Treating chronic kidney disease in Danish primary care: results from the observational ATLAS study by Morten Lindhardt, Søren Tang Knudsen, Thomas Saxild, Morten Charles, Rikke Borg

“…Methods A computerized selection identified 12 random individuals with CKD per clinic with ≥ 2 measurements of eGFR < 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 or UACR > 30 mg/g within two years (N = 1 497). …”
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An algorithm for identifying causes of reoperations after orthopedic fracture surgery in health administrative data: a diagnostic accuracy study using the Danish National Patient R... by Signe S Jensen, Anders B Rønnegaard, Per H Gundtoft, Søren Kold, Bjarke Viberg

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Treatment Patterns and Health Care Costs in Commercially Insured Patients with Follicular Lymphoma by Nathan H. Fowler, Guifang Chen, Stephen Lim, Stephanie Manson, Qiufei Ma, Frank Li

“…Annualized all-cause health care costs per patient ranged from US$97&#8239;141 (SD: US$144&#8239;730) for first-line to US$424&#8239;758 (SD: US$715 028) for fifth-line therapy. …”
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Common features of environmentally and socially engaged community programs addressing the intersecting challenges of planetary and human health: mixed methods analysis of survey an... by Linda J. M. Thomson, Linda J. M. Thomson, Ailsa Critten, Victoria Hume, Helen J. Chatterjee, Helen J. Chatterjee

“…Thematic analysis of 19 surveys and eight interviews identified 146 responses, from which 12 themes with 98 subthemes were derived. Seventy per cent of responses were distributed across five major themes: ‘Collaboration and partnerships’, ‘Community health and wellbeing’, ‘Connection to nature’, ‘Funding’ and ‘Mental health’. …”
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Comparison of the growth, fruit quality and physiological characteristics of cucumber fertigated by three different nutrient solutions in soil culture and soilless culture systems by Hamid Reza Roosta, Hossein Sharifi Azad, Seyed Hossein Mirdehghan

“…Soilless cultivation increased the yield per plant and cultivation area (52%). The photosynthetic pigments (27.5% and 49.18% for Chl a and b, respectively), and fruit quality traits including fruit appearance color (the components a (16.42%), b (19.44%), and L (1.87%), hue angle (32.74%), and chroma (15.13%)), total soluble solids (TSS) (7%) and vitamin C (31.85%) increased compared to soil-grown plants. …”
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Siphon-type hydroelectric plants: application for power generation in a low head dam in southern Brazil by Janaina Terhorst Pizutti, Carlos Henrique Pereira Assunção Galdino, Fernando Setembrino Cruz Meirelles, Alexandre Beluco

“…The energy cost for this system is $0.164 per kWh. For a system without diesel and with 0% service failures, viable results appear only up to 2600 kWh load. …”
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Addressing unmet mental health needs of older adults in Turbo, Colombia: a multi-component psychosocial intervention feasibility study by Clarissa Giebel, Erika Montoya, Gabriel Saldarriaga, Thais Caprioli, Mark Gabbay, Danicza Martinez, Jessica Rua, Maria Isabel Zuluaga

“…The co-produced intervention ran for three months in 2023, with two sessions provided per week in a community centre (26 sessions in total). …”
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Economic impact of medication non-adherence by disease groups: a systematic review by Victoria Garcia-Cardenas, Rachelle Louise Cutler, Fernando Fernandez-Llimos, Michael Frommer, Charlie Benrimoj

“…The annual adjusted disease-specific economic cost of non-adherence per person ranged from $949 to $44 190 (in 2015 US$). …”
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Intensity of Nematode Infection in Children Aged 3 to 5 Years Living in Mukuru Kwa Njenga Slum Settlement, Nairobi, Kenya by Lynda Allan, Fiona N. Mbai, Dorcas S. Yole, Moses Owino

“…The intensities of nematode infections were expressed as eggs per gram (epg) of faeces. Results. The point prevalence of nematode infection among the 98 children in the 1st sampling was 25.5% with a mean infection intensity of 5424 epg, whereas among the 74 children sampled in 2nd sampling, 47.3% had nematode infection with a mean infection intensity of 12384 epg. …”
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Leveraging the fundamentals of heat transfer and fluid mechanics in microscale geometries for automated next-generation sequencing library preparation by Olivia Ott, Sabrina Tolppi, Jennifer Figueroa-Cruz, Khaliun Myagmar, Khulan Unurbuyan, Anubhav Tripathi

