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Assessing Versatile Appliance Studying Types with regard to Glioma Radiogenomic Reports throughout Nursing homes.
1 unit increase of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)) was associated with a reduced risk of all-cause mortality (pooled hazard ratios (HR) (95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.99 (0.97, 1.00)) and stroke mortality (pooled HR (95% CI) = 0.77 (0.59, 1.00)) in older individuals.

This review supports increasing green space exposure in terms of the prevention of death and cardiovascular outcomes in older individuals. Effective measures to increase or preserve greenspaces should therefore be considered as important public health interventions.
This review supports increasing green space exposure in terms of the prevention of death and cardiovascular outcomes in older individuals. Effective measures to increase or preserve greenspaces should therefore be considered as important public health interventions.Measurement of pupillary characteristics, such as pupillary unrest in ambient light, and reflex dilation have been shown to be useful in a variety of clinical situations. Dedicated pupillometers typically capture images in the near-infrared to allow imaging in both light and darkness. However, because a subset of pupillary measurements can be acquired with levels of visible light suitable for conventional cameras, it is theoretically possible to capture data using general purpose cameras and computing devices such as those found on smartphones. Here we describe the development of a smartphone-based pupillometer and compare its performance with a commercial pupillometer. Smartphone pupillometry software was developed and then compared with a commercial pupillometer by performing simultaneous scans in both eyes, using the smartphone pupillometer and a commercial pupillometer. The raw scans were compared, as well as a selected pupillary index pupillary unrest in ambient light. In 77% of the scans the software was able to successfully identify the pupil and iris. The raw data as well as calculated values of pupillary unrest in ambient light were in clinically acceptable levels of agreement; Bland-Altman analysis of raw pupil measurements yielded a 95% confidence interval of 0.26 mm. In certain situations a smartphone pupillometer may be an appropriate alternative to a commercial pupillometer.
Healthcare needs are complex and heterogeneous in advanced chronic organ failure. However, based on symptom clusters, groups of patients with similar quality of life, care dependency and life-sustaining treatment preferences can be identified.

To evaluate the stability of symptom-based clusters over time, and whether and to what extent the clusters are able to predict patients' 2-year survival and hospitalization rates.

This is a secondary analysis of a longitudinal observational study including 95 outpatients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) GOLD stage III-IV, 80 outpatients with chronic heart failure (CHF) NYHA stage III-IV and 80 outpatients with chronic renal failure (CRF) requiring dialysis. Patients were clustered into three groups applying K-means algorithm on baseline symptoms' severity and were then longitudinally evaluated. 2-year survival and hospital admissions during 1 year were estimated using Kaplan-Meier curves and Cox models. 1-year tendencies in symptom variation, using mixed linear models, and clusters comparison over time were performed.

The three clusters were unable to predict patients' survival and hospital admissions. Noteworthy, they show different trajectories of symptom variation, with Cluster 1 patients experiencing a worsening of symptoms, associated with an increased care dependency, and Cluster 2 and Cluster 3 patients being stable or having a relief in some symptoms. Although Cluster 1 is becoming more similar to Cluster 2, the three clusters preserve the overall characteristics and differences.

Symptom-based clusters might help to identify patients with different trajectories of symptom variations.

Symptom clusters do not predict survival and hospital admissions and are stable over time.
Symptom clusters do not predict survival and hospital admissions and are stable over time.
Oncotype Dx (ODX) is used to predict recurrence risk for estrogen-positive (ER +), HER2-negative and lymph node negative breast cancer, however, due to the cost its use maybe limited in low-resource areas. The aim of this study is to assess the concordance between the modified Magee Equation-2 (MME-2) and ODX recurrence scores (RS). The secondary aim is to apply the Magee Decision Algorithm (MDA) using the MME-2 to determine which patients are unlikely to benefit from ODX testing.

All newly diagnosed ER + , HER2 negative, lymph node negative breast cancer patients with available ODX-RS from 2008-2018 were included. The original pathology reports were reviewed and chart review was performed. The MME-2 scores were calculated and correlated with the ODX-RS. The MDA was applied to our cohort to assess which patients would not benefit from ODX testing.

A total of 579 patients were included. There was an overall moderate correlation between ODX-RS and MME-2 score (Pearson correlation coefficient = 0.635). They for both cutoffs. The MME-2 can be used to identify patients unlikely to benefit from ODX testing using the MDA.
Non-metastatic locally advanced breast carcinoma (LABC) treatment involves neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT). We evaluated the association of clinical-pathological data and immunoexpression of hormone receptors, HER2 and Ki67, and new biomarkers, RPL37A, MTSS1 and HTRA1, with pathological complete response (PCR) or tumour resistance (stable disease or disease progression), disease-free survival (DFS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS).

This is a retrospective study of 333 patients with LABC who underwent NCT. Expression of MTSS1, RPL37A and HTRA1/PRSS11 was evaluated by immunohistochemistry in TMA slides. Cutoff values were established for low and high tumour expression. ROC plotter evaluated response to NCT. Smad3 signaling Chi-square test for factors related to PCR, and Kaplan-Meier test and Cox model for factors related to DFS and CSS were prformed.

The mean follow-up was 70.0months and PCR rate was 15.6%. At 120months, DFS rate was 32.5% and CSS rate was 67.1%. In multivariate analysis, there was an association between (1) necrosis presence, intense inflammatory infiltrate, ER absence, HER2 molecular subtype and high RPL3A expression with increased odds of PCR; (2) lymph node involvement (LNI), high Ki67, low RPL37A and high HTRA1 expression with increased risk for NCT non-response; (3) LNI, high proliferation, necrosis absence, low RPL37A and high HTRA1 expression with increased recurrence risk; (4) advanced LNI, ER negative tumours, high HTRA1, low RPL37A expression and desmoplasia presence with higher risk of cancer death.
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