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Jan 17, 2025 | 
cardiab.biomedcentral.com | Pediatric Diseases
Our study assessed the additive effect of MetS on LV function, MEEI, and myocardial strain in INOCA patients using CMR feature tracking. The principal findings were as follows: (1) INOCA patients exhibited impaired LV myocardial strain, particularly in the longitudinal direction, and with MetS aggravated damage of LV GLPS. (2) Both LVSVI and MEEI were significantly decreased in the INOCA patients with MetS compared to those without MetS.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Xin Chen |Pediatric Diseases |Ling Wang |Hong Luo Luo
Data Availability Statement The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
cardiab.biomedcentral.com | Pediatric Diseases
The study protocol was approved by the West-China Hospital of Sichuan University Biomedical Research Ethics Committee, and due to the retrospective nature of the analyses, no written informed consent was required. We retrospectively collected hospitalized patients who underwent CMR scans from January 2013 to October 2023. The diagnosis criteria for MetS followed the 2009 Joint Interim Statement of the International Diabetes Federation Task Force on Epidemiology and Prevention [16].
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com | Pediatric Diseases
Our study drew on data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a comprehensive database initiated in 1999, which evaluates the health and nutritional status of the U.S. population [19].To ensure national representativeness, the NHANES employs a continuous multistage probability sampling method.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com | Pediatric Diseases
The child, a girl aged 7 years and 9 months, was admitted to the hospital with "headache and abdominal pain for 12 days and numbness and pain in the limbs for 4 days", during which she had cold symptoms such as low fever and itching all over the body, without rash. She was treated with cetirizine orally. The pruritus slightly improved, but she still had a headache, abdominal pain, limb numbness, and pain in both lower limbs.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Xinyuan Zhang |Pediatric Diseases |Sichuan Chengdu |Ke Xu
Editorial Editorial for “Evaluation of Aortic Hemodynamics Using Four-Dimensional Flow of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Rabbits with Liver Fibrosis” Xinyuan Zhang MD, Xinyuan Zhang MD Department of Radiology, Key Laboratory of Obstetric and Gynecologic and Pediatric Diseases and Birth Defects of Ministry of Education, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China Search for more papers by this authorKe Xu MD, Ke Xu MD Department of Radiology, Key Laboratory of...
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com | Pediatric Diseases
Table 1 exhibits the demographic, clinical, and EEG characteristics of pediatric COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms. Of the 125 pediatric patients, 77 (61.60%) were male, and 48 (38.40%) were female. The age of all patients ranged from 0.1 to 14.6 years, with a mean of 5.24 ± 3.44 years, of which 104 (83.20%) had a fever (during the current course).
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
karger.com | Pediatric Diseases
Keywords:
MTNR1B,
Polymorphisms,
Gestational diabetes mellitus,
Meta-analysis
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), which is characterized by glucose intolerance and hyperglycemia during the period of pregnancy [1], is estimated to affect 10–25% of all pregnancies worldwide [2]. GDM not only presents risks to the pregnant individual but is also associated with adverse outcomes for the baby, including a predisposition to chronic metabolic diseases later in life.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Ke Xu |Pediatric Diseases |Rong Xu |Hua-Yan Xu
Corresponding Author Hua-yan Xu MD Department of Radiology, Key Laboratory of Obstetric and Gynecologic and Pediatric Diseases and Birth Defects of Ministry of Education, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China Address reprint requests to: Y.-k.G., Department of Radiology, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children of Ministry of Education, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, 20# Section 3, South Renmin...
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
virologyj.biomedcentral.com | Pediatric Diseases
To study the prevalence of enteroviruses in Chengdu, we conducted a serial of analyses on laboratory-confirmed enterovirus infections caused by CV-A16, EV-A71, CV-A6, CV-A10 and other EVs during 2013–2022. In total, 29,861 laboratory-confirmed cases of enterovirus infection were reported from 2013 to 2022 (Fig. 1A). As shown in the statistical plot of enterovirus infections per year (Fig.
