Association of neighborhood level socioeconomic status and patient reported clinical improvement following total shoulder arthroplasty by Caleb Morgan, MD, Amanda Firoved, MOT, OTR, Patrick J. Denard, MD, Justin W. Griffin, MD

“…There were no significant differences between groups for body mass index or age at time of surgery. All groups significantly improved from baseline scores on all PROs (P < .001) with the majority of improvement being achieved within the first year after surgery. …”
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Biometry and Intraocular Lens Power Calculation by Combined Scheimpflug-Placido Disc versus Optical Interferometry Devices by Mehlan Juliane, Lehman Anne-Isabel, Cichocki Myriam, Druchkiv Vasyl, Katz Toam, Stephan J Linke

“…Results: Our study included 205 healthy, unoperated eyes from 117 patients (61 women, 56 men) aged 20 to 75 years. Twenty-two eyes of cataract patients were also included in this retrospective study design. …”
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Association of childhood maltreatment and adverse lifetime experiences with post-injury psychopathology: evidence from the China Severe Trauma Cohort by Shu Wen, Yu Zeng, Yueyao Xu, Shishi Xu, Wenwen Chen, Guanglin Wang, Wei Zhang, Huan Song

“…Mediation analyses were performed to assess the role of adverse lifetime experiences in connecting childhood maltreatment and post-injury psychopathology. Results The mean age of participants was 47.95 years with a predominance of males (61.39%). …”
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Hubungan Tingkat Pengetahuan Ibu dengan Pemberian Imunisasi Dasar Lengkap pada Bayi di Kelurahan Parupuk Tabing Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Lubuk Buaya Kota Padang Tahun 2013 by Atika Putri Dewi, Eryati Darwin, Edison .

“…The population of this study is all of mothers with babies aged 1-2 years in the Village of Parupuk Tabing. …”
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Faktor-Faktor yang Berhubungan dengan Pola Pemberian ASI Eksklusif di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Bungus Tahun 2014 by Selvi Indriani Nasution, Nur Indrawati Liputo, Mahdawaty Masri

“…In 2013, coverage of exclusive breastfeeding in infants with aged 0-6 months in Indonesia is 52.7%. Converage of exclusive breastfeeding in the working area of Bungus Primary Health Care is very low (39.7%). …”
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UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY IN THE DANUBE DELTA SETTLEMENTS. TERRITORIAL DISPARITIES by NICOLETA DAMIAN

“…En ce qui concerne la pauvreté, outre que le déficit de revenus, la population locale se confronte avec le déficit de quelques conditions essentielles de vie, comme suite de quelques accumulations négatives, à savoir: accumulation de dettes, déficit d’éducation, incapacité d’intégration dans le marché du travail. Les personnes âgées à une pension réduite, ainsi que les chômeurs et les personnes qui ne bénéficient d’aucun revenu et se trouvent dans une phase avancée de la pauvreté ont peu de chances à se redresser. …”
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Identification of Behavioral, Clinical, and Psychological Antecedents of Acute Stimulant Poisoning: Development and Implementation of a Mixed Methods Psychological Autopsy Study by Marley Antolin Muñiz, Vanessa M McMahan, Xochitl Luna Marti, Sarah Brennan, Sophia Tavasieff, Luke N Rodda, James Knoll, Phillip O Coffin

“…Informants were at least 18 years of age, communicated with the decedent within the year before death, and were aware that the decedent had been using substances during that year. …”
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Tick-borne encephalitis vaccination in persons with a recent history of Lyme borreliosis: Insights from a Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviour survey in Bavaria, Germany by Stefanie Böhm, Andreas Beyerlein, Volker Fingerle, Merle M. Böhmer, Manfred Wildner

“…Of 228 participants who provided further details, 142 (62 %) reported to have received a regular booster vaccination. Apart from age category and TBD-specific knowledge level, vaccination status was not associated with any other sociodemographic or residence-specific factors, outdoor behaviours, occupational exposure, or prior experiences with ticks or TBDs. …”
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Intelligent measurement of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis x-ray coronal imaging parameters based on VB-Net neural network: a retrospective analysis of 2092 cases by Jinlong Liu, Haoran Zhang, Pei Dong, Danyang Su, Zhen Bai, Yuanbo Ma, Qiuju Miao, Shenyu Yang, Shuaikun Wang, Xiaopeng Yang

“…Methods Retrospective analysis of 3192 patients aged 8–18 years who had a full-length orthopantomogram of the spine and were diagnosed with AIS at the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from January 2019 to March 2024. …”
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Validation of the Chronic Liver Disease Questionnaire for MASH (CLDQ-MASH) by Zobair M. Younossi, Maria Stepanova, Issah Younossi, Andrei Racila

“…Results: There were 4,213 MASH patients included: age 56 ± 11 years, 44% male, 65% type 2 diabetes, 69% advanced fibrosis (F3–F4). …”
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阿魏酸通过胰岛素/IGF信号通路和DAF-16促进秀丽隐杆线虫寿命和应激抵抗力 by 况琪斐, 陈巧超, 张玲, 何文, 裴中

