Determinants of poor access to health care among women of reproductive age in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional study by Augustus Osborne, Peter Bai James, Camilla Bangura

“…Women who watch television [aOR = 0.70; 95% CI: 0.56, 0.86] had lower odds of poor access to healthcare than those who did not. …”
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Immediate Results of Colonic Flat Epithelial Neoplasms Removal Using Diathermic Snare Endoscopic Mucosal Resection and Mucosectomy Combined with Dissection in the Submucosal Layer:... by A. A. Fedorenko, P. V. Pavlov, A. P. Kiryukhin, A. S. Tertychnyy

“…Epithelial neoplasms in the ESD group had an average size of 41.6 ± 15 mm while those in the EMR group had an average size of 33.1 ± 13.5 mm. …”
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The Implications of Multiple Repeat Cesarean Deliveries on Maternal Morbidity by Esra Can, Süleyman Cemil Oğlak

“… OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the obstetric outcomes of cesarean delivery (CD) in a cohort of pregnant women who had a history of four or more previous CDs and compared them with those who had a history of three or fewer previous CDs. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes in South Africa: Evidence from the 2016 Demographic and Health Survey by L Mpolokeng, A Musekiwa

“…The majority (70.9%) were of age 20 - 34 years, 78% had secondary education, 61.6% were unemployed, 65% were from urban areas, and more than 40% of these women were currently living with a man, while 51.5% reported that they had never been in a union. …”
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Using Dose-Effect Relationship for Optimising Systemic Corticosteroid Dosage in Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases by O. P. Alekseeva, S. V. Krishtopenko, A. A. Alekseeva

“…To induce remission, all patients had the first course of prednisone at a starting dose of 30 to 60 mg/day, with a subsequent reduction. …”
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Retrospective Analysis of RSV Infection in Pediatric Patients: Epidemiology, Comorbidities, Treatment, and Costs in Dubai (2014-2023) by Jean Joury, Nawal Al Kaabi, Sara Al Dallal, Bassam Mahboub, Mostafa Zayed, Mohamed Abdelaziz, Jennifer Onwumeh-Okwundu, Mark A. Fletcher, Subramanyam Kumaresan, Badarinath C. Ramachandrachar, Mohamed Farghaly

“…In Cohort 1, 32.0% had upper respiratory tract infections, 39.4% had lower respiratory tract infections, and 44.4% of patients had an “other respiratory disease.” …”
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Clinical characteristics of patients with coronary artery disease by smoking status by Olga V. Nakhratova, Daria P. Tsygankova, Joseph M. Tsenter, Evgeny D. Bazdyrev

“…RESULTS: More than half of patients with CAD had mild [34 (31.8%)] or moderate [33 (30.8%)] nicotine dependence, and a quarter of patients had high [25 (23.4%)] or very high [15 (14%)] dependence. …”
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Validation of Mortality Data Sources Compared to the National Death Index in the Healthcare Integrated Research Database by Jamal-Allial A, Sponholtz T, Vojjala SK, Paullin M, Papazian A, Eshete B, Mahmoudpour SH, Verpillat P, Beachler DC

“….), and online obituary data were compared to NDI.Results: Among 40,692 patients, 25,761 (63.3%) had a death date using NDI; the composite algorithm had a sensitivity of 88.9% (95% CI = 88.5%, 89.3%), specificity was 89.1% (95% CI = 88.6%, 89.6%). …”
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Long-term outcome of a treat-to-target strategy in late-onset rheumatoid arthritis with chronic lung disease: 5-year results of a prospective observational study by Manami Nomura, Takahiko Sugihara, Hiroyuki Baba, Tadashi Hosoya, Mari Kamiya, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Takumi Matsumoto, Kanae Kubo, Fumio Hirano, Masayo Kojima, Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Shinsuke Yasuda, Masayoshi Harigai

“…Patients were treated with MTX if they had one or more poor prognostic features. If they had interstitial lung disease (ILD), tacrolimus could be administered instead of MTX at the discretion of the attending physician. …”
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Exploring Quality of Life in Adults Living With Late-onset Pompe Disease: A Combined Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Patient Perceptions from Australia, France, Italy, and... by Holly Lumgair, Lisa Bashorum, Alasdair MacCulloch, Elizabeth Minas, George Timmins, Drago Bratkovic, Richard Perry, Medi Stone, Vasileios Blazos, Elisabetta Conti, Raymond Saich

“…Physical functioning scores were generally stable in respondents who had been receiving enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) for 1-15 years, but those who had received ERT for >15 years had lower scores. …”
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Evaluation and Management of Patients with Hematoma After Gynecologic and Obstetric Surgery by Bekir Kahveci, Mehmet Obut, Serhat Ege, Mete Sucu, Nurullah Peker, Osman Uzundere, Gaye Kahveci, Mehmet Sukru Budak

