Muscle Activity and Kinematics During Three Hamstring Strengthening Exercises Compared to Sprinting: A Cross-Sectional Study. by Adelso Jorge, Eric Lichtenstein, Oliver Faude, Ralf Roth

“… # Results Eight male athletes were included (age: 24.0 years ± SD 2.9; body mass: 76.8 kg ± 7.7; height: 1.79 m ± 0.08). …”
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Mental Health and Other Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccination Intention toward Children of Military Parents in Lambayeque, Peru by Mario J. Valladares-Garrido, Aldo Alvarez-Risco, Annel B. Rojas-Alvarado, Cinthia Karina Picón-Reátegui, Franccesca Dawson Aguila, Shyla Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Neal M. Davies, Virgilio E. Failoc-Rojas, César Johan Pereira-Victorio, Danai Valladares Garrido, Víctor J. Vera-Ponce, Jaime A. Yáñez

“…Of 201 military personnel evaluated, 92.5% were male, 82.5% were of the Catholic faith, and the median age was 40.9% of respondents reported seeking mental health help during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Comparison of Two Wavefront Autorefractors: Binocular Open-Field versus Monocular Closed-Field by Gonzalo Carracedo, Carlos Carpena-Torres, Laura Batres, Maria Serramito, Anahí Gonzalez-Bergaz

“…The Eye Refract provided enough accuracy and reliability to estimate refractive errors in different age groups, achieving better results than the VX110. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Acute Lung Injury Caused by Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Retrospective Cohort Study from a Sing... by Liang-jie Fang, Lu-yan Chen, Jun-hui Sun, Jian-ying Zhou

“…The study included 14 ALI cases where the mean age of patients was 60.9±11.7 years (range 41-82 years), with a mean onset time of 2.4±1.6 d after TACE. …”
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Postoperative Opioid Consumption After Discharge: An Update From the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative Registry by Ashwin J. Kulkarni, BS, Vidhya Gunaseelan, MBA, MS, MHA, Chad M. Brummett, MD, Jennifer Waljee, MD, MPH, MSc, Michael Englesbe, MD, Mark C. Bicket, MD, PhD

“…Results:. 39,493 opioid-naive surgical patients (average age 53.8 years [SD 16.4], 56.3% female, 19.1% non-White, 43.9% with public insurance) were included. …”
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Prevalence, predisposing factors, and turnover intention related to low back pain among health workers in Accra, Ghana. by Philip Apraku Tawiah, Emmanuel Appiah-Brempong, Paul Okyere, Geoffrey Adu-Fosu, Mary Eyram Ashinyo

“…The prevalence of LBP was 81.6% [95% CI: (78.2%-84.6%)]. Advanced age [AOR = 1.07 (1.00, 1.16)], working for more than 5 days in a week [AOR = 8.14 (2.65, 25.02)], working overtime [AOR = 2.00 (1.16, 3.46)], rarely involved in transferring patients [AOR = 3.22 (1.08, 9.60)], most of the time involved in transferring patients [AOR = 6.95 (2.07, 23.26)], awkward posture during work [(AOR = 2.36 (1.31, 4.25)], perceived understaffing [(AOR = 1.84 (95% CI = 1.04-3.27)], sleep duration ≥ 8 [AOR = 0.54 (0.31, 0.97)] and sitting intermittently at work [AOR = 0.31 (0.12, 0.80)] were factors significantly associated with LBP. …”
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A retrospective Study on Intestinal Injury from Blunt Abdominal Trauma by Muralidharan Kannaian, Bhaskara Rao Bezawada, Vinod K, Subash Chandra Bose

“…Results: About 59 individuals with 60 significant bowel and mesentery lesions from blunt abdominal trauma were conducted. The average age was 36.78 years, and the male-to-female ratio was 5.5: 1. …”
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The effect of addition of organic and inorganic zinc on egg production, egg quality and some blood parameters in laying hens rations by Tuba Bülbül, Seher Küçükersan

“…A total of 200 Lohmann LSL layer hens which in 68 weeks of age were used in this study. There were two control and three treatment groups, each containing 40 hens. …”
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Integrated Serosurveillance of Infectious Diseases Using Multiplex Bead Assays: A Systematic Review by Selina Ward, Harriet L. S. Lawford, Benn Sartorius, Colleen L. Lau

“…The synthesis of data varied and included the investigation of age-specific seroprevalence (<i>n</i> = 25), risk factor analysis (<i>n</i> = 15), and spatial analysis of disease prevalence (<i>n</i> = 8). …”
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A Clinical Study on Functional Outcome of Percutaneous Transforaminal Endoscopic Discectomy under Local Anesthesia by Suryansh Nema, Varun Kumar Agarwal

