Hard and soft tissue alterations after the application of different soft tissue grafting materials during immediate dental implant placement: a systematic review and Bayesian netwo... by Ali Azadi, Fatemeh Rezaei, Atoosa Yazdani, Kimia Hejazi, Aryousha Moallem Savasari, Reza Amid, Mahdi Kadkhodazadeh

“…Methods Through an electronic search regarding the study’s main question (“In patients with non-restorable teeth, who receive immediate dental implants (P), what is the best adjunctive soft tissue grafting approach among different autogenous, allogenous, and xenogenous grafts (I), to achieve the desired hard and soft tissue structure (O), compared to sites without grafting (C)?”) …”
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Machine learning reveals sex differences in distinguishing between conduct-disordered and neurotypical youth based on emotion processing dysfunction by Gregor Kohls, Erik M. Elster, Peter Tino, Graeme Fairchild, Christina Stadler, Arne Popma, Christine M. Freitag, Stephane A. De Brito, Kerstin Konrad, Ruth Pauli

“…Methods Multi-site data from 542 youth with CD and 710 neurotypical controls (64% girls, 9–18 years) who completed emotion recognition, learning, and regulation tasks were analyzed using a multivariate ML classifier to distinguish between youth with CD and controls separately by sex. …”
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Association between serum testosterone changes and parameters of the metabolic syndrome by Sohei Kuribayashi, Shinichiro Fukuhara, Hiroaki Kitakaze, Go Tsujimura, Takahiro Imanaka, Norichika Ueda, Kentaro Takezawa, Hiroshi Kiuchi, Ayaka Tachi, Jiro Sakamoto, Toyofumi Abe, Go Tanigawa, Yasushi Miyagawa, Takashi Fujimoto, Norio Nonomura

“…We included 178 male subjects who visited our hospital multiple times between 2018 and 2023 for medical checkups for at least 3 years. …”
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Novel anthropometric indices are superior adiposity indexes to portend visual impairment in middle-aged and older Chinese population by Qing Chen, Yanan Hou, Yifan Zhou, Jianfeng Luo, KaiweiSa Abuduxukuer, Chuchu Wang, Jialong Dong, Yiting Wang, Wenming Shi, Fei Shi, Qing Peng

“…Objective To investigate differential associations of traditional and novel adiposity indices with visual impairment (VI) in the middle-aged and older Chinese population.Methods and analysis Based on the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, 7750 Chinese older adults aged over 45 were included at baseline 2011, and 4133 participants who accomplished all three interviews from 2011 to 2015 were adapted for longitudinal analyses. …”
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Systemic Diseases in Patients with Congenital Aniridia: A Report from the Homburg Registry for Congenital Aniridia by Jessica Obst, Fabian N. Fries, Maryam Amini, Annamária Náray, Cristian Munteanu, Tanja Stachon, Shweta Suiwal, Neil Lagali, Berthold Seitz, Barbara Käsmann-Kellner, Nóra Szentmáry

“…Methods Our retrospective, monocentric study included patients who underwent a comprehensive ophthalmic examination at Saarland University Medical Center beginning in June 2003. …”
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The Impact of Cementing Techniques on Implant Longevity in Relation to Keel Length in Persona and NexGen Knee Arthroplasty: A Comprehensive Study by Arash Sharafat Vaziri, MD, Mohammad Naghi Tahmasebi, MD, Hoseinali Hadi, MD, Sina Javidmehr, MD, Sohrab Keyhani, MD, Zahra Vahdati, MD, Hossein Nematian, MD, Yalda Farahmand, MD

“…Methods: Every participant who underwent primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) between August 2014 and September 2022 with a minimum of 4-year follow-up using 1 of 3 implants were included: Persona + conventional cementing technique; Persona + modified cementing technique; and NexGen LPS-Flex. …”
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Bony ankylosis adversely affects postoperative hip function in patients with ankylosing spondylitis undergoing total hip arthroplasty: a retrospective cohort study of 319 consecuti... by Liangliang Li, Jun Fu, Chi Xu, Ming Ni, Wei Chai, Libo Hao, Yonggang Zhou, Jiying Chen

