The relationship between cognitive and affective control and symptoms of depression and anxiety across the lifespan: A 3-wave longitudinal study by Anson Kai Chun Chau, Savannah Minihan, Sakiko Okayama, Susanne Schweizer

“…Methods: 1002 participants (87.2 % female, age range: 11–89 years) completed self-report measures of depressive and anxiety symptoms and an affective backward digit span task thrice at 3-month intervals. …”
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Effects of pregnancy on the clinical course and treatment outcomes of Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease by Navya Cherukuri, Somasheila I Murthy, Mudit Tyagi

“…All VKH patients who were pregnant at presentation or on follow up and age-matched nonpregnant female controls during the study period (2013–2022) were included. …”
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Protease supplementation in maize-based diet influenced net energy and nutrient digestibility in broilers by K.W. McCafferty, A.F. Moss, N.K. Morgan, A.J. Cowieson, M. Choct

“…A total of 312, one-day-old, male broilers (Ross 308) were randomly distributed into 24 floor pens and fed one of three treatments, with eight pen replicates per treatment throughout the starter (1 to 14 d of age) and grower (15 to 28 d of age) phases. Dietary treatments consisted of a positive control (PC) reference diet, a negative control diet (NC; dAA density 60 g/kg less than PC diet), and a NC diet with supplemental protease (200 mg/kg). …”
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Cardiac events and procedures following COVID-19 compared with other pneumonias: a national register study by Knut Stavem, Peder Langeland Myhre, Kristian Berge, Tarjei Øvrebotten, Birgitte Tholin

“…We used Cox regression and logistic regression for analysis.Results Patients with COVID-19 had a mean (SD) age of 60 (18) years, compared with 69 (19) years for viral and 72 (17) years for bacterial pneumonia. …”
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Pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding experience of women with epilepsy in Me’enit community, South West Ethiopia by Rahel Yaekob, Tefera Belachew

“…Epilepsy affects approximately 0.5–1.0% of women of childbearing age. In the Me’enit community, due to poor delivery practices (delivering in a standing position) and suffering from birth trauma, there are many women with epilepsy. …”
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AST/ALT ratio as a potential predictor of 1-year mortality in elderly patients operated for femoral neck fracture by Fatih Günaydın, Öner Kılınç, Bülent Sakarya, İdris Demirtaş, Mahmud Aydın, Ali Çelik

“…Multivariate analysis further highlighted advanced age, male sex, blood group A, postoperative transfusions, elevated creatinine levels, and high AAR (>2.1) as independent predictors of mortality. …”
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Current views on etiology, diagnosis, epidemiology and gene therapy of maturity onset diabetes in the young by Lilya U. Dzhemileva, Elena N. Zakharova, Anna O. Goncharenko, Maria V. Vorontsova, S. A. Rumyantsev, Natalia G. Mokrysheva, Marina Y. Loguinova, Vladimir P. Chekhonin

“…Nevertheless, with advancing age, some patients may require insulin therapy due to the development of resistance to sulfonylurea drugs. …”
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Investigating depression, anxiety, perceived stress and resilience in fathers faced with their spouse’s abortion in Iran: a longitudinal study by Seyede Zahra Jafari, Mahboubeh Hajifoghaha, Sara Azima, Parvin Ghaem Maghami, Zahra Yazdan Panahi

“…Also, there was a significant relationship between the fathers’ age, education, job, duration of marriage, type of abortion, number and history of abortion, unwanted pregnancy, number of children and economic status with the mean score of anxiety, depression, perceived stress, and resilience in fathers over time. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors of HIV Infection among Clients Attending ICTCs in Six Districts of Tamilnadu, South India by Rajeswari Ramachandran, V. Chandrasekaran, M. Muniyandi, K. Jaggarajamma, Anasua Bagchi, Supriya Sahu

“…Of 18329 clients counseled, 17958 (98%) were tested for HIV and 732 (4.1%; range 2.6 to 6.2%) were tested positive for HIV. Median age of clients was 30 years; 89% had never used condoms in their lives and 2% gave history of having received blood transfusion. …”
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Accurate diagnosis of ischemic heart disease without exposure to radiation using non-stress unshielded magnetocardiography by Kirsten Tolstrup, Massoud Akhtari, Donatella Brisinda, Anna M. Meloni, Robert J. Siegel, Riccardo Fenici

