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Open AccessThe association between blood nickel level and handgrip strength in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis
Progressive loss of peripheral muscle strength is highly pronounced in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis (MHD), of which the pathological mechanism tends to be multifactorial. Plasma nickel was repor...
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Open AccessAssociation between systemic immune inflammation Index and all-cause mortality in incident peritoneal dialysis-treated CKD patients: a multi-center retrospective cohort study
Chronic inflammatory disorders in peritoneal dialysis (PD) contribute to the adverse clinical outcome. Systemic immune inflammation index (SII) is the novel and convenient measurement that is positively associ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
IvyGPT: InteractiVe Chinese Pathway Language Model in Medical Domain
General large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have shown remarkable success. However, such LLMs have not been widely adopted for medical purposes, due to poor accuracy and inability to provide medical a...
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Novel red ZnLaB5O10:Sm3+ phosphor with high thermal stability for application in high CRI w-LEDs
A novel Sm3+-doped ZnLaB5O10 phosphor was produced using a high-temperature solid-phase synthesis method. The Rietveld refinement of the ZnLaB5O10:Sm3+ phosphor was carried out and its successful synthesis was de...
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Open AccessCombined influence of depression and low-grade inflammation on mortality in peritoneal dialysis patients
The relationship between depression and systemic inflammation as risk factors for mortality is not well understood and requires further investigation.
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Towards efficient allocation of graph convolutional networks on hybrid computation-in-memory architecture
Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been applied successfully in social networks and recommendation systems to analyze graph data. Unlike conventional neural networks, GCNs introduce an aggregation phase,...
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Associations of vitamin K status with mortality and cardiovascular events in peritoneal dialysis patients
Vitamin K deficiency, expressed by a high level of desphospho-uncarboxylated matrix GLA protein (dp-ucMGP), is highly prevalent in dialysis patients. However, the predictive ability of the vitamin K status rem...
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Postoperative adjuvant therapy for resectable thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a retrospective analysis of 426 cases
The aim of this study was to evaluate the value of postoperative adjuvant therapy for resectable thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) in China. We retrospectively analyzed 426 eligible patients s...