In vivo X-ray based imaging methods to assess bone quality
Elsevier eBooks,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Language: Английский
Vitamin K intake levels are associated with bone health in people aged over 50 years: a NHANES-based survey
Jiankui Guo,
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Ziqi Zhou,
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Jie Gong
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et al.
Frontiers in Medicine,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
11
Published: Nov. 25, 2024
Background
Bone
health
is
important
for
older
adults,
and
vitamin
K
(VK)
central
to
regulating
bone
formation
promoting
health.
However,
whether
VK
can
reduce
the
risk
of
osteoporosis
loss
unclear.
This
study
hypothesized
that
different
levels
intake
exert
varying
effects
on
in
people
aged
over
50
years.
Methods
Individuals
above
years
were
recruited
from
National
Health
Nutrition
Examination
Survey.
intake,
based
24-h
dietary
recall,
was
divided
into
three
groups,
namely
high,
medium,
low
by
sex
tertile.
Weighted
multiple
logistic
regression
used
investigate
at
femoral
neck,
trochanter,
intertrochanter,
total
femur,
lumbar
spine,
overall.
Results
included
5,075
individuals.
Of
them,
1,001
(18%)
had
(808
women,
83%)
2,226
(46%)
osteopenia
(1,076
54%).
Overall,
a
medium
level
associated
with
reduced
loss.
In
medium-
[odds
ratio,
OR
(95%
confidence
interval,
CI):
0.66(0.47,
0.93)]
high-level
[OR
0.71(0.52,
0.98)]
decreased
osteoporosis.
contrast,
only
medium-level
0.58(0.41,
0.81)].
Similar
results
obtained
spine.
men,
neck
0.66(0.48,
0.90)],
whereas
corresponded
spine
0.68(0.47,
0.99)].
Nonetheless,
did
not
affect
Conclusion
demonstrates
sex-
bone-site-specific
variations
associations
between
individuals
Further
large-scale
cohort
studies
or
randomized
controlled
trials
are
warranted
explore
regardless
their
site.
Language: Английский
Deep Learning-Based Body Composition Analysis for Cancer Patients Using Computed Tomographic Imaging
İlkay Yıldız Potter,
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Maria Virginia Velasquez-Hammerle,
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Ara Nazarian
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et al.
Deleted Journal,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Dec. 11, 2024
Malnutrition
is
a
commonly
observed
side
effect
in
cancer
patients,
with
30-85%
worldwide
prevalence
this
population.
Existing
malnutrition
screening
tools
miss
~
20%
of
at-risk
patients
at
initial
and
do
not
capture
the
abnormal
body
composition
phenotype.
Meanwhile,
gold-standard
clinical
criteria
to
diagnose
use
changes
as
key
parameters,
particularly
fat
skeletal
muscle
mass
loss.
Diagnostic
imaging,
such
computed
tomography
(CT),
analyzing
typically
accessible
part
standard
care.
In
study,
we
developed
deep
learning-based
analysis
approach
over
diverse
dataset
200
abdominal/pelvic
CT
scans
from
patients.
The
proposed
segments
adipose
tissue
using
Swin
UNEt
TRansformers
(Swin
UNETR)
third
lumbar
vertebrae
(L3)
level
automatically
localizes
L3
before
segmentation.
involves
first
transformer-based
learning
model
for
heatmap
regression-based
vertebra
localization
UNETR
attained
0.92
Dice
score
0.87
segmentation,
significantly
outperforming
convolutional
benchmarks
including
2D
U-Net
by
2-12%
(p-values
<
0.033).
Moreover,
predictions
showed
high
agreement
ground-truth
areas
0.7-0.93
R
Language: Английский