“…Design: We studied 133 patients (mean age 59 ± 14 years, 69 % male) with chronic or acute chest pain syndrome and 63 healthy subjects (mean age 41.7 ± 12.2 years, 51 % male) using unshielded cryogenically cooled MCG systems (Cardiomag Imaging Inc., 9 and 36 channels) in a general clinical setting. …”
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Body Mass Index and Its Change from Adolescence to Adulthood Are Closely Related to the Risk of Adult Metabolic Syndrome in China by Bingyang Liu, Yue Li, Jiamei Guo, Yuting Fan, Ling Li, Ping Li

“…We selected 931 students from 12 to 16 years of age in Liaoyang City, China. Ninety-three participants from 18 to 22 years of age with complete baseline data were available for follow-up after 5 years. …”
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The Burden of Severe Periodontitis in China From 1990 to 2021, With Projections to 2050: A Comprehensive Analysis From The Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Yuyang Wang, Yinbao Wang, Lu Fan, Yueyuan Yu

“…These efforts are critical to effectively addressing the challenges posed by population growth and aging.…”
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Associations between an gene polymorphism and ulcerative colitis by ARMS-PCR by Mahsa Sadat Hashemi Doulabi, Reza Goleyjani Moghaddam, Ali Salehzadeh

“…A direct relationship was found between age and ulcerative colitis, while no relationship was found with sex. …”
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Infant outcomes after exposure to Tdap vaccine in pregnancy: an observational study by Helen Petousis-Harris, Tony Walls, Patricia Graham, Nicola Austin, Linda Hill

“…Information was obtained from objective sources including routine health visits and vaccination records wherever possible, as well as frequent parental reports.Setting The Canterbury region of New Zealand.Patients A cohort of 403 infants whose mothers had received Tdap vaccine.Main outcome measures Gestational age at birth, growth parameters, congenital anomalies, immunisation status and timeliness of immunisation, development of pertussis infection.Results There were no significant differences in birth weight, gestational age at birth, congenital anomalies or infant growth as compared with baseline population data. …”
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Empathetic Deep Learning: Transferring Adult Speech Emotion Models to Children With Gender-Specific Adaptations Using Neural Embeddings by Elina Lesyk, Tomás Arias-Vergara, Elmar Nöth, Andreas Maier, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Paula Andrea Perez-Toro

“…To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study in the field of deep learning applications on emotion recognition that analyses the effects of genders and age groups on emotional mapping.…”
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Paternal metabolic and cardiovascular programming of their offspring: A systematic scoping review. by Claudia Eberle, Michaela F Kirchner, Raphaela Herden, Stefanie Stichling

“…In brief, pre-conceptional paternal risk factors, such as obesity, own birth weight, high-fat and low-protein diet, undernutrition, diabetes mellitus, hyperglycaemia, advanced age, smoking as well as environmental chemical exposure affect clearly metabolic and cardiovascular health of their offspring later in life.…”
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Improves Activities of Daily Living in Parkinson's Disease by Weidong Pan, Shin Kwak, Yun Liu, Yan Sun, Zhenglong Fang, Baofeng Qin, Yoshiharu Yamamoto

“…Among 115 patients with idiopathic PD enrolled (mean age, 64.7 ± 10.2 years old), 110 patients (M = 65, F = 45; mean age, 64.9 ± 10.7 years old) completed the study. …”
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Outcomes of people with TB reported to the WHO Global Clinical Platform of COVID-19 by M. Bastard, D. Falzon, S. Bertagnolio, R. Silva, S.S. Thwin, C. Siquiera Boccolini, J. Rylance, J. Diaz, M. Zignol

“…Of these, 48% were male, and the median age was 53 years (IQR 38–67). There were 8,214 cases with current TB reported by 46 countries, mainly from Africa. …”
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Deviations in Circulating TNFα Levels and TNFα Production by Mononuclear Cells in Healthy Human Populations by T. Mózes, I. Baráth, K. Gornicsar, A. Grosz, Ta. Mózes, Cs. Göndöcs, P. Széphalmi, K. Gaál, E. Madarász

“…The goal of the present study was to investigate the variations and inducibility of TNFα-activity in two age-groups of healthy volunteers. Methods. Sixty elderly, healthy volunteers were studied. …”
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The Cog-4 Subset of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale as a Measure of Cognition: Relationship with Baseline Factors and Functional Outcome after Stroke Using Data from... by Sandeep Ankolekar, Cheryl Renton, Nikola Sprigg, Philip M. W. Bath

“…Patients with left hemispheric stroke had higher day-90 Cog-4 score (P<0.001). Age, stroke severity, and previous stroke were significant predictors of Cog-4. …”
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