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  1. Artikel ; Online: Predictors of the rate of cognitive decline in older adults using machine learning.

    Ahmadzadeh, Maryam / Cosco, Theodore David / Best, John R / Christie, Gregory James / DiPaola, Steve

    PloS one

    2023  Band 18, Heft 3, Seite(n) e0280029

    Abstract: Background: The longitudinal rates of cognitive decline among aging populations are heterogeneous. Few studies have investigated the possibility of implementing prognostic models to predict cognitive changes with the combination of categorical and ... ...

    Abstract Background: The longitudinal rates of cognitive decline among aging populations are heterogeneous. Few studies have investigated the possibility of implementing prognostic models to predict cognitive changes with the combination of categorical and continuous data from multiple domains.
    Objective: Implement a multivariate robust model to predict longitudinal cognitive changes over 12 years among older adults and to identify the most significant predictors of cognitive changes using machine learning techniques.
    Method: In total, data of 2733 participants aged 50-85 years from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing are included. Two categories of cognitive changes were determined including minor cognitive decliners (2361 participants, 86.4%) and major cognitive decliners (372 participants, 13.6%) over 12 years from wave 2 (2004-2005) to wave 8 (2016-2017). Machine learning methods were used to implement the predictive models and to identify the predictors of cognitive decline using 43 baseline features from seven domains including sociodemographic, social engagement, health, physical functioning, psychological, health-related behaviors, and baseline cognitive tests.
    Results: The model predicted future major cognitive decliners from those with the minor cognitive decline with a relatively high performance. The overall AUC, sensitivity, and specificity of prediction were 72.84%, 78.23%, and 67.41%, respectively. Furthermore, the top 7 ranked features with an important role in predicting major vs minor cognitive decliners included age, employment status, socioeconomic status, self-rated memory changes, immediate word recall, the feeling of loneliness, and vigorous physical activity. In contrast, the five least important baseline features consisted of smoking, instrumental activities of daily living, eye disease, life satisfaction, and cardiovascular disease.
    Conclusion: The present study indicated the possibility of identifying individuals at high risk of future major cognitive decline as well as potential risk/protective factors of cognitive decline among older adults. The findings could assist in improving the effective interventions to delay cognitive decline among aging populations.
    Mesh-Begriff(e) Humans ; Aged ; Activities of Daily Living ; Longitudinal Studies ; Cognitive Dysfunction ; Aging ; Machine Learning
    Sprache Englisch
    Erscheinungsdatum 2023-03-03
    Erscheinungsland United States
    Dokumenttyp Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2267670-3
    ISSN 1932-6203 ; 1932-6203
    ISSN (online) 1932-6203
    ISSN 1932-6203
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0280029
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  2. Artikel ; Online: End Stage Kidney Disease Patient Experiences of Renal Supportive Care in an Australian Teaching Hospital - A Qualitative Study.

    Sobels, Eloise / Best, Megan / Chadban, Steve / Pais, Riona

    Journal of pain and symptom management

    2021  Band 63, Heft 5, Seite(n) 737–746

    Abstract: Context: Renal Supportive Care Services (RSCS) were introduced in Australia to provide patient-centred care with a focus on better symptom management and improved quality of life in end stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients managed with or without ... ...

