Background Several clinical trials have reported inconsistent findings for the effect of fibrates
on cardiovascular risk. We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate …

Purpose Choice of renal replacement therapy (RRT) modality may affect renal recovery after
acute kidney injury (AKI). We sought to compare the rate of dialysis dependence among …

Background: Recent guidelines suggest lowering the target blood pressure for patients with
chronic kidney disease, although the strength of evidence for this suggestion has been …

RNA interference (RNAi) is a powerful tool to silence gene expression post-transcriptionally
1 . However, its potential to treat or prevent disease remains unproven. Fas-mediated …

Early detection has the potential to reduce cancer mortality, but an effective screening test
must demonstrate asymptomatic cancer detection years before conventional diagnosis in a …

Failure of immune surveillance related to inadequate host antitumor immune responses has
been suggested as a possible cause of the high incidence of recurrence and poor overall …

The emergence of the Web has increased interests in XML data. XML query languages such
as XQuery and XPath use label paths to traverse the irregularly structured data. Without a …

We have investigated the influences of aluminum and gallium dopants (0 to 2.0 mol%) on
zinc oxide (ZnO) thin films regarding crystallization and electrical and optical properties for …

The effect of intensive glucose control on major kidney outcomes in type 2 diabetes remains
unclear. To study this, the ADVANCE trial randomly assigned 11,140 participants to an …

The rapid adoption of smartphones along with a growing habit for using these devices as
alarm clocks presents an opportunity to use this device as a sleep detector. This adds value to …