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5% accuracy and 0.89 AUC. The time intervals in the existing sequence mining algorithms can give the clinicians some useful insights into the survival analysis and in determining the best lines of treatments for a particular patient.
The study suggests that the proposed methodology of the time range based sequence mining approach gave better results than the existing methods with 84.5% accuracy and 0.89 AUC. The time intervals in the existing sequence mining algorithms can give the clinicians some useful insights into the survival analysis and in determining the best lines of treatments for a particular patient.
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected more than 5 million people globally. Data on the prevalence and degree of COVID-19 associated liver injury among patients with COVID-19 remain limited. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the prevalence and degree of liver injury between patients with severe and non-severe COVID-19.

We performed a systematic search of three electronic databases (PubMed/MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane Library), from inception to 24
April 2020. We included all adult human studies (>20 subjects) regardless of language, region or publication date or status. We assessed the pooled odds ratio (OR), mean difference (MD) and 95% confidence interval (95%CI) using the random-effects model.

Among 1543 citations, there were 24 studies (5961 subjects) which fulfilled our inclusion criteria. The pooled odds ratio for elevated ALT (OR = 2.5, 95%CI 1.6-3.7, I
 = 57%), AST (OR = 3.4, 95%CI 2.3-5.0, I
 = 56%), hyperbilirubinemia (OR = 1.7, 95%CI 1.2-2.5, I
 = 0%) and hypoalbuminemia (OR = 7.1, 95%CI 2.1-24.1, I
 = 71%) were higher subjects in critical COVID-19.

COVID-19 associated liver injury is more common in severe COVID-19 than non-severe COVID-19. Physicians should be aware of possible progression to severe disease in subjects with COVID-19-associated liver injury.
COVID-19 associated liver injury is more common in severe COVID-19 than non-severe COVID-19. Physicians should be aware of possible progression to severe disease in subjects with COVID-19-associated liver injury.Photosynthetic rate at the present atmospheric condition is limited by the CO2-fixing enzyme ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) because of its extremely low catalytic rate (kcat) and poor affinity for CO2 (Kc) and specificity for CO2 (Sc/o). Rubisco in C4 plants generally shows higher kcat than that in C3 plants. Rubisco consists of eight large subunits and eight small subunits (RbcS). Previously, the chimeric incorporation of sorghum C4-type RbcS significantly increased the kcat of Rubisco in a C3 plant, rice. In this study, we knocked out rice RbcS multigene family using the CRISPR-Cas9 technology and completely replaced rice RbcS with sorghum RbcS in rice Rubisco. RK-701 Obtained hybrid Rubisco showed almost C4 plant-like catalytic properties, i.e., higher kcat, higher Kc, and lower Sc/o. Transgenic lines expressing the hybrid Rubisco accumulated reduced levels of Rubisco, whereas they showed slightly but significantly higher photosynthetic capacity and similar biomass production under high CO2 condition compared with wild-type rice. High-resolution crystal structural analysis of the wild-type Rubisco and hybrid Rubisco revealed the structural differences around the central pore of Rubisco and the βC-βD hairpin in RbcS. We propose that such differences, particularly in the βC-βD hairpin, may impact the flexibility of Rubisco catalytic site and change its catalytic properties.
Travelling to high altitude (HA) presents a risk of the high levels of pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) at altitude, which is associated with impaired exercise capacity and fatal HA pulmonary oedema. However, prediction of high levels of PAP at altitude is still unclear.

Echocardiography and pulmonary function tests were performed on 121 healthy men at low altitude (LA) and 4100 m (5 ± 2 h after a 7 day ascent).

HA exposure increased the levels of FEV1/FVC ratio, FEF
, MMEF, mPAP, total pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) and systolic pulmonary arterial pressure (SPAP). More smokers and lower forced expiratory flow at 25% of forced vital capacity (FEF
) at LA were observed in subjects with mPAP≥30 mmHg than those with mPAP<30 mmHg at HA. Multivariate logistic regression identified that FEF
at LA [odds ratio (OR) 0.50, 95%CI 0.33-0.76, p = 0.001] and smoking (OR 3.09, 95%CI 1.31-7.27, p = 0.010) were the independent predictors for identifying subjects with mPAP≥30 mmHg at HA. Moreover, FEF
at LA was linearly correlated with mPAP at HA (r = -0.31, p < 0.001), which mainly existed in smokers. Compared to subjects with FEF
≥7.55 L/sec at LA, those with FEF
<7.55 L/sec at LA showed higher levels of mPAP, and total PVR, and a multivariable OR of 11.16 (95%CI, 3.48-35.81) for developing mPAP ≥ 30 mmHg at HA. However, there was no significant difference in the incidences of AMS and its related clinical symptoms in subjects with different levels of FEF
.

Thus, these findings suggest that subjects with low FEF
values at LA are susceptible to high levels of PAP at altitude but not the incidence of AMS following short-term HA exposure, especially in smokers.
Thus, these findings suggest that subjects with low FEF25% values at LA are susceptible to high levels of PAP at altitude but not the incidence of AMS following short-term HA exposure, especially in smokers.
Although oral P2Y
inhibitors are key in the management of patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome, the optimal timing of their administration is not well defined.

The purpose of this study was to compare downstream and upstream oral P2Y
inhibitors administration strategies in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome undergoing invasive treatment.

We performed a randomized, adaptive, open-label, multicenter clinical trial. Patients were randomly assigned to receive pre-treatment with ticagrelor before angiography (upstream group) or no pre-treatment (downstream group). Patients in the downstream group undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention were further randomized to receive ticagrelor or prasugrel. The primary hypothesis was the superiority of the downstream versus the upstream strategy on the combination of efficacy and safety events (net clinical benefit).

We randomized 1,449 patients to downstream or upstream oral P2Y
inhibitor administration.
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