Using a Two-Steps Clustering and PCA Analysis for Stratified Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Care: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study by Peiró AM, Barrachina J, Escorial M, Aguado I, Margarit C, Grimby-Ekman A

“…Being older than 65 years old, retired or on medical leave, under opioids and anxiolytic prescription, had a severe impact on daily quality of life without any sex-difference.Conclusion: These clusters based on real-world clinical information might be useful for screening even more where the access to physical exploration is limited. …”
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Variability of daily feed intake as an indicator of resilience in Pietrain pigs by C. Casto-Rebollo, P. Nuñez, S. Gol, J. Reixach, N. Ibáñez-Escriche

“…Progeny of resilient sires had an 80% probability of at least a 2.5% higher survival rate. …”
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Early childhood caries and their association with serum iron, serum ferritin, serum albumin, and Vitamin D by Vasundhara Megha, Jeevendra Nath Shukla, Rajat Kumar Singh, Chitrita Gupta Mukherjee, Siddharth Anand, Aparna Singh

“…Conclusion: The present study suggests no relationship between serum iron, serum albumin, and serum ferritin with ECC, whereas Vitamin D had an inverse relationship with ECC. Clinical Significance: This study sets a benchmark for the dental fraternity and other health specialists to analyze serum iron, serum ferritin, serum albumin, and Vitamin D levels, while generally treating pediatric patients with or without dental caries. …”
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RESILSTIGMA. Resilience to self-stigmatization experienced by people living with HIV: Which self-reported factors improve awareness among health workers? by Christine Jacomet, Cécile Miele, Emilie Goncalves, Céline Lambert, Clément Belletier, Françoise Linard, Josiane Phalip-Le Besnerais, Pierre Dellamonica, Michaël Dambrun

“…Those health workers who did not minimize the prevalence of self-stigmatization among PLHIV had no particular characteristics.<h4>Conclusions</h4>While the best means to combat self-stigmatization would be a social-ecological approach, it is fundamental to target in parallel individual vulnerability and protective factors accessible to health workers' interventions. …”
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Central obesity is a burden even in normal weight adolescents of a non-metropolitan Indian City: A case for alarm and action for prevention and control by Tabassum Nawab, Zulfia Khan, Iqbal M. Khan, Mohammad A. Ansari

“…More than 1/4th of normal weight adolescents [27.2% (99/364)] also had CO. Increased fast food intake (OR: 4.1; 95% CI = 2.1-8.1), low Physical Activity Level (OR: 2.4; 95% CI = 1.3-4.3) and more than 10 hours sedentary time spent per day (OR: 2.2; 95% CI = 1.1-4.8) were independent determinants of CO. …”
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Riesgo de contagio por COVID-19 en un entorno urbano (Málaga, noviembre del 2020) by Ángel Miramontes Carballada, Rubén Lois González, María Jesús Perles Roselló, Jesús Miranda Páez

“…Research in these troubled times has had to respond immediately to the search for explanatory causes of risk distribution. …”
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The association between tobacco and alcohol use and health outcomes in individuals living with diabetes and prediabetes in South Africa: A cross-sectional study by S J Mulder, T Chivese, C O Egbe

“…Of a total of 6 108 participants (mean (standard deviation) age 41 (19) years), 72.2% (n=4 409) had prediabetes and 27.8% (n=1 699) T2DM; 17.7% (n=1 084) were current smokers and 9.3% (n=565) reported problem/risky alcohol use. …”
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The dose–effect relationship between acupuncture and its effect on primary insomnia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Xiaoni Zhang, Xiaoni Zhang, Yue Wang, Chengyong Liu, Shan Qin, Liyu Lin, Liyu Lin, Can Dong, Wenzhong Wu, Wenzhong Wu, Zhaoming Chen

“…With regard to the acupuncture session, it was shown that moderate session (12–20 sessions) and high session (24–30 sessions) had better effects on the reduction of the PSQI scores, with low session (≤10 sessions) being not significant. …”
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Safety and effectiveness of different modes of labor induction among pregnant women delivering at referral hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: a cohort study by Emmanuel Erasto, Martine A. Manguzu, Goodluck G. Nyondo, Manase Kilonzi, Alphonce Ignace Marealle, Ritah F. Mutagonda

“…Results Of the 322 women included, 198 (61.5%) were at term, and 210 (65.2%) had comorbidities. Overall, 80% of women achieved SVD following induction. …”
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Optimization of the Fermentation Process for Pine-needle Sweet-potato Glutinous Rice Wine and Analysis of Its Antioxidant Activity by Jie YOU, Rusheng XIE, Weibin WU

“…Under these conditions, the resulting pine-needle sweet-potato glutinous rice wine had a total sugar content of 12.5 g/L, alcohol content of 17.6%, and amino acid nitrogen content of 0.58 g/L. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Regain of Consciousness in Dexmedetomidine–Propofol versus Ketamine–Propofol in the Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Procedure under Sedation using BIS M... by Priya Banga, Sunder L. Negi, Banashree Mandal, Parag Barwad, Kulbhushan Saini, Krishna P. Gourav

