Ultrasound-guided ablation for T1N0M0 papillary thyroid carcinoma adjacent and non-adjacent danger triangle area: a retrospective comparative study by Jianchuan Yang, Lingpeng Tang, Yuhan Qiu, Yucheng Lin, Ting Hu, Xiaoying Lin, Songsong Wu

“…Objectives To compare the safety and efficacy of ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in the treatment of T1N0M0 papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) with adjacent and non-adjacent danger triangle area (DTA).Materials and methods This retrospective study involved collecting clinical data of all T1N0M0 PTC patients who underwent RFA between January 2018 and December 2020 at the hospital. A total of 211 patients were enrolled in the study (mean age 43.25 ± 12.30 years, male-to-female ratio = 1:3). …”
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Corticosteroid Phobia: A Key Barrier to Treatment in Young Women with Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis by Lin W, Wang Q, Liu J, Tan Q

“…This study was designed to investigate the prevalence and degree of corticosteroid phobia in IGM patients.Patients and Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among IGM patients who were receiving treatment at West China Hospital between June 2023 and December 2023. A modified version of Topical Corticosteroid Phobia Scale (TOPICOP) was used to assess the prevalence and degree of corticosteroid phobia in patients with IGM. …”
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Serum Alkaline Phosphatase in Free-Ranging Male Moose Alces alces (Linnaeus 1758) of Different Age Groups by Maria A. Perevozchikova, Igor A. Domsky, Yulia A. Berezina, Professor Zhitkov Russian Research Institute of Game Management and Fur Farming, Kirov, Russia, Alexandr V. Economov

“…The biomaterial sampling was carried out in October – December in the southern taiga subzone, Kirov Region. …”
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Association between non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies by Mengqi Han, Yue Shen, Xin Guo, Cheng Hong, Xincan Ji, Haoyang Guo, Yuelong Jin, Hui Yuan

“…The PubMed, EMBASE, Medline, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library databases were systematically searched to find articles on “non-HDL” and “T2D” from inception to December 6, 2023. A random-effects model was used to calculate the effect estimates and 95% confidence intervals. …”
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Instructional design of smart technology use in teacher digital educational environment by G. B. Sarzhanova, R. S. Bobesh, G. Zh. Smagulova, A. Turkel, N. B. Serikbayeva

“…During the experimental part of the study an online questionnaire survey on “Implementation of smart technologies in designing a teacher personal digital educational environment in the conditions of distance learning at a university” was conducted among 201 teachers of Karaganda Buketov University (Republic of Kazakhstan) and Dokuz Eylul University (Turkey) from 12 December 2022 to 30 April 2023.The aim of the experiment was to identify problems with the adaptation and implementation of smart technologies in designing a digital educational environment. …”
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Correlation between the Serum Platelet-Derived Growth Factor, Angiopoietin-1, and Severity of Coronary Heart Disease by Sisi Pang, Zhengxian Tao, Xiaoyan Min, Chuanwei Zhou, Dijia Pan, Zhen Cao, Xiangming Wang

“…A total of 81 patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing coronary angiography were enrolled from September 2012 to December 2013. Patients with ACS included 61 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI group) and 20 patients with unstable angina pectoris (UAP group). …”
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Efficacy of latissimus dorsi and teres major tendon transfer in anterosuperior irreparable rotator cuff tears and posterosuperior irreparable rotator cuff tears by Chang Hee Baek, Chaemoon Lim, Jung Gon Kim, Bo Taek Kim, Seung Jin Kim

“…Methods The patients who underwent anterior LDTM (aLDTM) transfer (aLDTM group, n = 35) for ASIRCTs or pLDTM transfer (aLDTM group, n = 33) for PSIRCTs between January 2017 and December 2020 were reviewed retrospectively. Clinical and functional outcomes were evaluated based on pain, patient-reported outcome scores, active range of motion (aROM) and strength of aROM. …”
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Development and validation of a nomogram for predicting cough variant asthma diagnosis by Jiao Min, Xiaomiao Tang, Di Zhang, Jin Yang, Fei Li, Wei Lei

