Statewide Variation in Practices and Charges for Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Maryland, United States: A Retrospective Study by Grace Lassiter, Eric Etchill, Tamir Sholklapper, Charbel Chidiac, Joseph Canner, Daniel Sangkyu Rhee

“…Methods: We queried the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission database for patients aged 10–40 years admitted with PSP between 2012 and 2020. …”

Association between cardiovascular health and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: a nationwide cross-sectional study by Lian-Zhen Huang, Ze-Bin Ni, Wei-Feng Huang, Li-Ping Sheng, Yan-Qing Wang, Jin-Yan Zhang

“…This study aimed to investigate the association between CVH and MASLD. Methods 5680 adults aged ≥ 20 years from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2017-March 2020 were included. …”
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Management of the Uncommon Bladder Cancers: A Single-Center Experience over 10 Years by Youssef Kadouri, Salim Lachkar, Hamza Dergamoun, Hachem El Sayegh, Lounis Benslimane, Yassine Nouini

“…The clinicopathologic features are reported with emphasis on treatment and survival. Results. Mean patient age was 65.5 ± 20 yr and 70% of patients were males. …”
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The efficacy and safety of the biosimilar product (Inflectra®) compared to the reference drug (Remicade®) in rescue therapy in adult patients with ulcerative colitis by Magdalena Kaniewska, Andrzej Moniuszko, Grażyna Rydzewska

“…Results : The studied groups were similar with respect to age and sex distribution, duration of the disease, extent of the disease (left-sided type, pancolitis), additional pharmacotherapy, and smoking. …”
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A Clinical Prediction Model for Pathologic Upgrade to Invasive Carcinoma Following Conization of Cervical High‐Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions by Qiao Liu, Jing Yang, Hui Cheng, Chuqiang Shu, Yi Tang, Jing Zhao

“…The predictive model included age, contact bleeding symptoms, HPV16/18 infection, HSIL cytology, cervical biopsy pathology diagnosis level, suspicious stromal infiltration in the biopsy pathology diagnosis, and endocervical curettage HSIL. …”
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Transition zone-based prostate-specific antigen density for differentiating clinically significant prostate cancer in PI-RADS score 3 lesions by Yongming Jin, Fei Chen, Gang Xu, Chaogang Wei, Congsong Dong

“…The combination model including TZPSAD, TZ-ratio, and age generated an AUC of 0.838 (95% CI 0.759–0.917), significantly higher than use of these variables alone, with P values of 0.001 and 0.035 for the TZPSAD and TZ-ratio, respectively. …”
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TECHNOLOGY LITERACY AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR ENHANCING NUMERACY AND LITERACY SKILLS OF EARLY-GRADE PUPILS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS IN TANZANIA by Hamadi Mtani, Shubi Kaijage, Neema Mduma

“…Among the teacher characteristics, working experience and age were found to have no significant difference with technology literacy as they had p-values of 0.313 and 0.212 respectively. …”
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A Scoping Review of Factors Associated with Delayed Extubation in Post Cardiac Surgery Patients by Kumalasari RI, Kosasih CE, Priambodo AP

“…The factors most commonly reported to influence ED include preoperative factors (age ≥ 60 and EF < 50%), intraoperative factors (duration of surgery ≥ 7 hours, use of IABP and sedatives), and postoperative factors (BNP≥ 806 pg/mL). …”
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Post-Trial Feedback Alters Landing Performance in Adolescent Female Athletes Using a Portable Feedback System by Thomas W Kernozek, Drew Rutherford, Becky Heinert, Jessica Onsager, Maria Lee, Jeremie Schiedermayer, Stephanie Dietrich, Renee Dade, Thomas Gus Almonroeder

“… # Study Design Repeated measures # Methods One hundred fifty female athletes (ages 13-18 years old) landed from a 50 cm platform with and without feedback related to vertical ground reaction force (vGRF), vGRF symmetry and lower extremity position. …”
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Care Burden and Coping Strategies among Caregivers of Paediatric HIV/AIDS in Northern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Mixed-Method Study by Ibrahim Mujjuzi, Paul Mutegeki, Sarah Nabuwufu, Ashim Wosukira, Fazirah Namata, Patience Alayo, Sharon Bright Amanya, Richard Nyeko

“…The mean burden scores significantly differed by caregivers’ age (P=0.017), marital status (P=0.017), average monthly income (P=0.035), and child’s school attendance (P=0.039). …”
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Hematohidrosis in Pediatric Practice  – a Case Report and Review of the Literature by Oksana Matsyura, Lesya Besh, Svitlana Jefimova, Khrystyna Slivinska-Kurchak, Sergiy Gerasymov

“…We took into consideration: age of the patient, sex, location of bloody excretion, cause or trigger, treatment and its effectiveness.Our clinical case present a 9-year-old girl complained of a periodic bleeding from the intact skin of the face, neck, thighs (without visible damage to the skin) manifested by red or pink liquid, nosebleeds, and bloody discharge from the mucous membrane of the eyes. …”
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THE EFFECT OF MOTIVATION ON THE MOTOR ACTIVITIES OF STUDENTS UNDER DIFFERENT PHYSICAL EDUCATION APPROACHES by E. M. Revenko, V. A. Salnikov

