Clinical Utility of Serial Monitoring of C-Peptide in Diagnostic Dilemmas of Young-Onset Diabetes: A Case-Based Discussion

Diabetes in the young has been traditionally defined as onset of diabetes below 35 years of age.In this age bracket, a variety of distinct types of diabetes might occur which poses a unique challenge in the diagnosis and management.Phenotypic features such as COLOR FUSION age of onset, presence of obesity and family history have traditionally been

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Impact of porcelain aorta on outcomes in transfemoral aortic valve implantation (TAVI) with balloon-expandable valves

Background Current guidelines recommend transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) for patients with aortic stenosis and porcelain aorta (PA).Neurological outcomes of patients with PA undergoing TAVI with modern valves require clarification as most trials examined balloon-expandable valves (BEV) and self-expandable valves in intermediate or hig

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A SBM-DEA based performance evaluation and optimization for social organizations participating in community and home-based elderly care services.

The community and home-based elderly care service system has been proved an effective pattern to mitigate the elderly care dilemma under the background of accelerating aging in China.In particular, the participation of social organizations in community and home-based elderly care service has powerfully fueled the multi-supply of elderly COLOR FUSIO

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Measuring Effective Tax Rates for Oil and Gas in Canada

The purpose of this report is to GABA provide cost of capital formulae for assessing the effects of taxation on the incentive to invest in oil and gas industries in Canada.The analysis is based on the assumption that businesses invest in capital until the after-tax rate of return on capital is equal to the tax-adjusted cost of capital.The cost of c

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