• Accuracy of a Newly-Introduced Oscillometric Device for the Estimation of Arterial Stiffness Indices in Patients on Peritoneal Dialysis: A Preliminary Validation Study 

      Vaios V., Georgianos P.I., Pikilidou M.I., Eleftheriadis T., Zarogiannis S., Papagianni A., Zebekakis P.E., Liakopoulos V. (2018)
      The aim of the present study was to compare the aortic systolic blood pressure (aSBP), heart-rate-adjusted augmentation index (AIx75), and pulse wave velocity (PWV) obtained using the Mobil-O-Graph (IEM, Stolberg, Germany) ...
    • COVID-19 Phenotypes and Comorbidity: A Data-Driven, Pattern Recognition Approach Using National Representative Data from the United States 

      Vavougios G.D., Stavrou V.T., Konstantatos C., Sinigalias P.-C., Zarogiannis S.G., Kolomvatsos K., Stamoulis G., Gourgoulianis K.I. (2022)
      The aim of our study was to determine COVID-19 syndromic phenotypes in a data-driven manner using the survey results based on survey results from Carnegie Mellon University’s Delphi Group. Monthly survey results (>1 million ...
    • Cross-cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Greek Voice Handicap Index-10 (GVHI-10) With Additional Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis 

      Tafiadis D., Helidoni M.E., Chronopoulos S.K., Kosma E.I., Ziavra N., Velegrakis G.A. (2020)
      Objective(s): The use of subjective evaluation tools are proven useful and of high clinical value in the case of voice disordered population. For that type of evaluation, self-assessment questionnaires about the severity ...
    • Development and validation of a kit to measure drink antioxidant capacity using a novel colorimeter 

      Priftis A., Stagos D., Tzioumakis N., Konstantinopoulos K., Patouna A., Papadopoulos G.E., Tsatsakis A., Kouretas D. (2016)
      Measuring the antioxidant capacity of foods is essential, as a means of quality control to ensure that the final product reaching the consumer will be of high standards. Despite the already existing assays with which the ...
    • Development and validation of a reversed-phase HPLC method for licarbazepine monitoring in serum of patients under oxcarbazepine treatment 

      Begas E., Tsakalof A., Dardiotis E., Vatidis G.E., Kouvaras E., Asprodini E.K. (2017)
      Licarbazepine is the pharmacologically active metabolite of oxcarbazepine, a drug indicated for the treatment of partial seizures and bipolar disorders. Several HPLC methods have been developed thus far but there is lack ...
    • Development and validation of a web-based reading test for normal and low vision patients 

      Labiris G., Panagiotopoulou E.-K., Duzha E., Tzinava M., Perente A., Konstantinidis A., Delibasis K. (2021)
      Purpose: To develop and validate a web-based reading test for normal and low vision patients. Methods: This is a prospective, comparative trial. The web-based Democritus Digital Acuity Reading Test (wDDART) was developed. ...
    • An electroglottographical analysis-based discriminant function model differentiating multiple sclerosis patients from healthy controls 

      Vavougios G.D., Doskas T., Konstantopoulos K. (2018)
      Dysarthrophonia is a predominant symptom in many neurological diseases, affecting the quality of life of the patients. In this study, we produced a discriminant function equation that can differentiate MS patients from ...
    • End-stage dementia spark of life: Reliability and validity of the “GATOS” questionnaire 

      Tsoucalas G., Bourelia S., Kalogirou V., Giatsiou S., Mavrogiannaki E., Gatos G., Galanos A., Repana O., Iliadou E., Antoniou A., Sgantzos M., Gatos K. (2015)
      Background: Floor effects are present in most dementia assessment tools as dementia progresses and the in–depth assessment of patients considered more or less on vegetative state is questionable. Objective: To develop a ...
    • External Validation of the PREMISE Score in the Athens Stroke Registry 

      Ntaios G., Georgiopoulos G., Koroboki E., Vemmos K. (2019)
      Background: A simple score was proposed recently for Predicting Early Mortality from Ischemic Stroke (PREMISE) derived from the Austrian Stroke Unit Registry. This score could be useful in clinical practice and research. ...
    • External Validation of the Prestroke Independence, Sex, Age, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (ISAN) Score for Predicting Stroke-Associated Pneumonia in the Athens Stroke Registry 

