Tumour response in metastatic renal cell carcinoma treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors - assessment of intra-tumour heterogeneity.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Publication bias and other reporting bias have been well documented for journal articles, but no study has evaluated the nature of results posted at ClinicalTrials.gov. We aimed to assess how many randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with results posted at ClinicalTrials.gov report statistically significant r...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Dechartres A,Bond EG,Scheer J,Riveros C,Atal I,Ravaud P

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The launch of the 5th version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) has sparked a debate about the current approach to psychiatric classification. The most basic and enduring problem of the DSM is that its classifications are heterogeneous clinical descriptions rather than valid diagnose...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Wardenaar KJ,de Jonge P

更新日期：2013-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adiposity is a strong risk factor for cancer incidence and mortality. However, most of the evidence available has focused on body mass index (BMI) as a marker of adiposity. There is limited evidence on relationships of cancer with other adiposity markers, and if these associations are linear or not. The aim ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Parra-Soto S,Cowley ES,Rezende LFM,Ferreccio C,Mathers JC,Pell JP,Ho FK,Celis-Morales C

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:How should we approach trial design when we can get some, but not all, of the way to the numbers required for a randomised phase III trial?We present an ordered framework for designing randomised trials to address the problem when the ideal sample size is considered larger than the number of participants that can be r...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Parmar MK,Sydes MR,Morris TP

更新日期：2016-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genotype-guided warfarin dosing has been shown in some randomized trials to improve anticoagulation outcomes in individuals of European ancestry, yet its utility in Asian patients remains unresolved. METHODS:An open-label, non-inferiority, 1:1 randomized trial was conducted at three academic hospitals in So...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Syn NL,Wong AL,Lee SC,Teoh HL,Yip JWL,Seet RC,Yeo WT,Kristanto W,Bee PC,Poon LM,Marban P,Wu TS,Winther MD,Brunham LR,Soong R,Tai BC,Goh BC

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thymic size in early infancy predicts subsequent survival in low-income settings. The human thymus develops from early gestation, is most active in early life and is highly sensitive to malnutrition. Our objective was to test whether thymic size in infancy could be increased by maternal and/or infant nutriti...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Moore SE,Fulford AJC,Sosseh F,Nshe P,Darboe MK,Prentice AM

更新日期：2019-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent global progress in scaling up malaria control interventions has revived the goal of complete elimination in many countries. Decreasing transmission intensity generally leads to increasingly patchy spatial patterns of malaria transmission in elimination settings, with control programs having to accurat...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Wesolowski A,Taylor AR,Chang HH,Verity R,Tessema S,Bailey JA,Alex Perkins T,Neafsey DE,Greenhouse B,Buckee CO

更新日期：2018-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In this video Q&A, we talk to Professor Carlos Caldas about the identification of breast cancer subtypes through molecular profiling, and the clinical implications for diagnosis and treatment. ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Caldas C

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The TransEurope FootRace 2009 (TEFR09) was one of the longest transcontinental ultramarathons with an extreme endurance physical load of running nearly 4,500 km in 64 days. The aim of this study was to assess the wide spectrum of adaptive responses in humans regarding the different tissues, organs and functi...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Schütz UH,Schmidt-Trucksäss A,Knechtle B,Machann J,Wiedelbach H,Ehrhardt M,Freund W,Gröninger S,Brunner H,Schulze I,Brambs HJ,Billich C

更新日期：2012-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric nosology is widely criticized, but solutions are proving elusive. Planned revisions of diagnostic criteria will not resolve heterogeneity, comorbidity, fuzzy boundaries between normal and pathological, and lack of specific biomarkers. Concern about these difficulties reflects a narrow model that assumes mo...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Nesse RM,Stein DJ

更新日期：2012-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When an outbreak of a novel pathogen occurs, some of the most pressing questions from a public-health point of view relate to its transmissibility, and the probabilities of different clinical outcomes following infection, to allow an informed response. Estimates of these quantities are often based on househo...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： House T,Inglis N,Ross JV,Wilson F,Suleman S,Edeghere O,Smith G,Olowokure B,Keeling MJ

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The consumption of free sugars in the UK is more than double the guideline intake for adults and close to triple for children, with soft drinks representing a significant proportion. The aim of this study was to assess how individual soft drink companies and consumers have responded to calls to reduce sugar ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Bandy LK,Scarborough P,Harrington RA,Rayner M,Jebb SA

更新日期：2020-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Although strong evidence exists that the benefits of vaccination by far outweigh potential adverse events, controversy still exists. This has led opponents of vaccination to question its safety, efficacy and necessity. In an interview with Professor Elizabeth Miller, we discuss the continuum of beliefs held by vaccine...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Miller E

更新日期：2015-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The World Health Organization (WHO) called for global action towards the elimination of cervical cancer. One of the main strategies is to screen 70% of women at the age between 35 and 45 years and 90% of women managed appropriately by 2030. So far, approximately 85% of cervical cancers occur in low- and midd...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Xue P,Ng MTA,Qiao Y

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Although global efforts in the past decade have halved the number of deaths due to malaria, there are still an estimated 219 million cases of malaria a year, causing more than half a million deaths. In this forum article, we asked experts working in malaria research and control to discuss the ways in which malaria mig...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Tanner M,Greenwood B,Whitty CJ,Ansah EK,Price RN,Dondorp AM,von Seidlein L,Baird JK,Beeson JG,Fowkes FJ,Hemingway J,Marsh K,Osier F

更新日期：2015-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last 100 years, several persistent misconceptions or 'false beliefs' have built up around allergen immunotherapy and its use in allergic rhinitis. This is perhaps because enthusiastic physicians administered complex allergen extracts to a diverse population of patients suffering from heterogeneous a...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Calderón MA,Frankland AW,Demoly P

