Self-reported determinants for subjective financial distress: a qualitative interview study with German cancer patients by Eva Winkler, Katja Mehlis, Bastian Surmann, Wolfgang Greiner, Andrea Züger, Viktoria Mathies, Sophie Pauge, Luise Richter, Thomas Ernst, Natalja Menold

“…To better understand subjective financial distress, the presented study explores self-reported determinants for subjective financial distress in German patients with cancer, aiming to inform a new German-language patient-reported outcome measure for determining the financial effects of a tumour disease.Design Semistructured interviews with n=18 patients with cancer were conducted between May 2021 and December 2021. Patients were recruited based on a purposive sampling strategy in outpatient and inpatient settings. …”
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Artificial intelligence conversational agents in mental health: Patients see potential, but prefer humans in the loop by Hyein S. Lee, Hyein S. Lee, Colton Wright, Julia Ferranto, Jessica Buttimer, Clare E. Palmer, Andrew Welchman, Kathleen M. Mazor, Kimberly A. Fisher, David Smelson, Laurel O’Connor, Laurel O’Connor, Nisha Fahey, Nisha Fahey, Apurv Soni, Apurv Soni, Apurv Soni

“…Data were collected from December 2022 to February 2023, and three researchers conducted rapid qualitative analysis to identify and synthesize themes.ResultsThe sample included 29 adults (ages 19-66), predominantly under age 35, non-Hispanic, White, and female. …”
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Management of a COVID-19 outbreak using a multidisciplinary approach and infection prevention control practices at a community living center in Veterans Administration Hospital, No... by Ikwo K. Oboho, John Hanna, Denisse Silva-Rodriguez, Angela Christie-Smith, Andrew Psenicka, Ampava Khongmongkhon, Marcus A. Kouma, Sherry Reid, Roger Bedimo

“…Serial testing of all CLC residents was conducted, and residents with polymerase chain reaction-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection were included in the analysis. …”
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Calm ocean, stormy sea: atmospheric and oceanographic observations of the Atlantic during the Atlantic References and Convection (ARC) ship campaign by L. Köhler, L. Köhler, J. Windmiller, D. Baranowski, M. Brennek, M. Ciuryło, L. Hayo, D. Kȩpski, S. Kinne, B. Latos, B. Lobo, T. Marke, T. Nischik, D. Paul, P. Stammes, A. Szkop, O. Tuinder

“…We present data from the integrated ship sensors (DSHIP); a humidity and temperature profiler (HATPRO); a ceilometer; aerosol instruments (DustTrak, Microtops, and Calitoo); radiosondes; uncrewed aircraft vehicles (UAVs); and conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) profiles of the upper ocean. …”
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JinQi Jiangtang Tablet Regulates Gut Microbiota and Improve Insulin Sensitivity in Type 2 Diabetes Mice by Ying Cao, Guowang Yao, Yuanyuan Sheng, Li Yang, Zixuan Wang, Zhen Yang, Pengwei Zhuang, Yanjun Zhang

“…Fasting blood glucose and the level of HbA1c were measured, and ITT were conducted to determine the insulin improvement effect of JQJT tablets. …”
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Diagnosing and managing patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a consensus survey by Christi Deaton, Robin Fox, Ian Wellwood, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Katherine Brown, Sharon Dixon, Thomas Blakeman, Alistair Brown, Julie Smith, Nick Thomas, Adam Jones, Basilio Hernandez-Diaz, Christopher Keast, Heather Rutter, Kyle Knox, Matthew Gaw, Nick Wooding, Christine A'Court, Hannah Swayze, Helen Ashdown, Victoria Glover, Rosalynn Austin, Eva Khair, Muhammad Zakir Hossain, Emma Sowden, Faye Forsyth, Mollika Chakravorty, Sophie Maclachlan, Edward Kane, Jessica Odone, Natasha Thorley, Susana Borja-Boluda, Muhammed Hossain, John Sharpley, Brain Gordon, Joanna Taffe, Aaron Long, Affan Aziz, Chris Schramm, Sine MacDonald, Helena Papworth, Craig Needs, David Cronk, Chris Newark, Duncan Blake, Amman Basuita, Emma Gayton, Jonathan Crawshaw, Rachael Ayerst, Shamila Wanninayake, Elisabetta Angeleri-Rand