      Papavasileiou V., Milionis H., Smith C.J., Makaritsis K., Bray B.D., Michel P., Manios E., Vemmos K., Ntaios G. (2015)
      Background and purpose The Prestroke Independence, Sex, Age, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (ISAN) score was developed recently for predicting stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP), one of the most common complications ...
    • Genetic contribution of MHC class II genes in susceptibility to west nile virus infection 

      Sarri C.A., Markantoni M., Stamatis C., Papa A., Tsakris A., Pervanidou D., Baka A., Politis C., Billinis C., Hadjichristodoulou C., Mamuris Z. (2016)
      WNV is a zoonotic neurotropic flavivirus that has recently emerged globally as a significant cause of viral encephalitis. The last five years, 624 incidents of WNV infection have been reported in Greece. The risk for severe ...
    • Global, regional, and national consumption of animal-source foods between 1990 and 2018: findings from the Global Dietary Database 

      Miller V., Reedy J., Cudhea F., Zhang J., Shi P., Erndt-Marino J., Coates J., Micha R., Webb P., Mozaffarian D., Abbott P., Abdollahi M., Abedi P., Abumweis S., Adair L., Al Nsour M., Al-Daghri N., Al-Hamad N., Al-Hooti S., Al-Zenki S., Alam I., Ali J.H., Alissa E., Anderson S., Anzid K., Arambepola C., Arici M., Arsenault J., Asciak R., Barbieri H.E., Barengo N., Barquera S., Bas M., Becker W., Beer-Borst S., Bergman P., Biró L., Boindala S., Bovet P., Bradshaw D., Bukhary N.B., Bundhamcharoen K., Caballero M., Calleja N., Cao X., Capanzana M., Carmikle J., Castetbon K., Castro M., Cerdena C., Chang H.-Y., Charlton K., Chen Y., Chen M.F., Chiplonkar S., Cho Y., Chuah K.-A., Costanzo S., Cowan M., Damasceno A., Dastgiri S., De Henauw S., DeRidder K., Ding E., Dommarco R., Don R., Duante C., Duleva V., Duran Aguero S., Ekbote V., El Ati J., El Hamdouchi A., El-kour T., Eldridge A., Elmadfa I., Esteghamati A., Etemad Z., Fadzil F., Farzadfar F., Fernandez A., Fernando D., Fisberg R., Forsyth S., Gamboa-Delgado E., Garriguet D., Gaspoz J.-M., Gauci D., Geleijnse M., Ginnela B., Grosso G., Guessous I., Gulliford M., Gunnarsdottir I., Hadden W., Hadziomeragic A., Haerpfer C., Hakeem R., Haque A., Hashemian M., Hemalatha R., Henjum S., Hinkov H., Hjdaud Z., Hoffman D., Hopping B., Houshiar-rad A., Hsieh Y.-T., Hung S.-Y., Huybrechts I., Hwalla N.C., Ibrahim H.M., Ikeda N., Illescas-Zarate D., Inoue M., Janakiram C., Jayawardena R., Jeewon R., Jitnarin N., Johansson L., Jonsdottir O., Jundishapur A., Kally O., Kandiah M., Karupaiah T., Keinan-Boker L., Kelishadi R., Khadilkar A., Kim C.-I., Koksal E., Konig J., Korkalo L., Koster J., Kovalskys I., Krishnan A., Kruger H., Kuriyan-Raj R., Kweon S., Lachat C., Lai Y., Lanerolle P., Laxmaiah A., Leclercq C., Lee M.-S., Lee H.-J., Lemming E.W., Li Y., Lindström J., Ling A., Liputo N.I., Lopez-Jaramillo P., Luke A., Lukito W., Lupotto E., Ma Y., Mahdy Z.A., Malekzadeh R., Manan W., Marchioni D., Marques L.L., Marques-Vidal P., Martin-Prevel Y., Mathee A., Matsumura Y., Mazumdar P., Memon A., Mensink G., Meyer A., Mirmiran P., Mirzaei M., Misra P., Misra A., Mitchell C., Mohamed H.J., Mohammadi-Nasrabadi F., Mohammadifard N., Moy F.M., Musaiger A., Mwaniki E., Myhre J., Nagalla B., Naska A., Ng S.A., Ng S.W., Ngoan L.T., Noshad S., Ochoa A., Ocke M., Odenkirk J., Oh K., Oleas M., Olivares S., Orfanos P., Ortiz-Ulloa J., Otero J., Ovaskainen M.-L., Pakseresht M., Palacios C., Palmer P., Pan W.-H., Panagiotakos D., Parajuli R., Park M., Pekcan G., Petrova S., Piaseu N., Pitsavos C., Polasa K., Posada L., Pourfarzi F., Preston A.M., Rached I., Rahbar A.R., Rehm C., Richter A., Riley L., Salanave B., Sánchez-Romero L.M., Sarrafzadegan N., Sawada N., Sekiyama M., Selamat R., Shamsuddin K., Shariff Z.M., Sharma S., Sibai A.M., Sinkko H., Sioen I., Sisa I., Skeaff S., Steingrimsdottir L., Strand T., Suarez-Ortegon M.F., Swaminathan S., Swan G., Sygnowska E., Szabo M., Szponar L., Tan-Khouw I., Tapanainen H., Tayyem R., Tedla B., Tedstone A., Templeton R., Termote C., Thanopoulou A., Thorgeirsdottir H., Thorsdottir I., Trichopoulos D., Trichopoulou A., Tsugane S., Turrini A., van Oosterhout C., Vartiainen E., Veerman J.L., Virtanen S., Vollenweider P., Vossenaar M., Waidyatilaka I., Waskiewicz A., Waterham E., Wieler L., Wondwossen T., Wu S., Yaakub R., Yap M., Yusof S., Zaghloul S., Zajkás G., Zapata M., Zarina K., Zohoori F.V., Global Dietary Database (2022)
      Background: Diet is a major modifiable risk factor for human health and overall consumption patterns affect planetary health. We aimed to quantify global, regional, and national consumption levels of animal-source foods ...
    • Incidence, risk factors and validation of the RABBIT score for serious infections in a cohort of 1557 patients with rheumatoid arthritis 

