Social Cognition in Patients with Early-Onset Parkinson’s Disease by Ana Natalia Seubert-Ravelo, Ma Guillermina Yáñez-Téllez, María Lizbeth Lazo-Barriga, Alejandra Calderón Vallejo, Carlos Eduardo Martínez-Cortés, Adela Hernández-Galván

“…Twenty-five nondemented patients with EOPD and 25 controls matched for sex, age, and educational level were enrolled. A battery that included six SC tests was administered to all study participants; a decision-making scale was completed by participants’ partners. …”
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Diet supplementation with phytase and xylanase on laying performance, egg quality, apparent metabolizable energy, and phosphorous use in laying hens by Autchara Kayan, Sombat Prasongsook, Theerawit Poeikhampha

“…Materials and Methods: A total of 576 laying hens, aged 47 weeks, were randomly assigned to four dietary treatments: (T1) a control diet, (T2) a negative control diet with reduced energy and phosphorus, (T3) T2 supplemented with phytase (50 g/ton) and xylanase (100 g/ton), and (T4) T2 supplemented with phytase and NSP enzyme mix. …”
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Incidence and Anatomical Properties of Retromolar Canal in an Iranian Population: A Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Study by N. Nikkerdar, A. Golshah, M. Norouzi, S. Falah-Kooshki

“…The relationship between the presence of RC and age, sex, side, and presence of second and third molars was also evaluated. …”
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Outcome of Chair-Side Dental Fear Treatment: Long-Term Follow-Up in Public Health Setting by T. Kankaala, T. Määttä, M. Tolvanen, S. Lahti, V. Anttonen

“…All information was available for 163 patients (mean age 8.9 y at referral). Study population was dominated by males (58.0%). …”
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Long-term Effects of COVID-19 on Sleep Patterns by Salma Batool-Anwar, Olabimpe S. Fashanu, Stuart F. Quan

“…RESULTS: Two hundred and forty-six completed surveys were analyzed. Average age was 53.3±16.3 years, and they were predominantly non-hispanic white (84.1%) and female (74.3%). …”
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Inter-pregnancy interval and associated factors among parous women in neighboring low-land ecologies of arsi & east shoa zone, southeast Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional... by Gebi Husein Jima, Regien Biesma, Tegbar Yigzaw Sendekie, Jelle Stekelenburg

“…After multiple logistic regression analysis, women with primary education, women who believed that low contraceptive use contributed to SIPI, women who thought SIPI could impact small for gestational age, and women who thought SIPI could affect birth defects had a lower chance of having SIPI; aOR of 0.54 (95% CI: 0.30–0.79), 0.33 (95% CI: 0.16–0.68), 0.57 (95% CI: 0.32–0.94 and 0.63 (95% CI: 0.40–0.96), respectively. …”
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مداخلة علمیة حول النشر العلمى فى مصادر الوصول الحر Open Access بین التأیید والرفض by Gamal Al Dahshan

“…Manysocieties and institutions have embraced this movement and invested its variouscomponents in order to facilitate the flow of information not only in thesecommunities but throughout the world , This movement originated primarily as asolution to the problem of scientific communication, access to scientific researchat the time of publication or after a short period of time, and overcome theproblem of rising costs of participation in the traditional periodicals and theinability of libraries and individuals to bear the steady increase in this Field.We believe that although we believe that the scientific publishing in thesources of free access is the natural development of scientific publishing in thedigital age, we see at the same time the need to establish controls and conditionsand even standards to ensure its quality, and provide credibility to the clients andit is still not But with the revolution of electronic information and the ease of whatis described as the globalization of knowledge on the one hand, and the high costs of subscription imposed by the traditional publishing houses on the otherhand, it does not seem realistic to maintain the traditional form of publishing theexistence of the usual form, Of periodicals issued p A long-standing publishingrole for a mixed model combines the traditional model with this modelHence, openness should be open to the issue of publishing in the sourcesof free access, in addition to caution against falling into the trap of anonymouspublishers whose goal is to profit at the expense of the quality of what theypublish. …”
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Composite dietary antioxidant index is inversely and nonlinearly associated with cardiovascular disease, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and cardiovascular mortality in peo... by Yan Jiang, Yingying Shen

“…Restricted cubic spline and threshold effects analyses indicated that CDAI was nonlinearly associated with CVD/ASCVD, with significant associations occurring only when CDAI≤0; however, the association of CDAI with CVD mortality was observed only when CDAI > −2. Furthermore, age, sex, and drinking were found to modify the association of CDAI with CVD/ASCVD, while body mass index influenced the relationship between CDAI and CVD mortality.ConclusionCDAI was inversely and nonlinearly associated with both CVD/ASCVD events and CVD mortality in dyslipidemic populations. …”
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The Effect of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Monoclonal Antibodies on Quality of Life among Migraine Patients: Pilot Study at the Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Scien... by Monika Remenčiūtė, Greta Varžaitytė, Gintarė Žemgulytė

