Comparative Study of Chikungunya Only and Chikungunya-Scrub Typhus Coinfection in Children: Findings from a Hospital-Based Observational Study from Central Nepal by Santosh Pathak, Nagendra Chaudhary, Prativa Dhakal, Sanjay Ray Yadav, Binod Kumar Gupta, Om Prakash Kurmi

“…A hospital-based observational study was conducted in children below 15 years of age over 16-month duration in 2017-2018. Chikungunya was diagnosed by IgM ELISA. …”
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Usefulness of a TDM-Guided Approach for Optimizing Teicoplanin Exposure in the Treatment of Secondary Bloodstream Infections Caused by Glycopeptide-Susceptible <i>Enterococcus faec... by Milo Gatti, Matteo Rinaldi, Maddalena Giannella, Pierluigi Viale, Federico Pea

“…Overall, 67 patients (median age 70 years; male 55.2%) were included. Catheter-related BSIs (50.7%) and intrabdominal/biliary tract (29.9%) infections were the main sources of <i>Enterococcus faecium</i> BSI. …”
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Extrahepatic portal vein obstruction in children. The diagnosis is established - what is next? by O.S. Godik, D.S. Diehtiarova

“…Chi-square test was used to assess varices grade dynamics. Results. The mean age of patients in the group was 5.1±0.54 years, 34 (61.8%) patients were males. 36 (65.5%) patients had complicated delivery with subsequent umbilical catheter insertion. 27 (47.1%) patients manifested bleeding episodes. …”
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Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic risk estimation of indoor TVOCs, RSPM, FPM and SFPM on young women dwellers: a case study from the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, India by Farheen Zehra, Samridhi Dwivedi, Mohd Akbar Ali, P. S. Rajinikanth, Alfred Lawrence

“…ELCR values for PM1 and PM2.5 surpassed the permissible limit in every house and HQ values also exceeded the minimum allowable value for 20–21 year age group at all of the locations, indicating substantial health risk from exposure. …”
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AOZORA: long-term safety and joint health in paediatric persons with haemophilia A without factor VIII inhibitors receiving emicizumab – protocol for a multicentre, open-label, pha... by Seitaro Yoshida, Masashi Taki, Hideyuki Takedani, Midori Shima, Keiji Nogami, Azusa Nagao, Haruko Yamaguchi-Suita, Yui Kyogoku, Akira Ishiguro, Kaoru Kitsukawa

“…The AOZORA study will evaluate the long-term safety and joint health of paediatric PwHA without factor (F)VIII inhibitors taking emicizumab; here, we report the details of the study protocol and baseline data.Methods and analysis AOZORA is a multicentre, open-label, phase IV clinical study in Japan that aims to enrol approximately 30 PwHA aged &lt;12 years without FVIII inhibitors. The primary endpoints include a long-term safety evaluation of adverse events, laboratory test abnormalities and FVIII inhibitor development; and a long-term joint health assessment using MRI and the Hemophilia Joint Health Score. …”
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Efficacy Of Vocal Cord Medialization by Injection Thyroplasty Using Liquid Paraffin In Relieving Hoarseness Of Voice In Idiopathic And Traumatic Unilateral Vocal Cord Paralysis by Muhammad Saleem, Muhammad Sarim Khan, Ashar Alamgir, Muhammad Hamza Rana, Hafiz Sajjad Hyder, Syeda Jamila Ali

“…Paired sample t-test was applied to measure pre-procedure and post-procedure scores. Results: The mean age of the participants was 38 years. Out of 37 patients 23 (62%) patients presented within 6 months of hoarseness of voice. 14 (38%) patients presented after 6 months of hoarseness of voice. 19 out of 23  patients (83%) underwent only a single dose of liquid paraffin via injection thyroplasty to resolve hoarseness of voice. …”
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Immunohistochemical Study of NR2C2, BTG2, TBX19, and CDK2 Expression in 31 Paired Primary/Recurrent Nonfunctioning Pituitary Adenomas by Xiaohui Yao, Yazhuo Zhang, Lijuan Wu, Rui Cheng, Chuzhong Li, Chongxiao Qu, Hongming Ji

“…The relationships between marker expression and clinical characteristics including age, sex, tumor volume, and follow-up time were analyzed. …”
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On-farm diversity and production challenges in Ethiopian tef [Eragrostis tef ((Zuccagni) Trotter)] landraces from Arsi zone, Ethiopia: Implications for breeding and conservation by Fekadu Gadissa, Muhamed Adem

“…The respondent farmers included the different sex groups, age groups, educational status, marital status, and religious outlooks. …”
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Association between diabetes mellitus and total hip arthroplasty outcomes: an observational study using the US National Inpatient Sample by Jasvinder A Singh, Sumanth Chandrupatla, Kranti Rumalla

“…Primary THA hospitlizations were analysed as the overall group and also stratified by the underlying primary diagnosis for THA.Outcome measures Outcome measures of interest were the length of hospital stay&gt;the median, total hospital charges&gt;the median, inpatient mortality, non-routine discharge, need for blood transfusion, prosthetic fracture, prosthetic dislocation and postprocedural infection, including periprosthetic joint infection, deep surgical site infection and postprocedural sepsis.Results Among 2 467 215 patients who underwent primary THA, the mean age was 68.7 years, 58.3% were female, 85.7% were white, 61.7% had Medicare payer and 20.4% had a Deyo-Charlson index (adjusted to exclude diabetes mellitus) of 2 or higher. 416 850 (17%) patients had diabetes. …”
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Features of the Expression of Second-Type Melatonin Receptors by Esophagus Epiteliocytes in Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease by O. A. Karpovich, T. T. Shtabinskaya, V. I. Shishko, Ya. A. Kolodzeysky

