Prevalence of HDV, HCV, and HIV Infection in the Population of Patients Infected with HBV in a Romanian Cohort by Antoanela Curici, Olivia Mioara Ilie, Dana Elena Mindru

“…The findings from our study highlight the need for targeted interventions, particularly for high-risk groups such as older adults and middle-aged individuals, to reduce the burden of chronic HBV and its complications.…”
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Exposure to Chinese famine in early life and the risk of multimorbidity in adulthood by Jiahui Zhang, Le Zhang, Wenyan Wu, Xiaowei Zheng

“…In current study, we aimed to evaluate the associations between famine exposure on multimorbidity prevalence and incidence in middle-aged and older Chinese population. Methods A total of 13,254 participants from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2011 were included in cross-sectional analyses. 5,780 participants were including in longitudinal analyses and were followed up in 2020. …”
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The Old Woman’s Farcical Rejuvenation in The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore (1897) by Somi Ahn

“…Charlotte O’Conor Eccles’s The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore (1897) is a comedic New Woman narrative in which a lonely, middle-aged, single woman gets rejuvenated after drinking an elixir. …”
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Barriers to leisure-time physical activity in adults living in a low socioeconomic area of the Brazilian Southeast by Michele Santos Cruz, Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia, Douglas Roque Andrade, Alex Antonio Florindo

“…The vulnerable groups to lack of time were people married, young and middle aged, and with longer labor journey. Health problems were related by people with hypertension, diabetes, heart diseases, elderly, with low education and who did not have labor activities. …”
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Exploring the enigma of low prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder in India by Ateev S. Chandna, Satish Suhas, Rahul Patley, Damodharan Dinakaran, Narayana Manjunatha, Girish N. Rao, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Mathew Varghese, Vivek Benegal, NMHS National Collaborators Group

“…Factors associated with PTSD included female gender, middle age (40-49 years), and urban residence. The study also highlighted a high rate of comorbid mood and anxiety disorders, substantial disability, poor treatment-seeking behavior, and significant suicidal risk among individuals with PTSD. …”
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A Case Study on Strategic Multi-Objective Optimization of Influenza Vaccine Allocation: Age-Specific Approaches in Saudi Arabia by Asma K. Alkhamis, Manar I. Hosny

“…The research divides the population into five age categories—infants and children, adolescents, young adults, middle-aged adults, and seniors—across five regions: Eastern, Central, Northern, Western, and Southern Saudi Arabia. …”
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Folie à Deux in the Setting of COVID-19 Quarantine by Maxsaya Baez Nuñez, Ezequiel Rodriguez, Matthew DeLuca, Krishan Chirimunj, Monica Dhingra

“…We relay the case of a middle-aged male and his mother, an elderly female, who presented with folie à deux in the context of shared delusions of persecution and somatization during the COVID-19 quarantine period. …”
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The Effects of Six Weeks of Patella Taping on Function, Proprioception, and Balance in Women with Knee Osteoarthritis by Maryam Alikhani, Hamid Tabatabai

“…Methods This applied, semi-experimental study involved middle-aged women aged 30 to 50 years. Using convenience sampling, 30 women with knee osteoarthritis from an orthopedic clinic in Tehran were selected. …”
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Effect of traditional Chinese exercise on abnormal lipid metabolism in patients with atherosclerosis: a protocol for meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials by Chen Wang, Peizhen Zhang, Yuting Yang

“…However, these studies focused only on middle-aged and older populations over 50 years of age and had short intervention periods, poor quality control and patient compliance, and no stratification by age and gender to observe the effects of traditional Chinese exercise (TCE) on patients with AS. …”
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Association between sanitary toilets and health poverty vulnerability among rural western Chinese adults aged 45 years and older: A cross-sectional study. by Ximin Ma, Qi Hu, Jiahui He, Chunsheng Li, Kexin Chen, Wenlong Wang, Hui Qiao

“…The provision of sanitary toilets has been instrumental in mitigating health-related poverty among middle-aged and elderly people residing in rural areas. …”
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The Effect of Six Weeks of Patella Taping on Pain in Women with Knee Osteoarthritis by Maryam Alikhani, Hamid Tabatabai

