Salas Winkler

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.A hospital-based cross-sectional study in SIGES project was conducted during 2016.5-2017.5 in West China Hospital. It was aimed to observe the prevalence of atrophic gastritis (AG) in southwest China, and assess the diagnostic strength of serum…[Read more]

Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is a leading cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Although both albuminuria and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) are well-established diagnostic/prognostic biomarkers of DKD, they have important limitations. There is, thus, increasing quest to find novel biomarkers to identify the disease in an early stage and to…[Read more]

Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is a leading cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Although both albuminuria and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) are well-established diagnostic/prognostic biomarkers of DKD, they have important limitations. There is, thus, increasing quest to find novel biomarkers to identify the disease in an early stage and to…[Read more]

Furthermore, this study aims to raise awareness and provide a deeper insight into current scientific discussions.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, special education schools for children in most areas of China were closed between the end of January and the beginning of June in 2020. The sudden interruption in schooling and the pandemic itself…[Read more]

The physical and psychological condition of patients with gynaecological cancer has received much attention, but there is little research on spirituality in palliative care. This study aimed to investigate spiritual well-being and its association with quality of life, anxiety and depression in patients with gynaecological cancer. A cross-sectional…[Read more]

d that autophagy activation induced by rapamycin treatment, which led to activation of the TGF-β pathway, contributed to EndMT induction. CONCLUSIONS We revealed that although rapamycin functions to inhibit senescence and suppress SASP in HCAECs undergoing SIPS, EndMT is induced due to the activation of autophagy. Video abstract.The discovery of…[Read more]

This study objectively evaluates the similarity between standard full-field digital mammograms and two-dimensional synthesized digital mammograms (2DSM) in a cohort of women undergoing mammography. Under an institutional review board-approved data collection protocol, we retrospectively analyzed 407 women with digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT)…[Read more]