Chest dynamic digital radiography (DDR) is used as a supplementary tool for the routine pulmonary function test (PFT); however, its potential as a novel standard PFT method has yet to be explored. The...
In total, 139 participants who underwent chest DDR and the PFT in the same period at The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University from April 2022 to February 2023 were prospectively i...
The 139 participants were grouped according to the results of the ratio of measured/predicted FVC values (FVC%pred); those with an FVC%pred ≥80%, were allocated to the normal FVC group, and those with...
There was a linear correlation between the ΔPLA measured by biphasic chest DDR and the FVC. A model for estimating the FVC was established based on the ΔPLA, which allows the FVC to be assessed by the...
Pericytes are crucial mural cells situated within cerebral microcirculation, pivotal in actively modulating cerebral blood flow via contractility adjustments. Conventionally, their contractility is ga...
Land plants have evolved with a complex mechanism of water uptake facilitated by the activity of aquaporins under normal and challenging environments. However, we lack a clear understanding of its int...
Oxidative stress-induced cellular senescence and mitochondrial dysfunction result in skin aging by increasing ECM levels-degrading proteins such as MMPs, and decreasing collagen synthesis. MMPs also d...
Tooth decay, which leads to pulpal inflammation due to the pulp's response to bacterial components and byproducts is the most common infectious disease. The main goals of clinical management are to el...
Traditional and modern-day laboratory techniques can be used to mask vital and non-vital discolored teeth....
Two clinical case reports are presented showing different treatment approaches to differing clinical scenarios of partial coverage veneer and full coverage crown restorations, respectively....
Feldspathic ceramics should be considered when customization of stump shade correction and equalization is required with minimum facial reduction with veneer restorations. Translucent zirconia (5 mol%...
Different clinical scenarios will present to the clinician in regard to discolored stump shades where understanding what laboratory material treatment options are available that will help guide defini...
Various vital sign ranges for pediatric patients have differing utility in identifying children with serious illness or injury requiring immediate intervention. While commonly used ranges are derived ...
We retrospectively reviewed pediatric (<18 years) prehospital records from the 2021 ESO Collaborative dataset. We compared the proportions of encounters having vital signs (heart rate, respiratory rat...
510,414 encounters were included, of which 66.9% were for medical indications and 70.7% resulted in hospital transport. The study sample had similar proportions of encounters identified at studied cut...
Previously published empirically derived centiles for pediatric prehospital vital signs were replicated in this large multi-agency dataset. Compared to commonly used vital sign ranges, empirically der...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes airflow obstruction and respiratory problems. Thus, the main objective of this study was to determine the risk factors for the progression of COPD u...
A retrospective study design was used to gather the related data on longitudinal change of forced vital capacity and time to onset of polycythemia from the medical charts. The joint model consists of ...
From the total of 266 patient's estimated value of forced vital capacity of chronic obstructive pulmonary patients was 74.45 years with a standard deviation of 8.59. The estimated value of the associa...
The overall performance of separate and joint models, joint modeling of longitudinal measures with the time-to-event outcome was the best model due to smaller standard errors and statistical significa...
Many patients with lung cancer have underlying chronic lung diseases. We assume that baseline lung functions might also affect the prognosis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients receiving im...
We aimed to assess the impact of pretreatment clinical parameters, including lung function measures such as forced vital capacity (FVC), on the prognosis of patients with NSCLC following immune checkp...
Retrospective multicenter study....
Study subjects were consecutively selected from a multicenter cohort of patients with NSCLC who were undergoing immunotherapy. Patients were selected regardless of their initial cancer stage and prior...
We selected 289 patients for evaluation. The median iOS was 10.9 months (95% confidence interval (CI), 7.5-14.3). Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression, tested by SP263, was <1% in 20.9%, 1%-49...
Pre-immunotherapy FVC (%) predicted immunotherapy-related outcomes in NSCLC patients, regardless of initial stage at diagnosis and prior treatment modalities....
Increasing levels of distress and barriers to healthcare have coincided with increasing use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). While mindfulness and movement interventions may improve we...
This single intervention study aimed to (1) explore the effects of two brief, online, self-administered mindfulness and movement interventions on affect and vitality, and (2) establish whether changes...
Participants (n = 62) were randomly allocated to follow a brief online mindfulness or movement intervention. Levels of affect (using PANAS) and subjective vitality (using the Subjective Vitality Scale...
Participants completing the mindfulness intervention reported increased vitality and decreased positive and negative affect. Those completing the movement intervention reported increased vitality and ...
Differences between mindfulness and movement interventions may indicate that they could have targeted applications. While further research is necessary, these brief, online interventions may provide a...
