Unraveling complexity and leveraging opportunities in uncommon breast cancer subtypes by Fresia Pareja, Rohit Bhargava, Virginia F. Borges, Edi Brogi, Rita Canas Marques, Fatima Cardoso, Christine Desmedt, Malini Harigopal, Sunil R. Lakhani, Adrian Lee, Jose Pablo Leone, Hannah Linden, Christopher J. Lord, Caterina Marchio, Sofia D. Merajver, Emad Rakha, Jorge S. Reis-Filho, Andrea Richardson, Elinor Sawyer, Pepper Schedin, Christopher J. Schwartz, Andrew Tutt, Naoto T. Ueno, Anne Vincent-Salomon, Britta Weigelt, Y. Hannah Wen, Stuart J. Schnitt, Steffi Oesterreich

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Associations of substance use and positive coping behaviors with sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic by Jessica Laudie, Bethany L. Stangl, Tommy Gunawan, Tommy Gunawan, Melanie L. Schwandt, Cecilia Cheng, Amanda K. Gilmore, Amanda K. Gilmore, David Goldman, David Goldman, Vijay A. Ramchandani, Nancy Diazgranados, Jeremy W. Luk

“…Participants (N = 373, 50.9% male, mean age = 43.7, 37.3% with AUD history) reported their sleep quality using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) for the month prior to the pandemic and the past month before the time of assessment. …”
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Acupuncture treatment of restless legs syndrome: a randomized clinical controlled study protocol based on PET-CT and fMRI by Lin Tang, Na Zhao, Xiaolin Gao, Jinjin Li, Xintong Yu, Ruilong Liang, Chen Xie, Lutong Li, Qianqian Wang, Wenjia Yang

“…The secondary outcomes are the RLS-Quality of Life (RLSQoL), the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), the Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD), and the Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA). …”
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High HDL-C and high LDL-C are risk factors of pterygium in a population-based cross-sectional study in Southern China: the Dongguan Eye Study by Liang Zhang, Min Zhang, Ying Cui, Lixin Zhang, Guanrong Zhang, Qingyang Liu, Haike Guo, Qianli Meng, Siwen Zang, Chun-Han Lo, Yanlei Chen, Jin Zeng

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Efficacy of contralateral acupuncture in women with migraine without aura: protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Ling Zhao, Qifu Li, Yanan Wang, Jialei Feng, Xinghe Zhang, Siwen Zhao, Chonghui Xing, Yongli Song, Xuanxiang Zeng, Meng Kong, Yunqiu Zheng, Taipin Guo

“…The secondary outcomes are frequency of migraine attacks, intensity of migraine, migraine duration, the dose of intake of acute medication, the Migraine-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire, the Migraine Disability Assessment Score, the Headache Impact Test-6 and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. The data will be collected at the baseline time (week 0), end of treatment (week 4–8) and the follow-up time (week 12–16). …”
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The cerebral blood flow response to neuroactivation is reduced in cognitively normal men with β-amyloid accumulation by Mark Bitsch Vestergaard, Aftab Bakhtiari, Merete Osler, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Ulrich Lindberg, Ian Law, Martin Lauritzen, Krisztina Benedek, Henrik Bo Wiberg Larsson

“…Brain Aβ accumulation and cerebral glucose metabolism were assessed by PET imaging using the radiotracers [11C]Pittsburgh Compound-B (PiB) and [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), respectively. …”
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Chiral Pesticides in Soil and Water and Exchange with the Atmosphere by Terry F. Bidleman, Andi D. Leone, Renee L. Falconer, Tom Harner, Liisa M.M. Jantunen, Karin Wiberg, Paul A. Helm, Miriam L. Diamond, Binh Loo

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Efeitos do Pilates na qualidade do sono em adultos e idosos: uma revisão sistemática by Ozeas de Lima de Lins Filho, Georgia Kelly Ferreira de Queiroz, Jefferson Felipe Julião Santos, Marcos André Moura dos Santos, Luciano Machado Ferreira Tenório de Oliveira, Breno Quintella Farah

“…Todos os estudos utilizaram o Mat Pilates como forma de intervenção e avaliaram a qualidade do sono com questionário Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) ou da Escala de Sonolência de Epworth (ESS). …”
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Clinical Efficacy of Cervical Core Strengthening Exercise in the Treatment of Cervicogenic Headache by PEI Qian, GUO Xianfeng, HUANG Qiang

“…In addition, visual analog scale (VAS) score, Hamilton's Depression Scale-17 (HAMD-17), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Patients' Global Impression of Change (PGIC) scale were evaluated before treatment and at 1 month, 3 months and 12 months of treatment.ResultsIn terms of the intragroup comparison, the VAS score in control group improved at 1 month of treatment compared with that before treatment (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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Characteristics and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest among students under school supervision in Japan: a descriptive epidemiological study (2008–2021) by Kosuke Kiyohara, Mamoru Ayusawa, Masahiko Nitta, Takeichiro Sudo, Taku Iwami, Ken Nakata, Yuri Kitamura, Tetsuhisa Kitamura

“…The primary outcome was one-month survival with favorable neurological outcomes, defined as a Glasgow–Pittsburgh cerebral performance category of 1 or 2. …”
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Clinical Utility of an Alzheimer’s Disease Blood Test Among Cognitively Impaired Patients: Results from the Quality Improvement PrecivityAD2 (QUIP II) Clinician Survey Study by Mark Monane, Demetrius M. Maraganore, Robert M. Carlile, Kim G. Johnson, David A. Merrill, Darren R. Gitelman, Kenneth S. Sharlin, Lawren A. VandeVrede, Kristi K. George, Jimin Wang, Tim West, Leslie Jacobs, Philip B. Verghese, Joel B. Braunstein

