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Open AccessNeutrophil extracellular trap-associated risk index for predicting outcomes and response to Wnt signaling inhibitors in triple-negative breast cancer
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a type of breast cancer with poor prognosis, which is prone to distant metastasis and therapy resistance. The presence of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) contribut...
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Long-term efficacy and safety of leflunomide combined with low-dose prednisone in treatment of myasthenia gravis: a retrospective study
Leflunomide and low-dose prednisone (0.25 mg/kg/day) (LEF + Pred) rapidly improved the clinical symptoms of myasthenia gravis (MG) patients. Here, we aimed to analyze the long-term efficacy and safety of LEF +...
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Association of malnutrition with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in patients with mild to severe chronic kidney disease undergoing coronary angiography: a large multicenter longitudinal study
Evidence on the prognostic impact of malnutrition was focused on patients with advanced kidney disease. The relationships between malnutrition and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in patients with differ...
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Predictors of mortality in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: interaction between diabetes mellitus and impaired renal function
The harmful effect of diabetes mellitus (DM) on mortality in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) remains controversial. Furthermore, it seems that no consistent conclusion on whe...
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Association of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and acute kidney disease in patients undergoing coronary angiography: a cohort study
Acute kidney disease (AKD) following coronary angiography (CAG) indicates a higher risk of chronic kidney disease and follow-up cardiovascular comorbidities. However, the predictive risk factor of AKD is not c...
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PU Matrix Completion Based Multi-label Classification with Missing Labels
Multi-label classification has attracted significant interests in various domains. However, only few positive labels are labeled. Treating unknown labels as negative labels brings the one-side noise, which cau...
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Open AccessM7G-Related lncRNAs predict prognosis and regulate the immune microenvironment in lung squamous cell carcinoma
N7-Methylguanosine (m7G) and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been widely studied in cancer and have been found to be useful for assessing tumor progression. However, the role of m7G-related lncRNAs in lung...
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Open AccessThe association between prothrombin time-international normalized ratio and long-term mortality in patients with coronary artery disease: a large cohort retrospective study with 44,662 patients
The association between prothrombin time-international normalized ratio (PT-INR) and long-term prognosis among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) without atrial fibrillation or anticoagulant therapy w...
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Prevalence and mortality of transient acute kidney injury within 48 h, as new subtype, following coronary angiography: a cohort study
The association of transient acute kidney injury (AKI) with mortality was controversial. Our study aims to investigate the prevalence and impact of transient AKI on mortality in patients following coronary ang...
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Malnutrition and the risk for contrast-induced acute kidney injury in patients with coronary artery disease
Malnutrition is a common comorbidity of coronary artery disease (CAD) and is often associated with adverse events. The malnutrition often means lower cholesterol, albumin and high lymphocyte, as risk factors o...
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Open AccessPlatelet-to-hemoglobin ratio as a valuable predictor of long-term all-cause mortality in coronary artery disease patients with congestive heart failure
The platelet-to-hemoglobin ratio (PHR) has emerged as a prognostic biomarker in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients after PCI but not clear in CAD complicated with congestive heart failure (CHF). Hence, we ...
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Open AccessIndependent and joint effects of high-sensitivity c-reactive protein and hypoalbuminemia on long-term all-cause mortality among coronary artery disease: a prospective and multicenter cohort study
High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) plays an important role in hypoalbuminemia as a representative of inflammation, which is closely associated with poor prognosis among patients with coronary artery ...
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Open AccessPrevalence and prognostic significance of malnutrition in diabetic patients with coronary artery disease: a cohort study
Malnutrition is associated with poor prognosis in cardiovascular disease patients or in diabetic patients. However, the relationship between malnutrition and clinical outcomes in diabetic patients with coronar...
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Open AccessPredictive value of creatine kinase MB for contrast-induced acute kidney injury among myocardial infarction patients
Predictive value of creatine kinase MB (CK-MB) for contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) among myocardial infarction (MI) patients has rarely been reported. We aim to evaluate the predictive value of C...
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Open AccessTrends in incidence and long-term prognosis of acute kidney injury following coronary angiography in Chinese cohort with 11,943 patients from 2013 to 2017: an observational study
Contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) is a common complication with poor prognosis after coronary angiography (CAG). With the prevention methods widely being implemented, the temporal trends of inci...
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Open AccessAssociation between baseline LDL-C and prognosis among patients with coronary artery disease and advanced kidney disease
Lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is significantly associated with improved prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). However, LDL-C reduction does not decrease all-cause mortal...
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Open AccessMalnutrition affects cholesterol paradox in coronary artery disease: a 41,229 Chinese cohort study
Several studies have found that a low baseline low -density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) concentration was associated with poor prognosis in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), which is called the ...
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Open AccessA comparison between two different definitions of contrast-associated acute kidney injury for long-term mortality in patients with diabetes undergoing coronary angiography: a prospective cohort study
The definitions of contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) are diverse and have different predictive effects for prognosis, which are adverse for clinical practice. Few articles have discussed the rel...
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Open AccessPopulation attributable risk estimates of risk factors for contrast-induced acute kidney injury following coronary angiography: a cohort study
Contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) is a common complication with poor outcomes following coronary angiography (CAG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). However, no study has explored the po...
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Hospital and healthcare insurance system record–based epidemiological study of myasthenia gravis in southern and northern China
This is the first cross-region epidemiological study of myasthenia gravis (MG) in China. We estimated the incidence, prevalence, and medical costs of MG in southern China and explored the differences between t...
