Chronic Kidney Disease Preventive Attitude, Practice, and Associated Factors among Type 2 DM Patients in Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Addisu Dabi Wake MSc, Sena Babsa Dinsa BSc

“…Objective To determine CKD preventive attitude, practices, and associated factors among type 2 DM (T2DM) patients attending follow-up in a diabetic clinic at Asella Referral and Teaching Hospital. …”
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Examining the intersection of child protection and public housing: development, health and justice outcomes using linked administrative data by John W Lynch, Emma Baker, Alicia Montgomerie, Catia Malvaso, Rhiannon Megan Pilkington

“…Objective We described development, health and justice system outcomes for children in contact with child protection and public housing.Design Descriptive analysis of outcomes for children known to child protection who also had contact with public housing drawn from the South Australian (SA) Better Evidence Better Outcomes Linked Data (BEBOLD) platform.Setting The BEBOLD platform holds linked administrative records collected by government agencies for whole-population successive birth cohorts in SA beginning in 1999.Participants This study included data from birth registrations, perinatal, child protection, public housing, hospital, emergency department, early education and youth justice for all SA children born 1999–2013 and followed until 2016. The base population notified at least once to child protection was n=67 454.Primary outcome measure Contact with the public housing system.Secondary outcome measures Hospitalisations and emergency department presentations before age 5, and early education at age 5, and youth justice contact before age 17.Results More than 60% of children with at least one notification to child protection had contact with public housing, and 60.2% of those known to both systems were known to housing first. …”
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Safety and effectiveness of appropriately and inappropriately dosed rivaroxaban or apixaban versus warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation: a cohort study with nested case–co... by Luis Alberto García Rodríguez, Pareen Vora, Luke Roberts, Gunnar Brobert, Samuel Fatoba, María Eugenia Sáez, Antonio González-Pérez

“…Objectives To investigate effects of appropriately and inappropriately dosed apixaban/rivaroxaban versus warfarin on effectiveness and safety outcomes in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF).Design Cohort study with nested case–control analyses using primary care electronic health records (IQVIA Medical Research Data UK database).Setting UK primary care.Participants Patients aged ≥18 years with NVAF newly prescribed apixaban (N=14 701), rivaroxaban (N=14 288) or warfarin (N=16 175) between 1 January 2012 and 30 June 2018, and followed up to 31 December 2018.Primary and secondary outcome measures Incident cases of ischaemic stroke/systemic embolism (IS/SE) and intracranial bleeding (ICB). …”
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Optimizing Microwave-Assisted Extraction of Carbohydrate from Scenedesmus sp. Cultivated in Domestic Wastewater by Yeong Hwang Tan, Mee Kin Chai, Ling Shing Wong, Mei Yin Ong, Ranjithkumar Rajamani

“…The sensitivity analysis showed that solid-to-liquid ratio had the most significant impact (55.98%) on carbohydrate yield, followed by microwave irradiation time (24.88%), and agitation time (18.16%). …”
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Real-World Health Care Outcomes and Costs Among Patients With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in Spain by Jordi Antón, Estefania Moreno Ruzafa, Mireia Lopez Corbeto, Rosa Bou, Judith Sánchez Manubens, Sonia Carriquí Arenas, Joan Calzada Hernández, Violetta Bittermann, Carolina Estepa Guillén, Juan Mosquera Angarita, Lucía Rodríguez Díez, Estíbaliz Iglesias, Miguel Marti Masanet, Berta Lopez Montesinos, Maria I. González Fernández, Alfonso de Lossada, Carmen Peral, Mónica Valderrama, Noelia Llevat, María Montoro Álvarez, Immaculada Calvo Penadés

“…**Methods:** Children were enrolled in this 24-month observational, multicentric, cross-sectional, retrospective study (N = 107) if they had been treated with biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs), had participated in a previous study (ITACA), and continued to be followed up at pediatric rheumatology units at 3 tertiary Spanish hospitals. …”
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Enhanced prediction of energy dissipation rate in hydrofoil-crested stepped spillways using novel advanced hybrid machine learning models by Ehsan Afaridegan, Nosratollah Amanian

“…During the training stage, TabNet-MFO outperformed the other models with a PI of 0.784 and a normalized Root Mean Squared Error (E') of 1.231, followed by ELM-JFO with a PI of 0.605 and E' of 1.125. …”
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Quality Assessment of Young Sparkling Wines of Crimean Indigenous Grape Varieties by Igor P. Lutkov, Alexander S. Makarov, Natalia A. Shmigelskaya

“…The sensory assessment followed State Standard 32051-2013, ISO 5492:2008, and ISO 11035:1994. …”
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Investigating LiDAR Metrics for Old-Growth Beech- and Spruce-Dominated Forest Identification in Central Europe by Devara P. Adiningrat, Andrew Skidmore, Michael Schlund, Tiejun Wang, Haidi Abdullah, Marco Heurich

“…To determine the important LiDAR standard and structural metrics in identifying old-growth forests, multicollinearity analysis using the variance inflation factor (VIF) approach was applied to identify and remove metrics with high collinearity, followed by the random forest algorithm to rank which LiDAR standard and structural metrics are important in old-growth forest classification. …”
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Impact of pharmacist-led medication review among hemodialysis patients: a systematic review by Ganesh Sritheran Paneerselvam, Chen Kah Yee, Muhammad Junaid Farrukh, Ana Yuda, Andi Hermansyah, Mohd. Fadli Mohd. Asmani, Ibrahim Abdullah, Long Chiau Ming

