Genetic mutations in various proteins have been implicated with increased risk or severity of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in different population groups. In the present case-control study, we have inves...
Globally, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is one of the fastest-growing noncommunicable multifactorial and polygenic diseases, which leads to many health complications and significant morbidity and mo...
A case-control study recruited fully consented participants from a population of Jat Sikhs in north India. DNA samples were genotyped for a range of polymorphisms and odds ratios were calculated under...
The GSTT1(rs17856199), GSTM1(rs366631), GSTP1(rs1695), KCNQ1(rs2237892), ACE(rs4646994), and TCF7L2(rs12255372; rs7903146; rs7901695) polymorphisms were associated with increased T2DM risk (...
Several polymorphisms were associated with T2DM risk. PRS based on even a limited number of loci improves the prediction of the disease. This may provide a useful method for determining T2DM susceptib...
Candidemia is a serious complication in pediatric patients with congenital heart defects (CHD) after cardiac surgery. Information about the epidemiology, clinical characteristics and risk factors for ...
This retrospective case-control study was conducted in 2 pediatric intensive care units between 2004 and 2019. All patients <18 years old who developed candidemia following cardiac surgery were includ...
Thirty-five candidemia cases were identified and matched to 70 control cases. The incidence of candidemia was 6.3 episodes per 1000 admissions. The median age for candidemia cases was 4 months. The at...
Postoperative candidemia in children with CHD is an uncommon but severe complication. Our study revealed an unexpectedly high frequency of fluconazole-resistant C. parapsilosis as the main cause of no...
High vitamin B12 concentrations are considered a common finding in clinical practice. Thanks to immunoassay accessibility, vitamin B12 has become a usual test in routine health checkups. However, thes...
Observational, prospective, case-control study was performed during 12 months. Individuals with persistently elevated cobalamin concentrations [>554 pmol/L] were considered as cases in the absence of ...
Up to 45% of cases presented interference by B12-immunocomplexes and the precipitation for all of them was >50%. The individual with the lowest interfered vitamin B12 result was 661 pmol/L....
The presence of antibody-mediated interferences, mainly B12-immunocomplexes, is a relatively common phenomenon. A simple algorithm for the screening of interferences is useful and reliable in ruling o...
The association of ZFHX3 gene polymorphisms with ischemia stroke (IS) susceptibility has been clarified in Europeans, but not in the Chinese Han population. To assess the effect of ZFHX3 polymorphisms...
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and periodontitis share risk factors, such as age, obesity, stress, and cardiovascular events, which have a bidirectional cause-effect relationship through systemic infla...
This was an observational case-control study involving 60 patients. Local oral risk factors and the systemic condition of each patient were evaluated. All patients underwent polysomnography for the di...
A higher percentage of patients with periodontitis had severe OSA (66.66%); however, no statistically significant association was found between the two pathologies (p = 0.290). In terms of systemic ri...
In the general population, patients with periodontitis showed a higher prevalence of severe OSA. Obesity and hypothyroidism were the most prevalent systemic findings in patients with OSA and periodont...
To study the factors that can facilitate the progression of OSA and periodontitis, physicians and dentists should be advised to provide comprehensive care for patients with both pathologies....
Experimental models have demonstrated a link between exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and decreased fertility and fecundability; however, human studies are scarce. We assessed the associat...
In a case-control study nested within the population-based Singapore Preconception Study of Long-Term Maternal and Child Outcomes (S-PRESTO), we measured PFAS in plasma collected in 2015-2017 from 382...
We found a 5-10 % reduction in fecundability per quartile increase of exposure to individual PFAS (FRs [95 % CIs] for clinical pregnancy = 0.90 [0.82, 0.98] for PFDA; 0.88 [0.79, 0.99] for PFOS; 0.95 ...
Higher PFAS exposures may be associated with decreased fertility in women. The potential impact of ubiquitous PFAS exposures on infertility mechanisms requires further investigation....
Leukemia is the most common childhood cancer in industrialized countries, and the increasing incidence trends in the US suggest that environmental exposures play a role in its etiology. Neighborhood s...
The pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is believed to initiate at mucosal sites. The so-called 'mucosal origin hypothesis of RA' postulates an increased intestinal permeability before disease o...
We analyzed serum samples of individuals genetically at increased risk of RA in a nested-case-control study. Participants from a longitudinal cohort of first-degree relatives of RA patients (SCREEN-RA...
We included 180 individuals genetically at increased risk for RA: 84 asymptomatic controls, 53 individuals with RA-associated autoimmunity and 38 high risk individuals. Serum LBP, I-FAPB or calprotect...
Based on the serum biomarkers LBP, I-FABP and calprotectin, we could not detect any evidence for intestinal injury in pre-clinical stages of RA....
Post-COVID-19 condition (PCC) has high impact on quality of life, with myalgia and fatigue affecting at least 25% of PCC patients. This case-control study aims to noninvasively assess muscular alterat...
Quantitative muscle MRI was performed on a 3 Tesla MRI scanner of the whole legs in PCC patients compared to age- and sex-matched healthy controls, including a Dixon sequence to determine muscle fat f...
Twenty PCC patients (female: n = 15, age = 48.8 ± 10.1 years, symptoms duration = 13.4 ± 4.2 months, body mass index [BMI] = 28.8 ± 4.7 kg/m...
Quantitative muscle MRI did not depict any signs of ongoing inflammation or dystrophic process in the skeletal muscles in PCC patients. However, differences observed in muscle DTI depict microstructur...
