Some cultivars of lettuce accumulate anthocyanins, which act as functional food ingredients. Leaf lettuce has been known to be erratic in exhibiting red color when grown under artificial light, and there is a need for...
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Animal studies indicated that human papillomavirus (HPV) transgenic mice develop cataract. Viral infections have been proposed as a potential contributing factor of cataract. This study aimed to examine the associatio...
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Objective: Diseases associated with chronic pain are typically a major source of stress for patients;and have been linked to herpes zoster (HZ) development. Here, we investigated whether obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) ...
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Background: This study aimed to evaluate the long-term risk of CKD and renal function declines using a combination of diuretics and SGLT2i. Methods: We selected the data of subjects who had at least two outpatient rec...
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The environmental dissemination of antimicrobial resistant Enterobacteriaceae poses a remarkable threat to public health. This study investigates the environmental presence and dissemination of carbapenemase-producing...
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Systemic vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) blockade has been the top adjunctive chemotherapy since 1990. Anti-VEGF therapy has also been associated with worsened renal function in some patients. However, the a...
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Systemic vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) blockade has been the top adjunctive chemotherapy since 1990. Anti-VEGF therapy has also been associated with worsened renal function in some patients. However, the association between patient outcomes and use of intravitreal VEGF inhibitors remains controversial. Thus, it is necessary to determine the action mechanism and long-term renal effects of ranibizumab. The National Health Insurance researchdatabase (NHIRD) is one of the largest global databases that are extensively used for epidemiological research. NHIRD contains the medical information of all insureds, such as inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and traditional Chinese medicine records. We selected subjects aged ≥ 20 years who recently administered ranibizumab for the ranibizumab cohort. Non-ranibizumab cohort consisted of subjects who did not receive ranibizumab, and the index date was a random date between 2008 and 2018. We excluded subjects with missing sex and age records and those in which the date of primary outcome was before the index date. The two cohorts were matched via 1:1 propensity score matching based on sex, age, index year, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, stroke, coronary artery disease, alcoholism, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and age-related macular degeneration, retinal vein occlusion, and diabetic macular edema. Medical confounders were angiotensin I-converting enzyme inhibitors, statins, corticosteroids, VEGF inhibitors including bevacizumab and aflibercept, lithium, amphotericin B, adefovir, NSAIDS, cisplatin, and calcineurin inhibitors. Among 48,248 participants aged ≥ 20 years, 24,136 (50%) received ranibizumab (13,565 male [56.20%] and 10,571 female [43.80%]). Moreover, 24,136 participants who did not receive ranibizumab were matched by age, sex, comorbidities, and medications. Subjects who received ranibizumab exhibited a significantly higher risk of CKD than those who did not receive ranibizumab (adju
BACKGROUND In the past decades,the potential of microRNA(miRNA)in cancer diagnostics and prognostics has gained a lot of *** this study,a meta-analysis was conducted upon the pooled miRNA microarray data of cholangioc...
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BACKGROUND In the past decades,the potential of microRNA(miRNA)in cancer diagnostics and prognostics has gained a lot of *** this study,a meta-analysis was conducted upon the pooled miRNA microarray data of cholangiocarcinoma(CCA).AIM To identify differentially expressed(DE)miRNAs and perform functional analyses in order to gain insights to understanding miRNA-target interactions involved in tumorigenesis pathways of *** Raw data from 8 CCA miRNA microarray datasets,consisting of 443 samples in total,were integrated and statistically analyzed to identify DE miRNAs via comparison of levels of miRNA expression between CCA and normal bile duct samples using t-tests(P<0.001).The 10-fold cross validation was performed in order to increase the robustness of the t-test *** data showed 70 up-regulated and 48 down-regulated miRNAs in CCA. GeneOntology and pathway enrichment analyses revealed that mRNA targets of DEmiRNAs were significantly involved in several biological processes. The mostprominent dysregulated pathways included phosphatidylinositol-3 kinases/Akt,mitogen-activated protein kinase and Ras signaling *** miRNAs found in our meta-analysis revealed dysregulation in major cancerpathways involved in the development of CCA. These results indicated thenecessity of understanding the miRNA-target interactions and the significance ofdysregulated miRNAs in terms of diagnostics and prognostics of cancers.