“…Methods We conducted a retrospective review of clinical data from 241 outpatients with chronic cough (≥ 8 weeks) who underwent bronchial provocation test at our hospital between January 2018 and December 2021. Patients were categorized into CVA group and Non-CVA group based on diagnostic criteria. …”
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HIV viral load suppression rates among adults and children living with HIV in the North West Region of Cameroon: A call for action! by Gladys Fosah E Tayong, Melissa Sander, Comfort Vuchas, Moses Samje, Vera Kum, Pascal Enokbonong, Eugene Yeika, Ndanga Bekombo, Paul Nyibio, Vanessa B Ngwani, Justin Ndié, Njamnshi Wepnyu Yembe, Gloria Ashuntangtang

“…We systematically collected deidentified data on viral load test of all PLHIV with HIV viral load results in the Bamenda TB reference laboratory database for the period January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. Data was analyzed using Stata SE 14.2. …”
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Understanding and reducing delayed dental care for early childhood caries: a structural equation model approach by Mengmeng Wang, Yu Zhang, Xiaofei Li, Xin Liu

“…Methods Data were collected from young children who visited the department of stomatology at a tertiary hospital from January to December 2023. Data were collected via a general information survey questionnaire, the Scale of Oral Health Outcomes for 5-year-old Children (SOHO-5), the Children’s Fear Survey Schedule-Dental Subscale-Chinese (CFSS-DS-C), the Parental Caregiver Perceptions Questionnaire-8 (P-CPQ-8), the Family Impact Scale (FIS-8), and the Perceived Barriers to Health Care-Seeking Decision-Chinese (PBHSD-C). …”
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Attitudes of nurses toward telenursing and influencing factors in resource-limited settings: Northwest Ethiopia 2022 by Fikadu Wake Butta, Biniyam Chaklu Tilahun, Berhanu Fikadie Endehabtu, Adamu Ambachew Shibabaw, Alex Ayenew Chereka, Ayenew Sisay Gebeyew, Mekides Molla Reda, Gemeda Wakgari Kitil, Teshome Demis Nimani

“…The study took place from July 28 to December 19, 2022/23. Descriptive statistics, including tables and bar graphs, were utilized. …”
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Daily time series of 12 human thermal stress indices in Greece, aggregated at commune level (1998–2022)Zenodo by Georgios Charvalis, Michalis Koureas, Chloe Brimicombe, Chara Bogogiannidou, Fani Kalala, Varbara Mouchtouri, Christos Hadjichristodoulou

“…In this paper we present a dataset that contains daily mean, maximum and minimum values of 12 heat stress indices averaged over Greek communes from January 1998 to December 2022. The heat indices contained in the dataset include Apparent Temperature (AT), Heat Index (HI), Humidity Index (Humidex), Normal Effective Temperature (NET), Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (simple version WBGT), Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (thermofeelWBGT), Wet Bulb Temperature (WBT), Wind Chill Temperature (WCT), Mean Radiant Temperature (MRT), and Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) with two variations (UTCI indoor and UTCI outdoor).To develop the dataset, we used hourly climate variables, acquired from the ERA5 and ERA5-Land datasets, produced by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), which are accessible through the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS) Application Program Interface (API) client. …”
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A meta-analysis and systematic review of myocardial infarction-induced cardiomyocyte proliferation in adult mouse heart by Ya Liu, Lingyan Liu, Pengcheng Zhuang, Jiamin Zou, Xiaokang Chen, Hao Wu, Bingjun Lu, Wei Eric Wang

“…Methods A comprehensive literature search was conducted through PubMed/Medline, Embase, and Web of Science databases from 1 January 2000 to 21 December 2023. The SYRCLE’s Risk of Bias tool for animal experiments was used to evaluate the quality of the literature by two independent reviewers. …”
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Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance in Adult Hospitalized Patients With Cancer: A Multicenter Analysis by Vikas Gupta, Michael J. Satlin, Kalvin Yu, Yehoda M. Martei, Lillian Sung, Lars F. Westblade, Scott C. Howard, ChinEn Ai, Diane C. Flayhart

