Derivation of a simple risk calculator for predicting clinical worsening in patients with pulmonary hypertension due to interstitial lung disease by K. El-Kersh, R. Bag, N. Bhatt, C. King, A. Waxman, F. Rischard, H. Kim, D. Cella, E. Shen, SD Nathan

“…Currently, there is no tool to assess the risk of clinical worsening in patients with ILD-PH. Our aim was to derive a simple and practical risk calculator that could be used to predict risk of clinical worsening in patients with ILD-PH. …”
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Trends, gender, and racial disparities in patients with mortality due to paroxysmal tachycardia: A nationwide analysis from 1999-2020. by Aman Goyal, Humza Saeed, Saif Yamin, Abdullah, Wania Sultan, Muhammad Khubaib Arshad, Samia Aziz Sulaiman, Mah I Kan Changez, Gauranga Mahalwar

“…<h4>Results</h4>Between 1999 and 2020, 155,320 deaths were reported in patients with paroxysmal tachycardia. Overall, AAMR decreased from 4.8 to 3.7 per 100,000 population between 1999 and 2020, despite showing a significant increase from 2014 to 2020 (APC: 4.33; 95% CI: 3.53 to 5.56). …”
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Clinical and angiographic profile of left main coronary artery disease in patients with chronic coronary syndrome: a retrospective study by Abdulsalam Mahmoud Algamal, Mahmoud Abdelbadie Salem, Ahmed Ibrahim Bedier, Mohammed Salah A. Hussein, Mona Malek Abdelrahim, Shady Hussein Elhusseiny

“…Of the 19,336 screened cases, 944 obstructive LMD patients were included as the patients' group. Age and sex-matched control groups included patients with normal coronary angiography and non-LMD. …”
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A normal electrocardiogram indicates a better prognosis in patients with moderate to very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by Martina Kulirova, Miroslav Solar, Michal Kopecky, Barbora Novotna, Marek Plutinsky, Kristian Brat, Libor Fila, Petr Vanik, Pavlina Musilova, Tomas Dvorak, Petr Safranek, Michal Svoboda, Vladimir Koblizek

“…Research question: Is a normal ECG associated with a better prognosis than an abnormal ECG in patients with COPD? ECG parameters were assessed in patients enrolled in the Czech Multicenter Research Database of COPD. …”
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Cerebellar re-irradiation after whole brain radiotherapy significant symptom relief with minimal toxicity in metastatic brain patients by Ory Haisraely, Marcia Jaffe, Yaacov Richard Lawerence, Alicia Talianksy, Alicia Taliansky

“…Patients received cerebellar-only re-irradiation after WBRT. …”
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Prevalence and outcomes associated with hypocalcaemia and hypercalcaemia among pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease patients with mineral and bone disorder by Mei Hui Amanda Yong, Jun Jie Benjamin Seng, Ying Lin Cheryl Tan, Jiunn Wong, Priscilla How

“…Results: Of the 400 patients, 169 (42.2%) and 94 (23.5%) patients experienced hypocalcaemia and hypercalcaemia, respectively. …”
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Impact of Hospitalization on Continuation of SGLT2 Inhibitors and GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for Comorbidities in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Bethany Murphy, Simran Chahal, Elleigh Shepherd, Nicole Taylor, Austin Camp

“…Results: Thirty-six patients on SGLT2 inhibitor therapy met inclusion criteria. …”
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Cost Effectiveness of Insulin Glargine versus Neutral Protamin Hagedorn Insulin in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Patients in Turkey by Ilhan Satman, Hayley Bennett, Candeger Yilmaz, Sazi Imamoglu, Goksun Ayvaz, Abdurrahman Comlekci, Demet Ozkaya, Toros Sahin

“…Insulin treatment is necessary for patients failing to achieve glycaemic control with lifestyle modification or oral antidiabetic drugs. …”
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Treatment Patterns and Outcomes Among Patients With Advanced or Recurrent Endometrial Cancer Initiating First-Line Therapy in the United States by Robert L. Coleman, Jamie Garside, Jean Hurteau, Joehl Nguyen, Monica Kobayashi

“…**Background:** Patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer (EC) typically have limited treatment options and poor long-term survival outcomes following first-line therapy. …”
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Patterns of Comorbidity and Multimorbidity Among Patients With Multiple Sclerosis in a Large US Commercially Insured and Medicare Advantage Population by Dingwei Dai, Ajay Sharma, Amy L. Phillips, Carroline Lobo

“…Commercially insured patients, Medicare Advantage patients younger than 65 years of age, and Medicare Advantage patients 65 years and older were compared. …”
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Fluid balance and clinical outcomes in patients with aortic dissection: a retrospective case-control study based on ICU databases by Tao Chen, Peng Qiu, Yixuan Li, Xinwu Lu, Zhaoyu Wu, Zhijue Xu, Hongji Pu, Jiahao Lei, Zhuojing Zhang, Xinrui Yang, Ruihua Wang