    Abstract Context: Renal Supportive Care Services (RSCS) were introduced in Australia to provide patient-centred care with a focus on better symptom management and improved quality of life in end stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients managed with or without dialysis. While RSCS have demonstrated clinical benefits with reduced length of hospital stay and symptom burden, there is a gap in understanding the experience of patients referred to RSCS.
    Objectives: To identify patient attitudes, beliefs, and perspectives on the RSCS.
    Methods: Qualitative interviews were conducted with 20 participants from both dialysis and conservative treatment pathways. Transcripts were then thematically analysed and primary themes identified, which were reviewed with a stakeholder group that included doctors, nurses and allied health staff to provide triangulation.
    Results: Patients perceived the RSCS as a provider of multidisciplinary, holistic and patient-centred care that, in addition, helped to ensure prognostic awareness and timely end-of-life care planning. This contributed to an overall sense of patient empowerment with healthcare decisions. This study identified three major themes: (1) Expectations of care; (2) Experience of care; and (3) Understanding patient needs.
    Conclusion: The study found that RSCS support patient-centred and family-orientated initiatives in decision making and control over healthcare management. This is empowering for patients. Additional patient values, needs and wants from the RSCS were also identified and these could be addressed to improve the patient experience. Our findings support the ongoing use of RSCS to improve the experience of ESKD patients.
    Mesh-Begriff(e) Australia ; Female ; Hospitals, Teaching ; Humans ; Kidney Failure, Chronic/therapy ; Male ; Patient Outcome Assessment ; Qualitative Research ; Quality of Life ; Renal Dialysis
    Sprache Englisch
    Erscheinungsdatum 2021-12-22
    Erscheinungsland United States
    Dokumenttyp Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 639142-4
    ISSN 1873-6513 ; 0885-3924
    ISSN (online) 1873-6513
    ISSN 0885-3924
    DOI 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.12.024
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  3. Artikel ; Online: Predictors of the rate of cognitive decline in older adults using machine learning.

    Maryam Ahmadzadeh / Theodore David Cosco / John R Best / Gregory James Christie / Steve DiPaola

    PLoS ONE, Vol 18, Iss 3, p e

    2023  Band 0280029

    Abstract: Background The longitudinal rates of cognitive decline among aging populations are heterogeneous. Few studies have investigated the possibility of implementing prognostic models to predict cognitive changes with the combination of categorical and ... ...

    Abstract Background The longitudinal rates of cognitive decline among aging populations are heterogeneous. Few studies have investigated the possibility of implementing prognostic models to predict cognitive changes with the combination of categorical and continuous data from multiple domains. Objective Implement a multivariate robust model to predict longitudinal cognitive changes over 12 years among older adults and to identify the most significant predictors of cognitive changes using machine learning techniques. Method In total, data of 2733 participants aged 50-85 years from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing are included. Two categories of cognitive changes were determined including minor cognitive decliners (2361 participants, 86.4%) and major cognitive decliners (372 participants, 13.6%) over 12 years from wave 2 (2004-2005) to wave 8 (2016-2017). Machine learning methods were used to implement the predictive models and to identify the predictors of cognitive decline using 43 baseline features from seven domains including sociodemographic, social engagement, health, physical functioning, psychological, health-related behaviors, and baseline cognitive tests. Results The model predicted future major cognitive decliners from those with the minor cognitive decline with a relatively high performance. The overall AUC, sensitivity, and specificity of prediction were 72.84%, 78.23%, and 67.41%, respectively. Furthermore, the top 7 ranked features with an important role in predicting major vs minor cognitive decliners included age, employment status, socioeconomic status, self-rated memory changes, immediate word recall, the feeling of loneliness, and vigorous physical activity. In contrast, the five least important baseline features consisted of smoking, instrumental activities of daily living, eye disease, life satisfaction, and cardiovascular disease. Conclusion The present study indicated the possibility of identifying individuals at high risk of future major cognitive decline as well as potential ...
    Schlagwörter Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Thema/Rubrik (Code) 120
    Sprache Englisch
    Erscheinungsdatum 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Verlag Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    Dokumenttyp Artikel ; Online
    Datenquelle BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (Lebenswissenschaftliche Auswahl)

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  4. Artikel ; Online: Loss of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α affects hypoxia tolerance in larval and adult zebrafish (

    Mandic, Milica / Best, Carol / Perry, Steve F

    Proceedings. Biological sciences

    2020  Band 287, Heft 1927, Seite(n) 20200798

    Abstract: The coordination of the hypoxic response is attributed, in part, to hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (Hif-1α), a regulator of hypoxia-induced transcription. After the teleost-specific genome duplication, most teleost fishes lost the duplicate copy of Hif-1α, ... ...

