Is Inflammation Related to the Clinical Severity of Unstable Angina?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The present study determined the white blood cell (WBC) count and the serum C-reactive protein (CRP) level in 27 patients with coronary spastic angina, 16 with Braunwald class IB unstable angina (UA) and 13 with Braunwald class IIIB. The relationship between the clinical presentation of UA and the requirement for emergency percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) was examined, and in patients with medically refractory angina, the determining factor among the clinical manifestations of angina was also investigated. In the acute phase, the WBC count and the serum CRP level were significantly higher in patients with Braunwald class IIIB than in those with coronary spastic angina or Braunwald class IB UA (p<0.001). In the Braunwald class IIIB group, a significantly higher rate of patients required emergency PTCA than that of the coronary spastic angina group (p<0.01). Patients with medically refractory angina had a significantly higher WBC count and higher serum CRP level on admission, and the WBC count on admission was independently associated with medically refractory angina by multivariate analysis (p<0.05). Inflammation may play a major pathological role in the rapid development of acute coronary syndrome.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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