Technologies for Interoperable Internet of Medical Things Platforms to Manage Medical Emergencies in Home and Prehospital Care: Scoping Review by Mattias Seth, Hoor Jalo, Åsa Högstedt, Otto Medin, Bengt Arne Sjöqvist, Stefan Candefjord

“… BackgroundThe aging global population and the rising prevalence of chronic disease and multimorbidity have strained health care systems, driving the need for expanded health care resources. …”
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Sprengel deformity: What is the functional outcome of conservative treatment versus surgical correction? by C. Antfang, A. Frommer, G. Gosheger, G. Toporowski, A. Laufer, J. D. Rölfing, R. Roedl, B. Vogt

“…This retrospective single centre study evaluated 19 patients with 21 Sprengel deformities treated from 2016 to 2023. 11/19 patients had mild ROM limitations of the affected shoulder with a median abduction of 130° (interquartile range (IQR) 100–150) and were treated conservatively. 8/19 patients with severe Sprengel deformity and functional impairment underwent surgery (median age 6 years (IQR 4–6)). Surgery was conducted in a modified technique according to Green. …”
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Individual and Combined Effects of Diabetes and Glaucoma on Total Macular Thickness and Ganglion Cell Complex Thickness: A Cross-sectional Analysis by Dhruven Shah, Rita Dhamankar, Vijay Shetty, Suhas S Haldipurkar, Prakash Chipade, Shabnam Tanwar, Prachi Sankhe, Devendra Venkatramani, Paresh Mhatre, Maninder Singh Setia

“…Results: The mean (SD) age of these individuals was 60.7 (10.1) years. …”
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Predatory Functional Response of Harmonia sedecimnotata to Aphis craccivora by Jiaru DENG, Zhiwei LIU, Lizhi HUO, Longhua SUN

“…The predation amount of larvae increased with the increase of age. For the 4th larvae, the handling time (Th) was the shortest, the predation capacity(a/Th) was the highest, and the maximum daily predation was the highest. which were 0.003 d, 379.667 and 333.333 aphids, respectively. …”
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Exploring the Mechanisms of Iron Overload-Induced Liver Injury in Rats Based on Transcriptomics and Proteomics by Yujia Shu, Xuanfu Wu, Dongxu Zhang, Shuxia Jiang, Wenqiang Ma

“…In this study, 16 male SD rats aged 6 to 7 weeks were randomly assigned to either a control group (CON) or an iron overload group (IO). …”
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Unified Mobile App for Streamlining Verbal Autopsy and Cause of Death Assignment in India: Design and Development Study by Harleen Kaur, Stuti Tripathi, Manjeet Singh Chalga, Sudhir K Benara, Amit Dhiman, Shefali Gupta, Saritha Nair, Geetha Menon, B K Gulati, Sandeep Sharma, Saurabh Sharma

“…This questionnaire encompasses the primary signs and symptoms associated with prevalent diseases across all age groups. Traditional methods have primarily involved paper-based questionnaires and physician-coded approaches for COD assignment, which is time-consuming and resource-intensive. …”
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Validation of biomarkers and clinical scores for the detection of uterine leiomyosarcoma: a case-control study with an update of pLMS by Marcus Vollmer, Günter Köhler, Julia Caroline Radosa, Marek Zygmunt, Julia Zimmermann, Martina Köller, Christine Seitz, Helena Bralo, Marc Philipp Radosa, Askin Cangül Kaya, Johann Krichbaum, Erich-Franz Solomayer, Lars Kaderali, Zaher Alwafai

“…LDH, NLR, and PLR achieved a diagnostic odds ratios of 18.03, 8.64 and 4.81, respectively. pLMS2 is based on subscores for menopausal status interacting with age, tumor diameter, intermenstrual bleeding, hypermenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, postmenstrual bleeding, rapid tumor growth, and suspicious sonography. …”
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Sex-differences in the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome: results from a large Ontario, Canada worker cohort by Fanni R. Eros, Paul A. Demers, Jeavana Sritharan

“…Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for CTS by occupation and industry, adjusted for age and birth year, stratified by sex. Results A total of 3,224 CTS cases among females (f) and 2,992 cases among males (m) were identified in the cohort. …”
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Association of social frailty, sarcopenia, and oral frailty with depressive symptoms in Chinese older adults: a cross-sectional study by Yuanhao Sun, Huan Liu, Xiangdong Li, Lin Zhang, Wenwen Xu, Hairong liu, Ting Yuan

“…This study aimed to evaluate the effect of sarcopenia, oral frailty, and social frailty on depressive symptoms among Chinese participants aged ≥ 60 years old in China. Methods This research utilized a cross-sectional design and used convenience sampling to select participants from Anhui Province, China. …”
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Il luogo e il senso: creazione e significazione degli spazi nel mondo globale by Gambardella, Fabiana, Amodio, Paolo

“…These are the sober word that Victor Hugo makes the priest pronounce when, at the down of modern age, he looked on with prophetic dismay at the advent of printing with movable type, a revolution that would completely transform not only the face and features of the human being, but even the stones, the physical and material space of signification, the dimension of belonging and the sacred, that an “emancipated humanity” would change with the use of reason, undermining every form of dogmatic authority and its symbol. …”
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Pola Sensitifitas dan Resistensi Kuman Urin, Ujung Kateter dan Ujung Drain Pasien Resipient Transplantasi Ginjal di RS PGI Cikini Jakarta by Etriyel Myh, David Manuputty