“…A virtual workshop of HCPs was conducted to discuss and refine survey findings.Results HCPs (n=66) across the UK participated: 19 general practitioners (GPs), 20 HF specialist nurses (HFSN), 17 cardiologists and 10 others. …”
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The association of HIV status and depressive symptoms in the Ndlovu Cohort study by Li Xiang Y. den Boer, Karine Scheuermaier, Hugo A. Tempelman, Roos E. Barth, Walter L. J. M. Devillé, Roel A. Coutinho, Diederick E. Grobbee, Francois Venter, Alinda G. Vos-Seda, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch

“…A cross-sectional analysis was conducted among PLHIV and HIV-negative participants in rural South Africa, using the baseline data of the Ndlovu Cohort study. …”
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Effectiveness of lateral femoral cutaneous and femoral nerve block in managing postoperative pain for hemiarthroplasty patients by Kazi Mahzabin Arin, Shofina Sultana, Ayesha Sultana, Abdul Hannan Mohammad, Chandra Shekhar Karmakar, AKM Akhtaruzzaman

“…This randomised controlled study was conducted to compare the efficacy of lateral femoral cutaneous and femoral nerve blocks compared to fascia iliaca compartment block for postoperative pain management following hemiarthroplasty. …”
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Association Between the Malnutrition Status and All‐Cause Mortality in Patients With Moderate and Severe Aortic Stenosis: A Prospective Cohort Study by Bingzhen Li, Shaozhao Zhang, Chaoguang Xu, Mengting Huang, Zhenyu Xiong, Ziwen Hui, Xinxue Liao, Jilin Li, Jianying Chen, Xiaodong Zhuang

“…Methods and Results A total of 536 patients with moderate‐to‐severe aortic stenosis were selected in the ARISTOTLE (Aortic Valve Diseases Risk Factor Assessment and Prognosis Model Construction) study conducted between January 2013 and December 2022 in 3 academic institutions. …”
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Association between renal mean perfusion pressure and prognosis in patients with sepsis-associated acute kidney injury: insights from the MIMIC IV database by Yipeng Fang, Aizhen Dou, Hui Xie, Yunfei Zhang, Weiwei Zhu, Yingjin Zhang, Caifeng Li, Yanchao Su, Ying Gao, Keliang Xie

“…Subgroup analyses and sensitivity analyses were conducted to ensure the robustness of the findings.Results A total of 2318 patients with SA-AKI were stratified into five MPP trajectories by GBTM. …”
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TPDTNet: Two-Phase Distillation Training for Visible-to-Infrared Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Object Detection by Siyu Wang, Xiaogang Yang, Ruitao Lu, Shuang Su, Bin Tang, Tao Zhang, Zhengjie Zhu

“…Extensive experiments are conducted on three optical-to-infrared datasets, and the experimental results show that our TPDTNet method achieves state-of-the-art results relative to those of the baseline model.…”
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Indocyanine Green Fluorescence Plus Blue Dye for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Patients Undergoing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: A Multicenter, Prospective Cohort Stu... by Miao Liu, Yang Yang, Bin Hua, Rui Feng, Tianyu Xu, Mengyuan Wang, Xiaowei Qi, Yingming Cao, Bo Zhou, Fuzhong Tong, Peng Liu, Hongjun Liu, Lin Cheng, Houpu Yang, Fei Xie, Siyuan Wang, Chaobin Wang, Yuan Peng, Danhua Shen, Lei Chen, Jun Jiang, Shu Wang

“…Upon the completion of NAC, SLNB was conducted using ICG and methylene blue, followed by axillary lymph node dissection. …”
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TET1 is a Tumor Suppressor That Inhibits Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Cell Migration and Invasion by Shuang Yu, Yali Yin, Shubin Hong, Siting Cao, Yanrui Huang, Shuwei Chen, Yujie Liu, Hongyu Guan, Quan Zhang, Yanbing Li, Haipeng Xiao

“…Transwell assay was used to investigate cell migration and invasion. miRNA and mRNA expression arrays were conducted in TET1-depleted BCPAP cells. Results. The expression level of TET1 decreased in PTC tissues and cell lines and was consistent with the reduction in the 5hmC level. …”
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Limited restoration of T cell subset distribution and immune function in older people living with HIV-1 receiving HAART by Na Li, Hong-Yi Zheng, Wei Li, Xiao-Yan He, Mi Zhang, Xia Li, Ren-Rong Tian, Xing-Qi Dong, Zhi-Qiang Shen, Yong-Tang Zheng

