Gastric Cancer in Young Adults: A Different Clinical Entity from Carcinogenesis to Prognosis by Jian Li

“…What characterizes GCYA are a higher prevalence in females, more aggressive tumor behaviors, diagnosis at advanced stages, fewer comorbidities and being better treatment candidates, and a similar or better survival outcome when compared with older patients. …”
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Diogenes Syndrome: Identification and Distinction from Hoarding Disorder by Carmel Proctor, Sakib Rahman

“…Diogenes syndrome is highly comorbid with psychiatric and somatic disorders, including depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, personality disorder, and stress. …”
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Matching Inhaler Devices with Patients: The Role of the Primary Care Physician by Alan Kaplan, David Price

“…Physicians must, therefore, fully understand the characteristics of each device, as well as their patients’ demographic characteristics and comorbidities. Following device selection, patient training and education, including a physical demonstration of the device, are key to eliminate any critical errors that may impact on health outcomes. …”
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Posttransplant Metabolic Syndrome by M. Shadab Siddiqui, Richard K. Sterling

“…In addition to cardiovascular disease, the presence of MS is also closely associated with other comorbidities including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). …”
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Understanding Obesity and the Role of Pharmacological Treatments: Insights for Health and Fitness Enthusiasts by Agnieszka Starzyk, Piotr Charzewski

“…Genetic forms, such as monogenic and syndromic obesity, are rare but severe conditions often presenting with early-onset obesity, eating disorders, and a range of comorbidities. These forms of obesity pose significant challenges to treatment and health management. …”
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Expert Consensus on Key Points of Writing Inpatient Medical Records for Geriatric Rehabilitation Patients by Committee of Geriatric Rehabilitation of Chinese Society of Rehabilitation Medicine

“…The main content of rehabilitation records includes chief complaint and present medical history, specialized rehabilitation examination, diagnosis (including disease diagnosis, underlying conditions, complications, and comorbidities), functional diagnosis (covering physiological and psychological functional impairments, as well as activities of daily living), rehabilitation treatment plan, medical instructions (including temporary instructions for routine examinations, auxiliary examinations, and functional assessments; long-term instructions for routine medical care, medication use, and rehabilitation treatment), treatment progress records, discharge records, and inpatient medical record cover page.…”
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Evaluation of Task Shifting in Community-Based DOTS Program as an Effective Control Strategy for Tuberculosis by André P. Gabriel, Charles P. Mercado

“…Despite attempts to control and eradicate the mycobacterium, the prevalence of the disease remains high due to increasing population rate, persistence of poverty and poor health care, treatment failure, increasing multidrug resistance as a consequence of treatment failure and poor compliance, and existence of comorbid conditions that compromise immune response. …”
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Efficacy of brain stimulation therapies across psychiatric, movement, and cognitive disorders: an umbrella review synthesizing meta-analyses of randomized controlled trialsResearch... by Zhenyue Zu, Fenglan Chen, Linxi Yang, Wenzhuo Wei, Mi Zhang, Limin Huang, Ni Li, Zihan Lv, He Du, Xinrong Xue, Lijun Ma, Huixue Wang, Kai Wang, Xiaoming Li

“…Given the high prevalence of comorbidities among these disorders, we conducted an umbrella review to comprehensively assess the efficacy of BSTs in treating the core symptoms across these three categories of disorders. …”
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Association of blood group types and clinico-pathological features of gynecological cancers (GCs) by Syed Sameer Aga, Muhammad Anwar Khan, Mubarak Al Mansour, Rana Mohammed Hasosah, Lulu Abdullah Alsubaie, Dala Ahmad Alfaify, Malak Badr Alansari, Shahad Obaidallah Almutairi, Saniya Nissar

“…A comprehensive review of the charts was conducted to gather data including demographics, tumor characteristics, comorbidities, adverse effects, and treatment methods. …”
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Clinical portrait of a patient with acute coronary syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus: a novel strategy for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment by M.I. Shved, I.O. Yastremska, L.V. Levytska, V.Yu. Kuchmiy, O.A. Prokopovych, Ya.M. Kitsak, R.M. Liakhovych

“…It was typical for these patients to have frequent comorbid conditions, namely: hypertension (94.7 %), metabolic syndrome (85.3 %), chronic kidney disease (30.7 %), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (29.3 %), thyroid dysfunction (22.7 %), and such CAD risk factors (and their combinations in 89.3 % of cases) as atherogenic dyslipidemia (96.0 %), tobacco smoking (34.7 %), excessive alcohol use (32.0 %), family history of CAD and T2DM (29.3 and 61.3 % of patients, respectively). …”
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Relationship between pharmacotherapy for major depressive disorder and healthcare utilisation in British Columbia, Canada: a retrospective population-based cohort by Sonya Cressman, Louisa Edwards, Kimberlyn McGrail, Stirling Bryan, Alison Hoens, Rohit Vijh, Sandra Peterson, Zeina Waheed, Mary Bunka, Nick Pang, Shahzad Ghanbarian, Gavin Wong, Linda Riches, Jehannine Austin

