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A comparison of the frequency of physical disorders in patients with and without associated Conduct Disorder

2012· article· en· W2993013368 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Himanish Panda

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of undergraduate research in Alberta · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicTryptophan and brain disorders
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAbnormalityMedicinePopulationConduct disorderInternal medicineBlood pressureEndocrinologyPhysiologyPsychiatry
DOInot available

Abstract

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Conduct disorder (CD) is a psychological disorder that is characterized by sustained symptoms of antisocial behaviors. The objective of this study was to identify the relationship between associated physical disorders in CD patients, and physical disorders in patients not diagnosed with any psychiatric disorder (PD). This was done through a population based analysis of health records spanning 16 years of 16,474 unique individuals with CD in the Calgary Health Zone catchment area. Results showed that back problems and various non-allopathic lesions of the body were evidenced at fivefold and twofold the frequency in patients with CD compared to the no-PD group. Furthermore, cardiovascular problems were observed at double the rate in patients with CD as opposed to patients with no PD. A proposed mechanism that explains the higher correlation between CD and the top physical disorders associated with it can be speculated from a physiological standpoint. Research has shown that CD patients display abnormally disrupted activity in the brain cortex. This abnormality results in upregulated production of corticotropin releasing factors (CRF). As per normal activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, CRFs ultimately result in the production of corticosteroids such as cortisol. Cortisol functions by elevating blood glucose (BG) levels so it can be speculated that an increased and sustained level of energy is available to CD patients. Although more evidence needs to be gathered to validate a concrete biological mechanism, increased BG has been associated with increased blood pressure, explaining the higher rate of cardiovascular problems. The data indicate that CD patients have a higher risk of certain somatic diagnosis than the comparison no-PD group. This finding has significant implications for the administration of healthcare policy.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.012

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.067
GPT teacher head0.376
Teacher spread0.309 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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