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Triglyceride Glucose Index Predicting Cardiovascular Mortality in Chinese Initiating Peritoneal Dialysis: A Cohort Study (2019)
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Yu. (2019). Triglyceride Glucose Index Predicting Cardiovascular Mortality in Chinese Initiating Peritoneal Dialysis: A Cohort Study. Kidney and Blood Pressure Research, 44(4), 669-678. https://doi.org/10.1159/000500979

Background: Insulin resistance (IR) is increased among people with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The Triglyceride glucose (TyG) index is a marker of IR and is also associated with the prognosis of cardiovascular disease among patients initiating p... Read More about Triglyceride Glucose Index Predicting Cardiovascular Mortality in Chinese Initiating Peritoneal Dialysis: A Cohort Study.

Optimal cut-off threshold in pulse pressure predicting cardiovascular death among newly diagnosed end-stage renal disease patients: A prospective cohort study. (2019)
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Yu. (2019). Optimal cut-off threshold in pulse pressure predicting cardiovascular death among newly diagnosed end-stage renal disease patients: A prospective cohort study. Medicine, 98(27), Article e16340. https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000016340

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) treated by dialysis. Pulse pressure (PP) as an independent prognostic factor of cardiovascular risk might be clinically implicated in predictin... Read More about Optimal cut-off threshold in pulse pressure predicting cardiovascular death among newly diagnosed end-stage renal disease patients: A prospective cohort study..

Development And External Validation Of A Patient-level Prediction Model For 60-day Mortality Following Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Multinational Cohort Study (2019)
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Yu. (2019). Development And External Validation Of A Patient-level Prediction Model For 60-day Mortality Following Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Multinational Cohort Study. Osteoporosis International, S178 -S179. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.14.20240994

Objective Total knee replacement (TKR) is the most effective intervention available for the treatment of severe knee osteoarthritis. A small proportion of patients undergoing TKR are at risk of postoperative complications. We aimed to develop and ex... Read More about Development And External Validation Of A Patient-level Prediction Model For 60-day Mortality Following Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Multinational Cohort Study.

IS MEAN CORPUSCULAR HAEMOGLOBIN CONCENTRATION OVER TIME A PREDICTOR OF DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY IN TYPE 2 DIABETES?: FINDINGS FROM A NESTED CASE-CONTROL STUDY (2019)
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Wang, Z., Snell, K., Peat, G., Zhao, Z., & Yu, D. (2019). IS MEAN CORPUSCULAR HAEMOGLOBIN CONCENTRATION OVER TIME A PREDICTOR OF DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY IN TYPE 2 DIABETES?: FINDINGS FROM A NESTED CASE-CONTROL STUDY. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfz106.FP506

Meeting abstract, from the 56th Congress of the European-Renal-Association (ERA)-European-Dialysis-and-Transplant-Association (EDTA): Burden, Access and Disparities in Kidney Disease, Budapest, Hungary, Jun 13-16, 2019.

Impact of antimalarial (AM) on serum lipids in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients (2019)
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Tao, C., Shang, J., Chen, T., Yu, D., Jiang, Y., Liu, D., …Zhao, Z. (2019). Impact of antimalarial (AM) on serum lipids in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. Medicine, e15030 - e15030

Background: Dyslipidemia is a common disorder in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. It is still inconclusive whether antimalarial drugs could affect the serum lipids in SLE patients, therefore we conducted a systematic review and meta-ana... Read More about Impact of antimalarial (AM) on serum lipids in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients.

