Unveiling the Burden of Pruritus: Its Prevalence and Impact on Sleep Quality in Hemodialysis Patients in Somalia by Jeele MOO, Adam AM, Addow ROB

“…We found R2 =  0.10, F (5,293) =  4.38, p < 0.001, in the multiple regression between pruritus and age, sex, duration of hemodialysis and sessions of hemodialysis per week. …”
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Distribution of Pupil Size and Associated Factors: Results from the Population-Based Gutenberg Health Study by Marian Kiel, Stephanie D. Grabitz, Susanne Hopf, Thomas Koeck, Philipp S. Wild, Irene Schmidtmann, Karl J. Lackner, Thomas Münzel, Manfred E. Beutel, Norbert Pfeiffer, Alexander K. Schuster

“…Results. 18,335 eyes of 9,559 participants aged 40 to 80 years were included in the analysis. …”
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Assessing a clinical vital sign in severe mental illness: validation study of the 5 sit-to-stand test for monitoring muscle strength – The PsychiActive Project by Alvaro Lopez-Moral, Diego Munguia-Izquierdo, Javier Bueno-Antequera

“…Aims This study aimed to analyse the criterion validity of the 5-STS test in SMI, considering potential age, gender and body mass index influences. Method In a cross-sectional study following the ‘STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology’ (STROBE) guidelines, 82 adults with SMI (aged 18–65, 24 women) were assessed. …”
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Feasibility of Cognitive Training in Combination With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in a Home-Based Context (TrainStim-Home): study protocol for a randomised controlled t... by Ulrike Grittner, Agnes Flöel, Rafal Nowak, Friederike Thams, Daria Antonenko, Merle Rocke, Robert Malinowski

“…Introduction With the worldwide increase of life expectancy leading to a higher proportion of older adults experiencing age-associated deterioration of cognitive abilities, the development of effective and widely accessible prevention and therapeutic measures has become a priority and challenge for modern medicine. …”
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Determinants and Characteristics of Insulin Dose Requirements in Children and Adolescents with New-Onset Type 1 Diabetes: Insights from the INSENODIAB Study by Maude Beckers, Olivier Polle, Paola Gallo, Noémie Bernard, Céline Bugli, Philippe A. Lysy

“…We conducted a comprehensive analysis of medical records for children aged 6 months to 18 years, hospitalized for new-onset T1D from 2013 to 2022. …”
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Evaluation of the effect of dental caries, oral hygiene, and treatment need on oral health-related quality of life among Turkish orphan children and adolescents by Ecem Akbeyaz Şivet, Berkant Sezer, Neslihan Atmaca, Narmin Hüseynova, Betül Kargül

“…Methods A total of 112 orphan children and adolescents aged between 9 and 17 years living in a residential care facility in Istanbul, Türkiye, were involved in this cross-sectional study. …”
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Associations between systemic inflammatory biomarkers and metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease: a cross-sectional study of NHANES 2017–2020 by Xin Qiu, Shuang Shen, Nizhen Jiang, Yifei Feng, Guodong Yang, Donghong Lu

“…Among these participants,, 34.67% were aged 40–59 years, 50.85% were female, and 63.26% were Non-Hispanic White. …”
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Prognostic factors in transnasal endoscopic surgery for paediatric patients with ossifying fibroma of the paranasal sinuses and skull base by Jingying Ma, Bing Zhou, Qian Huang, Shunjiu Cui, Dingfang Cao

“…Methods This retrospective observational study included 34 patients under 17 years of age who underwent transnasal endoscopic resection of ossifying fibroma of the paranasal sinuses and skull base from 2005 to 2021 at a single tertiary medical centre. …”
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PREVENTION OF ONCOLOGICAL DISEASES AS THE BASIS OF INTERACTION OF ONCOLOGICAL SERVICE WITH PRIMARY LINK OF HEALTH CARE by L. M. Aleksandrova, V. V. Starinsky, A. D. Kaprin, Yu. V. Samsonov

“…Among both sexes, deaths of working age, the proportion of deaths from MN was 16.0%, among women of reproductive age — 16.3%. …”
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Relationship Between Corpus Callusom Index and Clinical Subtypes, Severity of Cognitive Disorders, and Disability in Multiple Sclerosis by Hussein Soleimantabar, Mehran Ghaffari, Shno Hosseini, Moosa Seifzade

“…Results: A total of 85 patients with a mean age of 40.73 ± 8.45 years were assessed, and 65.9% were women. …”
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Comparison of Endogenous Endophthalmitis in Patients with and Without COVID-19 Infection by Ehsan Namvar, Mehdi Moallem, Mehrdad Afarid, Alireza Bolkheir

