Quantifying the Impact of Obesity Category on Major Chronic Diseases in Canada by Ying Jiang, Yue Chen, Douglas Manuel, Howard Morrison, Yang Mao, Obesity Working Group

“…We used logistic regression models to identify potential risk factors for the obesity levels and to estimate adjusted odds ratios (ORs) for major chronic diseases related to each level. …”
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Acute myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation in young patient with Bardet – Biedl syndrome by I.M. Sichkaruk, O.V. Khrystyuk, M.Ye. Romaniv, O.A. Vasylkova, O.S. Kargol, M.M. Pavelko, A.V. Yagensky

“…Active treatment of all risk factors along with monitoring of laboratory parameters in adolescents and young men with metabolic disorders, especially obesity and genetic diseases accompanied by metabolic disorders, is a prerequisite for prevention of coronary artery disease and, in particular, MI at young age.…”
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Biopsychosocial strategy to avoid subsequent pregnancy in adolescence by Rogelio Bárbaro González Pérez, Mallelin Rodríguez Mateo, José Alejandro Concepción Pacheco, Gladys Alejandra Rojas Sánchez, Juan Carlos Mirabal Requena, Belkis Alvarez Escobar

“…Background: Subsequent adolescent pregnancy is a social problem, also one of the main biopsychosocial risk factors. Objective: To evaluate the biopsychosocial strategy for the subsequent adolescent pregnancy prevention, after being applied in the community. …”
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Survey of Traveler’s Diarrhea: Epidemiology and Testing Reveal the Source by Zhenguo Gao, Muti Mahe, Shabiremu Tuohetamu, Fang Li, Jian Zhang, Yidan Xia, Xiaona Sun, Abuzhalihan Naerkezi, Ruifang Huang, Hongbin Liu, Daxin Ni, Rong Zhang

“…To understand the causes and transmission routes of, as well as risk factors, for a Salmonella outbreak in a tour group. …”
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Knowledge of pediatric nursing professionals about infiltration and extravasation in newborns and children by Erika Anny Costa Cerqueira, Isaiane Santos Bittencourt, Mariana de Oliveira Lima Caldas, Bianka Sousa Martins Silva, Bruna Figueiredo Manzo, Patrícia Kuerten Rocha, Luciano Marques dos Santos

“…Results: regarding the concept, signs/symptoms, and management of complications, the rate of correct answers was considered low. Regarding risk factors, correct answer rates were medium or high. …”
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Fatal Basilar Thrombosis Possibly Related to Minor Cervical Trauma: A Case Report by Elmaz Shaqiri, Gentian Vyshka, Admir Sinamati, Besim Ymaj, Zija Ismaili

“…Minor injuries, such as slight whiplashes, abrupt neck movements, neck trauma related to the slowing down of the vehicles, and critical neck positioning, can all of them explain a thrombotic event in the basilar artery, leading to a fatal occurrence. Other risk factors may obviously concur, but their importance seems unclear.…”
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Gender-based violence and child nutrition in fragile settings: exploring intersections and opportunities for evidence generation by Sarah R Meyer, Luissa Vahedi, Elisabeth Roesch, Christine Heckman, Silvia Bhatt Carreno, Andrew Beckingham, Megan Gayford, Manuela Orjuela-Grimm

“…In settings of fragility (eg, weak governance and humanitarian emergencies), risk factors for GBV are exacerbated while protective factors are eroded. …”
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Inflammatory Mechanisms Associated with Skeletal Muscle Sequelae after Stroke: Role of Physical Exercise by Hélio José Coelho Junior, Bruno Bavaresco Gambassi, Tiego Aparecido Diniz, Isabela Maia da Cruz Fernandes, Érico Chagas Caperuto, Marco Carlos Uchida, Fabio Santos Lira, Bruno Rodrigues

“…Besides being associated with cardiovascular risk factors, proinflammatory cytokines seem to play a key role in muscle atrophy by regulating the pathways involved in this condition. …”
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Competing Risks in Accelerated Life Testing: A Study on Step-Stress Models with Tampered Random Variables by Hanan Haj Ahmad, Ehab M. Almetwally, Dina A. Ramadan

“…This study introduces a novel approach to accelerated life test experiments by examining competing risk factors using the Tampered Random Variable (TRV) model. …”
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Polyvascular Disease in Patients Presenting with Acute Coronary Syndrome: Its Predictors and Outcomes by Hassan Al Thani, Ayman El-Menyar, Khalid F. AlHabib, Ahmed Al-Motarreb, Ahmad Hersi, Hussam AlFaleh, Nidal Asaad, Shukri Al Saif, Wael Almahmeed, Kadhim Sulaiman, Haitham Amin, Alawi A. Alsheikh-Ali, Khalid AlNemer, Jassim Al Suwaidi

“…Patients with PolyVD were older and more likely to have cardiovascular risk factors. On presentation, those patients were more likely to have atypical angina, high resting heart rate, high Killip class, and GRACE risk scoring. …”
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Sonographic Fetal Death in Goats in Khartoum State, Sudan: A Cross-Sectional Study by A. S. Aban, A. M. Almubarak, N. A. Abass, M. E. Badawi, M. T. Ibrahim, R. M. Abdelghafar