“…Method This study was conducted at Yunnan AIDS Care Center, China, to explore the immunological responses of old PLWH to HAART and compared with the middle-age and the younger. …”
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Preclinical study and parallel phase II trial evaluating antisense STAT3 oligonucleotide and checkpoint blockade for advanced pancreatic, non-small cell lung cancer and mismatch re... by Heather Lin, Vivek Subbiah, Siqing Fu, Aung Naing, Courtney Nicholas, Shubham Pant, Chad Tang, Michael A Curran, David S Hong, Ying Yuan, Sarina A Piha-Paul, Jordi Rodon Ahnert, Timonthy A Yap, Apostolia M Tsimberidou, Daniel D Karp, Anupallavi Srinivasamani, Coline Couillault, Genevieve P Hartley, James Dai, Ecaterina E Ileana Dumbrava, Paola Guerrero, Sarah Dhebat, Theresa Proia

“…Objective To evaluate signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) inhibition we conducted a co-clinical trial testing danvatirsen, a STAT3 antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) and checkpoint inhibition in conjunction with preclinical experiments.Methods and analysis Orthotopically implanted pancreatic cancer (pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC)) was treated with STAT3 ASO with immune checkpoint inhibition. …”
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Genetic investigations of autosomal recessive inherited ichthyosis impressed by fetal ultrasound: Exome sequencing and haplotype linkage analysis by Ting-Yu Chang, Zhu Wei Lim, Yi-Tzu Chu, Wan-Ju Wu, Mei-Hui Lee, Shun-Ping Chang, Dong-Jay Lee, Wen-Hsiang Lin, Ming Ho, Jin-Chung Shih, Gwo-Chin Ma, Ming Chen

“…Disease-cause haplotyping by STR markers and ARMS-qPCR for PGT-M strategy were conducted in family 1. Linkage analysis in conjunction with STR was used in the first case, whereas unequal coverage of WES was deciphered with the inspiration of the second case a few years later. …”
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Post Covid-19 Syndromes, The Time line of Covid by Nadia Shams, Zaid Umar, Lubna Meraj, Neelam Ayub, Muhammad Waseem, Kazim Abbas Virk

“…METHODOLOGY: This observational study was conducted at Medicine Dept. RIHS Islamabad after ethical approval. 195 recovered COVID cases were selected and followed 3 monthly over a year. …”
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Prevalence, risk factors and associated ocular diseases of cerebral stroke: the population-based Beijing Eye Study by Jost B Jonas, Ya Xing Wang, Liang Xu, Wen Bin Wei

“…Objective To assess the prevalence of cerebral stroke in the general population of Beijing and its association with systemic risk factors and ocular diseases.Setting The population-based Beijing Eye Study was conducted in a rural and urban region of Beijing.Participants With eligibility criteria of age 50+ years and living in the study regions, 3468 subjects (78.8%) out of 4403 eligible individuals participated.Primary and secondary outcome measures The study participants underwent a detailed systemic and ophthalmological examination and an interview in which the occurrence of a previous stroke was assessed.Results A previous stroke was reported by 235 individuals (7.33%; 95% CI 6.43% to 8.24%). …”
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Over 20-year Follow-up Result of Total Knee Arthroplasty for Knee Arthropathy: A Single Center Cohort Study by XU Yiming, HU Mingwei, ZHU Wei, YU Muyang, LIN Jin, JIN Jin, QIAN Wenwei, FENG Bin, WENG Xisheng

“…We retrospectively collected clinical data of patients with knee arthropathy (including knee osteoarthritis and knee rheumatoid arthritis) who received the first TKA operation in Peking Union Medical College Hospital from 1993 to 2002 and were followed up for more than 20 years, and conducted a unified follow-up on them in November 10, 2024 (the last follow-up). …”
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ANO7 expression in the prostate modulates mitochondrial function and lipid metabolism by Christoffer Löf, Nasrin Sultana, Neha Goel, Samuel Heron, Gudrun Wahlström, Andrew House, Minna Holopainen, Reijo Käkelä, Johanna Schleutker

“…Differential gene expression analysis and gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) were conducted to identify key pathways. Additionally, we assessed oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS), glycolysis, and targeted metabolomics. …”
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