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MTT assay also revealed the positive effect of hydrogels on cell viabilities, and they have no toxicity effect on cells. In vivo study indicated that the prepared hydrogels had better wound closure than the gauze-treated wound (the control), and alginate/20% naringenin group had the best wound closure among other groups. All in all, this study concluded that alginate/naringenin hydrogel has positive effect on wound healing process, and it can be used to treat skin injuries in the clinic. Graphical abstract.Previously we briefly reported the effect of 1-month dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) for patients with high bleeding risk (HBR) receiving percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the STOPDAPT-2 trial, but full analysis data have not been available. We conducted post hoc subgroup analysis regarding the effect of very short DAPT for HBR patients in STOPDAPT-2 trial. The primary endpoint was a 1-year composite of cardiovascular (cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, definite stent thrombosis, or stroke) and bleeding (TIMI major/minor bleeding) outcomes. Major secondary endpoints were 1-year cardiovascular composite endpoint and bleeding endpoint. HBR was defined by the academic research consortium (ARC) HBR criteria. Among the 3009 study patients, 1054 (35.0%) were classified as HBR and 1955 (65.0%) were as non-HBR. There were no significant interactions between HBR/non-HBR subgroups and the assigned DAPT group on the primary endpoint (HBR; 3.48% vs. 5.98%, HR 0.57, 95% CI 0.32-1.03, and non-HBR; 1.81% vs. 2.36%, HR 0.78, 95% CI 0.42-1.45; P for interaction = 0.48), the major secondary cardiovascular endpoint (HBR; 3.07% vs. 4.03%, HR 0.77, 95% CI 0.40-1.48, and non-HBR; 1.41% vs. 1.61%, HR 0.89, 95% CI 0.43-1.84; P for interaction = 0.77), and the major secondary bleeding endpoint (HBR; 0.41% vs. 2.71%, HR 0.15, 95% CI 0.03-0.65, and non-HBR; 0.40% vs. 0.85%, HR 0.48, 95% CI 0.14-1.58; P for interaction = 0.22). In conclusion, the effects of 1-month DAPT for the primary and major secondary endpoints were consistent in HBR and non-HBR patients without any significant interactions. The benefit of 1-month DAPT in reducing major bleeding was numerically greater in HBR patients.Clinical trial registration Short and optimal duration of dual antiplatelet therapy after everolimus-eluting cobalt-chromium stent-2 [STOPDAPT-2]; NCT02619760.Conservation easements are the fastest growing private conservation strategy in the United States. However, mechanisms to assess private land conservation as well as their support by the general public are not well understood. This study uses the ecosystem services framework for assessing existing private lands in Idaho and identifies areas for future conservation easements. Using conservation targets of the land trust as a guide for selecting ecosystem services, we (a) mapped the spatial delivery of conservation targets across public and private lands, (b) explored public awareness in terms of social importance and vulnerability, and (c) mapped future priority areas by characterizing conservation bundles. We found that public lands provided the highest levels of conservation targets, and we found no difference in conservation target provision between private areas and conservation easements. The spatial characterization of conservation target bundles identified potential future priority areas for conservation easements, which can guide planning of land trust conservation efforts.BACKGROUND Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) undergoing dialysis have increased risks of atrial fibrillation (AF). OBJECTIVE To investigate dialysis-related incident AF and associated outcomes. METHODS Patients with dialysis were retrieved using data from Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database during 2001-2013. Patients were separated into peritoneal dialysis (PD) and hemodialysis (HD) according to their initial modality. Primary outcome was new-onset AF. Secondary outcomes were AF-associated ischemic stroke (IS)/systemic embolism (SE) and hemorrhagic stroke. RESULTS A total of 158,910 dialytic patients were retrieved. After exclusion criteria, a total of 117,023 patients with ESRD undergoing dialysis were separated into 12,659 patients on PD and 104,364 patients on HD. There were 458 PD patients with subsequent development of AF, and 6216 HD patients with subsequent development of AF. At end of follow-up, patients on PD and HD had AF incidence densities of 7.8 and 8.8 events per 1000 person-years, the SHR of PD versus HD was 0.83 (95% CI 0.73-0.94). The SHR of PD versus HD was 1.07 (95% CI 0.80-1.44) for IS/SE and the SHR of PD versus HD was 0.34 (95% CI 0.13-0.90) for hemorrhagic stroke. selleck inhibitor CONCLUSION In patients with ESRD undergoing dialysis, PD had lowered risks of new onset of AF compared to HD. Subsequently, these AF patients in PD group had comparable incidence of ischemic stroke but decreased incidence of hemorrhagic stroke compared to AF patients in HD group. PD could be the most suitable modality in patients at risk for the onset of AF.PURPOSE To assess the longitudinal associations between maternal total bile acid (TBA) levels during early mid-pregnancy and the subsequent risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). METHODS In a prospective cohort study, pregnant women who were enrolled prior to gestational week 16 were followed until delivery. TBA levels were tested during weeks 14-18 of gestation. Using logistic regression, we analyzed the associations between quartiles of TBA and GDM based on a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) at 24-28 gestational weeks. RESULTS The GDM rate was 7.9% (114/1441). The mean TBA level was higher in women with GDM than