“…The effect of the medications was evaluated after 3-month period.Results: The mean age of patients was 37.17 (±11.78) years. It was found that 17 patients (41.5%) had episodic migraine (EM) and 24 (58.5%) had chronic migraine (CM). …”
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Catastrophizing Has a Better Prediction for TMD Than Other Psychometric and Experimental Pain Variables by Lisa Willassen, Anders Arne Johansson, Siv Kvinnsland, Kordian Staniszewski, Trond Berge, Annika Rosén

“…Sixty TMD patients were matched by sex and age to sixty healthy individuals without TMD symptoms or other musculoskeletal symptoms in the head and neck region. …”
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Textbook outcome in ovarian cancer and its impact on survival: comparative study by Silvia Carbonell-Morote, Alvaro Arjona-Sánchez, Pedro Antonio Cascales-Campos, Alida González-Gil, Gonzalo Gomez-Dueñas, Elena Gil-Gómez, Iban Caravaca-García, Veronica Aranaz, Francisco Javier Lacueva, José Manuel Ramia

“…Multivariate analysis confirmed postsurgical PCI, age, HIPEC, and time of surgery in minutes as an independent factor of TOOC. …”
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Translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the composite physical function scale in Chinese community-dwelling older adults by Jiaying Qi, Jing Xu, Hui Zhang, Mingshuai Feng, Hongyan Meng, Li Wang

“…Construct validity analysis revealed a significant difference in C-CPF scores amongst older adults in groups of different ages, regular exercise and physical activity habits (P < 0.01). …”
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Early childhood caries and their association with serum iron, serum ferritin, serum albumin, and Vitamin D by Vasundhara Megha, Jeevendra Nath Shukla, Rajat Kumar Singh, Chitrita Gupta Mukherjee, Siddharth Anand, Aparna Singh

“…A total of 200 children aged between 3–6 years were screened for ECC, according to the AAPD guidelines. …”
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Assessment of Hearing Ability in Patients after Head and Neck Cancer Radiotherapy by Sohaila Yazdani, Kolsoum Teimouri, Negin Farshchian, Karim Khoshgard

“…Material and Methods: The study included 34 patients (22 men, 12 women, mean age 40.13 ± 26.8 years) with head and neck cancers undergoing three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT); 16 also had chemoradiotherapy (CRT). …”
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Exploring patient-centered barriers to hemophilia care in Southern Nigeria: Study Protocol by Eguzo K, Ekwere T, Kirikareye B, Okoye H, Egharevba P, Oluoha C

“…For the PLwH, their average age was 37±19 years and had been associated with hemophilia for about 10 years (IQR: 2,12). …”
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Analgesic efficacy of serratus anterior plane block v/s thoracic paravertebral nerve block in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgeries: A prospective randomized study by Jaya Lalwani, Sonali Sahu, Vritika Manghnani

“…Methods: Eighty patients scheduled for VATS under general anaesthesia, aged 18-65 years, ASA grade II & III were randomised to receive either SAP block (Group A) or TPV block (group B) after induction. …”
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An Unusual Presentation of Glandular Fever by Dominic Worku, Li Hui Chang, Ian Blyth

“…Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is an ubiquitous DNA herpesvirus with >90% of adults >40 years of age showing a serological response. While in their youth, primary EBV infection may pass unnoticed, young adults have a high incidence of infectious mononucleosis (IM). …”
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Efficacy and safety of camrelizumab combined with chemotherapy as second-line treatment for locally advanced, recurrent, or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by Yinfang Gu, Xiaofang Zou, Junlin Zhu, Guowu Wu

“…Additionally, the median OS was significantly improved in the combination therapy group compared to the chemotherapy group (11.7 months vs. 6.5 months, P = 0.003). Age and history of radical surgery were significantly associated with OS in patients receiving camrelizumab combined with chemotherapy as second-line treatment (P < 0.05). …”
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Pediatric and adolescent cancer disparities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: incidence, mortality, and survival across socioeconomic strata by Ankita Shukla, Rouba Karen Zeidan, Basema Saddik

“…The analysis was restricted to children and adolescents aged less than 20 years. Mortality- to-Incidence ratios (MIR) were calculated as a proxy measure of survival for each cancer type and country and Spearman’s correlation coefficient measured the association between socio-demographic index (SDI), incidence rates, mortality rates, and MIR. …”
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New paleomagnetic data on the Permian-Triassic sedimentary sections of the Moscow syneclise by A.M. Fetisova, R.V. Veselovskiy, M.P. Arefiev

“…The study is important and intriguing due to the current lack of any representative and reliable paleomagnetic data on the Permian-Triassic age for Eurasia. These data can be helpful for testing the hypothesis about the possibility of relative movements of Eurasia’s lithospheric blocks in the post-Paleozoic time, as well as about the geocentric axial dipole in the Paleozoic and Mesozoic. …”
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