Significance of Linked Color Imaging for Predicting the Risk of Clinical Relapse in Ulcerative Colitis by Shuji Kanmura, Akihito Tanaka, Kazuki Yutsudou, Kosuke Kuwazuru, Fukiko Komaki, Yuga Komaki, Hiromichi Iwaya, Shiho Arima, Fumisato Sasaki, Shiroh Tanoue, Shinichi Hashimoto, Akio Ido

“…Fifty-eight patients (22 female, 36 male; median age at diagnosis, 47.2 (18–80) years) who underwent colonoscopy were analyzed. …”
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Key attributes of nitrocellulose-based energetic materials and recent developments by Khoirul Solehah Abdul Rahim, Alinda Samsuri, Siti Hasnawati Jamal, Siti Aminah Mohd Nor, Siti Nor Ain Rusly, Hafizah Ariff, Nur Shazwani Abdul Latif

“…While higher nitrogen content improves energetic output, it also increases surface cracking and gas production, necessitating the use of stabilizers and additives like Bu-NENA, copper compounds, and MgH2 to enhance flexibility, thermal stability, and reduce sensitivity to mechanical and thermal stimuli. Aging and environmental factors further influence burn rate variation, underscoring the need for tailored formulations. …”
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In vitro effect of hCG on cryptorchid patients’ gubernacular cells: a predictive model for adjuvant personalized therapy by Andrea Errico, Giulia Ambrosini, Sara Vinco, Emanuela Bottani, Elisa Dalla Pozza, Nunzio Marroncelli, Jessica Brandi, Daniela Cecconi, Ilaria Decimo, Filippo Migliorini, Nicola Zampieri, Ilaria Dando

“…Conclusions Hereby, we characterized the cellular and molecular effects of hCG, demonstrating that the diverse patient response to hCG may be ascribable to their age since young patients better respond in vitro to the hormone, supporting a prompt surgical procedure and subsequent therapy. …”
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Why India is struggling to feed their young children? A qualitative analysis for tribal communities by Sanjay Sharma, Monica Lakhanpaul, Logan Manikam, Priti Parikh, Lorna Benton, Shereen Allaham, Rajesh Khanna, Susrita Roy, Marie Lall, Virendra Kumar Vijay, Neha Santwani, Hanimi Reddy, Hemant Chaturvedi, Satya Prakash Pattanaik, Tol Singh, Pramod Pandya, Priyanka Dang

“…The ultimate goal of the Participatory Approach for Nutrition in Children: Strengthening Health Education Engineering and Environment Linkages project is to identify challenges and opportunities for improvement to subsequently develop socioculturally appropriate, tailored, innovative interventions for the successful implementation of appropriate infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices locally.Design Qualitative research method, involving five phases: (1) identification of local feeding practices; (2) identification of the local needs and opportunities for children aged 6–24 months; and (3–5) analysis of the gathered qualitative data, intervention design, review and distribution.Setting Nine villages in two community development blocks, that is, Ghatol and Kushalgarh, located in the Banswara district in Rajasthan, India.Participants 68 participants completed semistructured interviews or focus group discussions including: mothers, grandmothers, auxiliary nurse midwife, Anganwadi worker, ASHA Sahyogini, school teachers and local elected representative.Phenomenon of interest IYCF practices and the factors associated with it.Analysis Thematic analysis.Results Our results could be broadly categorised into two domains: (1) the current practices of IYCF and (2) the key drivers and challenges of IYCF. …”
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Baseline Serum Cholesterol Is Associated with a Response to Pegylated Interferon Alfa-2b and Ribavirin Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis C Genotype 2 by Naota Taura, Tatsuki Ichikawa, Hisamitsu Miyaaki, Yoshiko Kadokawa, Takuya Tsutsumi, Shotaro Tsuruta, Yuji Kato, Osami Inoue, Noboru Kinoshita, Kazuo Ohba, Hiroyuki Kato, Kazuyuki Ohata, Junichi Masuda, Keisuke Hamasaki, Hiroshi Yatsuhashi, Kazuhiko Nakao

“…A total of 100 chronic hepatitis C patients with HCV genotype 2 who received peg-IFN alfa-2b and ribavirin therapy were consecutively enrolled. The significance of age, sex, BMI, AST level, ALT level, WBC, hemoglobin, platelet count, gamma-glutamyltransferase, total cholesterol level (TC), LDL level, HCV RNA, and histological evaluation was examined for SVR using logistic regression analysis. …”
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Performance of Noninvasive Indices for Discrimination of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease in Young Adults by Jaejun Lee, Chang In Han, Dong Yeup Lee, Pil Soo Sung, Si Hyun Bae, Hyun Yang

“…Methods: Data from patients under 35 years of age who visited the Liver Health Clinic at the Armed Forces Goyang Hospital between July 2022 and January 2024 were retrospectively collected. …”
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Complicated caries of permanent teeth in children: status of the problem and modern solution ways by N.S. Proshchenko, H.V. Sorochenko, O.I. Ostapko, O.M. Plyska, Yu.V. Trokhimets

