The Predictive Value of Lactate Dehydrogenase for Viral Suppression in Newly Diagnosed People Living With HIV on Antiretroviral Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Jin Y, Wang Y, Xia T, Ma Q

“…Compared to the low LDH tertile, the middle and high LDH tertiles exhibited longer times to first viral suppression (38 vs 84 vs 88 days, respectively, P < 0.001). …”
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Effect of behavior modification combined with health belief model education on adherence to skin moisturizing care in patients with psoriasis vulgaris by Luping Tian, Yuhua Weng, Aiqing Xu, Yuefang Chen, Juping Tang

“…Furthermore, MORISKY scores for medication timing, frequency, and self-discontinuation decreased in both groups post-intervention, with the experimental group recording lower scores than the control group. …”
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A randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of standardized tai chi in prefrail older adults with immunosenescence: design and protocol by Wen Zhong, Wei Huang, Hua Deng, Shuang Qiu, Qiyue Yang, Huanan Jia

“…Furthermore, the proper timing of the exercise regimen for maximizing the therapeutic effect of tai chi has also been explored. …”
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Logistics Management Information System (LMIS) for Health Commodities at Public Health Facilities in Amhara National Regional State of Ethiopia: A Data Quality Evaluation Survey by Mekonen ZT, Cho DJ, Fenta TG

“…Additionally, the Report and Requisition Form (RRF) showed trends of timely submission, with the overall mean percentage completeness for the seven tracer medicines at 90.2%. …”
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New methods of treatment for severe and moderate postoperative pain syndrome in patients with cancer by D.V. Dmytriiev, M.M. Barsa

“…Both groups received medications in accordance with multimodal analgesia protocols (paracetamol 1 g four times daily, dexketoprofen 50 mg three times daily, additional doses of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) as needed) and morphine as needed at a maximum dose of 40 mg/day. …”
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Comparison of the trend of suicide before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Iran from 2016 to 2023 by Ehsan Movahed, Asma Afsharmanesh, Hadiseh Aqarabi, Rasoul Raesi, Kiavash Hushmandi, Salman Daneshi

“…The most affected demographic was young adults aged 19 to 34, whose suicide rates increased by a factor of 9.8, while women experienced a notable rise of 28.2 times in suicide rates after the pandemic. Additionally, uneducated individuals had the highest suicide rates, with a dramatic increase of 35.8 times among illiterate individuals after COVID-19, highlighting the urgent need for targeted mental health interventions and support systems. …”
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Cognitive functions and their relation to balance and agility in athletes from different sports branches by Dilara Özen Oruk, Kılıçhan Bayar, Özcan Saygın, Banu Bayar

“…While Prokin-TecnoBody was used to measure the balance skills, Illinois Agility Test (IAT) was used for agility. IAT times showed positive weak correlations with both the absolute error-score (AES) at 8mph (r=0.260, p=0.040) and mediolateral balance score (ML)(r=0.255, p=0.043). …”
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Picosecond Laser Etching of Glass Spiral Microfluidic Channel for Microparticles Dispersion and Sorting by Rong Chen, Shanshan He, Xiansong He, Jin Xie, Xicong Zhu

“…It was shown that reducing the laser power and accumulation times alongside increasing the scanning speed effectively reduced the channel depth and surface roughness. …”
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Impact of medical resources in residential area on unmet healthcare needs: Findings from a multi-level analysis of Korean nationwide data by Seo Yeong Choi, Il Yun, Jong Youn Moon

“…In these areas, those with the lowest income were 1.77 times more likely to experience unmet healthcare than those with the highest income. …”
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Characterization and assessment of hydrogen leakage mechanisms in salt caverns by Mojtaba Ghaedi, Raoof Gholami

“…It was also noticed that most of the leaked hydrogen would flow back into the salt cavern at times when the pressure in the salt cavern is lower than the surrounding pressure, e.g. during production and subsequent idle times. …”
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Use of DIABAX feed additive and a biogenic stimulant in calves during their rehabilitation after gastrointestinal infections by N. V. Shanshin

