Oakland score to identify low-risk patients with lower gastrointestinal bleeding performs well among emergency department patients by Daniel D. DiLena, Sean C. Bouvet, Madeline J. Somers, Maqdooda A. Merchant, Theodore R. Levin, Adina S. Rauchwerger, Dana R. Sax

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Iron deficiency and symptoms in women aged 20–49 years and relation to upper gastrointestinal and colon cancers by Jean-Luc Szpakowski, Lue-Yen Tucker

“…Our aim was to determine the association of IDA and symptoms with cancers.Design Retrospective cohort study within Kaiser Permanente Northern California. Participants were women aged 20–49 years tested for iron stores and anaemia during 1998, 2004 and 2010 and followed for 5 years for outcomes of oesophageal, gastric and colon cancers. …”
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Unhealthy alcohol use and risk of coronary heart disease among young and middle-aged adults by Jamal S. Rana, Felicia W. Chi, Isaac Acquah, Stacy A. Sterling

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Phylogenomics of North American cybaeid spiders (Araneae, Cybaeidae), including the description of new taxa from the Klamath Mountains Geomorphic Province by Marshal Hedin, Martín J. Ramírez, Rodrigo Monjaraz-Ruedas

“…A new cybaeid genus Siskiyu gen. nov. and species Siskiyu armilla sp. nov. is discovered and described from far northern California and adjacent southern Oregon and a new species in the elusive genus Cybaeozyga, C. furtiva sp. nov., is described from far northern California.…”
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Factors affecting heat resilience of drone honey bees (Apis mellifera) and their sperm. by Alison McAfee, Bradley N Metz, Patrick Connor, Keana Du, Christopher W Allen, Luis A Frausto, Mark P Swenson, Kylah S Phillips, Madison Julien, Zoe Rempel, Robert W Currie, Boris Baer, David R Tarpy, Leonard J Foster

“…In a separate experiment, we compared the survival of Northern California and Southern California drones in response to the same heat challenge (4 h at 42°C), and found that Southern Californian drones - which are enriched for African ancestry - were more likely to survive a heat challenge than drones originating from Northern California. …”
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Geo-behavioural predictors of diagnosed hypertension in Igbo Ora Area, Oyo State, Nigeria by Olalekan J. Taiwo, Joshua O. Akinyemi, Ayodeji Adebayo, Oluwafemi A. Popoola, Rufus O. Akinyemi, Onoja M. Akpa, Paul Olowoyo, Akinkunmi P. Okekunle, Ezinne O. Uvere, Omotolani Titilayo Ajala, Chukwuemeka Nwimo, Olayinka J. Adebajo, Adewale E. Ayodele, Ayodeji Salami, Oyedunni S. Arulogun, Olanrewaju Olaniyan, Richard W. Walker, Carolyn Jenkins, Bruce Ovbiagele, Mayowa Owolabi

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