Current practices in physical fitness assessment and monitoring among coaches of individual and team sports: a survey in Portugal, Spain, and Romania by XiaoYuan Wen, Rui Miguel Silva, Qi Xu, Francisco González-Fernández, Ana Filipa Silva, Georgian Badicu, Xiaodan Guo, Filipe Clemente

“…In terms of exercise intensity determination, Portuguese coaches predominantly employ maximal heart rate (31.6%), while Spanish coaches often rely on the 220-age formula or perceived exertion (27.4%). For strength assessment, Portuguese coaches lean towards direct (34.2%) or estimated (31.6%) maximal repetition methods. …”
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A comprehensive analysis of trends in the burden of gout in China and globally from 1990 to 2021 by Shiwei Xie, Heng Xiao, Lei Xu, Gengwu Li, Fan Zhang, Mingwei Luo

“…Our analysis indicated that middle-aged and elderly populations, particularly males, are at higher risk for gout. …”
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Shared genetic factors and the interactions with fresh fruit intake contributes to four types squamous cell carcinomas. by Mengqing Mo, Can Hou, Huangbo Yuan, Renjia Zhao, Mingyang Chen, Yanfeng Jiang, Kelin Xu, Tiejun Zhang, Xingdong Chen, Chen Suo

“…By integrating a large-scale genotype data of 1,928 Pan-SCCs cases and 7,712 age- and sex-matched controls in the UK Biobank cohort, as well as multiple transcriptome and protein databases, we conducted a multi-omics analysis. …”
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Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as a predictor of short- and long-term complications in pediatric burns by Carlos Delgado-Miguel, Lara Fuentes Gómez, Ada García Morán, Miriam Miguel-Ferrero, Mercedes Díaz, Juan Carlos López-Gutiérrez

“…Results A total of 342 patients (198 males, 144 females) were included, with a median age of 27 months (interquartile range 15–83 months). …”
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Associations of maternal emotional intelligence and coping strategies with diabetes management in adolescents with type 1 diabetes by Dovilė Zaleckytė, Jolanta Žilinskienė

“…Design and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with mothers of adolescents (aged 12–17 years) with type 1 diabetes (n = 75). …”
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ADOPTION OF CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE AMONG VEGETABLE FARMERS IN BASSA, NIGERIA by Godfrey C. Onuwaa, Oludare Adediireb, Cletus Ajomac, Ganiyu Binuyoa

“…Primary data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics, weighted average index and adoption index techniques. The mean age, household size, education (in years), farming experience, farm size were 41 years, 7 people, 7 years, 16 years, and 2ha respectively. …”
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Microperimetric Assessment after Epiretinal Membrane Surgery: 4-Year Follow-Up by Marco Dal Vecchio, Carlo Lavia, Marco Nassisi, Federico M. Grignolo, Antonio M. Fea

“…Methods. 30 eyes of 30 consecutive patients with iERM and age-related cataract underwent 25-gauge vitrectomy and cataract surgery. …”
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The Role of Leaders in Formulation of the Foreign Policy Identity in Egypt by I. E. Ibragimov

“…The predominance of various elements in ideological as well as worldview in the age of the rule of a particular president has led to noticeable differences in Egypt's foreign policy at the current stage. …”
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Prevalence, Treatment, and Associated Factors of Hypertension in Spain: A Comparative Study between Populations by Arturo Corbatón-Anchuelo, María Teresa Martínez-Larrad, Náyade del Prado-González, Cristina Fernández-Pérez, Rafael Gabriel, Manuel Serrano-Ríos

“…Urban young men (31-45 years) and medium aged women (46-60 years) were less BP controlled than their rural counterparts (41.30 versus 65.79 %/p=0.025 and 35.24 versus 53.27 %/p=0.002, respectively).…”
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Microbiota, Prostatitis, and Fertility: Bacterial Diversity as a Possible Health Ally by Jenniffer Puerta Suárez, Walter D. Cardona Maya

“…In this preliminary study, ten volunteers have included 5 volunteers with symptoms of chronic prostatitis (prostatitis group) and five fertile volunteers, asymptomatic for urogenital infections (control group) matched by age. Bacterial diversity analysis was performed using the 16S molecular marker to compare the microbiota present in urine and semen samples from chronic prostatitis symptoms and fertile volunteers. …”
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Factors influencing medication adherence among hypertensive patients in primary care settings in Central Vietnam: A cross-sectional study. by Ho Anh Hien, Nguyen Minh Tam, Huynh Van Minh, Tran Binh Thang, Le Phuoc Hoang, Stefan Heytens, Dirk Devroey, Hoang Anh Tien

