Visceral Adipose Tissue Influence on Health Problem Development and Its Relationship with Serum Biochemical Parameters in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Literature Review by Vanessa C. Moreira, Calliandra M. S. Silva, Alexis F. Welker, Izabel C. R. da Silva

“…The amount of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) tends to increase with age and is associated with several health problems, such as cardiometabolic diseases, increased infections, and overall mortality. Objectives. This review provides a general assessment of how visceral adiposity correlates with the development of health problems and changes in serum biochemical parameters in middle-aged and older adults. …”
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More than Just Pneumonia: Acute Pulmonary Embolism in Two Middle-Aged Patients with COVID-19 by Jahinover Mazo, Sukhdev Singh, Zohaib Khan, Allison Foster, Ecaterina Komarnitsky, Abhiram Nagaraj, Soham Patel, Vinaya Kikkeri

“…In particular, there are increasingly reported cases of thromboembolic events occurring in infected patients. Case Report. In this report, we present two patients, both under the age of 40 with known risk factors for venous thromboembolism, who presented with respiratory distress. …”
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Metabolic engineering approaches for the biosynthesis of antibiotics by Geunsoo Yook, Jiwoo Nam, Yeonseo Jo, Hyunji Yoon, Dongsoo Yang

“…However, we are currently witnessing a significant rise in the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, making these infections increasingly difficult to treat in hospitals. …”
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Fundamentals of a program for grief counseling and facing with post-Covid-19 losses by Jaqueline García Rodríguez, Silvia Colunga Santos, Soledad Yanedy García Peláez

“…The terms: grief, university, coronavirus infections and counseling were introduced as descriptors. …”
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Minimizing Hemodialysis Catheter Dysfunction: An Ounce of Prevention by Timmy Lee, Charmaine Lok, Miguel Vazquez, Louise Moist, Ivan Maya, Michele Mokrzycki

“…More recently, alternative catheter locking agents have emerged, and in some cases have shown to be superior to heparin lock with respect to improving TC patency and reducing TC-associated infections. These include citrate, tissue plasminogen activator, and a novel agent containing sodium citrate, methylene blue, methylparaben, and propylparaben. …”
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Self-Management for People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Fred Saibil, Emily Lai, Andrew Hayward, Jeanne Yip, Cameron Gilbert

“…Conditions such as diabetes, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, recurrent urinary tract infections and others lend themselves to this paradigm of medical care for the informed patient. …”
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BCG-Induced Trained Immunity in Healthy Individuals: The Effect of Plasma Muramyl Dipeptide Concentrations by Vera P. Mourits, Valerie A. C. M. Koeken, L. Charlotte J. de Bree, Simone J. C. F. M. Moorlag, Wern Cui Chu, Xiaoli Xu, Helga Dijkstra, Heidi Lemmers, Leo A. B. Joosten, Yue Wang, Reinout van Crevel, Mihai G. Netea

“…BCG vaccination protects not only against tuberculosis but also against heterologous infections. This effect differs between individuals, yet the factors responsible for this variation are unknown. …”
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Glutamate enhances shrimp antibacterial ability by boosting its cellular immunity by Lei Ma, Wenyong Jiang, Zhiyao Lu, Yanmei Tong, Qingyun Liu, Zhonghua He, Xiuli Chen, Yongzhen Zhao, Fan Wang

“…Moreover, feeding experiments combined with differential transcriptome analysis revealed that shrimp fed a diet supplemented with 0.25 % glutamate exhibited enhanced resistance to Vibrio infections, likely through the upregulation of immune-related genes. …”
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Innovative nanoparticle-based approaches for modulating neutrophil extracellular traps in diseases: from mechanisms to therapeutics by Haisong Li, Can Li, Cong Fu, Yizhuo Wang, Tingting Liang, Haitao Wu, Chenxi Wu, Chang Wang, Tianmeng Sun, Shuhan Liu

“…Abstract Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) participate in both host defense and the pathogenesis of various diseases, such as infections, thrombosis, and tumors. While they help capture and eliminate pathogens, NETs’ excessive or dysregulated formation can lead to tissue damage and disease progression. …”
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Risk Factors Causing Preterm Labor by Evren Kurtul Çam, Nejat Demircan, Ülkü Özmen Bayar, Füruzan Köktürk, İlker İnan Arıkan

“…CONCLUSIONS: Conditions related to low socio-cultural level, high blood pressure, stress, multiple pregnancies, therapeutic pregnancies, vaginal infections, presence of a chronic disease, or severe anemia led us to suspect about preterm labor; risk factors should be eliminated by intensive monitoring of these pregnant women. …”
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Understanding and promoting equitable post-discharge care in firearm injury survivors: a retrospective chart review by Claire L. Jacobson, Rehan Choudhury, Allison Broad, Anna M. Maw, Chelsea Wolf, Brian Adams, Anne Drabkin

