Serum Level Alteration of IL-6, IL-1β, and IFN-γ in Groups of Healthy Adults with Oxidative DNA Damage in Najaf Governorate by Dhuha S. Saleh, Hayder S. Hussain, Hasan N. Al-Haidari, Samia K. Abbas, Ayaid K. Zgair, Seenaa M. Ali

“…The control group 4 (G4; n, 25) were adult healthy Iraqi volunteers who were residents of the Sulaimaniyah governorate, which has low-level uranium pollution. …”
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Clinic evaluation of cognitive impairment in post-COVID syndrome: Performance on legacy pen-and-paper and new digital cognitive tests by Aysha Mohamed Rafik Patel, Gina Gilpin, Anna Koniotes, Catherine Warren, Cian Xu, Paul W. Burgess, Dennis Chan

“…Results: The overall sample had a mean ACE-III score of 91/100 (SD 6) with 15.7% (16/102) scoring at or below the cut-off score considered to represent objective cognitive impairment. Of the 20 individuals who also completed the LCCAB, 89.47% were impaired on at least one task, primarily in the domains of attention, executive function and processing speed. …”
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UAE pharmacists’ perceptions of the causes of unwanted or unused medications, their practices, and barriers to promoting safe medication disposal by the public by Maram O. Abbas, Semira Beshir, Doaa Kamal AlKhalidi, Eiman Shamseldin Al Gailani Ali, Yosra Lozon, Rizah Anwar Assadi, Hana Ghdaiba, Rahaf Adnan AL-Zeer

“…A convenience sampling approach was used, where pharmacists who were available during the data collection period were invited to participate. …”
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Cytogenetically Unrelated Clones in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Showing Different Responses to Chemotherapy by Kohei Kasahara, Masahiro Onozawa, Naohiro Miyashita, Emi Yokohata, Miho Yoshida, Minoru Kanaya, Mizuha Kosugi-Kanaya, Ryo Takemura, Shojiro Takahashi, Junichi Sugita, Akio Shigematsu, Mutsumi Takahata, Shinichi Fujisawa, Daigo Hashimoto, Katsuya Fujimoto, Tomoyuki Endo, Takeshi Kondo, Takanori Teshima

“…The patient was a 45-year-old male who was diagnosed with acute monoblastic leukemia (AMoL). …”
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Job satisfaction amongst special education teachers by Z. S. Alkayed, S. M. Al Ali, M. M. Al Masa’deh

“…The study sample consisted of 71 special education teachers and 71 teacher students who “receive their training with special education teachers”. …”
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Hubungan Personal Hygiene Dengan Kejadian Skabies Di Pondok Pendidikan Islam Darul Ulum, Palarik Air Pacah, Kecamatan Koto Tangah Padang Tahun 2013 by Suci Chairiya Akmal, Rima Semiarty, Gayatri Gayatri

“…The population in this study were all students who are willing to respondents and was present at the time of the study that is 138 peoples. …”
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Changes of Lacrimal Puncta by Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography after Topical Combined Antibiotic and Steroid Treatment in Cases of Inflammatory Punctual Stenosis by Islam Awny, Elshimaa A. Mateen Mossa, Tasneem Mohammed Bakheet, Hany Mahmoud, Amr Mounir

“…Double-blinded controlled randomized study which was conducted on two groups of patients who had acquired punctal stenosis and epiphora presented to Ophthalmology Clinics of Sohag University Hospitals in the period between Jan 2021 and April 2021. …”
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Associations of the levels of adipokines and cytokines in individual follicles with in vitro fertilization outcomes in women with different ovarian reserves by Xuelan Li, Chujun Li, Jie Yang, Min Lin, Xianli Zhou, Ziyang Su, Yuting Zhang, Xinning Li, Xin Chen

“…Methods A total of 115 women who underwent IVF were recruited. Patients diagnosed with DOR, defined as a basal antral follicle count < 5 or an anti-Mullerian hormone concentration < 1.1 ng/mL, were assigned to the DOR group, while patients with a normal ovarian reserve (NOR) were assigned to the NOR group. …”
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Monozygotic twins with myocarditis and a novel likely pathogenic desmoplakin gene variant by Antheia Kissopoulou, Eva Fernlund, Christina Holmgren, Eira Isaksson, Jan‐Erik Karlsson, Henrik Green, Jon Jonasson, Rada Ellegård, Hanna Klang Årstrand, Anneli Svensson, Cecilia Gunnarsson

“…The aim of this case presentation is to shed light upon a possible link between myocarditis, a desmoplakin (DSP) gene variant, and ARVC by describing a case of male monozygotic twins who presented with symptoms and signs of myocarditis at 17 and 18 years of age, respectively. …”
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Effect of KRAS mutation status on clinicopathological characteristics and overall survival in patients with rectal cancer by Shengbin Zheng, Zhijie You, Guodon Guo, Zhijing Lin, Siming Wang, Guohua Yang