“…Several factors significantly influenced their medication adherence, including age, ethnicity, educational level, home blood pressure monitoring, healthy diet, time since hypertension diagnosis, hypertension knowledge, and patient beliefs. …”
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The Prevalence of Occult Celiac Disease among Patients with Functional Dyspepsia: A Study from the Western Region of Iran by Ali Asghar Keshavarz, Homayoon Bashiri, Alireza Ahmadi, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi

“…The study sample included 170 patients with “functional dyspepsia.” Mean age of participants was 31 years and 55.8% were female. …”
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Visfatin Related to the Severity of Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Retrospective Study of 164 Patients at a Tertiary Chest Pain Center by Meifan Zheng, Zhongwei Wu, Chaoquan Liu, Fei Xiao

“…Receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curves demonstrated enhanced prognostic ability when combining visfatin with age, hypertension, and diabetes for multivessel disease (AUC: 0.839, sensitivity: 65.0%, specificity: 89.7%, P<0.001). …”
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Systematic review on the effects of exercise with and without breakfast consumption on cognitive performance in healthy adults by Shu-Shih Hsieh, Yu Tian, Chun-Yuan Cheng, Yung-Chih Chen

“…Five studies, involving 70 participants (42 women, aged between 18 and 50 years) in total (sample size per study: 10–24), were eligible for inclusion in this review. …”
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Novel surgical technique for macular holes with basal diameter >1000 μ by Debdulal Chakraborty, Soumen Mondal, Sabyasachi Sengupta, Subhendu Boral, Arnab Das

“…Secondary outcome measure was a change in VA from baseline to 6-month follow-up and persistent hole closure at the final follow-up of 12 months. The mean age was 67.1 ± 9.1 years. Seven eyes were pseudophakic, and two underwent combined phacoemulsification with MH surgery. …”
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Aplicación de la metodología de valoración biogeográfica "LANBIOEVA" a las agrupaciones vegetales altoandinas de Atacama (Chile) by Mª Cristina Díaz Sanz, Pedro José Lozano Valencia, Roxana Lebuy Castillo, Guillermo Meaza Rodriguez

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Factor analysis of women's low awareness in cervical cancer screening by Fitri Ayatul Azlina, Rieh Firdausi, Vena Marisa, Siti Hizratul Raudah, Rezkia Asma’ul Husna, Nabillah Fatiniah

“…The total sample was 94 people with the criteria being women aged 15 to 59 years, married, living with their husband, and domiciled in Sungai Rangas Ulu Village. …”
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Prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among garment workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Francis Fatoye, Tadesse Gebrye, Chidozie Mbada, Phoebe Apeagyei

“…Most of the included studies (79%) were assessed to be methodologically sound (low risk of bias). The mean age of participants ranged from 24.2 to 40 years. …”
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Resident Doctors' Experiences in Breaking Bad News: The Level of Using Spikes Protocol and Related Factors by Esra Çınar Tanrıverdi, Yasemin Çayır, Banu Çiçek Dilfiruz

“…Significance level was accepted as P&lt;.05.Results: Of the participants, 57.3% (n=133 were male, 57.3% (n=133) were married, and 70.3% (n=163) were working in internal sciences. Mean age was 29±3.5 years, and mean total working time was 4.5±3.3 years. 64.7% (n=150) had no pre-graduation training in giving bad news, and 90.9% (n=211) had no post-graduation training. 38% felt competent, 35.8% found difficulty in giving bad news. 60.8% devoted enough time to interviews, 24.1% arranged quiet rooms, and 43.1% used warning sentences, and 75.9% empathized, 69% had quiet rooms during interviews. …”
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Brain Tumor Detection and Classification Using IFF-FLICM Segmentation and Optimized ELM Model by Suvashisa Dash, Mohammed Siddique, Satyasis Mishra, Demissie J. Gelmecha, Sunita Satapathy, Davinder Singh Rathee, Ram Sewak Singh

“…Brain cancer deaths are significantly increased in all categories of aged persons due to the abnormal growth of brain tumor tissues in the brain. …”
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