The Predictive Value of Growth Differentiation Factor-15 in Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation after Catheter Ablation by Ying Wei, Shuwang Liu, Haiyi Yu, Yuan Zhang, Wei Gao, Ming Cui, Lei Li

“…Blood samples on the second morning of hospital admission and three months after RFCA were collected, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to measure the concentration of GDF-15. All participants were followed up at specific times (1st/3rd/6th/12th/18th/24th months) after RFCA to record recurrences events. …”
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Questionnaire to Survey Cosmetic Outcomes in Laparoscopic Surgery for Colorectal Cancer by Masaaki Miyo, MD, PhD, Ichiro Takemasa, MD, PhD, Koichi Okuya, MD, PhD, Tatsuya Ito, MD, PhD, Emi Akizuki, MD, PhD, Tadashi Ogawa, MD, PhD, Ai Noda, MD, Masayuki Ishii, MD, PhD, Ryo Miura, MD, Momoko Ichihara, MD, Maho Toyota, MD, Akina Kimura, MD, Mitsugu Sekimoto, MD, PhD

“…Participants who were female, younger, and in the nonmedical group placed great importance on cosmetic outcomes. For all questions regarding body image and cosmesis, SLS had superior scores compared with MLS. …”
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Hydro-mechanical behavior of two clayey soils in presence of household waste leachates by H. Yonli, B. François, D. Toguyeni, A. Pantet

“…Hydro-mechanical tests were performed on both sampled materials to judge the sealing properties of these materials, as well as the characteristics of deformation and rupture which have an important effect to ensure the durability of a bottom liner. All these tests were performed first with distilled water then with leachates as interstitial fluids in order to understand the modification of the hydro-mechanical properties of the clayey soils.FINDINGSLeachate contamination always alters hydraulic properties of the materials. …”
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La stips des Alpes à la Méditerranée : interpréter la présence des monnaies dans les sanctuaires d’époque romaine by Raphaël Golosetti

“…This contribution explores first of all the contexts of coins in Roman sanctuaries, in a study area where monetary offerings exist from the 5th c. …”
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Conjugation of LasR Quorum-Sensing Inhibitors with Ciprofloxacin Decreases the Antibiotic Tolerance of P. aeruginosa Clinical Strains by Daria Bortolotti, Claudio Trapella, Alessandra Bragonzi, Paolo Marchetti, Vinicio Zanirato, Andrea Alogna, Valentina Gentili, Carlo Cervellati, Giuseppe Valacchi, Mariangela Sicolo, Giulia Turrin, Anna Fantinati, Dario Di Luca, Roberta Rizzo

“…Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium that commonly infects subjects with weakened immune system causing deadly infections above all at pulmonary level. During infection, P. aeruginosa produces a well-organized bacterial structure, called biofilm, activating the quorum-sensing (QS) signaling, a mechanism of gene regulation. …”
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Addressing the specificities of contusion cataract surgery in adults by N.V. Kutukova, A. Yu. Kutukov, V.V. Brzheskiy

“…</i> </p> <p> <i><b>Patients and Methods:</b> 50 patients with a contusion cataract who underwent surgical treatment in 2008–2018 were included in the study group. 50 patients with a complicated cataract, either along with glaucoma (n=25) or diabetic cataract (n=25), were included in the control group. All patients were examined and treated in the same manner (i.e., eye exam was performed at admission, before the surgery, on postoperative days 1–3, and 1, 3, and 6 months after the surgery).…”
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Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS) Diagnosed by MRI-Guided Biopsy among BRCA1/BRCA2 Mutation Carriers by Renata Faermann, Eitan Friedman, Orit Kaidar-Person, Jonathan Weidenfeld, Malka Brodsky, Anat Shalmon, Osnat Halshtok Neiman, Michael Gotlieb, Yael Yagil, David Samoocha, Dana Madorsky Feldman, Miri Sklair-Levy