更新日期：2013-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The placebo response in patients with diabetes mellitus is very common. A systematic evaluation needs to be updated with the current evidence about the placebo response in diabetes mellitus and the associated factors in clinical trials of anti-diabetic medicine. METHODS:Literature research was conducted in ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Lin C,Cai X,Yang W,Lv F,Nie L,Ji L

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:External validations and comparisons of prognostic models or scores are a prerequisite for their use in routine clinical care but are lacking in most medical fields including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Our aim was to externally validate and concurrently compare prognostic scores for 3-year...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Guerra B,Haile SR,Lamprecht B,Ramírez AS,Martinez-Camblor P,Kaiser B,Alfageme I,Almagro P,Casanova C,Esteban-González C,Soler-Cataluña JJ,de-Torres JP,Miravitlles M,Celli BR,Marin JM,Ter Riet G,Sobradillo P,Lange P,Ga

更新日期：2018-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening adults for depression in primary care settings when staff-assisted depression management programs are available. This recommendation, however, is based on evidence from depression management programs conducted with patients alread...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Thombs BD,Ziegelstein RC,Roseman M,Kloda LA,Ioannidis JP

更新日期：2014-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is caused by abnormal accumulation of lipids within liver cells. Its prevalence is increasing in developed countries in association with obesity, and it represents a risk factor for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Since N...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Jiménez-Agüero R,Emparanza JI,Beguiristain A,Bujanda L,Alustiza JM,García E,Hijona E,Gallego L,Sánchez-González J,Perugorria MJ,Asensio JI,Larburu S,Garmendia M,Larzabal M,Portillo MP,Aguirre L,Banales JM

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Three large new trials of unprecedented scale and cost, which included novel factorial designs, have found no effect of basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions on childhood stunting, and only mixed effects on childhood diarrhea. Arriving at the inception of the United Nations' Sustainable De...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Cumming O,Arnold BF,Ban R,Clasen T,Esteves Mills J,Freeman MC,Gordon B,Guiteras R,Howard G,Hunter PR,Johnston RB,Pickering AJ,Prendergast AJ,Prüss-Ustün A,Rosenboom JW,Spears D,Sundberg S,Wolf J,Null C,Luby SP,Hum

更新日期：2019-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 include reducing premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by one third. To assess the feasibility of this goal in China, we projected premature mortality in 2030 of NCDs under different risk factor reduction scenarios. METHODS:We us...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Li Y,Zeng X,Liu J,Liu Y,Liu S,Yin P,Qi J,Zhao Z,Yu S,Hu Y,He G,Lopez AD,Gao GF,Wang L,Zhou M

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the impact of growing migration on the pattern of tuberculosis (TB) transmission in middle-income countries. We estimated TB recent transmission and its associated factors and investigated the presence of cross-transmission between South American migrants and Brazilians. METHODS:We stu...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Pescarini JM,Simonsen V,Ferrazoli L,Rodrigues LC,Oliveira RS,Waldman EA,Houben R

更新日期：2018-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mucin 4 (MUC4) plays an important role in protecting and lubricating the epithelial surface of reproductive tracts, but its role in the pathogenesis of endometriosis is largely unknown. METHODS:To correlate MUC4 polymorphism with the risk of endometriosis and endometriosis-related infertility, we performed ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Chang CY,Chang HW,Chen CM,Lin CY,Chen CP,Lai CH,Lin WY,Liu HP,Sheu JJ,Tsai FJ

更新日期：2011-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2015, the Zika virus spread from Brazil throughout the Americas, posing an unprecedented challenge to the public health community. During the epidemic, international public health officials lacked reliable predictions of the outbreak's expected geographic scale and prevalence of cases, and were therefore ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Akhtar M,Kraemer MUG,Gardner LM

更新日期：2019-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although neutrophils have been linked to the progression of cancer, uncertainty exists around their association with cancer outcomes, depending on the site, outcome and treatments considered. We aimed to evaluate the strength and validity of evidence on the association between either the neutrophil to lympho...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Cupp MA,Cariolou M,Tzoulaki I,Aune D,Evangelou E,Berlanga-Taylor AJ

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been increasing interest in the role of malaria drugs in preventing malaria transmission from humans to mosquitoes, which would help augment malaria control and elimination strategies. Nevertheless, only one stage in the malaria parasite life cycle, the gametocyte, is infectious to mosquitoes. The Worldwide ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Karunajeewa HA,Mueller I

更新日期：2016-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In adults with febrile urinary tract infection (fUTI), data on optimal treatment duration in patients other than non-pregnant women without comorbidities are lacking. METHODS:A randomized placebo-controlled, double-blind, non-inferiority trial among 35 primary care centers and 7 emergency departments of reg...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： van Nieuwkoop C,van der Starre WE,Stalenhoef JE,van Aartrijk AM,van der Reijden TJ,Vollaard AM,Delfos NM,van 't Wout JW,Blom JW,Spelt IC,Leyten EM,Koster T,Ablij HC,van der Beek MT,Knol MJ,van Dissel JT

更新日期：2017-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The study investigated the extent to which approaches to work, workplace climate, stress, burnout and satisfaction with medicine as a career in doctors aged about thirty are predicted by measures of learning style and personality measured five to twelve years earlier when the doctors were applicants to medic...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： McManus IC,Keeling A,Paice E

更新日期：2004-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mind-body nexus has been a topic of growing interest. Further data are however required to understand the specific relationship between mood and anxiety disorders and individual physical health conditions, and to verify whether these psychiatric disorders are linked to overall medical burden. METHODS:Th...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Sanna L,Stuart AL,Pasco JA,Kotowicz MA,Berk M,Girardi P,Brennan SL,Williams LJ

更新日期：2013-04-24 00:00:00