Background: The risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD) among obese persons without
obesity-related metabolic abnormalities, called metabolically healthy obesity, is largely unexplored…

… -Achirica, Miguel MD 4,6,9 ; Zhao, Di 4,5,6 ; Chung, Eun Cheol MD, PhD 10 ; Shin, Hocheol
MD, PhD 11 ; Guallar, … Cho, EC Chung, and H. Shin helped supervise the field activities. Y. …

… Chung EC, and Shin H helped supervise the field activities. Choi Y, Kwon MJ, Kim CW, Yun
KE, Jung HS, Suh BS, Cho YK, Cho J, and Kim YS helped conduct the literature review and …

Objective: The aim was to investigate the white matter abnormalities of drug‐naïve patients
with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) using diffusion tensor‐imaging and the white …

Object Ruptured blood blister–like aneurysms (BBAs) of the internal carotid artery (ICA) are
rare but carry a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, BBAs are very difficult to …

Purpose: To evaluate the most useful findings to look for in diagnosing acute appendicitis
on contrast-enhanced helical CT. Material and Methods: Appendiceal helical CT scans with …

Background: To evaluate the association between diabetes mellitus (DM) and the development
of incident hearing loss. Methods: Prospective cohort study was performed in 253 301 …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Little has been known about the clinical and angiographic
follow-up results of stent-only therapy for intracranial vertebrobasilar dissecting aneurysms (…

The fractional flow reserve (FFR) is a widely used clinical index to evaluate the functional
severity of coronary stenosis. A computer simulation method based on patients’ computed …

Krukenberg's tumors are metastatic tumors of the ovary. Some of these tumors had hypointense
solid components on T2-weighted MR images. The purpose of this study was to evaluate …