Bibliographic record
Abstract
Pruritus is a major disorder among the skin derangements in advanced renal failure. Its prevalence seems to be diminishing perhaps because of improvements in dialysis treatment. Recent information suggests that interactions between dermal mast cells and distal ends of nonmyelinated C fibers may be important in the precipitation and regulation of the sensory stimuli. The knowledge as to the control of pruritus transmission to cortex areas is still incomplete but endogenous opioid and opioid receptors may have a role in this regard. A recent classification was proposed for pruritus based on the level of its origin. Uremic pruritus, however, seems to be too complex to fit perfectly in any of the suggested modalities. Inflammation and malnutrition are recognized risk factors for cardiovascular death in end-stage renal disease patients, which may be related to the genesis of pruritus. Consistent with this concept, lower serum levels of albumin and higher serum levels of ferritin were found in pruritic patients when compared to nonpruritic ones. Newer treatments for this difficult clinical problem are being developed and tested.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".