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Original research

• Retrospective cohort study comparing the epidemiological and clinical characteristics between imported and local COVID-19 inpatients in Nanyang, China (23 December, 2020)

  Chan Sun, Peipei Liu, Yanhong Cui, Kefang Li, Weiwei Qu, Bo Jin, Fei Peng, Jiang Zhao, Xiaoyu Zhang
• ALLY in fighting COVID-19: magnitude of albumin decline and lymphopenia (ALLY) predict progression to critical disease (11 January, 2021)

  Johanna S van Zyl, Amit Alam, Joost Felius, Ronnie M Youssef, Dipesh Bhakta, Christina Jack, Aayla K Jamil, Shelley A Hall, Göran B Klintmalm, Cedric W Spak, Robert L Gottlieb
• Evaluation of mesenteric artery disease in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis (15 January, 2021)

  Aysegul Idil Soylu, Ufuk Avcıoglu, Fatih Uzunkaya, Korhan Soylu
• Severity of hypertension as a predictor of initiation of dialysis among study participants with and without diabetes mellitus (18 December, 2020)

  Taeko Osawa, Kazuya Fujihara, Mayuko Harada Yamada, Masahiko Yamamoto, Masaru Kitazawa, Yasuhiro Matsubayashi, Midori Iwanaga, Takaho Yamada, Hiroyasu Seida, Satoru Kodama, Yoshimi Nakagawa, Hitoshi Shimano, Hirohito Sone
• Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy for obesity-associated hypertension (21 December, 2020)

  Erik Matthew Johnsen, Gursukhmandeep Sidhu, Jason Chen, Rachel Moore, Thierry Le Jemtel, Rohan Samson
• Clinical significance of chitotriosidase in outpatients with advanced heart failure (3 December, 2020)

  Sara Cetin Sanlialp, Gokay Nar, Hande Senol
• Therapeutic effect of nebulized hypertonic saline for muco-obstructive lung diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis with trial sequential analysis (3 December, 2020)

  Yin Zhang, Anchao Song, Jingyue Liu, Jihong Dai, Jilei Lin
• Transcribed ultraconserved region uc.242 is a novel regulator of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy induced by angiotensin II (23 November, 2020)

  Ying Gu, Boyao Zhang, Yongchao Yu, Fan Yang, Yuchen Xiao, Weisheng Chen, Liping Ma, Weizhong Wang, Guokun Wang
• In-hospital outcomes and prevalence of comorbidities in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction with and without infective endocarditis: insight from the National Inpatient Sample (2013–2014) (16 November, 2020)

  Michael Albosta, Shakeel M Jamal, Asim Kichloo, Farah Wani, Beth Bailey, Jagmeet Singh, Ronak Soni, Michael Aljadah, Melissa Beshay, Bashar Al Jayyousi, Nicholas Haddad, Khalil Kanjwal
• SIRT1 suppresses burn injury-induced inflammatory response through activating autophagy in RAW264.7 macrophages (23 December, 2020)

  Fu Han, Zhenzhen Li, Shichao Han, Yanhui Jia, Lu Bai, Xiaoqiang Li, Dahai Hu
• Circular RNA HIPK3 plays a carcinogenic role in cervical cancer progression via regulating miR-485-3p/FGF2 axis (11 November, 2020)

  Shanshan Wu, Shimei Liu, Huaihua Song, Jiayu Xia