Comparative efficacy of lumbar and pelvic support on pain, disability, and motor control in women with postpartum pelvic girdle pain: a three-armed randomized controlled trial by Fahimeh-Sadat Jafarian, Mahmonir Jafari-Harandi, Gillian Yeowell, Ebrahim Sadeghi-Demneh

“…These variables were measured at four time points —before the intervention, immediately after the intervention, at the 4-week follow-up (at this time, the intervention period was terminated), and at the 5-week follow-up (one week after discontinuing the interventions)— to evaluate the possible effects of wearing support. …”
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Reliability of the Second and Third Iterations of the Sensory–Motor Dysfunction Questionnaire in a Subclinical Neck Pain Population by Ushani Ambalavanar, Heidi Haavik, Nitika Kumari, Imran Amjad, Nooshin Khobzi Rotondi, Bernadette Ann Murphy

“…V2 framed questions as “over the past week”, whereas V3 also framed questions as “in a typical/usual week”. …”
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Effects of low, moderate, and high-intensity aquatic exercise on joint edema in induced rat knee arthritis by Alline Mardegan Mioto, Daniel Fernando dos Reis, Thiago Alves Garcia, Guilherme Akio Tamura Ozaki, Iara Buriola Trevisan, Rodrigo Metzker Pereira Ribeiro, Robson Chacon Castoldi, José Carlos Silva Camargo Filho

“…GI exhibited decreased inflammatory edema in the 3rd week post-activity. GM showed a substantial decrease in the 4th week compared to GL and GI. …”
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Gene therapy by hepatocyte growth factor results in regression of experimental liver fibrosis by N. A. Dzhoyashvili, N. I. Kalinina, I. B. Beloglazova, Z. I. Tsokolayeva, P. I. Makarevich, Yu. L. Perov, Ye. V. Parfenova, V. A. Tkachuk

“…During experiment male mice of Balbc line received intraperitoneal injections of 30% perchloromethane (CCl4) diluted in oil in a dose of 1 ml/kg once per week. Animals (n=4–6) dropped from the experiment at the 1, 2, 4 and 6-th week from its onset. …”
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Cancer-Related Anemia Is a Risk Factor for Medium-Term Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction in Laparoscopic Surgery Patients: An Observational Prospective Study by Huimei Huang, Fei Lin, Liming Cen, Ren Jing, Linghui Pan

“…Of the 170 patients, 100 without anemia and 70 anemia patients had been evaluated 1 week after operation. POCD was detected in 43 cases (25.3% of 170 cases) at 1 week and 30 cases (19% of 158 cases) at 3 months postoperatively. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors Associated with Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Infections among Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis: A Single-Centre Study in Somalia by Mohamed Osman Omar Jeele, Rukia Omar Barei Addow, Faduma Nur Adan, Liban Hassan Jimale

“…Age, sex, duration of hemodialysis, number of hemodialysis sessions per week, history of blood transfusion, HbsAg, and anti-HCV antibodies were examined. …”
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IUGR Management: New Perspectives by N. Giuliano, M. L. Annunziata, S. Tagliaferri, F. G. Esposito, O. C. M. Imperato, M. Campanile, M. G. Signorini, A. Di Lieto

“…The patients were divided into three groups according to the age of gestation at the time of delivery, before the 34th week, from 34th to 37th week, and after the 37th week. …”
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Double Cerclage In Cervical Insufficiency: A Single Tertiary Center Experience by Ismet Hortu, Cagdas Sahin, Orkun Ilgen, Mert Kazandi, Ali Akdemir, A. Mete Ergenoglu

“…Two women gave birth vaginally at the 33rd week of pregnancy. Remaining eight cases gave birth above 34th week of pregnancy. …”
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Renal glomerular and tubular injury in the offspring of the preeclampsia-like syndrome by Yong Wang, Hao Wang, Huiqing Lu, Ji Ma, Wei Wu, Yinan Wang, Bo Ma, Hao Zhu, Rong Hu

“…Our findings show that L-NAME-induced pre-eclampsia led to reduced birth weights and significantly elevated systolic blood pressure in 6-week-old offspring. Histopathological analysis revealed pronounced glomerular and tubular damage in the kidneys of both 1-week and 6-week-old offspring from the pre-eclampsia group. …”
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Effects of a Distributed Form of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy for Clinical Application: The Keys Treatment Protocol by Sarah dos Anjos, Mary Bowman, David Morris

“…Methods: Ten adults with chronic stroke (>6 months) participated in an 8-week intervention. The protocol included 22 supervised training sessions (1.5 h each): 4 days/week for 4 weeks, 2 days/week for weeks 5–6, and 1 day/week for weeks 7–8. …”
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Gentamicin Induced Nephrotoxicity: The Role of Sex Hormones in Gonadectomized Male and Female Rats by Fatemeh Eshraghi-Jazi, Ardeshir Talebi, Fatemeh Sadat Mirsaeedi, Sarina Ahmadian, Fatemeh Moslemi, Mehdi Nematbakhsh

