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Accuracy of a blood glucose monitoring system that recognizes insufficient sa...
Background: Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) can play a key role in diabetes management. The CONTOUR®NEXT ONE (Ascensia Diabetes Care, Parsippany, NJ, USA) blood glucose... -
Previous and active tuberculosis increases risk of death and prolongs recover...
Background: There is growing literature on the association of SARS-CoV-2 and other chronic respiratory conditions, such as COPD and asthma. However, little is known about the... -
Associations between skin rash, treatment outcome, and single nucleotide poly...
Purpose: To study the associations between development of moderate to severe skin rash, clinical outcome, and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in candidate genes in head... -
Preaxial polydactyly of the foot: Clinical and genetic implications for the o...
Background and purpose — Preaxial polydactyly of the foot is a rare malformation and clinicians are often unfamiliar with the associated malformations and syndromes. In order to... -
Pattern of complications and burden of disease in patients affected by beta t...
Objectives: Despite the correct application of blood transfusions and chelation treatments, beta thalassemia patients have many complications. Systematic population analyses on... -
Medication therapy strategies for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): re...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spread globally since it outbroke in December 2019. The urgent pandemic presents an unprecedented challenge to develop and... -
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To investigate the optimal dosage/regimen and to evaluate the efficacy and safety of albiglutide in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. This was a randomized,... -
Two-bag intravenous N-acetylcysteine, antihistamine pretreatment and high pla...
Context:N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is used worldwide to prevent liver injury after paracetamol overdoses. Anaphylactoid reactions to NAC occur frequently and often lead to treatment... -
Community-level environmental characteristics predictive of childhood stuntin...
Coastal morphology makes Bangladesh vulnerable to environmental hazards and climate change. Therefore, environmental characteristics may shape population health, including child... -
Systematic literature review of the epidemiology and clinical burden of chron...
We conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to determine the epidemiology and clinical burden of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) and to describe how the... -
A systematic review to assess adherence and persistence with statins
Objective: To identify and assess studies published over a 10 year period up to February 2016 which measure adherence or persistence with statins, to summarize their methods,... -
Intensified antibiotic treatment of tuberculosis meningitis
Introduction: Meningitis is the most severe manifestation of tuberculosis, resulting in death or disability in over 50% of those affected, with even higher morbidity and... -
Relationship between circulating vascular endothelial growth factor and its s...
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is characterized by endothelial dysfunction with capillary leakage without obvious cytopathology in the capillary endothelium. The... -
Cost-effectiveness of dolutegravir/abacavir/lamivudine in HIV-1 treatment-Nai...
Background: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of an integrase inhibitor (INI), dolutegravir (DTG), in combination with abacavir (ABC)/lamivudine (3TC) in France, in... -
Cost-effectiveness thresholds: methods for setting and examples from around t...
Introduction: Cost-effectiveness thresholds (CETs) are used to judge if an intervention represents sufficient value for money to merit adoption in healthcare systems. The study... -
Perioperative, short-, and long-term mortality related to fixation in primary...
Background and purpose — There are reports on perioperative deaths in cemented total hip arthroplasty (THA), and THA revisions are associated with increased mortality. We... -
Subclinical carotid atherosclerosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulm...
Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients have an increased cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality. Common carotid intima-media thickness (CCA-IMT)... -
Failure modes of patellofemoral arthroplasty—registries vs. clinical studies:...
Background and purpose — Patellofemoral arthroplasty (PFA) has been debated since early studies showed poor implant survival. Recent studies show better results. This review... -
Associations between management practices and colostrum quality on New Zealan...
AIMS: To describe colostrum quality in spring-calving dairy herds in New Zealand, in terms of Brix, pH and total and coliform bacterial counts and to investigate associations... -
<i>In vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i> antidiabetic potential of extracts and a f...
Context:Balanites aegyptiaca Del. (Zygophyllaceae) fruits are well-known antidiabetic drug in Egyptian folk medicine. Nevertheless, its mechanism of action is still unclear....
