The Effects of Thyroid Hormone Levels on Patent Ductus Arteriosus Closure in Newborns by Basak KAYA, Hasan AKDUMAN, Dilek DILLI, Semra CETINKAYA, Ahmet OKTEM, Utku Arman ORUN, Mehmet TASAR, Aysegul ZENCIROGLU

“…Results: Thirty-three (51%) of all 65 patients had PDA and responded to medical treatment. …”
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Effect of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy on the Incidence of Tuberculosis among Seropositive Children Attending HIV/AIDS Care in Two General Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia, 2021 by Fassikaw Kebede, Birhanu Kebede, Tsehay Kebede, Melaku Agmasu

“…Undertaking in-depth TB screening and frequent follow-up among all these children is critical in order to prevent and control tuberculosis.…”
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Thromboelastography in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Yonghua Shen, Liangliang Shi, Juanjuan Zhang, Hao Zhu, Yuling Yao, Zhenqing Liu, Xiaoping Zou, Xiaoqi Zhang

“…Except for the G level in the CD group, differences in all TEG levels between healthy individuals and IBD patients in remission were not statistically significant. …”
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Characterization of Cannabis usage in individuals with non-cancer chronic pain in the state of Maine using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) by Rachel Bordonaro, Elizabeth N. Bean, Ling Cao

“…Pain group males, pain group females, and control group females were all more likely to report use for medical reasons (p < 0.001). …”
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Investigating the impact of modified cassava starch with tannic acid and heat moisture treatment on physicochemical and in vitro starch digestibility by Mardiah Rahmadani, Rusli Fidriyanto, Nahrowi, Lilis Khotijah, Anuraga Jayanegara

“…These modifications also significantly (p < 0.01) decreased the digestibility index of starch, rapidly digestible starch, and estimated glycaemic index (GI). Additionally, all treatments exhibited improved water-holding capacity, reduced crystallinity, and altered pasting behavior. …”
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The Multimessenger Contribution of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays from Gamma-Ray Bursts by Zhenjiang Li, Fangsheng Min, Yi Jin, Yiqing Guo

“…The most constrained scenario suggests <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>f</mi><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>R</mi></mrow></msub><mo>≤</mo><mn>15</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, indicating that GRBs are less efficient in producing the all-sky UHECR intensity. The high-energy diffuse neutrinos and gamma rays resulting from interactions between UHECRs from GRBs and extragalactic background photons do not dominate the observations of Fermi-LAT or IceCube.…”
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Potential benefits and challenges of simulation-based neonatal resuscitation competition: A survey analysis of provincial competition in China by Chenguang Xu, Qianshen Zhang, Fang Lin, Yihua Chen, Yin Xue, Wenjie Yan, Rong Zhou, Yuqian Yang, Po-Yin Cheung

“…The teams were to complete a resuscitation scenario (16 min) and their performance was evaluated. All participants were encouraged to take part in a post-resuscitation questionnaire survey voluntarily immediately after the scenarios finished. …”
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Bone cell differentiation and mineralization in wild-type and osteogenesis imperfecta zebrafish are compromised by per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by Francesca Tonelli, Cecilia Masiero, Carla Aresi, Camilla Torriani, Simona Villani, Guido Premoli, Antonio Rossi, Antonella Forlino

“…Addressing this question represents a need for ensuring global health and wellbeing to all individuals in a world facing the progressive increase of aging and aging related diseases. …”
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Hairy transcriptional repression targets and cofactor recruitment in Drosophila. by Daniella Bianchi-Frias, Amir Orian, Jeffrey J Delrow, Julio Vazquez, Alicia E Rosales-Nieves, Susan M Parkhurst

“…As expected of direct targets, all of the putative Hairy target genes tested show Hairy-dependent expression and have conserved consensus C-box-containing sequences that are directly bound by Hairy in vitro. …”
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Cognitive Functions and Cognitive Reserve in Relation to Blood Pressure Components in a Population-Based Cohort Aged 53 to 94 Years by Nunzia Giordano, Valérie Tikhonoff, Paolo Palatini, Anna Bascelli, Giovanni Boschetti, Fabia De Lazzari, Carla Grasselli, Bortolo Martini, Sandro Caffi, Antonio Piccoli, Alberto Mazza, Patrizia Bisiacchi, Edoardo Casiglia

“…In 288 men and women from general population in a cross-sectional survey, all neuropsychological tests were negatively associated with age; memory and executive function were also positively related with education. …”
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Effects of medication procurement reforms and extended prescription duration on medication coverage for hypertension in India’s public health system: a modelling study by Kunihiro Matsushita, Andrew E Moran, Matti Marklund, Prabhdeep Kaur, Lawrence J Appel, T Joseph Mattingly, Swagata Kumar Sahoo

