Effectiveness of nurse-led care in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Dan Liu, Li Liu, Lin Yang, Ting Wen, Peng Xiang, Guifang Pi

“…When comparing other secondary outcomes (pain, satisfaction, quality of life, fatigue, stiffness, physical function and psychological status), the effectiveness of NLC for RA patients was similar to that of the control group, with no statistically significant differences.Conclusions NLC proves highly effective in managing RA patients, surpassing usual care and equating to rheumatologist-led care in primary and some secondary outcomes. …”
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Real-world clinical experience with secukinumab in psoriatic arthritis: an observational study and a literature review by Eleonora Celletti, Giulio Gualdi, Emanuela Sabatini, Francesco Cipollone, Fabio Lobefaro, Paolo Amerio

“…There was an improving trend at 9 and 12 months for pain scores and a significant improvement at 6 and 9 months for the physical component and at 12 months for the social component (Short Form 36 Health Survey quality of life scores). …”
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Characteristics of Chips From Scales of Carp, Tilapia and Gourami Fish Using Various Coating Flours by Decky Sapuan Ramadhani, Reza Widyasaputra, Ngatirah Ngatirah

“…Analysis of fish scales produced included: chemical characteristics (moisture content, ash, fat, protein), physical characteristics (colour and texture), and organoleptic preference (colour, taste, aroma and texture). …”
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Relationship between PLR and Clinicopathological Characteristics of Patients with Advanced NSCLC and Its Predictive Value for the Efficacy of Chemotherapy and Prognosis by Jianming Zhao, Yiping Pan, Yu Sheng, Jun Sun

“…The clinical data of 175 patients with advanced NSCLC diagnosed from March 2017 to December 2018 in our hospital were retrospectively analyzed, and the data of 175 healthy subjects from our hospital physical examinations were included. The platelet was detected by using a blood cell analyzer to calculate PLR. …”
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Radiological abnormalities persist following COVID-19 and correlate with impaired health-related quality of life: a prospective cohort study of hospitalised patients by Rhian M Touyz, Ninian N Lang, Kevin G Blyth, Naveed Sattar, Patrick B Mark, Stefan Siebert, Colin Berry, Iain McInnes, Giles Roditi, Neil Basu, David Corcoran, Kenneth Mangion, Alex McConnachie, David Carrick, Jaclyn Carberry, Stuart Watkins, Paul Welsh, Sabrina Nordin, Katherine Scott, Christian Delles, Bernard Kelly, Fraser Goldie, John GF Cleland, Sharon Kean, Peter Kellman, David J Lowe, Andrew J Morrow, Antonia Ho, Rosemary Woodward, Tracey Hopkins, Ryan Wereski, Massimo Palmarini, Alasdair McIntosh, Campbell Rogers, Ammani Brown, Catherine Bagot, Kathryn Scott, Robert Sykes, Colin Church, Claire Rooney, Nicola Ryan, Clare Orange, Dirk Husmeier, Xiaoyu Luo, PETER W MACFARLANE, Heerajnarain Bulluck, Iain Findlay, Evonne McLennan, Michael Briscoe, Oliver Peck, Alastair J Rankin, Gruschen Veldtman, Varun Sharma, Kathryn McLaren, Elaine Butler, Sarah Mullen, Andrew Morrow, Patrick Mark, Daniel Doherty, Alexander Payne, Jennifer S Lees, Kaitlin J Mayne, Louise Inglis, Anna Kamdar, Hannah Bayes, Vivienne B Gibson, Lynsey Gillespie, Douglas Grieve, Pauline Hall Barrientos, Christopher McGinley, Connor Mckee, Sarah Allwood-Spiers, Sarah Weeden, Laura Knox, Lynn Abel, David Stobo, Andrew Dougherty, Liam Peng, David Barrie Stobo, Sylvia Wright, Stephen Dobbin, Keith Gillis, Sarah A Spiers, Ian Fergus, Kirsty Fallon, Lesley Gilmour, Chloe Cowan, Jurgen Van-Melckebeke, Kim Moran-Jones, Debra Stuart, Maureen Travers, Laura Dymock, Fiona Savage, Nicola Tynan, Sau Lee Chang, Mhairi Dupre, Lindsey Norton, George Bruce, Rosario Gonzalez-Lopez, Rebecca Stace, Dionne Russell, Jean Watt, Shahid Latif, Nick Hill, Amy Collinsworth, Ross McGeoch Vera Lennie, Robin P Weir