“…Poor hip flexion function is the main complaint of patients who are dissatisfied with their outcomes. Bony ankylosis has adverse effects on postoperative hip function in patients with AS, suggesting that performing THA before ankylosis occurs can lead to better subjective outcomes and better postoperative hip function. …”
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Utilizing Technology-Enabled Intervention to Improve Blood Glucose Self-Management Outcome in Type 2 Diabetic Patients Initiated on Insulin Therapy: A Retrospective Real-World Stud... by Jian Lin, Xia Li, Shan Jiang, Xiao Ma, Yuxin Yang, Zhiguang Zhou

“…This retrospective study included T2DM patients who were initiated on insulin therapy (mostly premixed insulin) after failure to respond to oral antidiabetic drugs. …”
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Multinational comparison of new antidepressant use in older adults: a cohort study by Robyn Tamblyn, David Westfall Bates, David L Buckeridge, Will Dixon, Alan J Forster, Nadyne Girard, Jennifer Haas, Bettina Habib, Siyana Kurteva, Jack Li, Therese Sheppard

“…Objectives We used an international pharmacosurveillance network to estimate the rate and characteristics of antidepressant use in older adults in countries with more conservative (UK) and liberal depression guidelines (Canada, USA).Setting Electronic health records and population-based administrative data from six jurisdictions in four countries (UK, Taiwan, USA and Canada).Participants A historical cohort of older adults (≥65 years) who had a new episode of antidepressant use between 2009 and 2014.Outcome measures The age and sex-standardised cumulative incidence of new episodes of antidepressant use in older adults was measured. …”
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Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Risk Factors Associated with Postoperative Stress Hyperglycemia in Patients without Diabetes Following Cardiac Surgery by Mengli Zhang, Ziyi Zhang, Ningning Zhu, Lulu Wang, Hui Huang, Yike Wang, Fang Xue

“…Conclusions: Current evidence suggests that there are key risk factors for postoperative stress hyperglycemia in patients without diabetes who have undergone cardiac surgery. These factors can help identify patients at a high risk of perioperative stress hyperglycemia during cardiac surgery. …”
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The use of the methodological base of the study to determine the conduction of low-frequency electromagnetic interference according to the coefficient of the n-th harmonic componen... by D. Yu. Rudi, A. I. Antonov, A. A. Ruppel, E. Yu. Ruppel, T. V. Shitik

“…The problem of non-sinusoidal voltages has been studied for quite a long time and the results obtained during these studies confirm the presence of a large number of damages to electricity consumers who are in operation. The probability of occurrence of conductive low-frequency EMF by K U(n) at the research site is determined. …”
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JAUNOSIOS KARTOS KATALIKŲ INTELEKTUALŲ POŽIŪRIS Į FAŠIZMĄ IR NACIONALSOCIALIZMĄ TARPUKARIO LIETUVOJE by Valdas Pruskus

“…The intellectual Catholic youth missed such assistance, especially to businessmen and farmers, in Lithuania governed by tautininkai, who had no clear program of social and economical development. …”
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Pelvic Drop Changes due to Proximal Muscle Strengthening Depend on Foot-Ankle Varus Alignment by Aline de Castro Cruz, Sérgio Teixeira Fonseca, Vanessa Lara Araújo, Diego da Silva Carvalho, Leonardo Drumond Barsante, Valéria Andrade Pinto, Thales Rezende Souza

“…Methods. Fifty-three women, who were divided into intervention and control groups, participated in this nonrandomized controlled trial. …”
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Case report: Toxic epidermal necrolysis as a unique presentation of acute graft versus host disease in a pediatric patient by Elizabeth Marlowe, Rachel Palmer, April L. Rahrig, Devin Dinora, Jessica Harrison, Jodi Skiles, Mahvish Q. Rahim

“…Management and outcomes of pediatric patients with this overlapping, severe presentation have rarely been described.Case presentationThis report describes an 11-year-old boy with refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia who received peripheral blood SCT from a matched unrelated donor. …”
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Effectiveness of educational interventions to promote safe handling of pesticides: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Anne Cockcroft, Neil Andersson, Sergio Paredes-Solís, José Legorreta-Soberanis, Belén Madeline Sánchez-Gervacio, Víctor Manuel Alvarado-Castro, Miguel Flores-Moreno, Claudia Erika Rios-Rivera, Janet Saldaña-Almazán

