Diagnostic value of dual-layer spectral detector CT parameters for differentiating high- from low-grade bladder cancer by Li Chen, Lili Xu, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Jiahui Zhang, Xin Bai, Qianyu Peng, Erjia Guo, Xiaomei Lu, Shenghui Yu, Zhengyu Jin, Gumuyang Zhang, Yi Xie, Huadan Xue, Hao Sun

“…Results The study included 64 patients (mean age, 64 ± 11.0 years; 46 men), of whom 42 had high-grade BCa and 22 had low-grade BCa. …”
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Gambaran Profil Lipid pada Pasien Sindrom Koroner Akut di Rumah Sakit Khusus Jantung Sumatera Barat Tahun 2011-2012 by Fitri Zahara, Masrul Syafri, Eti Yerizel

“…Research shows that the number of ACS patients who have a high level of total cholesterol are less than normal, low levels of HDL cholesterol are more than normal, high level of LDL cholesterol are less than normal, high level of triglyceride are less than normal, most incidens of ACS is STEMI then NSTEMI and the lowest is unstable angina pectoris, most age of ACS patients are 40-59 years, and most of gender are men.<br />Keywords:acute myocardial infarction, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglyceride</p>…”
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Guidance for the gastrointestinal evaluation and management of iron deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa by W M Simmonds, Y Awuku, C Barrett, M Brand, K Davidson, D Epstein, E Fredericks, S Gabriel, S Grobler, C Gounden, L Katsidzira, V J Louw, V Naidoo, C Noel, E Ogutu, N Ramonate, N Seabi, M Setshedi, J Van Zyl, G Watermeyer, C Kassianides

“…As iron deficiency (ID) anaemia in men and post-menopausal women is mostly caused by gastrointestinal blood loss or malabsorption, the initial evaluation of a patient with ID anaemia involves referral to a gastroenterologist. …”
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Combined Age with Mean Decrease Rates of Total Bilirubin and MELD Score as a Novel and Simple Clinical Predictor on 90-Day Transplant-Free Mortality in Adult Patients with Acute Li... by Di Jin, Kai Kang, Bing-zhu Yan, Jian-nan Zhang, Jun-bo Zheng, Zhi-hui Wang, Di Wu, Yu-jia Tang, Xin-tong Wang, Qi-qi Lai, Yang Cao, Hong-liang Wang, Yang Gao

“…Most of the enrolled adult patients with ALF were men (76.71%, 56/73), with a median age of 48.77 years. …”
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Edible mushrooms as a potent therapeutics of subclinical thyroid dysfunction among adults, especially in obese individuals: a prospective cohort study by Juanjuan Zhang, Sabina Rayamajhi, Amrish Thapa, Ge Meng, Qing Zhang, Li Liu, Hongmei Wu, Yeqing Gu, Shunming Zhang, Tingjing Zhang, Xuena Wang, Zhixia Cao, Jun Dong, Xiaoxi Zheng, Xu Zhang, Xinrong Dong, Xing Wang, Shaomei Sun, Ming Zhou, Qiyu Jia, Kun Song, Kaijun Niu

“…Methods: This prospective cohort study investigated 6631 participants (mean age: (45.0 ± 10.2) years; 55.1 % men). Edible mushrooms consumption was measured at baseline using a validated food frequency questionnaire. …”
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Brief Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Women With Myocardial Infarction by Tanya M. Spruill, PhD, Chorong Park, PhD, RN, Jolaade Kalinowski, EdD, Milla E. Arabadjian, PhD, RN, Yuhe Xia, MSc, Amanda J. Shallcross, ND, MPH, Pallavi Visvanathan, PhD, Nathaniel R. Smilowitz, MD, MS, Anaïs Hausvater, MD, Sripal Bangalore, MD, MHA, Hua Zhong, PhD, Ki Park, MD, Puja K. Mehta, MD, Dwithiya K. Thomas, MD, Jeffrey Trost, MD, Kevin R. Bainey, MD, Bobak Heydari, MD, Janet Wei, MD, Victoria Vaughan Dickson, PhD, RN, Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH, Jeffrey S. Berger, MD, MS, Judith S. Hochman, MD, Harmony R. Reynolds, MD

“…Background: Elevated perceived stress is associated with adverse outcomes following myocardial infarction (MI) and may account for poorer recovery among women vs men. Objectives: This randomized controlled trial tested effects of a mindfulness-based intervention on stress levels among women with MI. …”
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Development and validation of a machine learning-based model to predict survival in patients with cirrhosis after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shuntResearch in context by Binlin Da, Huan Chen, Wei Wu, Wuhua Guo, Anru Zhou, Qin Yin, Jun Gao, Junhui Chen, Jiangqiang Xiao, Lei Wang, Ming Zhang, Yuzheng Zhuge, Feng Zhang

