Positive association between chronic hepatitis B virus infection and anemia in pregnancy in Southern China by Renliang Huang, Zhe Lu, Xinze Li, Duo Zhou, Jing Xu, Dan Lin, Yunxue Fu, Yan Liang, Xuexia Li, Frank Petersen, Qiaomiao Zhou, Xinhua Yu

“…Firstly, a cross-sectional study was conducted, encompassing a review of clinical data of 43,201 pregnant women admitted to the Hainan Women and Children’s Medical Center between January 2017 and December 2020. Comparison between women with and without anemia in pregnancy revealed significant differences between the two groups concerning age, gestational diabetes, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, chronic hepatitis B virus infection, syphilis infection, and human immunodeficiency virus infection. …”
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Comparative, cross-sectional study of the format, content and timing of medication safety letters issued in Canada, the USA and the UK by Jeremy M Grimshaw, Margaret C Watson, Lise M Bjerre, Matthew Hogel, Cody D Black, Simon Parlow, David de Launay, Donald R Mattison

“…Objectives To assess consistency in the format and content, and overlap of subject and timing, of medication safety letters issued by regulatory health authorities to healthcare providers in Canada, the USA and the UK.Design A cross-sectional study comparing medication safety letters issued for the purpose of alerting healthcare providers to newly identified medication problems associated with medications already on the market.Setting Online databases operated by Health Canada, the US Food and Drug Administration and the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency were searched to select medication safety letters issued between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2014. Format, content and timing of each medication safety letter were assessed using an abstraction tool comprising 21 characteristics deemed relevant by consensus of the research team.Main outcome measures Main outcome measures included, first, characteristics (format and content) of medication safety letters and second, overlap of subject and release date across countries.Results Of 330 medication safety letters identified, 227 dealt with unique issues relating to medications available in all three countries. …”
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Intravoxel Incoherent Motion (IVIM) Diffusion-Weighted Imaging (DWI) in Patients with Liver Dysfunction of Chronic Viral Hepatitis: Segmental Heterogeneity and Relationship with Ch... by Lei Ding, Lianxiang Xiao, Xiangtao Lin, Chunmei Xiong, Lingbo Lin, Shijun Chen

“…This was a retrospective study of 82 consecutive patients with chronic liver disease who underwent MRI examination at the Jinan Infectious Diseases Hospital between January 2015 and December 2016. IVIM DWI (seven different b values) was performed on a Siemens 3.0-T MRI scanner. …”
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Analgesic Quality Improvement in Paravertebral Blocks for Pediatric Nuss Procedure: An Exploratory Report on the Effects of Perineural Combined Glucocorticoids by Donham RN, Jin E, Caty MG, Thomas DA, Yuan C, Hollingsworth K, Zhang X, Yanez ND, Li J

“…An electronic health record review of patients undergoing Nuss procedures by a single surgeon at a major academic children’s hospital from June 2013 to December 2021 was performed with no patients excluded. …”
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The Anti-Inflammatory Effect of Chenopodium Murale in Comparison to Salvia Frigida on Atopic Eczema by Zahraa Y. Hassan, Tuka Y. Hassan, Ahmed Y. Kanany

“…Methods: This study was conducted from December 2020 to June 2021 in the Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Al Nahrain University. …”
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Stress among medical students: factor structure of the University Stress Scale among Italian students by Alex Burdorf, Maura Galletta, Igor Portoghese, Fabio Porru, Marcello Campagna

“…Objectives The main purpose of the current study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the University Stress Scale (USS) among Italian medical students.Design, setting and participants A cross-sectional observational study based on data from an online cross-sectional survey from 11 to 23 December 2018. A total of 1858 Italian medical students participated in the study.Outcome measures We measured perceived stress among medical students using the USS, the Effort-Reward Imbalance Student Questionnaire (ERI-SQ) and the Kessler-10 (K10).Results Results showed that a bifactor-Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling solution provided excellent levels of fit to the data. …”
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Refining MR-guided thermal ablation for HCC within the Milan criteria: a decade of clinical outcomes and predictive modeling at a single institution by Fu-Qun Wei, Pei-Shu Huang, Bing Zhang, Rui Guo, Yan Yuan, Jin Chen, Zheng-Yu Lin

“…Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted from January 2009 to December 2021 at a single institution. Patients underwent MR-guided thermal ablation. …”
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Antioxidant and Antibacterial Activities Evaluation, Phytochemical Characterisation of Rhizome from Angiopteris helferiana and Barks from Saurauia fasciculata in Nepal by Ram Kishor Yadav, Akriti Dhakal, Kalpana Timilsina, Priyanka Shrestha, Sandesh Poudel, Sindhu KC, Prabhat Kumar Jha, Rekha Bhandari, Khem Raj Joshi

“…However, scientific evidence towards their traditional uses is lacking till December, 2023. Therefore, we report the phytochemicals, total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC), total carbohydrate content (TCC), antioxidant and antibacterial activities of A. helferiana and S. fasciculata extracts. …”
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Establishment of a Nomogram for Predicting Early Death in Viral Myocarditis by Xuejun Sun, Naxin Xie, Mengling Guo, Xuelian Qiu, Hongwei Chen, Haibo Liu, Hongmu Li

“…A total of 362 consecutive VMC patients in Fujian Medical University Affiliated First Quanzhou Hospital between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2019, were included. A least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression model was used to detect the risk factors that most consistently and correctly predicted early death in VMC. …”
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Clinical and Biological Characteristics of Severe Malaria in Children under 5 Years Old in Benin by Xiao Ma, Xin Fan, Kora Chabi Youssaou, Junfei Zhang, Xingyi Wang, Guoqiang Zheng, Shuping Tian, Yujing Gao

