Recruiting hard-to-reach populations via respondent driven sampling for mobile phone surveys in Colombia: a qualitative study by Camila Solorzano-Barrera, Mariana Rodriguez-Patarroyo, Angélica Tórres-Quintero, Deivis Nicolas Guzman-Tordecilla, Aixa Natalia Franco-Rodriguez, Vidhi Maniar, Prakriti Shrestha, Andrés I. Vecino-Ortiz, George W. Pariyo, Dustin G. Gibson, Joseph Ali

“…Adapting RDS strategies to MPS efforts could, theoretically, yield higher rates of participation for that age group. Objective To investigate factors that influence the perceived acceptability of a RDS recruitment method for MPS involving people over 45 years of age living in Colombia. …”
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Development of a Brief Assessment Tool to Evaluate Early Low Nutrition Risk in Community Elderly: Creation of the Tool and Examination of Its Reliability and Criterion-related Vali... by Shoji Shinkai, Miki Narita, Hiroshi Murayama, Akihiko Kitamura, Yoshinori Fujiwara

“…Methods: 1,192 community elderly with a mean age of 74.7 (standard deviation, 5.8) years responded to a questionnaire consisting of 48 (Hatoyama) or 34 items (Kusatsu), which have been reported to be associated with nutritional state in older people. …”
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Colonic Transendoscopic Enteral Tubing: Route for a Novel, Safe, and Convenient Delivery of Washed Microbiota Transplantation in Children by Min Zhong, Heena Buch, Quan Wen, Chuyan Long, Bota Cui, Faming Zhang

“…Methods. All patients aged 3-7 years who underwent colonic TET in our center for WMT or medication were prospectively evaluated. …”
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Autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis developed during treatment for systemic sclerosis: a case report by Tomoki Kozono, Kentaro Tanaka, Tomoko Yagi, Kazuto Kamikawaji, Masaki Watanabe, Azusa Iwanaga, Minako Hamada, Yoshifusa Koreeda, Hiromasa Inoue, Ikkou Higashimoto

“…At the age of 70, she was diagnosed with ILD associated with SSc. …”
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The prevalence of thiamine deficiency among elderly nursing home residents: A cross‐sectional study by Nozomu Uchida, Mayumi Ishida, Izumi Sato, Akira Yoshioka, Takao Takahashi, Daisuke Furuya, Yasuhiro Ebihara, Hiroshi Ito, Hideki Onishi

“…Results The mean age (±SD) was 86.9 years (±8.29), with 84 residents (70.0%) being female. …”
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Association of dietary niacin intake with all-cause mortality in chronic kidney disease: A retrospective cohort study of NHANES. by Meijuan Xiang, Jianyun Peng, Zhihong Gui, Ju Jin, Jinling Meng

“…<h4>Results</h4>In total, 4,659 CKD patients were included in the study. The mean age of patients was 58.03 (0.42) years old, and 2,502 (58.45%) were female. …”
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Clinical features, pathological characteristics, and prognosis of patients with IgA nephropathy complicated with nephrotic syndrome by Li Tan, Lu-Hua Jin, Yi-Qin Wang, Wei Chen, Qiong Wen

“…Compared to the IgAN-MsPGN group, the IgAN-MCD group consisted of more males, had a younger average age, lower blood pressure, a lower prevalence of hematuria, and lower serum albumin and creatinine levels, whereas the IgAN-MN group was characterized by an older average age and lower serum creatinine levels. …”
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Validity, reliability, and feasibility of the Malay version of Obstetric Quality-of-Recovery tool (ObsQoR-10) by Pamela Chia, Chin Wen Tan, Jitsupa Nithiuthai, Rehena Sultana, Farida Ithnin, Pervez Sultan, Ban Leong Sng

“…We assessed the correlation between ObsQoR-10-Malay and length of hospital stay and maternal age. Results: Sixty-one patients were recruited, and data from 56 patients who completed ObsQoR-10-Malay after delivery were analyzed (response rate 91.8%). …”
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Cardiometabolic risk factors in the Swedish Werlabs cohort based on self-initiated health screening: cohort profile by Peter Ueda, Kerstin Brismar, Anna Norhammar, Daniel Peter Andersson, Hannah Coudé Adam, Omid Hajimirsadeghi, Lovisa Krantz, Nadia Bandstein Forsberg