“…We applied this method to two library preparation assays with different DNA fragmentation requirements (mechanical vs. enzymatic fragmentation), sufficiently limiting consumable use to one cartridge and one 384 well-plate per run. Our platform successfully prepared eight libraries in parallel, generating sequencing data for both human and Escherichia coli DNA libraries with negligible coverage bias compared to positive controls. …”
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Protocol of a parallel group Randomized Control Trial (RCT) for Mobile-assisted Medication Adherence Support (Ma-MAS) intervention among Tuberculosis patients. by Zekariyas Sahile, Lua Perimal-Lewis, Paul Arbon, Anthony John Maeder

“…A total of 186 participants (93 per group) will be individually randomized into one of the two groups with a 1:1 allocation ratio by a computer-generated algorithm. …”
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Long term cost-effectiveness analysis of IDegLira in the treatment of type 2 diabetes patients compared to GLP-1RA added to basal insulin after IDegLira entered the national reimbu... by Dunming Xiao, Junling Weng, Lei Zhang, Chang Xing, Yan Wei, Yingyao Chen

“…Under the threshold of 1 times the per capita GDP of China in 2022 (85,698 CNY), IDegLira is a dominant scheme with lower cost and better health outcome. …”
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Effects of increasing levels of rubber seed cake on growth performance, nutrient digestion metabolism, serum biochemical parameters, and rumen microbiota of Hu sheep by Huwei Zhao, Jinling Hua, Wenwen Lu, Longfei Yan, Min Zhang, Chao Chen, Xiaokang Lv

“…In this study, 48 Hu sheep, weighing 17.01 ± 0.57 kg at 3 months of age, were randomly divided into four treatments: 0% rubber seed cake (RSC0%), 6% rubber seed cake (RSC6%), 12% rubber seed cake (RSC12%) and 18% rubber seed cake (RSC18%), with 12 sheep per group. Compared to the RSC0%, the ADG and DMI of the RSC6% and RSC12% were increased (P > 0.05). …”
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Maternal death audit in Rwanda 2009–2013: a nationwide facility-based retrospective cohort study by Jeroen van Dillen, Felix Sayinzoga, Leon Bijlmakers, Fidele Ngabo, Victor Mivumbi, Koos van der Velden

“…In 44.9% of these cases, death occurred in the post-partum period. Seventy per cent were due to direct causes, with post-partum haemorrhage as the leading cause (22.7%), followed by obstructed labour (12.3%). …”
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Changes in Corneal Volume at Different Areas and Its Correlation with Corneal Biomechanics after SMILE and FS-LASIK Surgery by Pinghui Wei, George PM Cheng, Jiamei Zhang, Alex LK Ng, Tommy CY Chan, Vishal Jhanji, Yan Wang

“…SMILE was associated with less change in biomechanical properties per unit of reduction in CV compared with FS-LASIK.…”
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Impact of the Seeding Method on Physiological, Agronomic, and Biochemical Performance of Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Varieties Grown in Burkina Faso by Badiel Badoua, Kihindo Adama Pascal, Yao Koffi Bertin, Nana Rasmata, Ouedraogo Razacswendé Fanta, Dondasse Edmond, Tamini Zoumbiessé

“…Row seeding favored plant growth and development for all varieties. Seed yield per plant for row seeding was significantly (P<0.001) higher than for broadcast seeding. …”
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The Origin of the Large-Scale Industry in Klaipėda's Region in the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century by Julius Žukas

“…The factory produced more than thirty thousand tons of cellulose per year, before World War I, and the greatest part of the production was realized in foreign countries. …”
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READMISSIONS TO ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENT CARE: A REGISTER STUDY by VISA VADÉN, RIITTAKERTTU KALTIALA, TIMO HOLTTINEN

“…Results: Nearly half of the patients (48.4%) experienced a readmission during adolescent years. Thirteen per cent of patients were readmitted within 30 days of discharge. …”
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Monitoring for the genetic structure of Mezen breed of horses in terms of DNA microsatellites by N. V. Vdovina, I. B. Yuryeva

“…The population’s alleles-fond includes from 128, 139, and 133 alleles respectively (with an average value of 7.53, 8.18, and 7.82 alleles per locus). The most common alleles are AHT4O, AHT5N, ASB2K, ASB23S, CA425N, HMS1J, HMS1M, HMS2H, HMS3M, HMS7L, HTG4M, HTG6O, HTG7K, HTG7O and LEX3M. …”
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Secretarios, música y diplomacia cultural: el inventario post mortem de Juan de Castro Laurel (Roma, 1709) by José María  Domínguez

“…Además de servir como eslabones entre los campos de erudición italiano y español, algunos de ellos desarrollaron una notable actividad poética escribiendo textos per musica (cantatas y óperas) y actuando como traductores o como preceptores en la transmisión de fuentes, temas y argumentos para las óperas. …”
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