in those without GDM (2.1 ± 2.0 vs 1.5 ± 1.0 µmol/L, P = 0.000). The highest TBA level quartile (2.1-10.7 µmol/L) had a 1.78-fold (95% CI 1.01, 3.14) increased risk of GDM compared with that of the lowest quartile (0.0-0.8 µmol/L) after adjusting for pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), gestational, age at TBA test and other confounders. High TBA levels were involved in the fasting glucose level rather than that at 1 h and 2 h after OGTT in all participants. CONCLUSIONS Pregnant women with higher serum TBA levels during early mid-pregnancy have a higher risk of developing GDM. TBA may be a new risk factor for GDM.INTRODUCTION Urothelial carcinoma (UC) is an aggressive malignancy and has a poor prognosis in the metastatic state. Treatment of UC remains a challenge, and as a first-line regimen for advanced UC, standard platinum-based chemotherapy is unfit for many patients due to numerous comorbidities and poor performance status. Recently, five immune checkpoint inhibitors have been approved for the treatment of patients with advanced UC who were ineligible for platinum-based regimens or suffered tumor progression in post-platinum setting. However, not long ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration restricted the use of two common immune checkpoint blockades, atezolizumab and pembrolizumab, due to uncertain survival benefit as mono-therapy. In this scenario, we reviewed rapidly surfacing clinical trials to assess the efficacy and safety of immunotherapy targeting the PD-1 pathway for advanced UC. METHODS A comprehensive search was conducted in PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane Library for all clinical trials where the efficde TRAEs. The pooled estimation of any-grade was 0.65 (95% CI 0.63-0.67, I2 = 1.7%, P = 0.429). The pooled rate of grade 3-4 TRAEs subgroups with Atezolizumab, Pembrolizumab, Durvalumab, Nivolumab and Avelumab were 0.11 (95% CI 0.06-0.15, I2 = 83.5%, P = 0.000), 0.15 (95% CI 0.13-0.18, I2 = 0.0%, P = 0.971), 0.06 (95% CI 0.03-0.09, I2 = 0.0%, P = 0.566), 0.19 (95% CI 0.15-0.23, I2 = 0.0%, P = 0.480) and 0.08 (95% CI 0.05-0.11, I2 = 0.0%, P = 0.702), respectively. CONCLUSION This study showed that the immunotherapy targeting the PD-1 pathway had durable efficacy and acceptable safety in patients with advanced UC. The comprehensive role of immune checkpoint inhibitors in comparison to other treatments needs further confirmation basing on RCTs.PURPOSE Esophageal squamous cell cancer (ESCC) has high rates of recurrence and mortality. Small nucleolar RNA host gene 12 (SNHG12) is known to promote the progression of several cancers. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the expression and role of SNHG12 in ESCC. METHODS The expression and clinical value of SNHG12 in esophageal cancer were explored using data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the online server GEPIA. Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) was used to verify the expression levels of SNHG12 in ESCC tissues and cell lines. Furthermore, loss-of-function assays were performed to examine the effect of SNHG12 on ESCC cells in vitro and in vivo. The potential competing endogenous RNA networks of SNHG12 in ESCC were explored. RESULTS SNHG12 was downregulated in human ESCA tissues compared to control tissues. The expression of SNHG12 was strongly associated with T stage, N stage, and TNM stage. Low SNHG12 expression in esophageal tumor tissues was significantly correlated with poor prognosis. Furthermore, knockdown of SNHG12 not only promoted proliferation, colony formation, migration, and invasion and inhibited apoptosis in ESCC cells in vitro, but also increased tumor growth in vivo. Additionally, this proves that the SNHG12/miRNA-195-5p/BCL9 network might be involved in ESCC. CONCLUSION This is the first study to reveal that SNHG12 is downregulated in ESCC tissues and could be used as a prognostic tool. SNHG12 suppressed tumor progression in ESCC cells, serving as a potential biomarker. The SNHG12/miRNA-195-5p/BCL9 network is proposed to be the mechanism leading to ESCC progression.PURPOSE Resection of liver-only colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) with perioperative chemotherapy is potentially curative. Specific primary tumor and liver metastasis characteristics have been validated to estimate the risk of recurrence. We hypothesize that the time interval from diagnosis of CRLM to surgery, or time to surgery (TTS), is clinically prognostic. METHODS Patients from a prospectively maintained institutional database at a Comprehensive Cancer Center from May 2003 to January 2018 were reviewed. Clinicopathologic, perioperative treatment, and TTS data were collected. TTS was categorized into short ( 6 months) intervals. RESULTS Two hundred eighty-one patients were identified. While overall survival (OS) was similar across TTS, postoperative overall survival (postoperative OS) of long TTS was associated with worse survival, 44 months (95% CI, 34-52) compared to short TTS, 59 months (95% CI, 43-79), and intermediate TTS, 63 months (95% CI, 52-108), both p  less then  0.01. With regard to long-term OS, intermediate TTS had 5-year OS of 59% and 8-year OS of 43% compared to long TTS (5-year OS 53% and 8-year OS 18%) and short TTS (5-year OS 54% and 8-year OS 29%). Long TTS was negatively associated with postoperative OS on multivariate analysis (HR 1.6, p  less then  0.01) when adjusting for resection margin, CRLM size, age, and use of postoperative chemotherapy. CONCLUSION Short and intermediate TTS had similar survival although patients with intermediate TTS may have better odds of long-term OS. While long TTS was associated with worse survival, likely due to higher disease burden, long-term survivors were still observed.
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