Objective To develop and validate new Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score 10
(JADAS10) and clinical JADAS10 (cJADAS10) cutoffs to separate the states of inactive …

OBJECTIVE: The goal was to describe the accuracy of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression
Scale (EPDS), Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II), and Postpartum Depression Screening …

Background It has been long established that achieving recovery from an alcohol or other
drug use disorder is associated with increased biobehavioral stress. To enhance the …

Objective Bilateral inferior petrosal sinus sampling (BIPSS) is regarded as the gold standard
to differentiate between Cushing´ s disease (CD) and ectopic Cushing's syndrome (ECS) …

Background Auto-antibodies with specificity to self-antigens have been implicated in a wide
variety of neurological diseases, including Parkinson's (PD) and Alzheimer's diseases …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the appropriate cutoffs for visceral fat area (VFA) measured by
magnetic resonance imaging linking to risk of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and the …

Transdermal nicotine is widely used for smoking cessation, but only~ 20% of smokers quit
successfully with this medication. Interindividual variability in nicotine metabolism rate may …

Aims To determine cut-off points of homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance
(HOMA-IR), β-cell function (HOMA-B), insulin sensitivity (HOMA-S), and fasting insulin for …

Objective Minimal clinically important difference (MCID) has become the most important
psychometric factor for interpreting change in individual's responses over time from the …

Objective: To investigate the legitimacy of 90-day mortality as a measure of
hepatopancreatobiliary quality. Background: The 90-day mortality rate has been …