“…Findings: A total of 400 patients in our cohort were included (median age and interquartile range, 59 (50, 66); 240 men). Two hundred and eighty patients made up the training set and 120 were in the testing set, and 346 patients were included in the external validation cohort. …”
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Understanding limb necrotizing infections: A comprehensive approach by A. Garrido-Hidalgo, J. García-Coiradas, M. Echevarría-Marín, S. Llanos, J.A. Valle-Cruz, F. Marco

“…Results: Twenty-two patients (16 men, 6 women, mean age 54.8) were included. Median time from symptom onset to emergency room visit was 3.5 days. …”
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[Artículo traducido] Infecciones necrosantes de partes blandas: aproximación diagnóstico-terapéutica by A. Garrido-Hidalgo, J. García-Coiradas, M. Echevarría-Marín, S. Llanos, J.A. Valle-Cruz, F. Marco

“…Results: Twenty-two patients (16 men, 6 women, mean age 54.8) were included. Median time from symptom onset to emergency room visit was 3.5 days. …”
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Comparison of dark-field chest radiography and CT for the assessment of COVID-19 pneumonia by Florian T. Gassert, Henriette Bast, Henriette Bast, Henriette Bast, Theresa Urban, Theresa Urban, Theresa Urban, Manuela Frank, Manuela Frank, Felix G. Gassert, Konstantin Willer, Konstantin Willer, Rafael C. Schick, Rafael C. Schick, Bernhard Renger, Thomas Koehler, Thomas Koehler, Alexandra Karrer, Andreas P. Sauter, Alexander A. Fingerle, Marcus R. Makowski, Franz Pfeiffer, Franz Pfeiffer, Franz Pfeiffer, Franz Pfeiffer, Daniela Pfeiffer, Daniela Pfeiffer

“…Using Spearman's correlation coefficient, correlation was tested between dark-field coefficient and CT-based COVID-19 index and visual total CT score as well as between the visual total dark-field score and the visual total CT score.ResultsA total of 98 participants [mean age 58 ± 14 (standard deviation) years; 59 men] were studied. The areas of signal intensity reduction observed in dark-field images showed a strong correlation with infiltrates identified on CT scans. …”
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Chinese herbal formula Tongxie Yaofang granules for diarrhoea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase II trial by Nicola Robinson, Mei Han, Ling Yan, Vincent Chi Ho Chung, Jian-Ping Liu, Hui-Juan Cao, Shi-Bing Liang, Hong-Jie Cheng, Qiao-Yan Zhang, Yu-Fei Li, Ze-Yu Yu, Ling-Yao Kong, Yan-Mei Cai, Li-Bao An, Bao-Tuan Zhao, Shan-Shan Xu, Nai-Wei Zhang, Bo-Yi Jia, Wei-Fang Liu, Fang Niu, Ba-Teer Wu, Jin-Ming Song, Shu-Xin Jia, Meng-Meng Shi, Xiao-Na Zhang

“…We hypothesised that TXYF would improve clinical responses among patients with IBS-D.Design A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase II, superiority trial.Setting Outpatients attending the Fangshan Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.Participants 96 eligible participants included men and women ranging from late adolescence to middle adulthood (18–65 years), diagnosed with IBS-D according to the Rome IV criteria. …”
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MVP Risk score y nuevo diagnóstico de fibrilación auricular: estudio de cohorte prospectivo PREFATE by Josep L. Clua-Espuny, Delicia Gentille-Lorente, Alba Hernández-Pinilla, Eva Maria Satué-Gracia, Meritxell Pallejà-Millán, Francisco M. Martín-Luján

“…Results: The diagnosis of AF was confirmed in 14 cases (9.3%, 95% CI 5.6-15.1), 3 men and 11 women. In 3 cases, the arrhythmia was diagnosed on the baseline ECG, and in 11 cases by Holter after being reported as possible AF by the FibricheckR App. …”
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Retrospective, Non-Interventional, Multicenter Study on the Effectiveness and Safety of Intravesical Bacillus Calmette–Guerin in Patients with Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: R... by Panagiotis Angelopoulos, Titos Markopoulos, Lazaros Lazarou, Andreas Skolarikos, Panagiotis Stamatakos, Georgios I. Papadopoulos, Charalampos Fragkoulis, Konstantinos Ntoumas, Napoleon Moulavasilis, Panagiotis Levis, Dimitrios Papanikolaou, Ioannis Sokolakis, Konstantinos Hatzimouratidis, Charalampos Tzanetakos, Marina Psarra, George Mavridoglou, Konstantinos Skriapas, Dimitra Akrivou, Dimitrios Karagiannis, Christos Noutsos, Andreas Georgiou, Konstantinos Hastazeris, George Gourzoulidis, Dionysios Mitropoulos

“…Among all patients, 145 (89.5%) patients were men, 88 (54.3%) aged 70 years or older, 103 (63.6%) had T1, 43 (26.5%) Ta, and 21 (12.9%) concurrent CIS. …”
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Local factors determining the response to antiangiogenic therapy with first-line drugs in macular neovascularization by V.G. Likhvantseva, S.G. Kapkova, E.B. Tretyak, S.I. Rychkova, A.S. Gevorkyan, T.E. Borisenko

