The type of infections and the use of antibiotics among patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A review by Asma D. Alshammari, Mona Matar Aldhafeeri, Amal M. Aldhafeeri, Maram Asaad Alanzi, Maha Bandar Almutairi, Jawaher Abdullah Alrasheedi, Thikra Adel Alsurur, Aeshah Dhahawi Alshammri

“…Extra care should be given to senior rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients who are over 65 years old and have other medical conditions. These people are often more susceptible to developing infections, regardless of the medication they get. …”
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Patient autonomy and metabolic bariatric surgery: an empirical perspective by Shelly Kamin-Friedman, Nili Karako-Eyal, Galya Hildesheimer

“…Category 1 influences included intentional attempts to induce people, through arguments and reason, to accept the attitudes advocated by the persuader in support of the surgery. …”
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SURVIVING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN NIGERIA: COPING STRATEGIES OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (IDP) IN BENUE STATE, NORTHCENTRAL, NIGERIA by ISAAC OLAWALE ALBERT, JOEL ABAH

“… For more than two decades now, farmers-herders’ crisis have rendered more than 1.5 million people displaced, and several hundred maimed and killed. …”
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Do health professionals know about overdiagnosis in screening, and how are they dealing with it? A mixed-methods systematic scoping review. by Veerle Piessens, Ann Van den Bruel, An Piessens, Ann Van Hecke, John Brandt Brodersen, Emelien Lauwerier, Florian Stul, An De Sutter, Stefan Heytens

“…However, little is known about HPs' knowledge of overdiagnosis and whether they are prepared to inform screening candidates about this risk and enable people to make an informed screening decision.<h4>Methods</h4>This is a systematic review of studies examining HPs' knowledge and perception of overdiagnosis, whether it affects their position on offering screening, and their willingness to inform screening candidates about overdiagnosis. …”
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Relation of Vitamin D levels with positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia – A hospital based cross-sectional comparative study by Soumitra Ghosh, Bikashita Deka

“…Conclusion: It can be said that serum Vitamin D levels were significantly low in people with schizophrenia compared to the general population. …”
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Physical determinants of daily physical activity in older men and women. by Laura Karavirta, Timo Aittokoski, Katja Pynnönen, Timo Rantalainen, Kate Westgate, Tomas Gonzales, Lotta Palmberg, Joona Neuvonen, Jukka A Lipponen, Katri Turunen, Riku Nikander, Erja Portegijs, Taina Rantanen, Søren Brage

“…We investigated whether physical fitness may explain sex differences in daily physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE) among older people.<h4>Methods</h4>In this cross-sectional study, a population-based cohort of 75, 80, and 85-year-old men and women (n = 409, 62% women) underwent laboratory-based assessment of walking speed, maximal knee extension strength, and body fat percentage. …”
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Psychometric Measurement of Fertility-related Quality of Life across Gender in Primary Infertile Couples by Amita Kumari, Afreen Begum H. Itagi, V. Bhargava Reddy Kanchi, Vijayan Sharmila, Satish Pundlik Dipankar

“…Background: Infertility is a crucial global public health issue that affects millions of people of reproductive age. Fertility-related stress can negatively impact infertile couples’ quality of life (QoL). …”
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Transcending the painful boundaries...: a few additions to Vanda Zaborskaitėʼs biography by Žydronė Kolevinskienė

“…However, her firm position, exceptional competence, high criteria for literary education, uncompromising opinion, encouragement of critical thinking and confidence allowed the people of the Department of Lithuanian and Foreign Literature of the Pedagogical Institute to unite for the future of the school, for the survival of the studies of the Lithuanian language because, for her, the studies of the Lithuanian language represent the consciousness of ‘Lithuanianness’. …”
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Cancer stem-like cells stay in a plastic state ready for tumor evolution by Jiali Xu, Houde Zhang, Zhihao Nie, Wenyou He, Yichao Zhao, Zhenhui Huang, Lin Jia, Zhiye Du, Baotong Zhang, Siyuan Xia