Validation of hip osteoarthritis diagnosis recording in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (2018)
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J. Ferguson, R., Prieto‐Alhambra, D., Walker, C., Yu, D., M. Valderas, J., Judge, A., …J. Silman, A. (2019). Validation of hip osteoarthritis diagnosis recording in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 187-193. https://doi.org/10.1002/pds.4673

PURPOSE: The diagnosis of hip osteoarthritis is subject to several uncertainties, especially in primary care. The aims of this study were to determine (i) the diagnostic accuracy of coding of hip osteoarthritis by primary care physicians in the UK... Read More about Validation of hip osteoarthritis diagnosis recording in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

miR-15a-5p suppresses inflammation and fibrosis of peritoneal mesothelial cells induced by peritoneal dialysis via targeting VEGFA (2018)
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Shang, J., He, Q., Chen, Y., Yu, D., Sun, L., Cheng, G., …Zhao, Z. (2019). miR-15a-5p suppresses inflammation and fibrosis of peritoneal mesothelial cells induced by peritoneal dialysis via targeting VEGFA. Journal of Cellular Physiology, 234(6), 9746-9755. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcp.27660

Long-term peritoneal dialysis (PD) often ends up with ultrafiltration failure (UFF) which is partially caused by persistent inflammation and fibrosis of peritoneal tissues. However, the mechanism is still unclear. In the current study, the peritoneum... Read More about miR-15a-5p suppresses inflammation and fibrosis of peritoneal mesothelial cells induced by peritoneal dialysis via targeting VEGFA.

Development and validation of prediction models to estimate risk of primary total hip and knee replacements using data from the UK: two prospective open cohorts using the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (2018)
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Yu, D., Jordan, K. P., Snell, K. I. E., Riley, R. D., Bedson, J., Edwards, J. J., …Peat, G. (2018). Development and validation of prediction models to estimate risk of primary total hip and knee replacements using data from the UK: two prospective open cohorts using the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-213894

Objectives The ability to efficiently and accurately predict future risk of primary total hip and knee replacement (THR/TKR) in earlier stages of osteoarthritis (OA) has potentially important applications. We aimed to develop and validate two models... Read More about Development and validation of prediction models to estimate risk of primary total hip and knee replacements using data from the UK: two prospective open cohorts using the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

Development and validation of prediction models to estimate risk of primary total hip and knee replacements using data from the UK: two prospective open cohorts using the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (2018)
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Yu, D., Jordan, K. P., Snell, K. I. E., Riley, R. D., Bedson, J., James Edwards, J., …Peat, G. (2018). Development and validation of prediction models to estimate risk of primary total hip and knee replacements using data from the UK: two prospective open cohorts using the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-213894

Abstract Objectives The ability to efficiently and accurately predict future risk of primary total hip and knee replacement (THR/TKR) in earlier stages of osteoarthritis (OA) has potentially important applications. We aimed to develop and validate t... Read More about Development and validation of prediction models to estimate risk of primary total hip and knee replacements using data from the UK: two prospective open cohorts using the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

Derivation and external validation of risk algorithms for cerebrovascular (re)hospitalisation in patients with type 2 diabetes: two cohorts study. (2018)
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Yu. (2018). Derivation and external validation of risk algorithms for cerebrovascular (re)hospitalisation in patients with type 2 diabetes: two cohorts study. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 74-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diabres.2018.08.006

Aims Cerebrovascular disease is one of more typical reasons for hospitalisation and re-hospitalisation in people with type 2 diabetes. We aimed to derive and externally validate two risk prediction algorithms for cerebrovascular hospitalisation and... Read More about Derivation and external validation of risk algorithms for cerebrovascular (re)hospitalisation in patients with type 2 diabetes: two cohorts study..

Underrecording of osteoarthritis in United Kingdom primary care electronic health record data (2018)
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Yu, D., Jordan, K., & Peat, G. (2018). Underrecording of osteoarthritis in United Kingdom primary care electronic health record data. Clinical Epidemiology, 1195-1201. https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S160059

Purpose: Primary care electronic health records are increasingly used to estimate the occurrence of osteoarthritis (OA). We aimed to estimate the extent and trend over time of underrecording of severe OA patients in UK primary care electronic health... Read More about Underrecording of osteoarthritis in United Kingdom primary care electronic health record data.

Total / high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and cardiovascular disease (re)hospitalisation nadir in type 2 diabetes (2018)
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Yu. (2018). Total / high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and cardiovascular disease (re)hospitalisation nadir in type 2 diabetes. Journal of Lipid Research, 1745-1750. https://doi.org/10.1194/jlr.P084269

Total cholesterol to high density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (TC/HDL) is an important prognostic factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study used restricted cubic spline modelling to investigate the dose-response associations between TC/HD... Read More about Total / high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and cardiovascular disease (re)hospitalisation nadir in type 2 diabetes.