“…用50 mmol/L阿魏酸组喂养线虫后，<italic>daf-2</italic>、<italic>akt-2</italic>和<italic>age-1</italic>基因的mRNA表达水平下调（<italic>P</italic>＜0.05），<italic>daf-16</italic>基因的mRNA表达水平上调（<italic>P</italic>＜0.05），并上调其下游靶基因<italic>sod-3</italic>、<italic>clk-2</italic>的mRNA表达，以及下调<italic>ctl-1</italic>、<italic>dod-17</italic>的mRNA表达（<italic>P</italic>＜0.05）。…”
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Assessing the development of health technology assessment in Iran: a policy analysis using Kingdon’s Multiple streams framework: a qualitative study by Meysam Behzadifar, Saeed Shahabi, Ahad Bakhtiari, Samad Azari, Seyed Jafar Ehsanzadeh, Mohammad Yarahmadi, Masoud Behzadifar

“…Participants, consisting of 12 males and 4 females with an average age of 41.56 years and an average work experience of 14.37 years, provided insights into the current state of HTA. …”
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Study of cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetic patients in the acute phase of the coronavirus infection and post-COVID period on the background of therapy with sodium-glucose cotr... by N.M. Kushnarоva, O.V. Zinych, A.A. Shuprovych, K.P. Komisarenko

“…Forty-three T2DM patients aged 44–85 were examined during the acute period of COVID-19 and nine months after recovery. …”
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Efficacy of small-diameter core decompression with platelet-rich plasma in early osteonecrosis of the femoral head: a retrospective study by Haiwei Tang, Yahao Lai, Enze Zhao, Kai Zhou, Gang Chen, Zongke Zhou

“…Abstract Background Osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) is a challenging condition, primarily affecting young and middle-aged individuals, which results in hip dysfunction and, ultimately, femoral head collapse. …”
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Balanced crystalloid versus saline for resuscitation in pediatric septic shock: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Barkhá Vijendra, Ana Beatriz Bertol, Mylena Maria Guedes de Almeida, Pedro Henrique Aquino Gil de Freitas, Áurea Maria Salomão Simão, Bianca Lisa de Faria

“…BS was used to treat septic shock in 2,460 (20.1%) patients. The mean age was 5.98 ± 3.08 years, with 43.82% female patients. …”
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Change in Atrial Fibrillation Burden over Time in Patients with Nonpermanent Atrial Fibrillation by Philipp Krisai, Stefanie Aeschbacher, Matthias Bossard, Elena Herber, Steffen Blum, Pascal Meyre, Thilo Burkard, Michael Kühne, Stefan Osswald, Beat A. Kaufmann, David Conen

“…A relative change ≥10% or an absolute change >0.5% in AF burden between two yearly Holter-ECG recordings was considered significant. Results. Mean age was 67 years, 72% were men. The proportion of patients with no recorded AF increased from 53.7% at baseline to 78.6% (p=0.1) after 4 years of follow-up. …”
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Basolateral amygdala volume in affective disorders using 7T MRI in vivo by Benedikt Kürzinger, Stephanie Schindler, Martin Meffert, Anja Rosenhahn, Robert Trampel, Robert Turner, Peter Schoenknecht, Peter Schoenknecht, Peter Schoenknecht

“…The increase in volume is followed by a reduction phase, as glucocorticoid exposure cumulatively results in excitotoxic damage, reflecting allostatic load.Methods7T magnetic resonance brain imaging was conducted on a total of 84 participants (mean age 38 ± 12 years), comprising 20 unmedicated and 20 medicated individuals with MDD, 21 individuals suffering from bipolar disorder and 23 healthy controls. …”
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Incidence of Malignancies and the Association with Biological Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs in Japanese Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Time-Dependent Analysis from t... by Masayoshi Harigai, Eiichi Tanaka, Eisuke Inoue, Ryoko Sakai, Naohiro Sugitani, Shigeyuki Toyoizumi, Naonobu Sugiyama, Hisashi Yamanaka

“…Using patient registry data, we determined malignancy risk, stratified by bDMARD use, among Japanese patients with RA versus the Japanese general population and investigated whether bDMARD use is a time-dependent risk factor for the development of malignancy. Methods Patients aged ≥ 18 years with ≥ 2 data entries of RA in the IORRA (Institute of Rheumatology, Rheumatoid Arthritis) patient registry, enrolled from January 2013–December 2018, were identified (‘All RA’ cohort). …”
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Proximity or Directional Model of Voting for the Turkish Voter? by Murat İnan, Gül Arıkan Akdağ

“…Additionally, education, age, gender and income were recruited as classical control variables. …”
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Guidelines for Stroke Critical Rehabilitation by PAN Yu, XIE Yuxiao, ZHANG Hao, LYU Zeping, XIE Qing, BAI Dingqun, WAN Chunxiao, JIANG Shan, HE Jing, LIU Shaxing, LI Chong, YANG Bing, LIU Weiming, YANG Guofa, ZHOU Hua, LI Xin, XIE Ruimou, NI Xueyi, MA Di

“…With the acceleration of population aging and urbanization, stroke has become the leading cause of death and disability among adult residents in China. …”
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