“…Materials and Methods. All female BRCA1/BRCA2 PSV-carriers followed at the Meirav High-risk clinic from 2015 to 2020 were eligible if they underwent semiannual breast imaging (MRI/mammography) and MRI-guided biopsy-proven pure DCIS. …”
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Effect of self-paced sprint interval training and low-volume HIIT on cardiorespiratory fitness: the role of heart rate and power output by Katie L. Hesketh, Katie L. Hesketh, Sam O. Shepherd, Anton J. M. Wagenmakers, Matthew Cocks, Juliette A. Strauss

“…For LV-HIIT, participants in the highest tertile for peak PO had a greater change in VO2peak compared to all other participants (Low 1.8 ± 4.1 mL kg−1 min−1, Medium 1.9 ± 3.3 mL kg−1 min−1, High 4.3 ± 3.6 ml kg−1 min−1, P = 0.020).DiscussionSix-weeks of self-paced SIT and LV-HIIT induce comparable improvements in CRF, body composition, arterial stiffness and glucose tolerance. …”
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Toxic Effects of Hydroxyl- and Amine-functionalized Silica Nanoparticles (SiO2 and NH2-SiO2 NPs) on Caenorhabditis elegans by Danielle E. Que, Wen-Che Hou, Micah Belle Marie Yap Ang, Chih-Chung Lin

“…The chronic lethality and lifespan assays revealed a significant decrease in survival rate and lifespan at 2.5 and 5 mg mL−1 for nematodes exposed to bare SiO2 NPs (89% and 88%; 22 days, p < 0.05 and 14 days, p < 0.05) and at 5 mg mL−1 for the NH2-SiO2 NPs-exposed group (86%; 20 days, p < 0.001). Exposure to all SiO2 NP concentrations reduced progeny production to 79–60% while exposure to 2.5 and 5 mg mL−1 of NH2-SiO2 NPs significantly reduced the brood size to 64–63%. …”
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Facial Anthropometry and Self-expressed Behaviours: A Systematic Review by Ankit Srivastava, Vilas Chimurkar, Nisha Mani Pandey, Anand Bihari

“…The overall coefficient across all studies was r=0.37, 95% Confidence Interval (CI) (0.27, 0.47), p <0.01, indicating a moderate positive correlation. …”
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Oura Ring as a Tool for Ovulation Detection: Validation Analysis by Nina Thigpen, Shyamal Patel, Xi Zhang

“…The physiology method had significantly better accuracy across all cycle lengths, cycle variability groups, and age groups compared with the calendar method (P<.001). …”
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Relationship Between Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Enuresis in Children: Current Perspectives and Beyond by Wang Z, Zhang P, Shi R, Yang S, Liu K, Zhou Z, Li Q

“…This review summarizes the relationship between NE and OSA and how to treat them, aiming to provide a reference for the clinical treatment of OSA and NE in children.Methods: All pertinent original publications to this point from PubMed database have been collected, including investigations on the connection between OSA and NE as well as studies on the mechanism and therapeutic strategy of NE in children with OSA.Results: There is a bidirectional relationship between OSA and NE in children. …”
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PCT/ALB Ratio in Initial Three days for the Prediction of Secondary Infection in Septic Patients by Zhang C, Huang G, Li H, Zhang T, Jian M, Huang C, Zhang Y, Wang Z, Hou X, Xia Y, Jiang W

“…PAR was calculated as serum PCT (ng/mL)/ALB (mg/mL). All statistical analyses were performed using the statistical package SPSS 20.0.Results: Compared with the without secondary infection group, the median APACHE II (22[17– 30] vs 16[11– 25]; p=0.009) were significantly higher in the secondary infection group. …”
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Utilization of insecticide-treated bed nets and associated factors among households in Pawie District, Benshangul Gumuz, Northwest Ethiopia by Tilahun Merga, Mesafint Molla Adane, Tebkew Shibabaw, Fekie Ahemed Salah, Lemessa Jira Ejigu, Sileshi Mulatu

