Patients hospitalized for acute COPD exacerbation had reduced odds for in-hospital mortality if they had a prior history of bariatric surgery, according to data presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.“ ...

Objective The left atrial stiffness index (LASI) has been proven to be a promising marker for assessing left atrial (LA) and ...

New longitudinal evidence suggests lung function changes across the menopausal transition accelerate in midlife women. FVC decline steepens five years before menopause and persists after.

Background To assess subfoveal choroidal thickness (SFCT) and its associations in school children in a Russian population. Methods The Ural Children Eye Study (UCES), a school-based case-control study ...

The analysis identified a J-shaped relationship between serum vitamin E levels and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Both ...

Researchers used a new covariance-based method, MANOCCA, to map how environmental factors like age, sex, smoking, and BMI shape bacterial co-abundance in the healthy gut microbiome. The study revealed ...

The authors used a Bayesian modeling framework to fit behavior and serotonin neuron activity to reward history across multiple timescales. A key goal was to distinguish value coding from other ...

Background Postoperative ileus (POI) is a common complication after abdominal surgery that significantly delays recovery. Evidence suggests that the general anaesthetic propofol inhibits ...

Objective To characterise and quantify the mortality risks for a range of causes after tropical cyclones in nine countries ...

Critical analyses of AI usually adopt a stance of defensive humanism. Instead, Nan Da interrogates its mode of reasoning. How ...