“…The tests showed that co-administration of the biogenic stimulant and DIABAX feed additive (in О-2 group) contributed to 100% survival rate in calves, as well as significant increase in calcium and magnesium levels in animal sera by 14.5–23.8% and 61.2–79.5%, respectively, as compared with the initial levels and the levels in control group; increase in albumin and α-globulin protein fraction concentrations by 10.1% and 43.2% (p ≤ 0.05), respectively, albumin/globulin ratio – by 17.5%, color index – by 1.1%, increase in the total immunoglobulin G amount by 2.7 times as compared to the initial values. Daily administration of DIABAX feed additive to calves of О-1 group for 15 days reduced recurrent disease rate in the calves by 14.4%, resulted in significant increase in calcium and magnesium levels in sera by 10.1% and 75.0% (p ≤ 0.05), respectively, as well increase in immunoglobulin G level by 2.3 times, erythrocyte level – by 3.8%, hemoglobin level – by 8.0%, leukocyte level – by 21.8%, albumin/globulin ratio – by 35.1% in sera as compared to initial values.…”
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Varying pixel resolution significantly improves deep learning-based carotid plaque histology segmentation by Yurim Lee, Rashid Al Mukaddim, Tenzin Ngawang, Shahriar Salamat, Carol C. Mitchell, Jenna Maybock, Stephanie M. Wilbrand, Robert J. Dempsey, Tomy Varghese

“…To address this, we sampled 1944 regions of interests from 323 whole slide images and drastically varied their pixel resolution from $$1.96\upmu m \times 1.96\upmu m$$ to $$26.5\upmu m \times 26.5\upmu m$$ as we anticipated that varying the pixel resolution of histology images can provide neural networks more ’context’ that pathologists also rely on. …”
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Factors Associated with Visit-to-Visit Variability of Blood Pressure Measured as Part of Routine Clinical Care among Patients Attending Cardiology Outpatient Department of a Tertia... by Thirunavukarasu Kumanan, Vathulan Sujanitha, Mahesan Guruparan, Nadarajah Rajeshkannan

“…Further multivariate regression analysis revealed that comorbidities such as DM and CKD have 1.561 times and 5.999 times more risk to show high variability, respectively. …”
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Evaluation of the Magnet Breakaway Force Measurement Accuracy of the NT-800 Sensors for Early Detection of Defects of Their Manufacturing by A. Yu. Kutsepau, A. P. Kren, Y. V. Hnutsenka

“…Thus the absolute measurement error for a sensor with a poorly made sensitive element turned out to be approximately 3 times higher in the range of 200– 300 MPa than that for a sensor with good precision parameters.…”
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Persistent Post-COVID-19 Olfactory Dysfunction and Its Association with Autonomic Nervous System Function: A Case–Control Study by Lojine Ayoub, Abeer F. Almarzouki, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Mohamed A. Bendary

“…Post-COVID-19 patients reported 36.6 times more smell issues and 8.22 times more taste issues than controls. …”
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Phenotypic Definition of the Progenitor Cells with Erythroid Differentiation Potential Present in Human Adult Blood by Valentina Tirelli, Barbara Ghinassi, Anna Rita Migliaccio, Carolyn Whitsett, Francesca Masiello, Massimo Sanchez, Giovanni Migliaccio

“…Under HEMA conditions, CD34posCD36neg, CD34posCD36pos, CD34negCD36low and CD34negCD36neg cells generated EBs with fold-increases of ≈9,000, 100, 60 and 1, respectively, and maturation times (day with >10% CD36highCD235ahigh cells) of 10–7 days. …”
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Second harmonic generation imaging reveals entanglement of collagen fibers in the elephant trunk skin dermis by Andrew K. Schulz, Magdalena Plotczyk, Sophia Sordilla, David C. A. Gaboriau, Madeline Boyle, Krishma Singal, Joy S. Reidenberg, David L. Hu, Claire A. Higgins

“…We find the dorsal skin of the elephant trunk can have keratin armor layers over 2 mm thick, which is nearly 100 times the thickness of the equivalent layer in human skin. …”
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Association Between Walking Speed and Urinary Incontinence in the Older Women. Which Patients Should be Referred to Geriatricians? by Volkan Atmis, Basak Guler

“…Patients with urinary incontinence detected to have a longer duration of Timed Up and Go test, higher Geriatric Depression Scale score and BMI with p-values 0.005, 0.004, and <0.01 respectively; and lower Activities of Daily Living (Katz-Activities of Daily Living) score with a p-value of <0.01 results. …”
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Interaction of Hypertension and Insulin Resistance Exacerbates the Occurrence of Diabetes Mellitus in Healthy Individuals by Baomin Wang, Yumei Yang, Xiaomu Li

“…After adjusting for gender and age, for every unit increase in HOMA-IR, the risk of developing newly diagnosed diabetes increased 9.67 times [OR: 9.670, 95% CI 5.086-18.384, P<0.001]. …”
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The Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Flow Heterogeneity During Water Flooding for an Artificial Core Plate Model by Chen Jiang, Qingjie Liu, Kaiqi Leng, Zubo Zhang, Xu Chen, Tong Wu

“…During the drastic change stage, the fluctuation amplitude of the water-phase permeability variation coefficient is 114.5 times that of the relative stable phase, while the fluctuation amplitude of the oil-phase permeability variation coefficient is 5.2 times that of the stable stage. …”
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