Given a passage with a question and an answer to that question, classify if the answer actually answers the question into 'yes' or 'no'. Output 'yes' if the answer answers the question and output 'no' if the answer does not answer the question.
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Question: Question: Is high salt intake associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular events : a 7.2-year evaluation of a cohort of hypertensive patients?
Answer: In a cohort of hypertensive patients, high salt intake independently predicts the occurrence of CV events, particularly of stroke.

Answer: yes


Question: Question: Does pINK1 trigger autocatalytic activation of Parkin to specify cell fate decisions?
Answer: Autocatalytic activation of Parkin bolsters its accumulation on mitochondria and apoptotic response to valinomycin. Our results suggest that PINK1-Parkin constitutes a damage-gated molecular switch that governs cellular-context-specific cell fate decisions in response to variable stress stimuli.

Answer: yes


Question: Question: Do [ Negative symptoms predict the improvement of social functioning of patients with schizophrenia ]?
Answer: Improvement of negative symptoms predicts the short-term improvement of social functioning of schizophrenia patients.

Answer:
yes