“…The evaluation of the hematoma locations revealed that 14 patients (46.7%) had wound hematoma, 7 patients (23.3%) had rectus sheath hematoma (Type I: 2 cases, type II: 3 cases, type III: 2 cases), 8 patients (26.7%) had pelvic hematoma and 2 patients (6.7%) had a retroperitoneal hematoma. …”
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Patterns of colonic dismotility and visceral hypersensitivity at various clinical variants of irritable bowel syndrome by Ekaterina A. Bubnova, O. Yu. Fomenko, I. L. Khalif, V. V. Pavlenko

“…According to specified criteria, all patients were divided into groups according to prevailing symptoms. Twenty-four patients had constipation predominant IBS, 68 had diarrhea predominant variant of IBS, 28 had unclassified IBS variant. …”
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Angiopoietin-2 and D-dimer add prognostic information to clinical risk in pulmonary arterial hypertension by Heather L. Clark, Daniel Lachant, Allison N. Light, Deborah Haight, Samia Lopia, Nigel Mackman, R. James White

“…In addition, we recruited 12 healthy people and clinically stable patients with PAH (n = 45) as controls who had 2 blood samples collected twice within 14 days. …”
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End of Pandemic Parental Hesitancy Towards Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccination: A Cross-sectional Survey at Two Lebanese Tertiary Hospitals by Sabine Shehab, Lina Anouti, Celina F. Boutros, Christelle Radi, Silma El Baasiri, Arabia Badih, Rawan Korman, Marwa El Masri, Joudie Alwan, Maha Monzer, Yara Bitar, Mona Kassem, Mayse Naser, Yara Salameh, Sarah Khafaja, Murielle Bou Ghosn, Dany Al Hamod, Sarah Ghadban, Soha Ghanem, Ghassan S. Dbaibo

“…In the adjusted model, mothers had a higher rate of vaccine acceptance (AOR: 1.746 [1.059–2.878], p = 0.029). …”
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Second Trimester Umbilical Cord Coiling Index and Perinatal Outcomes by Yusuf Aytaç Tohma, Mehmet Metin Altay, Derya Turgut, Selcan Coşkun, Eylem Ünlübilgin, Sertaç Esin, Orhan Gelişen, Okyar Erol

“…The percentage of patients with normal aUCI who had GDM is 2.18, 13.04% of patients with hypercoiling and 10.53% of patients with hypocoiling had GDM. …”
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Risk of Cirrhosis in Patients with Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Previous Viral Hepatitis B by S. N. Batskikh, E. V. Vinnitskaya, E. S. Sbikina, Zh. V. Borunova, A. S. Dorofeev, Yu. G. Sandler

“…In 85 patients, liver fibrosis was scored F0-F2 with METAVIR, 25 persons had severe fibrosis (F4 in 23, F3 in 2). Patients with severe fibrosis were significantly older than persons with F0-F2 and had more frequent type 2 diabetes. …”
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Bioremediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon contaminated Aqueous-Soil matrix: Effect of co-contamination by CN Owabor, OC Onwuemene, I Enaburekhan

“…The result of the study showed that lead at 40mg/l, 80mg/l, 120mg/l, 160mg/l and 200mg/l had the following percentage degradation 84.45%, 75.68%, 70.23%, 60.49%, and 52.95% respectively, Chromium at the same concentrations had 83.89%, 74.95%, 69.99%, 59.95% and 52.89%, nickel had 82.49%, 71.89%, 62.86%, 49.89%, 42.34% while mercury had, 73.99%, 71.89%, 48.98%, 24.22% and 10.17% at the end of the 42 days contact period. …”
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Transanal Hemorrhoidal Dearterialization (THD): A Single Center Experience on 100 Consecutive Cases by Aleksandar Mitevski, Vladko Cvetanovski, Petar Markov, Ilija Milev

“…Out of 100 operated patients, 64 (64%) were men and 36 (36%) were women. 54 patients had third degree hemorrhoidal disease, 32 had fourth degree, 7 patients had fourth degree hemorrhoidal disease with active bleeding and 7 patients had second degree hemorrhoidal disease with active bleeding. …”
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Impact of prior CAR T-cell therapy on mosunetuzumab efficacy in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell lymphomas by Elise A. Chong, Elicia Penuel, Ellen B. Napier, Rachel K. Lundberg, Lihua E. Budde, Mazyar Shadman, Matthew J. Matasar, Nancy L. Bartlett, Ian W. Flinn, Francesc Bosch, Keith Fay, Andre Goy, Anita Kumar, Loretta J. Nastoupil, Michael C. Wei, Mei Wu, Shen Yin, Joseph A. Fraietta, Emeline R. Chong, Stephen J. Schuster

“…Nonresponders had a relative decrease in CAR transgene levels (n = 16; P = .04). …”
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Biliary atresia: The profile, management and outcome of patients treated at a tertiary hospital in central South Africa by E Brits, S M le Grange

“…Of the 3 patients who were alive at the end of the study period, 1 had a KPE and 2 had LTs. Conclusion. Late presentation, cholangitis and cessation of bile flow after an initial successful KPE, and socioeconomic challenges are issues of concern and had a detrimental influence on the outcome of BA in our study population. …”
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