Coronary Heart Disease in Postmenopausal Women with Type II Diabetes Mellitus and the Impact of Estrogen Replacement Therapy: A Narrative Review by Marouane Boukhris, Salvatore Davide Tomasello, Francesco Marzà, Sonia Bregante, Francesca Romana Pluchinotta, Alfredo Ruggero Galassi

“…Type II diabetes mellitus is a major cardiovascular risk factor and there is some evidence that the risk conferred by diabetes is greater in women than in men. …”
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Level of Physical Activity in Adolescents who Attend Secondary School in Lima Institute by Richart Gabriel López Salazar, Carlos David Neyra Rivera, Ericson Gutiérrez Ingunza

“…<strong>Foundation:</strong> the lack of physical activity is linked to high levels of sedentary behavior, which constitutes an important risk factor for the development of chronic diseases such as: overweight and obesity, which in adolescents has become a health problem worldwide. …”
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Clinical Significance of the Prognostic Nutritional Index in Predicting Delirium among Critically Ill Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Feifei Xu, Xi Zhong

“…PNI is an independent risk factor for the incidence of delirium in adults in the ICU.…”
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Management of Delayed Onset Postoperative Hemorrhage after Anastomotic Urethroplasty by L. A. Bertrand, S. P. Elliott, B. N. Breyer, B. A. Erickson

“…Bleeding is a presumed risk factor for any surgical procedure but perioperative hemorrhage after an EPA requiring hospitalization and/or reintervention is unreported with no known consensus on the best course for management. …”
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Medication adherence and non-adherence in arterial hypertension: a narrative review by Claudio Tomasino, Marco Tomasino

“…Systemic hypertension, a significant global health issue and a leading risk factor for cardiovascular mortality affects half of the adult population, with increasing prevalence notably in low- and middle-income countries. …”
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Self-preserving behavior in the student environment as a way to cope with bad habits by Svetlana A. Tyaglova, Anton A. Ryabykh

“…Medicine has proved that bad habits as a risk factor for various infectious diseases and deterioration of all body systems functionality result in reducing the quality and duration of human life. …”
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The Takeda Three Colors Combination Test: A Screening Test for Detection of Very Mild Alzheimer’s Disease by Shinya Takeda, Kayo Tajime, Toshiatsu Taniguchi

“…It is expected that AD, for which aging is a risk factor, will increase in the future. Because early detection of AD has become increasingly important, promoting demand for screening tests with adequate sensitivity. …”
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Association between Dental Caries and Obesity in Children and Young People: A Narrative Review by Abdulmonem A. Alshihri, Helen J. Rogers, Mohammed A. Alqahtani, Mohammed S. Aldossary

“…Both obesity and dental caries are multifactorial diseases, and their association is far more complex that can be explained by a single common risk factor, presenting evidence for the complexity of this association.…”
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Higher Perceived Stress Increases the Subjective Reporting of ADHD: A Sample of Medical Students by Gülsüm Akdeniz, Elif Akçay, Gulsen Yilmaz, Pınar Özışık

“…High levels of perceived stress, state-trait anxiety, and current and childhood ADHD symptoms were possible risk factors; however, only higher perceived stress was a risk factor for the possibility of reporting themselves as ADHD in medical school students [odds ratio [OR] =1.184, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [1.015; 1.381]]. …”
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Mediastinal Hydatid Cyst Rupturing into the Pleural Cavity Associated with Pneumothorax: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Mohd Shameem, Rakesh Bhargava, Zuber Ahmad, Nazish Fatima, Naveed Nazir Shah

“…Living in a rural area is an important risk factor for the disease. Hydatid cysts are usually located in the liver, lungs and brain. …”
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Prevalence of Plaque Induced Gingivitis Among Dental Students in College of Dentistry, Hawler Medical University. by Zainab Salim Mahmood, Qehraman Ismayil Ahmed, Ahmed Luqman Saifullah

“… Background and objective: Gingival inflammation in response to bacterial plaque accumulation is considered the key risk factor for the onset of periodontitis. Dental students should present to patients as good role models in their oral health behavior. …”
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Global stability for a mosquito-borne disease model with continuous-time age structure in the susceptible and relapsed host classes by Maria Guadalupe Vazquez-Peña, Cruz Vargas-De-León, Jorge Velázquez-Castro

