Psychometric validation of the Danish BREAST-Q reconstruction module by Cecilie Balslev Willert, Karl Bang Christensen, Pernille Envold Bidstrup, Lene Mellemkjær, Anne-Marie Axø Gerdes, Lisbet Rosenkrantz Hölmich

“…The Rasch analyses disclosed evidence of local response dependence in eight scales. Chronbach's α ranged 0.81–0.95 after adjustment. Item fit was evaluated using item-restscore correlations and showed good fit in 98 % of items. …”
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Correlation Between Shoulder Pain Severity, Acromion Morphology, and Acromiohumeral Distance Using MRI: A Study at Haji Adam Malik Hospital Medan in 2022 by Husnul Fuad Albar, Geon Rendy, Iman Dwi Nanto

“…Results: In this study of 38 patients, most participants were women with an average age of 54.66 years. …”
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Patient’s Information Toward Some Modifiable Risk Factors of Ischemic Heart Disease by Bayan Omar Sharif, Aras Hamad Rasul, Osman Ibrahim Mahmud, Farman Nuri Abdulla

“…Reliability of the instrument was determined through the use of internal consistency reliability (split half) approach which was estimated as r = (0.83) the data were collected through the use of interview technique (face to face approach), the computer files is used to organizing and coding it. …”
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New aspects of investigating stress, anxiety, and depression in the Ryazan region population with arterial hypertension by Ayoub Glenza, Natalia V. Dobrynina, Sergey S. Yakushin, Alexander A. Dzekan

“…Lonely people have higher levels of stress 16 (12–20), anxiety 6 (4–9), and depression 6 (3–9) compared to those living with their families (р=0.004, р=0.026, and р 0.001, respectively). …”
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SRAM and Mixed-Signal Logic With Noise Immunity in 3-nm Nano-Sheet Technology by Rajiv V. Joshi, J. Frougier, Alberto Cestero, Crystal Castellanos, Sudipto Chakraborty, Carl Radens, M. Silvestre, S. Lucarini, I. Ahsan, E. Leobandung

“…A modular 4.26 Mb SRAM based on a 82 Kb/block structure with mixed signal logic is fabricated, characterized, and demonstrated with full functionality in a 3-nm nanosheet (NS) technology. …”
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دور الوساطة الدولية القطرية في إنهاء النزاع الأفغاني الأمريكي by راشد بن سالم البوعينين, راجا هشام الدين بن راجا سولانج, عامر عبد الوهاب مهيوب مرشد

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Organic Carbon and Elemental Carbon in Two Dust Plumes at a Coastal City in North China by Wenhua Wang, Hui Zhou, Ruihe Lyu, Longyi Shao, Wenmiao Li, Jiaoping Xing, Zhe Zhao, Xian Li, Xiuyan Zhou, Daizhou Zhang

“…Particularly, the weight ratio of OC-to-coarse particles (PM2.5-10) was stable at approximately 2.8% ± 0.2%. In contrast, EC was less than 1.0% of the total PM10 mass, with an average value of 0.13% ± 0.26% and 0.28% ± 0.15% in two dust periods. …”
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Cardiovascular disease risk prediction by Framingham risk score in women with polycystic ovary syndrome by Mina Amiri, Maryam Mousavi, Mahsa Noroozzadeh, Fereidoun Azizi, Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani

“…Results The Cox proportional hazards (HRs) model revealed that the CVD risk increased by 38% for each one-unit increase in the FRS [HR: 1.38 (95% CI: 1.14, 1.66)] in PCOS patients. …”
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Effects of trigger-day progesterone in c-IVF/ICSI cycles on blastocyst culture outcomes by Yating Sun, Jia Wang, Luyun Zhang, Yanjun Chang, Aizhen Zhu

“…Subgroup analysis showed that when female age was less than 35 years old, compared with that (36.30%) in the normal level group, the D5 available blastocyst rate (36.92%, adjusted OR, 0.744; 95% CI, 0.602-0.920; P=0.006) in the high level group was significantly reduced. …”
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Mortality and readmission following hip fracture surgery: a retrospective study comparing conventional and fast-track care by Kristin Haugan, Lars G Johnsen, Trude Basso, Olav A Foss

“…Regarding the readmission, the conventional care group sub-HR was 1.02 (95% CI 0.88 to 1.18, p=0.822) without and 0.97 (95% CI 0.83 to 1.12, p=0.644) with adjusting for covariates. …”
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Outcomes for Dostarlimab and Real-World Treatments in Post-platinum Patients With Advanced/Recurrent Endometrial Cancer: The GARNET Trial Versus a US Electronic Health Record-Based... by Scott Goulden, Qin Shen, Robert L. Coleman, Cara Mathews, Matthias Hunger, Ankit Pahwa, Rene Schade

“…Median TTD was 11.7 months (95% CI, 6.0-38.7) for dostarlimab and 5.3 months (95% CI, 4.1-6.0) for the real-world cohort. …”
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Pre-existing atrial fibrillation and risk of arterial thromboembolism and death following pneumonia: a population-based cohort study by Reimar Wernich Thomsen, Christian Fynbo Christiansen, Bodil Steen Rasmussen, Lars Hvilsted Rasmussen, Jacob Gamst