“…The study population consisted of middle-aged women aged 30 to 50 years. Using convenience sampling, 30 women with knee osteoarthritis, referred to an orthopedic clinic in Tehran, were selected as the study sample. …”
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Quand l’écran masque l’expérience des opérateurs vieillissants : changement de logiciel et activité de travail dans un organisme de services by Corinne Gaudart

“…It analyses the process of introduction of a new software, in a French firm from the service industries where many middle-aged white collars are being employed. Which type of work strategies, linked to their professional experience, had these employees implemented with the former software ? …”
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Service users’ perception and attitude toward telemedicine-based treatment for substance use disorders: A qualitative study from India by Abhishek Ghosh, Tathagata Mahintamani, P. V. Aswathy, Debasish Basu, Surendra K. Mattoo, B. N. Subodh, Renjith R. Pillai, Manpreet Kaur

“…Results: Most participants were middle-aged men (40.5 years, 86.7%), dependent on two or more substances (86.7%), and had a history of chronic, heavy substance use (use ~16 years, dependence ~11.5 years). …”
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Elusive Gains of Cognitive Training: Limited Effects on Neural Activity Across Sessions by Luka Juras, Andrea Vranic, Ivana Hromatko

“…Methods: A group of 20 middle-aged participants completed 20 training sessions over 10 weeks. …”
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A Synthetic Voice for an Assistive Conversational Agent: A Survey to Discover Italian Preferences regarding Synthetic Voice’s Gender and Quality Level by Marialucia Cuciniello, Terry Amorese, Claudia Greco, Zoraida Callejas Carrión, Carl Vogel, Gennaro Cordasco, Anna Esposito

“…The voices administered to participants were developed considering two main aspects: the voice quality (high/low) and their gender (male/female). 182 unpaid participants were recruited for the study, divided in four groups according to their age, and therefore classified as adolescents, young adults, middle-aged, and seniors. To collect data regarding each voice, randomly audited by participants, the shortened version of the Virtual Agent Voice Acceptance Questionnaire (VAVAQ) was exploited. …”
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Family Profile of Substance Addicted Individuals by Fatmanur Alsancak, Hülya Yıldız, Hüseyin Zahid Kara, Hasan Hüseyin Taylan, Yusuf Genç

“…According to the findings obtained from the research, it was observed that the economic level of the families of substance addicted individuals was at the lower-middle income level, they did not have regular income, they were the middle-aged, there was no one in the family who had used drugs before, and family relationships and communication were positive. …”
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Functional Change in the Caudal Pontine Reticular Nucleus Induced by Age-Related Hearing Loss by Ning Zhao, Ana’am Alkharabsheh, Fei Xu, Wei Sun

“…Increased acoustic startle responses (ASR), which represent reduced uncomfortable loudness level in humans, have been reported in middle-aged C57BL/6J mice with sensorineural hearing loss. …”
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The Effect of P-Cymene on Glucose, Insulin, Antioxidant Power, and the Level of AKT Gene mRNA in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetes Model in Male Wistar Rats by Maryam Arabloei Sani, Zahra Hajebrahimi, Parichehreh Yaghmaei, Nasim Hayati Roodbari

“…Background and Aim: Diabetes is a main metabolic disorder in middle-aged and older people. Oxidative stress can interfere with insulin signaling and are directly relevant to the incidence of diabetes. …”
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Female Farmers’ Agricultural Information Needs and Food Production: A Case Study of Imbulpe ds Division in Sri Lanka by S.D. Dilini Rathnachandra, S.H. Pushpa Malkanthi

“…The result revealed that the majority (62.6%) of respondents were middle aged (40-59 years), married, and belonged to families with 4-5 members. …”
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Epidemiological Profile of Hearing Deficiency in a Tertiary Care Hospital (2019-2022) by Indranil Sen, Anup Kumar Das, Arijit Das

“…Mild hearing loss (25-40dB) accounted for maximum bulk of the patients.The bulk of the population comprised of people in their middle age (30-60) and elderly (>60 years).   …”
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