Introduction Mobile health (mHealth) technologies have become increasingly popular for monitoring mental health symptoms and lifestyle behaviours, and are largely reported to be feasible and ...

A machine learning model incorporating functional assessments predicts one-year mortality in older patients with HF and improves risk stratification beyond established scores. Functional status at ...

Insufficient physical activity (PA) among children has become a major global public health concern. The family environment ...

Background Early graft failure within 90 postoperative days is the leading cause of mortality after heart transplantation. Existing risk scores, based on linear regression, often struggle to capture ...

A key outcome from lung cancer screening studies is the concept of ‘stage-shift’ seen in screen-detected cancers compared ...

Background Low socioeconomic status (SES) is linked to increased cardiovascular risk, but its association with carotid atherosclerosis in the general population is less well studied. We examined ...

Introduction Full-endoscopic lumbar discectomy can be performed using either the transforaminal (TELD) or interlaminar (IELD) approach. Although both techniques are widely used, the optimal approach ...

Intrinsic neural attractors and extrinsic environmental inputs jointly steer the dynamic trajectories of brain activity ...

This systematic review and meta-analysis identified prognostic factors associated with early mortality in septic shock. The identification of these prognostic factors could aid in clinical risk ...

Introduction One of the challenges in managing patients with hantavirus infection is accurately identifying individuals who are at risk of developing severe disease. Prompt identification of these ...

Background Cigarette sharing has not been assessed at the provincial level or analysed the degree of its association with smoking cessation in China. Such analysis would provide critical intelligence ...

Introduction Disability is linked to poor health outcomes and increased mortality, yet evidence on this relationship in sub-Saharan Africa is limited. This study investigated the association between ...