the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81760049);the Jiangxi Science and Technology Innovation Platform Project(No.20165BCD41005);the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2018YFC1312902);the Science and Technology Plan of Health Commission of Jiangxi Province(No.20185215);the Key Project of Education Department of Jiangxi Province(No.GJJ170013).
Backgrounds:Physical activity(PA)and sedentary behavior(SB)have been associated with mortality,while the joint association with mortality is rarely reported among Chinese population.We aimed to examine the independent...
grants from the Capital Health Development Research Fund(No.2009-SHF04);Beijing Municipal Commission of Health and Family,Beijing,China.
Background:Acute heart failure(AHF)is the most common disease in emergency departments(EDs).However,clinical data exploring the outcomes of patients presenting AHF in EDs are limited,especially the long-term outcomes....
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81700148);a PhD Start-up Fund of Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(No.2017A030310193).
Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma(AITL)is an aggressive form of peripheral T-cell lymphoma(PIT)associated with poor prognosis.It is characterized by lymph node enlargement,B symptoms(unexplained recurrent fevers(ofte...
INTRODUCTIONAt present in China, hospital-based dialysis facilities are fully occupied, while the number of community hemodialysis (HD) centers is growing. In December 2016, the National Health and Family Planning C...
Background:Despite its severity,coronary artery ectasia (CAE) is still poorly understood.High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) has been recognized as a prognostic factor in some cardiovascular diseases but...
Background: Although the onset of anemia during infectious disease is commonly correlated with production of inflammatory cytokines, the mechanisms by which cytokines induce anemia are poorly defined. This study focu...
This work was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30972554) and the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. 9 ! 5180200400001).
Background Most indices for evaluating a diagnostic test can be expressed as functions of sensitivity (SEN) and specificity (SPE). Practically, all existing methods suffer from the inability to weight sensitivity ...
Background The latest version of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) TNM staging system has not comprehensively evaluated the impact of tumour length on survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell c...
Background Patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) undergoing definitive chemoradiotherapy (CRT) seem to have a disparity in therapeutic response. The identification of CRT sensitivity-related clin...
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81170725, 81070672, 81000316), the Key Project of Science and Technology Department of Hunan Province of China (No. 2010SK2007), Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11JJ7005), the National Department Public Benefit (Health) Research Foundation of China (No. 201002002), the International Cooperation and Exchange of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30831160518).
Background Adiponectin is an adipokine with insulin-sensitising and anti-atherogenic properties. The aim of this study was to investigate whether low adiponectin levels predict the impairment of endothelial function i...