Effect of nusinersen on pulmonary function in children with spinal muscular atrophy in the plateau region: A pilot study by Jicai Zhu, Xiaofang Chen, Haoke Sang, Minming Ma, Chunhui Tang

“…A retrospective study was conducted to investigate changes in lung function parameters (including forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume at 1 s, forced expiratory volume at 1 s/forced vital capacity, and peak expiratory flow) in patients with SMA treated with nusinersen. …”
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Challenges and Barriers of Online Teaching: Perspective of Faculty in a Private Medical College of Lahore by Naureen Omar, Ifra Aslam, Syeda Mahnoor Nadeem, Ramsha Batool, Umbreen Navied, Muhammad Subhan Feroze

“…Methodology: This cross-sectional study was conducted from Sep-Dec, 2021 in FMH College of Medicine and Dentistry, Lahore. …”
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Post-Diagnostic Aspirin Use in Breast Cancer Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survival Outcomes with Trial Sequential Analysis Validation by Po-Huang Chen, Tung-Lung Yang, Hong-Jie Jhou, Hsu-Lin Lee, Ming-Shen Dai

“…<b>Methods</b>: A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted using PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases. …”
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Exploring the use, perceptions, and challenges of mini-implants in orthodontic practice: a survey study by Tinela Panaite, Carina Balcos, Carmen Savin, Nicolae Daniel Olteanu, Nikolaos Karvelas, Cristian Romanec, Raluca-Maria Vieriu, Alice Chehab, Irina Zetu

“…It is hypothesized that orthodontic specialists' perceptions and practices regarding the usage of mini implants are influenced by various factors, including their experience, training engagement, treatment outcomes, and preferences.Material and methodsThe study was conducted using an online, cross-sectional survey developed on the Survio platform to assess orthodontic specialists' perceptions of the clinical effectiveness and advantages of mini-implants in orthodontic treatments. …”
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Identification of urothelial cancer-associated 1 (UCA1) as a diagnostic biomarker of pre-eclampsia via regulating microRNA-16 and its downstream signaling pathway by Ye-Hong Xv, Wei Gao, Liao-Jv Wang

“…Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Western blot analysis, immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay, computational analysis, and luciferase assay were conducted to measure the differential expression of UCA1, miR-16, and PAPP A while establishing a signaling pathway of UCA1/miR-16/PAPP-A. …”
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Dexmedetomidine for delirium prevention in adult patients following cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Chang Meng, Duo Wang, Yue Zhao, Jing Sun, Guobin Miao, Lijuan Chen, Ying Bai, Peng Liu

“…Methods We searched the PubMed, Embase and Cochrane Library databases for randomized controlled trials from the last 10 years up to March 10, 2024. We then conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of dexmedetomidine in preventing delirium after cardiac surgery in adults. …”
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The impact of insurance type on listing status and wait‐list mortality of patients with left ventricular assist devices as bridge to transplantation by Alexandros Briasoulis, Emmanuel Akintoye, Chakradhari Inampudi, Aziz Hammoud, Paulino Alvarez

“…Patients were grouped based on the type of insurance private/self‐pay (PV), Medicare (MC), and Medicaid (MA) at the time of listing. We conducted multivariable competing risks regression analysis on listing status and mortality on the waiting list, stratified by insurance type at the time of listing. …”
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Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) versus Perfluoropropane (C3F8) in the Intraoperative Management of Macular Holes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Idan Hecht, Michael Mimouni, Eytan Z. Blumenthal, Yoreh Barak

“…A systematic literature search was conducted to identify and review studies comparing SF6 to C3F8 as a tamponade agent in the intraoperative management of macular holes. …”
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Effects of Antarctic Krill Meal in Diet on Reproductive Performance and Embryo Quality of Eriocheir sinensis by Xiaorong Huang, Ru Tan, Zhi Geng, Tao Zhang, Guangpeng Feng, Gang Yang, Feng Zhao, Ping Zhuang

“…A 60-day feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the impact of dietary Antarctic krill meal on the reproductive performance and embryo quality of the Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis. …”
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Assessing habitat selection parameters of Arabica coffee using BWM and BCM methods based on GIS by Xiaogang Liu, Yuting Tan, Jianhua Dong, Jie Wu, Xinle Wang, Zhiqing Sun