    Abstract The coordination of the hypoxic response is attributed, in part, to hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (Hif-1α), a regulator of hypoxia-induced transcription. After the teleost-specific genome duplication, most teleost fishes lost the duplicate copy of Hif-1α, except species in the cyprinid lineage that retained both paralogues of Hif-1α (Hif1aa and Hif1ab). Little is known about the contribution of Hif-1α, and specifically of each paralogue, to hypoxia tolerance. Here, we examined hypoxia tolerance in wild-type (Hif1aa
    Mesh-Begriff(e) Animals ; Hypoxia ; Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit/metabolism ; Zebrafish/physiology
    Chemische Substanzen Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit
    Sprache Englisch
    Erscheinungsdatum 2020-05-27
    Erscheinungsland England
    Dokumenttyp Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 209242-6
    ISSN 1471-2954 ; 0080-4649 ; 0962-8452 ; 0950-1193
    ISSN (online) 1471-2954
    ISSN 0080-4649 ; 0962-8452 ; 0950-1193
    DOI 10.1098/rspb.2020.0798
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  5. Artikel ; Online: Treatment of post-anesthesia dementia with perispinal etanercept injection and hyperbaric oxygen therapy: a case report.

    Best, Steve / Pavel, Dan G

    Journal of medical case reports

    2017  Band 11, Heft 1, Seite(n) 105

    Abstract: Background: We report on the first case of successful treatment for post-anesthesia dementia with perispinal etanercept injection combined with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.: Case presentation: Our patient was a 77-year-old Caucasian man of Mexican ... ...

    Abstract Background: We report on the first case of successful treatment for post-anesthesia dementia with perispinal etanercept injection combined with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
    Case presentation: Our patient was a 77-year-old Caucasian man of Mexican ethnicity who presented to our clinic 4.5 years after a knee replacement surgery. Immediately post-surgery, the patient began to show dramatic cognitive, physical, and emotional impairment compared with his presurgical state; these symptoms were still present when he arrived at our clinic. A clinical assessment and brain single-photon emission computer tomography were performed. Diagnoses of dementia with major cognitive deficits and aphasia were established. A 40-session course of hyperbaric oxygen therapy was initiated to address our patient's impairments. After the first ten hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatments, our patient was administered 25 mg perispinal etanercept injections approximately once weekly for 5 months. Starting after the first perispinal etanercept injection, our patient began showing progressive improvements. By the 5-month follow-up, his cognitive and physical function were substantially restored. A follow-up single-photon emission computer tomography scan showed increased perfusion in several small, localized areas.
    Conclusions: In this case of dementia and major cognitive disorder post major surgery and anesthesia, the very beneficial effect of combining hyperbaric oxygen therapy with perispinal etanercept is outlined.
    Mesh-Begriff(e) Aged ; Anesthesia/adverse effects ; Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal/administration & dosage ; Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee ; Combined Modality Therapy ; Dementia/drug therapy ; Dementia/etiology ; Dementia/psychology ; Etanercept/administration & dosage ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Hyperbaric Oxygenation ; Injections, Spinal ; Male ; Postoperative Complications/etiology ; Postoperative Complications/physiopathology ; Postoperative Complications/therapy ; Recovery of Function ; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon ; Treatment Outcome
    Chemische Substanzen Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal ; Etanercept (OP401G7OJC)
    Sprache Englisch
    Erscheinungsdatum 2017-04-14
    Erscheinungsland England
    Dokumenttyp Case Reports ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2269805-X
    ISSN 1752-1947 ; 1752-1947
    ISSN (online) 1752-1947
    ISSN 1752-1947
    DOI 10.1186/s13256-017-1259-6
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  6. Artikel ; Online: Treatment of post-anesthesia dementia with perispinal etanercept injection and hyperbaric oxygen therapy

    Steve Best / Dan G. Pavel

    Journal of Medical Case Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    a case report