“…The material of the study was data from medical histories of 236 children aged 7-18 years. During the analysis of the obtained data, the dental caries experience, % of cases of toothache complaints and part of the need for replacement or correction of restorations after the treatment of complicated caries were calculated. …”
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Development and validation of a prediction model for all-cause mortality in maintenance dialysis patients: a multicenter retrospective cohort study by Jingcan Wu, Xuehong Li, Hong Zhang, Lin Lin, Man Li, Gangyi Chen, Cheng Wang

“…The discrimination and accuracy of the prediction model were assessed using C-indexes and calibration curves, while the clinical value was assessed by decision curve analysis (DCA).Results The best predictors of 1-, 3-, and 5-year all-cause mortality contained nine independent factors, including age, body mass index (BMI), diabetes mellitus (DM), cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, urine volume, hemoglobin (HGB), albumin (ALB), and pleural effusion (PE). …”
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Exploring the Role of the Pharmacist in the Prevention and Management of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy in Ashanti Region, Ghana by Pauline Boachie‐Ansah, Berko Panyin Anto, Afia Frimpomaa Asare Marfo, Edward Tieru Dassah, Morrison Asiamah, Ivan Eduku Mozu, Nana Ofori Adomako, Kwaku Gyamfi Oppong

“…Differences in pre‐ and post‐intervention median scores were compared using the Wilcoxon signed‐rank test. The mean age was 35.7 years (± 1.2). The overall median knowledge and adherence scores increased significantly after the intervention by 11 versus 17 (p < 0.001) and 5 versus 9 (p < 0.001), respectively. …”
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Comparing predictive risk to actual presence of coronary atherosclerosis on coronary computed tomography angiography by Emma Playford, Simon Stewart, Gerard Hoyne, Geoff Strange, Girish Dwivedi, Christian Hamilton-Craig, Gemma Figtree, David Playford

“…Results: 828 individuals (median age 58.6, IQR = 52.0, 65.3 years, 57 % male) met inclusion criteria, and a zero, low, moderate, and high CVRS was identified in 13, 483, 113 and 219 individuals (8 %, 49 %, 74 %, 66 % male), respectively. …”
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School-based mindfulness training in early adolescence: what works, for whom and how in the MYRIAD trial? by Susan Ball, Obioha C Ukoumunne, Tamsin Ford, Sarah Byford, Tim Dalgleish, Willem Kuyken, Jesus Montero-Marin, Kate Tudor, Alice Tickell, Catherine Crane, Ariane Petit, Elise Sellars, Laura Taylor, Maris Vainre, Benjamin Jones, Kirsty Griffiths, Elizabeth Nuthall, J Mark G Williams, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Katie Fletcher, Emma Medlicott, Anam Raja, Matthew Allwood, Louise Aukland, Tríona Casey, Nicola Dalrymple, Katherine De Wilde, Eleanor-Rose Farley, Jennifer Harper, Nils Kappelmann, Maria Kempnich, Liz Lord, Lucy Palmer, Alice Philips, Isobel Pryor-Nitsch, Lucy Radley, Anna Sonley, Jem Shackleford, Mark T Greenberg, Verena Hinze, Saz Ahmed, Marc Bennett, Lucy Foulkes, Cait Griffin, Konstantina Komninidou, Rachel Knight, Suzannah Laws, Jovita Leung, Jenna Parker, Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer, Ashok Sakhardande, Lucy Warriner, Brian Wainman

“…School-based mindfulness training (SBMT) is an approach with mixed evidence.Objectives To explore for whom SBMT does/does not work and what influences outcomes.Methods The My Resilience in Adolescence was a parallel-group, cluster randomised controlled trial (K=84 secondary schools; n=8376 students, age: 11–13) recruiting schools that provided standard social–emotional learning. …”
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Animal and bird-related ocular trauma: a decade of experience from a tertiary referral eye hospital of Iran by Mohammadreza Mehrabi Bahar, Esmaeil Asadi Khameneh, Hassan Asadigandomani, Alireza Razavi, Seyed Ali Tabatabaei, Zahra Mahdizad, Fatemeh Masoudi Samghabadi

“…Results One hundred and twenty-nine patients, with an average age of 36 ± 23 years (range: 1–77 years), were included in this study, of whom 81 were male. …”
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Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato antibodies in English adult blood donors: A nationwide cross-sectional study, 2021–2022 by Eilish Hart, John Tulloch, Daniel Bailey, Tim Brooks, Heli Harvala, Peter Simmonds, Roberto Vivancos, Neil French, Amanda Semper

