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Association between Higher Blood Pressure and Risk of Diabetes Mellitus in Middle-Aged and Elderly Chinese Adults

Xue Yang, Jian Chen, An Pan, Jason H.Y. Wu et al. • Diabetes & Metabolism Journal (2020)

BackgroundTo examine the prospective association between higher blood pressure (BP) and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in middle-aged and elderly Chinese adults.MethodsA total of 9,642 middle-aged and elderly Chinese adults (≥45 ye...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4093/dmj.2019.0081

Healthy lifestyle attenuates the clonal hematopoiesis-associated coronary artery disease risk

Yuxin Yang, Xuxiang Shen, Keyong Huang, Hongwei Liu et al. • Fundamental Research (2026)

Lifestyle factors and clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) both contribute to the risk of developing coronary artery disease (CAD), but whether a healthy lifestyle could attenuate CHIP-related CAD risk is unknown. A total ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.fmre.2025.09.012

Computable phenotype for real-world, data-driven retrospective identification of relapse in ANCA-associated vasculitis

Vladimir Tesar, Conor Judge, John Kelleher, Zdenka Hrušková et al. • RMD Open (2024)

Objective ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a relapsing-remitting disease, resulting in incremental tissue injury. The gold-standard relapse definition (Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score, BVAS>0) is often missing or inaccurate in re...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/rmdopen-2023-003962

Is SARS-CoV-2 a concern in the largest wastewater treatment plant in middle east?

Hasan Pasalari, Angila Ataei-Pirkooh, Mitra Gholami, Iman Rezaei Azhar et al. • Heliyon (2023)

The surveillance of wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) as the end point of SARS-CoV-2 shed from infected people arise a speculation on transmission of this virus of concern from WWTP in epidemic period. To this end, the present study was dev...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16607

Health Technology Assessment in Osteoporosis

Mickaël Hiligsmann, John А. Kanis, Juliet Elizabeth Compston, Cyrus C. Cooper et al. • Calcified Tissue International (2013)

We review the various aspects of health technology assessment in osteoporosis, including epidemiology and burden of disease, and assessment of the cost-effectiveness of recent advances in the treatment of osteoporosis and the prevention of ...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00223-013-9724-8 PMC: 3696176

MBOAT7-TMC4 rs641738 Is Not Associated With the Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma or Persistent Hepatitis B Infection

Peng Wang, Ying Li, Lu Li, Rong Zhong et al. • Frontiers in Oncology (2021)

ObjectiveA hot genetic variant, rs641738 within the membrane-bound O-acyltransferase domain containing 7(MBOAT7) and transmembrane channel-like 4 (TMC4), was recently reported to be associated with several liver diseases. However, the resul...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.639438

SARS and Population Health Technology

Günther Eysenbach • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2003)

The recent global outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) provides an opportunity to study the use and impact of public health informatics and population health technology to detect and fight a global epidemic. Population healt...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5.2.e14 PMC: 1550560

Oh brother, where art tau? Amyloid, neurodegeneration, and cognitive decline without elevated tau

Lauren E. McCollum, Sandhitsu R. Das, Long Xie, Robin de Flores et al. • NeuroImage: Clinical (2021)

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can be an early manifestation of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology, other pathologic entities [e.g., cerebrovascular disease, Lewy body disease, LATE (limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy)], ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102717

Association between social health status and health-related quality of life among community-dwelling elderly in Zhejiang

Jieming Lu, Zhebin Yu, Xiaocong Zhang, Mengyin Wu et al. • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (2020)

Abstract Background Population aging is an inevitable trend and previous studies have showed the relationship between social health related factors and health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) in the elderly. The objective of this study is t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12955-020-01358-4

Web-based versus simulation-based refresher training in newborn life support

Kathleen Parthey, Anne Goldhahn, Anselm Linke, Katja Raberger et al. • Resuscitation Plus (2026)

