Association of vaginal oestradiol and the rate of breast cancer in Denmark: registry based, case-control study, nested in a nationwide cohort by Christian Torp-Pedersen, Lina Steinrud Mørch, Nelsan Pourhadi, Amani Meaidi, Ellen Christine Løkkegaard

“…Increasing durations and intensities of use (cumulative dose/cumulative duration) of vaginal oestradiol tablets was not associated with increasing rates of breast cancer. Compared with never-use, cumulative use of vaginal oestradiol for more than nine years was associated with an adjusted hazard ratio of 0.87 (95% confidence interval 0.69 to 1.11). …”
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Socio-economic determinants and spatial analysis of access to sanitation among older adults in Ghana by Ebenezer Nana Kwaku Boateng, Yvonne Ami Adjakloe, Addae Boateng Adu-Gyamfi, Amos Apraku, Simon Mariwah, Razak M. Gyasi

“…In addition, separated/divorced (AOR: 1.374, CI 1.263, 1.494], p-value < 0.001), widowed (AOR: 1.143, CI 1.059, 1.234, p-value < 0.001) and never-married (AOR: 1.208, CI 1.077, 1.354, p-value < 0.001) individuals were more likely to have sanitation access compared to those living informally/living together. …”
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Alerting the illusion of smoking improves quality of life in Chinese male cancer survivors by Juan Xia, Peng Wu, Jiwei Wang, Jinming Yu

“…Former smokers had higher global health status and experienced less appetite loss and constipation (P < 0.05). Compared with never smokers, those former smokers and current smokers had significantly high scores on the global health status, social functioning, role functioning, and cognitive functioning (P < 0.05). …”
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Dose-response risks of all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular disease mortality according to sex-specific cigarette smoking pack-year quantiles by Jieun Hwang, Suyoung Jo, Heewon Kang, Eunsil Cheon, Sung-il Cho

“…Methods The integrated Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study provided data for 209770 individuals who were classified as never, former, or current smokers, based on their current smoking status. …”
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Rockfish abundance, recruitment, and community structure trends in the western Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington, 2005-2023 by Shawn E. Larson, Katie Shelledy, Daniela Escontrela Dieguez, Jeff Christiansen, Amy Y. Olsen, Zachary Randell, Megan H. Williams, Chris VanDamme, Dayv Lowry, William Jasper

“…Relatively few Puget Sound, Vermillion, Widow, and Yelloweye Rockfish individuals were documented, and their abundance did not increase throughout the study. Boccaccio where never encountered during the 19 year monitoring period. …”
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Effect of smoking cessation on the likelihood of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer by Xiao Han, Zouhua Xu, Dongmei Ma, Zhi Ling, Xiaowu Dong, Xuebing Yan, Yong Chen, Guotao Lu, Xudong Yin, Hongwei Xu

“…The subjects were divided into never smokers, ex-smokers, and current smokers. Using a multivariate-adjusted binary logistic regression model, we analyzed the relationship between different smoking conditions and the likelihood of pancreatitis and PC. …”
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The Impacts of Different Expansion Modes on Performance of Small Solar Energy Firms: Perspectives of Absorptive Capacity by Hsing Hung Chen, Tao Shen, Xin-long Xu, Chao Ma

“…However, the study employing absorptive capacity to examine the impacts of different modes of expansion on performance of small solar energy firms has never been discussed before. Then, a conceptual model to analyze the tension between strategies and corporate performance is proposed to filling the vacancy. …”
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Localized Bone Loss Resulted from an Unlikely Cause in an 11-Year-Old Child by Bianca Tozi Portaluppe Bergantin, Daniela Rios, Daniela Silva Barroso Oliveira, Edmêr Silvestre Pereira Júnior, João Adolfo Costa Hanemann, Heitor Marques Honório

“…In this case report, an 11-year-old child who lived in a rural area and has never been treated by a dentist presented an extensive horizontal bone loss and edema on the region of tooth 44. …”
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Application of Whole Exome Sequencing to Identify Disease-Causing Variants in Inherited Human Diseases by Gerald Goh, Murim Choi

“…Human genetics is no exception-it has never been easier to interrogate human patient genomes at the nucleotide level to identify disease-associated variants. …”
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Habitual khat chewing induced oral erythroplakia: A case report by Aisha A.H. Al-Jamaei, Khaled Al-Kebsi, ElhamA. Al-Qafaf, Mayada H.M. Hanash, R.V. Subramanyam, Jan G.A.M. de Visscher

