Long-term trends and patterns in ultra-processed food consumption among Korean adults from 1998 to 2022 by Hyeseung Lee, Yesol Yim, Yerin Cho, Jiyeon Oh, Soeun Kim, Yejun Son, Hyesu Jo, Seohyun Hong, Masoud Rahmati, Hanseul Cho, Jiyoung Hwang, Dong Keon Yon

“…Dietary intake was assessed In 2020–2022, ultra-processed foods had a higher proportion using a single 24-hour recall for 96,447 individuals aged 20 years or older. Sampling weights were applied to adjust for the complex survey design and non-responses. …”
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Epidemiological aspects of nephrolithiasis and chronic diseases of the cardiovascular system combination by R. V. Royuk, S. K. Yarovoy, N. A. Guseva, Sh. L. Voskanyan, V. V. Royuk, D. B. Rodin

“…The obtained data was analyzed using descriptive statistics methods.Results. Average age of patients was 65,4 +– 3,27; 78% of the patients were men. …”
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Locking compression plate as a sequential external fixator following the distraction phase for the treatment of tibial bone defects caused by fracture-related infection: experience... by Xiriaili Kadier, Kai Liu, Aierbanjiang Shali, Yimurang Hamiti, Sulong Wang, Xin Yang, Alimu Keremu, Aihemaitijiang Yusufu

“…Results This study included 22 participants with a mean age of 37.72 ± 9.65 years, comprising 17 males (77.2%) and 5 females (22.7%). …”
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Development of a Russian version of the Minnesota low vision reading chart by I.R. Stepanets, A.N. Kulikov, S.A. Koskin, D.I. Zhilchuk

“…Then, two versions of the test in Russian language (MNREAD-R) with different series of sentences were printed out and tested randomly in 30 subjects aged 18–22 years during one session. The reading parameters were assessed at a 40-cm distance; subjects were asked to read the charts for testing their monocular (right and left eyes) and binocular reading. …”
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Application of Kansei Engineering in Various Train Compartment Designs to Determine the User's Affective Response by Dinda Karina Yohanny, Lu'Lu' Purwaningrum, Ambar Mulyono

“…In addition, several user clusters were formed based on gender, age, and monthly income to segment train compartments when commercialized. …”
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Evaluation of Healthcare Outcomes of Patients Treated with 3D-Printed-Titanium and PEEK Cages During Fusion Procedures in the Lumbar Spine by Corso KA, Teferra AA, Michielli A, Corrado K, Marcini A, Lotito M, Smith C, Costa M, Ruppenkamp J, Wallace A

“…Most PEEK cage patients were 18– 64 years (61.9%), and 3D-printed-titanium was evenly distributed across age categories. The mean index hospital cost was ~$40,000, LOS was ~3 days, and discharge status to home/home health was ~85% for both; surgery time was 267 minutes for PEEK and 280 minutes for 3D-printed-titanium. …”
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Polypharmacy and self-medication among older adults in Indian urban communities—a cross-sectional study by Saibal Das, Pavithra Gnanavel, Shalini Smanla, Anku Moni Saikia, Shilpi Mishra, Shweta Khare, S. Arun Murugan, Vadanere Nidhi Prakash, Parimita Roychoudhury, Ishteyaque Ahmad, Vishal Diwan, J. Rajesh, K. Sathish Kumar, Jugal Kishore, Namita Srivastava, Sabrina Yasmin, Mahmuda Nasrin, Rinku Borah, Mandeep Sarma Basistha, Chetanjit Baruah, Manoj Kalita, Shambo Samrat Samajdar, Jerin Jose Cherian, Ashish Pathak, Samiran Panda, Santanu Kumar Tripathi, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg

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Improving the quality of primary healthcare in Kosovo: Impact of targeted training of Quality Coordinators by Ardita Baraku, Gordana Pavleković

“…Further research is needed to evaluate the impact of sex and age and the possible role redefinition of QCs. Resumen: Introducción y objetivos: Este estudio se centra en mejorar las habilidades profesionales de los Coordinadores de Calidad (QC) en la atención primaria de salud (APS) en Kosovo. …”
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Olutasidenib in combination with azacitidine induces durable complete remissions in patients with relapsed or refractory mIDH1 acute myeloid leukemia: a multicohort open-label phas... by Jorge E. Cortes, Gail J. Roboz, Maria R. Baer, Brian A. Jonas, Gary J. Schiller, Karen Yee, P. Brent Ferrell, Jay Yang, Eunice S. Wang, William G. Blum, Alice Mims, Hua Tian, Aaron Sheppard, Stéphane de Botton, Pau Montesinos, Antonio Curti, Justin M. Watts, the Olutasidenib Combination Therapy Study Group

“…Results Sixty-seven patients with R/R mIDH1 R132 AML received combination OLU + AZA. Median age was 66 years (range 28–82) and 54% were male. …”
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The Effects of Artificial vs. Natural Rearing on Growth Performance, Thyroid Hormone Levels, Locomotor Activity, Carcass Traits and Meat Quality Characteristics in Chios Lambs by Panagiotis Simitzis, Georgia Alexopoulou, Eftychis Karampekos, Konstantina Linardopoulou, Anargyros Rigakis, Niki Stamelou, Michael Goliomytis, Iosif Bizelis, Ioannis Bossis

“…The body weight of lambs was also recorded weekly. At the age of 45 days, lambs were fasted for 12 h, weighed and slaughtered. …”
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Effect of Rifaximin and a Multi-Strain Probiotic on the Intestinal Microbiome and Cardiovascular Risk Indicators in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease by E. A. Kashukh, E. A. Poluektova, A. V. Kudryavtseva, G. S. Krasnov, V. I. Kazey, P. D. Sobolev, P. V. Gremyakova, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Group 4 consisted of healthy individuals, comparable in age and sex with the examined CHD patients. In group 4, blood and stool tests were performed once to provide a comparison with group 1. …”
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Intracranial pressure monitoring in patients with spontaneous onset of orthostatic headache by Linda D’Antona, Sanjay Cheema, Dwij Mehta, Fion Bremner, Laurence Dale Watkins, Ahmed Kassem Toma, Manjit Singh Matharu

