Patient experiences of an ankle fracture and the most important factors in their recovery: a qualitative interview study by Rebecca Samantha Kearney, Rebecca McKeown, David R Ellard, Zi Heng Liew

“…The age range of participants was 21–75 years with a mean of 51.6 years. …”
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Effect of social support networks on maternal knowledge of child health in rural Odisha, India by Ranjan Kumar Prusty, Sayeed Unisa

“…Methods: A multistage cluster sampling design was adopted for the present study and 379 mothers (age: M = 28.79, SD ± 4.03) were randomly selected by eight villages. …”
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Maternal betel quid use during pregnancy and child growth: a cohort study from rural Bangladesh by Mohammad Redwanul Islam, Shaki Aktar, Jesmin Pervin, Syed Moshfiqur Rahman, Monjur Rahman, Anisur Rahman, Eva-Charlotte Ekström

“…Objective We examined the associations of BQ use during pregnancy with children’s height-for-age and body mass index-for-age z-scores (HAZ and BAZ, respectively) and fat and fat-free mass along with sex-based differences in association in rural Bangladesh. …”
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Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) on oral health among secondary-level students: a cross-sectional study in Kathmandu, Nepal by Nishika Aryal, Anuja Rajbhandari

“…Significant associations were discovered between knowledge and age group (p=0.02) and students’ grade (p<0.001). …”
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Host Mesh Fitting of a Generic Musculoskeletal Model of the Lower Limbs to Subject-Specific Body Surface Data: A Validation Study by Katja Oberhofer, Silvio Lorenzetti, Kumar Mithraratne

“…Using the HMF technique, an anatomically based model of the lower limbs of an adult female subject (29 years) was customized to subject-specific skin surface data of five typically developing children (mean age 10.2 years) and six children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) (mean age 9.6 years). …”
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Prognostic factors for complications in patients with pancreatic pseudocyst by Manuel Alejandro Martínez Corrales, Leonila Noralis Portal Benítez, Yoisel Duarte Linares, Joaquín Zurbano Fernández

“…<br /><strong>Results</strong>: patients aged 40-59 years old (57.8%), and males (62.2%) predominated. …”
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Clinical Epidemiological Characteristics and Risk Factors for Severe Bronchiolitis Caused by Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Vietnamese Children by Sang Ngoc Nguyen, Thuy Ngoc Thi Nguyen, Lam Tung Vu, Thap Duc Nguyen

“…Bronchiolitis is the most prevalent cause of hospitalization in infants under the age of 12 months. The disease is caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, which can cause breathing difficulties and respiratory failure. …”
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Estimation of Global Cardiovascular Risk in Hypertensive Patients from the University of Medical Sciences of Cienfuegos by Lucía Baños Leyva, Milagros Lisset León Regal, Luis Alberto Mass Sosa, Jacqueline Zamora Galindo, José Andy Hernández Quintana, Judeny Colls Cañizares

“…The sample consisted of 105 hypertensive patients between 40-80 years of age from the University of Medical Sciences of Cienfuegos in 2021. …”
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Cancer Risk in Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Anders M Ekbom

“…Extensive disease and young age at diagnosis were independent risk factors. …”
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High Healthcare Utilization in Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease Prior to Transition to Adult Care: A Retrospective Study by Julie Kanter, Menaka Bhor, Xin Li, Frank Li, Jincy Paulose

“…Young adults (18 to 25 years of age) have higher acute care utilization and an increased risk of poor outcomes. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors for Depression among Caregivers of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients in Saudi Arabia by Mohammed Saeed Alqahtani, Ahmad Ayed Alshbriqe, Ahmed A. Awwadh, Turki Ali Alyami, Mohammed Saad Alshomrani, Adel Alhazzani

“…Depression among caregivers was assessed by using the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression. Results. The age of caregivers ranged from 17 to 85 years (Mean±SD: 41.1±14.0 years). …”
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Can a physical activity program improve functional capacity and fatigue in people with cancer? A retrospective analysis by Aline Reinmann, Edouard Laré, Anne-Violette Bruyneel, Joseph Gligorov, Alexandre Bodmer, Thibaud Koessler

“…Results Among the 264 participants (age 57.36 ± 12.43 years; 189 women; 134 with breast cancer), 125 (47%) completed the program. …”
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Oral health-related conditions in Ecuador: A temporal trend analysis of hospital discharges from 2000-2023. by Verónica Baldeón, Adriana Hernández, Sthephany Tapia, Alejandro Rodriguez

“…We estimated crude and age-standardized rates per 100,000 inhabitants for the entire population and crude rates by sex, age, region, and the diagnosis. …”
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Early Diabetic Nephropathy and Retinopathy in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Attending Sudan Childhood Diabetes Centre by Hana Ahmed, Tayseer Elshaikh, Mohamed Abdullah

“…Likewise, high blood pressure (OR 6.89, CI 1.17-40.52, p=0.03), but not age, duration, ethnic group, BMI, HbA1c, and presence of retinopathy, was a predictor for nephropathy. …”
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Characteristics of Posterior Ethmoidal Artery and Its Relationship with Anterior Ethmoidal Artery and Skull Base on CT Scan by Thuy Chung TRAN PHAN, Kiet Vuong DANG

“…Results: There were 100 patients in this study, of whom 51% (51/100) were female and 49% (49/100) were male. Patient ages ranged from 20 to 84 years. Their average age was 40.92+-14.65 years. …”
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Symptoms and coronary risk factors predictive of adverse cardiac events in chest pain patients in an Asian emergency department: the need for a local prediction score by Ziwei Lin, Swee Han Lim, Qai Ven Yap, Cheryl Shumin Kow, Yiong Huak Chan, Siang Jin Terrance Chua, Anantharaman Venkataraman

“…Random glucose and direct low-density lipoprotein measurements were taken, in addition to serial troponin. We derived the age, coronary risk factors (CRF), sex and symptoms (ACSS) risk score based on multivariate analysis results, considering age, CRF, sex and symptoms and classifying patients into very low, low, moderate and high risk for MACE. …”
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Population biology of European hake (Merluccius merluccius, Linnaeus, 1758) in Greece by Alexandros Theocharis, Maria Vlachou, Alexis Conides, Dimitris Klaoudatos

“…The male to female ratio (0.92:1) did not significantly depart from 1:1, with length-weight relationships exhibiting positive allometric growth. There were seven age groups identified, with the second age group being the most predominate. …”
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Phonocardiography based pulse wave velocity system for non-occlusive assessment of arterial stiffness by T. Corina Margain, Emily Powell, Alexandra Clark, Adam Bush

“…Arterial stiffness is strongly associated with vascular aging and pathology and can be assessed in many ways. …”
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The prevalence of persistence metopic suture (metopisim) among Kurdish populations of Erbil city. by Soran M Karim, Othman Omar, Muyesser Nuri, Tuqa Yousif Al-Sharef

“… Background and objective: A fully developed frontal bone consists mainly of two portions separated by a vertically oriented suture called metopic, frontal or inter-frontal suture, it’s considered to be the first skull suture to close metopic suture physiologically closes at different times of age and could occur from birth through age 8 years,In some individual (and as a normal variant) a persistent metopic suture can be seen in the midline running down the frontal bone and the condition is referred to as metopisim. …”
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Association between Lipid Profiles and Serum Urate: A Cross-Sectional Study in Southwestern China by Jiying Qi, Xiaojuan Dai, Binbin Zhou, Yang Su, Zhen Xie, Dongmei Liu

“…This study aims to investigate the sex- and age-specific association between lipid profiles and serum urate. …”
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