“…Patients with persisting abnormalities were shown to have lower levels of physical activity and predicted maximal oxygen utilisation (derived VO2) (both p<0.05). …”
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Distribuição e qualidade de espaços públicos para atividade física de lazer em uma capital do Brasil by Paula Agrizzi Borges, Juliana Ilídio da Silva, Thalia Eloisa Pereira Sousa Dourado, Dário Alves da Silva Costa, Solimar Carnavalli Rocha, Aline Dayrell Ferreira Sales, Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, Amanda Cristina de Souza Andrade

“…Em 2019, os equipamentos foram auditados por meio da aplicação da versão adaptada do Physical Activity Resource Assessment (PARA), que avalia a existência, qualidade, segurança, limpeza e estética dos equipamentos. …”
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Reconsidering “Critical” Bone Loss in Shoulder Instability: 17-Year Follow-Up Study following Arthroscopic Bankart Repair by Lawrence Chun-Man Lau, Wai-Wang Chau, Randy Ng, Jonathan Patrick Ng, Elvis Chun-Sing Chui, Michael Tim-Yun Ong, James Francis Griffith, Patrick Shu-Hang Yung

“…The impaired functional score was found in patients with initial glenoid bone loss of 7% or more on long-term follow-up: WOSI (physical symptoms): 0.98 ± 2.00 vs 2.25 ± 4.01, p=0.04 and WOSI (total): 0.79 ± 1.43 vs 1.88 ± 3.56, p=0.04. …”
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The effect of hindrance stressors on the emotional exhaustion among front-line healthcare workers in the recuperation period during the COVID-19 epidemic in China: a prospective cr... by Hua Zhang, Huan Wang, Junying Ye, Hao Wu, Xinyao Zhou, Caiping Song, Pengpeng Yin, Renzhong Shi, Yang Dan

“…Inclusion criteria included worked as front-line health workers and participated in the fight against COVID-19 in Hubei; age ≥18 years; normal cognitive and comprehension abilities under physical and mental health; volunteer to participate in this study. …”
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PENANAMAN NILAI-NILAI MODERASI BERAGAMA PADA KARAKTER PESERTA DIDIK DI SDN 4 SILIRAGUNG BANYUWANGI by Ali Makrus, Hepni Hepni, Mustajab Mustajab, Lailatul Usriyah

“…Third, addressing bullying issues is a serious concern, both physically and psychologically. Fourth, internalizing an accommodative attitude toward local culture involves the efforts of teachers in providing an understanding of Indonesia's cultural diversity. …”
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The Experiences of Syrian Female Students During the Distance Education and the Insights of Religious Culture and Ethics Teachers into the Process by İshak Tekin, Mustafa Fatih Ay

“…Among these challenges, economic hardships, technical deficiencies, inadequacies in the physical environment, and social adjustment problems emerged as prominent issues. …”
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The impact of sleep interventions combined with enhanced nutritional support on sleep quality, nutritional status, pain management, psychological well-being, and quality of life in... by Gang Wang, Shengjie Pan

“…Conclusion The combined intervention of sleep enhancement and nutritional support significantly accelerated postoperative recovery in colon cancer patients, demonstrating synergistic effects that improved physical, psychological, and quality-of-life outcomes. …”
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Evaluation of circadian rhythm and prognostic variability pre-and post-CEA or CAS treatment in patients with carotid artery stenosis by Yi Quan, Zhongzhu Wang, Tao Zhang, Yanyong Sui, Xin Zhang, Xueliang Ji, Ao-fei Liu, Weijian Jiang