“…The review aims to summarise the impact of educational interventions on knowledge and reported behaviour of pesticide users and to identify characteristics of more effective interventions.Methods and analysis We will search MEDLINE, LILACS, AGRICOLA, IMBIOMED, SciELO, Web of Science, Scopus, Embase databases and from the grey literature, Open Grey and WHO to identify potentially eligible studies. We will consider randomised and non-randomised controlled trials that evaluated the impact of educational interventions among farmers about the safe use of pesticides. …”
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Impact of pharmacist-led educational intervention on knowledge of self-management among asthmatic patients: a prospective cohort study by Ahmad Khan, Saima Mushtaq, Amjad Khan, Nafees Ahmad, Shahzadi Sidra Saleem, Rubina Aman, Shahzadi Sadia Saleem, Ayesha Bibi, Saifullah Mehsud, Ivan R Green, Sheikh Abdur Rashid, Kifayat Ullah Shah

“…This study aims to assess the impact of pharmacist-led educational intervention on knowledge of self-management among asthmatic patients.Design A pre–post cohort study.Setting Outpatient department of a tertiary care hospital affiliated with Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan.Participants Approximately 265 adult asthmatic patients selected through a spirometry process, aged ≥18 years, were approached. 240 patients gave consent to participate in the study and were divided into control and treatment groups.Interventions The educational intervention consisted of individual patient counselling using educational material with time varied according to each patient’s comprehension and previous knowledge.Primary and secondary outcome measures Assessment consisted of a 14-item Asthma Self-Management Knowledge Questionnaire (ASMQ) quantifying a patient’s self-management knowledge through an ASMQ score and its change following an educational intervention.Results Disease self-management knowledge was low with an average raw ASMQ score of 4.1 (max 14); which equates to a transformed score of 29.34 (max 100) and the proportion of patients who correctly answered more than 50% of questions were 16.7% preintervention. …”
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The Change of Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index Independently Predicts Survival of Colorectal Cancer Patients after Curative Resection by Qingqing Chen, Haohao Wu, Xinwei Guo, Ke Gu, Wenjie Wang, Xiaochen Chen, Shengjun Ji, Hui Yang, Jiahao Zhu

“…This study was designed to evaluate the role of ∆SII in CRC patients who received surgery. Methods. A total 206 patients were enrolled in this study. …”
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European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation II and Liver Dysfunction by Andreea Ludusanu, Adelina Tanevski, Bogdan Mihnea Ciuntu, Razvan Lucian Bobeica, Dragos Andrei Chiran, Cristinel Ionel Stan, Viorel Dragos Radu, Vasile Lucian Boiculese, Grigore Tinica

“…<b>Methods:</b> This was a retrospective study, and it included 185 patients, with 93 survivors being randomly chosen from a total of 589 surviving patients using age, emergency and the weight of cardiac procedures as criteria to match the 92 deceased patients during hospitalization in the postoperative period who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) alone or CABG and other concomitant cardiovascular interventions during a 10-year period of time. …”
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Early Effects of Bronchoscopic Cryotherapy in Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Receiving Immunotherapy: A Single-Center Prospective Study by Gediminas Vasiliauskas, Evelina Žemaitė, Erika Skrodenienė, Lina Poškienė, Gertrūda Maziliauskienė, Aurimas Mačionis, Skaidrius Miliauskas, Donatas Vajauskas, Marius Žemaitis

“…<b>Methods:</b> Fifty-five patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer who had received no prior treatment were randomized into two groups in a 1:1 ratio: the bronchoscopic cryotherapy group or the control group. …”
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Services availability and readiness assessment of adolescent sexual and reproductive health in primary healthcare facilities: evidence from selected districts in Ghana by Michel Adurayi Amenah, Jacob Novignon, Ama Pokuaa Fenny, Irene A. Agyepong, Tim Ensor

“…Methods The study utilized a multi-stage sampling approach to select 67 PHCs across four districts in the Greater Accra region, reflecting Ghana's broad demographic diversity. We employed the WHO's Services Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) tool to measure the availability and readiness of ASRH services. …”
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