“…One of the main objectives of a physical-education teacher is to create in pupils a strong desire to consciously and voluntarily carry out regular physical exercises and develop the potential to work independently.The aim of the research was to show the influence of various approaches to the organization of sports activities on motivation leading to physical activity in young men aged 16–18.Methodology and research methods. The methodological base of the research involved a personally-oriented educational concept combining differentiated and kinesiological approaches to physical education. …”
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The concept of natural genome reconstruction. Part 1. Basic provisions of the “natural genome reconstruction” concept. Changing the genome of hematopoietic stem cells using several... by L. A. Yakubov, O. S. Taranov, S. V. Sidorov, S. D. Nikonov, A. A. Ostanin, E. R. Chernykh, N. A. Kolchanov, S. S. Bogachev

“…It is assumed that as a result of stochastic acts of homologous exchange, chromosome loci are corrected in hematopoietic stem cells that have acquired mutations during the existence of the organism, which are the cause of clonal hematopoiesis associated with old age. In this regard, there is a fundamental possibility of changing the hematopoietic status of hematopoietic stem cells in the direction of polyclonality and the original diversity of clones. …”
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Risk Factors and Clinical Predictors of Suicidal Behaviors and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Among Pediatric Psychiatry Emergency Admissions Pre- and Post-Pandemic: A Retrospective Coho... by Roxana Șipoș, Tudor Văidean, Elena Predescu

“…Methods: This retrospective cohort study analyzed data from 341 adolescents (aged 6–18 years) presenting to a Romanian pediatric psychiatry emergency department during the years 2019 (pre-pandemic) and 2022 (post-pandemic). …”
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Adverse Events of the BCG (Bacillus Calmette–Guérin) and Rotavirus Vaccines in a Young Infant with Inborn Error of Immunity by Suleiman Al-Hammadi, Najla S. Alkuwaiti, Ghassan A. Ghatasheh, Huda Al Dhanhani, Hiba M. Shendi, Abdulghani S. Elomami, Farida Almarzooqi, Abdul-Kader Souid

“…This young infant was diagnosed at six months of age with “immunodeficiency type 19” (MIM#615617) due to homozygous nonsense variant, NM_000732.4 (CD3D):c.128G > A, p.Trp43∗ (variation ClinVar#VCV000643120.1; pathogenic). …”
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Barriers and facilitators of loaded self-managed exercises and physical activity in people with patellofemoral pain: understanding the feasibility of delivering a multicentred rand... by Michael Skovdal Rathleff, Phillipa Logan, Marcus Bateman, Benjamin E Smith, Fiona Moffatt, Paul Hendrick, James Selfe, Toby O Smith

“…The trial investigated a loaded self-managed exercise intervention, which included education and advice on physical activity versus usual physiotherapy as the control.Design Qualitative study, embedded within a mixed-methods design, using semi-structured interviews.Setting A UK National Health Service physiotherapy clinic in a large teaching hospital.Participants Purposively sampled 20 participants within a feasibility RCT study; 10 patients with a diagnosis of patellofemoral pain, aged between 18 and 40 years, and 10 physiotherapists delivering the interventions.Results In respect to barriers and facilitators, the five overlapping themes that emerged from the data were: (1) locus of control; (2) belief and attitude to pain; (3) treatment expectations and preference; (4) participants’ engagement with the loaded self-managed exercises and (5) physiotherapists’ clinical development. …”
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Enhancing physical fitness through Crossfit for 15-16-year-old high school students by Igor Vypasniak, Olena Nesen, Marina Jagiello

“…The study involved 27 students (aged 15-16 years) from a 10th-grade class at a school located in a war conflict zone (Kharkiv, Ukraine). …”
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Longitudinal association between hemoglobin and lung function with insights into the incidence of airflow obstruction: an observational study by Jihoon Kim, Yun Tae Kim, Ah Young Leem, Ji Ye Jung, Young Sam Kim, Youngmok Park

“…Results Over an 8-year biennial follow-up of 4,468 individuals (median age, 53.9 years; men, 49.0%), we observed that in men, Hb levels were positively associated with lung function (estimated values of FVC: 16.7 mL, FEV1: 15.5 mL, FEV1/FVC: 0.18%; all P < 0.001) and a decreased incidence of AO (OR = 0.83, P < 0.001). …”
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Emissions of Nitrous Oxide and Nitric Oxide from Soils of Native and Exotic Ecosystems of the Amazon and Cerrado Regions of Brazil by Eric A. Davidson, Mercedes M.C. Bustamante, Alexandre de Siqueira Pinto

“…As in Amazonian pastures, NO emissions appear to decline with pasture age. Detectable emissions of N2O have been measured in soybean and corn fields in the Cerrado region, but they are modest relative to fluxes measured in more humid tropical agricultural regions. …”
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Using XBGoost, an interpretable machine learning model, for diagnosing prostate cancer in patients with PSA < 20 ng/ml based on the PSAMR indicator by Dengke Li, Baoyuan Chang, Qunlian Huang

“…Finally, the performance was assessed using the test set data for validation. The age, prostate-specific antigen mass ratio (PSAMR), Prostate Imaging–Reporting and Data System, and prostate volume were selected as the variables for model construction based on the LASSO regression. …”
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