Barouti, Zahra Heidari-Beni, Motahar Shabanian-Boroujeni, Anahita Mohammadzadeh, Morteza Pahlevani, Vida Poursafa, Parnian Mohebpour, Fatemeh Kelishadi, Roya
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Archives of Public Health
Background Epigenetic changes, especially DNA methylation have a main role in regulating cardiometabolic disorders and their risk factors. This study provides a review of the current evidence on the association between methylation of some genes (LINE1, ABCG1, SREBF1, PHOSPHO1, ADRB3, and LEP) and cardiometabolic risk factors. Methods A systematic l...
Liao, Xueling Zhu, Yan Xue, Chao
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BMC Endocrine Disorders
Background Although dozens of studies have investigated the relationship between the content of serum cystatin C (Cys-C) and diabetic nephropathy (DN), the results are still controversial. Hence, This study aims to explore the accuracy of serum Cys-C for diagnosing DN by meta-analysis. Methods The studies about serum Cys-C diagnosing DN were search...
Azami, Mobin Moradi, Yousef Moradkhani, Asra Aghaei, Abbas
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European Journal of Medical Research
Background Covid-19 has been one of the major concerns around the world in the last 2 years. One of the challenges of this disease has been to determine its prevalence. Conflicting results of the serology test in Covid explored the need for an updated meta-analysis on this issue. Thus, this systematic review aimed to estimate the prevalence of glob...
Boyalla, Vennela Harling, Leanne Snell, Alice Kralj-Hans, Ines Barradas-Pires, Ana Haldar, Shouvik Khan, Habib R Cleland, John G F Athanasiou, Thanos Harding, Sian E
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Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society
A high proportion of patients undergoing catheter ablation (CA) for atrial fibrillation (AF) experience recurrence of arrhythmia. This meta-analysis aims to identify pre-ablation serum biomarker(s) associated with arrhythmia recurrence to improve patient selection before CA. A systematic approach following PRISMA reporting guidelines was utilised i...
Ahmadpour, Ehsan Rahimi, Mohamad Taghi Ghojoghi, Altin Rezaei, Fatemeh Hatam-Nahavandi, Kareem Oliveira, Sónia M R de Lourdes Pereira, Maria Majidiani, Hamidreza Siyadatpanah, Abolghasem Elhamirad, Samira
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Acta parasitologica
Many marine animals are infected and susceptible to toxoplasmosis, which is considered as a potential transmission source of Toxoplasma gondii to other hosts, especially humans. The current systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to determine the prevalence of T. gondii infection among sea animal species worldwide and highlight the existing gaps....
Li, Yi Huang, Jiashang Li, Xiaohong Qiao, Jia Huang, Xin Yang, Lining Yu, Heping
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Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
To investigate the efficacy and acceptability of virtual reality (VR) with time-dose-matched conventional therapy (CT) in patients poststroke with upper limb dysfunction. Cochrane, PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and ProQuest were systematically searched up to May 24, 2021. Randomized controlled trials comparing VR with time-dose-matched CT in pati...
Lin, Mei-Hong Li, Hai-Qiong Zhu, Lin Su, Hai-Ying Peng, Li-Shan Wang, Chuang-Yuan He, Cai-Ping Liang, Xie-Er Wang, Yan
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Digestive diseases and sciences
Quantitative data are limited on the natural course of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic HBV infection (CHB). To estimate the prevalence of fibrosis status including non-fibrosis, significant fibrosis, advanced fibrosis, and cirrhosis throughout the natural course of CHB. We searched Cochrane library, EMBASE, PubMed, SCOPUS, Web of Science, a...
Nan, Yang Ser, Javier Del Walsh, Simon Schönlieb, Carola Roberts, Michael Selby, Ian Howard, Kit Owen, John Neville, Jon GUIOT, Julien
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Removing the bias and variance of multicentre data has always been a challenge in large scale digital healthcare studies, which requires the ability to integrate clinical features extracted from data acquired by different scanners and protocols to improve stability and robustness. Previous studies have described various computational approaches to ...
Yang, Lei Ye, Nan Bian, Weijing Cheng, Hong
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International urology and nephrology
The prevalence and mortality of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) are high in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, there is still a lack of recommendations for the medication therapy of these patients in the guideline so far. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of all the studies assessing medicat...
Wang, Yun-Yun Yang, Liang Zhang, Jing Zeng, Xian-Tao Wang, Yang Jin, Ying-Hui
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Neuropsychology review
Cognitive intervention includes cognitive stimulation, cognitive training, and cognitive rehabilitation. This systematic review was performed to re-assess the efficacy of cognitive intervention for the patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Twenty studies (2012 participants) were eventually included. For global cognitive function, the combined mea...