“…In order to determine the prevalence of fetal mortality and investigate hypothesized risk factors associated with its occurrence in goats, 962 female goats were studied using ultrasound. …”
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Impact of maternal and offspring smoking and breastfeeding on oesophageal cancer in adult offspring by Yixue Wang, Hongru Sun, Gen Li, Jingxue Xu, Siyu Wang, Shijie Zhang, Tianle Zhou, Tianshu Han, Changhao Sun, Jianqun Ma, Xiaoyuan Wang, Hang Yin

“…Abstract Numerous risk factors for oesophageal cancer are linked to lifestyle habits, but the role of early-life factors in its incidence and mortality is unclear. …”
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Investigation of Viral, Bacterial and Parasitic Zoonotic Diseases in Rodents in Turkey by Mehmet Ozkan Timurkan, Esin Guven, Seyda Cengiz, Hakan Aydın, Ridvan Kirman, Hamza Avcioglu

“…Conclusions Rodents, which are pathogen carriers and potential risk factors, are thought to may act as reservoirs for hantavirus and tularaemia in the study area. …”
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Umbilical Coiling Index as a Marker of Perinatal Outcome: An Analytical Study by T. Chitra, Y. S. Sushanth, S. Raghavan

“…Its association with various maternal and perinatal risk factors were noted. The statistical tests were the Chi-square test and assessed with SPSS version 13.0 software and statistically analyzed. …”
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Case Report: Dangerous liaisons between splenectomy and eltrombopag-induced chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in patients with immune thrombocytopenia: report of two ca... by Roberto Castelli, Enrico Atzori, Alessandro Palmerio Delitala, Salvatore Antonio Masala, Valentina Micheluzzi, Enrico Ponti, Enrico Ponti, Giuseppe Sanna, Dante Castro, Antonio Gidaro, Mattia Donadoni, Roberto Manetti, Pierluigi Merella, Nicia Isabella Profili, Andrea Maria D'Armini, Gavino Casu, Gavino Casu

“…Consequently, the patients were referred for surgical pulmonary thromboendarterectomy therapy as suggested.ConclusionIn older patients, those with a history of thrombotic manifestations, or those with high-risk factors, clinicians should evaluate and monitor the risk of thrombotic events and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension when treating primary immune thrombocytopenia with splenectomy and Eltrombopag.…”
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PEMANFAATAN POSBINDU PTM OLEH PASIEN HIPERTENSI PESERTA BPJS KESEHATAN DI PUSKESMAS ARO by Nanda Reka Wahyu Ningsih, Rumita Ena Sari, Rizalia Wardiah, M. Ridwan, Risty Ivanti

“…There are efforts to prevent and early detection of NCDs, namely the Integrated Development Post for Non-Communicable Diseases which is a form of community health-based effort under the guidance of the puskesmas in controlling PTM risk factors such as hypertension. This study aims to determine how the utilization of PTM Posbindu by hypertensive patients participating in BPJS Health at Aro Health Center in 2021. …”
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A pilot, four-week, dietary program with targeted nutraceuticals improves cardiometabolic functioning, metabolic transformation, and gut health by Wei Gao, Joseph J. Lamb, David Graham, Bhargavi Manda, Clinton J. Dahlberg, E. Wesley Huff, Michael Saunders, Matthew L. Tripp

“…Thus combining targeted nutraceutical supplementation with a low-glycemic load food plan and exercise may represent a novel nutritional approach to improving the body's ability to modulate the toxicity of pollutants and reducing cardiometabolic risk factors in generally healthy overweight persons.…”
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Enhanced thyroid disease prediction using ensemble machine learning: a high-accuracy approach with feature selection and class balancing by Md. Rezaul Islam, Aniruddha Islam Chowdhury, Sharmin Shama, Md. Masudul Hasan Lamyea

“…By leveraging machine learning, we can identify key risk factors and improve diagnostic accuracy. To achieve optimal prediction outcomes, we evaluated seventeen machine learning models and implemented an Ensemble ML classifier using a hard voting strategy. …”
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Pseudomonas mendocina bacteraemia secondary to cellulitis – a report and brief series of cases by Jorge Reis, Francisca Carmo, Inês Soares, Catarina Salvado, Mariana Fidalgo

“…Case description: An 86-year-old Caucasian male, with several vascular risk factors (type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, coronary heart disease and heart failure), who presented long-standing lower limb phlyctens for which he was being treated, developed lower limb cellulitis. …”
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Emerging nanomedicine strategies for hepatocellular carcinoma therapy by Chen Guo, Jiayu Zhang, Xiaomeng Cai, Rui Dou, Jiaruo Tang, Zhengyuan Huang, Xueting Wang, Yan Guo, Hanqing Chen, Jun Chen

“…Abstract Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a prevalent malignant tumor with a range of risk factors, including viral infections, alcoholic liver disease, exposure to fungal toxins, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. …”
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