Factors influencing waist circumference among urban bank employees in Northeast Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study by Woynshet Yimer, Lakew Asmare, Fikre Bayu Gebeyehu, Tihtna Alemu, Anisa Mehamed, Fanos Yeshanew Ayele

“…The average waist circumference was significantly associated with the participants’ age (0.2 cm per year (SE: 0.1)) and MET hours (0.2 cm (SE: 0.1)). …”
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Factors affecting implementation of interventions for oral health, substance use, smoking and diet for people with severe and multiple disadvantage: a community-based qualitative s... by Sheena E Ramsay, Richard G Watt, Falko F Sniehotta, Eileen Kaner, Martha Paisi, Neha Jain, Martin Burrows, Emma A Adams, Gillian McLellan, Emma C Joyes, Laura J McGowan, David Landes, Lorenzo Iafrate

“…The data were analysed iteratively using thematic analysis.Results Twenty-eight people experiencing SMD (age range: 27–65 years; 21% females) and 78 service providers, commissioners and policymakers (age range: 28–72 years; 63% females) were interviewed or included in focus groups. …”
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Using Health Utility Index (HUI) for Measuring the Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) Among Individuals with Chronic Diseases by Frank Mo, Bernard C.K. Choi, Felix C.K. Li, Joav Merrick

“…The mean HUI score by sex and age group indicated the typical quality of life for persons with various chronic conditions. …”
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Une double discordance cardiaque complexe décompensée, à propos d’un cas et revue de la littérature by Nabila Soufi Taleb Bendiab, Rachid Djaziri, Fouad Sekkal, Nesrine Khedim, Abderrahim Meziane-Tani

“…Nous rapportons le cas d’un patient âgé de 23 ans, porteur d’une cardiopathie congénitale complexe cyanogène. …”
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Single, double, and triple-hit strategies to establish a long-term premature rabbit model of bronchopulmonary dysplasia by Chiara Catozzi, Francesca Stretti, Enrica Scalera, Matteo Storti, Angelo Modena, Giorgio Aquila, Gino Villetti, Erica Ferrini, Andrea Grandi, Franco Fabio Stellari, Francesca Ravanetti, Luisa Ragionieri, Roberta Ciccimarra, Matteo Zoboli, Christina Brandenberger, Henri Schulte, Xabier Murgia, Maurizio Civelli, Francesca Ricci

“…Single (immediately after birth) or double (at birth and at PND5) intratracheal lipopolysaccharide (LPS) administrations were also tested in combination with 50% O2. Age-matched rabbits delivered vaginally at term were used as controls. …”
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Development of an artificial intelligence-based application for the diagnosis of sarcopenia: a retrospective cohort study using the health examination dataset by Chang-Won Jeong, Dong-Wook Lim, Si-Hyeong Noh, Sung Hyun Lee, Chul Park

“…SMA/BMI best reflected the loss of muscle mass in healthy populations by age, showing a more remarkable decrease in muscle mass in men than in women. …”
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Clinical characteristics, etiology, and treatment of young adult‐onset epilepsy: A 24‐year retrospective study by Xu Zhang, Feng Xiang, Ziyu Wang, Yang Li, Chenjing Shao, Xiaoyang Lan, Senyang Lang, Xiangqing Wang

“…Results A total of 4227 patients experienced epilepsy onset between 18 and 44 years of age. The median age of onset was 26 years (interquartile range [IQR]: 21–33), and the median duration from the first seizure to starting treatment was 3 months (IQR: 1.0–6.0). …”
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Nationwide cervical precancer screening in Ghana: concurrent HPV DNA testing and visual inspection under an expanded hub-and-spoke model by Kofi Effah, John Allotey, Ethel Tekpor, Comfort Mawusi Wormenor, Joseph Emmanuel Amuah, Ernest Antwi-Boasiako, Erasmus Nikoi Kotey, Seyram Kemawor, Isaac Gedzah, Helena Maame Ama Frempong, Stephen Danyo, Edna Sesenu, Bernard Hayford Atuguba, Nana Owusu Mensah Essel, Patrick Kafui Akakpo

