Purpose: Individuals with schizophrenia have a vastly reduced lifespan compared with the general population; comorbid cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death for them. Furthermore, these individuals are more likely to have metabolic syndrome-related disorders (MSDs), which increase CVD risk. We examined the medical records of long-term inpatients with schizophrenia to identif...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become the leading cause of death in China, and most of the cases can be prevented by controlling risk factors. The goal of this study was to build a corpus of CVD risk factor annotations based on Chinese electronic medical records (CEMRs). This corpus is intended to be used to develop a risk factor information extraction system that, in turn, can be ...

Self-heating induced failure of graphene devices synthesized from both chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and epitaxial means is compared using a combination of infrared thermography and Raman imaging. Despite a larger thermal resistance, CVD devices dissipate >3x the amount of power before failure than their epitaxial counterparts. The discrepancy arises due to morphological irregularities implic...

In this work, we report a direct synthesis of vertically aligned ZnO nanowires on fluorine-doped tin oxide-coated substrates using the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. ZnO nanowires with a length of more than 30 μm were synthesized, and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) based on the as-grown nanowires were fabricated, which showed improvement of the device performance compared to those ...

We have studied dependence of volume fraction of clusters in a-Si:H films on deposition rate of the films using a multi-hollow discharge plasma CVD method The maximum deposition rate realized for each pressure exponentially increases from 0.014 nm/s to 0.96 nm/s with decreasing pressure from 1.0 Torr to 0.1 Torr, whereas the volume fraction of clusters slightly increases with increasing the dep...

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a respiratory disease. COPD patients present not only with the features of tract infections (cough, dyspnea, etc.) but also other comorbidities. Cardiovascular one them. and CVD cause various metabolic disturbances like dyselectrolytemia. Aim: Study serum electrolytes in suffering from or without CVD. Method: hospital-based study that include...

We present the successful synthesis of aligned C labeled single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) arrays from alcohol by a modified no-flow chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method which makes possible efficient growth using a small amount of carbon source. Synthesis of high-quality SWNTs by this alternate method was confirmed by Resonance Raman spectroscopy, which also showed the quality is uniform ...

compelling evidence suggests that the oxidative stress plays a key role in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease (cvd). superoxide dismutase (sod) enzymes play a major role in detoxification of reactive oxygen species and protection against oxidative stress. we examined the possible association between a 50-bp insertion/deletion in the sod1 promoter 1684-bp upstream of the sod1 atg with...

background: according to the high prevalence of cardiovascular diseases (cvd) in developing countries as well as high treatment expenses for patients and health-care systems, cvd prevention in such societies has a great importance. one of the most effective strategies is improvement of knowledge and attitude towards the cvd risk factors. this study aimed to evaluate the knowledge and attitude o...