“…The odds ratio (OR) for health service utilisation between the pharmacotherapy group and the non-pharmacotherapy group for individuals who were recently incident was 8.14 (95% CI 7.40, 8.95) for outpatient physician visits, 1.04 (95% CI 1.02, 1.07) for ED visits and 1.05 (95% CI 1.00, 1.10) for hospitalisations, after adjusting for comorbidities and other sociodemographic variables in our regression analyses, whereas for the actively prevalent group the ORs were 7.57 (7.27, 8.49), 0.91 (0.89, 0.92) and 1.00 (0.98, 1.02), respectively.Conclusion This study examined the association of pharmacotherapy on healthcare utilisation for adults with MDD in BC. …”
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Long-term outcome of a treat-to-target strategy in late-onset rheumatoid arthritis with chronic lung disease: 5-year results of a prospective observational study by Manami Nomura, Takahiko Sugihara, Hiroyuki Baba, Tadashi Hosoya, Mari Kamiya, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Takumi Matsumoto, Kanae Kubo, Fumio Hirano, Masayo Kojima, Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Shinsuke Yasuda, Masayoshi Harigai

“…Conclusion For LORA patients with CLD, the T2T strategy is effective, but comorbidities and SAEs make the implementation of the T2T more difficult.…”
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Standardized patient profile review using large language models for case adjudication in observational research by Martijn J. Schuemie, Anna Ostropolets, Aleh Zhuk, Uladzislau Korsik, Seung In Seo, Marc A. Suchard, George Hripcsak, Patrick B. Ryan

“…The task involves adjudicating cases identified by a phenotype algorithm, with KEEPER extracting predefined findings such as symptoms, comorbidities, and treatments from structured data. LLMs then evaluate KEEPER outputs to determine whether a patient truly qualifies as a case. …”
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Experience in laparoscopic transcystic common bile duct exploration for super-elderly patients with choledocholithiasis—A 96-year-old case report by Zongming Zhang, Limin Liu, Chong Zhang, Zhuo Liu, Yue Zhao, Hui Qi, Haiyan Yang, Baijiang Wan, Mingwen Zhu, Hai Deng, Jinqiu Feng, Fucheng Liu, Zhentian Guo, Peijie Yao

“…Despite the presence of multiple high-risk comorbidities, the patient underwent with laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) plus LTCBDE, with appropriate perioperative safety measures in place, and made a full recovery, being discharged from the hospital on the seventh day following the operation. …”
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Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Antiphospholipid Syndrome by Felipe Freire da Silva, Roger Abramino Levy, Jozélio Freire de Carvalho

“…Therefore, the clinical and laboratory investigation of comorbidities known to increase cardiovascular risk in patients with antiphospholipid antibody syndrome is crucial for the adoption of a more complete and effective treatment. …”
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Routine Immunization of Adults in Canada: Review of the Epidemiology of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Current Recommendations for Primary Prevention by Michael D Parkins, Shelly A McNeil, Kevin B Laupland

“…All adult Canadians with significant medical comorbidities or those older than 65 years of age should receive the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine and yearly trivalent inactivate influenza vaccines. …”
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Relation of Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue to Bone Mineral Density in Chinese Women by Ling Wang, Wei Wang, Li Xu, Xiaoguang Cheng, Yimin Ma, Dan Liu, Zhe Guo, Yongbin Su, Qianqian Wang

“…Possible covariates of height, weight, age, and comorbidities were considered. In the <55-year-old sample, multiple linear regression analyses indicated that VAT volume was negatively correlated to trabecular BMD (P value = 0.0003) and SAT volume had no correlation to trabecular BMD. …”
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A case of mixed dementia with atypical presentation in a veteran by Sujan Poudel, Tejas Patel, Jhoanne Paras, Berdith Lebrun, Gerardo Ferrer, Prerana Upadhyaya, Nisha Panta, Syed Rizvi, Sultan Ahmed

“…This case study explores the concurrent pathologies to better delineate the etiology of dementia, highlighting an essential aspect of geriatric healthcare.Discussion: This case highlights the complexities of diagnosing and managing dementia when symptoms are atypical, particularly in patients with multiple comorbidities and intricate medical histories, such as those stemming from military service. …”
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Limb-Shaking Transient Ischemic Attacks Successfully Treated with External Carotid Artery Stenting by George N. Kouvelos, Christos Nassis, Nektario Papa, George Papadopoulos, Miltiadis I. Matsagkas

“…Stenting of the ECA should be considered as a reasonable alternative to conventional open repair especially in patients with contralateral carotid stenosis, insufficient circle of Willis, and significant comorbidities.…”
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Targeting Anabolic Impairment in Response to Resistance Exercise in Older Adults with Mobility Impairments: Potential Mechanisms and Rehabilitation Approaches by Micah J. Drummond, Robin L. Marcus, Paul C. LaStayo

“…., sarcopenia) and may be compounded by comorbidities, injury, surgery, illness, and physical inactivity. …”
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