Real-world satisfaction and experience with injection and autoinjector device for ofatumumab indicated for multiple sclerosis by Amy Perrin Ross, Jacqueline Nicholas, Ming-Hui Tai, Stephen Yeung, Nazneen Fatima Shaikh, Helen Chen, Mariana Fernandes, Aaron Cortright, Kevin Hawkins

“…The mean (standard deviation [SD]) age was 42.5 (12.2) years. The majority of patients (86.7%) expressed high satisfaction (i.e., rated either 4 [satisfied] or 5 [extremely satisfied] on a 5-point Likert scale) in study population. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 SPIKE Antibody Levels can Indicate Immuno-Resilience to Re-infection: a Real-World Study by Yue Jin, Fei Yang, Christopher M. Rank, Stanley Letovsky, Peter Ramge, Simon Jochum

“…Subgroup analyses showed a consistent association between antibody levels and infection risk, by immune status and age. Clinically meaningful thresholds of antibody titers varied between Delta and Omicron infections. …”
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The Usefulness of the Pressure Algometer in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Orofacial Pain Patients: A Systematic Review by Agata Kamińska, Bartosz Dalewski, Ewa Sobolewska

“…The studies covered a total of 4403 adult patients, aged 16-62, and 30 children. The studies investigated the reliability and validity of the PPT (measured by a pressure algometer) in TMD patients. …”
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Feasibility of remote robot empowered teleultrasound scanning for radioactive patients by Ying Liang, Lu Wang, Manuel Escobar Amoresa, Zirui Jiang, Bo Yu, Jiami Li, Man Lu

“…Among 32 patients (mean age, 54.9 ± 9.8 [SD]; 16 women), 29 had consistent diagnoses and 3 had inconsistent diagnoses between two scans, but the diagnostic consistency was good (Kappa = 0.818, P < 0.001). …”
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Urinary concentrations of arsenic species in older Dutch adults and risk of chronic kidney disease by Hannah P. McKeon, Weiluan Chen, Jan Dirk te Biesebeek, Nanette G. Vrijenhoek, Jacqueline J.M. Castenmiller, Marcel J.B. Mengelers

“…To assess the risk of internal As exposure, toxic relevant arsenic (TRA) (sum of arsenite (As(III)), arsenate (As(V)), and their methylation metabolites, monomethylarsonate (MMA) and dimethylarsinate (DMA)) in urine should be used.Morning urine samples of 288 Dutch adults (aged 52–91 years) were analysed for As(III), As(V), MMA, DMA, arsenobetaine (AsB) and total As using ICP-MS. …”
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Adenoviral Pneumonia Outbreak in Immunocompetent Adults—A Missed Antimicrobial Stewardship Opportunity? by Branimir Gjurasin, Lorna Stemberger Maric, Tvrtko Jukic, Leona Radmanic Matotek, Snjezana Zidovec Lepej, Marko Kutlesa, Neven Papic

“…<b>Results</b>: Fifty-eight patients with AdV CAP were included; 81% were males, with a median age of 33 (IQR 28–41) years and 62% without any comorbidities. …”
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Exploring barriers to early breast examination and screening among Arab women in the MENA region: A KAP study by Ehsan Qtaishat, Reem Al-Ajlouni, Khawlah Ammar, Mohammed Liswi, Abdallah Al-Ani, Rasha Fakheraldeen, Shorouq Al-hasson

“…Conversely, while nearly half of the sample practices clinical breast examinations (CBE) or mammography (MM), less than 50 % were knowledgeable abouts their proper frequencies or suitable age. In terms of barriers, lack of current breast issues and lack of knowledge were the most commonly reported barriers to all three forms of early breast cancer detection methods. …”
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University students’ ambition levels and vocational tendencies associated with common culture by H. A. Danaa, M. M. Al-mzary, W. N. Halasa, L. M. Obeidat, M. A. Rababah, M. Kh. Al-Alawneh

“…Besides, universities are recommended to focus on ways of developing the ambition level among students by raising parents’ awareness to set a good example to their children, bring them up from an early age to be ambitious and promote their ambition level.…”
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Impaired Fibrinolysis in Angiographically Documented Coronary Artery Disease by Adriano Basques Fernandes, Luciana Moreira Lima, Marinez Oliveira Sousa, Vicente de Paulo Coelho Toledo, Rashid Saeed Kazmi, Bashir Abdulgader Lwaleed, Maria das Graças Carvalho

“…We measured plasma levels of PAI-1 and TAFI antigen in 123 patients with age ranging from 40 to 65 years who had been submitted to coronary angiography and assessed the association of these markers with the extent of stenosis in three groups: angiographically normal artery (NAn), mild to moderate atheromatosis (MA), and severe atheromatosis (SA). …”
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Assessing Nutritional Knowledge and Physical Health Among Football Players: A Pilot Study from Three Sports Clubs in Western Romania by Gabriel Roberto Marconi, Brigitte Osser, Gyongyi Osser, Caius Calin Miuța, Csongor Toth, Viorel Petru Ardelean, Anca Dicu, Corina Dalia Toderescu, Laura Ioana Bondar

“…This study investigates these factors in male football players aged 16–33 years. Methods: The study involved 60 male football players from three teams in Liga4Arad. …”
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Stigmatization of people with mental illness – a matter of milieu-specific worldviews? Results from a population-based survey in Germany by Jenny Spahlholz, Eva Baumann, Sven Speerforck, Sven Speerforck, Christian Sander, Christian Sander, Matthias C. Angermeyer, Georg Schomerus, Georg Schomerus

