Early Economic Evaluation Demonstrates That Noncomputerized Tomography Robotic-Assisted Surgery Is Cost-Effective in Patients Undergoing Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty at High-... by Leo M. Nherera, Sanjay Verma, Paul Trueman, Simon Jennings

“…Results are dependent on case volumes and follow-up period and favour younger age groups.…”
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Is Whole‐Brain Radiotherapy for Brain Metastases an Overestimated Therapy? A Retrospective Study of Real‐World Data Using Landmark Analyses by Florian Hoelzl, Oliver Koelbl, Isabella Gruber

“…Overall survival was influenced by control of primary cancer, extracranial metastases, age, Karnofsky performance status, and number of brain metastases. …”
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Benchmarking Water-Limited Yield Potential and Yield Gaps of Shiraz in the Barossa and Eden Valleys by Marcos Bonada, Paul R. Petrie, Vinod Phogat, Cassandra Collins, Victor O. Sadras

“…The yield gap increased linearly with vine age between 6 and 33 yr at a rate of 0.3 t·ha−1·yr−1. …”
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Cardiovascular Risk Awareness, Exercise Practices and Metabolic Outcomes among Patients with Diabetes Mellitus in Northern Nigeria: A Cross-sectional, Multicentre Study by Nura Hamidu Alkali, Andrew E. Uloko, Ijuptil Chiroma, Ayuba Mugana, Maria Ahuoiza Garba, Innocent Onoja Okpe, Elijah Tonde Gargah, Umar Faruk Abdullahi, Lumsami Shadrach, Ibrahim Abdullahi Haladu

“…The mean age at diabetes diagnosis was 44.8 ± 11.7 years, and the median duration of diabetes was 84 months. …”
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Sociodemographic disparities in awareness of chronic conditions: an observational study among older persons in rural north-east of South Africa by Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Carlos Riumallo-Herl, Daniel Ohene-Kwofie

“…Generally, women are more aware of their condition; awareness increases with age except for HIV; persons from high consumption per capita households, living with one or more persons and living closer to a health facility are more likely to be aware of their conditions.Conclusions Older adults in rural South Africa are generally aware of their chronic conditions, though there are important differences by age, gender and socioeconomic status. …”
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Vaccination Against SARS-Cov-2 among Patients with Parkinson’s Disease Based on the Results of COVPARK-LT Study by R. Kaladytė Lokominienė, G. Lokominaitė

“…Non-vaccinated status was positively associated with female gender, younger age in men and earlier stage of Parkinson’s disease according to Hoehn-Yahr staging. …”
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Usefulness of Multidetector Row Computed Tomography for Predicting Cardiac Events in Asymptomatic Chronic Kidney Disease Patients at the Initiation of Renal Replacement Therapy by Jung Eun Lee, Yong Kyu Lee, Eun Jeong Choi, Ji Sun Nam, Byoung Wook Choi, Beom Seok Kim

“…Both groups showed increasing frequencies of CAS with age (P<0.01), presence of diabetes (P<0.05), uric acid level (P<0.01), and calcium score (P<0.01). …”
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Examining the mental health of siblings of children with a mental disorder: A scoping review protocol. by John E Krzeczkowski, Terrance J Wade, Brendan F Andrade, Dillon Browne, Busra Yalcinoz-Ucan, Negin A Riazi, Elizabeth Yates, Andrea Tagalakis, Karen A Patte

“…<h4>Aim</h4>The proposed scoping review aims to address the following questions: i) how do mental disorders (in children <18 years of age) impact the mental health of their sibling(s) (also <18 years of age)? …”
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Inflammation and endothelial gene polymorphism are associated with ischemic stroke by Wanli Chen, Jie Li, Jintao Zhou, Xingyang Yi, Hong Chen

“…We selected the 429 ischemic stroke patients as the research subjects, and adopted a 1:1 matching method to select 429 healthy people with a 2-year age difference and the same gender and hypertension as the control group. …”
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Prevalence of cataract and its associated factors among adult diabetic patients attending at diabetic care clinics in Northwest Ethiopia, 2023 by Abebech Fikade Shumye, Melkamu Temeselew Tegegn, Matiyas Mamo Bekele

