Evaluation of Mannheim Peritonitis Index Score for predicting the outcomes in patients with peritonitis by Raiba Deshmukh, Avishkar K Barase, Rutik P Gandhi, Aniket Chaware, Avinash Dhumal

“…Out of these, Mannheim Peritonitis Index (MPI) is a simple and clinical parameter-based system available for prognostication of outcomes in patients of peritonitis in all age groups. Material and Methods: In this prospective observational study, 58 patients (age group > 12 years) with perforative peritonitis admitted to a tertiary care teaching hospital were enrolled. …”
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Adverse childhood experiences, sleep quality/duration and later-life lower extremity function among older adults in China: evidence from CHARLS by Jiaqiang Xiao, Xiaosheng Dong, Meng Ding, Tao Kong

“…Methods This study included 4,439 participants aged 60 years or older (mean age: 67.2 ± 5.7 years) from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) 2015 national survey and the 2014 Life History Survey. …”
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Multidrug Resistant Enteric Bacteria from Cancer Patients Admitted in Douala Laquintinie Hospital, Littoral Region of Cameroon by Michael F. Kengne, Ornella D. Tsobeng, Ballue S. T. Dadjo, Victor Kuete, Armelle T. Mbaveng

“…Among all participants in this study, 62.13% were female and 37.87% were male. The average age of the participants was 46.38 ± 15.81 years, with a minimum age of 10 years and a maximum age of 84 years. …”
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Prevalence of HPV in a Peruvian Healthcare Network: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study by Jhajaira M. Araujo MSc, Maria Ramon-Cotrina Br, Rosa Quispe-Martinez MD, Mayra Rios-Rios Br, Maribel Quispe-Gonzaga Br, Carlos O. Saldaña-Reyes Br, Paula Medina PhD, Melanie Cornejo PhD, Joseph A. Pinto MSc, Richard Dyer MD

“…HPV infection was found to be more frequent among women in the 31–35 years age group.…”
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Shoulder Rotation Range of Motion and Serve Speed in Adolescent Male Volleyball Athletes: A Cross-Sectional Study by Rafael Telles, Ronaldo Alves Cunha, André Lima Yoshimura, Alberto Castro Pochini, Benno Ejnisman, Renato Rozenblit Soliaman

“…However, multiple analysis confirmed only age (*p* < 0.001) and BMI to be associated with ball velocities (inside court *p* = 0.034; outside court *p* = 0.031)…”
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Establishing Normal Variances and Expectations for Quadriceps Limb Symmetry Index Benchmarks Based on Time from Surgery After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. by Sean Hazzard, Saoirse Connolly, Ashley Wiater, Isabella Sprague, Emily Doolan-Roy, Rachel Lampros, Peter D Asnis

“…Patients either received bone-tendon-bone (BTB) autograft (n=118) or BTB allograft (n=46) for their ACL graft. Average age was 31.1 years-of-age (SD: 13.6). Males undergoing ACLR using BTB autograft (n=53) were able to achieve 80% quadriceps symmetry earlier than females (n=65) (5.7 months vs 7.1 months), were cleared to return to run sooner (5.6 months vs 6.8 months) and passed an FMA exam earlier (8.5 months vs 10 months). …”
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Twelve-Week Quadriceps Strength as A Predictor of Quadriceps Strength At Time Of Return To Sport Testing Following Bone-Patellar Tendon-Bone Autograft Anterior Cruciate Ligament Re... by Joseph P Hannon, Sharon Wang-Price, Shiho Goto, Steven Singleton, Lindsey Dietrich, James Bothwell, Curtis Bush, Craig Garrison

“… # Study Design Cohort Study # Methods A total of 120 participants (males = 55; females =65) were enrolled in the study (age = 16.1±1.4 yrs; height = 1.72±10.5 m; mass = 70.7±16.3 kg). …”
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Households Sociodemographic Profile as Predictors of Health Insurance Uptake and Service Utilization: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Municipality of Ghana by Eric Badu, Peter Agyei-Baffour, Isaac Ofori Acheampong, Maxwell Preprah Opoku, Kwasi Addai-Donkor