“…Twenty-four eyes of the 14 patients were included in this study, of which 9 were female. The mean age was 49.57 years. Follow-ups ranged from 1 month to 20 months (mean, 8 months). …”
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Development of Chatbot-Based Oral Health Care for Young Children and Evaluation of its Effectiveness, Usability, and Acceptability: Mixed Methods Study by Kittiwara Pupong, Jaranya Hunsrisakhun, Samerchit Pithpornchaiyakul, Supawadee Naorungroj

“…Participants had a mean age of 34.5 (SD 8.6) years. The frequency of tooth brushing among caregivers significantly improved, increasing from 72.4% at baseline to 93.1% two months post baseline (PP ConclusionsThe 30-Day FunDee chatbot effectively enhanced caregivers’ perceptions of oral health care and improved tooth-brushing practices for children aged 6‐36 months. …”
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Proportional mortality and years of potential life lost due to liver diseases among agricultural workers, Brazil, 2017 to 2022 by Jailma dos Santos Silva, Soraia Arruda, Thayane Silva Nunes, Wiler de Paula Dias, Adedayo Michael Awoniyi, Armando Meyer, Cleber Cremonese

“…A higher proportional mortality occurred in men (86.2%), Mixed individuals (61.1%), up to age 49 years (40.9%), with ≤ 7 years of education level (52.4%), and residence in the Northeast (56.9%). …”
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Assessing the diagnostic accuracy of radiological and histological findings in the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease stages among patients in a tertiary hospital by Ekpe Edemekong L, Emanghe U, Ekpe EL, Obiora IC, Yemiode Itam, Akinmola OO

“…Results: One hundred and nine participants were recruited and participated in this study, of which 62 (56.9%) were females and 47(43.1%) were males, with the highest age bracket presenting at 56-65 years. The female-to-male ratio was 1:1.4 and their mean age was 55.5 ± 12.8 years (age range was 18-70 years). …”
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Increased Choroidal Thickness in Keratoconus Patients: Perspectives in the Disease Pathophysiology by João Pinheiro-Costa, João Viana Pinto, Sara Perestrelo, João Nuno Beato, Luís Torrão, Elisete Brandão, Ângela Carneiro, Maria Dulce Madeira, Fernando Falcão-Reis

“…To analyze and compare choroidal thickness between keratoconus (KC) patients and age-matched non-KC subjects. Methods. A cross-sectional, case-control study. …”
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Health Literacy Influences Heart Failure Knowledge Attainment but Not Self-Efficacy for Self-Care or Adherence to Self-Care over Time by Aleda M. H. Chen, Karen S. Yehle, Nancy M. Albert, Kenneth F. Ferraro, Holly L. Mason, Matthew M. Murawski, Kimberly S. Plake

“…Prior to education, newly referred patients at three HF clinics (N=51, age: 64.7±13.0 years) completed assessments of health literacy, HF knowledge, self-efficacy, and adherence to self-care at baseline, 2, and 4 months. …”
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Comorbidity patterns and mortality in atrial fibrillation: a latent class analysis of the EURopean study of Older Subjects with Atrial Fibrillation (EUROSAF) by Huah Shin Ng, Richard Woodman, Nicola Veronese, Alberto Pilotto, Arduino A. Mangoni

“…We identified comorbidity patterns and their association with mortality in multimorbid older AF patients with different multidimensional frailty.Methods Hospitalised adults aged ≥65 years with non-valvular AF were followed for 12 months in the multicentre EURopean study of Older Subjects with Atrial Fibrillation (EUROSAF). …”
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Factors Associated with Fluid Sequestration in Patients with Acute Pancreatitis: A Prospective Study in Tertiary Centre Hospital in Nepal by Raju Bhandari, Krishna Sapkota, Seema Subedi, Som Kumar Shrestha, Edward Sutanto, Prabhat Jha, Ramesh Singh Bhandari

“…Eighty patients (median age 44 years; 57% male) with a median FS48 of 1610 mL were evaluated. …”
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L’oppidum du Marduel (Saint-Bonnet-du-Gard) du Bronze final IIIb à l’époque romaine : synthèse des recherches sur un habitat occupé dans la longue durée by Denis Lebeaupin

“…The chronology of settlement in the plain, or the piedmont, is less well known, but it seems as though the zone was more or less continuously settled, or at least visited, from the final Bronze Age IIIB to the end of the 5th c. BC, unoccupied from the 4th c. to the 2nd c. …”
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Inverse Relationship Between Leydig Cell Density and Metastatic Potential of Prostatic Adenocarcinoma by W. John Wang, Y. Albert Yeh, Paul Stout, Kang Fan

“…Materials and methods: Tissue samples from 111 men, age 52–85, with PC and bilateral orchiectomy were evaluated for Leydig cell density. …”
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