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Long-term Air Pollution Exposure Impact on COVID-19 Morbidity in China by Yihan Wu, Qingming Zhan, Qunshan Zhao

“…., Spearman’s rank correlation and negative binomial regression model, to demonstrate that people who are chronically exposed to ambient air pollution are more likely to be infected by COVID-19. …”
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Evaluation of sustainable consumption behavior according to sociodemographic factors in Indigenous communities by Guido Ayay-Arista, Edwin Gustavo Estrada-Araoz, Judith Annie Bautista-Quispe, Manuel Augusto Mantari-Condemayta, George Jhon Cruz-Visa, Yony Abelardo Quispe-Mamani, Carlos Alberto Canelo-Dávila, José Ricardo Pujaico-Espino, José Alberto Carlos-Ramos

“…Data were collected through a survey applied to a sample of 319 people selected by stratified probability sampling. …”
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Individual variability in cortical representations of tonic pain by Bettina Deak, Anne Stankewitz, Astrid Mayr, Viktor Witkovsky, Pauline Jahn, Enrico Schulz

“…When people experience pain in everyday situations, the experience is often long-lasting and fluctuating. …”
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Self-Care Interventions as a Health Technology for Managing Type 2 Diabetes: A Population-Based Study in Iran by Zahra Yousefi Malekroodi, Seyed Ali Majidi, Amirmohammad Taalipasand

“…Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive study, 384 participants were selected from a population of 40,000 people with type 2 diabetes in Rasht city, using the Karjesi and Morgan table. …”
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Consumer’s Purchase Intention Towards Sustainable Fashion Products: Effect of Perceived Consumer Effectiveness and Attitude by Annisa Tusholihah, Liza Nora

“…Quantitative data was collected through an online questionnaire via Google Form and distributed to people who met the sample size requirements: consumers over 17 years old who live in Jabodetabek and have minimal awareness of sustainable fashion products. …”
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The Influence of Access Barriers on Outpatient Services Use among Low-income Households in Malaysia. by Aziz Jamal, Yunfei Li, Ning Liu, Mohd Zulkifli Abdullah

“… Aim: Many people, particularly those from low-income and marginalised communities, face barriers when accessing healthcare services. …”
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The narrative of the «Northern Territories» in the socio-political discourse of contemporary Japan by D. V. Streltsov

“…At the same time, as the generations change, the interest towards this problem is gradually decreasing, especially among young people. Besides, there is a process of realizing the futility of maintaining a hard line in the government’s approach to solving it. …”
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How does playfulness (re)frame the world? Evidence for selective cognitive and behavioral redirecting in times of adversity by Xiangyou Shen, Zoe Crawley

“…IntroductionDo playful people perceive, approach, and respond to their environment and life events differently than less playful individuals? …”
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Chinese nurses’ perspectives on child-friendly healthcare practice assessment: a qualitative study by Wei Xiao Huang, Mei Chan Chong, Li Yoong Tang, Xiao Xia Liu, Mei Fang, Yun Yun Shen, Xiao Li Guo

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THE EFFECT OF TRANEXAMIC ACID INJECTION ON HEMOGLOBIN LEVEL, ALBUMIN LEVEL, AND PAIN ON PATIENT RECEIVING TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT by Dwikora Novembri Utomo, Teddy Heri Wardhana, Ahmad Hannan Amrullah, Hamzah Hamzah

“…Groups not receiving tranexamic acid, 32 (100%) moderate postoperative VAS scores, 4 people (12.5%) required the blood transfusion, and 3 (9.4%) required transfusion of albumin. …”
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Electrospun short fibers: a new platform for cancer nanomedicine applications by Yifan Huang, Mengsi Zhan, Mingwu Shen, Lili Zhang, Xiangyang Shi

“…With the continuous development of nanomaterials, nanofibers prepared by electrospinning have gradually occupied people’s vision because of their unique advantages, such as crisscross network and extracellular matrix-mimicking structure, high drug loading efficiency, and sustained release kinetics. …”
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