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Asian Journal of Medical Sciences

Prevalence of coronary artery calcification in patients with end-stage renal disease undergoing dialysis and the association of various risk factors with the development of coronary artery calcification in this patient population

Background: Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on dialysis exhibit a significantly higher risk of coronary artery calcification (CAC) than age-matched normal individuals, contributing to elevated cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Aims a…

By Avisek Maity, 1 month ago

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences

An observational study on variations of serum uric acid level in patients of depression and healthy controls and its correlation with hidden bipolarity

Background: Bipolar disorder (BD) is one of the most studied psychiatric disorders, this being one of the leading causes of disability in young individuals. In search for its predictive biomarker, serum uric acid (UA) level was seen to have a pathophys…

By Shaswata Mandal, Rudraprasad Acharya, Meghadipa Mandal, Anirban Chakrabarty, 1 month ago

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences

A study of functional outcome in unstable intertrochanteric fractures treated by proximal femoral nailing in Bundelkhand region

Background: Intertrochanteric fractures are the most frequent fractures of the hip joint. This is attributed to the increase in the elderly population in our country, along with osteoporosis being prevalent in these populations. Aims and Objectives: Th…

By Pranjal Mishra, Satish Agarwal, Paras Gupta, 1 month ago

International Journal of Stroke

A lifetime economic model of mortality and secondary care use for patients discharged from hospital following acute stroke

International Journal of Stroke, Ahead of Print. Background:The long-term health-economic consequences of acute stroke are typically extrapolated from short-term outcomes observed in different studies, using models based on assumptions about longer-ter…

By Peter McMeekin, 1 month ago

International Journal of Stroke

Clusters of parental socioeconomic status in early childhood and inherited risk for cerebrovascular disease until mid-life—Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966

International Journal of Stroke, Ahead of Print. Background and Aims:The incidence of cerebrovascular disease (CVD) is rising among young adults (< 55 years). The risk for CVD starts to form in early childhood and is comprised of genetic and environ…

By Veronika Hyytiäinen, 1 month ago

International Journal of Stroke

The association between social networks and functional recovery after stroke

International Journal of Stroke, Ahead of Print. Background and Purpose:Social determinants of health (SDOH), including social networks, impact disability and quality of life post-stroke, yet the direct influence of SDOH on functional change remains un…

By Lauri Bishop, 2 months ago

British Journal of Ophthalmology

At a glance

Capabilities of GPT-4 in ophthalmology: an analysis of model entropy and progress towards human-level medical question answering (see page 1371) The large language model Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4, Open AI) demonstrated strong perform…

By Larkin, F., 2 months ago

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Large language models: a new frontier in paediatric cataract patient education

Background/aims
This was a cross-sectional comparative study. We evaluated the ability of three large language models (LLMs) (ChatGPT-3.5, ChatGPT-4, and Google Bard) to generate novel patient education materials (PEMs) and improve the readability of …

By , 2 months ago

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Development and evaluation of a large language model of ophthalmology in Chinese

Background
Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have considerable implications for various medical applications. However, ChatGPT’s training primarily draws from English-centric internet data and is not tailored explicitly to the medic…

By , 2 months ago

British Journal of Ophthalmology

ICGA-GPT: report generation and question answering for indocyanine green angiography images

Background
Indocyanine green angiography (ICGA) is vital for diagnosing chorioretinal diseases, but its interpretation and patient communication require extensive expertise and time-consuming efforts. We aim to develop a bilingual ICGA report generati…

By Chen, X., Zhang, W., Zhao, Z., Xu, P., Zheng, Y., Shi, D., He, M., 2 months ago