“…All Of patient (100 %) with positive result from one of sample : urine, tip of catheter or tip of drain. Group of age 31-40 years is the most often group whose transplanted. …”
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Erratum to “The usefulness of surgical drains on short term outcomes among patients undergoing craniotomy at the Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza Tanzania” [World Neurosurgery: X(22C... by Dennis Onsombi, Gerald Mayaya, Vladimir Herrera, Anton Manyanga, Washington Leonald, Samuel Byabato, James Lubuulwa

“…Results: A total of 77 patients were enrolled into the study, the median patient age (IOR) was 33(18–55) years, and 55 % of patients were males, giving male to female ratio of 2:1. …”
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Association between sex steroid hormones and α-klotho: Results from the NHANES 2013-2016 and Mendelian randomization study by Andong Guo, Pengcheng Chen, Jishuang Cao, Chenrui Wu, Sentai Ding

“…Purpose: This study aimed to explore the association and causal links between sex steroid hormones and the anti-aging protein α-Klotho, extending to investigate the mediation effects of potential mediators. …”
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April 15th war and hemodialysis patients in Sudan: a cross-sectional study by Malaz Hassan Dafaalla Idrees, Moez Mohammed Ibrahim Bashir, Balqees Abdeen Ahmed Mohamed, Amal Essam Ali Ahmed, Hamid Mohieldin Mohamed Abdalla, Kamil Mirghani Ali Shaaban

“…Results This study involved 316 participants, with an average age of 47.14 and 63.9% being males. After the war, 74.7% reported being unemployed. 30.1% of participants had to flee their homes, and 18.7% had a renal ailment limiting their travel. …”
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Clinical outcomes following surgical fixation of acromion fractures by Tram L. Tran, MD, MPH, Molly G. Sekar, MD, Nik Bhardwaja, BS, Jessica McGraw-Heinrich, MD, Michael D. McKee, MD, Niloofar Dehghan, MD

“…The mean time to surgery was 6 months (0-24). Older age and female sex were associated with stress fractures (P < .05). …”
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Polypharmacy or potentially inappropriate medications among older adults with COVID-19 in a secondary hospital in China and their association with mortality by Mian Mao, Shan Du, Yue Xu, Qiu Li, Ruoxi Luo, Qiaoqiao Zhou, Xiaoli Hu

“…Two types of PIMs were adopted, involving the evaluation of the PIM status of older patients with COVID-19 (age ≥ 60 years) identified by AGS/Beers Criteria (PIM-Beers) and the PIM related to Covid-19 antiviral NMV/r (Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) (PIM-NMV/r). …”
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Prevalence and associated factors of multidimensional poverty among rural households in East Gojjam zone, Northern Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study by Amare Wubishet Ayele, Yeshiwas Ewinetu, Asefa Delesho, Yirsie Alemayehu, Hayimro Edemealem

“…The standard of living dimension accounted for the largest contribution to MP. Household head aged, 30–45years (AOR = 1.78, 95% CI: 1.01, 3.15) and those over 45 years (AOR = 2.75, 95% CI: 1.42, 5.33), weather condition(Kolla) (AOR = 1.79, 95%CI: 1.05, 3.07), experiencing drought in the preceding 12 months (AOR = 1.65, 95% CI: 1.12, 2.41), dependency ratio (AOR = 1.34, 95%CI: 1.13,1.59), and adult equivalence (AOR = 1.13, 95%CI: 1.07,1.19) were more likely to experience MP. …”
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Effects of the Early Start Denver Model on emotional dysregulation and behavior problems in children with Autism spectrum disorder by Wan-Xia Liu, Ling Shan, Chun-Li Li, Yu-Mo Liu, Yang Xue, Yu-Ling OuYang, Fei-Yong Jia

“…Methods A total of 319 children aged 1.5 to 5 years were included in this study and received treatment based on the ESDM intervention program Baseline assessment (T0) was conducted before intervention, including Children Behavior Checklist (CBCL), Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC) and Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS). …”
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An Explainable Artificial Intelligence Text Classifier for Suicidality Prediction in Youth Crisis Text Line Users: Development and Validation Study by Julia Thomas, Antonia Lucht, Jacob Segler, Richard Wundrack, Marcel Miché, Roselind Lieb, Lars Kuchinke, Gunther Meinlschmidt

“…MethodsWe analyzed chat protocols from adolescents and young adults (aged 14-25 years) seeking assistance from a German crisis helpline. …”
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Efficacy and Safety Outcomes of Intravitreal Dexamethasone Implant Therapy for the Treatment of Adult Coats’ Disease by Qingshan Chen, Saying Liang, Xizhen Wang, Chenli Hu, Jieting She, Zi Li

“…Ten eyes (10 patients) with Stage 3A Coats’ disease were included, and the mean follow-up time was 9.70 ± 4.42 months. The mean age was 44.20 ± 7.42 years, and 80% were male. Six eyes (6 patients) received intravitreal injection of Ozurdex were included in the DEX (+) group, while the other 4 eyes in the DEX (−) group. …”
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