“…Methods This retrospective, cross‐sectional evaluation of AMR assessed hospitalized adult patients in 168 United States (US) healthcare facilities between April 2018 and December 2022. Nonduplicate, noncontaminant Gram‐negative and Gram‐positive bacteria recovered from various samples (blood, respiratory, urine, etc.) were used to assess the rate of AMR pathogens per 1000 admissions and the proportion of AMR among bacterial isolates in patients with and without cancer. …”
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Analysis of the Propagation Characteristics of Meteorological Drought to Hydrological Drought and Their Joint Effects on Low-Flow Drought Variability in the Oum Er Rbia Watershed,... by Ismaguil Hanadé Houmma, Abdessamad Hadri, Abdelghani Boudhar, Ismail Karaoui, Sabir Oussaoui, El Mahdi El Khalki, Abdelghani Chehbouni, Christophe Kinnard

“…The linear correlation between the annual rainfall deficit and the monthly groundwater storage index was the lowest (0.15) in December and the highest (0.83) in March. This suggests a seasonal response of groundwater drought to the cumulative effects of precipitation deficits. …”
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Elevated Platelet‐to‐Lymphocyte Ratio as a Predictor of All‐Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Hypertensive Individuals by Rui Xu, Ling Chen, Changshun Yan, Hong Xu, Guiqiu Cao

“…Mortality data, including all‐cause and cardiovascular deaths, were sourced from the National Death Index (NDI) up to December 31, 2019. The linkage between PLR and mortality risk was depicted using restricted cubic spline (RCS) models. …”
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Comparison of Atypical and Osteoporotic Femoral Shaft Fractures in the Elderly: A Multicenter Study by Takanori Miura, Hiroaki Kijima, Noriyuki Ishikawa, Toshihito Ebina, Takayuki Tani, Shuichi Chida, Tetsuya Suzuki, Satoshi Yumto, Hiroshi Tazawa, Naohisa Miyakoshi, Yoichi Shimada

“…We searched the medical records of 3 institutions in Japan for patients with femoral shaft fractures who visited between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2015. We identified 65 patients and excluded 37 among these due to high-energy injuries or being younger than 65 years. …”
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Regional Ionospheric Parameter Estimation by Assimilating the LSTM Trained Results Into the SAMI2 Model by Jeong‐Heon Kim, Young‐Sil Kwak, Yong Ha Kim, Su‐In Moon, Se‐Heon Jeong, Jong Yeon Yun

“…The NN model was constructed from the data set of Jeju ionosonde (33.43°N, 126.30°E) for the period of 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2015 by using the long‐short term memory (LSTM) algorithm. …”
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Impacts of National Reimbursement Drug Price Negotiation on drug accessibility, utilization, and cost in China: a systematic review by Zheng Zhu, Jiawei Zhang, Zhihu Xu, Quan Wang, Yu Qi, Li Yang

“…Methods We searched the electronic databases PubMed (which includes MEDLINE), Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang, and VIP for all associated studies published in English or Chinese between January 2016 and December 2023. One of the following outcomes had to be reported: drug price, availability, affordability, utilization, cost, or health outcomes. …”
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Suitability of Measures of Pharmacy-Based Medication Adherence for Routine Clinical Use Among Patients with Chronic Diseases: A Systematic Review by Jannah W, Khoiry QA, Alfian SD, Abdulah R

“…Raya Jatinangor, KM 21, Jatinangor, Sumedang, Indonesia, Tel/Fax +62-022-7796200, Email sofa.alfian@unpad.ac.idPurpose: To identify the suitability of pharmacy-based measures for determining medication adherence in routine clinical use.Methods: Data were obtained through PubMed and Scopus databases up to December 2023 without publication year restrictions. …”
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