Global burden and attributable risk factors of inflammatory cardiomyopathy and myocarditis from 1990 to 2019 by Guilan Wu, Wenlin Xu, Shuyi Wu, Chengfu Guan, Jinhua Zhang

“…Methods We extracted the data on death, disability-adjusted life years (DALY), and age-standardized rate (ASR) of inflammatory cardiomyopathy and myocarditis from the 2019 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, including the comprehensive data and the data classified by age/sex. …”
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Multimorbidity in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and Its Associations With Adverse Cardiovascular Events and Healthcare Costs: A Real-World Evidence Study by Dingwei Dai, Joaquim Fernandes, Xiaowu Sun, Laura Lupton, Vaughn W. Payne, Alexandra Berk

“…Qualified patients were ≥18 years of age and had ≥12 months of health plan enrollment before and after the index date. …”
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Scabies Outbreak Investigation and Risk Factors in East Badewacho District, Southern Ethiopia: Unmatched Case Control Study by Jarso Sara, Yusuf Haji, Achamyelesh Gebretsadik

“…A total of 4,532 scabies cases line listed with overall attack rate of 110/1,000 population. The mean age was 12 years, and most affected age group was 5–14 years. …”
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Sound-Induced Flash Illusions Support Cortex Hyperexcitability in Fibromyalgia by Vincenzo Di Stefano, Salvatore Iacono, Andrea Gagliardo, Bruna Maggio, Giuliana Guggino, Massimo Gangitano, Roberto Monastero, Vito Renato Maggio, Nadia Bolognini, Filippo Brighina

“…Twenty-four patients with FM (mean age 51, 2 ± 10, 6 years; 22 females), seventeen patients with FM and migraine without aura (mean age 47.8 ± 11.4 years; 16 females; 13 chronic, 4 episodic migraine), and forty-one age- and sex-matched HCs (mean age 47.3 ± 6.9 years; 34 females) participated in the study. …”
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Characterization of the Prediabetic State in a Novel Rat Model of Type 2 Diabetes, the ZFDM Rat by Ghupurjan Gheni, Norihide Yokoi, Masayuki Beppu, Takuro Yamaguchi, Shihomi Hidaka, Ayako Kawabata, Yoshikazu Hoshino, Masayuki Hoshino, Susumu Seino

“…Although basal insulin secretion was remarkably high in the isolated pancreatic islets, the responses to both glucose stimulation and the incretin GLP-1 were retained. At 10–12 weeks of age, fa/fa male rats exhibited marked glucose intolerance as well as severe insulin resistance similar to that at the earlier age. …”
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Clinical presentations and outcomes of celiac disease in children and adolescents at a tertiary care center in Lebanon by Dana Andari, Rima Hanna-Wakim, Sarah Khafaja, Nadine Yazbeck

“…The mean age at diagnosis of celiac disease was 6.93 years. …”
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Paediatric norms for photopic electroretinogram testing based on a large cohort of Chinese preschool children by Henry Ho-lung Chan, Sonia Seen-hang Chan, Kai Yip Choi

“…ERG waveform characteristics were extracted, and relationships between ERG, age, SER, AL and K were evaluated.Results A total of 479 children completed the measurements (mean age: 5.0±0.9 years, 45.5% female). …”
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Predictive Factors of Concerns about Falling in People with Parkinson’s Disease: A 3-Year Longitudinal Study by Magnus Lindh-Rengifo, Stina B. Jonasson, Niklas Mattsson, Susann Ullén, Maria H. Nilsson

“…At baseline, their mean (SD) age and PD duration were 68 (±9.0) and 9 (±6.1) years, respectively. …”
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Diagnosis and clinical significance of prostate calcification using computed tomography by Seong Cheol Kim, Tae Young Lee, Woocheol Kang, Hoyoung Bae, Ji Hyung Yoon, Sungchan Park, Kyung Hyun Moon, Sang Hyeon Cheon, Taekmin Kwon

“…Prostate calcification increases with age and is associated with worsened lower urinary tract symptoms.…”
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Ischemic Strokes: Observations from a Hospital Based Stroke Registry in Bangladesh by Nirmalendu Bikash Bhowmik, Aamir Abbas, Mohammad Saifuddin, Md. Rashedul Islam, Rumana Habib, Aminur Rahman, Md. Amirul Haque, Zahid Hassan, Mohammad Wasay

“…Data was gathered from 679 stroke patients. Mean age was 60.6 years. Almost 68% of patients were male. …”
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Epidemiology of Pandemic COVID-19 and Its Association with Some Chronic Diseases in Sulaimani City, Iraq by Shaxawan Azeez Maulood, Muhammed Babakir Mina, Salar Ibrahim Ali

