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Composition and characteristics of trabecular bone in osteoporosis and osteoarthritis
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2020 , Article)
Background
Bone strength depends on multiple factors such as bone density, architecture and composition turnover. However, the role these factors play in osteoporotic fractures is not well understood.
Purpose
The aim ...
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics in Dentistry: A Scoping Review
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SAGE Publications Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
Dentistry increasingly integrates artificial intelligence (AI) to help improve the current state of clinical dental practice. However, this revolutionary technological field raises various complex ethical challenges. The ...
Reply to "Double-counting of effect sizes and inappropriate exclusion of studies in "The influence of vitamin D supplementation on IGF-1 levels in humans: A systematic review and meta_analysis"
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Other)
Dear Editor,
We appreciate the comments provided to us in the letter from Amiri et al. We would like to offer some clarifications in response to the comments.
Firstly, the authors claimed that we included the control ...
Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and risk of bleeding and acute ischemic events in non-hypertensive Alzheimer's patients
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John Wiley and Sons Inc
, 2021 , Article)
Introduction
Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEIs) are commonly used to treat mild to moderate cases of Alzheimer disease (AD). To the best of our knowledge, there has been no study estimating the risk of bleeding and ...
Research Methods for Zero Event Proportion Studies: The Incidence of Bleeding After Thoracentesis and Tube Thoracostomy in Patients With Uncorrected Coagulopathy
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
In a recent meta-analysis published in CHEST (November 2021), Fong et al1 investigated the incidence of bleeding after thoracentesis and tube thoracostomy in patients with uncorrected coagulopathy. The authors used the ...
Editorial
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Springer
, 2021 , Other)
In this issue of the International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, we are delighted to launch the series ‘Best Clinical Pharmacy Practice Papers’. This is a collaborative initiative between the European Society for Clinical ...
Highly dispersed Pt nanoparticles on ultrasmall EMT zeolite: A peroxidase-mimic nanoenzyme for detection of H2O2 or glucose
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2020 , Article)
In past decade, Pt-based nanomaterials as peroxidase mimics have attracted much attention for H2O2 and glucose detection. However, easy aggregation of Pt nanoparticles (Pt NPs) greatly decreases their peroxidase-like ...
Could Vagus nerve stimulation influence bone remodeling?
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International Society of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions
, 2021 , Article)
Objectives: To investigate the effect of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) on the bone mineral density (BMD) in epileptic patients. Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted on individuals with refractory seizures who ...
Information on harm outcomes was insufficiently reported in systematic reviews and meta-analyses of individual participant data
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John Wiley and Sons Inc
, 2021 , Other)
Meta-analysis is an important tool for summarizing findings from scientific research. But for harm outcomes,issues may arise due to the distribution problems, zero-events problems, as well as low statistical power. Individual ...
ANFIS-Net for automatic detection of COVID-19
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Nature Research
, 2021 , Article)
Among the most leading causes of mortality across the globe are infectious diseases which have cost tremendous lives with the latest being coronavirus (COVID-19) that has become the most recent challenging issue. The extreme ...