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

“…CRS was more-prevalent among subjects in the following categories: CAL (7.6%), lower airway symptoms (15.7%), current smokers (8.2%), asthma (13.6%), never-smokers and ever-smokers with COPD (17.6% and 15.3%, respectively), emphysema (6.7%), and chronic bronchitis (24.5%). …”
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Quasi-parallel Antisunward-propagating Whistler Waves Associated with the Electron Deficit in the Near-Sun Solar Wind: Particle-in-cell Simulation by Alfredo Micera, Daniel Verscharen, Jesse T. Coburn, Maria Elena Innocenti

“…Recent Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and Solar Orbiter (SO) observations have added one more ingredient to the known nonthermal features, the deficit—a depletion in the sunward region of the VDF, already predicted by exospheric models but never so extensively observed. By employing particle-in-cell simulations, we study electron VDFs that reproduce those typically observed in the inner heliosphere and investigate whether the electron deficit may contribute to the onset of kinetic instabilities. …”
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DA 362: A Gamma-Ray-emitting Compact Symmetric Object by Subhashree Swain, Vaidehi S. Paliya, D. J. Saikia, C. S. Stalin

“…Its Fermi-LAT observations revealed a γ -ray flaring activity, a phenomenon never detected from the other three γ -ray-detected CSOs. …”
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Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMRs) and Radon Exposure Analysis for Lung Cancer and All-Cause Mortality in Locorotondo, Southern Italy by Giovanni Maria Ferri, Luigi De Maria, Giuseppe Delvecchio, Antonio Caputi, Stefano Sole, Gianmarco Giannelli, Gianfranco Sifanno, Ilaria Maria Di Somma, Floriana Pentimone, Domenica Cavone, Angela Stufano, Piero Lovreglio, Vitantonio Ricci, Luigi Vimercati

“…<i>Background and Objectives</i>: Radon is a known risk factor for lung cancer, and residential radon exposure is the leading cause of lung cancer in never smokers; however, in Italy, there is still a lack of public awareness regarding the risk caused by residential radon exposure. …”
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Cytogenetically Unrelated Clones in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Showing Different Responses to Chemotherapy by Kohei Kasahara, Masahiro Onozawa, Naohiro Miyashita, Emi Yokohata, Miho Yoshida, Minoru Kanaya, Mizuha Kosugi-Kanaya, Ryo Takemura, Shojiro Takahashi, Junichi Sugita, Akio Shigematsu, Mutsumi Takahata, Shinichi Fujisawa, Daigo Hashimoto, Katsuya Fujimoto, Tomoyuki Endo, Takeshi Kondo, Takanori Teshima

“…The clone with multiple trisomies was eliminated after induction therapy and never recurred, but a clone with monosomy 7 was still detected in myelodysplastic marrow with a normal blast percentage. …”
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Clonal dissemination of an NDM-2-producing Acinetobacter baumannii ST103 clone resulting in an outbreak in an intensive care unit of a Lebanese tertiary care hospital by Tania Nawfal Dagher, Linda Hadjadj, Fadi Bittar, Fadi Fenianos, Elias Abdo, Jean-Marc Rolain, Charbel Al-Bayssari

“…Results: Polymerase chain reaction and multilocus sequence typing results suggested the presence of two different periods: period 1 (November 2018 to February 2019), where 15 CRAB isolates were collected harbouring the blaOXA-23 and blaOXA-24 genes mainly and belonging to several clones; and period 2 (March to May 2019), considered an outbreak period where 17 carbapenem-resistant isolates were isolated, harbouring mostly the blaNDM-2 gene, never previously described in Lebanon and belonging to ST103. …”
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Preventive Adolescent Health Care in Family Practice: A Program Summary by Barry Knishkowy, Moshe Schein, Alexander Kiderman, Aliza Velber, Richard Edman, John Yaphe

“…Health risk behaviors and psychosocial problems included cigarette or alcohol use, dieting, infrequent/never seat belt use, and feeling depressed. 78% wanted to discuss at least one personal health issue. 27% were invited for follow-up visits. …”
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Self-assessed depressive symptoms in adolescents comparing two Swedish cohorts born 15 years apart by Carl Wikberg, Pia Augustsson, Marcus Praetorius Björk, Tord Ivarsson, Gudny Sveinsdottir, Eiríkur Örn Arnarson, W. Edward Craighead, Ina Marteinsdottir, Josefine Lilja

“…However, the later cohort exhibited higher scores on three CDI items (''Nothing is fun at all,'' ''I am bad all the time,'' ''I can never be as good as other kids'') and in the sub-domain of self-deprecation. …”
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Sport and policy. German Sports organisations in Klaipėda region in 1923-1939 by Ingrida Jakubavičienė

“…In 1923 Klaipėda region was appended to Lithuania but Germans never abandoned their revanchist sentiments to return the region to Germany. …”
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Factors Influencing the Practice of Breast Self-Examination among Female Tertiary Students in Ho, Ghana by Rosemary Ami Amegbedzi, Joyce Komesuor, Hubert Amu, Elvis Enowbeyang Tarkang