“…Overall, 57.9% of respondents were males, and average age was 34 years. Households’ profiles such as age, gender, education, marital status, ethnicity, and religion were key predictors of NHIS active membership. …”
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Association of Axial Length and Refraction with Near Horizontal Heterophoria in Chinese Children: An Observational Cross-Sectional Study by Xiaoqin Chen, Yanglin Jiang, Qian Fan, Lihua Li, Wenli Lu, Yan Wang

“…Analyses were adjusted for age to account for differences in the age distribution of the sample. …”
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Changement climatique et atrophie des masses glaciaires : quelles mutations pour les paysages islandais ? by Marie Chenet, Erwan Roussel

“…The Global Warming which occurs since the end of the Little Ice Age in Iceland leads to the retreat of the glacier fronts. …”
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News consumption patterns in Iceland by Jóhannsdóttir Valgerður

“…News consumption has changed dramatically in the digital age, becoming increasingly complicated and fragmented. …”
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Reseña: Reflexiones políticas a partir de dos libros geográficos by Horacio Capel

“…España: Geografías para un Estado posmoderno. Barcelona: AGE/Geocrítica, 300 pp. Retrieved from http://www.ub.edu/geocrit/estadoposmoderno.pdf …”
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The Regularity of the Site of Impaction in Recurrent Gallstone Ileus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Reported Cases by Nasser A. N. Alzerwi, Bandar Idrees, Saeed Alsareii, Yaser Aldebasi, Afnan Alsultan

“…Risk factors for mortality and site of impaction were examined, and a subgroup analysis was performed for age, sex, and site of impaction (jejunum, ileum, or others). …”
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Frequency And Type Of Refractive Errors Among The Teenage Groups Presenting In Eye OPD In Shaikh Zayed Hospital Lahore by Sumaira Rahim, Irum Abbas, Atif Mansoor Ahmed, Zyiemah Arif, Abdul Qudos, Tehmina Imdad

“…Participants were in the age group 11-19 years. Visual acuity was checked with Snellen chart. …”
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Study on the Dynamic Biological Characteristics of Sca-1+ Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Senescence by Shan Geng, Xin-Yi Mu, Xiong-Bin Chen, Ji-Ying Hou, Dao-Yong Jia, Chun-Yan Xu, Ya-Ping Wang

“…The researches in the dynamic changes of the progress of HSCs aging are very limited and necessary. In this study, male C57BL/6 mice were divided into 5 groups by age. …”
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High-Dose Glycine Treatment of Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Body Dysmorphic Disorder in a 5-Year Period by W. Louis Cleveland, Robert L. DeLaPaz, Rashid A. Fawwaz, Roger S. Challop

“…This paper describes an individual who was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) at age 17 when education was discontinued. By age 19, he was housebound without social contacts except for parents. …”
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Pandemic mitigation: Bringing it home by Tom Reichert

“…We discuss the sparing of elderly subpopulations in pandemics and the subsequent abrupt resurgence of mortality in the spared age groups as drift variants emerge. The general decline in the baseline of age-specific excess mortality in economically developed countries is characterized and its importance assessed.   …”
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Group childcare has a positive impact on child development from the Japan Environment and Children’s Study by Keita Kanamori, Tomohisa Suzuki, Chiharu Ota, The Japan Environment and Children’s Study Group

“…The difference between the two groups, especially in terms of communication and personal-social skills, increased with age.…”
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New Indices of Endothelial Function Measured by Digital Thermal Monitoring of Vascular Reactivity: Data from 6084 Patients Registry by Morteza Naghavi, Albert A. Yen, Alex W. H. Lin, Hirofumi Tanaka, Stanley Kleis

“…DTM measures were correlated with age, sex, heart rate, and systolic and diastolic blood pressure in 6084 patients from 18 clinics. …”
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Prevalence of Asymptomatic Uterine Leiomyoma in Western Turkey and Factors Affecting Myoma Presence by Fatma Nurgul Tasgoz, Nergis Kender Erturk

“…The prevalence of fibroids tended to increase with advancing age and decreased after age 50 years. It was observed that myoma diameter was significantly large (29.5 (6-123) mm and 18 (7-74) mm; p<0.001) and the frequency of multiple myomas was significantly high in symptomatic patients (46.5% vs. 33.6%; p<0.001). …”
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