Background: Regular training for healthcare professionals in newborn life support is life-saving. Web-based refresher has the potential to be non-inferior to simulation-based refresher training. Methods: The multicenter non-inferiority rand...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.resplu.2026.101382

‘Optimal’ cutoff selection in studies of depression screening tool accuracy using the PHQ‐9, EPDS, or HADS‐D: A meta‐research study

Eliana Brehaut, Dipika Neupane, Brooke Levis, Yin Wu et al. • International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research (2023)

Abstract Objectives Optimal cutoff thresholds are selected to separate ‘positive’ from ‘negative’ screening results. We evaluated how depression screening tool studies select optimal cutoffs. Methods We included studies from previously cond...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/mpr.1956

Data Mining Techniques in Medical Informatics

U. Rajendra Acharya, Wenwei Yu • The Open Medical Informatics Journal (2010)

The advent of high-performance computing has benefited various disciplines in finding practical solutions to their problems, and our health care is no exception to this.Signal processing, image processing, and data mining tools have been de...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.2174/1874431101004010021 PMC: 2916206

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) for Interoperability in Health Research: Systematic Review

Carina Nina Vorisek, Moritz Lehne, Sophie Anne Ines Klopfenstein, Paula Josephine Mayer et al. • JMIR Medical Informatics (2022)

BackgroundThe standard Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is widely used in health information technology. However, its use as a standard for health research is still less prevalent. To use existing data sources more efficien...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/35724

The effect of structured medication review followed by face-to-face feedback to prescribers on adverse drug events recognition and prevention in older inpatients – a multicenter interrupted time series study

Joanna E. Klopotowska, Paul F. M. Kuks, Peter C. Wierenga, Clementine C. M. Stuijt et al. • BMC Geriatrics (2022)

Abstract Background The effectiveness of interventions to improve medication safety in older inpatients is unclear, given a paucity of properly designed intervention studies applying clinically relevant endpoints such as hospital-acquired p...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12877-022-03118-z

Understanding tinnitus symptom dynamics and clinical improvement through intensive longitudinal data

Milena Engelke, Jorge Piano Simões, Laura Basso, Nina Wunder et al. • npj Digital Medicine (2025)

Abstract Intensive longitudinal sampling enhances subjective data collection by capturing real-time, dynamic inputs in natural settings, complementing traditional methods. This study evaluates the feasibility of using daily self-reported ap...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41746-024-01425-w

Behind the scars: adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury disorder show profound personality pathology

Manuela Gander, Kirstin Goth, Josef Fritz, Kathrin Sevecke • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health (2026)

Abstract Background Non-suicidal self-injury is a significant clinical concern in adolescent psychiatry and frequently co-occurs with a range of psychiatric disorders, including mood disorders, eating disorders, substance use disorders, and...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13034-026-01075-8

A genome-wide association study on meat consumption in a Japanese population: the Japan Multi-Institutional Collaborative Cohort study

Yasuyuki Nakamura, Akira Narita, Yoichi Sutoh, Nahomi Imaeda et al. • Journal of Nutritional Science (2021)

Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on the dietary habits of the Japanese population have shown that an effect rs671 allele was inversely associated with fish consumption, whereas it was directly associated with coffee consumption...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1017/jns.2021.49

Income and education predict elevated depressive symptoms in the general population: results from the Gutenberg health study

Jasmin Schlax, Claus Jünger, Manfred E. Beutel, Thomas Münzel et al. • BMC Public Health (2019)

Abstract Background Socioeconomic status (SES) has a strong association with depression or physical and mental health in general. However, as SES is a multifaceted construct these associations are not easy to explain. Further, there are sev...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12889-019-6730-4

Recommendations of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology for Education and Training in Medical Informatics

J. Dudeck, Wilhelm Gaus, Franz Josef Leven, Hildebrand Kunath et al. • Methods of Information in Medicine (1992)

In the fields of health care and medicine there is an immense demand for a systematic application of methods of information processing and for the use of computers. Obviously, to that end well-trained scientists and qualified personnel must...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1634857