OBJECTIVES:The association between diuretic use and cardiorenal outcomes remains limited in patients with stage 3-5 chronic kidney disease (CKD) and hypertension. To address this gap, we aim to investigate the long-te...
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OBJECTIVES:The association between diuretic use and cardiorenal outcomes remains limited in patients with stage 3-5 chronic kidney disease (CKD) and hypertension. To address this gap, we aim to investigate the long-term clinical impact of diuretic use with its pharmacological classification in Taiwanese patients with stage 3-5 CKD and hypertension who were concurrently received angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) or angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs).
METHODS:Using data from the National Health Insurance researchdatabase (January 2008 to December 2019), we focused on individuals with stage 3-5 CKD receiving ACEIs/ARBs between 2010 and 2018. We categorized the cohort into non-diuretic, loop diuretic (furosemide), thiazide diuretic, and combination diuretic groups. We used a Cox proportional hazards regression model with propensity score matching to analyze the influence of diuretics on all-cause mortality, cardiovascular (CV) death, and cardiorenal adverse outcomes.
RESULTS:The study included 59,719 patients, with 17,585 in the non-diuretic group and 42,134 in the diuretic group. Diuretics including furosemide use was significantly associated the risks of hospitalization for decompensated congestive heart failure (CHF), acute renal failure (ARF), end-stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring dialysis, CV mortality, and all-cause mortality (-value <0.001). Thiazide diuretics showed no such adverse outcomes associations. The group receiving both thiazide and furosemide was more associated with all-cause mortality than the nondiuretic, thiazide, and furosemide monotherapy groups (all -value <0.001).
CONCLUSION:Among stage 3-5 CKD patients on ACEIs/ARBs, loop diuretics exposure was associated with increased mortality and hospitalization for cardiorenal events, while thiazide diuretics exposure in isolation had no such associations. In the present data, we cannot evaluate the relationship between furosemide-associated adverse outcomes and worse renal functio
Background: Whether erectile dysfunction (ED) leads to considerable stress for affected men remains unclear? In this study, we investigated whether organic ED (OED) is associated with increased risks of herpes zoster ...
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AIMS:Evidence showed that SGLT2 inhibitors have greater protective effects against retinal diseases compared to other hypoglycemic agents. Thus, we explore the association between SGLT2 inhibitor usage and macular deg...
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AIMS:Evidence showed that SGLT2 inhibitors have greater protective effects against retinal diseases compared to other hypoglycemic agents. Thus, we explore the association between SGLT2 inhibitor usage and macular degeneration (MD) in Taiwanese patients with diabetes.
METHODS:The National Health Insurance (NHI) program's claim data are released as the National Health Insurance researchdatabase (NHIRD). This database covers more than 99% of the residents in Taiwan. We included data on patients who were newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (ICD-9-CM: 250, exclude 250.1x; ICD-10-CM: E11), with an age at diagnosis of over 20 years as our study population. Patients who received (sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor) SGLT2i (ATC code: A10BK) over 90 days in 2016-2019 were defined as the SGLT2i cohort. Conversely, patients who did never received SGLT2i were defined as the non-SGLT2i cohort. The exclusion criteria were having MD before the index date, receiving SGLT2i within 1-89 days, and missing data on sex, age, or days of SGLT2i usage. Two cohorts were matched by 1:1 propensity score matching, which was based on age, sex, payroll bracket grade, urbanization, comorbidities, and medications.
RESULTS:Compared to non-SGLT2i cohort, patients who received SGLT2i had a significantly lower risk of MD (adjusted hazard ratio = 0.70, 95%CI = 0.66-0.75).
CONCLUSIONS:We found that SGLT2is has a strong protective effect against MD in patients with diabetes. SGLT2is may have benefits beyond glycemic control in patients with DR. However, additional clinical and experimental studies are required.
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