Alcohol Consumption and Risk of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Men by Erin K. Howie, Xuemei Sui, Duck-chul Lee, Steven P. Hooker, James R. Hébert, Steven N. Blair

“…The amount of alcohol consumed to achieve this risk reduction was <6 drinks/week; less than the amount currently recommended. …”
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Timing Matters: HIV Testing Rates in the Emergency Department by Rebecca Schnall, Nan Liu

“…We used logistic regression to assess whether time of day, day of the week, and season significantly affected HIV testing rates. …”
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Idiopathic Infantile Arterial Calcification: A Possible Cause of Refractory Cardiopulmonary Failure in Infancy by A. Nael, P. J. Siaghani, D. Chen, S. G. Romansky, L. Shane

“…Appropriate treatment can be initiated and has been shown to successfully induce permanent remission. We report a 4-week-old neonate who initially presented with respiratory distress, heart failure, and Coxsackie B viremia suggestive of viral induced cardiomyopathy. …”
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Open Trial of Cyclosporine in Patients with Severe Active Crohn's Disease Refractory to Conventional Therapy by Kevork M. Peltekian, C. Noel Williams, Allan S. MacDonald, Peter D. Roy, Elizabeth Czolpinska

“…Four of these seven patients relapsed with in four weeks of stopping cyclosporine, and three remain in remission after 75 ± 2 weeks. …”
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Effectiveness of Repetitive Facilitative Exercise Combined with Electrical Stimulation Therapy to Improve Very Severe Paretic Upper Limbs in with Stroke Patients: A Randomized Cont... by Hitoshi Ohnishi, Hiroyuki Miyasaka, Naoki Shindo, Kazuki Ito, Shiori Tsuji, Shigeru Sonoda

“…A total of 20 min of group-specific training in addition to 40 min of conventional exercise per day, seven times a week for 4 weeks after admission, was performed. …”
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The Effect of Vacuum Annealing of Magnetite and Zero-Valent Iron Nanoparticles on the Removal of Aqueous Uranium by R. A. Crane, T. B. Scott

“…Over extended reaction periods (>1 week), appreciable U rerelease was recorded for the mine water solutions treated using nano-Fe0, whilst the vacuum annealed material maintained U at <50 μg L−1 until 4 weeks reaction. …”
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Air-Liquid Exchange by Free Hand and One Needle for Unhealed Macular Hole by Haishuang Lin, Yiting Ji, Luqi Xia, Bo Lin, Zhihua Li, Zhixiang Hu, Ronghan Wu

“…The prone position was taken one week after operation. The macular holes before and after operation were examined by frequency-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). …”
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Helping others in real life and in the laboratory: pride and prosocial behavior by Mariola Łaguna, Natalia Łukawska, Michał Kędra

“…Participants and procedure A correlational study, Study 1 (N = 365), was conducted during the second week of the 2022 war in Ukraine. In Study 2, a laboratory experiment (N = 82) was conducted to test the effect of pride (recalling an event in which a person felt proud) on prosocial behavior. …”
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Relationship between periodontal disease and respiratory conditions in patients admitted to the Internal Medicine ward by Beatriz María Borrell Fuster, Víctor René Navarro Machado, Ana Belkys Hernández Millán, Beatriz María Fuster Cabrera, Belkis Julia León Águila

“…Each patient underwent a dental examination in the first week after admission. The following variables were analyzed: sex, age, type of observed periodontal disease and respiratory disease that they presented, as well as risk factors. …”
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The Effect of Different Doses of Intraamniotic Digoxin on the Timing of Fetal Demise in Second Trimester Medical Abortions by Gulsah Aynaoglu Yildiz, Ragip Atakan Al

“… OBJECTIVES: The World Health Organization recommends feticide for termination of pregnancy after 20 weeks of gestation, and the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists after 21 weeks and 6 days. …”
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Effectiveness of perform+ training program for ankle injury at Academy Nazzaro Football Club Malang by Dita Angelia Damayanti, Ahmad Abdullah, Heri Purnama Pribadi