“…This paper explores the role of fluid management in the clinical care of AD patients, which has been unclear despite the substantial existing research that has been conducted on the treatment of AD.Design A retrospective case-control study using data for AD patients from public databases.Setting Two public intensive care unit (ICU) databases with hospital courses from the USA, Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC)-IV critical care dataset and the eICU Collaborative Research Database, with data from 2008 to 2019.Participants A total of 751 adult AD patients with detailed fluid management records from two databases were included.Interventions The mean 24-hour intake and output were calculated by dividing the total amount of intake and output by the number of days in the ICU, respectively. …”
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Using the ADAPT guidance to culturally adapt a brief intervention to reduce alcohol use among injury patients in Tanzania. by Catherine A Staton, Armand Zimmerman, Msafiri Pesambili, Ashley J Phillips, Anna Tupetz, Joao Vitor Perez de Souza, Judith Boshe, Michael H Pantalon, Monica Swahn, Blandina T Mmbaga, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci

“…A systematic review highlighted limited data on patient-level interventions in low-resource settings. …”
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Variability of 24-hour pH-metry scores at patients with duodenal peptic ulcer after single dose of rabeprazole by D. I. Abdulganiyeva

“…The antisecretory response to the first dose of rabeprazole was revealed in 43 (89,6%) patients. Resistance to the first dose was found in 5 (10,4%) patients. …”
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Negative symptoms in schizophrenia: a study in a large clinical sample of patients using a novel automated method by Robert Stewart, Hitesh Shetty, Matthew Broadbent, Angus Roberts, Rashmi Patel, Philip McGuire, Richard D Hayes, Nishamali Jayatilleke, Genevieve Gorrell, Chin-Kuo Chang, Richard Jackson, Nadia Foskett, Caroline Johnston

“…Objectives To identify negative symptoms in the clinical records of a large sample of patients with schizophrenia using natural language processing and assess their relationship with clinical outcomes.Design Observational study using an anonymised electronic health record case register.Setting South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM), a large provider of inpatient and community mental healthcare in the UK.Participants 7678 patients with schizophrenia receiving care during 2011.Main outcome measures Hospital admission, readmission and duration of admission.Results 10 different negative symptoms were ascertained with precision statistics above 0.80. 41% of patients had 2 or more negative symptoms. …”
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Predictors of biochemical and structural response to medical therapy in patients with active acromegaly following surgery: a real-world perspective by Maryam Rafieemanesh, Manizhe Ataee Kachuee, Ali Zare Mehrjardi, Alireza Khajavi, Mohammad Ghorbani, Mohammad Reza Mohajeri-Tehrani, Nahid Hashemi-Madani, Mohammad E. Khamseh

“…Abstract Background Somatostatin receptor analogs (SRAs) and dopamine agonists (DAs) are the main medical treatments for patients with acromegaly who fail to achieve remission after surgery. …”
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Abstinence Self-Efficacy and Resilience in Persons with Substance Use Disorder by L. Iris Devi, Arunjyoti Baruah, Nurnahar Ahmed

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Thirteen-Year Follow-Up of a Patient with Liver Cirrhosis Resulting from the Overlap Syndrome of Autoimmune Hepatitis and Primary Biliary Cholangitis: Severe COVID-19 and Liver Transplantation by A. Kh. Odintsova, D. R. Akberova, L. R. Sadykova, N. A. Cheremina, M. M. Minnullin, A. A. Kirshin, E. N. Gabitova, A. Yu. Khasanshina, D. I. Abdulganieva

“…The diagnosis of liver cirrhosis as an outcome of overlap syndrome (autoimmune hepatitis and primary biliary cholangitis) was established at the patient’s age of 33 years. At the age of 40, the patient became pregnant for the first time, the pregnancy proceeded well, and a cesarean section was performed at 36 weeks. …”
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Opioid consumption frequency and its associations with potential life problems during opioid agonist treatment in individuals with prescription-type opioid use disorder: explorator... by Anne Bouthillier, Gabriel Bastien, Christina McAnulty, Hamzah Bakouni, Bernard Le Foll, M. Eugenia Socias, Didier Jutras-Aswad

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The Effect of Vitamin D3 on Serum Creatine Phosphokinase Level in Patients with Multiple Trauma: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial by Mehran Kouchek, Niloufar Taherpour, Mahya Farasat, Mirmohammad Miri, Sara Salarian, Seyedpouzhia Shojaei, Rezvan Hassanpour, Hossein Amini, Mohammad Sistanizad

“…This study was designed to evaluate the effect of vitamin D3 on the serum CPK level and the incidence of rhabdomyolysis-induced AKI in patients with multiple trauma.Methods: Patients with serum CPK levels <1000 IU/L were followed as the control 1 group. …”
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Retraction Note: Prevalence of complications among Chinese diabetic patients in urban primary care clinics: a cross-sectional study by Kenny Kung, Kai Ming Chow, Eric Ming-Tung Hui, Maria Leung, Shuk Yun Leung, Cheuk Chun Szeto, Augustine Lam, Philip Kam-Tao Li

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