Association of Hormonal Contraceptives with Depression among Women in Reproductive Age Groups: A Cross-Sectional Analytic Study by Sadia Sultan, MD. Abu Bashar, Rahma M. Bazhair, Doaa O. Abdurahman, Renad A. Alrehaili, Meimouna E. Ennahoui, Yasmeen S. Alsulaiman, Seba D. Alamri, Elgawhara F. A. Mohamed

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted on 326 women of the reproductive age group (15–49 years) attending the family planning unit of the obstetrics and gynecology department of a medical college in Saudi Arabia. …”
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Level of Acceptance of Illness and Its Association with Quality of Life among Patients with Epilepsy in North Shewa, Ethiopia by Yonas Teshome, Yerukneh Solomon, Feredegn Talargia, Negese Worku, Abreham Shitaw, Abebaye Aragaw Leminie

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted from January to June 2021 at the Debre Berhan Referral Hospital, North-East Ethiopia. …”
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The Effect of Counseling Based on Functional Analytic Psychotherapy with Enhanced Cognitive Therapy on Married Adolescent Women’s Sexual Self-efficacy: A Prospective Study by Maryam Gholami, Katayoun Alidousti, Mozhgan Taebi, Yunes Jahani, Atefeh Ahmadi

“…Methods: This prospective clinical trial, conducted in 2019, used a pre-test/post-test design with a control group. …”
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Effect of early establishment of full enteral feeding with exclusive mother’s own milk in preterm babies: a retrospective cohort study by Umamaheswari Balakrishnan, Prakash Amboiram, Urmila Umasekar, Nalini Sirala Jagadeesh

“…This study evaluated the effect of early establishment of full enteral feed (FEF) with exclusive MOM on feeding rate and neonatal nutritional outcomes at discharge among preterm babies.Methods A retrospective cohort study was conducted using medical records of single preterm babies born between 27 and 33+6 weeks of gestational age and admitted to a single tertiary care hospital in South India between June 2019 and May 2022. …”
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Association between Life’s Crucial 9 and overactive bladder: the mediating role of weight-adjusted-waist index by Hongyang Gong, Hongyang Gong, Shuqin Duan, Shaoqun Huang

“…Additionally, mediation analysis was conducted to investigate the potential association between WWI levels and the relationship between LC9 and OAB.ResultsA total of 25,319 participants were included in this study, among which 5,038 reported incidents of OAB. …”
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Experimental Study of 2-Ethylhexyl Nitrate Effects on Engine Performance and Exhaust Emissions of Diesel Engine Fueled with Diesel–2-Methylfuran Blends by Balla M. Ahmed, Maji Luo, Hassan A. M. Elbadawi, Nasreldin M. Mahmoud, Pang-Chieh Sui

“…This study investigates the effect of adding 2-ethylhexyl nitrate (2-EHN), a cetane enhancer, to the M30 blend (30% 2-MF by volume), on combustion characteristics and exhaust emissions. Experiments were conducted using a modified four-cylinder, four-stroke, direct-injection compression ignition (DICI) engine featuring a common rail fuel injection system. …”
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Effects of Massive Transfusion Protocol Implementation in Trauma Patients at a Level I Trauma Center by Hyun Woo Sun, Sang Bong Lee, Sung Jin Park, Chan Ik Park, Jae Hun Kim

“…Purpose This study was conducted to investigate whether rapid and efficient administration of blood products was achieved and whether clinical outcomes were improved by applying a massive transfusion protocol (MTP). …”
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Unveiling The Myth of High Recurrence Rate of Extracranial Arteriovenous Malformations of The Head and Neck: Systematic Review of Case Reports and Case Series [version 2; peer revi... by Sagung Rai Indrasari, Danu Yudistira, Camelia Herdini, Agustian Winarno Putra

“…Our goal was to identify the most effective treatment option with a lower recurrence rate. Methods We conducted a thorough literature search using PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Scopus, from year 2000 to the present. …”
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An Outdoor Walking Program for Immigrant Muslim Older Adults: A Community‐Based Participatory Intervention by Jordana Salma, Shelby Yamamoto, Nancy M Salbach, Ruth Barclay, Allyson Jones

“…After focus group discussions with participants, walking sessions were conducted for 10 weeks in a local accessible park with required amenities such as benches and restrooms. …”
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Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Saudi Arabia: an epidemiological population-based study by Mohammed A. Alshehri, Husain Y. Alkhlady, Zuhier A. Awan, Mohammed Ridha Algethami, Hadiah B. Al Mahdi, Hussam Daghistani, Khalid Orayj

