Study protocol for Video Images about Decisions to Improve Ethical Outcomes with Palliative Care Educators (VIDEO-PCE): a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of older... by Joshua R Lakin, Na Wang, Howard J Cabral, Michael K Paasche-Orlow, Charlotta Lindvall, Angelo Volandes, Aretha Delight Davis, Michael R Winter, Edward T Moseley, Lori Henault, Sophia N Zupanc, Sophiya Das, Kate Sciacca, Edith A Burns, Maria T Carney, Jennifer Itty, Santiago Lopez, Kaitlin Emmert, Narda J Martin, Sherene Lambert, Jennifer Polo, Shreya Sanghani, Julianne N Dugas, Michele Gomez, Shira Gabry-Kalikow, Alexandra Dobie, Meredith Amshoff, Traci Cucinotta, Milton Joel, Lisa B Caruso, Ana Maria Ramirez, Kathleen Salerno, Qausarat Ogunneye

“…This paper presents the rationale, design and methods for a trial aimed at addressing barriers to goals-of-care conversations for hospitalised adults aged 65 and older and those with Alzheimer’s disease and related Dementias, regardless of age.Methods and analysis The Video Image about Decisions to Improve Ethical Outcomes with Palliative Care Educators is a pragmatic stepped wedge, cluster randomised controlled trial, which aims to improve and extend goals-of-care conversations in the hospital setting with palliative care educators trained in serious illness communication and video decision aids. …”
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Cancer-Related Anemia Is a Risk Factor for Medium-Term Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction in Laparoscopic Surgery Patients: An Observational Prospective Study by Huimei Huang, Fei Lin, Liming Cen, Ren Jing, Linghui Pan

“…We conducted an observational prospective study of 177 patients scheduled for laparoscopic surgery. Patients aged 18-64 were divided into two groups according to whether they were anemic due to cancer or not. …”
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Expression and Function of the Homeostatic Molecule Del-1 in Endothelial Cells and the Periodontal Tissue by Jieun Shin, Kavita B. Hosur, Kalyani Pyaram, Ravi Jotwani, Shuang Liang, Triantafyllos Chavakis, George Hajishengallis

“…Developmental endothelial locus-1 (Del-1) is an endothelial cell-secreted protein that limits the recruitment of neutrophils by antagonizing the interaction between the LFA-1 integrin on neutrophils and the intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)-1 on endothelial cells. Mice with genetic or age-associated Del-1 deficiency exhibit increased neutrophil infiltration in the periodontium resulting in inflammatory bone loss. …”
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Inflammatory Markers and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Obese Children: The NANOS Study by Alex Gileles-Hillel, María Luz Alonso-Álvarez, Leila Kheirandish-Gozal, Eduard Peris, José Aurelio Cordero-Guevara, Joaquin Terán-Santos, Mónica Gonzalez Martinez, María José Jurado-Luque, Jaime Corral-Peñafiel, Joaquin Duran-Cantolla, David Gozal

“…In this cross-sectional, prospective multicenter study, healthy obese Spanish children (ages 4–15 years) were randomly selected and underwent nocturnal PSG followed by a morning fasting blood draw. …”
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Consistent individual positions within roosts in Spix’s disc-winged bats by Giacomini, Giada, Chaves-Ramírez, Silvia, Hernández-Pinsón, H. Andrés, Barrantes, José Pablo, Chaverri, Gloriana

“…Here we study the relative position of individuals within a roost-site and establish if sex, age, and vocal behavior are associated with a given position. …”
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Extended High Frequency Audiometry in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Cuneyt Kucur, Suna Kabil Kucur, Ilay Gozukara, Ali Seven, Kadriye Beril Yuksel, Nadi Keskin, Fatih Oghan

“…Forty women diagnosed as PCOS and 25 healthy controls were included in this study. Age and BMI of PCOS and control groups were comparable. …”
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Effect of some myostatin (MSTN) variants on live weight and beef traits measured by ultrasound in Charolais candidate breeding bulls by Ferenc Szabó, Gabriella Holló, Tamás Csürhés, Márton Török, Károly Tempfli, Edit Mikó, Szabolcs Bene

“…A total of 390 Charolais candidate breeding bulls were weighed at birth (BIW) as well as 205 (CWW) and 400 days (FDW) of age, and ultrasonically measured for ribeye area (REA), fat thickness at rump (FRU), fat thickness at ribeye (FRI) and marbling of the ribeye (MAR) at 400 days of age. …”
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Temperature-induced germination pulses above the alpine tree line by Audrey Palosse, Alma Piermattei, Jan Esper, Frederick Reinig, Anne Verstege, Max Torbenson, Mirek Trnka, Tito Arosio, Ulf Büntgen

“…Surprisingly, we found a varying age structure, with no sign of decreasing age toward higher elevations. …”
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Operational research as a mechanism to improve treatment outcomes for drug-resistant TB in the WHO European Region by G.B. Migliori, O. Korotych, J. Achar, A. Ciobanu, G. Dravniece, M. Germanovych, E. Gurbanova, A. Hovhannesyan, N. Khachatryan, L. Kuksa, N. Lomtadze, M.L. Rich, A. Skrahina, A. Yedilbayev