“…Age has been identified as a key risk factor for these diseases, and another phenomenon reported is relapse, which involves the reappearance of symptoms after a symptom-free period. …”
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Stratification of Anatomical Imaging Features Between High-Risk and Non-High-Risk Groups in Neuroblastoma by Haoru Wang MD, Xin Chen MD, Ling He MD, Jinhua Cai MD, PhD

“…Background This study compared anatomical imaging features between high-risk and non-high-risk groups in neuroblastoma with at least one image-defined risk factor (IDRF). It also assessed the diagnostic performance of these features in identifying the high-risk group. …”
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Uterine Rupture on MRI Presenting as Nonspecific Abdominal Pain in a Primigravid Patient with 28-Week Twins Resulting in Normal Neurodevelopmental Outcomes at Age Two by Kathryn L. Ponder, Rosa Won, Laurel Clymer

“…Multiple gestation is a risk factor. This report adds to a handful of cases in which a history of endometriosis or extrauterine pelvic surgery was also present. …”
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Systemic lupus erythematosus is associated with an increased risk of cervical artery dissection by Robert J. Trager, Benjamin P. Lynn, Anthony N. Baumann, Eric Chun-Pu Chu

“…These findings support the hypothesis that SLE is a risk factor for CeAD. Additional research is needed to identify the mechanisms that may underly the SLE-CeAD association and examine the potential association between other autoimmune diseases and CeAD.…”
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Low Expression of FFAR2 in Peripheral White Blood Cells May Be a Genetic Marker for Early Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction by Jianjun Ruan, Heyu Meng, Xue Wang, Weiwei Chen, Xiaomin Tian, Fanbo Meng

“…Low expression of the FFAR2 gene in peripheral blood is an independent risk factor for AMI. Hence, it may also be a potential biomarker to predict AMI.…”
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Fibrinogen-albumin ratio predicts treatment response in phospholipase A2 receptor-associated membranous nephropathy with nephrotic syndrome by Suyan Duan, Si Chen, Chen Chen, Fang Lu, Ying Pan, Yifei Lu, Qing Li, Simeng Liu, Bo Zhang, Huijuan Mao, Changying Xing, Yanggang Yuan

“…Higher levels of FAR were identified as an independent risk factor for NR, and the high-FAR group was associated with a 2.27 times higher likelihood of NR than the low-FAR group (HR 2.27, 95% CI 1.01, 5.13, p = 0.048). …”
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Peripheral blood immunoinflammatory biomarkers: prospective predictors of postoperative long-term survival and chronic postsurgical pain in breast cancer by Baoli Li, Li Che, Huixian Li, Fangdi Min, Bolun Ai, Linxin Wu, Taihang Wang, Peixin Tan, Bingbing Fu, Jiashuo Yang, Yi Fang, Hui Zheng, Tao Yan

“…Multivariate Cox regression analysis revealed that only an elevated preoperative SIRI was an independent risk factor for postoperative DFS (HR=8.890, P=0.038). …”
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Prognostic value of intraductal carcinoma subtypes and postoperative radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer by Fang Cao, Qing Li, Tianyu Xiong, Yingjie Zheng, Tian Zhang, Mulan Jin, Liming Song, Nianzeng Xing, Yinong Niu

“…Multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that pattern 2 was a risk factor for biochemical recurrence and death. Other BCR-related risk factors in the research: Gleason grading group 5 (HR = 3.343, 95% CI: 1.616–6.916, P = 0.001), PM (HR = 2.124, 95% CI: 1.044–4.320,P = 0.038) and PORT (HR = 0.266, 95%CI: 0.109–0.647, P = 0.004). …”
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A multicenter retrospective study of early cardiac toxicity in operable breast cancer patients receiving concurrent dual or mono anti-HER2 therapy with postoperative radiation ther... by Jing Yang, Meng-Yun Zhou, Bo Yu, Qing Lin, Yuan Yao, Hua-Ling Wu, Qi-Wei Zhu, Ming Ye, Hua-Ying Xie, Jian-Wei Wu, Gang Cai, Rong Cai, Wei-Xiang Qi, Jia-Yi Chen, Lu Cao

“…Cardiac radiation exposure remains the primary risk factor for early toxicity.…”
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