    2017  Band 4

    Abstract: Abstract Background We report on the first case of successful treatment for post-anesthesia dementia with perispinal etanercept injection combined with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Case presentation Our patient was a 77-year-old Caucasian man of Mexican ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Background We report on the first case of successful treatment for post-anesthesia dementia with perispinal etanercept injection combined with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Case presentation Our patient was a 77-year-old Caucasian man of Mexican ethnicity who presented to our clinic 4.5 years after a knee replacement surgery. Immediately post-surgery, the patient began to show dramatic cognitive, physical, and emotional impairment compared with his presurgical state; these symptoms were still present when he arrived at our clinic. A clinical assessment and brain single-photon emission computer tomography were performed. Diagnoses of dementia with major cognitive deficits and aphasia were established. A 40-session course of hyperbaric oxygen therapy was initiated to address our patient’s impairments. After the first ten hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatments, our patient was administered 25 mg perispinal etanercept injections approximately once weekly for 5 months. Starting after the first perispinal etanercept injection, our patient began showing progressive improvements. By the 5-month follow-up, his cognitive and physical function were substantially restored. A follow-up single-photon emission computer tomography scan showed increased perfusion in several small, localized areas. Conclusions In this case of dementia and major cognitive disorder post major surgery and anesthesia, the very beneficial effect of combining hyperbaric oxygen therapy with perispinal etanercept is outlined.
    Schlagwörter Dementia ; Perispinal etanercept ; HBOT ; SPECT ; Case report ; Medicine ; R
    Thema/Rubrik (Code) 150
    Sprache Englisch
    Erscheinungsdatum 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z
    Verlag BMC
    Dokumenttyp Artikel ; Online
    Datenquelle BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (Lebenswissenschaftliche Auswahl)

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  7. Artikel ; Online: Nonlinear DNA methylation trajectories in aging male mice.

    Olecka, Maja / van Bömmel, Alena / Best, Lena / Haase, Madlen / Foerste, Silke / Riege, Konstantin / Dost, Thomas / Flor, Stefano / Witte, Otto W / Franzenburg, Sören / Groth, Marco / von Eyss, Björn / Kaleta, Christoph / Frahm, Christiane / Hoffmann, Steve

    Nature communications

    2024  Band 15, Heft 1, Seite(n) 3074

    Abstract: Although DNA methylation data yields highly accurate age predictors, little is known about the dynamics of this quintessential epigenomic biomarker during lifespan. To narrow the gap, we investigate the methylation trajectories of male mouse colon at ... ...

    Abstract Although DNA methylation data yields highly accurate age predictors, little is known about the dynamics of this quintessential epigenomic biomarker during lifespan. To narrow the gap, we investigate the methylation trajectories of male mouse colon at five different time points of aging. Our study indicates the existence of sudden hypermethylation events at specific stages of life. Precisely, we identify two epigenomic switches during early-to-midlife (3-9 months) and mid-to-late-life (15-24 months) transitions, separating the rodents' life into three stages. These nonlinear methylation dynamics predominantly affect genes associated with the nervous system and enrich in bivalently marked chromatin regions. Based on groups of nonlinearly modified loci, we construct a clock-like classifier STageR (STage of aging estimatoR) that accurately predicts murine epigenetic stage. We demonstrate the universality of our clock in an independent mouse cohort and with publicly available datasets.
    Mesh-Begriff(e) Humans ; Male ; Animals ; Mice ; DNA Methylation/genetics ; Epigenesis, Genetic ; Aging/genetics ; Longevity ; Chromatin
    Chemische Substanzen Chromatin
    Sprache Englisch
    Erscheinungsdatum 2024-04-09
    Erscheinungsland England
    Dokumenttyp Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2553671-0
    ISSN 2041-1723 ; 2041-1723
    ISSN (online) 2041-1723
    ISSN 2041-1723
    DOI 10.1038/s41467-024-47316-2
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  8. Artikel ; Online: Dispatches from a Police State

    Steve Best

    International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol 3, Iss 1, p

    Animal Rights in the Crosshairs of State Repression

    2007  Band 7

    Schlagwörter Social movements ; Political theory ; JC11-607 ; Political science ; J ; DOAJ:Political Science ; DOAJ:Law and Political Science
    Sprache Englisch
    Erscheinungsdatum 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Verlag The International Network for Inclusive Democracy
    Dokumenttyp Artikel ; Online
    Datenquelle BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (Lebenswissenschaftliche Auswahl)

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  9. Artikel ; Online: Rethinking Revolution

    Steve Best

    International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol 2, Iss 3, p

    Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of the Left

    2006  Band 4

    Schlagwörter Animal liberation ; Political theory ; JC11-607 ; Political science ; J ; DOAJ:Political Science ; DOAJ:Law and Political Science
    Sprache Englisch
    Erscheinungsdatum 2006-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Verlag The International Network for Inclusive Democracy
    Dokumenttyp Artikel ; Online
    Datenquelle BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (Lebenswissenschaftliche Auswahl)

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  10. Artikel ; Online: The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act

    Steve Best

    International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol 3, Iss 3, p

    New, Improved, and ACLU Approved

    2007  Band 4

    Abstract: Global terrorism means traditional civil liberty arguments are not so much wrong as just made for another age.” Tony Blair, August 2006.In the wake of 9/11, the US has entered a neo-McCarthyist period rooted in witch-hunts and political persecution. The ...

