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Open AccessEvaluation of the value of conventional and unconventional lipid parameters for predicting the risk of diabetes in a non-diabetic population
Conventional and unconventional lipid parameters are associated with diabetes risk, the comparative studies on lipid parameters for predicting future diabetes risk, however, are still extremely limited, and th...
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Open AccessUnderstanding the spatial heterogeneity of COVID-19 vaccination uptake in England
Mass vaccination has been a key strategy in effectively containing global COVID-19 pandemic that posed unprecedented social and economic challenges to many countries. However, vaccination rates vary across spa...
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Multi-omics identification of an immunogenic cell death-related signature for clear cell renal cell carcinoma in the context of 3P medicine and based on a 101-combination machine learning computational framework
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is a prevalent urological malignancy associated with a high mortality rate. The lack of a reliable prognostic biomarker undermines the efficacy of its predictive, preven...
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Open AccessAssociation between insulin resistance and cardiac remodeling in HER2-positive breast cancer patients: a real-world study
Insulin resistance is an overlap** risk factor for both heart and breast cancer, while its interaction with cardiotoxicity in breast cancer (BC) patients is not clear. This study investigated the impact of i...
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Open AccessMitochondrion-targeted carboxymethyl chitosan hybrid nanoparticles loaded with Coenzyme Q10 protect cardiac grafts against cold ischaemia‒reperfusion injury in heart transplantation
Heart transplantation (HT) has been approved as an optimal therapeutic regimen for patients with terminal-stage cardiac failure. However, cold ischaemia‒reperfusion (I/R) injury remains an unavoidable and outs...