Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of a Norwegian version of the Goodman Satisfaction Score (GSS-NO) for patients with total hip and knee arthroplasty by Ingvild Buset Bergvad, Anders Kottorp, Arild Aamodt, Anners Lerdal, Søren T Skou, Maren Falch Lindberg

“…We found no systematic differential item functioning by age, sex, work status, education, cohabitation status, or hip or knee surgery. …”
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Outcomes of the toxic hepatites caused by alcohol surrogates by I. Yu. Pirogova, I. Yu. Ponomareva, S. P. Sinitsyn, Ye. P. Samokhina, A. S. Gorbunova, Ye. Yu. Startseva, V. S. Chulkov, T. F. Kondrat'yeva

“…Retrospective analysis of clinical and laboratory data and survival rates of 80 patients (men 54, women 26, age 32 to 49 years), admitted to the hospital in 2006–2007, with evaluation of outcomes in 2012 was carried out. …”
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Knowledge, attitude, and reasons for non-uptake of human papilloma virus vaccination among nursing students by Soni Chauhan, Surya Kant Tiwari, Vishal Dubey, Pragya Tripathi, Priyanka Pandey, Anuj Singh, Narendra Pal Singh Choudhary

“…Descriptive statistics summarized the data, while binary and multivariable logistic regression analyses identified factors associated with knowledge, attitude, and willingness for HPV vaccination. Results The mean age of the students was 20.98 ± 2.38 years, with the majority being females (81.2%) and unmarried (93.0%). …”
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Extra-Adrenal Retroperitoneal Myelolipoma Resected by Laparoscopy in an Asymptomatic Patient by Gabriel Ambrogi, Maria Madureira Murta, André Silva Guimarães Moeda, Ramon Brandão Barbosa, Israel Rodrigues da Silva, Ana Beatriz Tabosa Negrão Xavier, Matheus Vieira dos Santos, Lucas Martinucci de Oliveira, Bernardo Luiz Campanário Precht, Renato Panhoca, Luis Augusto Seabra Rios

“…It affects more women, with an average age of around 61 years. Histologically, they are composed of mature adipose tissue and hematopoietic cells. …”
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Early Left Ventricular Systolic and Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and Normal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction by Lisulov Popovic Danica, Mirjana Krotin, Marija Zdravkovic, Ivan Soldatovic, Darko Zdravkovic, Milica Brajkovic, Vera Gardijan, Jelena Saric, Ruzica Pokrajac, Dragan Lovic, Predrag Stevanovic, Milina Tancic Gajic, Miodrag Vukcevic

“…Control group consisted of 78 asymptomatic age-matched healthy subjects who did not have any cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. …”
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Association of workforce participation with depression among US older adults: results from NHANES 2005–2018 by Zhenyu Sun, Yi Wang, Xi Chen, Dongfu Qian

“…Abstract Background The challenges of global aging would boost more workforce participation of older adults, and depression rate was increasing among older adults. …”
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Commonly prescribed medications and risk of pneumonia and all-cause mortality in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a UK population-based cohort study by Ann D. Morgan, Georgie M. Massen, Hannah R. Whittaker, Iain Stewart, Gisli Jenkins, Peter M. George, Jennifer K. Quint

“…Results A total of 17,105 people met our study inclusion criteria; 62.6% were male and 15.9% were current smokers. Median age at IPF diagnosis was 76.7 years (IQR: 69.6–82.7). 19.9% were regularly prescribed PPIs, and 16.0% ICS, prior to IPF diagnosis. …”
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Fractal cycles of sleep, a new aperiodic activity-based definition of sleep cycles by Yevgenia Rosenblum, Mahdad Jafarzadeh Esfahani, Nico Adelhöfer, Paul Zerr, Melanie Furrer, Reto Huber, Famke F Roest, Axel Steiger, Marcel Zeising, Csenge G Horváth, Bence Schneider, Róbert Bódizs, Martin Dresler

“…Medicated patients with depression showed longer fractal cycles compared to their unmedicated state (107±51 vs 92±38 min) and age-matched controls (104±49 vs 88±31 min). In conclusion, fractal cycles are an objective, quantifiable, continuous and biologically plausible way to display sleep neural activity and its cycles.…”
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Very Small Embryonic-Like Stem Cells, Endothelial Progenitor Cells, and Different Monocyte Subsets Are Effectively Mobilized in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Patients after G-CSF Tr... by Andrzej Eljaszewicz, Lukasz Bolkun, Kamil Grubczak, Malgorzata Rusak, Tomasz Wasiluk, Milena Dabrowska, Piotr Radziwon, Wojciech Marlicz, Karol Kamiński, Janusz Kloczko, Marcin Moniuszko

“…We used multicolor flow cytometry to quantitate numbers of CD34+ cells, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), VSELs, EPCs, and different monocyte subsets in the peripheral blood of ALL patients and normal age-matched blood donors. Results. We showed that ALL patients following chemotherapy, when compared to healthy donors, presented with significantly lower numbers of CD34+ cells, HSCs, VSELs, and CD14+ monocytes, but not EPCs. …”
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A prediction nomogram for residual after negative pressure aspiration for endogenic cesarean scar ectopic pregnancy: a retrospective study by Yan Lei, Na Zhang, Yu Liu, Xin Du