      Thomas K., Lazarini A., Kaltsonoudis E., Voulgari P.V., Drosos A.A., Repa A., Sali A.M.I., Sidiropoulos P., Tsatsani P., Gazi S., Evangelia A., Boki K.A., Katsimbri P., Boumpas D., Fragkiadaki K., Tektonidou M.G., Sfikakis P.P., Karagianni K., Sakkas L.I., Grika E.P., Vlachoyiannopoulos P.G., Evangelatos G., Iliopoulos A., Dimitroulas T., Garyfallos A., Melissaropoulos K., Georgiou P., Areti M., Georganas C., Vounotrypidis P., Georgiopoulos G., Kitas G.D., Vassilopoulos D. (2021)
      Objectives: Predicting serious infections (SI) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is crucial for the implementation of appropriate preventive measures. Here we aimed to identify risk factors for SI and to validate ...
    • Machine learning for rhabdomyosarcoma histopathology 

      Frankel A.O., Lathara M., Shaw C.Y., Wogmon O., Jackson J.M., Clark M.M., Eshraghi N., Keenen S.E., Woods A.D., Purohit R., Ishi Y., Moran N., Eguchi M., Ahmed F.U.A., Khan S., Ioannou M., Perivoliotis K., Li P., Zhou H., Alkhaledi A., Davis E.J., Galipeau D., Randall R.L., Wozniak A., Schoffski P., Lee C.-J., Huang P.H., Jones R.L., Rubin B.P., Darrow M., Srinivasa G., Rudzinski E.R., Chen S., Berlow N.E., Keller C. (2022)
      Correctly diagnosing a rare childhood cancer such as sarcoma can be critical to assigning the correct treatment regimen. With a finite number of pathologists worldwide specializing in pediatric/young adult sarcoma ...
    • Prediction of large vessel occlusions in acute stroke: National institute of health stroke scale is hard to beat 