“…Methods The research retrospectively analyzed a cohort of 193 patients who received surgical treatment for rectal adenocarcinoma between May 2015 and December 2023. …”
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Which PSMA PET/CT interpretation criteria most effectively diagnose prostate cancer? a retrospective cohort study by Le Ma, Yaxin Hao, Luoping Zhai, Wanchun Zhang, Xiaoming Cao, Kaiyuan Jia

“…Method This retrospective analysis spans a five-year period, focusing on patients with clinically suspected or newly diagnosed, treatment-naïve PCa who underwent 18F-PSMA PET/CT. The study is bifurcated into two segments: 1.A direct comparison assessing the consistency in SUVmax, miPSMA scores, and PSMA-RADS among PSMA PET/CT tracers ([18F]DCFPyL and [18F]PSMA-1007) for prostate foci in 24 patients. 2. …”
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Genotype 3 is linked to worse liver disease progression in hepatitis C patients even after SVR following DAA therapy by Xiping Ran, Xiping Ran, Yang Xu, Ying Wang, Cheng Zeng, Chen Gong, Ni Wang, Dachuan Cai, Dachuan Cai

“…Therefore, we aimed to investigate the liver disease progression of patients with GT 3 after SVR.MethodsThis was a retrospective cohort study of patients with HCV infection who achieved SVR by DAAs. The clinical outcome was overall liver disease progression (OLDP), defined as newly diagnosed compensated liver cirrhosis, decompensated liver cirrhosis, or hepatocellular carcinoma. …”
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Vision Improvement after Osimertinib Treatment in Paraneoplastic Optic Neuropathy Associated with Lung Adenocarcinoma by Masaomi Kubota, Nobumasa Tamura, Takaaki Hayashi, Euido Nishijima, Haruhiko Yanagisawa, Akira Kojima, Tadashi Nakano

“…Herein, we describe the clinical course of an older adult patient with PON whose loss of vision improved after switching between epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI) treatments for cancer. A 76-year-old woman, who had been treated with gefitinib for lung adenocarcinoma for two years, presented with acute bilateral visual disturbances. …”
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Taung and beyond: The mining history, geology and taphonomy of Australopithecus in South Africa by Rieneke Weij, Stephanie E. Baker, Tara R. Edwards, Job Kibii, Georgina Luti, Robyn Pickering

“…We go on to emphasise members of research teams who have been crucial to the discovery and recovery of fossils but have often been excluded and remained unnamed. …”
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Determinants of Anemia among HIV-Positive Children on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Attending Hospitals of North Wollo Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia, 2019: A Case-Control St... by Biruk Beletew, Ayelign Mengesha, Mohammed Ahmed, Awet Fitwi, Mesfin Wudu

“…The rate of progression and mortality in this subgroup of patients is high compared to nonanemic patients. WHO estimates that over two billion people are anemic worldwide and young children bear the world’s highest prevalence rate of anemia. …”
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Sequential Docetaxel in ≥7 Cycles Followed by Cabazitaxel Improves Oncological Outcomes in Patients with Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer by Seiichi Kato, Manabu Takai, Koji Iinuma, Shota Fujimoto, Masahiro Nakano, Takashi Ishida, Masahiro Uno, Masayoshi Tamaki, Mitsuhiro Taniguchi, Hisao Komeda, Yoshito Takahashi, Takuya Koie

“…We retrospectively included 46 mCRPC patients who received DOC followed by CBZ at quaternary hospitals in Japan between February 2015 and March 2019. …”
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Comparison of pathophysiology in subclinical hyperthyroidism with different etiologies by Hanna Deguchi-Horiuchi, Mitsuru Ito, Sawako Takahashi, Kazuyoshi Kousaka, Mako Hisakado, Shuji Fukata, Takumi Kudo, Eijun Nishihara, Mitsushige Nishikawa, Akira Miyauchi, Takashi Akamizu

“…Five-hundred-forty untreated endogenous SHyper patients and 1,024 patients receiving TSH suppression therapy who underwent total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid carcinoma were sampled. …”
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Study of a Deep Learning Reconstruction Algorithm for Displaying Small- and Medium-sized Blood Vessels in Upper Abdominal Energy Spectrum CT by Qin WANG, Weijie YAN, Yuan YUAN, Hehan TANG, Liping DENG

“…Methods: Using three reconstruction algorithms, a retrospective analysis was performed on 28 patients with upper abdominal discomfort who underwent enhanced CT spectrum examination at the West China Hospital of Sichuan University from February 2021 to June 2022. …”
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Parastomal hernia repair: A 10-year retrospective study at District General Hospital—Recurrence and complications by Ali Javaid, Karim Muhammad, Nafees Qureshi

“…This study included all patients over the age of 16 years who had PSH repair done (open or laparoscopic; simple suture repair or mesh repair). …”
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Clinico-Epidemiological Profile of Children Orphaned due to AIDS Residing in Care Giving Institutions in Coastal South India by Rekha Thapar, Meher Singha, Nithin Kumar, Prasanna Mithra, Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan, Ramesh Holla, Vaman Kulkarni, B. B. Darshan, Avinash Kumar

“…BMI was calculated and nutritional status assessed using WHO Z scores (BMI for Age) for children between 5 and 19 years separately for boys and girls. …”
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