“…The risk of ATE within 30 days of admission was 5.2% in patients with AF and 3.6% in patients without AF. After adjustment for higher age and comorbidity, the adjusted HR (aHR) with AF was 1.06 (95% CI 0.96 to 1.18). …”
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Evaluation of the effect of temperature on cyclic fatigue resistance of three types of Nickel-Titanium rotary files with various alloy properties: An in vitro study by Dara H. Saeed, Fadi A. Rafea

“…Methods: Three types of rotary instruments with tip size 0.25 were used: HyFlex EDM (OneFile, variable taper, Colten/Whaledent), ProTaper Gold (F2, 0.08 taper, Dentsply) and 2Shape (TS2, 0.06 taper, Micro-Mega). …”
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A prevalent caveolin-1 gene rs926198 variant is associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Thai population by Metha Yaikwawong, Pornpimon Ek-eudomsuk, Gunya Sittithumcharee, Vipavee Anupunpisit, Thavatchai Peerapatdit, Chaicharn Deerochanawong, Thep Himathongkam, Siwanon Jirawatnotai, Somlak Chuengsamarn

“…The rs926198 variant, but not the rs3807989 variant, was associated with T2DM. Crude ORs were 1.87 (95% CI: 1.32–2.69, p = 0.0005) and adjusted ORs were 1.81 (95% CI: 1.12–2.96, p = 0.016), respectively. …”
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Social isolation in the young and middle-aged patients with stroke: role of social support, family resilience and hope by Xiao Jia Wu, Ke Ke, Hui Liu, Shao Ping Zhan, Lei Wang, Juan Feng He

“…Perceived social support scale, General isolation Scale, Chinese version of Family Resilience Assessment Scale and Herth hope index were adopted to assess patients’ social, family and personal factors. SPSS 27.0 and AMOS 26.0 were used for descriptive analysis and structural equation modeling of the data.ResultsThe young and middle-aged stroke survivors had a high level of social isolation(49.57 ± 5.84). …”
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Native versus non-native Prosopis woody species: Which fertilize the soil better? by Moslehi Maryam, Ahmadi Farzad, Matinizadeh Mohammad, Sadeghi Seyed Mousa, Izadi Masoumeh, Faunae Nafiseh, Alizadeh Tahereh, Shackleton Ross T.

“…Soil pH was highest in control soils (7.91 ± 0.09), slightly lower under P. cineraria (7.77 ± 0.06), and lowest under P. juliflora (7.49 ± 0.0). …”
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Impact of Ramadan Intermittent Fasting on Salivary pH, Flow Rate, and Electrolyte Levels in Healthy Adult Men by Sinda Yacoub, Mehdi Khemiss, Amira Besbes, Helmi Ben Saad

“…The M ± SD salivary pH increased during ER compared to BR (6.88 ± 0.23 vs. 6.69 ± 0.35 [ p = .049], respectively). …”
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Evaluating the Real-World Effectiveness of Systemic Treatments in Atopic Dermatitis Using the Atopic Dermatitis Control Tool (ADCT): A Multi-Centre, Prospective Study by Hyun Ji Lee, Yuri Woo, Young Bok Lee, Ji Hye Lee, Jung Eun Kim, Ji Hyun Lee, Sang Hyun Cho

“…The correlation coefficients were 0.54 (p < 0.0001) for ADCT vs EASI and 0.83 (p < 0.0001) for ADCT vs DLQI. Furthermore, patients treated with dupilumab exhibited greater improvement compared with those on cyclosporine, as measured by the ADCT (adjusted OR [95% CI]); 6.98 [2.49, 19.58]). …”
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Progress towards 90-90-90 and 95-95-95 strategy implementations and HIV positivity trends in the City of Johannesburg by J C Y Nyasulu, I Maposa

“…The study has shown that by March 2022, 15 months after December 2020, CoJ had reached 91-65-88. There were significant steady increases in the number of people who knew their HIV status (slope = 0.044, p<0.001) and initiating on antiretroviral therapy (ART) (slope = 0.001, p<0.001), and significant decreases for overall HIV positivity rate (slope = –0.016, p<0.001), adolescent positivity rate (slope = –0.0087, p<0.001) and antenatal care HIV positivity rate (slope = –0.013, p<0.001). …”
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Development of a psychological frailty index: results from the China health and retirement longitudinal study by Jinlong Zhao, Justina Yat Wa Liu, Justina Yat Wa Liu, Daniel Fernández, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Stefanos Tyrovolas

“…The PFI demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.764) and criterion validity (rho = 0.806). Psychological frailty was significantly associated with lower life expectancy (odds ratio [OR] 1.98, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.71–2.29), higher outpatient treatments (1.25, 1.03–1.51), and increased hospitalization (1.45, 1.22–1.74).ConclusionThe PFI could be a reliable instrument for identifying psychological frailty. …”
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