Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s paratexts: ‘j’ai senti, j’ai aimé, j’ai parlé’ by Simon Davies

“…A text, subsequently entitled ‘Avis’, which precedes his tale L’Arcadie (also in the 1786 volume of the Études), displays autobiographical details which illustrate his refusal to be anyone’s protégé and thus lose his independence. It reveals too an enduring desire to find a location to found a community which would act as a place of refuge for the ‘individus malheureux’ of multiple nationalities who would adopt there ‘des principes de tolérance universelle’. …”
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Digital health interventions for improving access to primary care in India: A scoping review. by Lenny Vasanthan, Sindhu Kulandaipalayam Natarajan, Andrew Babu, Mohan S Kamath, Sureshkumar Kamalakannan

“…A two-staged screening of titles and abstracts, followed by full-text was conducted independently by two reviewers, using the Rayyan software. …”
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Impact of education and training on LGBT-specific health issues for healthcare students and professionals: a systematic review of comparative studies by Kate Jolly, Ameeta Retzer, Sarah Damery, Nicola Kay Gale, Adekemi Oluwayemisi Sekoni, Ifeoma Okafor, Bibiane Manga-Atangana, Rachel Posaner

“…Outcomes were changes in participants’ knowledge, attitudes or clinical practice regarding LGBT health.Data extraction and synthesis Reviewer pairs independently screened titles/abstracts and full texts. …”
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Ethics of Procuring and Using Organs or Tissue from Infants and Newborns for Transplantation, Research, or Commercial Purposes: Protocol for a Bioethics Scoping Review [version 1;... by Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Joe Brierley, Jerry Menikoff, Trung Nguyen, Brian D. Earp, Dominic Wilkinson, Julian Savulescu, Xiu Lim, Maide Barış, David Shaw, Melanie T Almonte

“…All articles will be independently assessed for eligibility between two raters (MB & XL); data from eligible articles will be extracted and charted using a standardised data extraction form. …”
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Support in digital health skill development for vulnerable groups in a public library setting: perspectives of trainers by Lucille M. B. Standaar, Lucille M. B. Standaar, Lucille M. B. Standaar, Adriana M. C. Israel, Rosalie van der Vaart, Brigitta Keij, Roland D. Friele, Roland D. Friele, Mariëlle A. Beenackers, L. H. D. van Tuyl

“…A second inductive analysis was applied to identify underlying patterns. Coding was done independently and cross-checked. Codebooks and themes were determined in discussion with authors.ResultsThree themes emerged. 1) Trainers’ services, skills and expertise: Trainers identified older adults, youth, people with low (digital) literacy, the unemployed, and people from non-native cultural backgrounds as the groups most in need of support. …”
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Association between the low-density lipoprotein to high-density lipoprotein ratio and prognosis in critically ill intracerebral hemorrhage patients: a retrospective cohort study fr... by Yuchen Liu, Houxin Fu, Yue Wang, Yi Zhong, Rongting Zhang, Jingxuan Sun, Tianquan Yang, Yong Han, Yongjun Xiang, Bin Yuan, Ruxuan Zhou, Min Chen, Hangzhou Wang

“…Results The study included 873 critically ill ICH patients, among whom 20.3% (177/873) succumbed within 28 days. Higher LHR was independently associated with lower short-term mortality in ICH patients (28-day mortality: HR = 0.82, 95% CI: 0.68 ~ 0.99, P = 0.039; In-hospital mortality: HR = 0.7, 95% CI: 0.55 ~ 0.89, P = 0.004; ICU mortality: HR = 0.66, 95% CI: 0.48 ~ 0.92, P = 0.015). …”
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Comparative Lipid-Lowering/Increasing Efficacy of 7 Statins in Patients with Dyslipidemia, Cardiovascular Diseases, or Diabetes Mellitus: Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analyse... by Xiaodan Zhang, Lu Xing, Xiaona Jia, Xiaocong Pang, Qian Xiang, Xia Zhao, Lingyue Ma, Zhiyan Liu, Kun Hu, Zhe Wang, Yimin Cui

“…In this study, we searched four electronic databases for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published through February 25, 2020, comparing the lipid-lowering efficacy of no less than two of the included statins (or statin vs. placebo). Three reviewers independently extracted data in duplicate. Firstly, mixed treatment overall comparison analyses, in the form of frequentist NMAs, were conducted using STATA 15.0 software. …”
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No association of ABO blood groups and Rh factor with primary liver cancer in cirrhotic patients: a single-center cross-sectional study by Liyan Dong, Liyan Dong, Yuhang Yin, Yuhang Yin, Huiyuan Lu, Huiyuan Lu, Di Sun, Di Sun, Dongyang Wang, Deli Zou, Xingshun Qi

