Burden of Sickle Cell Disease in Ghana: The Korle-Bu Experience by Eugenia V. Asare, Ivor Wilson, Amma A. Benneh-Akwasi Kuma, Yvonne Dei-Adomakoh, Fredericka Sey, Edeghonghon Olayemi

“…A retrospective review of medical records of all SCD patients aged 13 years and above, who presented to the sickle cell clinic at Ghana Institute of Clinical Genetics (GICG), Korle-Bu, from 1st January 2013 to 31st December 2014, was carried out, using a data abstraction instrument to document their phenotypes, demographics, attendance/clinic visits, pattern of attendance, and common complications seen. …”
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Korelasi Kadar Adiponektin dengan Kadar Kolesterol High Density Lipoprotein pada Penyandang Obes by Fiona Septi Mulya, Efrida Efrida, Zelly Dia Rofinda

“…Results: Research subjects 59 people (17 men, 42 women), average age 35 (8.04) years. Adiponectin levels in the first-degree obesity group were higher than second-degree obesity group, with a mean difference between groups 1.03 μg/mL (CI: 95%: 0.14 - 1.92, p = 0.02). …”
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Comparison of [68Ga]Ga-DOTA-FAPI-04 and [18F]FDG PET/MRI in the Preoperative Diagnosis of Gastric Cancer by Tao Du, Shun Zhang, Xi-Mao Cui, Ren-Hao Hu, Hai-Yan Wang, Jian-Juan Jiang, Jun Zhao, Lan Zhong, Xiao-Hua Jiang

“…The standard uptake value (SUV), fat removal standard uptake value (SUL), and diagnostic sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy for primary and metastatic lesions were compared, and their diagnostic value for different lymph node dissection stages was analyzed. Results. The median age of the patients in this cohort was 68 years. …”
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Work-related well-being in early career: A role of self-compassion by Kristýna Krejčová, Igor Krejčí, Hana Chýlová, Pavla Rymešová, Pavel Michálek

“…Self-compassion-based interventions could help prevent the negative effects of compulsive and excessive work. Possible age-related explanations for the positive relationship between work engagement and workaholism (i.e., excessive work) are discussed. …”
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Availability of Emergency Department Wait Times Information: A Patient-Centered Needs Assessment by Samantha Calder-Sprackman, Edmund S. H. Kwok, Renee Bradley, Jeffrey Landreville, Jeffrey J. Perry, Lisa A. Calder

“…We included waiting room patients over 18 years of age and excluded patients directly referred to a specialty service or who did not speak French or English. …”
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El papel de la gobernanza de la pesca en el logro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible: un estudio exploratorio desde las imágenes de los agentes de interés en la Región de Mu... by Simón Hernández Aguado, María Eugenia Sánchez, Ignacio Segado Segado

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Reliability Testing of Machine Learning Model Prediction Capability towards Unidentifiable Microplastic Spectral Data: Triple Battery and Colorant Investigation by Wesley A. Williams, Shyam Aravamudhan

“…A threefold battery; synthetic data (SD), mixed synthetic data (MSD), and real-world data from an FTIR Library of Plastic Particles sourced from the Environment (FLOPP-E) and a [Raman] Spectral Library of Plastic Particles aged in the Environment (SLOPP-E); was administered for reliability. …”
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The touristification of urban spaces: measurement proposal by Manuel De la Calle Vaquero, Carmen Mínguez García, María García Hernández

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Effects of Dietary Strawberry Supplementation on Antioxidant Biomarkers in Obese Adults with Above Optimal Serum Lipids by Arpita Basu, Stacy Morris, Angel Nguyen, Nancy M. Betts, Dongxu Fu, Timothy J. Lyons

“…We examined the antioxidant effects of freeze-dried strawberries (FDS) in adults [n=60; age: 49±10 years; BMI: 36±5 kg/m2 (mean ± SD)] with abdominal adiposity and elevated serum lipids. …”
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Late Pennsylvanian vegetation dynamics of the Donets Basin, Ukraine by Nataliya Boyarina

“…The dynamics of the Late Pennsylvanian vegetation cover of the Donets Basin is represented by a succession of formations of new plant communities (phytocoenogenesis) of a wetland forest and woodland biome and a seasonally dry woodland biome because of the changing landscape and climate conditions resulting from the glacio-eustatic changes during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age. The Late Pennsylvanian vegetation consisted of plant communities of wetland marattialean fern-dominated forests on coastal lowlands and wetland lycopsid-fern forests on deltaic plains in the Kasimovian as well as wetland marattialean fern-dominated forests with new dominants on coastal lowlands and wetland lycopsid-pteridosperm-calamitalean-fern forests with new dominants on deltaic plains in the early Gzhelian that were formed according to the evolutionary progressive model of phytocoenogenesis under conditions of an expansion of coastal lowlands and deltaic plains inthe long-term period of a relatively stable higher sea level with frequent sea level fluctuations during the late Kasimovian–early-mid-Gzhelian interglacial interval. …”
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Iron:The missing link of depression prevention and treatment by reza pakzad, Mohammadamin Jandaghian Bidgoli, fatemeh abdi, negin shaterian