“…Purpose There is limited research on individuals undergoing self-initiated health examinations, and the Werlabs cohort will be a base for such research.Participants All individuals aged 18 or older who had undertaken a self-initiated health examination at Werlabs AB with at least one recorded value of creatinine or cholesterol in Sweden (from 1 January 2015 through 31 December 2023) was included. …”
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Long-Term Health-Related Quality of Life in Kawasaki Disease-Related Coronary Artery Aneurysm: A Large Single-Center Assessment in Nanjing, China by Yun Zhou, MD, Mei Chen, MD, Wenting Gao, MD, Yu Chen, MD, Ying Meng, MD

“…A total of 98 hospitalized patients were matched as controls based on age and sex: 49 patients were allocated to a group with pneumonia and 49 patients were allocated to a group with arterio-arterial fistula. …”
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Feasibility of home-based urine collection in children under 5 years in the ORIGINS birth cohort study: mixed method protocol and sample completion results by Courtney D. A. Kidd, Najma A. Moumin, Andrea MacRae, Tim J. Green, Desiree T. Silva, Susan L. Prescott, Nina D’Vaz

“…A third of all samples were returned by courier, with the highest uptake at 2–6 months of age, and increased uptake across all ages during COVID lockdowns. …”
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Central obesity is a burden even in normal weight adolescents of a non-metropolitan Indian City: A case for alarm and action for prevention and control by Tabassum Nawab, Zulfia Khan, Iqbal M. Khan, Mohammad A. Ansari

“…CO was defined as >90th age-and-sex-specific percentile of WC and GO by BMI-for-age-and-sex percentiles given by WHO Growth Reference 2007. …”
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Development and validation of a novel AI-derived index for predicting COPD medical costs in clinical practice by Guan-Heng Liu, Chin-Ling Li, Chih-Yuan Yang, Shih-Feng Liu

“…The final predictors included interactions such as Age × BMI, alongside Tumor Presence, Number of Comorbidities, Acute Exacerbation frequency, and the DOSE Index. …”
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Association of Baseline Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Clinicopathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma by Dimitrios K. Manatakis, Sofia Tseleni-Balafouta, Dimitrios Balalis, Vasiliki N. Soulou, Dimitrios P. Korkolis, George H. Sakorafas, Georgios Plataniotis, Emmanouil Gontikakis

“…On the other hand, NLR values were not associated with gender, age, tumour size, histologic subtype, the presence of thyroiditis, and TNM staging. …”
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Being Normal Weight but Feeling Overweight in Adolescence May Affect Weight Development into Young Adulthood—An 11-Year Followup: The HUNT Study, Norway by Koenraad Cuypers, Kirsti Kvaløy, Grete Bratberg, Kristian Midthjell, Jostein Holmen, Turid Lingaas Holmen

“…Chi square calculations and regression analyses were performed to investigate the associations between self-perceived overweight and change in BMI or waist circumference (WC) adjusted for age, age squared, sex, and other relevant cofactors. …”
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The NT-ProBNP Test in Subjects with End-Stage Renal Disease on Hemodialysis Presenting with Acute Dyspnea: Is Knowing Worth the Cost? by Shaffer R. S. Mok, Jose Avila, Barry Milcarek, Richard Kasama

“…No correlation was observed between NT-ProBNP and age (), baseline EDW (), amount of fluid removed (), or EF (). …”
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Factors Associated with the Clinical Course of Vitreomacular Traction by Petros Petrou, Evangelia Chalkiadaki, Marie-Helene Errera, Sidath Liyanage, Louisa Wickham, Evangelia Papakonstantinou, Aristotelis Karamaounas, Menelaos Kanakis, Ilias Georgalas, Stylianos Kandarakis, David Charteris

“…Better BCVA at the first visit was associated with an increased likelihood of resolution of the VMT, but increasing age, CMT, and BCVA in the end of the follow-up was associated with a reduction in the likelihood of resolving. …”
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A Study Exploring Relationship between Risk Factors and Resilience among Youth by Fenny Leferty Kharpuri, Ramya Bhaskar

“…Of the 1.2 billion people live in India, 54% are <24 years of age. These young people are the futures of tomorrow. …”
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Malignancy Risk and Related Factors of Atypia of Undetermined Significance/Follicular Lesion of Undetermined Significance in Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration by So-hyeon Hong, Hyejin Lee, Min-Sun Cho, Jee Eun Lee, Yeon-Ah Sung, Young Sun Hong

“…Age, sex, and thyroid function were not significantly associated with malignancy risk. …”
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Study on Clinicopathological Features and Risk Factors of Patients with Multiple Primary Breast Cancers and Thyroid Disease by Jie Li, Yonghong Liu, Jian Jin, Qingfeng Shi, Yanting Ji, Bo Zhang, Pengfei Hu

“…For patients with simple breast cancer, age, menopausal status, and nuclear proliferation antigen index are risk factors for combined thyroid lesions. …”
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