“…The three regimens were: 1) bedaquiline + linezolid + levofloxacin + clofazimine + cycloserine (BdqLzdLfxCfzCs); 2) BdqLzdLfxCfz + delamanid (Dlm) for children over 6 years of age and adults; and 3) DlmLzdLfxCfz for children under 6 years of age. …”
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Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Plus Metformin to Prevent Persistent Endometrial Hyperplasia by Vakkas Korkmaz, Enis Özkaya, Tuncay Küçüközkan, Fadıl Kara, Yasemin Çekmez, Hilal Korkmaz

“…All subjects were evaluated in terms of age, gravidity, parity, body mass index (BMI), menstrual cycle, luteal phase endometrial thickness, uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, serum CA 125 levels, systemic disorders, cigarette smoking. …”
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Common and unique network basis for externally and internally driven flexibility in cognition: From a developmental perspective by Ziyi Huang, Dazhi Yin

“…We found similar quadratic effects of age on reactive and spontaneous flexibility, which were mediated by the functional connectivity strength and nodal flexibility of the frontoparietal network. …”
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Microbial profile of burn wound injuries in the Northern West Bank − A retrospective cohort study by Sameh Natsha, Hester Lacey, Souad Belkebir, Ann Attili, Aya Atatra, Rawand Daragmeh, Anas Abu-Safa, Baljit Dheansa, Rasha Khayyat

“…Results: n = 244 males and n = 191 females, average age 14.5 years were included. n = 227 had wound swab cultures, n = 80 which were positive. …”
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The Relationship between Peripheral Nerve Conduction Velocity and Ophthalmological Findings in Type 2 Diabetes Patients with Early Diabetic Retinopathy by Azusa Ito, Hiroshi Kunikata, Masayuki Yasuda, Shojiro Sawada, Keiichi Kondo, Chihiro Satake, Kazuki Hashimoto, Naoko Aizawa, Hideki Katagiri, Toru Nakazawa

“…This study included 42 eyes of 42 type 2 diabetes patients (median age: 54 years) with no DR or with mild nonproliferative DR. …”
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Correlation Between Prognostic Nutritional Index and Heart Failure in Adults with Diabetes in the United States: Study Results from NHANES (1999–2016) by Qiyuan Bai, Hao Chen, Zhen Gao, Xuhua Li, Jiapeng Li, Shidong Liu, Bing Song, Cuntao Yu

“…Results: The median age (mean ± SD) was 59.942 ± 12.171 years, and the mean value ± SD of the PNI was 52.412 ± 5.430. …”
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Morphometric Changes in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease who Died Related to Diabetes Mellitus, Arterial Hypertension and Obesity by Ivette Gómez Fernández, Adys Castro Barberena, Greta Margarita Arrechea García, Georgina Jiménez Estrada, Javier Martínez Navarro, Domingo Fuentes Febles

“…<strong><br />Results:</strong> the female sex predominated, aged between 70-79 years, with clinical stage I and IV of chronic kidney disease, the obese represented 57.6 %, the hypertensive 67.1 % and the diabetic 25.8 %. …”
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Association of homocysteine and uric acid with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a case-control study by Xiaolong Yang, Qiuqiu Lan, Qingan Wang, Yixuan Xue, Jiaxing Zhang, Xiaoxia Li, Yi Zhao, Yuhong Zhang

“…Stratified analysis suggested a significant association between Hcy and T2DM for those aged < 65 years and males. A significant association between UA and T2DM was found in those aged ≥ 65 years, males, and BMI ≥ 24 kg/m2. …”
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Pre-pregnancy obesity and weight gain during pregnancy: impact on newborn outcomes by Sezgin Gunes, Suzan Sahin, Meltem Koyuncu Arslan, Nurhan Korkmaz, Ozlem Karaca Dag, Emir Gokalp, Hazal Saban, Mehmet Koca, Mehmet Yekta Oncel

“…Abstract Background Overweight and obesity are global issues, especially among women of childbearing age, linked to adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes. …”
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Regular Chinese Green Tea Consumption Is Protective for Diabetic Retinopathy: A Clinic-Based Case-Control Study by Qinghua Ma, Dandan Chen, Hong-Peng Sun, Ning Yan, Yong Xu, Chen-Wei Pan

“…Methods. 100 DR patients and 100 age-sex-matched diabetic controls without retinopathy were recruited in a clinic-based, case-control study. …”
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Maternal mortality burden study from direct causes. Cuba, 2005-2018 by Lisbeth Fernández González, José Luis Peñalvo, Armando Humberto Seuc Jo, Delia María Gálvez Medina, Armando Rodríguez Salvá, Alain Francisco Morejón Giraldoni

“…<p><strong>Background</strong>: complications during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium are the main causes of death in women of childbearing age. The study of the mortality burden derived from these complications is useful to quantify the impact of premature deaths on the population life expectancy.…”
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Characterization of patients with chronic liver disease of alcoholic etiology by Doppler ultrasound. Cienfuegos, 2020 by Masleidy Valladares Valle, Lariagna Moya Cardoso, Dianarelys Villafuerte Delgado, Rubén Daniel Fernández Azpiri, Liam Lain Pérez Valladares, Claudia Vasallo López

“…<br /><strong>Results</strong>: male patients were more representative and the age group from 42 to 51 years old was more numerous. …”
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