“…The perform+ training program is carried out for 6 weeks with a frequency of 3 training sessions per week. to determine the effectiveness of the perform+ training program, the Y Balance Test is used. …”
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Sepsis and Pleural Empyema Caused by Streptococcus pyogenes after Influenza A Virus Infection by Fumihiro Ochi, Hisamichi Tauchi, Toshihiro Jogamoto, Hiromitsu Miura, Tomozo Moritani, Kozo Nagai, Eiichi Ishii

“…During the clinical course, cytokines induced in response to the influenza virus, especially IL-1β and IL-10, were elevated 1 week after influenza A infection, but these decreased as the symptoms improved. …”
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Evaluation of Staining Reduction of Teeth Endodontically Treated with CTZ Paste through the Use of Polytetrafluoroethylene Isolation Tape by Lucas de Lima Oliveira Barbosa, Jaine Viviane Silva, Leopoldo Cosme-Silva, Daniela Maria Carvalho Pugliesi, Patrícia Batista Lopes do Nascimento, Dayse Andrade Romão, Priscylla Gonçalves Correia Leite de Marcelos, Daniel Pinto de Oliveira, Valdeci Elias dos Santos Junior

“…Coloration was assessed once a week for six weeks through follow-up photographs. …”
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Qat Chewing as an Independent Risk Factor for Periodontitis: A Cross-Sectional Study by Ali Kaid Al-Sharabi, Hussien Shuga-Aldin, Ibrahim Ghandour, Nezar Noor Al-Hebshi

“…The qat chewers were older, included more males and smokers, and had worse oral hygiene but higher education levels; the majority were heavy chewers (mean duration of 14.45 years and frequency of 6.10 days/week). Regression analysis identified age, oral hygiene, education level, and cigarette smoking as independent predictors of periodontal destruction. …”
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Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia Diagnosed following Knee Arthroscopy by John E. Zvijac, Sharhabil S. Ammus, Fernando Aran, Gary M. Kiebzak

“…Symptoms did not abate after 6 months of physical therapy, and he underwent arthroscopic partial medial meniscectomy. A week after beginning physical therapy he experienced a knee effusion, decreased ROM, and inability to flex his quadriceps. …”
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Effect of Ozone Gel on Postoperative Sequelae after Surgical Removal of Impacted Lower Third Molars. by Sherwan Faisal Hamadamin, Ahmad Abdulla Haider

“…Pain and swelling were assessed by visual analogue scale (VAS) and recorded daily for one week by the patients, dry socket was checked at 3rd day postoperatively, maximal mouth opening also was checked at 3rd and 7th day postoperatively and soft tissue healing was checked at 7th day postoperatively. …”
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Evaluation of Therapeutic Efficacy and Safety of Tranexamic Acid Local Infiltration in Combination with Topical 4% Hydroquinone Cream Compared to Topical 4% Hydroquinone Cream Alon... by Zohreh Tehranchinia, Bita Saghi, Hoda Rahimi

“…The mean of MASI score in week 16 decreased in both groups significantly (p < 0.01). …”
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Characterisation of Pain Responses in the High Fat Diet/Streptozotocin Model of Diabetes and the Analgesic Effects of Antidiabetic Treatments by Frederika Maria Byrne, Sharon Cheetham, Steven Vickers, Victoria Chapman

“…The aim of the present study was to characterise pain behaviour in a high fat diet/streptozotocin (HFD/STZ) model of diabetes in the rat, investigate spinal mechanisms, and determine the effects of antidiabetic interventions. Three-week consumption of a high fat diet followed by single injection of STZ (45 mgkg−1) produced sustained changes in plasma insulin and glucose until day 120. …”
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Do Improvements in Balance Relate to Improvements in Long-Distance Walking Function after Stroke? by Louis N. Awad, Darcy S. Reisman, Stuart A. Binder-Macleod

“…The purpose of this study was to determine if the changes in balance and long-distance walking function observed following a 12-week poststroke walking rehabilitation program were related. …”
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Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia Associated with Massive Intracardiac Thrombosis: A Case Report by Atheer Ahmed, Hamid AL-Mondhiry, Truman J. Milling, David Campbell

“…This made HIT diagnosis unlikely and the patient received dalteparin. A week later, as the platelet count declined again, HIT antibodies’ testing using ELISA and C-14 serotonin release was repeated, and both assays were positive. …”
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