“…Among 5217 women screened (mean age, 40.1 years), the overall prevalence of hr-HPV infection and cervical lesions were 29.1% (95% confidence interval [CI] 27.9–30.3) and 3.7% (95% CI 3.2–4.2), respectively. …”
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Determinants of healthcare utilization under the Indonesian national health insurance system – a cross-sectional study by Qinglu Cheng, Rifqi Abdul Fattah, Dwidjo Susilo, Aryana Satrya, Manon Haemmerli, Soewarta Kosen, Danty Novitasari, Gemala Chairunnisa Puteri, Eviati Adawiyah, Andrew Hayen, Anne Mills, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Stephen Jan, Hasbullah Thabrany, Augustine Asante, Virginia Wiseman

“…Fewer than 5% of the study population had visited hospitals for inpatient care and about 23% used maternal and child health services in the past 12 months. Age, gender and self-rated health were key determinants of health services utilization. …”
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Oxidative Stress, Antioxidant Capacity, and Inflammatory Markers in Patients with Idiopathic Complete Heart Block by Shobhit Shah, Monika Bhandari, Pravesh Vishwakarma, Wahid Ali, Mohammad Kaleem Ahmad, Abhishek Singh, Ayush Shukla, Akhil Kumar Sharma, Gaurav Chaudhary, Akshyaya Pradhan, Sharad Chandra, Rishi Sethi, S. K. Dwivedi

“…Materials and Methods: Sixty patients with CHB, ranging in age from 30 to 80 years, who were admitted as inpatients to the emergency room made up the study population. …”
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Tobacco Treatment Disparities Among California Medicaid Members With and Without Chronic Disease Who Smoke by Nan Wang, PhD, Melanie S. Dove, ScD, Cindy V. Valencia, PhD, Elisa K. Tong, MD

“…Quitting is beneficial at any age, and health professional advice and assistance are a key indicator of smoking cessation. …”
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Transforming Growth Factor-β Protects against Inflammation-Related Atherosclerosis in South African CKD Patients by Muzamil Olamide Hassan, Raquel Duarte, Therese Dix-Peek, Caroline Dickens, Sagren Naidoo, Ahmed Vachiat, Sacha Grinter, Pravin Manga, Saraladevi Naicker

“…In multiple logistic regression, age, TGF-β2, and TGF-β3 were the only independent predictors of subclinical atherosclerosis in CKD patients [age: odds ratio (OR), 1.054; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.003 – 1.109, p=0.039; TGF-β2: OR, 0.996; 95% CI: 0.994–0.999, p=0.018; TGF-β3: OR, 0.992; 95% CI: 0.985–0.999, p=0.029). …”
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Immune Dysfunction in Rett Syndrome Patients Revealed by High Levels of Serum Anti-N(Glc) IgM Antibody Fraction by Anna Maria Papini, Francesca Nuti, Feliciana Real-Fernandez, Giada Rossi, Caterina Tiberi, Giuseppina Sabatino, Shashank Pandey, Silvia Leoncini, Cinzia Signorini, Alessandra Pecorelli, Roberto Guerranti, Solange Lavielle, Lucia Ciccoli, Paolo Rovero, Claudio De Felice, Joussef Hayek

“…In this study, we aimed to evaluate the function of the immune system by measuring serum immunoglobulins (IgG and IgM) in RTT patients (n=53) and, by comparison, in age-matched children affected by non-RTT pervasive developmental disorders (non-RTT PDD) (n=82) and healthy age-matched controls (n=29). …”
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Lacustrine sedimentation patterns at the Northern Antarctic Peninsula and surroundings as a response to late Holocene and Modern Climate changes by Heitor Evangelista, Sergei Verkulich, Bulat Mavlyudov, Mariza P. Souza Echer, Marcus Vinicius Licinio, Gerd Dercon, Felipe García-Rodríguez, Arthur A. Neto, Stephanie Kusch, Rodrigo C. Abuchacra, Anna B.J. Oaquim, Sérgio J. Gonçalves, Zinaida Pushina, Marília H Shimizu, Maria Heiling, Johanna Slaets, Christian Resch, Alejandra Castillo, Roman Gruber

