The Influence of Prior Obstetrical History on Current 17-Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate Use by Carla E. Ransom, Jeanette R. Chin, Hilary A. Roeder, Tammy R. Sinclair, R. Phillips Heine, Amy P. Murtha

“…To determine if gestational age of prior preterm delivery influences a woman's receipt of 17-hydroxyprogesterone caproate (17-OHP-C). …”
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THE EFFECT OF PUPPET SHOW ON HOSPITALIZATION IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN (3-6 YEARS) by Emuliana Sulpat, Amellia Mardhika, Lailatul Fadliyah, Anestasia Pangestu Mei Tyas, Susilo Harianto, Yusrina Ika Ilhami

“…The dependent variable in this study was the impact of hospitalization on preschool children aged (3-6 years) who experienced hospitalization. …”
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Whither Individuality? A Re-reading of Segun Ogungbemi’s Scholarship on Individuality-Community Debate in African Philosophy by Sunday L. Oladipupo

“… Human nature in Africa, especially among the Yoruba, is a subject of contention in contemporary age. It is, however, important to mention that existing literature abound that suggests the Yoruba as a communalistic society. …”
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Estimation of Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Belkis Vicente Sánchez, Ernesto Vicente Peña, Miriam Costa Cruz

“…<strong><br />Results:</strong> mean age was 61.63 years and females predominated. Relevant risk factors were hypertension followed by obesity, smoking and dyslipidemia. …”
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Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome in the Philippines: A Systematic Review by Anna Lena Lopez, Peter Francis N. Raguindin, Maria Asuncion Silvestre, Xenia Cathrine J. Fabay, Ariel B. Vinarao, Ricardo Manalastas

“…Susceptibility to rubella among women of childbearing age was higher in rural communities. Retrospective reviews revealed congenital heart diseases, cataracts, and hearing impairments to be most common presentations in children of CRS. …”
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Threat perception and behavioral reactivity in response to an acute stressor in infant rhesus macaques by Tara M. Mandalaywala, Sean P. Coyne

“…At approximately 5 months of age, free-ranging rhesus macaque infants on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico (N = 44) were briefly separated from their social group and underwent a maternal separation test, a validated stressor shown to induce anxiety in infant monkeys (Sánchez et al., 2001). …”
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Temporal Trends in Gestational Diabetes Prevalence, Treatment, and Outcomes at Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, between 2004 and 2016 by Per Glud Ovesen, Jens Fuglsang, Mette Bisgaard Andersen, Charlotte Wolff, Olav Bjørn Petersen, H. David McIntyre

“…Birth weight and birth weight Z-score was calculated corrected for gender and gestational age at delivery. Results. The study included 1910 women. …”
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Simultaneous Bilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty in Elderly: Are There Factors that Can Influence Safety and Clinical Outcome? by G. Piovan, D. Screpis, S. Natali, V. Iacono, M. Baldini, L. Farinelli, M. Guerriero, C. Zorzi

“…Functional scores at the last FU were negatively affected by age at surgery and positively affected by preoperative clinical scores. …”
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The incidence of HLA-DQ2/DQ8 in Turkish children with celiac disease and a comparison of the geographical distribution of HLA-DQ by Ahmet Basturk, Reha Artan, Aygen Yilmaz

“…Material and methods : In this study, we focused on children ranging in age from 2 to 18 years and diagnosed with celiac disease. …”
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Clinical outcomes and risk factors of post-polypectomy microperforation in patients with colorectal neoplasia: a case-control study by Seung Yong Shin, Min Soo Cho, Jinhoon Nam, Jie-Hyun Kim, Young Hoon Yoon, Hyojin Park, Jeonghyun Kang, Jae Jun Park

“…Patients who underwent adverse event-free colonoscopic polypectomies within 1 week of each case and were matched 2:1 by age and sex to the cases were selected as controls. …”
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Yield components in new pear cultivars and breeding forms in the Middle Urals by G. N. Tarasova

