Identification of biomarkers for knee osteoarthritis through clinical data and machine learning models by Wei Chen, Haotian Zheng, Binglin Ye, Tiefeng Guo, Yude Xu, Zhibin Fu, Xing Ji, Xiping Chai, Shenghua Li, Qiang Deng

“…Additionally, RPA analysis indicated a higher prevalence of KOA among individuals aged 54 years and older. The integration of the top five clinical variables significantly enhanced the diagnostic accuracy for KOA, particularly when employing the RF model. …”
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Mass Casualty Incident Training in Immersive Virtual Reality: Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Multimethod Performance Indicators by Anke Sabine Baetzner, Yannick Hill, Benjamin Roszipal, Solène Gerwann, Matthias Beutel, Tanja Birrenbach, Markus Karlseder, Stefan Mohr, Gabriel Alexander Salg, Helmut Schrom-Feiertag, Marie Ottilie Frenkel, Cornelia Wrzus

“…MethodsA total of 76 participants (mean age 25.54, SD 6.01 y; 45/76, 59% male) with different medical expertise (MFRs: paramedics and emergency physicians; non-MFRs: medical students, in-hospital nurses, and other physicians) participated in 5 virtual MCI scenarios of varying complexity in a randomized order. …”
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Socioeconomic correlates of mental health in Moldova: A nationally representative door-to-door survey by J.M. van Baar, C. Ciofu, F. Thompson, A.I. Luik, O. Mereanu, J. Kramer, F. Schouten, V. Condrat, L. Voorham, J. Chihai, L. Shields-Zeeman

“…Multivariable regression models were used to compare outcomes across age, gender, ethnicity, education, employment, and household income groups. …”
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Examining differences in exposure to digital marketing of unhealthy foods reported by Canadian children and adolescents in two policy environments by Laura Vergeer, Carolina Soto, Mariangela Bagnato, Elise Pauzé, Ashley Amson, Tim Ramsay, Dana Lee Olstad, Vivian Welch, Monique Potvin Kent

“…Logistic regression and proportional odds models examined differences in exposure by province and age group, adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics and digital device usage. …”
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Sprengel deformity: What is the functional outcome of conservative treatment versus surgical correction? by C. Antfang, A. Frommer, G. Gosheger, G. Toporowski, A. Laufer, J. D. Rölfing, R. Roedl, B. Vogt

“…This retrospective single centre study evaluated 19 patients with 21 Sprengel deformities treated from 2016 to 2023. 11/19 patients had mild ROM limitations of the affected shoulder with a median abduction of 130° (interquartile range (IQR) 100–150) and were treated conservatively. 8/19 patients with severe Sprengel deformity and functional impairment underwent surgery (median age 6 years (IQR 4–6)). Surgery was conducted in a modified technique according to Green. …”
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Spectral Differentiation of Hyperdense Non-Vascular and Vascular Renal Lesions Without Solid Components in Contrast-Enhanced Photon-Counting Detector CT Scans—A Pilot Study by Judith Becker, Laura-Marie Feitelson, Franka Risch, Luca Canalini, David Kaufmann, Ramona Wudy, Bertram Jehs, Mark Haerting, Claudia Wollny, Christian Scheurig-Muenkler, Thomas Kroencke, Florian Schwarz, Josua A. Decker, Stefanie Bette

“…<b>Methods:</b> This retrospective single-center study included 26 patients (mean age 72 years ± 9; 16 male) with 42 hyperdense renal lesions (>20 HU) in a contrast-enhanced Photon-Counting Detector CT scan (PCD-CT) between May and December 2022. …”
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Individual and Combined Effects of Diabetes and Glaucoma on Total Macular Thickness and Ganglion Cell Complex Thickness: A Cross-sectional Analysis by Dhruven Shah, Rita Dhamankar, Vijay Shetty, Suhas S Haldipurkar, Prakash Chipade, Shabnam Tanwar, Prachi Sankhe, Devendra Venkatramani, Paresh Mhatre, Maninder Singh Setia

“…Results: The mean (SD) age of these individuals was 60.7 (10.1) years. …”
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Predatory Functional Response of Harmonia sedecimnotata to Aphis craccivora by Jiaru DENG, Zhiwei LIU, Lizhi HUO, Longhua SUN

“…The predation amount of larvae increased with the increase of age. For the 4th larvae, the handling time (Th) was the shortest, the predation capacity(a/Th) was the highest, and the maximum daily predation was the highest. which were 0.003 d, 379.667 and 333.333 aphids, respectively. …”
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High serum uric acid levels are associated with increased prevalence of gallstones in adult women: a cross-sectional study based on NHANES by Guozheng Lv, Guozheng Lv, Decai Wang, Decai Wang, Yu Huang, Ruizi Shi, Chuan Qin, Xi Chen, Xintao Zeng, Hua Luo, Pei Yang, Sirui Chen, Jianjun Wang, Jianjun Wang

“…Subgroup analyses were performed to investigate associations between SUA levels and age, ethnicity, body mass index, hypertension, and diabetes.ResultsA total of 600 participants self-reported a history of GS. …”
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Unified Mobile App for Streamlining Verbal Autopsy and Cause of Death Assignment in India: Design and Development Study by Harleen Kaur, Stuti Tripathi, Manjeet Singh Chalga, Sudhir K Benara, Amit Dhiman, Shefali Gupta, Saritha Nair, Geetha Menon, B K Gulati, Sandeep Sharma, Saurabh Sharma

“…This questionnaire encompasses the primary signs and symptoms associated with prevalent diseases across all age groups. Traditional methods have primarily involved paper-based questionnaires and physician-coded approaches for COD assignment, which is time-consuming and resource-intensive. …”
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Mid-term outcome and quality of life after Bentall procedure: single-center experience by I. O. Stetsyuk, L. R. Stetsiuk, B. M. Todurov, I. Yu. Mokryk, V. I. Zaviiskyi, I. P. Nechai, V. B. Demyanchuk, O. V. Zelenchuk