“…We attribute the LHN phase to a combined action of long-term decline in total solar irradiance, the Andean volcanism and the El Niño Southern Oscillation. For the contemporary age, we found a rapid coupled response of atmosphere/cryosphere/lithosphere to present warming levels.…”
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Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm: a Swiss case series of a very rare disease and a structured review of the literature by Ramona Meier-Lienhard, Cosima Suter, Thomas Pabst, Felicitas Hitz, Jakob R. Passweg, Olivier Spertini, Nathan Cantoni, Daniel Betticher, Lucas Simeon, Michael Medinger, Stefanie Hayoz, Adrian Schmidt

“…BPDCN was more common in men with a predominance of 3:1. The median age (n = 414) at diagnosis was 66.5 years ranging from one month to 103 years. …”
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Cognitive Disorders In Acquired Sensorineural Hearing Loss, At The Ent Department Of The “Village Bondeko” Center, In Kinshasa by Masamba GR, Sokolo Gedikondele J, Longo-Mbenza B, Nganga Nkanga MS, Matanda Nzanza R, Matonda-ma-Nzuzi T, Ikanga J, Nge Okwe A, Lema Mabwaka G, Mawalala Malengele H, Nangi Mampuya C, Lumbu Malundama D

“…Sensorineural hearing loss was confirmed by tonal threshold audiometry and characterized according to WHO criteria; cognitive disorders were defined according to the MoCA scale.Results: In total, 150 adults, including 78 men and 72 women, were collected in the present study. The average age was 54.11 ± 20 years, with extremes ranging from 20 to 87 years. …”
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Strategies to Increase Response Rate and Reduce Nonresponse Bias in Population Health Research: Analysis of a Series of Randomized Controlled Experiments during a Large COVID-19 St... by Christina J Atchison, Nicholas Gilby, Galini Pantelidou, Sam Clemens, Kevin Pickering, Marc Chadeau-Hyam, Deborah Ashby, Wendy S Barclay, Graham S Cooke, Ara Darzi, Steven Riley, Christl A Donnelly, Helen Ward, Paul Elliott

“…MethodsOver 19 rounds, a random sample of individuals aged 5 years and older from the general population in England were invited by mail to complete a web-based questionnaire and return a swab for SARS-CoV-2 testing. …”
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Nomogram to screen older adult patients attending the radiology department for sarcopenia by Guiying Yuan, Guoxi Ye, Jianguang Hu, Huimin Hu, Chanmei Shi, Ye Zhang, Junbing Huang, Zhiqiong Li, Xuwen Zeng, Rongshao Tan, Yuchao Xiong

“…Abstract Background Sarcopenia is an age-related syndrome that can impact the physical and mental health of older adults. …”
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Patterns of general and abdominal obesity and their association with hypertension control in the iranian hypertensive population: insights from a nationwide study by Fataneh Esmaeili, Keyvan Karimi, Samaneh Akbarpour, Mohammadreza Naderian, Shirin Djalalinia, Ozra Tabatabaei-Malazy, Ali Golestani, Nazila Rezaei

“…Results A total of 8,692 hypertensive adult subjects ≥ 18 years were recruited from all provinces in Iran. The overall mean age of participants was 55.8 ± 0.15, and 55.6% being women. …”
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Prediction of Distant Metastasis of Renal Cell Carcinoma Based on Interpretable Machine Learning: A Multicenter Retrospective Study by Dong J, Duan M, Liu X, Li H, Zhang Y, Zhang T, Fu C, Yu J, Hu W, Peng S

“…Performance for the prediction model was also well performed in different sub-cohort stratified by age, gender, and ethnicity. The calibration curve indicated that the predicted values are highly consistent with the actual observed values. …”
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