“…Results Thirty-eight patients (23 females, mean age 41 years ± 14SD) were identified. All patients had orthostatic headaches with a spontaneous onset. …”
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Reliability of non-invasive imaging methods in the evaluation of pancreatic parenchyma changes in tumors of the pancreaticoduodenal zone by M.M. Veligotskyy, S.E. Arutyunov, I.I. Yakovtsova, I.V. Ivakhno, O.M. Veligotskyi

“…The study included 82 patients who underwent pancreatoduodenectomy for neoplasms of the pancreatoduodenal zone. The age of the patients varied from 34 to 77 years, there were 42 (50.9 %) men and 40 (49.1 %) wo­men. …”
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Ibuprofen reduces inflammation, necroptosis and protects photoreceptors from light-induced retinal degeneration by Ping-Wu Zhang, Zi-He Wan, Weifeng Li, Abhishek Vats, Kunal Mehta, Laura Fan, Lingli Zhou, Sean Li, Gloria Li, Casey J. Keuthan, Cynthia Berlinicke, Cheng Qian, Noriko Esumi, Elia J Duh, Donald J. Zack

“…Abstract Background The retinal degenerative diseases retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and atrophic age- related macular degeneration (AMD) are characterized by vision loss from photoreceptor (PR) degeneration. …”
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A retrospective study of pembrolizumab combined with XELOX regimen in the treatment of advanced gastric cancer by FENG Huizhi, LIU Jingmei, BU Xiaoqian

“…Inclusion criteria: patients with HER2-negative, untreated advanced gastric cancer or adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction, confirmed by clinical histopathological examination and meeting relevant diagnostic criteria; TNM stage Ⅳ; age ≥20 years; expected survival ≥6 months; no severe organ damage before treatment; Karnofsky score >60; patients with complete clinical data. …”
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Análisis de modelos algorítmicos de aprendizaje automático para la predicción del estado vital a los seis meses tras fractura de cadera en pacientes mayores de 74 años by I. Calvo Lorenzo, I. Uriarte Llano, M.R. Mateo Citores, Y. Rojo Maza, U. Agirregoitia Enzunza

“…Material and methods: The study population is a cohort of patients over 74 years of age who suffered a hip fracture between May 2020 and December 2022. …”
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Comparison of Long-Term Antibody Titers in Calves Treated with Different Conjunctival and Subcutaneous <i>Brucella abortus</i> S19 Vaccines by Ali Uslu, Zafer Sayın, Aslı Balevi, Yasin Gulcu, Fırat Ergen, Islam Akıner, Oguzhan Denizli, Osman Erganis

“…In this study, a total of 115 calves aged 3 to 4.5 months were created in five groups, with 23 animals in each group: group 1 (vaccine brand A), group 2 (vaccine brand B), and group 3 (vaccine brand C) received the two-dose conjunctival vaccine, group 4 received the single-dose subcutaneous vaccine (vaccine brand C), and group 5 received the subcutaneous vaccine (vaccine brand C) plus the booster dose conjunctival vaccine (vaccine brand B). …”
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Feasibility and usefulness of Gini coefficients of primary care visits as a measure of service inequality: preliminary findings from a cross-sectional study using region-wide elect... by Xin Yang, Jing Chai, Jing Cheng, DeBin Wang, XingRong Shen, Rong Liu, ManMan Lu, Jia Xu, Ningjing Yang, Guocheng Li

“…While the observed GPVs for all causes witnessed: great inter-region variations, with the highest GPV being 4.38 times the lowest; a general decreasing trend over the 9-quarter period, being reduced by 18.48% on average; and atypical J-shaped trajectories along age groups for both sexes. The multivariate modelling revealed statistically significant associations between the all-cause-GPV and 10 out of 14 commonly available community-level variables studied.Conclusions GPVs can be accurately estimated using a limited number of months of EMRs and, guided by the relevant framework, analysis of GPVs can unveil useful clues in addressing unequal primary healthcare utilisation.…”
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Lesiones por animal ponzoñoso, raya de agua dulce: serie de casos by María Alejandra Ríos González, Natalia Sánchez Coronel, Dayra Constanza Rojas Duran, William Mauricio Acero Moreno, Lorena García Agudelo

“…Results: 32 study series, 87,50% male and 12,50% female, age range 7-74 years, mean was 40,59 years, 59,38% were from rural areas and 40,62% urban, 34,37% consulted in the first 24 hours after the event, from one day to seven days 6,25%, from seven to 15 days 15,62%, and more than 15 days 43,75%, lesion in foot 53,13%, in neck of foot 21,87%, in leg 25%, symptoms presented: pain 100%, 71,87% signs of local infection, 59,37% purulent discharge, 56,25% lesion with necrosis. …”
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Perfusion mode as a factor of appearance of cognitive dysfunction in patients after on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting by S.M. Sudakevych, О.А. Loskutov, І.P. Shlapak, V.V. Babenko, B.М. Todurov

“…In a retrospective observational one-center study, data from clinical and instrumental examination of 71 patients selected for surgical intervention for coronary heart disease – on-pump CABG (57 (80.2 %) males and 14 (19.8 % ) of women with an average age of 58.7 ± 7.7 years), were analyzed. All patients included in the study were divided into 2 groups depending on the mode of perfusion, namely, the values ​​of blood pressure maintained during the CPB. …”
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