“…We presented a case of a 53-years-old male who developed a large erythroplakia on his left buccal mucosa, likely induced by chewing khat. This patient had never used the tobacco or alcohol in any form. Given that chewing khat is quite common in some Middle East and African countries, it is essential for oral health care professionals to be aware of its potential development of erythroplakia and oral cancer.…”
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Canine Uterine Leiomyoma with Epithelial Tissue Foci, Adenomyosis, and Cystic Endometrial Hyperplasia by George S. Karagiannis, Mihalis Pelekanis, Panayiotis Loukopoulos, Haris N. Ververidis, Eleni Kaldrymidou

“…Interestingly, such combination was never encountered before in dogs. Although uterine leiomyoma is quite usual in the reproductive system of female dogs, this case resembled relevant cases of human uterine adenomyomas in morphology, and thus it was offered a similar tentative diagnosis.…”
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Modern learners and changing trends: flipped classrooms in medical education by Shubhangi Mhaske

“…In the ever-evolving landscape of medical education, the chase for effective training methodologies has never been more pressing. Traditional didactic methods, which often involve passive learning through lectures, are increasingly seen as inadequate in preparing future healthcare professionals for the complexities of modern medical practice. …”
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Understanding Gluten Sensitivity and Celiac Disease by Stephanie Meyer, Karla P. Shelnutt, Gail P. Kauwell

“…Several years ago, most people probably had never heard of gluten, but by 2011, gluten-free diets became more popular than low carbohydrate diets. …”
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Inefficacy or Paradoxical Effect? Uveitis in Ankylosing Spondylitis Treated with Etanercept by Bernd Raffeiner, Francesca Ometto, Livio Bernardi, Costantino Botsios, Leonardo Punzi

“…The occurrence of uveitis in patients that never had eye involvement or the relapse of uveitis is described during anti-TNFα treatment. …”
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Influenza A/H1N1 Severe Pneumonia: Novel Morphocytological Findings in Bronchoalveolar Lavage by Paola Faverio, Stefano Aliberti, Clinton Ezekiel, Grazia Messinesi, Ambrogio Brenna, Alberto Pesci

“…Light microscopy analysis of BAL cytocentrifugates showed the presence of characteristic large, mononuclear, plasmoblastic/plasmocytoid-like cells never described before. Via transmission electron microscopy, these cells were classified as atypical type II pneumocytes and some of them showed cytoplasmic vesicles and inclusions. …”
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Understanding Gluten Sensitivity and Celiac Disease by Stephanie Meyer, Karla P. Shelnutt, Gail P. Kauwell

“…Several years ago, most people probably had never heard of gluten, but by 2011, gluten-free diets became more popular than low carbohydrate diets. …”
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Optimal Selling Strategies under Regime-Switching Market Environment with Finite Expiry by Jie Xing, Taoshun He

“…Moreover, it reveals that when the risk-free interest rate is always lower than the return rate of the stock, it is never optimal to sell the stock early; otherwise, one should sell the stock in bear market if the stock price reaches a critical value and hold the stock in bull market until the maturity date. …”
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A Study of Lock-Free Based Concurrent Garbage Collectors for Multicore Platform by Hao Wu, Zhen-Zhou Ji

“…We adopt CAS/MCAS synchronization primitives to guarantee that the programs will never be blocked by the collector thread while the garbage collection process is ongoing. …”
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Immediate Cementless Hemiarthroplasty for Severe Destructive Glenohumeral Tuberculous Arthritis by Suriya Luenam, Arkaphat Kosiyatrakul

“…To our knowledge, however, the surgical treatment with shoulder arthroplasty has never been reported. We present two cases of active TB with unsalvageable glenohumeral joint. …”
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Jérémie et la « coupe de la colère de Dieu » : une miniature inédite, premier jalon d’un discours anti-judaïque à Cluny au xe siècle by Laura Attardo

“…Placed at the beginning of Raban Maur’s Commentary on Jeremiah – London, British Library, Add MS 22820, fol. 9ro –, the historiated initial of the prophet Jeremiah has never been studied. Produced under the abbatiate of Maieul (954-994), the image presents a unique iconographic formula whose several levels of interpretation allow us to understand the spirituality and ecclesiology of the community’s monks in the mid-to-late 10th century. …”
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