“…The research included 55 patients who underwent planned surgical treatment at the Heart Institute of Ministry of Health of Ukraine from 2015 to 2023. The mean age of the 55 patients (53 (96.36 %) males), who underwent the Bentall procedure (composite graft replacement of the aortic root), was 52.36 ± 1.56 years. …”
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Clinicopathological analysis of adrenal intravascular large B-cell lymphoma by LIN Jiaxin, WEI Ran, SHUI Ruohong, LU Hongfen, LI Xiaoqiu, YU Baohua

“…Results: All of the 5 patients were male, with median age 52 years (ranged 50-82 years). Two cases had low-grade fever, 1 case had abdominal pain, 1 case was found by physical examination, and the information of the remaining one was unknown. …”
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Validation of biomarkers and clinical scores for the detection of uterine leiomyosarcoma: a case-control study with an update of pLMS by Marcus Vollmer, Günter Köhler, Julia Caroline Radosa, Marek Zygmunt, Julia Zimmermann, Martina Köller, Christine Seitz, Helena Bralo, Marc Philipp Radosa, Askin Cangül Kaya, Johann Krichbaum, Erich-Franz Solomayer, Lars Kaderali, Zaher Alwafai

“…LDH, NLR, and PLR achieved a diagnostic odds ratios of 18.03, 8.64 and 4.81, respectively. pLMS2 is based on subscores for menopausal status interacting with age, tumor diameter, intermenstrual bleeding, hypermenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, postmenstrual bleeding, rapid tumor growth, and suspicious sonography. …”
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Sex-differences in the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome: results from a large Ontario, Canada worker cohort by Fanni R. Eros, Paul A. Demers, Jeavana Sritharan

“…Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for CTS by occupation and industry, adjusted for age and birth year, stratified by sex. Results A total of 3,224 CTS cases among females (f) and 2,992 cases among males (m) were identified in the cohort. …”
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Faktor Risiko Asma Pada Murid Sekolah Dasar Usia 6-7 Tahun di Kota Padang by Afdal ., Finny Fitry Yani, Darfioes Basir, Rizanda Machmoed

“…Results The prevalence of asthma in elementary school students aged 6-7 years in Padang based on ISAAC questionnaire was 8%. …”
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Prospects for the use of deep brain stimulation in the treatment of Parkinson's disease in Ukraine by K.R. Kostiuk, A.O. Lisianyi, Yu.M. Medvediev, A.O. Popov, V.V. Cheburakhin, V.M. Buniakin, D.A. Tevzadze

“…The study included 566 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), comprising 201 (35.5%) women and 365 (64.5%) men, aged 30 to 79 years (mean age 52.9±8.8 years). Radiofrequency (RF) destruction of the subcortical nuclei was performed on 522 patients: 392 underwent unilateral thalamotomy, 50 underwent bilateral thalamotomy, 36 underwent unilateral pallidotomy, 2 underwent bilateral pallidotomy, 30 under­went thalamotomy combined with contralateral pallidotomy, and 12 underwent thalamotomy combined with contralateral subthalamic nucleus (STN) destruction. …”
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Risk factors for the delayed discharge from anesthesia intensive care unit: a single-center retrospective study by Yue Qian, Jing Hao, Wei Zhu, Yan Yang, Zhuan-yun Zhang, Lu-yang Zhou, Xiao-ping Gu, Zheng-liang Ma, Yu-e Sun

“…It is influenced by various risk factors, including age, ASA physical status classification, BMI, preoperative complications, type of surgery and intraoperative blood loss. …”
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Vegetal and Animal Food Proteins Have a Different Impact in the First Postprandial Hour of Impedance-pH Analysis in Patients with Heartburn by Irene Martinucci, Giada Guidi, Edoardo V. Savarino, Marzio Frazzoni, Salvatore Tolone, Leonardo Frazzoni, Lorenzo Fuccio, Lorenzo Bertani, Giorgia Bodini, Linda Ceccarelli, Vincenzo Savarino, Santino Marchi, Nicola de Bortoli

“…The male/female ratio was 80/85. Mean age was 51.9 ± 12.1 years. Impedance-pH analysis showed that 55/165 patients had pathological AET or a number of refluxes (nonerosive reflux disease (NERD)), 49/165 had normal AET and a number of refluxes but positive symptom-reflux association (hypersensitive esophagus (HE)), and 61/165 had normal AET and a number of refluxes with negative symptom-reflux association (functional heartburn (FH)). …”
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Il luogo e il senso: creazione e significazione degli spazi nel mondo globale by Gambardella, Fabiana, Amodio, Paolo

“…These are the sober word that Victor Hugo makes the priest pronounce when, at the down of modern age, he looked on with prophetic dismay at the advent of printing with movable type, a revolution that would completely transform not only the face and features of the human being, but even the stones, the physical and material space of signification, the dimension of belonging and the sacred, that an “emancipated humanity” would change with the use of reason, undermining every form of dogmatic authority and its symbol. …”
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Transcatheter Closure of Perimembranous and Intracristal Ventricular Septal Defects Using Amplatzer Duct Occluder II in Children by Shenrong Liu, Wenqian Zhang, Junjie Li, Shushui Wang, Mingyang Qian, Jijun Shi, Yumei Xie, Zhiwei Zhang

“…In total, 41 patients underwent transcatheter closure of VSD with the ADO II (28 in pmVSD and 13 in icVSD groups) with a median age of 3.5 years (total range: 0.9 to 12 years) and median weight of 15.0 kg (total range: 10.0 to 43.0 kg). …”
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