Identification of subgroups of self-reported outcomes among breast cancer patients undergoing surgery and chemotherapy: A cross-sectional study by Feixia Ni, Tingting Cai, Tingting Zhou, Changrong Yuan

“…Conclusions: Breast cancer patients receiving surgery and chemotherapy can be divided into three subgroups. Aging, menopause, chemotherapy cycle, surgery type, duration and stage of disease, and severe pain affected the functional decline groups. …”
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The relationship between cognitive and affective control and symptoms of depression and anxiety across the lifespan: A 3-wave longitudinal study by Anson Kai Chun Chau, Savannah Minihan, Sakiko Okayama, Susanne Schweizer

“…Methods: 1002 participants (87.2 % female, age range: 11–89 years) completed self-report measures of depressive and anxiety symptoms and an affective backward digit span task thrice at 3-month intervals. …”
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Effects of pregnancy on the clinical course and treatment outcomes of Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease by Navya Cherukuri, Somasheila I Murthy, Mudit Tyagi

“…All VKH patients who were pregnant at presentation or on follow up and age-matched nonpregnant female controls during the study period (2013–2022) were included. …”
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Protease supplementation in maize-based diet influenced net energy and nutrient digestibility in broilers by K.W. McCafferty, A.F. Moss, N.K. Morgan, A.J. Cowieson, M. Choct

“…A total of 312, one-day-old, male broilers (Ross 308) were randomly distributed into 24 floor pens and fed one of three treatments, with eight pen replicates per treatment throughout the starter (1 to 14 d of age) and grower (15 to 28 d of age) phases. Dietary treatments consisted of a positive control (PC) reference diet, a negative control diet (NC; dAA density 60 g/kg less than PC diet), and a NC diet with supplemental protease (200 mg/kg). …”
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Effect of ramadan fasting on body weight and percent of body fat among student from program nutrition study of UPN “Veteran” Jakarta, Indonesia by Ayu Nurjanah Wida, Wahyuningsih Utami, Quratul Marjan Avliyah, Fransiske Simanungkalit Sintha

“…The prevalence of overweight year 2013 in Indonesia at the age of more than 18 years, namely 13.3%, increased in 2018 to 13.6%. …”
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Cardiac events and procedures following COVID-19 compared with other pneumonias: a national register study by Knut Stavem, Peder Langeland Myhre, Kristian Berge, Tarjei Øvrebotten, Birgitte Tholin

“…We used Cox regression and logistic regression for analysis.Results Patients with COVID-19 had a mean (SD) age of 60 (18) years, compared with 69 (19) years for viral and 72 (17) years for bacterial pneumonia. …”
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Pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding experience of women with epilepsy in Me’enit community, South West Ethiopia by Rahel Yaekob, Tefera Belachew

“…Epilepsy affects approximately 0.5–1.0% of women of childbearing age. In the Me’enit community, due to poor delivery practices (delivering in a standing position) and suffering from birth trauma, there are many women with epilepsy. …”
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AST/ALT ratio as a potential predictor of 1-year mortality in elderly patients operated for femoral neck fracture by Fatih Günaydın, Öner Kılınç, Bülent Sakarya, İdris Demirtaş, Mahmud Aydın, Ali Çelik

“…Multivariate analysis further highlighted advanced age, male sex, blood group A, postoperative transfusions, elevated creatinine levels, and high AAR (>2.1) as independent predictors of mortality. …”
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Current views on etiology, diagnosis, epidemiology and gene therapy of maturity onset diabetes in the young by Lilya U. Dzhemileva, Elena N. Zakharova, Anna O. Goncharenko, Maria V. Vorontsova, S. A. Rumyantsev, Natalia G. Mokrysheva, Marina Y. Loguinova, Vladimir P. Chekhonin

“…Nevertheless, with advancing age, some patients may require insulin therapy due to the development of resistance to sulfonylurea drugs. …”
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Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as a predictor for early mortality in older patients requiring hemodialysis; insights for hemodialysis access planning by Hyo Kee Kim, Heungman Jun, Sun-Young Ko

“…Conclusion The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio was a risk factor associated with one-year mortality in patients aged ≥ 70 years. However, further research is required to determine whether these can be used for predictive purposes.…”
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Body image in women participants of strength training: association with sociodemographic factors and practice time by Manoela Vieira Sousa, Cilene Rebolho Martins, Morgana Lunardi, Grazieli Maria Biduski, Elisa Pinheiro Ferrari, Cíntia de la Rocha Freitas