“…Additionally, many repeat emergency department visits were potentially avoidable, stemming primarily from insufficient pain control, wound checks, postoperative complications, and infections. The authors proposed potential interventions to improve post-firearm injury care, including the provision of wound care kits and the optimization of the discharge medication pick-up process.…”
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Custom YOLO Object Detection Model for COVID-19 Diagnosis by Noor Najah Ali, Aseel Hameed, Asanka G. Perera, Ali Al_Naji

“…To examine the training performance of the contemporary YOLOv4 model, this work presents the development of a computer-assisted automatic detection system that focuses specifically on identifying viral cells in blood samples from patients using electron microscopy images to detect the infected blood cell. The mean average precision of the proposed custom model is 86.5%mAP, making it suitable for the upcoming COVID-19 monitoring systems. …”
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Recent advances in the biosynthesis of polysaccharide-based antimicrobial glycoconjugate vaccines by Yuhui Wang, Yuhui Wang, Yuhui Wang, Yuhui Wang, Haodi Liu, Haodi Liu, Haodi Liu, Haodi Liu, Baoying Wang, Baoying Wang, Baoying Wang, Baoying Wang, Gülzire Gheyret, Jingliang Qin, Hanlin Wang, Hanlin Wang, Hanlin Wang, Hanlin Wang, Yuhan Di, Yuhan Di, Yuhan Di, Yuhan Di, Yanling Wang, Juan Wang, Haining Tan, Haining Tan, Haining Tan, Haining Tan

“…Glycoconjugate vaccines are a vital category of effective and safe commercial vaccines that have significantly reduced the global prevalence of drug-resistant bacterial infections. These vaccines are synthesized by covalently linking bacterial polysaccharide antigens to a carrier protein. …”
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Free versus pedicled flaps for reconstruction of head and neck cancer defects: a systematic review by Fanny Gabrysz-Forget, Paul Tabet, Akram Rahal, Eric Bissada, Apostolos Christopoulos, Tareck Ayad

“…FF are associated with fewer infections and necrosis compared to the pectoralis major myocutaneous flap (PMMF). …”
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AI Methods for Antimicrobial Peptides: Progress and Challenges by Carlos A. Brizuela, Gary Liu, Jonathan M. Stokes, Cesar de laFuente‐Nunez

“…AI approaches have recently revolutionised this field by accelerating the discovery of new peptides with anti‐infective activity, particularly in preclinical mouse models. …”
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Compartmental Models Driven by Renewal Processes: Survival Analysis and Applications to SVIS Epidemic Models by Divine Wanduku, Md Mahmud Hasan

“…Applications are provided for the SVIS (Susceptible-Vaccinated-Infected-Susceptible) disease epidemic model to investigate the impacts of hazard rate functions (HRFs) on disease control. …”
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Evaluation of vaccination strategies during pandemic outbreaks by Christopher S. Bowman, Julien Arino, S.M. Moghadas

“…The results show that, if vaccination starts early enough after the onset of the outbreak, a two-dose strategy can lead to a greater reduction in the total number of infections. This, however, requires the second dose of vaccine to confer a substantially higher protection compared to that induced by the first dose. …”
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Endothelial-Leukocyte Interaction in Severe Malaria: Beyond the Brain by Mariana C. Souza, Tatiana A. Padua, Maria G. Henriques

“…The most severe and most studied form of malaria is associated with cerebral complications due to capillary congestion and the adhesion of infected erythrocytes, platelets, and leukocytes to brain vasculature. …”
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Classification and Analysis of <em>Agaricus bisporus</em> Diseases with Pre-Trained Deep Learning Models by Umit Albayrak, Adem Golcuk, Sinan Aktas, Ugur Coruh, Sakir Tasdemir, Omer Kaan Baykan

“…This research evaluates 20 advanced convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures for classifying mushroom diseases in <i>Agaricus bisporus</i>, utilizing a custom dataset of 3195 images (2464 infected and 731 healthy mushrooms) captured under uniform white-light conditions. …”
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Automatic Calculation of Cardiometric Coefficients on Chest X-Ray Images by Alexey Kornaev, Dmitry Lvov, Ilya Pershin, Semen Kiselev, Danil Afonchikov, Iskander Bariev, Bulat Ibragimov

“…Chest radiography is an indispensable diagnostic method for detecting a variety of medical conditions, such as infections, tumors, injuries, etc. Millions of chest X-ray examinations are conducted annually, providing crucial information about the functioning of the respiratory and circulatory systems. …”
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