“…Key predictors for the utilization of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) included age (AOR = 1.86, 95% CI: 1.11, 3.13, p = 0.019), educational status (AOR = 0.45, 95% CI: 0.26, 0.77, p = 0.008), knowledge level (AOR = 2.64, 95% CI: 1.89, 3.81, p < 0.001), and family size (AOR = 1.89, 95% CI: 1.31, 2.74, p = 0.001). All of these variables were found to be statistically significant for the utilization of insecticide-treated bed net. …”
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Solusi untuk Meningkatkan Knowledge Management Readness di Badan Pusat Statistik Kabupaten/Kota by Herlambang Permadi, Dana Indra Sensuse

“…Abstract Bureaucratic reform (RB) is an effort made by the Indonesian government to realize a good governance. RB is implemented by all ministries, agencies, and local governments, including BPS-Statistics, which is part of the Indonesian government. …”
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Incidence and Predictors of Later Epilepsy in Neonates with Encephalopathy: The Impact of Electrographic Seizures by Carol M. Stephens, Jacopo Proietti, Sean R. Mathieson, Vicki Livingstone, Brian McNamara, Niamh McSweeney, Olivia O'Mahony, Brian H. Walsh, Deirdre M. Murray, Geraldine B. Boylan

“…Methods This was a retrospective observational study performed at Cork University Maternity Hospital, Cork, Ireland, between 2003 and 2019. All term infants with NE had a minimum of 2 h of cEEG monitoring in the neonatal period. …”
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Differential effects of left DLPFC anodal and cathodal tDCS interventions on the brain in children with autism: A randomized controlled trial by Jiannan Kang, Juanmei Wu, Xinping Huang, Wenqin Mao, Xiaoli Li

“…However, the sample size was small, and we focused solely on the effects of tDCS, with our experimental design perhaps not being able to generalize to all external manipulations of excitability in our study. …”
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Influence of hydrocortisone infusion method on the clinical outcome of patients with septic shock: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Yuting Li, Youquan Wang, Jianxing Guo, Dong Zhang

“…We included studies involving adult patients with septic shock. All authors reported our primary outcome of short-term mortality and clearly compared the clinically relevant secondary outcomes (ICU length of stay, hospital length of stay, vasopressor-free days, hyperglycemia, hypernatremia, and ICU-acquired weakness [ICUAW]) of intermittent bolus and continuous infusion of hydrocortisone. …”
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Risk analysis of cardiovascular toxicity in patients with lymphoma treated with CD19 CAR T cells by Yang Liu, Xiaoshuang Yuan, Xu Yang, Bo Yang, Guangyang Liu, Xiao Xu, Sanbin Wang, Zhixu He, Feiqing Wang, Yanju Li

“…Results A risk analysis of two randomized controlled trials and nine cohort studies, totaling 1379 patients with lymphoma receiving CD19 CAR-T, is conducted. The incidences for all-cause mortality, CV events, and hypotension were found to be 17.8%, 17.8%, and 52.8%, respectively. …”
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Comparison of Mortality between Japanese Peritoneal Dialysis and Hemodialysis Patients: A 5-Year Multicenter Follow-Up Study by Kazuko Suzuki, Tsuneo Konta, Kazunobu Ichikawa, Ami Ikeda, Hiroki Niino, Masato Hoshikawa, Toshiyuki Takahashi, Hiroshi Abiko, Minoru Ito, Ikuto Masakane, Tomohito Matsunaga, Kosuke Kudo, Hiroko Sato, Noriyuki Degawa, Isao Kubota

“…We recruited 83 background-matched peritoneal dialysis (PD) and 83 hemodialysis (HD) patients (average age, 64.9 years; men, 53.6%; diabetic patients, 22.9%; median duration of dialysis, 48 months in all patients) and followed them for 5 years. During the follow-up period, 27 PD patients (16 cardiovascular and 11 non-cardiovascular deaths) and 27 HD patients died (14 cardiovascular and 13 non-cardiovascular deaths). …”
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