“…After adjusting for confounding factors, non-O (aOR = 0.763; 95%CI = 0.449–1.298, p = 0.319), A (aOR = 0.643; 95%CI = 0.332–1.246, p = 0.191), B (aOR = 0.835; 95%CI = 0.453–1.540, p = 0.564), AB (aOR = 0.888; 95%CI = 0.363–2.170, p = 0.795), and Rh (+) (aOR = 0.239; 95%CI = 0.036–1.571, p = 0.136) blood groups were not independently associated with PLC in cirrhotic patients. …”
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Improving daily reference evapotranspiration forecasts: Designing AI-enabled recurrent neural networks based long short-term memory by Mumtaz Ali, Jesu Vedha Nayahi, Erfan Abdi, Mohammad Ali Ghorbani, Farzan Mohajeri, Aitazaz Ahsan Farooque, Salman Alamery

“…The predictive models were built by incorporating both the training subset (80 %, covering the years 2009 to 2020) and the testing subset (20 %, ranging from 2021 to 2024) independently to forecast ETo. The results confirmed that the RNN-LSTM attained higher prediction accuracy as compared to NN, DL, RNN, and CNN-LSTM models. …”
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Invasive fungal diseases in patients with autoimmune diseases: a case series from the French RESSIF network by Vincent Poindron, Benjamin Terrier, François Maillot, Jean-Pierre Gangneux, Nassim Kamar, Valéry Salle, Lilia Hasseine, François Danion, Lilia Merabet, Guillaume Desoubeaux, Éric Bailly, Milène Sasso, Antoine Néel, Simon Galmiche, Benjamin Thoreau, Stéphane Bretagne, Alexandre Alanio, André Paugam, Valérie Letscher-Bru, Sophie Cassaing, Hélène Guegan, Loïc Favennec, Alida Minoza, Florent Morio, Julie Bonhomme, Odile Eloy, Laurence Millon, Anne-Pauline Bellanger, Philippe Poirier, Maxime Moniot, Taieb Chouaki, Antoine Huguenin, Frédéric Dalle, Bernard Bouteille, Muriel Nicolas, Nicole Desbois-Nogard, Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux, Karine Boukris-Sitbon, Fanny Lanternier, Caroline Mahinc, Marc Pihet, Magalie Demar, Céline Damiani, Marie-Fleur Durieux, Elena Charpentier, Cécile Nourrisson, Benoit Suzon

“…Fungemia and high-dose GCs were independently associated with higher 30-day mortality. …”
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Interaction between 24 h Urinary Free Cortisol and Obesity in Hypertension-Mediated Organ Damage in Patients with Untreated Hypertension by Gao-Zhen Cao, Jia-Yi Huang, Qing-Shan Lin, Cong Chen, Min Wu, Run Wang, Ming-Yen Ng, Kai-Hang Yiu, Jian-Cheng Xiu

“…Background: Given the close relationship between excessive cortisol secretion and obesity, as well as their intimate associations with cardiometabolic sequelae, this study aimed to evaluate whether elevated cortisol levels and obesity are independently and potentially interactively related to hypertension-mediated organ damage (HMOD) in patients with untreated hypertension. …”
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Comparison of Gensini score and SYNTAX score for predicting in-stent restenosis in patients with coronary artery disease and drug-eluting stent implantation by Min-Tao Gai, Shi-Qi Yan, Ming-yuan Wang, Amanguli Ruze, Ling Zhao, Qiu-Lin Li, Bang-Hao Zhao, An-Xia Deng, Su Hu, Xiao-Ming Gao