“…Results The study included 1100 study subjects with a median age of 52 years. The prevalence of cataract was 42.2% (95%CI: 39.1-45.1%). …”
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Body Mass Index and Associated Factors of School Absenteeism by School Feeding Program at Selected Primary Schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Comparative Study by Solomon Muluken Ayehu, Addisu Tadesse Sahile

“…A higher number of school absenteeism, average weight, and BMI for age were observed in participants enrolled in the school feeding program than those who did not get enrolled in the feeding program. …”
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High Seropositivity of Brucella melitensis Antibodies among Pregnant Women Attending Health Care Facilities in Mwanza, Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Study by Helmut A. Nyawale, Michael Simchimba, Joseph Mlekwa, Fridolin Mujuni, Elieza Chibwe, Prosper Shayo, Elifuraha B. Mngumi, Khadija S. Majid, Mtebe Majigo, Stephen E. Mshana, Mariam M. Mirambo

“…A total of 635 pregnant women were enrolled with the median age of 25 (interquartile range (IQR): 16-48) years and median gestation age of 21 (IQR: 3-39) weeks. …”
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Altered Macular Vasculature in Migraine Patients without Aura: Is It Associated with Ocular Vasculature and White Matter Hyperintensities? by Nurdan Gamze Taşlı, Alevtina Ersoy

“…In the correlation analysis performed between the migraine patients, the FAZ size was correlated with age and VAS and MIDAS scores while both superficial and deep macular vascular densities were negatively correlated with age and VAS and MIDAS scores. …”
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Impact of pre-pregnancy body mass index on preeclampsia by Jing Mao, Hanxiang Sun, Qinxin Shen, Chang Zou, Yuanyuan Yang, Qiaoling Du

“…These associations were not influenced by maternal age.…”
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Price tag of glaucoma care is minor compared with the total direct and indirect costs of glaucoma: Results from nationwide survey and register data. by Petri K M Purola, Joonas Taipale, Saku Väätäinen, Mika Harju, Seppo V P Koskinen, Hannu M T Uusitalo

“…Direct costs covered eye- and non-eye-related hospitalizations and outpatient visits, outpatient health care services, and travel costs among participants aged 30 years or older, adjusted for age and sex. …”
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Substrains of Inbred Mice Differ in Their Physical Activity as a Behavior by Dario Coletti, Emanuele Berardi, Paola Aulino, Eleonora Rossi, Viviana Moresi, Zhenlin Li, Sergio Adamo

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Employment before and after initiation of dialysis or kidney transplantation– a Danish nationwide registry-based cohort study by Rasmus Kirkeskov Carlsen, Lilli Kirkeskov, Margit S. Riis, Rikke K. Jacobsen, Frederikke Hørdam Gronemann, Merete Osler, Janne Petersen, Niels Henrik Buus

“…Results In total, 4,469 patients undergoing dialysis (median age 55 years, 65% males) and 2,294 patients receiving kidney transplants (median age 49 years, 64% males) were included together with 13,262 and 6,790 matched references, respectively. …”
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Socio-Demographic Factors Contributing to Teenage Pregnancy in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement Zone Four Yumbe District. by Momone, Evaline

“…Respondents revealed that implementing age-appropriate and culturally sensitive sex education programs that cover topics such as reproductive health, contraception, consent, and healthy relationships. …”
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Social Media Marketing for Small and Medium Enterprise Performance in Uganda: A Structural Equation Model by .Kikawa, Cliff R, Kiconco, Charity, Moses, Agaba, Ntirampeba, Dimas, Ssematimba, Amos, Kalema, Billy M.

“…Here, statistical models are utilized to analyze how the age and gender of SMEs owners as moderating variables affect the adoption and performance of SMEs in Uganda. …”
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Presentación del número monográfico by Jesús M. González Pérez, María José Piñeira Mantiñán

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