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    An automated data cleaning method for Electronic Health Records by incorporating clinical knowledge

    The use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) data in clinical research is incredibly increasing, but the abundancy of data resources raises the challenge of data cleaning. It can save time if the data cleaning c...

    ** Shi, Charlotte Prins in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2021)

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    An ensemble-based feature selection framework to select risk factors of childhood obesity for policy decision making

    The increasing prevalence of childhood obesity makes it essential to study the risk factors with a sample representative of the population covering more health topics for better preventive policies and interve...

    ** Shi, Gorana Nikolic, Gorka Epelde in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2021)

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    Endurance Exercise Intervention Is Beneficial to Kidney Function in a Rat Model of Isolated Abdominal Venous Congestion: a Pilot Study

    In this study, the effects of moderate intense endurance exercise on heart and kidney function and morphology were studied in a thoracic inferior vena cava constricted (IVCc) rat model of abdominal venous cong...

    Jirka Cops, Bart De Moor, Sibren Haesen in Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Re… (2020)

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    Exercise intervention in hospitalized heart failure patients, with emphasis on congestion-related complications: a review

    The importance of physical activity has become evident since a sedentary lifestyle drives cardiovascular disease progression and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The favorable effects of e...

    Jirka Cops, Sibren Haesen, Bart De Moor, Wilfried Mullens in Heart Failure Reviews (2020)

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    Current animal models for the study of congestion in heart failure: an overview

    Congestion (i.e., backward failure) is an important culprit mechanism driving disease progression in heart failure. Nevertheless, congestion remains often underappreciated and clinicians underestimate the impo...

    Jirka Cops, Sibren Haesen, Bart De Moor, Wilfried Mullens in Heart Failure Reviews (2019)

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    Software-guided versus nurse-directed blood glucose control in critically ill patients: the LOGIC-2 multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial

    Blood glucose control in the intensive care unit (ICU) has the potential to save lives. However, maintaining blood glucose concentrations within a chosen target range is difficult in clinical practice and hold...

    Jasperina Dubois, Tom Van Herpe, Roosmarijn T. van Hooijdonk in Critical Care (2017)

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    External Validation of a risk stratification model to assist shared decision making for patients starting renal replacement therapy

    Shared decision making is nowadays acknowledged as an essential step when deciding on starting renal replacement therapy. Valid risk stratification of prognosis is, besides discussing quality of life, crucial ...

    Patrick Peeters, Wim Van Biesen, Nic Veys, Wim Lemahieu, Bart De Moor in BMC Nephrology (2016)

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    Biomarkers of Endometriosis

    Endometriosis is a benign gynecological disease defined by the ectopic presence of endometrium and associated with pelvic pain and infertility. The etiology and pathogenesis remain unclear. The gold standard o...

    Amelie Fassbender, Dorien O, Bart De Moor, Etienne Waelkens in Endometriosis (2014)

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    Diuretics

    Pascal Vranckx, Bart De Moor, Barbara De Meuter in Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine (2012)

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    Erratum to: TRIzol treatment of secretory phase endometrium allows combined proteomic and mRNA microarray analysis of the same sample in women with and without endometriosis

    Amelie Fassbender, Peter Simsa, Cleophas M Kyama in Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology (2011)

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    TRIzol treatment of secretory phase endometrium allows combined proteomic and mRNA microarray analysis of the same sample in women with and without endometriosis

    According to mRNA microarray, proteomics and other studies, biological abnormalities of eutopic endometrium (EM) are involved in the pathogenesis of endometriosis, but the relationship between mRNA and protein...

    Amelie Fassbender, Peter Simsa, Cleophas M Kyama in Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology (2010)

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    Ingredients for adequate evaluation of blood glucose algorithms as applied to the critically ill

    The article by Eslami and colleagues provides an overview of the indicators used to measure the quality of blood glucose control in patients admitted to the intensive care unit. Each indicator can be related t...

    Tom Van Herpe, Bart De Moor, Greet Vanden Berghe in Critical Care (2009)

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    Glycemic penalty index for adequately assessing and comparing different blood glucose control algorithms

    Blood glucose (BG) control performed by intensive care unit (ICU) nurses is becoming standard practice for critically ill patients. New (semi-automated) 'BG control' algorithms (or 'insulin titration' algorith...

    Tom Van Herpe, Jos De Brabanter, Martine Beullens, Bart De Moor in Critical Care (2008)

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    Microarray screening for target genes of the proto-oncogene PLAG1

    PLAG1 is a proto-oncogene whose ectopic expression can trigger the development of pleomorphic adenomas of the salivary glands and of lipoblastomas. As PLAG1 is a transcription factor, able to activate transcri...

    Marianne L Voz, Janick Mathys, Karen Hensen, Hélène Pendeville in Oncogene (2004)