Clinical perspective on antihypertensive drug treatment in adults with grade 1 hypertension and low to moderate cardiovascular risk: an international expert consultation by Alberto Morales Salinas

“…Una pregunta en debate es si la hipertensión arterial grado 1 (140-159/90-99 mm Hg) con riesgo cardiovascular (RCV) total bajo (mortalidad cardiovascular <1% a los 10 años) a moderado (mortalidad cardiovascular >1% and <5% a los 10 años) debe ser tratada con agentes antihipertensivos. …”
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Evaluation of a mentorship matchmaking event at an academic research institution to reinforce the scientific workforce pathway for underrepresented minority groups by Sirena Gutierrez, Jennifer A. Seuferer, Angel-Max Guerrero, Yazmin Carrasco, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Tung Nguyen, Leticia Márquez-Magaña, Todd Nystul, Meghan D. Morris

“…Results Out of 314 mentors contacted and 99 registered trainees, 113 mentors and 92 trainees participated. …”
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Wood Ash Liquid Fertilizer as Sustainable Soil Nutritional Supplement Modulates Changes on Growth and Fruits Nutritional Compositions of Capsicum frutescens L. by Racheal Tope-akinyetun, Zainab Mustapha, Musa Hussaini, Temitayo Kelani, Anthony Ojewumi

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Examining the impact of probiotic Lactiplantibacillus pentosus 6MMI on inhibiting biofilm formation, adhesion, and virulence gene expression in Listeria monocytogenes ATCC 19115 by Behrooz Alizadeh Behbahani, Mostafa Rahmati-Joneidabad, Morteza Taki

“…In the next step of the study, the Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) model accurately predicted bile tolerance and acid parameters with a high R2 of 0.99 and minimal Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) values of 0.33 % and 0.21 %, respectively. …”
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Prepregnancy Depression and Breastfeeding Duration: A Look at Maternal Age by Jordyn T. Wallenborn, Anny-Claude Joseph, Whitney C. Graves, Saba W. Masho

“…Notably, among women aged 25-29 with prepregnancy depression, the odds of never breastfeeding and breastfeeding 8 weeks or less were 93% (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 1.93, 95% CI =1.57-2.37) and 65% (AOR = 1.65, 95% CI = 1.37-1.99) higher compared to women with no history of prepregnancy depression, respectively. …”
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A Retrospective Analysis of Thromboembolic Phenomena in Mechanically Ventilated Patients with COVID-19 by Fahad Faqihi, Abdulrahman Alharthy, Abdullah Balhamar, Nasir Nasim, Khaled Alanezi, Feisal Alaklobi, Ziad A. Memish, Mike Blaivas, Saleh A. Alqahtani, Dimitrios Karakitsos

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‘That’s Enough’ - Workplace Violence Against Physicians, Pharmacists, and Nurses in Saudi Arabia: A Systematic Review of Prevalence, Causes, and Consequences by Alhomoud F

“…Perpetrators were predominantly male, with patients (7.1– 99.3%) and their relatives or friends (6.6– 91%) as the primary sources. …”
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Diversity of high-molecular-weight glutenin subunits and evaluation of genetic similarities in spring bread wheats from different breeding centers by M. U. Utebayev, N. A. Bome, E. C. Zemtsova, O. O. Kradetskaya, I. V. Chilimova

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Gambaran Status Gizi Anak Talasemia β Mayor di RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Dona Mirsa Putri, Fadil Oenzil, Efrida

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The Effect of Hydroquinone Extracted from Sonneratia caseolaris Fruit on the Hemolymph of Tiger Prawn, Penaeus monodon Fab., Infected by Vibrio harveyi by . Arifuddin, . Sukenda, D. Dana

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表观弥散系数对磁共振引导聚焦超声术治疗子宫肌瘤效果的评估 by 曾雪伟, 周守国, 黄耀渠, 王梓华, 何亚男, 黄华仪, 王娟

“…结果56例患者治疗前及治疗3个月后、6个月后病灶ADC值［（1.11±0.13）、（1.84±0.09）、（2.12±0.24），×10^-3/（mm²/s）］、肌瘤体积（102±35.30、56.70±18.88、46.93±18.99，cm³），SSS（36.73±11.74、21.77±10.21、17.66±9.30）和UFS-QOL（59.05±17.48、76.54±16.50、82.46±12.37）评分差异有统计学意义（<italic>F</italic>值分别为557.837，73.589，53.976和37.606，<italic>P</italic>值均＜0.05）。…”
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Generalised anxiety disorder and its determinants amongst patients with diabetes in primary healthcare clinics: a cross-sectional study in Kuwait City, 2024 by Sana Mubarak Alali, Doaa Khalifa Hussein Abdalla, Aisha Alsaqabi, Hessa Al-Kandari, Ozayr Mahomed

