Hospital Prevalence of Colorectal Cancer among Colonoscopy Recipients Attending a Tertiary Hospital in Oman: A Cross-Sectional Study by Alanoud F. Alsumait, Yahya M. Al-Farsi, Mostafa I. Waly, Issa S. Al-Qarshoobi, Samir Al-Adawi, Nawaf H. Albali, Mansour S. Al-Moundhri

“…Gender-specific CRC prevalence was higher among males compared with females (13.3 vs. 10.5). Age-specific CRC prevalence increased with advancing age, from 2.8 among those less than 40 years of age to 26.5 among aged 70 years or more. …”
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Study of Frequency and Characteristics of Red Blood Cell Alloimmunization in Thalassemic Patients: Multicenter Study from Palestine by Adham Abu Taha, Ahmad Yaseen, Sa’d Suleiman, Omar Abu Zenah, Hammam Ali, Rania Abu Seir, Khaled Younis

“…There was no association between age, sex, starting age of transfusion, number of transfused units, history of splenectomy and alloimmunization. …”
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Characteristics of Nonmotor Symptoms in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy by Ruwei Ou, Wei Song, Qianqian Wei, Ke Chen, Bei Cao, Yanbing Hou, Bi Zhao, Huifang Shang

“…Twenty-seven PSP patients, 27 age- and gender-matched healthy controls (HC), and 27 age- and gender-matched PD patients were included for this case-control study. …”
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Optic Neuritis in the Older Chinese Population: A 5-Year Follow-Up Study by Junqing Wang, Huanfen Zhou, Limin Qin, Chunxia Peng, Jie Zhao, Da Teng, Dahe Lin, Nanping Ai, Quangang Xu, Shihui Wei

“…Clinical features at onset and last follow-up were analyzed within subgroups (age 45–65 years and age ≥ 65 years). Results. 76 patients (99 eyes) were included, of which 58% were females. …”
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Initial Development and Validation of a Transition Readiness Scale for Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Oded Hammerman, Areej Bayatra, Dan Turner, Arie Levine, Raanan Shamir, Amit Assa, Michael Wilschanski, Yaacov G. Bachner, Eran Israeli

“…Self-efficacy significantly correlated with age, while the correlations between perceived knowledge and perception of medical care with age were not significant. …”
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The inflammatory profiling in a cohort of older patients suffering from cognitive decline and dementia by Beatrice Arosio, Paolo Dionigi Rossi, Evelyn Ferri, Ernesto Consorti, Simona Ciccone, Tiziano Angelo Lucchi, Nicola Montano

“…Background: During aging, there is a progressive impairment of immune cell function that triggers the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines causing the so-called “inflammaging”. …”
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Statistical Model for the Mechanical Properties of Al-Cu-Mg-Ag Alloys at High Temperatures by A. M. Al-Obaisi, E. A. El-Danaf, A. E. Ragab, M. S. Soliman, A. N. Alhazaa

“…Four different compositions of Al-Cu-Mg-Ag alloys, designed based on half-factorial design, were cast, homogenized, hot-rolled, and isothermally aged for different durations. The four alloys were tensile-tested at room temperature as well as at 190 and 250°C at a constant initial strain rate of 0.001 s−1, in two aging conditions, namely, underaged and peak-aged. …”
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Ischemic Strokes: Observations from a Hospital Based Stroke Registry in Bangladesh by Nirmalendu Bikash Bhowmik, Aamir Abbas, Mohammad Saifuddin, Md. Rashedul Islam, Rumana Habib, Aminur Rahman, Md. Amirul Haque, Zahid Hassan, Mohammad Wasay

“…Data was gathered from 679 stroke patients. Mean age was 60.6 years. Almost 68% of patients were male. …”
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Clinical Behavior of Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma in Young Patients: A Single Center Experience by Volkan Sen, Ozan Bozkurt, Omer Demir, Ahmet Adil Esen, Ugur Mungan, Guven Aslan, Aykut Kefi, Ilhan Celebi

“…A total of 40 patients who were initially diagnosed with bladder urothelial carcinoma at the age less than 40 years were included in the study. …”
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Low-Temperature Reverse Microemulsion Synthesis, Characterization, and Photocatalytic Performance of Nanocrystalline Titanium Dioxide by Zhang Liu, Zicong Jian, Jianzhang Fang, Xiaoxin Xu, Ximiao Zhu, Shuxing Wu

