Aintree University Hospital

The Impact of Diabetes on Risk of Revision Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Real-World Data Study

Given the increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM), understanding its impact on anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) revision risk is important for clinical decision-making and patient counselling. This study evaluated whether DM is associated with an increased...

Generational changes in lung function in adults from several world regions: results from the Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease study

This study estimated birth cohort effects on lung function using BOLD (Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease) data from 28 569 adults born between 1902 and 1976 across 41 sites in 34 countries. Forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV 1 ) and the FEV 1 /FVC...

A New CRT-based Fully Homomorphic Encryption

The idea of computing on encrypted data without decryption dates back to the notion of privacy homomorphisms introduced by Rivest, Adleman, and Dertouzos (1978). Their proposals built using the elegant structure of Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT), were later shown to be insecure...