“…Results Predictive factors included in the nomogram included age (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.220, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.135—1.316), BMI (HR: 0.890, 95% CI: 0.796—0.986), intraoperative major hemorrhage (HR: 4.457, 95% CI: 1.610—12.292), maximum diameter of the gestational sac (HR: 1.572, 95% CI: 1.295, 1.914), and thickness of the remaining muscle layer of the lower uterine segment (HR: 1.572, 95% CI: 0.014, 0.430). …”
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Utilization of cardiopulmonary bypass at radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma with tumour thrombus by Chalairat Suk‐Ouichai, Mitchell M. Huang, Clayton Neill, Christopher K. Mehta, Ashley E. Ross, Shilajit D. Kundu, Kent T. Perry Jr, Duc T. Pham, Hiten D. Patel

“…Results A total of 72 patients with RCC and associated TT were identified. The median age was 67 years. RCC‐related symptoms were present in 83%, and 28% had Levels 3 and 4 thrombi. …”
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Survey of the risk behaviors and mental health of adolescents in Gabon by Joel Fleury Djoba Siawaya, Steeve Minto’o Rogombe, Mah Diawara, Rotimi Myrabelle Avome Houechenou, Nora Sylvana Efire Emagha, Zena Andrews, Lydie Armelle Moukambi, Anicet Christel Maloupazoa Siawaya, Amandine Mveang Nzoghe, Ofilia Mvoundza Ndjindji, Patrick Douada Mouguiama

“…Alcohol increases by 6.1 (p < 0.0001) the odds of being sexually active. The age of the first sexual intercourse is 15.3 ± 1.9 years. …”
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Candida Bloodstream Infection: Changing Pattern of Occurrence and Antifungal Susceptibility over 10 Years in a Tertiary Care Saudi Hospital by Nawaf Alkharashi, Sameera Aljohani, Laila Layqah, Emad Masuadi, Waleed Baharoon, Hamdan AL-Jahdali, Salim Baharoon

“…Three hundred and twenty-four episodes of Candida blood stream infections were identified. Median age of patients was 49.7 SD ± 28.1 years, and 53% of patients were males. …”
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Nomograms Predicting Survival, Recurrence and Beneficiary Identification of Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Treatment-naïve Patients with Rectal Cancer who Underwent Upfront Curative Rese... by Yukihide Kanemitsu, MD, Tomofumi Uotani, MD, Shunsuke Tsukamoto, PhD, Hideki Ueno, PhD, Megumi Ishiguro, PhD, Soichiro Ishihara, PhD, Koji Komori, PhD, Kenichi Sugihara, PhD, Study Group for Nomogram of the Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum

“…In the training cohort, age predicted survival, venous invasion predicted recurrence, and sex, tumor location, histological type, preoperative carcinoembryonic antigen, invasion depth, lymphatic invasion, positive radial margin, and numbers of metastatic nodes and examined nodes predicted both. …”
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Clinical outcomes of a digital musculoskeletal women’s pelvic health program: an observational, longitudinal study with comparison group by Mindy Hong, Rachel Foster Kirk, Bijal Toprani, Cynthia Castro Sweet, Clare Pan, Jeffrey Krauss, Tamara Grisales

“…Results A total of 797 participants (intervention: 495, nonparticipants: 302) were included in the sample. Baseline mean (SD) age was 41.5 (11.7) years and mean pain was 45.7 (18.5) out of 100. …”
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Predictive risk factors for adverse events during tooth extraction among elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases by Shaojun Ma, Xu Chen, Yurun Zhai, Xinyi Sun, Jing Sheng, Yun Sun, Haiya Wang

“…However, no clinical tool has been developed to date to predict the risk of adverse events (AEs) during tooth extraction.Materials and Methods We prospectively enrolled 774 elderly patients (aged ≥ 60 years) with cardiovascular disease (CVD) who were scheduled to undergo tooth extraction at the dental surgery department of Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital from January 2021 to July 2022. …”
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Diabetic retinopathy further increases risk of cardiovascular disease mortality in a high-risk cohort by Richard Kha, Yasemin Kapucu, Mayuri Indrakumar, George Burlutsky, Aravinda Thiagalingam, Pramesh Kovoor, Paul Mitchell, Gerald Liew

“…There were 181 (11.4%) fatal CVD events after 9-years follow-up. After controlling for age, sex, BMI, diabetes, total cholesterol, smoking status, hypertension, previous myocardial infarction and stroke, any DR was associated with 1.8-fold higher risk of CVD mortality (Hazard Ratio [HR] 1.84, 95% Confidence Interval [95% CI: 1.30–2.61]). …”
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Laminoplasty vs laminectomy in the surgical management of spinal intradural extramedullary tumors by Deepak Kumar Singh, Prevesh Kumar Sharma, Vipin Kumar Chand, Kaif Mohammad, Kuldeep Yadav, Neha Singh

“…Results Of the total, there were 23 males and 33 females, with a mean age of 39.47 ± 13.65 years in the laminectomy group and 37.23 ± 12.03 in the laminoplasty group. …”
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Elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor and inflammation in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis: a retrospective dual-center cohort study by Angela Pepe, Cristina Fevola, Daniela Dolce, Silvia Campana, Novella Ravenni, Giovanni Taccetti, Donatello Salvatore, Vito Terlizzi

“…Results: Sixty-six patients (30 males, median age: 12 years, F508del homozygous: 23) were included. …”
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COVID-19 Viral Pneumonia Complicated with Acute Pulmonary Embolism: A Descriptive Study by Hoda Salah Darwish, Mohamed Yasser Habash, Waleed Yasser Habash

“…This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of our hospital, and the patient consent was waived. Results. The mean age of the included patients was 49 ± 11 years; the youngest was 22 years, and the oldest was 64 years. …”
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