“…Results: Maximum patients were in the age group of 61–70 years, and 65.2% of the patients were male. 68.2% of patients had lumbar disc herniation at L4-L5 level. …”
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“Urban by nature”: The Sokoto jihadist approach to urban planning by Stephanie Zehnle

“…This phase of intense foundation of fortified settlements must also be understood as a process of sedentarization and aging of the first Jihad soldiers. Equipped with land, wives and slaves from the booty, many soldiers and commanders were settled in new towns and established a living there with their families. …”
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Clinical and Cost Burden of Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome: Descriptive Analysis Using a US Administrative Claims Database by Sue Perera, Liyuan Ma, Raj Punwaney, Sulabha Ramachandran

“…The majority (86%) was female and the mean age was 51 years. Overall, 60.7% of patients had claims associated with pSS extra glandular disease manifestations. …”
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Comparison of Laparoscopic Intraperitoneal Onlay Mesh Repair (IPOM plus) vs Open Rives–Stoppa (RS) Repair for Ventral and Incisional Hernia by Hryhorii O. Havrylov, Oleg V. Shulyarenko, Mykhaylo O. Yosypenko

“…Both groups were comparable in mean age, gender, body mass index, patient distribution based on hernia type, defect size, ASA score distribution (p > 0.05). …”
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Learning curve and complications of unilateral biportal endoscopy–unilateral laminectomy bilateral decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis by Jiashen Shao, Zihan Fan, Hai Meng, Qi Fei

“…Univariate analysis showed that age, body mass index, alcohol consumption, and estimated blood loss were significantly associated with complication rate. …”
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Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement in High-Surgical Risk Patients: A Single-Center Experience and Outcome by Fatma A. Taha, Hesham Naeim, Fareed Alnozha, Osama Amoudi, Reda Abuelatta

“…Results. Sixty-four patients aged 62.7 ± 16.1 years with an STS score of 9.2 ± 3.7% underwent TMVR [35 (55%) TMViV, 16 (25%) TMViR, and 13 (20%) TMViMAC]. …”
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Prognostic determinants and functional role of PIK3C2G in stage IIb-IIIa lung adenocarcinoma: insights from clinical and molecular analyses by Chao Gao, Jiaqi Zhang, Xin Du, Xuehan Gao, Xiayao Diao, Ke Zhao, Yeye Chen, Shanqing Li

“…Univariate and multivariate Cox regression identified pathological stage, number of positive lymph nodes, age, and targeted therapy as independent prognostic factors. …”
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Emergency Medicine as a Medical Speciality in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects by Wahab Yinusa

“…The International Federation of EM defines it as a field of practice based on the knowledge and care required for the prevention, diagnosis and management of acute and urgent aspects of illness and injury, affecting patients of all age groups with a full spectrum of episodic, undifferentiated physical and behavioural disorders. …”
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Exercise-Intervened Circulating Extracellular Vesicles Alleviate Oxidative Stress in Cerebral Microvascular Endothelial Cells Under Hypertensive Plus Hypoxic Conditions by Smara Sigdel, Shuzhen Chen, Gideon Udoh, Jinju Wang

“…Transgenic hypertensive mice (Alb1-Ren) underwent 8-week treadmill exercise (10 m/min for 1 h, 5 days per week). Age- and sex-matched sedentary Alb1-Ren mice served as controls. cEVs were isolated from the blood of exercised and sedentary mice and are denoted as ET-cEV and nET-cEV, respectively. cEVs were labeled to determine their uptake efficiency and pathways. …”
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Tapentadol Prolonged Release for Severe Chronic Osteoarthritis Pain in the Elderly—A Subgroup Analysis of Routine Clinical Practice Data by Andreas Schwittay, Melanie Sohns, Birgit Heckes, Christian Elling

“…The data of elderly OA patients (>65 years of age; n = 752) were compared with the data of younger OA patients (≤65 years; n = 282). …”
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Differentiation of Isolated Small Bowel Crohn’s Disease from Other Small Bowel Ulcerative Diseases: Clinical Features and Double-Balloon Enteroscopy Characteristics by Meng Niu, Zheng-Hao Chen, Meng Li, Xing Zhang, Chun-Xiao Chen

“…One hundred thirty-nine patients with ISBCD and 62 patients with OSBUD found by DBE were retrospectively analyzed. Results. The age of ISBCD onset was lower than that of OSBUD (OR 0.957, 95% CI 0.938-0.977, p<0.001). …”
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