“…However, after adjustment for confounders, both Gensini score [tertile 3 vs. tertile 1 with OR 95%CI: 15.61 (5.37–45.39)] and SYNTAX score [high risk ≥ 33 vs. low risk ≤ 22 with OR 95%CI 12.61 (5.14–30.94)] were still independently associated with ISR. Furthermore, Gensini score [AUC 95%CI: 0.81 (0.78–0.84)] and SYNTAX score [AUC 95%CI: 0.76 (0.72–0.79)] showed a moderate ability to predict ISR. …”
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Prostate cancer incidence and mortality linked to metalworking fluid exposure: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Zahra Moradpour, Amin Barik, Goljamal Jorjani, Mohammad Reza Taherian, Sepideh Tousizadeh, Sepideh Tousizadeh, Aram Halimi, Aram Halimi, Yaser Soleimani, Mobina Karimian, Tina Khavari, Fateme Azizi Kalankari, Fatemeh Asadipour, Mojtaba Azari, Niloofar Yousefzadeh Shakouri, Saeideh Karamian, Nasser Bahari, Alireza Mosavi Jarrahi

“…Data extraction and risk of bias assessment were performed independently by two reviewers, with discrepancies resolved by a third reviewer. …”
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Triglyceride-glucose-body mass index and the incidence of cardiovascular diseases: a meta-analysis of cohort studies by Xiyun Rao, Ziyi Xin, Qingwen Yu, Lanlan Feng, Yongmin Shi, Ting Tang, Xuhan Tong, Siqi Hu, Yao You, Shenghui Zhang, Jiake Tang, Xingwei Zhang, Mingwei Wang, Ling Liu

“…Conclusion Higher TyG-BMI may be independently associated with an increased risk of CVD in individuals without CVD at baseline. …”
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AdipoRon ameliorates the progression of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction via mitigating lipid accumulation and fibrosis by Wuping Tan, Yijun Wang, Siyi Cheng, Zhihao Liu, Mengjie Xie, Lingpeng Song, Qinfang Qiu, Xiaofei Wang, Zeyan Li, Tianyuan Liu, Fuding Guo, Jun Wang, Xiaoya Zhou

“…AdipoRon, orally active synthetic adiponectin receptor agonist, could upregulate AdipoR1/2 (independently of adiponectin) and reduce lipid droplet accumulation, and alleviate fibrosis to restore HFpEF phenotypes. …”
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Correlates of and Body Composition Measures Associated with Metabolically Healthy Obesity Phenotype in Hispanic/Latino Women and Men: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of L... by Mayra L. Estrella, Amber Pirzada, Ramon A. Durazo-Arvizu, Jianwen Cai, Aida L. Giachello, Rebeca Espinoza Gacinto, Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Martha L. Daviglus

“…We demonstrated that higher waist circumference and higher lean body mass were independently associated with a lower proportion of the MHO phenotype in Hispanic/Latino women and men. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Elderly Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: An Observational Cohort Study by Ahmed Hassan, Amr Yosry Emam, Mohammed Thabet, Ahmed Osman, Khaled Ahmed Shams, Mina Samir Labib, Ahmed Elguindy

“…Killip class ≥II was independently associated with increased hospital mortality in all study age groups. …”
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Impact of mother’s own milk expression practices and processing treatments on infant health and growth outcomes: a systematic review protocol by Daniel Klotz, Carolyn Smith, Agnieszka Bzikowska-Jura, Marzia Giribaldi, Tanya Cassidy, Laura Cavallarin, Serena Gandino, Karolina Karcz, Chiara Peila, Bartłomiej Walczak, Aleksandra Wesolowska

“…Two reviewers will independently perform the reference screening, data extraction and risk of bias analysis of eligible studies, by using standardised tools specific for each study design. …”
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Association between estimated glucose disposal rate and cardiovascular diseases in patients with diabetes or prediabetes: a cross-sectional study by Jinhao Liao, Linjie Wang, Lian Duan, Fengying Gong, Huijuan Zhu, Hui Pan, Hongbo Yang

“…Multivariate logistic regression models and RCS curves demonstrated that eGDR had an independently negative linear correlation with the likelihood of CVD[Q4 vs. …”
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Prognostic signature of multimorbidity, geriatric syndromes and resources cluster in older in- and outpatients: a pooled secondary analysis with a 6-month follow-up by Thomas Benzing, Jill Stegemann, Anna Maria Affeldt, Luisa Mück, Anne Ferring, Laura Gerhards, Lena Pickert, Annika Bausch, Philipp Antczak, M Cristina Polidori

“…Based on a general linear model and a hierarchical clustering method, clusters of comorbidities, GS and GR were obtained.Results The study identified five clusters of GR-related GS, namely, psychosocial, iatrogenic, neurovegetative, sensorimotor and fluid dysbalance, along with two clusters related to GR, focusing on independence achievement and requirements- circumstances. …”
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