“…Additionally, increased physical activity after treatment was linked to improved neurological recovery.ConclusionThis study highlights the critical role of circadian rhythm regulation and cardiovascular health in stroke recovery following CEA or CAS. …”
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Didactic potential of metaphors used in medical discourse by Katarzyna Karska, Ewelina Prażmo

“…Most conceptual metaphors are grounded in our physical experience of the world, which means that we draw from this familiar experience while creating metaphorical mappings to the complex, abstract concepts. …”
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Assessing the impact on mode competitiveness of improvements of the Trans-Eurasian railway network by Seyed Mohseni, Edwin van Hassel, Thierry Vanelslander

“…First, the paper focuses on the latest developments of the actual physical capacity on the Eurasian connection. Mainly under Chinese impetus, substantial improvements of rail connections but also border crossings have been made. …”
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Potentiation of Doxorubicin Cytotoxicity Utilizing Clarithromycin Loaded-PEGylated Liposomes by Islam Alfreahat MS, Hamdi Nsairat PhD, Ibrahim Deeb Aldeeb PhD, Ali Al-Samydai PhD, Walhan Alshaer PhD

“…The IC50 value for CAM/DOX-PEGylated liposomes was 0.13 µM, representing a significant reduction compared to the physical mixture of CAM and DOX (0.25 µM) and free DOX (0.21 µM) against MCF-7 cells. …”
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Implementation of Virtual and Face-to-Face Childbirth Preparation Training for the Spouses of the Primiparous Women to Reduce the Fear of Childbirth, Improve the Pregnancy Experien... by Zari Doaltabadi, Leila Amiri-Farahani, Seyedeh Batool Hasanpoor-Azghady

“…The exclusion criteria for women’s husbands are the history of physical/mental illness; being a smoker; and consuming alcohol, drugs, or psychotropic substances. …”
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Multi-decadal stability of water ages and tracer transport in a temperate-humid river basin by Siyuan Wang, Markus Hrachowitz, Gerrit Schoups, Anna Störiko

“…Consequently, the results suggest that the physical transport dynamics in the Upper Neckar River basin, and potentially in comparable river basins with similar water age characteristics, can be considered near-stationary over multiple decades.…”
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Solving unknown primary cancer with earlier diagnosis - the SUPER-ED trial: study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial to support earlier diagnosis for... by Anna Ugalde, Richard W. Tothill, Stephen Quinn, Hui-Li Wong, Owen Prall, Catherine Mitchell, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Clare Fedele, Natalie Richards, Elizabeth Todio, Cindy Bryant, Louisa G. Collins, Sarah McLean, Hyun Soo Ko, Tim Akhurst, Christopher Steer, Bo Gao, Mark Wong, Chloe Georgiou, Narayan Karanth, Anna Kuchel, Louise Nott, Shamsudheen Padinharakam, Mark Shackleton, Ian M. Collins, Madhu Singh, Rachel Wong, Zee Wan Wong, Alexis Butler, Tharani Sivakumaran, Penelope Schofield, Linda Mileshkin

“…Secondary outcomes are whether the type of tumour is diagnosed, clinical trial participation, referral to palliative care, patient-reported physical, social and mental health, patient-reported understanding and uncertainty. …”
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Cardiovascular Risk Awareness, Exercise Practices and Metabolic Outcomes among Patients with Diabetes Mellitus in Northern Nigeria: A Cross-sectional, Multicentre Study by Nura Hamidu Alkali, Andrew E. Uloko, Ijuptil Chiroma, Ayuba Mugana, Maria Ahuoiza Garba, Innocent Onoja Okpe, Elijah Tonde Gargah, Umar Faruk Abdullahi, Lumsami Shadrach, Ibrahim Abdullahi Haladu

“…Background: Physical exercise helps to mitigate cardiovascular risks in people with diabetes mellitus (DM), but there are limited data in Nigeria. …”
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Early Childhood Caries: Expectant Mothers’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Willingness to Treatment by Malini Venugopal, Vinitha Alex, Ektah Khosla, K. Korath Abraham, Arun Roy James, Elsa Thenumkal

“…The treatment is invasive, causing physical as well as mental stress not only among children and parents but also among dentists. …”
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