Remodeling the light-adapted electroretinogram using a bayesian statistical approach by Marek Brabec, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Lynne Loh, Irene O. Lee, Mikhail Kulyabin, Aleksei Zhdanov, Hugo Posada-Quintero, Dorothy A. Thompson, Paul A. Constable

“…Electroretinograms were recorded in n = 25 ADHD (16 male; age 11.9 ± 2.7 years) and n = 38 (8 male; age 10.4 ± 2.8 years neurotypical control participants as part of a broad study into the determining if the electroretinogram could be a biomarker for ADHD. …”
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Risk Factors and Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori Infection in Persistent High Incidence Area of Gastric Carcinoma in Yangzhong City by Yangchun Zhu, Xiaoying Zhou, Junbei Wu, Jing Su, Guoxin Zhang

“…The prevalence reached a peak at the age of 30–39 years (90.82%). There was significant difference between sexes and women had a higher infection rate than men. …”
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Patient Activation in Type 2 Diabetes: Does It Differ between Men and Women? by Steven H. Hendriks, Laura C. Hartog, Klaas H. Groenier, Angela H. E. M. Maas, Kornelis J. J. van Hateren, Nanne Kleefstra, Henk J. G. Bilo

“…No association between gender and PAM score was found after adjustment for all selected confounders (p=0.094). In men, lower age (p=0.001), a higher WHO-5 score (p<0.001), and a lower BMI (p=0.013) were associated with a higher PAM score. …”
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Daily Performance of Adolescents with Executive Function Deficits: An Empirical Study Using a Complex-Cooking Task by Yael Fogel, Sara Rosenblum, Renana Hirsh, Mathilde Chevignard, Naomi Josman

“…Participants were 41 adolescents (aged 10–14 years) with normal intellectual function and executive function deficit profiles based on the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) parent reports and self-reports (BRIEF-SR) and the WebNeuro and 40 controls with typical development matched by age and gender. …”
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Elevated Circulating IL-1β and TNF-Alpha, and Unaltered IL-6 in First-Trimester Pregnancies Complicated by Threatened Abortion With an Adverse Outcome by Nicolaos Vitoratos, Constantinos Papadias, Emmanuel Economou, Evangelos Makrakis, Constantinos Panoulis, George Creatsas

“…Serum levels of Th1-type cytokines interleukin-1β (IL-1β), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), and Th2-type cytokine interleukin 6 (IL-6) were measured, by ELISA, in 22 women with TACP and adverse outcome at admission (group A) and compared with the corresponding levels of 31 gestational age-matched women with TACP and successful outcome at admission (group B1) and discharge (group B2) and 22 gestational age-matched women with first-trimester uncomplicated pregnancy (group C) who served as controls. …”
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Oral health educational intervention in schoolchildren from the Venezuela municipality, Ciego de Ávila, 2018 by Dayamí López Martin, Yenisleidy Santos García, Raúl Cubero González, Lina Isabel Torres Gárriz, Noel López Viamonte, Wendy Guerra López

“…<p><strong>Foundation</strong>: oral health is a component of people's general health, developing promotion and prevention actions from an early age to guarantee healthy lifestyles.<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to determine the effectiveness of an educational intervention strategy to improve the oral health knowledge level in fifth grade students.…”
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Long-term results of rectocele surgical treatment by Yu. A. Shelygin, A. Yu. Titov, O. M. Biryukov, A. A. Mudrov, L. P. Orlova, A. A. Tikhonov, Yu. A. Dzhanayev, M. A. Voynov

“…Original study included patients (n=41), operated in State Scientific Center of Coloproctology for rectocele in 2007 to 2011. Age of patients was 24 to 64 years (mean —48,95±9,09). …”
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Do pregnant women living in higher well-being populations in the USA experience lower risk of preterm delivery? A cross-sectional study by Jeph Herrin, Harlan M Krumholz, Carley Riley, Brita Roy, Erica Spatz, Mark T Silvestri, Anita Arora, Kenneth P Kell, Elizabeth Y Rula

“…In the model adjusted for maternal risk factors (age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, smoking status, timing of initiation of prenatal visits, multiparity, maternal insurance payer), the association was slightly attenuated with an absolute difference of 1.9% (95% CI 1.7% to 2.1%; p&lt;0.001).Conclusions Pregnant women who live in areas with higher population well-being have lower risk of preterm birth, even after accounting for individual risk factors.…”
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Characterization of patients operated on for non-syndromic craniosynostosis. Villa Clara, 2018-2022 by Miguel Ángel Cruz Díaz, Ángel Serafín Camacho Gómez, Carlos Javier Artiles Rivero, Ramón Sarduy Arana

“…<p><strong>Background</strong>: craniosynostosis is one of the most frequent neurosurgical pathologies in the pediatric age. Knowledge about its management is of vital importance to intervene with treatment in a timely manner.…”
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Neonatal Outcomes of Late-Preterm Birth Associated or Not with Intrauterine Growth Restriction by Cristiane Ortigosa Rocha, Roberto Eduardo Bittar, Marcelo Zugaib