“…Method: This is a cross-sectional study conducted from 2015 to 2022, using data from 42 branches of a major network of diagnostic laboratories in Saudi Arabia, covering the country's 13 administrative areas. …”
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Optimization of energy output from PVT-PCM systems with emerging metal-organic frameworks phase change materials by Bourhan Tashtoush, Malak Al Ghadi

“…Numerical simulations were conducted over a continuous 24-h duration under authentic natural conditions in two locations: Ma'an (a desert) and Irbid (a non-desert city). …”
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Sneak Peek: Food, Waste, and Packaging Characteristics of South Australian School Children’s Lunchboxes by Neha Kishan Lalchandani, Clare Hume, Lynne Giles, Shona Crabb, Jo Hendrikx, Caroline Miller

“…Design: A cross-sectional study was conducted. Lunchboxes were photographed at two time points on the same day: before first morning break to capture food and packaging and post-lunch break to capture food waste. …”
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Privacy protection of sexually transmitted infections information from Chinese electronic medical records by Mengchun Gong, Yue Yu, Zihao Ouyang, Wenzhao Shi, Chao Liu, Qilin Wang, Jiale Nan, Endi Cai, Fen Ding, Sheng Nie

“…The objective is to develop effective information extraction and privacy protection strategies to safeguard STI patients in the Chinese healthcare environment and prevent unnecessary privacy leakage during the data-sharing process of EMRs. The research was conducted at a national healthcare data center, where a committee of experts designed rule-based protocols utilizing natural language processing techniques to extract STI information. …”
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Studying yield components and attractions indices in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) accessions in the Northern Zone of the Volga-Akhtuba Floodplain by A. P. Ivakin, A. A. Grushin

“…A comparative study of common bean accessions belonging to different earliness groups was conducted. Differences in the degree of variability were identified for yield components and macro- and micro-attraction indices. …”
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Time to Reach Full Enteral Feeding and Its Predictors among Very Low Birth Weight Neonates Admitted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Follow-Up Cohort Study by Belay Alemayehu Getahun, Sileshi Mulatu, Hailemariam Mekonnen Workie

“…An institutional retrospective follow-up study design was conducted among 332 very low birth weight neonates from July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2021. …”
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Pursuing healthy homeownership: an evaluation of the neighborhood health trajectories of shared equity homeowners by Geoffrey M. Gusoff, Alex Ramiller, Arthur Acolin, Ruoniu Wang, Frederick J. Zimmerman

“…To understand the health impacts of the shared equity homeownership model more fully, it is important to evaluate participants’ neighborhood health trajectories – how their neighborhood health environments change when they move into homeownership – and how these trajectories compare to those of similar households entering traditional homeownership and those continuing to rent. Methods We conducted difference-in-differences analyses comparing changes in neighborhood health characteristics (walkability, food access, socio-economic vulnerability, and life expectancy) for US households moving into shared equity homeownership between 1997 and 2017 compared to households moving into traditional homeownership and those continuing to rent. …”
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Clinical and ultrasound assessment of body composition in preterm infants at discharge: an observational study by Beatriz del Rey Hurtado de Mendoza, Montserrat Izquierdo Renau, Elsa García González, Carla Balcells-Esponera, Emilio J Inarejos Clemente, Isabel Iglesias-Platas

“…Prenatal and postnatal factors can influence the growth and BC of VPIs in the NICU.Design, setting and patients We conducted a case-control study, including preterm infants born before 32 weeks gestational age at term-corrected age (TCA) and healthy late preterm or term infants as controls and also a retrospective cohort analysis of factors influencing VPI’s BC at discharge. …”
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Identification of tacrolimus-related genes in familial combined hyperlipidemia and development of a diagnostic model using bioinformatics analysis by Yuan Xu, Hongfei He, Haiyang Li

“…A thorough weighted gene co-expression network analysis was conducted, including a differential expression analysis of the GSE1010 and TRG datasets, to identify intricate patterns of gene co-expression and provide insights on the underlying molecular dynamics within the datasets. …”
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Prevalence and associated factors of healthy aging among community-dwelling older adults in Lishui city, China: a cross-sectional study by Jian-Hua Chen, Norhasmah Mohd Zain, Azlina Yusuf, Bi-He Ying

“…Methods A multicenter cross-sectional survey was conducted. Participants were recruited by a multi-stage stratified cluster-sampling procedure from a mountainous region in Lishui City, Zhejiang Province, China. …”
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Determining and comparing the achieved competencies of graduating nursing students of public and private universities in Iran by Majid Purabdollah, Vahid Zamanzadeh, Akram Ghahramanian, Leila Valizadeh, Mostafa Ghasempour, Saeid Mousavi

“…Design and methods A quantitative study with a comparative descriptive design was conducted. A convenience sample of 721 graduating nursing students, including 301 from private universities and 420 from public universities, participated in the study. …”
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