    Abstract “Global terrorism means traditional civil liberty arguments are not so much wrong as just made for another age.” Tony Blair, August 2006.In the wake of 9/11, the US has entered a neo-McCarthyist period rooted in witch-hunts and political persecution. The evil Other of Communism has been superseded by the new threat of Terrorism, as embodied by militant Islamic jihadists who have declared a holy war against the West. In addition to the “foreign terrorist” menace whose frightful powers shocked the world on 9/11, the US corporate-state complex identified a growing “domestic terrorist” danger that, it believes, emerges from radical environmental and animal rights activists, and, ultimately, includes anti-patriotism and dissent of any kind.In the dark days of post-9/11, in that poisoned and paranoid atmosphere that fertilized the metastasizing police state created by Cheney-Bush, and amidst shifting political grounds spawning new political forces, the Red Scare of communism has morphed into the “Green Scare” of “ecoterrorism.” The repressive powers of the FBI, CIA, and sundry other police forces are unleashed not against the “communist,” but rather against the animal right and environmental activist.[1] Indeed, in a nightmare replay of the 1950s, activists of all kinds today are surveilled, hassled, threatened, jailed, and stripped of their rights (such as they tenuously have been and remain in corporate-dominated US society). As before, the state conjures up dangerous enemies in our midst and instills fear in the public so that people willingly forfeit liberties for an alleged security, thus facilitating the construction of a garrison society shrouded in secrecy, surveillance, and centralized power.The dreadful days of COINTELPRO have returned with a vengeance. Between 1956 and 1971, the FBI operated a secret counter-intelligence program (COINTELPRO) whose purpose was to infiltrate, disrupt, and neutralize social justice movements and protest groups by any means necessary; their hard-ball tactics included phone taps, frame-ups, violence, and assassination.[2] Despite the condemnation of FBI and CIA policies in the Church Committee Report in 1976, these rogue agencies continued their war against dissent and it escalated dramatically after 9/11.Hour by hour, day by day, our First and Forth Amendment rights (among others) are hemorrhaging and bleeding away into the sinkhole of the military-corporate-state tyranny. The issue goes beyond Republicans vs. Democrats, as the latter hardly distinguished themselves on civil liberties since 9/11; Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), for instance, co-sponsored the ominous Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (discussed below).[3] Given they are no less beholden to military and corporate powers than Republicans, we can expect little improvement from Democrats in the future, even if they control the executive and legislative branches of government.Indeed, in the post-9/11 era there has been a sea-change in political culture. In the age of terror Western states – the US and UK in particular – inculcate fear in the public of constant threats to their safety posed by Islamic jihadists, and exploit tensions to create an authoritarian society where people are neither secure nor free.[4] As evident most clearly in the UK and US state reaction to the growing influence of the animal liberation movement, dissent of any kind is now branded as “terrorist,” and thus is stigmatized and criminalized. A profound case in point of the current assault on civil liberties is how the corporate-state complex pushed through new laws to criminalize a broad range of animal rights protest activities, such as resulted in the imprisonment of the “SHAC 7” activists. Unfortunately, human rights organizations – who do not understand or sympathize with animal rights in principle – have missed the broad significance of the new draconian laws unleashed by the state against “ecoterrorism.”
    Schlagwörter animal enterprise terrorism act ; animal rights ; terrorism ; civil rights ; patriot act ; earth liberation front ; ELF ; Political theory ; JC11-607 ; Political science ; J ; DOAJ:Political Science ; DOAJ:Law and Political Science
    Thema/Rubrik (Code) 390
    Sprache Englisch
    Erscheinungsdatum 2007-07-01T00:00:00Z
    Verlag The International Network for Inclusive Democracy
    Dokumenttyp Artikel ; Online
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