“…Methods: The prevalence of Bbsl-specific antibodies in the English population was estimated in a cross-sectional cohort, selected from an archive of residual NHS blood donor plasma samples (age range 17 - 84, collected between 2021 - 2022). 10,000 samples were randomly selected proportionate to the population size of each of the nine English administrative regions. 9,994 samples were tested using a standard two-tiered testing strategy, with an IgG/IgM ELISA followed by an IgG immunoblot (array) test for any sera with positive or indeterminate reactivity in the ELISA. …”
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Intestinal schistosomiasis in remote areas of Southwest Ethiopia, a target region for large-scale mass drug administration by Yared Nigusu, Teshome Bekana, Eshetu Chilo, Sisay Teferi, Dereje Oljira Donacho, Dereje Gemeda, Tefera Darge, Abeza Mitiku, Abdi Geda Gedefa, Tadesse Sime, Wubishet Gezimu, Oda Gizaw, Gemechu Tadila, Miressa Bekana, Berhanu Erko

“…The rate of infection was higher among study participants aged between 10 and 13 years [AOR = 1.93, 95% CI: (1.1, 3.44). …”
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Outcomes of Living Kidney Donor Candidates and Living Kidney Recipient Candidates with JC Polyomavirus and BK Polyomavirus Viruria by Sara Querido, Carolina Ormonde, Teresa Adragão, Inês Costa, Maria Ana Pessanha, Perpétua Gomes, André Weigert

“…In a multivariate analysis, LKD candidates with JCV viruria had a lower risk of proteinuria of >200 mg/24 hours (p=0.009, OR: 0.342, 95% CI: 0.153–0.764), in a model adjusted for age, gender, presence of hypertension, and eGFR <80 mL/min. …”
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Long-term real-world evidence of CPX-351 of high-risk patients with AML identified high rate of negative MRD and prolonged OS by Thomas Cluzeau, Fabio Guolo, Edmond Chiche, Paola Minetto, Ramy Rahme, Sarah Bertoli, Luana Fianchi, Jean-Baptiste Micol, Michele Gottardi, Pierre Peterlin, Sara Galimberti, Xavier Thomas, Giuliana Rizzuto, Olivier Legrand, Michela Rondoni, Emmanuel Raffoux, Giambattista Bertani, Alexis Caulier, Michelina D’Argenio, Caroline Bonmati, Atto Billio, Caroline Lejeune, Barbara Scappini, Arnaud Pigneux, Patrizia Zappasodi, Christan Recher, Francesco Grimaldi, Lionel Ades, Roberto M. Lemoli

“…We retrospectively collected data from 168 patients in 36 centers in France and Italy who had received 1 or 2 cycles of induction with CPX-351. All patients were aged >18 years and had newly diagnosed, untreated t-AML or MRC-AML. …”
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Association of multiple environmental exposures with rhinitis and asthma symptoms in preschool children: Identifying critical risk factor by Shuang Du, Hao Tang, Han Chen, Yang Shen, Zhiping Niu, Tianyi Chen, Jing Wei, Xia Meng, Wen Su, Qun Wu, Yongqiang Tan, Jing Cai, Zhuohui Zhao

“…Methods: 5828 children aged 3–6 years in Shanghai were surveyed in 2019. …”
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FLOT Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Followed by Laparoscopic D2 Gastrectomy in the Treatment of Locally Resectable Advanced Gastric Cancer by Shun Zhang, Dongyi Yan, Qi Sun, Tao Du, Dongliang Cao, Yao Yang, Biao Yuan, Haiqiang Li, Xiaohua Jiang, Chun Song

“…We analyzed 23 resectable advanced gastric cancer patients who received FLOT followed by laparoscopic gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy to evaluate the efficacy and safety. Methods. Patients aged 18–75 years with gastric adenocarcinoma (stage cT3–4 and/or N + M0) underwent neoadjuvant FLOT therapy (four preoperative and four postoperative 2-week cycles) at Shanghai East Hospital. …”
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Navigating healthcare pathways: Cascade of prevention and care for chronic viral hepatitis in asylum seekers and refugees. A multicenter analysis in Northern Italy by Beatrice Formenti, Roberto Benoni, Jacopo Testa, Giulia Bertoli, Giacomo Stroffolini, Maria Grazia Pizzi, Barbara Menzaghi, Niccolò Ronzoni, Paola Magro, Issa El Hamad, Carla Scolari, Angiola Spinetti, Serena Zaltron, Francesco Castelli, Valentina Marchese, Alberto Matteelli

“…The analysis highlights significant pitfalls in linkage and retention in care, as well as factors associated with continuing or discontinuing the healthcare pathways, controlling for WHO Region of origin, gender, age and study site. Hospital records provided demographic and clinical data. …”
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Surgical margins of the oral cavity: is 5 mm really necessary? by James Fowler, Yael Campanile, Andrew Warner, Francisco Laxague, Naif Fnais, Kevin Fung, Adrian Mendez, Danielle MacNeil, John Yoo, David Palma, Anthony Nichols

“…Multivariable analysis identified age of diagnosis, alcohol consumption, pathological tumour and nodal category as predictors of local recurrence free survival. …”
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