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Using mouthwash that kills mouth bacteria raises blood pressure during both day and night, with bigger increases during the day.
There's a clear connection between how much nitrite is in the blood and blood pressure changes when mouth bacteria are disrupted, with a strong statistical relationship.
Using mouthwash that kills mouth bacteria leads to higher levels of nitrate in both saliva and blood.
When people start using mouthwash that kills mouth bacteria, their blood pressure can go up within just one day.
Bacteria in the mouth help keep nitrite levels in the blood stable, which is shown by the fact that people with higher nitrite in their saliva also tend to have higher nitrite in their blood.
When bacteria that help convert nitrate to nitrite in the mouth are reduced, blood pressure tends to go up by a small amount (2-3.5 mmHg for systolic and 2-2.2 mmHg for diastolic).
Using mouthwash that kills bacteria in the mouth makes it harder for the body to convert nitrate to nitrite, which lowers nitrite levels in the blood.
Radiologists rated this cleaning method as better at removing noise and artifacts from low-dose CT scans compared to other methods.
Radiologists rated the cleaned images from this method as better at showing blood vessels and soft tissue details compared to other cleaning methods.
The new cleaning method works better than other methods at keeping important anatomical details clear in low-dose CT scans, as shown by higher quality scores in different body parts.
The first part of the cleaning method removes major noise and artifacts from low-dose CT scans, creating cleaner images for the second part to refine details.
The cleaning method works well on industrial CT scans it wasn't trained on, maintaining image quality with PSNR of 35.39 dB and SSIM of 0.865.
A special part of the cleaning method creates custom instructions for the image cleanup process based on the CT scan's features, helping to preserve important anatomical details.
A special part of the cleaning method uses a transformer-based system to analyze CT scan projection data, capturing both small details and overall patterns for better image cleanup.
Training the cleaning method in two steps (first on many different scans, then on specific types of scans) makes it work better across different body parts and scan types.
A special part of the cleaning method uses CT scan projection data to help preserve important anatomical details and textures in the cleaned-up images.
A new computer method for cleaning up noisy CT scans works better than other methods, making the images clearer by up to 17% in sharpness and 38% in structural detail quality.
A specific red light treatment made cartilage cells in a dish produce more of a key structural protein that helps keep joints healthy
A specific red light treatment made cartilage cells in a dish produce less of a key structural protein that helps keep joints healthy