Elevation of plasma homocysteine levels associated with acute myocardial infarction.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To study the effect of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) on plasma homocystein (Hcy) levels, to determine the optimal time to measure this risk factor for coronary artery disease. DESIGN: A prospective case study. SETTING: The Division of Cardiac Sciences, Grey Nuns Hospital in Edmonton. PATIENTS: Sixty-two patients (40 men, 22 women) admitted to hospital with AMI. INTERVENTION: Measurement of Hcy levels within 48 to 72 hours of admission and at 6 weeks after discharge from the Coronary Care Unit. In a second group of 15 patients, the Hcy levels were measured on hospital days 1 and 3. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Comparison of the Hcy levels measured at the time of AMI and after discharge. RESULTS: Mean (and standard error of the mean) Hcy level measured during the AMI (13.6 [0.98] micromol/L) was significantly higher (p < 0.05) than at 6 weeks (12.1 [1.01] micromol/L). Based on the 48- to 72-hour and 6-week determinations, 31 and 21 patients, respectively, had abnormal Hcy levels (greater than 12 micromol/L) (p < 0.001). In the separate group of 15 patients, the Hcy level measured on day 3 (9.7 [0.6] micromol/L) was noted to be significantly higher (p < 0.01) than on day 1 (7.7 [0.8] micromol/L). CONCLUSIONS: There is an elevation of Hcy during AMI that may be related to an increase in the acute-phase reactant proteins. Thus, Hcy measurement should be deferred for 6 weeks in order to determine the true baseline level.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".