“…To compare neonatal morbidity and mortality between late-preterm intrauterine growth-restricted (IUGR) and appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA) infants of the comparable gestational ages (GAs). …”
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Excess Early Postnatal Weight Gain Leads to Increased Abdominal Fat in Young Children by Annemieke M. V. Evelein, Frank L. J. Visseren, Cornelis K. van der Ent, Diederick E. Grobbee, Cuno S. P. M. Uiterwaal

“…Excess early postnatal weight gain is associated with increased general and central adiposity, characterized by more subcutaneous and likely more intra-abdominal fat at 5 years of age.…”
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Study on Drug Usage, Storage and Wastage among Households in Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, India - A Cross-Sectional Study by Nancy L, Palanivel Sundaram M, Logaraj M, Anantharaman VV, Kalaivanan R

“…Results: Majority of the participants 56.3% (120) belonged to the age group of 30- 40 years, most of the participants are graduates 39.4% (83). …”
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Pediatric Patient and Parental Anxiety and Impressions Related to Initial Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: A Japanese Multicenter Questionnaire Study by Shin-ichiro Hagiwara, Yoshiko Nakayama, Manabu Tagawa, Katsuhiro Arai, Takashi Ishige, Takatsugu Murakoshi, Hiroko Sekine, Daiki Abukawa, Hiroyuki Yamada, Mikihiro Inoue, Takeshi Saito, Takahiro Kudo, Yoshitaka Seki

“…To assess anxiety among pediatric patients and their parents related to initial gastrointestinal endoscopy. Methods. Patients aged <19 years undergoing initial gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy and their parents were invited to complete a self-administered questionnaire related to endoscopy in 13 institutions in Japan. …”
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Does Toxoplasma gondii Infection Affect the Levels of IgE and Cytokines (IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12, and TNF-alpha)? by Joanna Matowicka-Karna, Violetta Dymicka-Piekarska, Halina Kemona

“…The study involved 52 women infected with T. gondii (aged 18–42 years) prior to antiparasitic treatment. …”
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Two Approaches to Cognitive Evaluation: Assessing the Strengths and Limitations of GPCOG and ACE-III by Magdalena Mąka, Dominik Sikora, Piotr Oleksy, Adam Zając, Karol Zieliński, Łukasz Papież, Ewa Góralczyk, Jakub Kamiński, Bartosz Buczkowski, Dagmara Wochnik

“… Introduction : The aging population highlights age as a key risk factor for dementia and other cognitive disorders. …”
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Mechanical properties of modern restorative “bioactive” dental materials - an in vitro study by Mateusz Radwanski, Ewa Zmyslowska-Polakowska, Karolina Osica, Michal Krasowski, Salvatore Sauro, Louis Hardan, Monika Lukomska-Szymanska

“…Activa Bioactive Restorative showed the lowest ME, as well as the highest water sorption both in alcohol and artificial saliva. Moreover, aging in saliva induced a significant decrease in hardness for Activa Restorative (p < .01). …”
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Risk factors associate with overweight and obesity in adolescents by Carmen Emilia Guerra Cabrera, Jesús Vila Díaz, Juan José Apolinaire Pennini, Ailyn del Carmen Cabrera Romero, Inti Santana Carballosa, Pilar Maritza Almaguer Sabina

“…<br /><strong>Methods</strong>: We designed a case-control, analytical, observational, retrospective research including 50 school age adolescents assessed after their body mass index as obese and overweight (cases) and 50 adolescents with normal weight (controls), between the ages of 10 and 12 years from four primary schools belonging to Health Area III of Cienfuegos municipality. …”
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Knowledge, practice, and information sources regarding infectious diseases among Chinese children and adolescents: a National-Level cross-sectional study by Yuan Zeng, Feifei Li, Wei Liang, Yinyue Liu, Zhiyong Zou, Julien S. Baker, Yanhui Dong, Jun Ma, Jie Hu, Yide Yang, Bin Dong

“…Knowledge and practices among children differed significantly across gender, age, single-child, living with parents or not, residence(urban/rural), regions, parental age and parents’ education levels. …”
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Sulodexide Protects Renal Tubular Epithelial Cells from Oxidative Stress-Induced Injury via Upregulating Klotho Expression at an Early Stage of Diabetic Kidney Disease by Yu Ning Liu, Jingwei Zhou, Tingting Li, Jing Wu, Shu Hua Xie, Hua-feng Liu, Zhangsuo Liu, Tae Sun Park, Yaoxian Wang, Wei Jing Liu

“…In vitro, advanced glycation end products (AGEs) dose-dependently enhanced the oxidative activity but lowered the klotho expression in cultured proximal tubule epithelial cells (PTECs). …”
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3HP preventive treatment among children and adolescents with HIV and child household contacts of TB patients by A. Kinikar, R. Borse, B. Randive, P. Kamath, S.K. Mattoo, M. Parmar, H. Solanki, V. Mave, A. Gupta, R.E. Chaisson, N. Suryavanshi

“…The median age of CHHC was 4 years; 47% were males. Thirty-one (97%) CALHIV and 56 (95%) CHHC completed 3HP without dolutegravir dose adjustment. …”
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