“…Further research with longer follow-up is needed to assess the long-term economic outcomes of these interventions.…”
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Real-world data on utilization of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for muscle invasive bladder cancer: impact on surgical complications and oncological efficacy by Hege S. Haugnes, Hakon Kjaeve, Eivind Bjerkaas, Ragnhild Hellesnes, Line Hjelle, Magnus Larsen

“…Background and purpose: Recommended treatment of urothelial muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) is cisplatin-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) followed by cystectomy, but there are challenges with low utilization of NAC. …”
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Predictive model for determining the indications for automated 3D ultrasound for screening patients at low risk of developing breast tumors by A. E. Garanina, A. V. Kholin

“…Based on these data, a logistic regression was compiled, followed by the selection of the most significant model by cutting off insignificant factors according to the p-level of significance and presenting the model as a ROC curve.Results. …”
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Factors Associated with Midterm Visual Field Variability in Patients with Stable Glaucoma by Maria Emília V. Guimarães, Carolina P. B. Gracitelli, Syril Dorairaj, Fábio N. Kanadani, Tiago S. Prata

“…Baseline data assessed were age, gender, educational level, intraocular pressure (IOP), central corneal thickness, best-corrected visual acuity, spherical equivalent, number of hypotensive eye drops, type of glaucoma, number of VFs performed, follow-up in years, lens status, visual field index (VFI) values from the last 5 VF (standard automated perimetry (SAP)) tests, the presence or absence of central scotoma in the VF test, and the level of glaucomatous damage according to the VF mean deviation (MD) index of the last VFs. …”
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Re-imagining education in Haiti through a lens of de-coloniality by Rudolph Damas

“…The second is a comparative analysis of two different case studies on education reform projects that have occurred in Haiti. This will also be followed by a conclusive analysis of similar efforts in communities around the world. …”
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Effect of Aging on the Antifungal Activity and Surface Roughness of Soft Lining Material Incorporated with Chitosan Nano-Particles by Huda Abdul-Wahab Abdul-Shafi, Hawraa Khalid Aziz

“…Results: For viable count test, there was a significant decrease in CFU/ml of C. albicans after incorporation 3.5%CHs-NPs, the results also showed that the specimens’ group that was stored in acidic artificial saliva, recorded a significant increase in CFU/ml of C. albicans, followed by the specimens’ group that was stored in alkaline artificial saliva. …”
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The association of lipid accumulation product with inflammatory parameters and mortality: evidence from a large population-based study by Yi Chi, Yiqing Zhang, Huang Lin, Shanshan Zhou, Genlin Jia, Wei Wen

“…By considering inflammatory factors as mediators, we investigate the mediating effects of AVI on mortality.ResultsAfter a median follow-up of 69 months, there were 1,260 deaths, with 337 attributed to cardiovascular causes within the older adult population studied. …”
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Genetic insight into dissecting the immunophenotypes and inflammatory profiles in the pathogenesis of Sjogren syndrome by Jingyi Xu, Shucheng Si, Yijun Han, Lin Zeng, Jinxia Zhao

“…We performed a bidirectional Mendelian randomization and mediation study based on randomly allocated instrumental variables to infer causality, followed by external validation with UK Biobank data and Bayesian colocalization. …”
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Chemical Composition, Source Appointment and Health Risk of PM2.5 and PM2.5-10 during Forest and Peatland Fires in Riau, Indonesia by Sepridawati Siregar, Nora Idiawati, Puji Lestari, Abiyu Kerebo Berekute, Wen-Chi Pan, Kuo-Pin Yu

“…Moreover, there were five primary PM2.5-10 sources, including VE (28.6%) and BB (24%), followed by IE (19.9%), SD (17.2%), and SA (15.3%). …”
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Exploring the association between statins use or HMG-CoA reductase inhibition and migraine: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Hamdy A. Makhlouf, Amr K. Hassan, Nereen A. Almosilhy, Ahmed S.A. Osman, Shrouk Ramadan, Moaz Elsayed Abouelmagd

“…However, the variability in study design hinders definitive conclusions, so larger studies with longer follow-ups are required to ascertain both findings.…”
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Association of vaginal oestradiol and the rate of breast cancer in Denmark: registry based, case-control study, nested in a nationwide cohort by Christian Torp-Pedersen, Lina Steinrud Mørch, Nelsan Pourhadi, Amani Meaidi, Ellen Christine Løkkegaard

“…To each woman who developed breast cancer during follow-up (18 997), five women in the control group (94 985) were incidence density matched by birth year.Main outcome measure The main outcome was pathology confirmed breast cancer diagnosis.Results 2782 (14.6%) women with breast cancer (cases) and 14 999 (15.8%) women with no breast cancer diagnosis (controls) had been exposed to vaginal oestradiol tablets with 234 cases and 1232 controls having been in treatment for at least four years at a high intensity (>50 micrograms per week). …”
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Assessment of Physicochemical Characteristics of Produced Water from Terminals of Some Oil Industry Facilities in Nigeria by CC Obunwo, C Chukwudi

“…The levels of the nutrient characteristics of nitrate, phosphate and sulphate ranged as  follows: NO3 - (1.90 ± 1.16mg/l – 2.50 ± 0.26mg/l); PO4 3- (0.52 ± 0.12mg/l – 1.07 ± 0.12mg/l) and SO4 2- (14.40 ± 4.57mg/l – 21.70 ± 2.75mg/l). …”
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