Medicine
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The effectiveness of daily humanistic care in pharmaceutical care of patients with type 2 diabetes.
Although the current methods of pharmaceutical care have demonstrably improved pathogenic condition and humanistic health outcomes of patients with type 2 diabetes, lacking humanistic care limits its reach and effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of daily humanistic care reminders in pharmaceutical care of patients with type 2 diabetes. A total of 1200 patients with type 2 diabetes were recruited. ⋯ Humanistic care showed a positive correlation with glycemic control and negative relationship with HbA1c in patients with type 2 diabetes. There was a positive correlation between humanistic care and glycemic control (R = 0.641, P < .01) and a negative relationship between humanistic care and HbA1c in patients with type 2 diabetes (r = -0.482, P < .01). In conclusion, humanistic care could improve the control of overall clinical outcomes and enhanced medication adherences, which play an important role in the management of patients with type 2 diabetes.
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Integrative analysis of the characteristic of lipid metabolism-related genes for the prognostic prediction of hepatocellular carcinoma.
Dysregulation of lipid metabolism is implicated in the progression of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We therefore investigated the molecular characteristics of lipid-metabolism-related genes in HCC. ⋯ This study provides new insights into the role of LMRG in the pathogenesis of HCC and presents a novel prognostic signature 6-IS monitoring the clinical course of HCC.
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Plasma D-dimer levels are correlated with disease severity among hypertensive patients: A comparative cross-sectional study.
It has been reported that inappropriate acute thrombus formation is the pathophysiological substrate underlying increased risk and severity of target organ damage in hypertension (HTN). However, the relationship between severity of HTN and D-dimer has not been well characterized. The study was aimed to assess plasma D-dimer level and its correlation with disease severity among hypertensives. ⋯ D-dimer was found to have a diagnostic power of 86.9% in differentiating complicated from uncomplicated HTN at 0.83 mg/L cutoff value. This study suggests that D-dimer level was higher among hypertensives than control groups and it was also increasing significantly with the severity of HTN. This suggests that hypercoagulability of fibrin plays a role in the occurrence of thromboembolic complications of hypertensive patients.