“…The age of majority of patients 159 (42.9%) was between 65-79 years old followed by 50-64 years old 124 (33.4%). …”
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Analysis of Mortality and Survival Rate of Liver Cancer in Zhejiang Province in China: A General Population-Based Study by Fang-Rong Fei, Ru-Ying Hu, Wei-Wei Gong, Jin Pan, Meng Wang

“…The data were collected from the Zhejiang Chronic Disease Surveillance Information and Management System, and the mortality rates of liver cancer were calculated by gender, age, and areas. Chinese population census in 2000 and Segi’s world population were used for age-standardized mortality rate. …”
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Prevalence, Patterns, and Factors Associated with Peripheral Neuropathies among Diabetic Patients at Tertiary Hospital in the Kilimanjaro Region: Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study... by Ahlam A. Amour, Nyasatu Chamba, Johnstone Kayandabila, Isaack A. Lyaruu, Dekker Marieke, Elichilia R. Shao, William Howlett

“…The main risk factors were increasing age, increasing duration of diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. …”
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Variations in carbon stocks across traditional and improved agroforestry in reference to agroforestry and households’ characteristics in Southeastern Ethiopia by Boja Tilinti, Mesele Negash, Zebene Asfaw, Teshale Woldeamanuel

“…The results indicated that biomass carbon in improved HGAF practice was about 11.8 % higher than in traditional ones. Old age HGAF had 8.7 % and 49.4 % significantly higher biomass carbon than medium and young age HGAF, respectively. …”
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Evaluation of diastole by echocardiography for detecting early cardiac dysfunction: an outcome study by Tatiana Kuznetsova, Nicholas Cauwenberghs, František Sabovčik, Yukari Kobayashi, Francois Haddad

“…Here, we evaluated the prevalence of LVDDF and its prognostic significance in the general population using two grading approaches: the 2016 ASE/EACVI recommendations and population‐derived, age‐specific criteria. Methods and results We randomly recruited 1407 community‐dwelling participants (mean age, 51.2 years; 51.1% women; 53.5% with cardiovascular risk factors). …”
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Ishophloroglucin A Isolated from <i>Ishige okamurae</i> Protects Glomerular Cells from Methylglyoxal-Induced Diacarbonyl Stress and Inhibits the Pathogenesis of Diabetic Nephropath... by Chi-Heung Cho, Min-Gyeong Kim, Bomi Ryu, Sang-Hoon Lee

“…We evaluated its anti-glycation ability, intracellular reactive oxygen species scavenging activity, inhibitory effect on the accumulation of intracellular MGO/MGO-derived advanced glycation end products (AGE), and regulation of downstream signaling pathways related to the AGE–receptor for AGEs (RAGE) interaction. …”
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Trend in burden of rheumatoid arthritis in China from 1990 to 2021 by WEN Jiaxin，JIANG Junpeng，FENG Min，SHEN Xiaochen，LI Xiaoyin

“…The crude incidence rates of RA first increased and then decreased with age in 2021, reaching the highest in the age group of 75-<80 years at 34.36/105. …”
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Comparison of the Psychological Symptoms and Disease-Specific Quality of Life between Early- and Typical-Onset Parkinson’s Disease Patients by Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Hasti Hadizadeh, Farzaneh Farhadi, Gholam Ali Shahidi, Ahmad Delbari, Johan Lökk

“…A total number of 140 PD patients with the mean current age of 61.3 (SD=10.4) yr were recruited in this study. …”
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Exploring the Predictive Role of 11‐Oxyandrogens in Diagnosing Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Armaiti Parvez Mody, Maya Beth Lodish, Richard Joseph Auchus, Adina F. Turcu, Fei Jiang, Heather Gibson Huddleston

“…Results Total testosterone, androstenedione, and four 11‐oxyandrogens were significantly elevated in women with PCOS compared to age matched controls, controlling for age and BMI (p < 0.01 for all). …”
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Retrospective review of dosing trends in botulinum toxin injections for the treatment of adductor spasmodic dysphonia in a long-term cohort by Gabrielle French, J. Douglas Bosch, Derrick R. Randall

“…Descriptive statistics, paired t-tests for time between treatments and ANOVA tests were used to evaluate trends in subgroup age. Results One-hundred and twenty-six patients (61% female, mean age = 53 ± 15.5 years) met inclusion criteria and received laryngeal EMG-guided BT injections for up to twenty-two years and as many as 79 treatments. …”
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