aim and background: the purpose of this study was to compare executive function and sustained attention in students with obsessive–compulsive, high schizotypal and overlapping symptoms and a control group. methods and materials: the present study assessed undergraduate students of tabriz university by ex post facto method. randomized multi-stage cluster sampling was used to select 1570 students...

In medical informatics, deep learning-based models are being used to predict and diagnose cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). These can detect clinical signs, recognize phenotypes, pick treatment methods for complicated illnesses. One approach predicting CVDs is collect a large dataset of patient records use it train learning model. This study investigated early prediction using regression analysis...

Abstract Recent data suggest that corneal somatosensory dysfunction may be the underlying cause of severe dry eye symptoms in the absence of ocular surface pathology seen in a subset of patients diagnosed with “dry eye syndrome.” This subset of patients tends to demonstrate a unique constellation of symptoms that are persistent, more severe, and generally respond poorly to current dry eye thera...

Both dyspeptic and gastro-oesophageal reflux-like symptoms are frequent in the general population, but their degree of overlap is unknown. In severe functional dyspepsia (FD), symptoms are organized in factors associated with pathophysiological mechanisms. The aims of this study were: (i) to assess the prevalence of dyspeptic symptoms with and without overlapping reflux symptoms in the general ...

XML has been the de facto standard for digital editions for years, but its serious limitations include an inability to represent overlapping markup and the encoding of multiple annotation hierarchies. With emerging graph database technologies we have the opportunity to develop new approaches. In this paper the advantages and modelling principles of graph-based digital editions will be discussed.

Studies of the epidemiology of dyspepsia have been complicated by the use of different symptom definitions, subject populations and time frames of investigation. Published figures for the prevalence of dyspepsia vary from 20% to 40%, of which perhaps only a quarter can be attributed to peptic ulcer disease. General practitioners see only a fraction of the dyspepsia within the community, the maj...

OBJECTIVE To look at women who underwent overlapping anal sphincteroplasty (OAS) with the use of either permanent or absorbable sutures and to describe patient-reported fecal continence and quality of life. STUDY DESIGN A case series of 40 women who underwent OAS completed the Modified Manchester Health Questionnaire a mean of 50 months after surgery. Descriptive statistics were used to descr...