ObjectivesThe prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasing in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), as a result, a systematic screening in this population should be performed. The aim of this s...
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ObjectivesThe prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasing in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), as a result, a systematic screening in this population should be performed. The aim of this study was to identify risk factors associated with moderate steatosis (S2) and advanced fibrosis (F≥3) and to develop a score that could be used in daily practice. MaterialsA prospective study on 534 patients with T2D was conducted using Vibration Controlled Transient Elastography (VCTE) to assess fibrosis severity and Controlled Attenuation Parameter (CAP) to assess steatosis severity. We stratified our cohort into study cohort (348 patients) and validation cohort (186 patients). We aimed for 10 valid CAP and liver stiffness measurements (LSM) with an IQR/Median <30%. A cut-off value of 290 dB/m was used to define S2 while for F≥3 a cut-off of 9.7 kPa [1]. For developing a score for stratifying the risk of moderate steatosis, and of advanced fibrosis, we used univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis. ResultsOut of 534 patients, 62.7% had at least S2 and 19.2% had at least F≥3 by VCTE. In univariate analysis, BMI (p< 0.0001), waist circumference -WC (p< 0.0001), elevated levels of ALT (p=0.001), total cholesterol -TC (p=0.03), triglycerides-TG (p=0.01), fasting blood glucose (p=0.004) and presence of hypertension-HTA (p=0.04) were associated with at least moderate steatosis. The steatosis score is composed of: 0.5 points for high BMI (>32.1 kg/m2), TC (> 235 mg/dl), TG (>165 mg/dl), glycemia (> 200 mg/dl), ALT (> 40 U/L) and WC (> 100 cm) and 1 point for the presence of HTA. In univariate analysis, BMI (p< 0.0001), WC (p< 0.0001), elevated levels of AST (p=0.001), liver steatosis (p=0.03) were associated with at least F≥3. The fibrosis score is composed of: 0.5 points for high BMI (>32.4 kg/m2), AST (> 42 U/L), WC (> 110 cm) and for the presence of steatosis. The derived steatosis and fibrosis cut-offs for identifying patients with T2D we
Guidelines for managing scientific data have been established under the FAIR principles requiring that data be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. In many scientific disciplines, especially computationa...
Financial market time series are usually approximated by random walks, however, we can easily find significant deviation from a simple random walk by analyzing high frequency market data. It is important to detect cha...
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Financial market time series are usually approximated by random walks, however, we can easily find significant deviation from a simple random walk by analyzing high frequency market data. It is important to detect change-points of potential statistical properties automatically from given time series. We apply Fisher's exact test for detection of trends in time series and show that the method works well for various types of temporal fluctuations. We show an example of application of this method for a foreign exchange market time series.
Gliomas are the most common primary brain malignancies, with different degrees of aggressiveness, variable prognosis and various heterogeneous histologic sub-regions, i.e., peritumoral edematous/invaded tissue, necrot...
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In many fields of research nonlinear dynamical systems are investigated. When more than one process is measured, besides the distinct properties of the individual processes, their interactions are of interest. Often l...
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In many fields of research nonlinear dynamical systems are investigated. When more than one process is measured, besides the distinct properties of the individual processes, their interactions are of interest. Often linear methods such as coherence are used for the analysis. The estimation of coherence can lead to false conclusions when applied without fulfilling several key assumptions. We introduce a data driven method to optimize the choice of the parameters for spectral estimation. Its applicability is demonstrated based on analytical calculations and exemplified in a simulation study. We complete our investigation with an application to nonlinear tremor signals in Parkinson's disease. In particular, we analyze electroencephalogram and electromyogram data.
A1 Highlights from the eleventh ISCB Student Council Symposium 2015 Katie Wilkins, Mehedi Hassan, Margherita Francescatto, Jakob Jespersen, R. Gonzalo Parra, Bart Cuypers, Dan DeBlasio, Alexander Junge, Anupama Jigish...
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A1 Highlights from the eleventh ISCB Student Council Symposium 2015 Katie Wilkins, Mehedi Hassan, Margherita Francescatto, Jakob Jespersen, R. Gonzalo Parra, Bart Cuypers, Dan DeBlasio, Alexander Junge, Anupama Jigisha, Farzana Rahman O1 Prioritizing a drug’s targets using both gene expression and structural similarity Griet Laenen, Sander Willems, Lieven Thorrez, Yves Moreau O2 Organism specific protein-RNA recognition: A computational analysis of protein-RNA complex structures from different organisms Nagarajan Raju, Sonia Pankaj Chothani, C. Ramakrishnan, Masakazu Sekijima; M. Michael Gromiha O3 Detection of Heterogeneity in Single Particle Tracking Trajectories Paddy J Slator, Nigel J Burroughs O4 3D-NOME: 3D NucleOme Multiscale Engine for data-driven modeling of three-dimensional genome architecture Przemysław Szałaj, Zhonghui Tang, Paul Michalski, Oskar Luo, Xingwang Li, Yijun Ruan, Dariusz Plewczynski O5 A novel feature selection method to extract multiple adjacent solutions for viral genomic sequences classification Giulia Fiscon, Emanuel Weitschek, Massimo Ciccozzi, Paola Bertolazzi, Giovanni Felici O6 A Systems Biology Compendium for Leishmania donovani Bart Cuypers, Pieter Meysman, Manu Vanaerschot, Maya Berg, Hideo Imamura, Jean-Claude Dujardin, Kris Laukens O7 Unravelling signal coordination from large scale phosphorylation kinetic data Westa Domanova, James R. Krycer, Rima Chaudhuri, Pengyi Yang, Fatemeh Vafaee, Daniel J. Fazakerley, Sean J. Humphrey, David E. James, Zdenka Kuncic
The prediction of events is of substantial interest in many research areas. To evaluate the performance of prediction methods, the statistical validation of these methods is of utmost importance. Here, we compare an a...
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The prediction of events is of substantial interest in many research areas. To evaluate the performance of prediction methods, the statistical validation of these methods is of utmost importance. Here, we compare an analytical validation method to numerical approaches that are based on Monte Carlo simulations. The comparison is performed in the field of the prediction of epileptic seizures. In contrast to the analytical validation method, we found that for numerical validation methods insufficient but realistic sample sizes can lead to invalid high rates of false positive conclusions. Hence we outline necessary preconditions for sound statistical tests on above chance predictions.
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