The Naples Score: Can it Outperform Existing Scores in Predicting Gastric Cancer Mortality? by Bahadır Kartal, Mehmet Berksun Tutan, Fatih Şahin, Ertugrul Gazi Alkurt

“…Data collected included age, gender, operation type, laparoscopy usage, albumin, cholesterol, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio, mortality rates, and TNM stages. …”
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Farmer perceptions toward the adoption of agroforestry practices: a case study of northwestern Ethiopia by Mulunesh Yayehrad Gashu, Demamu Mesfin, Tadsual Asfaw Dessie

“…The results of the binary logit model indicated that the adoption of agroforestry practices was influenced by factors such as sex, educational status, access to extension services, family size, soil fertility, farmland size, and slope of farmland. In contrast, age, distance to farmland, land tenure, livestock size, farm experience, and market distance were not significant. …”
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The Risk Factors of Self-Management Behavior among Chinese Stroke Patients by Huang Shuqi, Li Siqin, Wu Xiaoyan, Yang Rong, Zhao Lihong

“…Multivariate analysis showed that the way of paying medical expenses (OR = 3.215, 95% CI (1.130, 7.769)), self-management efficacy (OR = 2.467, 95% CI (1.534, 3.968)), health education before discharge (OR = 2.354, 95% CI (1.457, 3.802)), age (elder) (OR = 2.060, 95% CI (1.265, 3.355)), educational level (OR = 1.869, 95% CI (1.169, 2.988)), and mRS score (OR = 1.850, 95% CI (1.129, 3.031)) were statistically significant (P < 0.05). …”
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Investigation of Scutellaria Barbata’s immunological mechanism against thyroid cancer using network pharmacology and experimental validation by Gen Ouyang, Yuangui Zhu, Zhehao Ouyang

“…KEGG enrichment analysis suggested that the anticancer effect of SBH might be mediated through signaling pathways such as AGE-RAGE and PI3K-Akt. TCGA data indicated that SPP1 is highly expressed in TC and is associated with diagnosis, pathological stage, N stage, and gender of TC patients. …”
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Association between neutrophil-albumin ratio and ultrasound-defined metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease in U.S. adults: evidence from NHANES 2017–2018 by Ming-yu He, Xin-jie Du, Yi-ming Liu

“…Methods This population-based study was performed using data from NHANES 2017–2018 and included 4526 individuals with a median age of 44 years old, and the males account for 46.13% (n = 2088). …”
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Linguistic means of creating an image of a person with intellectual disabilities in D. Keyes’s novel «Flowers for Algernon» by Olga Kanevska, Iryna Klymenko

“…The depiction of the image of a character in a literary work involves giving him speech abilities in accordance with all factors that affect the course of speech, its qualitative and quantitative characteristics (personal, mental, psychological, age, social, national, regional). The analysis of the novel by D. …”
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Visible Goiter among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Clinic in Public Health Facilities of Debre Markos Town, East Gojjam, North West Ethiopia by Yihun Endalamaw, Haji Kedir, Tadesse Alemayehu

“…Visible goiter was more common in the age category between 15 and 19 years. Low household income (AOR = 4.5, 95% CI: 1.1–18.7), cabbage intake (AOR = 5.2, 95% CI: 1.2–22.3), and poor knowledge about the benefits of iodized salt (AOR = 2.4, 95% CI: 1.1, 5.2) were factors associated with visible goiter. …”
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The Effect of Information Therapy Program of Quitting Smoking in Parents of Children with Asthma by Nicotine Replacement by Sedigheh Mohammadesmaeili, Nahid Ramzanghorbani, Shiba Kianmehr

“…Materials and Methods: This case-control study included 100 children aged 6-10 years with asthma who had their parents smoking in the Allergy Department of the Children's Medical Center of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. …”
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Rehabilitation Therapy Utilization in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease in Korea by Han Gil Seo, Sang Jun Park, Jiah Seo, Seong Jun Byun, Byung-Mo Oh

“…There were no remarkable differences between these rates between the study periods. Sex, age, income, disability, and levodopa-equivalent dose were significantly associated with the utilization of rehabilitation therapy. …”
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CURRENT APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT OF BIOSIMILAR PRODUCTS CONTAINING MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES AS AN ACTIVE SUBSTANCE – NON-CLINICAL AND CLINICAL STUDIES OF THE FIRST RUSSIAN RITUXIMAB BI... by S. M. Alekseev, K. D. Kaplanov, R. A. Ivanov, E. V. Chernyaeva

“…Evaluation of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, safety and efficacy of rituximab biosimilar (Acellbia,  BIOCAD, Russia) used as  monotherapy in patients with indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in comparison with the parameters of innovator rituximab – MabThera.Materials and methods. 92 patients (aged 18 years and older with diagnosed CD20-positive follicular non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, stage II-IV by Ann Arbor, 1-2 histologic grade, or marginal zone lymphoma) were enrolled into the study. …”
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Cardiac hydatid cyst: case series and review of the literature by Jingjie Wang, Xing Liu, Yierzhati Aizezi, Wenzhe Li, Jingnan Xu, Yi Wang, Xiangyou Yu