“…The sample group consisted of 77 women aged 20 to 54 years (29.83 ± 9.75) who practiced ST. …”
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Impact of obesity on the severity of trauma in patients injured in pedestrian traffic accidents by Pillsung Oh, Jin-Seong Cho, Jae Ho Jang, Jae Yeon Choi, Woo Sung Choi, Byungchul Yu

“…Of them, 360 patients (66.3%) and 183 patients (33.7%) were categorized as nonobese and obese, respectively. The median age was significantly higher in the nonobese group than in the obese group (60 vs. 58 years). …”
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Investigating depression, anxiety, perceived stress and resilience in fathers faced with their spouse’s abortion in Iran: a longitudinal study by Seyede Zahra Jafari, Mahboubeh Hajifoghaha, Sara Azima, Parvin Ghaem Maghami, Zahra Yazdan Panahi

“…Also, there was a significant relationship between the fathers’ age, education, job, duration of marriage, type of abortion, number and history of abortion, unwanted pregnancy, number of children and economic status with the mean score of anxiety, depression, perceived stress, and resilience in fathers over time. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors of HIV Infection among Clients Attending ICTCs in Six Districts of Tamilnadu, South India by Rajeswari Ramachandran, V. Chandrasekaran, M. Muniyandi, K. Jaggarajamma, Anasua Bagchi, Supriya Sahu

“…Of 18329 clients counseled, 17958 (98%) were tested for HIV and 732 (4.1%; range 2.6 to 6.2%) were tested positive for HIV. Median age of clients was 30 years; 89% had never used condoms in their lives and 2% gave history of having received blood transfusion. …”
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Body Mass Index and Its Change from Adolescence to Adulthood Are Closely Related to the Risk of Adult Metabolic Syndrome in China by Bingyang Liu, Yue Li, Jiamei Guo, Yuting Fan, Ling Li, Ping Li

“…We selected 931 students from 12 to 16 years of age in Liaoyang City, China. Ninety-three participants from 18 to 22 years of age with complete baseline data were available for follow-up after 5 years. …”
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Effectiveness of Anthropometric Measurements for Identifying Diabetes and Prediabetes among Civil Servants in a Regional City of Northern Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Ataklti Gebertsadik Woldegebriel, Kiros Ajemu Fenta, Asfawosen Berhe Aregay, Abraham Desta Aregay, Nega Bezabih Mamo, Tewolde Woldearegay Wubayehu, Alemayehu Bayray, Afework Mulugeta

“…The study involved a cross-sectional survey carried out from October 2015 to February 2016 among 1504 subjects aged from 18 to 75 years of age. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) was used to select the most effective anthropometric cut-off point among waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, waist-to-height ratio, and BMI for identifying prediabetic and diabetes. …”
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Associations between an gene polymorphism and ulcerative colitis by ARMS-PCR by Mahsa Sadat Hashemi Doulabi, Reza Goleyjani Moghaddam, Ali Salehzadeh

“…A direct relationship was found between age and ulcerative colitis, while no relationship was found with sex. …”
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Effect of Thermal Treatment on the Extraction and Antioxidant and Antiglycation Activities of (Poly)phenols from <i>Ribes magellanicum</i> by Felipe Ávila, Natalia Martinez, Nicolás Mora, Katherine Márquez, Felipe Jiménez-Aspee

“…PEEs of raw samples showed increased values of total (poly)phenols (TPC), TEAC, and FRAP and decreased IC₅₀ values of fluorescent advanced glycation end products (AGEs) with increasing water content. An increase in TPC and FRAP values was observed for TT samples, but an increase in the IC₅₀ values of fluorescent AGEs for PEEs with increasing water content was observed. …”
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Infant outcomes after exposure to Tdap vaccine in pregnancy: an observational study by Helen Petousis-Harris, Tony Walls, Patricia Graham, Nicola Austin, Linda Hill

“…Information was obtained from objective sources including routine health visits and vaccination records wherever possible, as well as frequent parental reports.Setting The Canterbury region of New Zealand.Patients A cohort of 403 infants whose mothers had received Tdap vaccine.Main outcome measures Gestational age at birth, growth parameters, congenital anomalies, immunisation status and timeliness of immunisation, development of pertussis infection.Results There were no significant differences in birth weight, gestational age at birth, congenital anomalies or infant growth as compared with baseline population data. …”
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Empathetic Deep Learning: Transferring Adult Speech Emotion Models to Children With Gender-Specific Adaptations Using Neural Embeddings by Elina Lesyk, Tomás Arias-Vergara, Elmar Nöth, Andreas Maier, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Paula Andrea Perez-Toro

“…To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study in the field of deep learning applications on emotion recognition that analyses the effects of genders and age groups on emotional mapping.…”
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