“…Ovariectomized rats received 0.25, 0.5, or 1 mg/kg/week of estradiol (ES) alone or accompanied with 10 mg/kg/week of progesterone (Pro) for two weeks followed by GM (100 mg/kg/day) for 9 days. …”
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Short-Term Outcome of Patients with Cirrhosis and Concurrent Portal Cavernoma Presenting with Acute Variceal Bleeding by Xuefeng Luo, Wanqin Wang, Xiaoli Fan, Ying Zhao, Xiaoze Wang, Jinlin Yang, Li Yang

“…The 6-week mortality rate did not differ between the cavernoma and control group (25% versus 12.5%, p=0.137). …”
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Exercise Intervention in Women with Fibromyalgia and Its Influence on Pain, Psychological Variables, and Disability: An Observational Study by María Elena González-Álvarez, Víctor Riquelme-Aguado, Giacomo Rossettini, Josué Fernández-Carnero, Jorge Hugo Villafañe

“…This study aims to examine the effects of a 6-week telerehabilitation combined exercise program—including mobility, strength, and high-intensity exercises—on pain, psychological variables, and disability in women with fibromyalgia. (2) Methods: In this observational study involving 53 FM patients, the outcomes measured were the pressure pain threshold (PPT), the conditioned pain modulation (CPM) paradigm, levels of pain on the measurement day and the average of the last week (using NRS) the impact of the fibromyalgia (using Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ), and anxiety (using the Spanish version of the State–Trait Anxiety Inventory—STAI). (3) Results: Statistically significant changes were observed in the intervention group in PPT, CPM, NRS, and FIQ. (4) Conclusions: A six-week telerehabilitation therapeutic exercise intervention consisting of two scheduled exercise sessions per week lasting approximately 45 min each is associated with reduced pain levels, enhanced pain inhibitory pathways, and a decreased impact of fibromyalgia compared to patients who do not adopt a more active lifestyle.…”
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A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of the Efficacy of Twice Daily PPIs versus Once Daily for Treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease by Hongying Zhang, Zhiping Yang, Zhen Ni, Yongquan Shi

“…PPIs BID more effectively improve endoscopic healing rate at week 8 than PPIs QD. But there are no significant differences in symptom relief, 24 h pH monitoring, sustained symptom relief, and endoscopic response at week 4.…”
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Dynamic Metabolic Changes during the First 3 Months after 90Y-Ibritumomab Tiuxetan Radioimmunotherapy by Miwako Takahashi, Toshimitsu Momose, Keitaro Koyama, Motoshi Ichikawa, Mineo Kurokawa, Kuni Ohtomo

“…Most lesions continued to decrease for up to 4 weeks. Some lesions showed increased metabolism from 4 to 12 weeks, while the level of FDG accumulations at 12 weeks was still lower than the baseline. …”
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A Strategic Management Approach to Reduce Pepper Weevil Damage to Jalapeño Pepper Plants with Conventional and Biorational Insecticides by Naga Mani Kanchupati, Dakshina R. Seal, Bruce Schaffer, Oscar E. Liburd

“…The spray intervals for each insecticide included foliar applications weekly, every two weeks, every three weeks initiated at the blooming stage, and every two weeks beginning one week after blooming. …”
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Structured and unstructured physical activity habits: a study on adolescents’ motivational characteristics for exercising by Armando Cocca, Michaela Cocca, Klaus Greier, Gerhard Ruedl

“…Cluster analyses on a sample of 1332 participants (14.27 ± 2.18 years old) highlighted low-PA (SC + LTE >10 hours/week) and high-PA profiles (n = 536, mean of 5.41 hours/week SC PA and 5.42 hours/week LTE) for the overall sample and those who identified themselves as female. …”
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Impact of a soft tip nicotine-free harmless cigarette as part of a smoking cessation program with psychological support and varenicline: an integrated workplace smoking cessation i... by Marilena Maglia, Pasquale Caponnetto, Riccardo Polosa, Cristina Russo, Giuseppe Santisi

“…This two-group randomized clinical trial compared the 12-week combined effect of psychological support and varenicline associated with the use or not of a nicotine-free inhaler with a soft mouthpiece (QuitGo™) on the 4 to 24-week cessation rate in enrolled smokers to a smoking cessation program promoted by our research group. …”
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Dengue hemorhagic fever associated hemophagocytc lymphohistiocytosis in primigravida: A case report by Pyrus Bhellum, Rakesh Kumar, Rishabh Bora, Bharat Kumar

“…We report a case of a 9-week primigravida presenting with high grade fever spikes and a positive Dengue NS1 antigen. …”
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Reproductive hormone profiles and gametogenesis in female of giant gouramy (Osphronemus gouramy) by Gratiana E. Wijayanti, . Soeminto, Sorta B.I. Simanjuntak

“…Progesterone level from fish spawning to the first week was 0.403±0.02ng/ml, increase to 0.514±0.02 ng/ml at the second week and then decrease at the fourth week (0.260±0.0 ng/ml).  …”
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