“…Indicator weights were determined using the Best–Worst Method (BWM), while weighted processing was conducted using the Base-Criterion Method (BCM). Sensitivity analysis was performed to verify the accuracy and stability of the model. …”
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A bidirectional Mendelian randomization study integrating genome-wide association studies, expression quantitative trait locus, and methylation quantitative trait locus data reveal... by Zhou An, Meichun Zeng, Xianhua Wang

“…Methods: Two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis was conducted to evaluate the impact of smoking and Barrett’s esophagus. …”
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Evaluation of the Content Validity of the COVID-19 Symptoms Daily Diary by Dine J, Guan Y, Milien M, Ervin C, Byrne DD, Brown ML, De Anda C, Norquist JM

“…Hybrid (concept elicitation and cognitive debriefing) semistructured qualitative interviews were then conducted across 3 iterative rounds with 30 adults in the United States recently diagnosed with COVID-19.Results: The CSDD included concepts that were most frequently reported by interview participants, including those identified as most bothersome and most important to treat. …”
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The relationship between bats and human coronavirus: An exploratory review by Sajal BHATTACHARYA, Shakya SINHA, Rina TILAK, Sugeng Juwono MARDIHUSODO

“…Methods: A narrative review was conducted by using electronic databases- PubMed/Medline, Google scholar, Wiley Online Library, Semantic Scholar, and medXiriv- for searching all types of peer-reviewed and not peer-reviewed articles in English language, published from 2002 to 2020. …”
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Time Course of Acute Hip Adduction Range of Motion Changes Following Foam Rolling by Anthony D’Amico, Kevin Silva, Joseph Gallo

“…A blinded clinician conducted the Ober’s test. A two-way analysis of variance was used to assess differences by condition and time…”
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A cluster randomized trial assessing the effect of a digital health algorithm on quality of care in Tanzania (DYNAMIC study). by Rainer Tan, Godfrey Kavishe, Alexandra V Kulinkina, Sabine Renggli, Lameck B Luwanda, Chacha Mangu, Geofrey Ashery, Margaret Jorram, Ibrahim Evans Mtebene, Peter Agrea, Humphrey Mhagama, Kristina Keitel, Marie-Annick Le Pogam, Nyanda Ntinginya, Honorati Masanja, Valérie D'Acremont

“…However, data from real-world randomized trials are lacking. We conducted a cluster randomized, open-label trial in Tanzania evaluating the use of a digital clinical decision support algorithm (CDSA), enhanced by point-of-care tests, training and mentorship, compared with usual care, among sick children 2 to 59 months old presenting to primary care facilities for an acute illness in Tanzania (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05144763). …”
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Evaluation of undergraduate dental students’ awareness, knowledge, and attitudes towards teledentistry: does a course enhance this? by Gökçen Akçiçek, Ezgi Katı, Hatice Yağmur Zengin

“…The Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare two independent groups, and the Kruskal-Wallis test was used to compare more than two independent groups. All analyses were conducted using IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 23.0 (IBM Corp. …”
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Advanced Detection of AI-Generated Images Through Vision Transformers by Darshan Lamichhane

“…Beyond performance evaluation, we also conducted an ablation study to examine the impact of various components of the ViT model, including the number of attention heads, patch size, the impact of data augmentation, and the depth of layers. …”
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Inverted U-shaped association between the systemic immune-inflammation index and colorectal polyps in Chinese patients: a cross-sectional study by Jie Bao, Yajie Teng, Yingxue Yang, Qinghua Wang

“…We retrospectively collected data from 3,028 Chinese patients who underwent physical examinations, including colonoscopy, from 2018 to 2022. We conducted a comparative analysis of patient characteristics among those with adenomatous polyps, non-adenomatous polyps, and individuals without CPs using descriptive statistics. …”
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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on outpatient visits for patients with cancer in Iran: an interrupted time series analysis by Siavash Beiranvand, Meysam Behzadifar, Aidin Aryankhesal, Seyed Jafar Ehsanzadeh, Banafshe Darvishi Teli, Masoud Behzadifar

“…This study investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on outpatient visits for patients with cancer in Iran. Methods We conducted an interrupted time series analysis (ITSA) on data collected from electronic medical records. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Tear Film and Corneal Surface in Chronic Smokers and Non Smokers: A Cross-sectional Study by Ruchi Dabas, Meena Kumari, Manisha Rathi, Monika Dahiya, Rajni Yadav, Sumit Sachdeva

“…Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among chronic smokers and non smokers presenting at a tertiary eye care centre in Northern India. …”
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