“…Conclusion: The KP combination had fast and early recovery compared to the DP combination in children who underwent the cardiac catheterization procedure under sedation in children undergoing cardiac catheterization procedures requiring sedation.…”
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The prevalence and associated disability burden of mental disorders in children and adolescents in China: a systematic analysis of data from the Global Burden of Disease StudyResea... by Wanyue Dong, Yunning Liu, Ruhai Bai, Lei Zhang, Maigeng Zhou

“…Among mental disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder had the highest age-standardized prevalence, at 3.6% (3.0, 4.5). …”
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Death trends for 2010 - 2022 for members of a large private medical scheme in South Africa by L Steenkamp, S Collie, T A Moultrie, H Moultrie, G Gray

“…Age- and sex-standardised death rates, however, had returned to near 2019 (pre-pandemic) levels by 2022, at 477 deaths per 100 000 life years. …”
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Associations between age, red cell distribution width and 180-day and 1-year mortality in giant cell arteritis patients: mediation analyses and machine learning in a cohort study by Si Chen, Rui Nie, Xiaoran Shen, Yan Wang, Haixia Luan, Xiaoli Zeng, Yanhua Chen, Hui Yuan

“…KM survival analysis further showed that GCA patients hospitalized or admitted to the ICU with higher age or elevated RDW levels had significantly lower survival rates compared to younger patients or those with lower RDW levels (P < 0.0001). …”
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Long-term effects of orthognathic surgery on masticatory function in individuals with cleft lip and palate: A prospective study by Patricia Martins Bueno, Paulo Alceu Kiemle Trindade, Laís Hollara Medeiros, Leide Vilma Fidélis da Silva, Ivy Kiemle Trindade-Suedam

“…The participants were divided into two groups: 1) Cleft Lip and Palate Group (CLP): 20 adults with CLP undergoing orthognathic surgery (14 ♂, 6 ♀, age 24 ± 3 years), and 2) Control Group (CON): 20 paired adults with Angle Class I skeletal pattern who had never undergone orthognathic surgery (14 ♂, 6 ♀, age 25 ± 5 years). …”
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Deep learning radiomics nomogram for preoperatively identifying moderate-to-severe chronic cholangitis in children with pancreaticobiliary maljunction: a multicenter study by Hui-min Mao, Kai-ge Chen, Bin Zhu, Wan-liang Guo, San-li Shi

“…In comparison, the clinical model, handcrafted signature, and DL signature had AUC ranges of 0.654–0.705, 0.823–0.857, and 0.840–0.872 across the same cohorts. …”
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Acetic Acid Chromoendoscopy in the Preliminary Diagnosis of Histological Type of Colon Polyp during Colonoscopy by N. V. Ageykina, E. D. Fedorov, P. G. Malkov, T. V. Nikolaychuk, N. A. Oleynikova

“…Group 1 includes 25 (39.7%) polyps, 88.0% of which were non-serrated: 18(72.0%) — tubular adenoma; 4 (16.0%) — tubular-villous adenoma, one of which had high-grade dysplasia. Only 3(12.0%) polyps were serrated — hyperplastic polyps. …”
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Dietary steviol glycosides mixture supplementation modulates the gene expression of gut chemoreceptors and enhances the antioxidant capacity in weaned piglets by Yunxia Xiong, Zhentao He, Qiwen Wu, Hao Xiao, Shuting Cao, Xuefen Yang, Yajing Li, Zongyong Jiang, Cui Zhu, Li Wang

“…Furthermore, piglets fed a diet supplemented with 100 mg/kg SGs mixture had higher serum T-SOD, CAT, and GSH-Px activities compared with the other treatments (P < 0.05). …”
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Beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB) improves daily activity and whole-body protein metabolism in Duchenne muscular dystrophy dogs: a pilot study by Peter P. Nghiem, Alexis M. Rutledge, Kyle Tehas, Corine Kaderli, Meredith Poling, Sidney Arnim, Vitaliy Dernov, Celine van Sas, Macie L. Mackey, Gabriella A. M. ten Have, Mariëlle P. K. J. Engelen, Nicolaas E. P. Deutz

“…DMD dogs treated with HMB as compared to placebo had a respective 40% increase in exertional (play) (951 [827, 1075] versus 569 [491, 647]; p < 0.0001) and 10.5% increase in non-exertional (active) activity (15,366 [14742, 15990] versus 13,806 [13148,14466]; p = 0.0016). …”
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Immunoexpression of P16 and Ki 67 in oral squamous cell carcinoma: Association with clinicopathological parameters. by Shadan Mohamad Omer, Payman Anwar Rashid

“…Histopathological findings of the tumor showed that (54.0%) of the patients had moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma. …”
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