“…Clinical characteristics of pediatric patients with severe malaria admitted to two hospitals in Benin (Central Hospital of Lokossa and Regional Hospital of Natitingou, located ∼650 kilometers apart) were collected from January to December 2020. Patients were grouped according to age (group A: 4–12 months old, group B: 13–36 months old, and group C: 37–60 months old), and clinical and laboratory indicators were compared. …”
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Epidemiological and Clinical Aspects of Ulcerative Colitis in Mosul city, Iraq by Muhammed Babakir-Mina

“…An observational checklist was used by the researcher to assess the patients’ characteristics and factors related to UC from 200 hospitalized patients from December 2018 to April 2019. Data were entered into spreadsheets and analyzed in Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22. …”
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3D tomographic analysis of equatorial plasma bubble using GNSS-TEC data from Indonesian GNSS Network by Ihsan Naufal Muafiry, Prayitno Abadi, Teguh N. Pratama, Dyah R. Martiningrum, Sri Ekawati, Yuandhika G. Wismaya, Febrylian F. Chabibi, Gatot H. Pramono

“…To explore this, we conducted preliminary 3D tomography of total electron content (TEC) data captured by GNSS receivers following a geomagnetic storm on December 3, 2023, when at least four EPB clusters occurred in the Southeast Asian sector. …”
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Pleomorphic Adenoma of the Parotid: Extracapsular Dissection Compared with Superficial Parotidectomy—A 10-Year Retrospective Cohort Study by Maria Giulia Cristofaro, Eugenia Allegra, Amerigo Giudice, Walter Colangeli, Davide Caruso, Ida Barca, Mario Giudice

“…A total of 198 patients were enrolled between January 2003 and December 2012. The study included 97 females (48.99%) and 101 males (51.01%) whose mean age was 50.97 years (range 14–75). …”
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Effects of internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy on anxiety and depressive symptoms among patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: a systematic review and m... by Shuangyu Wang, Lishuo Gao, Congyu Wang, Jinbing Bai, Mengshuang Shen, Xuejie Zhao, Mei Lin

“…BackgroundThis study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Internet-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (ICBT) in reducing anxiety and depressive symptoms among patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and to explore how intervention characteristics, such as module number and program duration, influence treatment outcomes.MethodsA systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted by searching eight databases, including PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library, for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published up to December 2023. Studies involving adult CVD patients with anxiety or depressive symptoms who underwent ICBT interventions were included. …”
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Association between Clinical Characteristics and Laboratory Findings with Outcome of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients: A Report from Northeast Iran by Sahar Sobhani, Reihaneh Aryan, Elham Kalantari, Salman Soltani, Nafise Malek, Parisa Pirzadeh, Amir Yarahmadi, Atena Aghaee

“…Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first discovered in December 2019 in China and has rapidly spread worldwide. …”
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Prevalence and Characterization of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae Isolated in Canadian Hospitals: Results from CANWARD 2007 by Patricia J Baudry, Melissa McCracken, Philippe Lagacé-Wiens, Michael R Mulvey, George G Zhanel, Daryl J Hoban

“…METHODS: Clinically significant isolates were collected as part of the Canadian Ward Surveillance Study (CANWARD 2007) from January to December 2007, inclusive, from 12 sentinel hospital centres across Canada. …”
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Diagnosis and clinical significance of prostate calcification using computed tomography by Seong Cheol Kim, Tae Young Lee, Woocheol Kang, Hoyoung Bae, Ji Hyung Yoon, Sungchan Park, Kyung Hyun Moon, Sang Hyeon Cheon, Taekmin Kwon

“…We retrospectively analyzed data from 5,492 patients who underwent CT at the Department of Urology in our hospital between January 2010 and December 2020. After applying exclusion criteria (prostate cancer, post-prostatectomy, indwelling urethral catheter, severe artifacts, and software errors), 4,805 patients were included in the final analysis. …”
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Investigation of 25-hydroxy vitamin D deficiency prevelance in healthy adults aged 18-65 years in Istanbul, Türkiye by Ülfer Gözde

“…Methods: The vitamin 25(OH)D levels of 9,778 adults who presented to our hospital's internal medicine checkup outpatient clinic between January 2022 and December 2023 were analyzed retrospectively. Individuals with chronic disorders were excluded from the study. …”
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β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate-enriched nutritional supplements for obese adults during weight loss: study protocol of a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial by Ming Yang, Xiaofan Jing, Yuxiang Liang, Renjie Wang, Hongbo Fu, Jiaojiao Jiang

“…The enrolment will commence in December 2021 and will proceed until March 2022.Ethics and dissemination This protocol has been approved by the Biomedical Ethics Committee of West China Hospital (2021-771). …”
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Bibliometric mapping of mesenchymal stem cell therapy for bone regeneration from 2013 to 2023 by Qianqian Chen, Qianqian Chen, Yiqi Su, Zhen Yang, Qiyuan Lin, Yan Ke, Yan Ke, Dan Xing, Dan Xing, Dan Xing, Dan Xing, Hui Li, Hui Li

“…Using the Web of Science Core Collection, we conducted a literature search in December 2024 and employed bibliometric tools like CiteSpace and VOSviewer for a comprehensive analysis of the key research trends. …”
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