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Atherosclerosis 2022 May;349:42-52

Section of Cardiovascular Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Health Policy, Quality & Informatics Program, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center Health Services Research and Development Center for Innovations, USA. Electronic address:

The initial studies focusing on lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] and its role in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease were conducted exclusively in Whites. Subsequently, multiple large-scale, independent investigations have established clear race/ethnic differences in plasma Lp(a) concentration and population distribution over the last four decades. Blacks have the highest Lp(a) level of all race/ethnic groups studied followed by South Asians, Whites, Hispanics and East Asians. Read More

Photodiagnosis Photodyn Ther 2022 May 20:102913. Epub 2022 May 20.

Department of Dermatology, Hangzhou Third People's Hospital; Hangzhou Third Hospital Affiliated to Zhejiang Chinese Medical University; Affiliated Hangzhou Dermatology Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine; West Lake Road 38, Hangzhou, 310009, People's Republic of China. Electronic address:

Background: The incidence of warts caused by human papilloma virus (HPV) infection is very high in the population. Photodynamic therapy (PDT), as an emerging method for wart treatment, has been demonstrated to be effective and safe by an increasing number of studies. This meta-analysis of previous literature aimed to investigate the potential of PDT as a first-line treatment for warts. Read More

Environ Pollut 2022 May 20:119510. Epub 2022 May 20.

Key Laboratory of Environmental Optics and Technology, Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China.

Atmospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO) is an important reactive gas pollutant harmful to human health. The spatiotemporal coverage provided by traditional NO monitoring methods is insufficient, especially in the suburban and rural areas of north China, which have a high population density and experience severe air pollution. In this study, we implemented a spatiotemporal neural network (STNN) model to estimate surface NO from multiple sources of information, which included satellite and in situ measurements as well as meteorological and geographical data. Read More

Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2022 May 20:109930. Epub 2022 May 20.

Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Anesthesiology and Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Research Center of Big Data and Meta-Analysis, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan. Electronic address:

Objective: The beneficial effect of influenza vaccination (IV) in patients with diabetes was not completely understood.

Methods: Using the research data of health insurance, we performed a cohort study of patients aged ≥ 20 years who were admitted to inpatient care due to diabetes in 2008-2013 in Taiwan. We performed the propensity score matching and the outcomes of complications and mortality following the diabetes admission was compared between patients with and without IV. Read More

Chemosphere 2022 May 20:135010. Epub 2022 May 20.

Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education & Ministry of Environmental Protection, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China. Electronic address:

The associations of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) with semen quality from human studies are conflicting, and also it is largely unknown whether the associations are modified by genetic polymorphisms. We aimed to evaluate the associations between serum concentrations of 18 OCPs and semen quality among 387 Chinese men, and further to examine the modifying effects by genetic polymorphisms in cytochrome P450 (CYP2E1) and glutathione S-transferase (GSTT1). Multivariable linear regressions were used to evaluate the relationships between serum OCP concentrations and semen quality, and the role of CYP2E1 and GSTT1 polymorphisms in modifying the associations were assessed. Read More