Chen, Ruey Liou, Tsan-Hon Miao, Nae-Fang Chang, Kwang-Hwa Yen, Chia-Feng Liao, Hua-Fang Chi, Wen-Chou Chou, Kuei-Ru
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European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience
Little is known about the changes of people with schizophrenia disability in Taiwan who receive routine treatments under the current mental healthcare system. The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) was used to assess and track changes in the degree of disability in people with schizophrenia before and after 4 ...
Julián, María Teresa Alonso, Núria Lupón, Josep Gavidia-Bovadilla, Giovana Ferrer, Elena de Antonio, Marta López-Ayerbe, Jorge Domingo, Mar Santiago-Vacas, Evelyn Zamora, Elisabet
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Cardiovascular Diabetology
BackgroundLeft ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) trajectories and functional recovery with current heart failure (HF) management is increasingly recognized. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) leads to a worse prognosis in HF patients. However, it is unknown whether T2D interferes with LVEF trajectories. The aim of this study was to prospectively ass...
Lin, Zhou Zheng, Jingjing Chen, Weiling Ding, Tingting Yu, Wei Xia, Bei
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BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
BackgroundThe incidence of Kawasaki disease (KD) is increasing. Indeed, KD has become the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children. Previous studies have well summarized the acute phase left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction using speckle tracking echocardiography (STE); however, changes in LV systolic function after long-term fo...
Dai, Ying Deng, Yongfang Lin, Yan Ouyang, Runxian Li, Le
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BMC Gastroenterology
BackgroundAdvances in surgical techniques and perioperative care have improved the short- and mid-term postoperative outcomes of patients with Hirschsprung disease (HD). However, the long-term outcomes of these patients (older than 10 years) have not been fully investigated. The aim of this systematic review is to clarify the prevalence of long-ter...
Hagen, Knut Stovner, Lars Jacob Zwart, John-Anker
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The Journal of Headache and Pain
AimsThe primary aim of this study was to investigate time trends of major headache diagnoses using cross-sectional data from two population-based health surveys. In addition, we aimed to perform a longitudinal assessment of baseline characteristics and subsequent risk for having headache at 22-years’ follow-up among those participating in three hea...
Wang, Chenggong Xu, Can Li, Mingqing Li, Hui Wang, Long Zhong, Da Liu, Hua
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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
BackgroundA great deal of research suggests that arthroscopic ankle fusion (AAF) has advantages over open ankle fusion (OAF), but these outcomes would be imprecise because of a selection bias. The purpose of this study is to verify which is better for ankle fusion, AAF or OAF. We regrouped the OAF group into two subgroups according to whether the o...
Papalia, Nicholas Rohla, Amanda Tang, Selphee Nation, Jill Nelson, Gregg
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BMC Women's Health
BackgroundThe goal of cervical cancer screening is to identify dysplastic lesions for subsequent excision in order to prevent invasive disease. There is clinical equipoise, on how to best follow women for disease surveillance after treatment with some Canadian provinces exclusively performing colposcopy and some utilizing Human Papilloma Virus (HPV...
Xu, Lingzi Guo, Yanqing Cao, Qingjiu Li, Xue Mei, Ting Ma, Zenghui Tang, Xinzhou Ji, Zhaozheng Yang, Liu Liu, Jing
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BMC Psychiatry
BackgroundYounger age at onset is generally thought to be a predictor of poor outcome in Early Onset Schizophrenia (EOS), but there is a paucity of epidemiological data supporting this belief. This study aims to describe long-term outcomes and predictors of patient functioning in EOS, with a focus on the effect of age at onset.MethodsWe consecutive...
Lindström, Irmeli Pallasaho, Paula Remes, Jouko Vasankari, Tuula Heliövaara, Markku
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundSpirometry is widely used in medical surveillance in occupational health and as a diagnostic test for obstructive and restrictive lung disease. We evaluated the effect of spirometry parameters on the risk of all-cause disability pension in a follow-up study of an occupationally active general population-based cohort.MethodsWe measured the...
Lindner, Andrea Katharina Schachtner, Gert Steiner, Eberhard Kroiss, Alexander Uprimny, Christian Steinkohl, Fabian Horninger, Wolfgang Heidegger, Isabel Madersbacher, Stephan Pichler, Renate
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World journal of urology
To report on the oncological outcome of organ-sparing surgery (OSS) compared to (total or partial) penectomy regarding recurrence patterns and survival in squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the penis. This was a retrospective study of all patients with penile SCC and eligible follow-up data of at least 2 years at our institution. Patients with tumors...