“…The study found that 27% of the female students had never practised BSE. Those who practice BSE did not practice regularly and appropriately. …”
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: the “New Medicine”, the Multiparadigmatic Physician, and the Medical Record by Søren Ventegodt, Mohammed Morad, Joav Merrick

“…It helps you to reflect deeply, communicate efficiently, provide evidence and safety, and back your self-discipline, never to be carried away by the high speed of modern-day clinical work to give less than the optimal treatment. …”
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Physicians’ and nurses‘ knowledge and attitudes in management of sepsis: An Italian study by Gabriella Nucera, Anna Esposito, Naomi Tagliani, Chiara Jane Baticos, Pietro Marino

“…However, with regard to this latter point, T Student test for sample independent confirmed a significant difference in the average percentages of correct answers between recently (~ 6 months) trained (74 ± 3.4%) nurses (n = 33) and physicians (n = 19) and not recently (> 1 years) or never trained (34.8 ± 7.4%) nurses (n = 99) and physicians (n = 30) (t(10) = 11.72, P = < 0.001). …”
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Nuclear and chloroplast genome variability in leek (Allium porrum L.) by E. A. Dyachenko, T. M. Seredin, M. A. Filyushin

“…The genetic diversity of leeks has never been studied before. Therefore, in this work, we studied the nuclear variability (AFLP) and the chloroplast (nucleotide sequence analysis) genomes using a broad sample. …”
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Impact of corticosteroids on the efficacy of first-line pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer by Amytis Roboubi, Eric Wasielewski, Soraya Bordier, Amélie Turlotte, Geoffrey Pavaut, Arnaud Scherpereel, Alexis Cortot, Clément Gauvain

“…However, the current first-line standard of care usually involves combined chemotherapy (CT) and ICIs, and the effect of SCs on survival under combined CT and ICI has never been studied. Objectives: To investigate the association between SC therapy and survival under CT-ICI in advanced-stage NSCLC patients. …”
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Laboratory diagnosis of H. pylori among dyspeptic patients using Culture and Rapid urease test by Hogir Mohammed Shukri Saadi, Ali Yahya Saeed

“…In this research appear males were less positive for H. pylori than females by urease test and no such statistical association was noticed count on the sex and Helicobacter pylori pathogenicity via culture. Research never noticed any considerable correlation was found between smoking status and patient's residence with H. pylori positive cases by both methods. …”
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Impact of the family doctor system on medication adherence among type 2 diabetes patients in China: a difference-in-differences analysis by Xichen Tong, Haiyan Zou, Luying Zhang, Wen Chen

“…Adult patients with T2DM who continuously registered with family doctors from 2015 to 2019 (n = 18,841) were assigned to the intervention group, while those who never registered during this period (n = 1,429) were classified as the control group. …”
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Study on Management of Blood Transfusion Therapy in Patients with Hereditary Spherocytosis by Shiyue Ma, Lingjian Tang, Chaoli Wu, Hui Tang, Xue Pu, Jinhong Niu

“…The Leu2032Pro mutation identified in patient III-1 is a new missense mutation of the SPTB gene in the Chinese population that has never been reported in literature previously. The presence or absence of acute or chronic infections is a critical deciding factor for the treatment and clinical management of HS patient via blood transfusion. …”
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Gender and age features in adults with congenital heart disease by I.G. Lebid

“…All patients were also divided into those that earlier had surgical/percutaneous interventions and never operated adults with CHD. There were two groups: group 1 – adults after interventions in adulthood (first-time and reoperation), group 2 – adults without any procedures after 18 years. …”
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Allergic conditions and risk of rheumatoid arthritis: a Swedish case–control study by Johan Askling, Lars Klareskog, Lars Alfredsson, Marie Holmqvist, Helga Westerlind, Cynthia S Crowson, Vanessa L Kronzer

“…By contrast, statistically significant associations were observed for animal dander allergy (6% vs 5%, aOR 1.37, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.82), especially in ACPA-positive RA (aOR 1.46 95% CI 1.06 to 2.01) and for atopic dermatitis, in particular for older and ACPA-negative RA (aOR 2.33, 95% CI 1.37 to 3.96 at age 80). Never smokers with allergic rhinitis also had increased risk of developing RA (aOR 1.30, 95% CI 1.00 to 1.68).Conclusion Most common allergies do not increase risk of RA, nor do they protect against RA. …”
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Outcomes of Six-Dose High-Dose Cytarabine as a Salvage Regimen for Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia by Brandi Anders, Lauren Veltri, Abraham S. Kanate, Alexandra Shillingburg, Nilay Shah, Michael Craig, Aaron Cumpston

“…Six-dose high-dose cytarabine (HiDAC-6), commonly used as a consolidation regimen, has never been evaluated as induction therapy. We present a retrospective review of 26 consecutive patients with RR-AML receiving single agent cytarabine 3 g/m2 intravenously every 12 hours on days 1, 3, and 5 for a total of six doses (HiDAC-6). …”
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