“…The control group consisted of 18 patients without GERD, comparable with the main groups by gender, age and body mass index. In order to determine the expression of MTNR1B, esophagogastroduodenoscopy with the collection of biopsy material from the mucous membrane of the distal esophagus was performed. …”
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Acoustic Analysis of Mandarin Chinese Vowels Produced by Young Adults by Zhenni WANG, Yang CHEN, Manwa L. NG, Liqun YAO, Weiming ZHANG

“…The aim of the present study was to establish the vowel formant space by examining the formant frequencies associated with Mandarin vowels produced by Chinese young adults aged 23 to 33 years old and identify the characteristics of vowels in Mandarin Chinese at 4 different lexical tones.Methods:Acoustic signals of the six Mandarin vowels (/a/,/ɔ/,/e/,/i/,/u/,/y/) produced by native young adult speakers of Mandarin Chinese (<italic>n</italic>=11) were recorded, and the participants were instructed to produce all the speech samples using a comfortable loudness level and speech rate. …”
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Compliance status of tobacco control laws in the university setting of Bangladesh: an analytical study followed a mixed-method approach by Nasrin Akter, Bilkis Banu, Sujana Haque Chowdhury, Tahsin Tasneem Tabassum, Sarder Mahmud Hossain

“…Non-satisfactory compliance was found significant among the younger aged (≤21 years: COR/p=2.74/0.01; 95% CI 1.27 to 5.92) from the first-year group (adjusted odds ratio (AOR)/p=2.28/0.02; 95% CI 1.15 to 4.49) who had moderate nicotine dependency (AOR/p=4.04/0.01; 95% CI 1.28 to 12.74), poor knowledge on TCLs (AOR/p=3.57/0.02; 95% CI 1.28 to 9.95) and the respondents who suggested family guidance (AOR/p=1.77/0.06; 95% CI 0.97 to 3.22) might be a sustainable way to minimise tobacco consumption in the university setting.Conclusions The study revealed some crucial factors for the non-satisfactory compliance status towards TCLs in the university setting. …”
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Hand position during chest compression in infantile piglets – Do you need to encircle the chest with the 2-thumb-technique? by Brandon Kowal, Megan O’Reilly, Tze-Fun Lee, Georg M. Schmölzer

“…Results: Nine infantile piglets (age 5–10 days, weight 2.1–3.0 kg) were included in the study. …”
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Evaluating the Resistance Performance of the VAEPC and the PAFRC Composites against a Low-Velocity Impact in Varying Temperature by Gwang-Hee Heo, Jong-Gun Park, Chung-Gil Kim

“…Their impact resistance performances are analyzed and compared with plain mortar after 28 days of age. Low-velocity impact tests were carried out under the various room temperatures of −70°C, 70°C, and 140°C. …”
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Effect of endoscopic sinus surgery on eustachian tube function in adult patients with chronic rhinosinusitis by Mahmoud Atef Abdelghaffar Youssef, Nassim Talaat Nassim, MohamedNourEddin Bashir Alkeeb, Tareq Muhammad Algarf

“…ET function was reevaluated 6 weeks post-operative in the form of an ETDQ-7, Valsalva maneuver, and tympanogram. Results The ages of selected patients ranged from 21 to 45 years old with mean ± SD = 30.98 ± 10.24 years old. 52.5% of patients were males. …”
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Patterns of psychiatric healthcare use during pandemic times among boys and girls with pre-existing diagnoses: a Norwegian nationwide primary and specialist healthcare registry stu... by Ingunn Olea Lund, Pia Jensen, Christian Madsen, Lars Johan Hauge, Alexandra Havdahl, Anne Reneflot, Ragnhild Brandlistuen, Helga Ask

“…The data spans 2017 to 2022, covering children and adolescents aged 6–19. We identified young people with recent diagnoses of mental health conditions and compared weekly consultation volumes before and during the pandemic for mental health conditions overall and the following diagnostic or symptom categories separately: anxiety/depression and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD). …”
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Reliability and Measurement Error of the Qualitative Analysis of Single Leg Loading (QASLS) Tool For Unilateral Tasks by Gemma N Parry, Lee C Herrington, Allan G Munro

“… # Study Design Reliability Study # Methods Fifteen healthy females (mean age 19 years SD2; height 167 cm, +/- 6; weight 56 kg, +/- 6) completed two unilateral tasks, single leg squat (SLS) and single leg landing (SLL), within session data collection occurred on the same day, with between session data collection occurring seven days later. …”
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Status of continuous glucose monitoring use and management in tertiary hospitals of China: a cross-sectional study by Xiaoqin Liu, Hongmei Dai, Liping Wu, Yong Zhao, Zumin Shi, Qin Lin, Liping Chen

“…Different from head nurses, CGM operation nurses considered the age of CGM operators, the type of hospital nurses worked in, the number of patients using CGM per month and the number of CGM training sessions as potential factors (p&lt;0.05).Conclusions The study provides a broad view of the development status of CGM in China. …”
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Ghanaian women’s experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) during group antenatal care: a brief report from a cluster randomised controlled trial by Samia J. Abdelnabi, Michelle L. Munro-Kramer, Cheryl A. Moyer, John E.O. Williams, Jody R. Lori

“…Intimate partner violence (IPV) impacts women of reproductive age globally and can lead to significant negative consequences during pregnancy. …”
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Reliability of an Observational Biomechanical Analysis Tool in Adolescent Baseball Pitchers by Steven F DeFroda, Dai Sugimoto, Steven J Staffa, Donald S Bae, Ellen Shanley, Charles A Thigpen, Peter K Kriz

“… # Results Twenty asymptomatic pitchers ages 12-18 years were included. Total ACES scores ranged from 1 to 13, normally distributed. …”
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