“…An early onset of full fructification at the age of 10–11 years or more, combined with high yield at the same age, was observed in cvs. …”
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Impact of Personal Values on School Engagement Among Chinese Adolescents: Mediating Effects of Achievement Goals by Tingyu Gu, Xiaosong Gai

“…We surveyed 700 senior high school students from a public school in Changchun, Jilin province, China (M_age = 16.91, SD_age = 0.43, 55.57% male). …”
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Prognostic Factors for Immune Thrombocytopenia Outcome in Greek Children: A Retrospective Single-Centered Analysis by Alexandros Makis, Athanasios Gkoutsias, Theodoros Palianopoulos, Eleni Pappa, Evangelia Papapetrou, Christina Tsaousi, Eleftheria Hatzimichael, Nikolaos Chaliasos

“…Chronic ITP children were more likely to be of age > 10 years (p=0.015) and have gradual initiation of the disease (p=0.001), platelets > 10 × 109/L (p=0.01), and impaired immunological markers (p<0.003) compared to newly diagnosed/persistent groups. …”
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Volleyball Players Pre-Competitive Anxiety: Sex-Based Differences and Relationship with Sport Characteristics by Sintija Šadrincevaitė, Aušra Griciūtė

“…The questionnaires were completed by 37 athletes (51.4% females) aged between 20 and 41 years (median age 23.0 years). …”
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High-Salt Intake Ameliorates Hyperglycemia and Insulin Resistance in WBN/Kob-Leprfa/fa Rats: A New Model of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Yoshiichi Takagi, Taichi Sugimoto, Masaya Kobayashi, Mitsuyuki Shirai, Fumitoshi Asai

“…In the present study, we examined the effects of a high-salt intake on glucose homeostasis in WBKDF rats. Male WBKDF rats and age-matched Wistar rats at 6 weeks of age were each divided into two groups and fed either a normal-sodium (NS, 0.26%) diet or high-sodium (HS, 8%) diet for 7 weeks. …”
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Histological Peripheral Margins and Recurrence of Melanoma In Situ Treated with Wide Local Excision by Francisco S. Moura, Lucy E. Homer, Stuart W. McKirdy

“…Inclusion criteria consisted of MIS diagnosis, ≥16 years of age, and treatment with WLE with curative intent. …”
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Species diversity, taxonomy, multi-gene phylogeny, and divergence times of Meruliaceae (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) by Yue Li, Yi-Feng Cao, Karen K. Nakasone, Shi-Liang Liu, Man-Rong Huang, Shuang-Hui He

“…The molecular clock analysis results show that the Meruliaceae emerged with a mean stem age of 186.71 Mya of the early Jurassic, and the genera diverged with a mean stem age between 44.29 to 169.46 Mya.…”
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Volume and distribution of white matter hyperintensities in rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis patients by Jennifer G. Cox, James H. Cole, Matthew J. Kempton, Steven C. R. Williams, Marius de Groot

“…In this study, we included 252 RA patients with 756 age and sex matched controls and 240 UC patients with 720 age and sex matched controls using the UK Biobank imaging dataset. …”
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Prevalence of Diabetes and Relationship with Socioeconomic Status in the Thai Population: National Health Examination Survey, 2004–2014 by Wichai Aekplakorn, Suwat Chariyalertsak, Pattapong Kessomboon, Savitree Assanangkornchai, Surasak Taneepanichskul, Panwadee Putwatana

“…Results. Age-adjusted prevalence of diabetes increased from 7.7% in 2004 to 7.8% in 2009 and 9.9% in 2014 (8.9% among men and 10.8% among women). …”
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Technical and cost efficiency analysis of irrigated onion production insight from smallholders irrigated onion farmers in north East Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia by Kindye Ayen, Tariku Kidane, Adane Wubet

“…Cost efficiency, on the other hand, was determined by the age and educational status of the household head, family size in man equivalent, and the size of irrigated land owned by the onion farmer. …”
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