“…The base scenario consisted of procurement of multiple medications across classes, 1-month prescription duration and no use of SPC. We repeated all scenarios with extended prescription duration (3 months vs 1 month).Main outcome measures Medication coverage is defined as the maximum number of patients with adequate medication without exceeding the base scenario budget.Results With 1-month prescriptions, focused procurement alone was estimated to increase medication coverage by 17.8% (95% uncertainty interval: 16.2%; 19.6%) compared with the base scenario. …”
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Is There a Mild Form of Pediatric Appendicitis? An Eight-Year Single-Center Retrospective Review by Eric Scheier, Khaled Khalilia, Pavel Peslin, Stav Amir, Luba Pasherstnik Bizer

“…Methods: We identified all children diagnosed with appendicitis from June 2016 to June 2024. …”
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L’aqueduc du Gier : étude des ponts-siphons du Garon à Brignais et Chaponost (Rhône) et de Beaunant à Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon (Métropole de Lyon) by Kilian Blanc, Laurie Danielou

“…The construction study was based on photogrammetric surveys and a complete examination of all the architectural building blocks. Samples of stone, brick and mortar were taken from the original piles and the backfill of both bridges in order to identify the different materials employed. …”
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Comparison of Two Creatinine-Based Equations for Predicting Decline in Renal Function in Type 2 Diabetic Patients with Nephropathy in a Korean Population by Eun Young Lee, Young-Mi Lee, Kyu Hun Choi, Hyun Chul Lee, Byung-Wan Lee, Beom Seok Kim

“…During the follow-up period (median, 2.4 years), the CKD-EPI equation reclassified 10.9% of all MDRD-estimated subjects: 9.1% to an earlier stage of CKD and 1.8% to a later stage of CKD. …”
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CFO-CR: Carrier Frequency Offset Methodology for High-Rate Common Randomness Generation by Prashanth Kumar Herooru Sheshagiri, Martin Reisslein, Juan A. Cabrera, Frank H. P. Fitzek

“…Our proposed CFO-CR methodology can generate 2048 bits of CR at a comparatively low reconciliation cost of 72 bytes while only making 256 channel observations and passing all common randomness tests. For generating 2048 bits of CR, other state-of-the-art approaches either require more channel observations (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ge 2048$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) or incur a higher reconciliation cost (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ge 450$ </tex-math></inline-formula> bytes).…”
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Telomere Length and Oxidative Damage in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Leping Ma, Cui Liu, Ran Song, Yeping Qian, Feng Zhang

“…The aim of this study was to determine the associations of ASD with TL and oxidative indicators by performing a meta-analysis of all published evidence. …”
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A Novel Stacked Model for Classification of Vocal Cord Paralysis Over Imbalanced Vocal Data by K. Jayashree Hegde, K. Manjula Shenoy, K. Devaraja

“…The aforementioned gave adequate results over the dataset of voice recordings of the vowel that either have a balanced dataset across all the classes or multiple voice pathologies are selected to bring the balance in the dataset equal to healthy subjects. …”
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Association of caffeine intake and sleep duration with bone mineral density: a cross-sectional study from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 2011 and 2018 by Yuxue He, Wenjia Zou, Fei Xiao

“…Multivariable linear regression models, adjusted for confounders, were used alongside restricted cubic splines to examine dose-response association. Results Of all participants, 6821 (50.7%) were males and 6636 were females (49.3%). …”
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Effect of sleep quality on the severity of perimenstrual symptoms in Japanese female students: a cross-sectional, online survey by Yukio Urabe, Makoto Komiya, Noriaki Maeda, Satoshi Arima, Tsubasa Tashiro, Rami Mizuta, Sakura Oda, Takaaki Nagasawa, Koichi Naito

“…The total MDQ scores were significantly higher in the low-sleep quality group at all phases of the menstrual cycle (respectively p&lt;0.05). …”
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Olfactory disorders in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A cross-sectional study by Yasmin Nsunzu Tshingamb, Sympho Junior Mpiana, Patrick Sekele Marob Ndjock, Emile Kayembe, Eric Banza Lukoji, Alain Ntumba Malemba, Auguste O. Omadjela, Dieudonné T. Nyembue

“…Subjectively, only 22.9% of patients reported an altered sense of smell; however, using the SST, 63.8% of CRS patients were found to have an OD, primarily hyposmia. All mean scores for subjective and objective olfactory assessments were significantly higher (p < 0.001) among CRS patients with OD compared to those without. …”
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