Hypertriglyceridemic-waist is more predictive of abnormal liver and renal function in an Australian population than a Chinese population (2018)
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Yu. (2018). Hypertriglyceridemic-waist is more predictive of abnormal liver and renal function in an Australian population than a Chinese population. Obesity Research and Clinical Practice, 438-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orcp.2018.07.010

OBJECTIVE We aimed to compare the association of hypertriglyceridemic-waist (HTGW), with glycaemia, liver and renal function between a Chinese and an Australian population using 3 HTGW definitions. METHODS 1454 Australian and 5824 Chinese adults... Read More about Hypertriglyceridemic-waist is more predictive of abnormal liver and renal function in an Australian population than a Chinese population.

Walking, But Not Other Physical Activity at a Higher Intensity, Is Associated With Improved Kidney Function: A Cross-Sectional Health Survey of General Adult Population (2018)
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Yu. (2018). Walking, But Not Other Physical Activity at a Higher Intensity, Is Associated With Improved Kidney Function: A Cross-Sectional Health Survey of General Adult Population. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 600 - 604. https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2017-0412

Background Chronic kidney disease is common and brings significant health burden. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between physical activity and kidney function. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study set in the Na... Read More about Walking, But Not Other Physical Activity at a Higher Intensity, Is Associated With Improved Kidney Function: A Cross-Sectional Health Survey of General Adult Population.

Derivation and Validation of Risk Scores to Predict Cerebrovascular Mortality Among Incident Peritoneal Dialysis Patients (2018)
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Yu. (2018). Derivation and Validation of Risk Scores to Predict Cerebrovascular Mortality Among Incident Peritoneal Dialysis Patients. Kidney and Blood Pressure Research, https://doi.org/10.1159/000492048

Background/Aims: Cerebrovascular disease (CeVD) is one of the leading causes of death in patients initialising peritoneal dialysis (PD). Currently there is no risk score to predict the future risk of CeVD on entry into PD. This study aimed to derive... Read More about Derivation and Validation of Risk Scores to Predict Cerebrovascular Mortality Among Incident Peritoneal Dialysis Patients.

Impact of peer support on inpatient and outpatient payments among people with Type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study (2018)
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Yu. (2018). Impact of peer support on inpatient and outpatient payments among people with Type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study. Diabetic Medicine, 789-797. https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.13624

Aim To investigate the impact of a low-cost diabetes peer-support intervention, aimed at reducing inpatient and outpatient care utilization and healthcare payments, by conducting a cohort study that followed up a randomized controlled trial. Met... Read More about Impact of peer support on inpatient and outpatient payments among people with Type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study.

Characteristics of Patients Initializing Peritoneal Dialysis Treatment From 2007 to 2014: Analysis From Henan Peritoneal Dialysis Registry data (2018)
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Yu. (2018). Characteristics of Patients Initializing Peritoneal Dialysis Treatment From 2007 to 2014: Analysis From Henan Peritoneal Dialysis Registry data

Introduction. This study aimed to assess the number and profiles of patients initializing peritoneal dialysis form the Henan Peritoneal Dialysis Registry, a provincial database in central China. Materials and Methods. All patients aged 18 years... Read More about Characteristics of Patients Initializing Peritoneal Dialysis Treatment From 2007 to 2014: Analysis From Henan Peritoneal Dialysis Registry data.

Dose-Response Between Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Mortality Among Incident Peritoneal Dialysis Patients. (2018)
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Yu. (2018). Dose-Response Between Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Mortality Among Incident Peritoneal Dialysis Patients. Kidney and Blood Pressure Research, 628-638. https://doi.org/10.1159/000489289

Background/Aims: Traditional cardiovascular (CV) risk factors (RFs) and their management targets may not be applicable to specific medical subpopulations, particularly dialysis patients. This study aimed to evaluate the dose-response association betw... Read More about Dose-Response Between Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Mortality Among Incident Peritoneal Dialysis Patients..