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  1. Prevalence of sleep disturbance in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
    Salari N, Sadeghi N, Hosseinian-Far A, Hasheminezhad R, Khazaie H, Shohaimi S, et al.
    Adv Rheumatol, 2023 Jul 19;63(1):33.
    PMID: 37468951 DOI: 10.1186/s42358-023-00315-1
    BACKGROUND: Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) patients face several challenges due to the nature of the disease and its physical and psychological complications. Sleep disorders are among the most important concerns. Sleep disorders can aggravate the signs and symptoms of the disease and ultimately reduce the quality of patients' lives. This study uses a systematic review and meta-analysis to pool the reported prevalence of sleep disorders among AS patients.

    METHODS: To find related studies, the WoS, PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Embase, and Google Scholar databases were systematically searched without a lower time limit. Heterogeneity among the identified studies was checked using the I2 index, and the Begg and Mazumdar correlation test examined the existence of published bias. Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (v.2) software was adopted to analyze the data.

    RESULTS: In the review of 18 studies with a sample size of 5,840, the overall pooled prevalence of sleep disorders among AS patients based on the random effects method was found to be 53% (95% CI: 44.9-61). The highest and lowest prevalence was in Egypt at 90% and Australia at 19.2%, respectively. Our meta-regression results show that with the increase in 'sample size' and 'year of publication', the overall prevalence of sleep disorders in patients with AS decreases (p 

  2. Fulltext Methods and matrices: approaches to identifying miRNAs for nasopharyngeal carcinoma
    Plieskatt JL, Rinaldi G, Feng Y, Levine PH, Easley S, Martinez E, et al.
    J Transl Med, 2014;12:3.
    PMID: 24393330 DOI: 10.1186/1479-5876-12-3
    Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a solid tumor of the head and neck. Multimodal therapy is highly effective when NPC is detected early. However, due to the location of the tumor and the absence of clinical signs, early detection is difficult, making a biomarker for the early detection of NPC a priority. The dysregulation of small non-coding RNAs (miRNAs) during carcinogenesis is the focus of much current biomarker research. Herein, we examine several miRNA discovery methods using two sample matrices to identify circulating miRNAs (c-miRNAs) associated with NPC.
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