“…Based on the meta-regression result, the sample size, participant age, and publication year had no significant role in heterogeneity between studies. …”
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Perioperative complications following spinal fusion in idiopathic scoliosis: A review of 825 cases from the German Spine Registry (DWG-register) – Perioperative complications in id... by Juan Manuel Vinas-Rios, Vincent J. Heck, Fatima Azucena Medina-Govea, Mario Alberto Islas-Aguilar, Nikolaus Kernich

“…Inclusion criteria: IS, age between 10 and 30 years. Results: In total, 825 IS patients undergoing fusion were identified in the registry; n = 801 (Group 1) did not have operative complications and n = 24 had a complication related to surgical procedure (Group 2); therefore, the complications rate was 2.9%. …”
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Assessment of Pathological Response of Breast Carcinoma in Modified Radical Mastectomy Specimens after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy by Dhanya Vasudevan, P. S. Jayalakshmy, Suresh Kumar, Siji Mathew

“…Clinically small sized tumors (2–5 cms) and Bloom Richardson’s grade 1 tumors showed a pCR. Mean age at presentation was 50.58 yrs. 79.2% of cases were invasive ductal carcinoma NOS; only 2.1% were invasive lobular carcinoma, their response to NAT being the same. …”
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Korelasi Glukosa Kapiler Metode Glucose Dehidrogenase-Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Dengan Glukosa Serum Metode Heksokinase by Syarifah Tridani Fitria, Rismawati Yaswir, Efrida Efrida

“…Results: The subjects were 28 male (66.7%),14 female (33.3%) with mean age and hematocrit level was 56.12±12.97 years and 40.90±2.42%, respectively. …”
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Quality of life in people living with HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder: A scoping review study. by Kate Alford, Stephanie Daley, Sube Banerjee, Jaime H Vera

“…The initiatives which advocate for healthy aging and improved QoL in PLWH must be extended to include and understand the experiences those also living with cognitive impairment. …”
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Analysis of risk factors for benign central airway stenosis after COVID-19 infection by Ruiyang Wang, Jiuling Cheng, Yuping Zhang, Huaqi Wang

“…The results of the univariate analysis indicated that age, sex, liver function (as measured by alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase values), renal function (creatinine values), diabetes mellitus, fungal airway infections, tuberculosis, and nutritional status (albumin values) were identified as risk factors for benign central airway stenosis following COVID-19 infection (P < 0.05). …”
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Laminoplasty and In‐Site Regrafting for the Treatment of Thoracic Ossification of the Ligamentum Flavum: A Surgical Technique by Hu Qian, Xiuqian Wang, Ting Lei, Jun Ao, Jianpu Qin

“…Methods This retrospective study reported the outcome of eight consecutive patients (3 males and 5 females, mean age 52.87 years) with TOLF who underwent LPIR surgery from January 2019 to March 2024. …”
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The minimal clinically important difference of the Participation Measurement Scale in chronic stroke by Oyéné Kossi, Soraia M. Silva, Francesco Lena, Mendinatou Agbetou, Thierry Adoukonou, Peter Feys, Félix Nindorera

“…Results: Data were collected from 46 people with chronic stroke, of which 22% were female, with median (Percentile 25, Percentile 75) age of 54 (44; 60) years, and time since stroke is 24 (11; 37) months. …”
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Crimean-Ottoman Factor in the Socio-Cultural System of Russia in Early Modern Times by T. V. Chernikova

“…Questions were raised about the reasons for the rapid territorial expansion of the Russian state in the second half of the 15-17 centuries, as well as its high competitiveness in foreign policy both in relations with its western neighbors and in the eastern direction.For the states of Western Europe with the beginning of their modernization, modern age has come, however “Muscovy” in the 15-17 centuries remained a medieval country. …”
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Maternal healthcare service utilisation and associated factors among mothers in a rural Wolaita, southern Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study by Wondimagegn Paulos Kumma, Abera Kuche

“…Objective To assess the level of maternal healthcare service utilisation and related factors to its frequency of care among mothers who gave birth in the previous 2 years before the survey in rural Wolaita, southern Ethiopia.Design Cross-sectional survey.Setting This study was undertaken in Kindo Didaye, rural Wolaita, southern Ethiopia, from February to March 2016.Participants Out of 552 who gave birth, 544 (98.5%) mothers aged between 15 and 49 years, selected using two-stage random sampling, participated in the study.Outcome measures Maternal healthcare service utilisation frequency and proportion and associated factors.Result The proportion of maternal healthcare service utilisation was 59.38% (95% CI: 55.11% to 63.53%), with 50.74% (95% CI: 46.45% to 55.01%), 16.18% (95% CI: 13.18% to 19.54%) and 31.80% (95% CI: 27.90% to 35.90%) prevalence of antenatal care (ANC), delivery care and postnatal care (PNC), respectively. …”
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