“…Multivariate analysis indicated that non-native Kuwait citizens were significantly more likely to have moderate-to-severe anxiety (AOR: 6.99, 95% CI: 1.42–34.43) compared to Kuwaiti nationals. …”
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Immunogenicity and Protective Efficacy of a Novel Recombinant BCG Strain Overexpressing Antigens Ag85A and Ag85B by Chun Wang, Ruiling Fu, Zhenhua Chen, Kun Tan, Lingxia Chen, Xindong Teng, Jia Lu, Chunwei Shi, Xionglin Fan

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Level of Physical Activity and its Correlation with Mental Health in Community-dwelling Older Individuals: A Cross-sectional Study by Vipra Paragkumar Dalal, Subhash Khatri

“…The mean RAPA score for the study participants was 2.42±1.14, and the mean WHO-5 wellbeing index score of participants was 13.99±3.39. A positive correlation was found between the level of physical activity and wellbeing status (r-value=0.922, p-value=0.001), which was statistically significant. …”
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Design a Robust DDoS Attack Detection and Mitigation Scheme in SDN-Edge-IoT by Leveraging Machine Learning by Habtamu Molla Belachew, Mulatu Yirga Beyene, Abinet Bizuayehu Desta, Behaylu Tadele Alemu, Salahadin Seid Musa, Alemu Jorgi Muhammed

“…Our implementation using the Mininet-WiFi emulation tool revealed that XGBoost outperformed others in binary DDoS detection, achieving accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score all above 99.997%, with a testing time of 3.559 seconds on the Edge-IIoTset dataset. …”
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Outcomes of Living Kidney Donor Candidates and Living Kidney Recipient Candidates with JC Polyomavirus and BK Polyomavirus Viruria by Sara Querido, Carolina Ormonde, Teresa Adragão, Inês Costa, Maria Ana Pessanha, Perpétua Gomes, André Weigert

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Description of the root anatomy of the primary molars using high resolution computed microtomography (Micro-CT). An analysis of three-dimensional root canal system by Benedetta Vidi, Benedetta Vidi, Ana María Gil-Valcarcel, Ana María Gil-Valcarcel, Cristina Obispo-Diaz, Isabel Sanchez-Jorge, Jesús Mena-Álvarez, Juan Manuel Aragoneses-Lamas, Cristina Rico-Romano

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Activity of ceftolozane/tazobactam and comparators against gram-negative bacilli: Results from the Study for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance Trends (SMART – Brazil), 2018‒2021... by Amanda Azevedo Bittencourt, Vinicius Lima Faustino, Paula de Mendonça Batista, Lays Paulino Leonel, Marina Della Negra de Paula, Thales José Polis

“…Colistin and ceftolozane/tazobactam were the most active β-lactam agents tested against P. aeruginosa in 2018‒2019 (99.3 % and 88.8 %) and 2020‒2021 (100 % and 92.8 %), including ceftazidime and meropenem resistant isolates. β-lactamase encoding gene characterization was carried out and both carbapenemases and Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase (ESBL) producers were found in E. coli, K. pneumoniae and P. aeruginosa isolates. …”
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Striking a balance between aesthetics and safety: a comparative study on the maternal and neonatal outcomes of mini-incision cesarean section by ChunLan Yuan, ShiMei He, WenQian Jian, MeiRong He, HuiFang Huang, JianChun Huang, MeiPing He, KaiSun Zhao

“…The aim of this study is to compare the risks and outcomes of mini-incision cesarean sections with those of conventional incision cesarean sections. Methods A total of 99 pregnant women with full-term singleton pregnancies, who delivered at the Second Nanning People's Hospital from January 2024 to September 2024, were enrolled in this study. …”
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The Effectiveness of Add-on Treatment with Nutraceutical by V. T. Ivashkin, M. A. Morozova, E. A. Poluektova, O. S. Shifrin, A. G. Beniashvili, G. E. Rupchev, A. A. Alekseev, Yu. M. Poluektov, Z. A. Mamieva, A. L. Kovaleva, A. I. Ulyanin, E. A. Trush

“…The percentage of patients with significant decrease of emotional disturbances was also higher in the experimental group: distress (χ2 = 18.7; p = 0.0000), anxiety (χ2 = 6.9; p = 0.0097) and somatization (χ2 = 14.99; p = 0.0001). No significant side effects were registered in any of the groups.Conclusions. …”
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