“…Results We retrospectively analyzed 14 patients diagnosed with cardiac and pericardial echinococcosis between 2012 and 2024 at our hospital. The patients’ average age was 26 years, ranging from 3 to 60 years. Echinococcal cysts were found in various cardiac locations, including the pericardium (5 patients), left ventricle (3 patients), right atrium (2 patients), and apical region of the heart (1 patient). …”
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Assessment of fluoride bio-accessibility in early childhood diets by Jelena Kronic, Ralph M. Duckworth, Claudio Angione, Steven M. Levy, Fatemeh Vida Zohoori

“…This study aimed to measure fluoride bio-accessibility of the dietary sources commonly consumed by children below four years of age.MethodsA total of 103 food and meal samples were purchased, prepared, and analyzed for fluoride content, subjected to a standardized static in vitro digestion procedure and subsequent determination of fluoride concentration of resultant mixtures necessary for the final fluoride bio-accessibility calculation. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 ORF3a accessory protein is a water-permeable channel that induces lysosome swelling by Antonio Michelucci, Luigi Sforna, Riccardo Focaia, Maria Vittoria Leonardi, Angela Di Battista, Giorgia Rastelli, Simone Vespa, Simona Boncompagni, Manlio Di Cristina, Luigi Catacuzzeno

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Improved symptomatic, functional, and fluoroscopic outcomes following serial “series of three” double-balloon dilation for cricopharyngeus muscle dysfunction by Derrick R. Randall, Lisa M. Evangelista, Maggie A. Kuhn, Peter C. Belafsky

“…Results Seventeen patients with CPMD underwent serial double-balloon dilation procedures separated by one month. Mean age of the cohort was 73.5 (SD ± 13.3) years, and 53% were female. …”
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COVID-19 Infection Clinical Profile, Management, Outcome, and Antibody Response in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Single Centre Experience by Sanjiv Jasuja, Gaurav Sagar, Anupam Bahl, Shalini Verma

“…Significant mortality (p<0.001) was observed in patients presenting with SpO2 <94 needing ICU care, ventilation, dialysis/acute kidney injury (AKI), and empirical therapies like convalescent plasma and remdesivir. The age of survivors versus nonsurvivors was not significantly different (p=0.02). …”
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High-intensive physical rehabilitation approach in children and adolescents with acquired brain injury during subacute phase (REHABILITY): a feasibility study protocol by Jan Willem Gorter, Christiaan Gmelig Meyling, Olaf Verschuren, Ingrid Rentinck, Irene van der Steen, Raoul Engelbert

“…We aim to include 10–15 children and adolescents aged 6–20 years with moderate-severe ABI during subacute rehabilitation in a specialised youth department for inpatient rehabilitation in The Netherlands. …”
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Conspiracy theories and COVID-19: Coping mechanism or cognitive dissonance? A longitudinal study by Livio TARCHI, Francesco CHIRICO, Eleonora ROSSI, Emanuele CASSIOLI, Kavita BATRA, Pietro CRESCENZO, Amelia RIZZO, Giovanni CASTELLINI, Valdo RICCA

“…The variables of interest included age, gender, education, occupation, relationship status, life-time infection status, belief in conspiracy theories, adherence to lockdown measures, and vaccine hesitancy. …”
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Wish-Granting Interventions Promote Positive Emotions in Both the Short and Long Term in Children with Critical Illnesses and Their Families by Hannah Roberts, Jenny Cook, Apple Lee, Wei Kok Loh, Nigel Teo, Joanne Su Yin Yoong, Marguerite Gorter-Stam

“…Methods: A large-scale international survey was distributed to children (aged 13–17 years old in 2023) and their parents across 24 countries who received a wish-granting intervention in the preceding five years by Make-A-Wish Foundation International. …”
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To study the role of tofacitinib and betamethasone pulse in the treatment of vitiligo at a tertiary care centre: an observational comparative study by Rashmi Singh, Surabhi Shandilya, Kamalpreet Kaur Bhaikhel, Gopi Krishna Maddali

“…Methodology: All the patients with vitiligo of age >12 years attending the dermatology clinic of our institute and willing to give written informed consent were included in the study. …”
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The Evaluation of In-Hospital Transportation of Emergency Room Critically Ill Patients by Turan Tahirli, Sercan Yalçınlı, Yusuf Ali Altuncı

“…Results:Of the 588 patients included in the study, 36.9% were female and 63.1% were male, with an average age of 61.9 years. The average transport time for patients transferred for examination, admission, or interventional procedures was 18.5 minutes. 63.3% of the transferred patients sought medical attention during the night shift. …”
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