“…After aging for 6 h, the amorphous TiO2 began to change into anatase. …”
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The effect of protein oxidation on the formation of advanced glycation end products after chicken myofibrillar protein glycation by Zongshuai Zhu, Anthony Pius Bassey, Ming Huang, Iftikhar Ali Khan

“…Investigation that protein oxidation to the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) after chicken myofibrillar protein glycation is limited. …”
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A Silent Infection Pandemic of COVID-19: Epidemiological Investigation and Hypothetical Models by Jianping Geng, Jun Yu, Tao Lu, Yinhe Wang, Yang Cao

“…In comparison with HAV, COVID-19 shows the same infection mode in children (aged 0–9 years), but significant difference in young adults (aged 10–44 years) and the elderly (aged 45 years or older). …”
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Early Onset Primary Hyperparathyroidism Associated with a Novel Germline Mutation in CDKN1B by Marianne S. Elston, Goswin Y. Meyer-Rochow, Michael Dray, Michael Swarbrick, John V. Conaglen

“…Individuals presenting with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) at a young age commonly have an underlying germline gene mutation in one of the following genes: MEN1, CASR, or CDC73. …”
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A Simple Spatial Working Memory and Attention Test on Paired Symbols Shows Developmental Deficits in Schizophrenia Patients by Wei Song, Kai Zhang, Jinhua Sun, Lina Ma, Forrest Fabian Jesse, Xiaochun Teng, Ying Zhou, Hechen Bao, Shiqing Chen, Shuai Wang, Beimeng Yang, Xixia Chu, Wenhua Ding, Yasong Du, Zaohuo Cheng, Bin Wu, Shanguang Chen, Guang He, Lin He, Xiaoping Chen, Weidong Li

“…In a healthy control group with ages ranging from 12 to 60, the efficiency score (accuracy divided by reaction time) reached a peak in the 20–27 age range and then declined with increasing age. …”
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Radiographic Follow-Up during Orthodontic Treatment for Early Diagnosis of Sequential Supernumerary Teeth by Selma Sano Suga, Paula de Castro Kruly, Talissa Mayer Garrido, Marise Sano Suga Matumoto, Uhana Seifert Guimarães Suga, Raquel Sano Suga Terada

“…The first case describes the radiographic follow-up of a female patient that presented a supernumerary tooth at the age of 9 years and 10 months in the right mandibular premolar region, followed by a further supernumerary tooth in the left mandibular premolar region identified at the age of 11 years and 3 months. …”
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Effects of Early Training and Nicotine Treatment on the Performance of Male NMRI Mice in the Water Maze by Paloma Vicens, M. Carmen Carrasco, Rosa Redolat

“…This research aimed to evaluate the effect of nicotine treatment and prior training on a spatial learning task in differently aged NMRI male mice. In a longitudinal study, mice were randomly assigned to one of 14 experimental groups receiving different combinations of chronically injected nicotine (0.35 mg/kg) administered for 10 days (5 days before and during 5 days acquisition of task) or control treatments and training in the water maze at different ages. …”
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Lifecycle deficit and economic support ratio in Nigeria: The national transfer account approach by Onisanwa Idowu Daniel, Yohanna Sule

“…Aim/purpose – The benefit of changing the population age structure only accrues to an economy if the labor market absorbs the increasing number of the working population at a given labor income that surpasses the prevailing consumption of that age group. …”
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Interleukin-7 and Immunosenescence by Vanloan Nguyen, Andrew Mendelsohn, James W. Larrick

“…The age of an individual is an important, independent risk factor for many of the most common diseases afflicting modern societies. …”
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Effect of heat treatment on the microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of GH4099 fabricated by lase powder bed fusion by Yuanhong Qian, Liangxian Gu, Rong Chen, Haiou Yang, Zhiyong Li, Zhaowen Cui, Shuya Zhang

“…The selection of solution and aging treatment parameters is based on the established relationships between the minimum solution time, temperature, and recrystallization behavior as well as the aging time, temperature, and hardness. …”
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Exercise induces dynamic changes in intra-articular metabolism and inflammation associated with remodeling of the infrapatellar fat pad in mice by Timothy M. Griffin, Ravi K. Komaravolu, Erika Barboza Prado Lopes, Padmaja Mehta-D’souza, Taylor Conner, Tessa Kovats, Susan Kovats, Madeline Allen, Peyton Harris, Mary Beth Humphrey, Hope D. Welhaven, Priyanka Brahmachary, Ronald K. June

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