Predictors and Prognostic Effects of Perioperative Myocardial Injury After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement According to VARC-3 Criteria by Hu X, Zhao Z, Wang C, Feng D, Chen Y, Niu G, Zhou Z, Zhang H, Li Z, Ye Y, Wang M, Wu Y

“…Xiangming Hu,1,* Zhenyan Zhao,1,* Can Wang,1,* Dejing Feng,1 Yang Chen,2 Guannan Niu,1 Zheng Zhou,1 Hongliang Zhang,1 Zhe Li,1 Yunqing Ye,1 Moyang Wang,1 Yongjian Wu1 1Department of Cardiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Cardiology, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Moyang Wang; Yongjian Wu, Department of Cardiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100037, People’s Republic of China, Email [email protected]; [email protected]: The impact of periprocedural myocardial injury (PPMI) according to VARC-3 criteria in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) remains unclear. …”
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Comparative evaluation of multimarker algorithms for early-stage HCC detection in multicenter prospective studies by Jinlin Hou, Thomas Berg, Arndt Vogel, Teerha Piratvisuth, Jörg Trojan, Enrico N. De Toni, Masatoshi Kudo, Katarina Malinowsky, Peter Findeisen, Johannes Kolja Hegel, Wenzel Schöning, Kairat Madin, Konstantin Kroeniger, Henry Lik-Yuen Chan, Ashish Sharma

“…Background & Aims: We compared the clinical performance of the novel GAAD (gender [biological sex], age, alpha-fetoprotein [AFP], des-gamma carboxyprothrombin [DCP]) and GALAD (gender [biological sex], age, AFP, Lens culinaris agglutinin-reactive AFP [AFP-L3], DCP) algorithms to deduce the clinical utility of AFP-L3 for detecting early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) from chronic liver disease (CLD). …”
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3D echocardiography derived reference values and determinants of left ventricular twist and torsion from the population-based STAAB cohort study by Julia Napp, Götz Gelbrich, Floran Sahiti, Vladimir Cejka, Dora Pelin, Lena Schmidbauer, Mengmeng Chen, Niklas Hitschrich, Marcus Schreckenberg, Stefan Frantz, Peter U. Heuschmann, Stefan Störk, Caroline Morbach

“…Using three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography, we identified determinants of LV “twist” and “torsion”, and established reference values using a large population-based cohort. 3D echocardiography images were recorded in n = 2803 subjects within the prospective STAAB cohort study investigating a representative age- and sex-stratified sample of residents of the city of Würzburg, aged 30–79 years, without history of heart failure. …”
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BREAKING GENDER STEREOTYPES: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION by Joy Amarachi Ofordi, Babatunde Joseph Ayodele

“… The distributional structure of the world's languages is heavily influenced by gender stereotypes (lewis and Lupyan, 2020) and have been demonstrated to be stable over time, with relatively few changes to the fundamental gender roles (Haines 2016). …”
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Testosterone exacerbates neutrophilia and cardiac injury in myocardial infarction via actions in bone marrow by Elin Svedlund Eriksson, Marta Lantero Rodriguez, Bente Halvorsen, Inger Johansson, Anna K. F. Mårtensson, Anna S. Wilhelmson, Camilla Huse, Thor Ueland, Pål Aukrust, Kaspar Broch, Lars Gullestad, Brage Høyem Amundsen, Geir Øystein Andersen, Mikael C. I. Karlsson, Malin Hagberg Thulin, Alessandro Camponeschi, Dana Trompet, Ola Hammarsten, Björn Redfors, Jan Borén, Elmir Omerovic, Malin C. Levin, Andrei S. Chagin, Tuva B. Dahl, Åsa Tivesten

“…Abstract Men develop larger infarct sizes than women after a myocardial infarction (MI), but the mechanism underlying this sex difference is unknown. …”
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Lowering B-type natriuretic peptide levels and increasing cardiac function: the role of levosimendan in the treatment of heart failure by Jianfeng Meng, Ye Zuo

“…Results Patients in the treatment and control groups were similar in age, sickness duration, weight, and sex ratio. Medication use, New York Heart Association classification, ejection fraction percentage, and other factors were evenly distributed. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Celecoxib Oral Solution for the Acute Treatment of Migraine by Nazir Noor, Courtney LaChute, Mathew Root, Jasmine Rogers, Madeleine Richard, Giustino Varrassi, Ivan Urits, Omar Viswanath, Nazih Khater, Alan D. Kaye

“…Triggers for migraines have ranged from female sex, low socioeconomic status, and diet to loud noises, sleep hygiene, and stress. …”
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Predictors of postoperative hospital length of stay after total knee arthroplasty by Davide Tornese, Alessandro Robustelli, Gabriele Ricci, Paola Maria Vittoria Rancoita, Nicola Maffulli, Giuseppe Michele Peretti

“…Factors such as age, female sex and the presence of comorbidities were predictive of a longer stay. …”
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THE NEXUS BETWEEN POVERTY AND TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN ILORIN TOWNSHIP by HADIZAT AUDU SALIHU

“…An in-depth study reveals that the major cause of this act is poverty as many of the girls were easily lured into sex because of their poor economic condition which makes any little gift item or money attractive. …”
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Palatal Rugae as an Unique and Stable Marker in Personal identification—An Interracial Pilot Study by Nishant Kumar, Ramasamy Sarvathikari, Venkatesh Jayaraman, Philips Mathew, Kumari Jyotsana