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Effect of long-term transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation in multiple system atrophy-cerebellar subtype: a case report by Zhao-Di Wang, Zhao-Di Wang, Xiao-Ping Cheng, Zhen-Yi Liu, Di Wu, Jun Ni, Chuan-Juan Chen, Chuan-Juan Chen, Xin-Yuan Chen, Xin-Yuan Chen

“…Motor symptoms assessments was made by Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA) and Unified Multiple System Atrophy Rating Scale (UMSARS), non-motor symptoms assessment by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA), and Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD). …”
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Multimodal magnetic resonance imaging studies on non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease by Weimin Qi, Xiaoyan Niu, Xiuping Zhan, Yazhou Ren, Jianhang He, Jianxia Li, Xiaolin Hou, Haining Li

“…In PD patients, a negative correlation was found between Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale Part II (UPDRS II) scores and rCBF in the bilateral precuneus. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) scores negatively correlated with rCBF in the left middle temporal gyrus and right middle occipital gyrus. …”
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Clinical observation of sleep therapy instrument in the treatment of sleep disorders in the elderly (睡眠治疗仪辅助治疗老年睡眠障碍临床观察) by WU Nian (吴念), NING Huifen (凌慧芬), CHEN Xi (陈曦)

“…Comprehensive Assessment of elderly patients with sleep disorders, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index Scale (PSQI ), Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) , Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15) were used for comprehensive evaluation. …”
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Sleep quality during pregnancy following assisted reproductive technology and natural conceiving: a prospective birth cohort study by Yidong Xie, Yidong Xie, Ruoti Peng, Li Xiao, Li Xiao, Shangwei Li, Shangwei Li, Xiaohong Li, Xiaohong Li

“…Sleep quality is quantified by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) with a cut-point of 5 indicating poor sleep. …”
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Application of acupuncture therapy combined with Traditional Chinese Medicine nursing for patients with postherpetic neuralgia (针灸治疗联合中医护理在带状疱疹后神经疼痛患者中的应用)... by ZHOU Xu (周旭), LIU Xuan (刘璇)

“…The pain visual analog scale (VAS), self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) were compared between the two groups after 1 week and 2 weeks of intervention. …”
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Real-world effectiveness and causal mediation study of BNT162b2 on long COVID risks in children and adolescentsResearch in context by Qiong Wu, Bingyu Zhang, Jiayi Tong, L. Charles Bailey, H. Timothy Bunnell, Jiajie Chen, Elizabeth A. Chrischilles, Dimitri A. Christakis, Stephen M. Downs, Kathryn Hirabayashi, Aaron D. Mishkin, Abu S.M. Mosa, Nathan M. Pajor, Suchitra Rao, Hanieh Razzaghi, Hayden T. Schwenk, Marion R. Sills, Huiyuan Wang, Linbo Wang, Yudong Wang, Dazheng Zhang, Ting Zhou, Ravi Jhaveri, Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Jeffrey S. Morris, Christopher B. Forrest, Yong Chen

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Second-line treatment patterns and outcomes in advanced HCC after progression on atezolizumab/bevacizumab by Meng Wu, Claudia A.M. Fulgenzi, Antonio D’Alessio, Alessio Cortellini, Ciro Celsa, Giulia F. Manfredi, Bernardo Stefanini, Y. Linda Wu, Yi-Hsiang Huang, Anwaar Saeed, Angelo Pirozzi, Tiziana Pressiani, Lorenza Rimassa, Martin Schoenlein, Kornelius Schulze, Johann von Felden, Yehia Mohamed, Ahmed O. Kaseb, Arndt Vogel, Natascha Roehlen, Marianna Silletta, Naoshi Nishida, Masatoshi Kudo, Caterina Vivaldi, Lorenz Balcar, Bernhard Scheiner, Matthias Pinter, Amit G. Singal, Joshua Glover, Susanna Ulahannan, Fredrich Foerster, Arndt Weinmann, Peter R. Galle, Neehar D. Parikh, Wei-Fan Hsu, Alessandro Parisi, Hong Jae Chon, David J. Pinato, Celina Ang

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Therapeutic Effect of Cardiac Exercise Rehabilitation Program Based on Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test on Patients with Stable Coronary Heart Disease Complicated with Hypertension by TONG Yiman, GAO Min, WANG Xinyu, CAO Yuhan, CHEN Wei

“…The 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36) was used to evaluate quality of life. Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) was used to evaluate sleep quality.ResultsCompared with that before treatment, SBP_rest, DBP_peak, HR_rest, HR_peak and VE/VCO_{2 slope} in the observation group decreased significantly after treatment, HRR₁-HRR₆, VO_{2 peak}, AT, VO₂/HR_peak, METs_peak, Work_peak, SF-36 scores (physical functioning, role physical, bodily pain, general health, social functioning and mental health) increased significantly, PSQI score decreased significantly (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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Effect of Benson’s relaxation training on fatigue and sleep quality of elderly patients after surgery for with glioma (本森放松训练对老年胶质瘤术后患者疲乏程度与睡眠质量的影响)... by GAO Yan (高严), HUANG Na (黄娜), DENG Lan (邓岚)

“…After 4 weeks, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), revised-Piper Fatigue Scale (PFS-R) and patient nursing satisfaction were compared between the two groups. …”
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