Articles: disease.
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Meta Analysis
Dietary supplements for prediabetes: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.
The number of prediabetic individuals is at a high level worldwide and they have an increased risk of developing diabetes, causing severe physical impairment and heavy financial burden. Recently, using various dietary supplements is increasingly common, and relevant trials of different diseases are increasing correspondingly. The effects of dietary supplements have been confirmed in some studies among prediabetic individuals. However, there remains no comprehensive systematic review to assess the efficacy and safety of dietary supplements intake in prediabetic individuals. ⋯ INPLASY202040057.
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This study aims to investigate the efficacy and safety of benralizumab for the treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). ⋯ INPLASY202040039.
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Multicenter Study
Factors limiting habitual exercise in patients with chronic heart failure: a multicenter prospective cohort study.
Physical activity (PA) in the daily life is strongly related to prognosis in patients with or at high risk of heart failure (HF). However, factors limiting habitual exercise and their prognostic impacts remain unknown in HF patients. We sent questionnaires asking factors limiting habitual exercise in the daily life to 8370 patients with Stage A/B/C/D HF in our nationwide registry and received valid responses from 4935 patients (mean age 71.8 years, 71.0% male). ⋯ Factors limiting habitual exercise were associated with "busyness" and "diseases", but not with "weak will", "dislike, or "socioeconomic reasons". While "busyness" was associated with better prognosis regardless of age and sex, "diseases" was associated with worse prognosis in younger populations. Thus, physicians may pay more attentions to the reasons that limit exercise in the daily lives of HF patients rather than the low amount of exercise itself.
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Revista médica de Chile · May 2020
[Incidence of thyroid cancer in an oncological clinic of Santiago, Chile].
In Chile, Thyroid cancer (TC) is included in a list of diseases that have a guaranteed access to treatment, endorsed by the Ministry of Health. The care burden of the disease will depend on its incidence. ⋯ The TC incidence herein reported is higher than the figure of 7.9 cases per 100,000 persons/year reported by us in 2014. This difference could be due to a true increase in the incidence of TC, following worldwide trends or to differences in the methods used in both studies.
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Psoriasis vulgaris (PV) is a chronic, immune-mediated dermatological disease that significantly affects the patient's health and quality of life. At present, cupping has been widely used in the treatment of psoriasis. However, the effectiveness and safety of cupping in patients with PV are still controversial. Therefore, this review aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of cupping therapy on PV. ⋯ DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/KV4CJ.