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Sleep disordered breathing has minimal association with retinal microvascular diameters in a non-diabetic sleep clinic cohort
ConclusionNo major SDB associations with CRAE or CRVE were identified, although the RFM/CPAP intervention reduced evening CRVE for severe OSA patients. Implications for cerebro-vascular disease risk remain uncertain. Trial registrationThe protocol was registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (Trial Id: ACTRN12620000694910).
Source: PLoS One - January 10, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Kristina Kairaitis Source Type: research

Psychometric properties of performance-based measures of physical function administered via telehealth among people with chronic conditions: A systematic review
ConclusionsSeveral performance-based measures of physical function across the domains of exercise capacity, strength, balance and general functional capacity may have sufficient reliability and criterion validity when administered via telehealth. However, the evidence is of low-very low quality, reflecting the small number of studies conducted and the small sample sizes included in the studies. Future research is needed to explore the measurement error, responsiveness, interpretability and feasibility of these measures administered via telehealth.
Source: PLoS One - September 9, 2022 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Caoimhe Barry Walsh Source Type: research

Revealing the magic of acupuncture based on biological mechanisms: A literature review
Biosci Trends. 2022 Feb 10. doi: 10.5582/bst.2022.01039. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAcupuncture has been used to treat various disease for more than 3,000 years in China and other Asian countries. As a complementary and alternative therapy, it has gained increasing popularity and acceptance among public and healthcare professionals in the West. Over the past few decades, basic and clinical research on acupuncture has made considerable progress. Internationally recognized evidence from clinical studies has been published, a preliminary system to clinically evaluate acupuncture has been created, and some clinical guidelin...
Source: BioScience Trends - February 14, 2022 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Bo Zhang Haojun Shi Shengnan Cao Liangyu Xie Pengcheng Ren Jianmin Wang Bin Shi Source Type: research

Validation of two severity scores as predictors for outcome in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
by Christian Salbach, Matthias Mueller-Hennessen, Moritz Biener, Kiril M. Stoyanov, Mehrshad Vafaie, Michael R. Preusch, Lars P. Kihm, Uta Merle, Paul Schnitzler, Hugo A. Katus, Evangelos Giannitsis BackgroundAn established objective and standardized reporting of clinical severity and disease progression in COVID-19 is still not established. We validated and compared the usefulness of two classification systems reported earlier –a severity grading proposed by Siddiqi and a system from the National Australian COVID-19 guideline. Both had not been validated externally and were now tested for their ability to predict compli...
Source: PLoS One - February 19, 2021 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Christian Salbach Source Type: research