      Vanacker P., Heldner M.R., Amiguet M., Faouzi M., Cras P., Ntaios G., Arnold M., Mattle H.P., Gralla J., Fischer U., Michel P. (2016)
      Objectives: Endovascular treatment for acute ischemic stroke with a large vessel occlusion was recently shown to be effective. We aimed to develop a score capable of predicting large vessel occlusion eligible for endovascular ...
    • Prediction of particle deposition in the lungs based on simple modeling of alveolar mixing 

      Georgakakou S., Gourgoulianis K., Daniil Z., Bontozoglou V. (2016)
      A simplified model of particle deposition in the lungs has been developed and implemented, based on the hypothesis that perfect mixing takes place in the alveolar volume of each airway generation. This key idea is combined ...
    • A Predictive Model of Mortality in Patients With Bloodstream Infections due to Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae 

      Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez B., Salamanca E., de Cueto M., Pascual A., Rodríguez-Baño J., Hsueh P.-R., Viale P., Paño-Pardo J.R., Venditti M., Tumbarello M., Daikos G., Pintado V., Doi Y., Tuon F.F., Karaiskos I., Machuca I., Schwaber M.J., Azap Ö.K., Souli M., Roilides E., Pournaras S., Akova M., Pérez F., Bonomo R.A., Bermejo J., Oliver A., Almela M., Lowman W., Almirante B., Carmeli Y., Paterson D.L., Falcone M., Russo A., Giamarellou H., Trecarichi E.M., Losito A.R., García-Vázquez E., Hernández A., Gómez J., Iosifidis E., Prim N., Navarro F., Mirelis B., Origüen J., San Juan R., Fernández-Ruiz M., Larrosa N., Puig-Asensio M., Cisneros J.M., Molina J., González V., Rucci V., Ruiz de Gopegui E., Marinescu C.I., Martínez-Martínez L., Fariñas M.C., Cano M.E., Gozalo M., Mora-Rillo M., Navarro-San Francisco C., Peña C., Gómez-Zorrilla S., Tubau F., Tsakris A., Zarkotou O., Pitout J., Virmani D., Torre-Cisneros J., Natera C., Helvaci Ö., Sahin A.O., Cantón R., Ruiz P., Bartoletti M., Giannella M., Taconelli E., Riemenschneider F., Calbo E., Badia C., Xercavins M., Gasch E., Fontanals D., Jové E. (2016)
      Objective To develop a score to predict mortality in patients with bloodstream infections (BSIs) due to carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE). Patients and Methods A multinational retrospective cohort study ...
    • Preliminary validation of the Perceived Locus of Causality scale for academic motivation in the context of university studies (PLOC-U) 

      Sánchez de Miguel M., Lizaso I., Hermosilla D., Alcover C.-M., Goudas M., Arranz-Freijó E. (2017)
      Background: Research has shown that self-determination theory can be useful in the study of motivation in sport and other forms of physical activity. The Perceived Locus of Causality (PLOC) scale was originally designed ...
    • A Prospective Validation of the Updated Movement Disorders Society Research Criteria for Prodromal Parkinson's Disease 

      Giagkou N., Maraki M.I., Yannakoulia M., Kosmidis M.H., Dardiotis E., Hadjigeorgiou G.M., Sakka P., Ntanasi E., Anastasiou C.A., Xiromerisiou G., Stefanis L., Scarmeas N., Stamelou M. (2020)
      Objective: The objective of this study was to validate the recently updated research criteria for prodromal Parkinson's disease (pPD) proposed by the International Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Society. Methods: ...
    • A systematic review of microbial markers for risk prediction of colorectal neoplasia 

      Yu L., Zhao G., Wang L., Zhou X., Sun J., Li X., Zhu Y., He Y., Kofonikolas K., Bogaert D., Dunlop M., Zhu Y., Theodoratou E., Li X. (2022)
      Background: Substantial evidence indicates that dysbiosis of the gut microbial community is associated with colorectal neoplasia. This review aims to systematically summarise the microbial markers associated with colorectal ...