“…The sole objectives of the study were to assess the predominant pattern in the selected groups, reliability of rugae pattern in personal identification, to evaluate reliability of sex determination and to compare the total number of rugae on right and left sides of the palate among the males and females. …”
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Anticholinergic burden and behavioral and psychological symptoms in older patients with cognitive impairment by Sabrina Pistorio, Gianluca Scotto di Tella, Vittoria Canzanella, Raffaella Merenda, Gianluigi Cuomo, Paola Iacotucci, Vincenzo Carnovale, Leonardo Bencivenga, Maria Vargas, Annalaura Manes, Mauro Cataldi, Giuseppe Rengo, Giuseppe Rengo, Michela Zanetti, Grazia Daniela Femminella, Grazia Daniela Femminella

“…A multiple linear regression was performed to identify factors associated with higher NPI score and a logistic regression model was built to identify drug classes associated with ACB ≥ 3.ResultA total of 173 patients (mean age 74 ± 7, 74 men) were included in the study; 132 patients with ACB < 3 (low risk) versus 41 patients with ACB ≥3 (high risk) were compared. …”
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Biology of Predatory Fire Caterpillar, Sycanus sp. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), when fed Alternative with Black Soldier Fly Maggots (Hermetia illucens) by Nadila Hayati, Rusli Rustam, Irwin Mirza Umami, Andriyani Prasetiyowati

“…Based on the results, it was known that one female Sycanussp. Could produce 101 eggs after being fed BSF maggots, with an incubation period of 17 days. …”
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Socioeconomic characteristics of drivers versus pedestrians in pedestrian crashes by Antonio Giron, Xiaohan Gu, Robert J. Schneider

“…This study of pedestrian crashes compares the home locations and socioeconomic characteristics of automobile drivers with the pedestrians who they struck. We collected driver and pedestrian sex, age, and home address from a random sample of 336 pedestrian crashes reported to police between 2011 and 2015 in the City of Milwaukee and the surrounding seven-county metropolitan region. …”
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ASSESSING SELECT PUBLIC SCHOOLS DISASTER AND RISK REDUCTION MANAGEMENT DURING PANDEMIC RESTRICTION IN THE PHILIPPINES by M. Alican Pandapatan

“…The participants were diverse in terms of age, sex, length of service, field of specialization, and level of training on DRRM. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Zavegepant as Abortive Treatment for Migraine by Nazir Noor, Alexis Angelette, Abby Lawson, Anjana Patel, Ivan Urits, Omar Viswanath, Cyrus Yazdi, Alan D. Kaye

“…In this comprehensive review, we discuss Zavegepant, a calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonist, as a new abortive medication for migraine headaches.…”
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Immune thrombocytopenia in infants: a retrospective study with comparison to toddlers by Anselm Chi-wai Lee

“…Infants with ITP generally had minor or mild bleeding (19, 86.4%) and seldom required treatment (7, 31.8%), and their thrombocytopenia resolved at a mean of 1.90 months after diagnosis. Besides age, the sex ratio, severity of bleeding, platelet counts and proportion that required treatment were comparable between infants and toddlers. …”
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Comorbidity Networks From Population-Wide Health Data: Aggregated Data of 8.9M Hospital Patients (1997–2014) by Elma Dervić, Katharina Ledebur, Stefan Thurner, Peter Klimek

“…For each of these groups we report a range of association measures (e.g., count data, and odds ratios) for all pairs of diagnoses. …”
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Changes in alcohol consumption among Belgian adults participating in the internet-based one-month-abstinence campaign ‘Tournée Minérale’ by Annelies Thienpondt, Jelle Van Cauwenberg, Joris Van Damme, Gera E. Nagelhout, Benedicte Deforche

“…Future research with a stronger study design is needed to rule out possible bias (e.g., selection bias, seasonal effects or regression to the mean) and to examine mechanisms and longer term effects of TACs.…”
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Psychometric properties and meaningful change thresholds for the QOL-E instrument in patients with myelodysplastic neoplasms by Esther Natalie Oliva, Shien Guo, Jennifer Lord-Bessen, Aylin Yucel, Roberto Latagliata, Massimo Breccia, Giuseppe A. Palumbo, Grazia Sanpaolo, Marta Riva, Valeria Santini, Uwe Platzbecker, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, Pierre Fenaux, Christopher G. Pelligra

“…It contains 29 items with the first two items assessing the patient’s general well-being and the 27 remaining items grouped into six domain scores: physical well-being (QOL-FIS), functional well-being (QOL-FUN), social/family well-being (QOL-SOC), sexual well-being (QOL-SEX), fatigue (QOL-FAT), and MDS-specific disturbances (QOL-MDSS). …”
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EFFECT OF DIFFERENT FEEDING LEVELS ON PHYSICO-CHEMICAL TRAITS FOR MAIN CARCASS CUTS OF PEKIN DUCKS IN KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ by Azad Sh. S. Al-Dabbagh, Sardar. Y. T. Al- Sardary

“… The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of different feeding levels (0%, 25%, and 50%) of alfalfa pellet ration (APR) (47% alfalfa) on the main carcass cuts Physico-chemical traits of Pekin ducks (Anas platyrhynchos). A total of 270 one-day-old ducklings were used. The birds at seven-day-old were assigned to 9 indoor pens of (1×2.2m) with outdoor and swimming pool (1×9.8m). …”
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