“…</p> <p> <b>Patients and Methods: </b>this retrospective cohort study included 84 patients (29 men, 55 women; 92 eyes) with newly diagnosed MNV and signs of disease activity. …”
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Dynamic Challenges of Active Tuberculosis: Prevalence and Risk Factors of Co-Infection in Clinical and Microbiological Characteristics at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah... by Mokhtar JA, Attallah DM, Jiman-Fatani AA, Al-Rabia MW, Alqarni MA, Saleh BH, Amboon MM, Altorki TA, Alkuwaity KK, Abujamel T, Kaki R, Albarakati TN, Daghistani H, Ismail MA, Alharbi O, Abu ITM, Alfadil A, Ibrahem K, Mufrrih M, Sait AM

“…The results were presented using beta coefficients (B) to quantify the relationship between predictors and the outcome, along with the adjusted odds ratio (AOR) to provide an interpretable measure of the strength of these associations.Results: Of the 131 TB patients involved in this paper, a higher incidence of pulmonary TB was observed among men under 30 years old. This group also showed a higher mortality rate due to comorbidities such as renal failure, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and autoimmune disease. …”
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Association of Total Mortality and Cardiovascular Endpoints With the Timing of the First and Second Systolic Peak of the Aortic Pulse Wave by Yi‐Bang Cheng, De‐Wei An, Lucas S. Aparicio, Qi‐Fang Huang, Yu‐Ling Yu, Chang‐Sheng Sheng, Teemu J. Niiranen, Fang‐Fei Wei, José Boggia, Katarzyna Stolarz‐Skrzypek, Natasza Gilis‐Malinowska, Valérie Tikhonoff, Wiktoria Wojciechowska, Edoardo Casiglia, Krzysztof Narkiewicz, Wen‐Yi Yang, Jan Filipovský, Kalina Kawecka‐Jaszcz, Ji‐Guang Wang, Tim S. Nawrot, Yan Li, Jan A. Staessen, the International Database of Central Arterial Properties for Risk Stratification (IDCARS) Investigators

“…The HRs relating total mortality to TP2 were smaller (p ≤ 0.026) in women than men (0.67 vs. 0.95) and in older (≥ 60 years) versus younger (< 60 years) participants (0.80 vs. 0.88). …”
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Chronic Airflow Limitation, Lower Respiratory Symptoms, COPD and Chronic Rhinosinusitis in a Middle-Aged Population: The Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS). A Link Bet... by Andersson A, Bergqvist J, Schiöler L, Bossios A, Farnebo L, Holmlund T, Janson C, Keceli S, Ljunggren M, Malinovschi A, Memarian E, Nihlén U, Nilsson PM, Pesonen I, Sjöström M, Stenfors N, Sundbom F, Werner M, Torén K, Sköld M, Hellgren J

“…In the adjusted regression model, CRS was significantly associated with CAL (OR 1.40), lower airway symptoms (OR 4.59), chronic bronchitis (OR 6.48), asthma (OR 3.08), and COPD (OR 3.10).Conclusion: In this national, randomly chosen population sample of more than 30,000 middle-aged men and women, CRS is associated with CAL, lower airway symptoms, chronic bronchitis, asthma, and COPD. …”
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Using multiomic integration to improve blood biomarkers of major depressive disorder: a case-control studyResearch in context by Amazigh Mokhtari, El Chérif Ibrahim, Arnaud Gloaguen, Claire-Cécile Barrot, David Cohen, Margot Derouin, Hortense Vachon, Guillaume Charbonnier, Béatrice Loriod, Charles Decraene, Ipek Yalcin, Cynthia Marie-Claire, Bruno Etain, Raoul Belzeaux, Andrée Delahaye-Duriez, Pierre-Eric Lutz

“…Summary: Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a leading cause of disability, with a twofold increase in prevalence in women compared to men. Over the last few years, identifying molecular biomarkers of MDD has proven challenging, reflecting interactions among multiple environmental and genetic factors. …”
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STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STATE OF THE MYOCARDIUM AND SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION ACTIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE ST-SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN THE PRESENCE OF ARTERIAL H... by Rostyslav Kovalchuk, Uliana Bahan

“…The study included 68 patients with STEMI aged 45 to 83 years (mean age 63,80±9,30 years) who underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention with stenting of the infarcted coronary artery within 24 hours of the onset of clinical manifestations. The proportion of men was 71,43 (60,36-81,33) %, women - 28,57 (18,67-39,64) %. …”
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Características clínicas y tratamiento farmacológico de los pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca en una cohorte de atención primaria by Maria Giner-Sorian, Ramon Monfà, Roser Vives, Silvia Fernández-García, Antoni Vallano, Rosa Morros

“…The HfrEF group consisted mostly of men (59.5%), with a mean age of 74.8 years, and the others of women (58.8% and 54.6%, aged 78.7 and 80.6 years, respectively). …”
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