Plasma vitamin D status and its association with biochemical, clinical and humanistic outcomes in diabetic foot infection patients: a prospective observational study in a tertiary healthcare facility
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Abstract
Background The study aimed to determine the association of vitamin D3 status with biochemical, clinical, and quality of life (QoL) in diabetic foot infection (DFI) patients.Research Design and Methods A longitudinal study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital. Baseline biochemical (glycemic, renal, plasma vitamin D3), clinical, and QoL data of the DFI patients were collected. Patients were followed up with over the telephone for four months to assess clinical outcomes (healed/not healed). A subgroup analysis was performed to investigate the effect of vitamin D3 supplementation.Results Eighty-nine DFI patients were enrolled, with a median age of 55 years and a male predominance (89.9%). A significant association between vitamin D3 levels and clinical outcome was not observed (p = 0.66). A moderate correlation was observed with the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (r = 0.24, p = 0.02). Regarding QoL, emotions (domain) were significantly associated with vitamin D3 levels (p < 0.01). The subgroup analysis showed that vitamin D3 supplements did not affect the clinical outcome.Conclusion The plasma vitamin D3 levels and vitamin D3 supplements do not significantly affect the biochemical, clinical, and humanistic outcomes, indicating vitamin D3 did not have a positive effect on DFI patients.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 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)
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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 teacher head, not a consensus.
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