“…We used a milieu approach to investigate how shared social, cultural and political orientations and expectations are associated with manifestations of the mental-illness related stigma.MethodsWe analyzed cross-sectional data from 3,042 adults aged ≥18 years from a national vignette-based representative survey on the stigma of mental illness in Germany from 2020. …”
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Prevalence of Soil-Transmitted Helminth and Schistosoma mansoni Infection and Their Associated Factors among Hiruy Abaregawi Primary School Children, Rural Debre Tabor, North West... by Lemma Workineh, Teklehaimanot Kiros, Shewaneh Damtie, Tesfaye Andualem, Bizualem Dessie

“…In Ethiopia, 25.3 and 12.3 million school-age children are living in soil-transmitted helminth and schistosomiasis endemic areas, respectively. …”
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Nutrient cycling characteristics along a chronosequence of forest primary succession in the Hailuogou Glacier retreat area, eastern Tibetan Plateau by Danli Yang, Ji Luo, Shumiao Shu, Yan Hu, Hongsong Tang, Xuemei Li

“…Background The Hailuogou Glacier has been continuously retreating since the end of the Little Ice Age, resulting in a 125-year soil chronosequence and a complete primary forest succession sequence. …”
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Cost drivers associated with autologous stem-cell transplant (ASCT) in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in a Japanese real-world setting: A structura... by Saaya Tsutsué, Shinichi Makita, Hiroya Asou, Shingo Wada, Wen Shi Lee, Dilinuer Ainiwaer, Koki Idehara, Sona-Sanae Aoyagi, Seok-Won Kim, Todd Taylor

“…A total of 108 patients (3.8%) among all DLBCL patients who received SCT met the eligibility criteria and were considered ASCT patients; majority of which were males (n = 63, 58.33%), with a mean [median] (SD) age of 52.04 [55] (9.88) years. A total of 15 patients (13.89%) received subsequent therapies. …”
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Viral and immune dynamics of genital human papillomavirus infections in young women with high temporal resolution. by Nicolas Tessandier, Baptiste Elie, Vanina Boué, Christian Selinger, Massilva Rahmoun, Claire Bernat, Sophie Grasset, Soraya Groc, Anne-Sophie Bedin, Thomas Beneteau, Marine Bonneau, Christelle Graf, Nathalie Jacobs, Tsukushi Kamiya, Marion Kerioui, Julie Lajoie, Imène Melki, Jean-Luc Prétet, Bastien Reyné, Géraldine Schlecht-Louf, Mircea T Sofonea, Olivier Supplisson, Chris Wymant, Vincent Foulongne, Jérémie Guedj, Christophe Hirtz, Marie-Christine Picot, Jacques Reynes, Vincent Tribout, Édouard Tuaillon, Tim Waterboer, Michel Segondy, Ignacio G Bravo, Nathalie Boulle, Carmen Lía Murall, Samuel Alizon

“…We enrolled 189 women aged from 18 to 25 and living in the area of Montpellier (France) between 2016 and 2020. …”
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Effects of tropicamide and compound tropicamide eye drops on ocular biological parameters and choroid thickness in children by Mengyue Xu, Na Li, Yan Liu, Yaru Chen, Shuping Xie, Jianfeng Wang

“…Methods In this study, seventy pediatric subjects aged 6 to 13 years were randomly assigned to two groups: the tropicamide group and compound tropicamide group. …”
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Differences in EEG complexity of cognitive activities among subtypes of schizophrenia by Hang Qi, Jilin Zou, Zhenzhen Yao, Gaofeng Zhao, Jing Zhang, Chunlei Liu, Min Chen

“…The study sample comprised 30 healthy controls, 19 patients with deficit schizophrenia, and 19 patients with non-deficit schizophrenia, all aged between 18 and 45 years. Cognitive abilities were evaluated using a change detection task. …”
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Who is engaging with lateral flow testing for COVID-19 in the UK? The COVID-19 Rapid Survey of Adherence to Interventions and Responses (CORSAIR) study by Nicola T Fear, Susan Michie, Richard Amlot, G James Rubin, Louise E Smith, Henry WW Potts

“…Objectives To investigate uptake of lateral flow testing, reporting of test results and psychological, contextual and socio-demographic factors associated with testing.Design A series of four fortnightly online cross-sectional surveys.Setting Data collected from 19 April 2021 to 2 June 2021.Participants People living in England and Scotland, aged 18 years or over, excluding those who reported their most recent test was a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test (n=6646, n≈1600 per survey).Main outcome measures Having completed at least one lateral flow test (LFT) in the last 7 days.Results We used binary logistic regressions to investigate factors associated with having taken at least one LFT. …”
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Extraction Socket Seal Technique for Socket Preservation after Tooth Extraction: An Innovative Approach. by Abduljaleel Azad Samad, Jodal M Ahmed, Hundren M Ali, Omed Shihab, Ahmed Haider, Dainius Karpavicius

“…Results: The proposed technique has been successfully performed in twenty-three cases; 13 cases were male and 10 cases were female; and the mean age of all cases was 32 years. Extraction Socket Seal (ESS) technique utilizing a composite resin lid fabricated from the Cervico system was used as socket sealant placed directly to cover the bone graft, and we found that it provided an excellent “barrier” for the graft without any unwanted complications. …”
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The influencing factors of the erythropoietin resistance index and its association with all-cause mortality in maintenance hemodialysis patients by Xinju Zhao, Liangying Gan, Fan Fan Hou, Xinling Liang, Xiaonong Chen, Yuqing Chen, Zhaohui Ni, Li Zuo

“…A total of 1270 MHD subjects (687 males and 583 females) were included, with an average age of 60 (49.0, 71.0) years. All subjects were divided into two groups by the median ERI of 14.03. …”
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