrome presents primarily as ophthalmologic disease, however, may be secondary to an ischemic stroke or tumor in the occipital lobe. Patients present with a complaint of…[Read more]

Exosomes, restoring miR-18b-3p or inhibiting LEP reduced SBP and proteinuria of PE rats as well as increased the weight of fetal rat and placenta, decreased serum levels of inflammatory factors as well as suppressed apoptotic cells of PE rats, exerting a suppressive effect on PE progression. miR-18b-3p was decreased and LEP was increased in…[Read more]

In the early years of the disease recognition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) was viewed as an ominous disease with unfavourable prognosis and with an annual mortality between 4% and 6%. At that time, 73% of the patients reported in the literature came from only two referral centres. With the introduction of echocardiography, our understanding…[Read more]

The comparative fit indices from the CFA models were 0·79 and 0·34 for the FFQ and 3DFD of the subsample, respectively. In the subsample, three similar patterns were identified in the FFQ while only two for the 3DFD.

Dietary patterns from the FFQ are reproducible within this cohort, providing a basis for future investigations on diet and h…[Read more]

This study aimed to describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of endemics of two rickettsial diseases, scrub typhus (ST) and Japanese spotted fever (JSF), in Japan.

We conducted a retrospective, descriptive epidemiological assessment of cases notified via national surveillance from 2007-2016.

Over the 10-year…[Read more]