Disparities in the uptake of HPV-related cancer prevention strategies among women by HIV status in Puerto Rico by Marievelisse Soto-Salgado, Melisa Ramos-Sepúlveda, Jeslie M. Ramos-Cartagena, Maribel Tirado-Gómez, Humberto M. Guiot, Cristina Muñoz-Masso, Lorena González-Sepúlveda, Ana Patricia Ortiz

“…Results: Women’s mean age in our study was 50.2 ± 12.1 years; 75.7 % were living with HIV. Among women who were age-eligible for HPV vaccination, 21.7 % reported receiving the HPV vaccine; WLWH were less likely vaccinated than women without HIV (14.7 % vs. 38.7 %, p < 0.01). …”
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Identification and Classification of Factors Influencing the Regulation of Priority Goods Markets Based on Network Governance with an Interpretive Structural Modeling Approach by sadegh Dadashi, Fattah Sharifzadeh, Reza Vaezi, Hossein Aslipour

“…Effective market regulation requires decision-makers who are well-versed in network dynamics and information and communication technology. …”
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Efficacy of PD-1 blockade plus chemotherapy in patients with oncogenic-driven non-small-cell lung cancer by Haowei Wang, Lei Cheng, Jian Chen, Peixin Chen, Zhuoran Tang, Qianyi Wang, Ying Ma, Chao Zhao, Xuefei Li, Tao Jiang, Fei Zhou, Xiaoxia Chen, Caicun Zhou

“…Patients with oncogenic drivers who received PD-1 blockade plus chemotherapy had significantly better outcomes compared to those received PD-1 blockade or chemotherapy alone (ORR: 51% vs. 18% vs. 25%, P < 0.001; median PFS: 10.0 [95% CI: 8.9–12.6] vs. 3.7 [95% CI: 2.9–5.1] vs. 5.3 [95% CI: 4.5–6.2] months, P < 0.001; median OS: 26.0 [95% CI: 23.0–30.0] vs. 14.3 [95% CI: 9.6–19.8] vs. 16.1 [95% CI: 11.6–21.9] months, P < 0.001). …”
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Perceived effectiveness and recommendations from a childbirth quality assurance and improvement programme in India’s private sector: a qualitative evaluation using the RE-AIM frame... by Katherine Semrau, Meghna Desai, Lauren Spigel, Somesh Kumar, Megan Marx Delaney, Lauren Bobanski, Suranjeen Pallipamula, Natalie Henrich, Tapas Sadasivan Nair, Hema Divakar, Rajat Chabba, Shweta Jindal, Gulnoza Usmanova, Sukanya Dutta, Aarushi Gupta, Sucheta Kinjawadekar, Priti Kumar, Priyanka Kumari, Prerna Mukharya, Hrishikesh Pai, Ameya Purandare, Pompy Sridhar

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The role of the behavioral immune system in the expression of short and long-term orientation in young Chilean men during the COVID-19 pandemic by Oriana Figueroa, Pablo Polo, Daniel Torrico-Bazoberry, Gabriela Fajardo, Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert, Nohelia Valenzuela, Abigail Arenas, Paula Pavez, Montserrat Belinchon, Gabriela Valdebenito, José Antonio Muñoz-Reyes

“…We reached an N = 879 young men who answered a sociodemographic questioarticipants answered a sociodemographic questionnaire that inclnnaire and the Multidimensional Sociosexual Orientation Inventory. …”
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Changes in infant respiratory pathogens pre-, during, and post-COVID-19 non-pharmacological interventions in Beijing by Tongying Han, Yajuan Wang, Di Zhang, Ying Li, Li Zhang, Jin Yan, Chi Li, Shengnan Yang, Litao Guo, Huijuan Yan

“…Methods Respiratory specimens were collected from 1,184 infants aged 0–3 months who were hospitalized for acute respiratory infection at the Children’s Hospital affiliated with the Capital Institute of Pediatrics from January 2018 to December 2023. …”
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Study protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial of comparing enhanced acceptance and commitment therapy plus (+) added to usual aftercare versus usual aftercare only, in... by Imran Khan, Stephanie J. C. Taylor, Clare Robinson, Elisavet Moschopoulou, Paul McCrone, Liam Bourke, Mohamed Thaha, Kamaldeep Bhui, Derek Rosario, Damien Ridge, Sheila Donovan, Ania Korszun, Paul Little, Adrienne Morgan, Olivier Quentin, Rebecca Roylance, Peter White, Trudie Chalder

“…We will recruit 344 participants identified from secondary care sites who have completed hospital-based treatment for cancer with curative intent, with low QoL (determined by the FACT-G) and randomise with an allocation ratio of 1:1 to the intervention or control. …”
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CO2 field-flooding devices offer potential value for cardiopulmonary bypass procedures for CHD performed via a right-side small incision approach by Zhangke Guo, Zhimin Li, Song Bai, Feng Tong, Jia Zheng, Nan Ding, Xiaofeng Li

“…Methods Between April 2022 and December 2023, 234 children with simple CHD who underwent CPB via a right-side small incision approach were separated into a control group (n = 93) without the use of a CO2 field-flooding device and a treatment group (n = 141) in which this device was added to the traditional surgical manual exhaust. …”
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Complete or incomplete revascularization in patients with left main culprit lesion acute myocardial infarction with multivessel disease: a retrospective observational study by Sun Oh Kim, Hong-Ju Kim, Jong-Il Park, Kang-Un Choi, Jong-Ho Nam, Chan-Hee Lee, Jang-Won Son, Jong-Seon Park, Sung-Ho Her, Ki-Yuk Chang, Tae-Hoon Ahn, Myung-Ho Jeong, Seung-Woon Rha, Hyo-Soo Kim, Hyeon-Cheol Gwon, In-Whan Seong, Kyung-Kuk Hwang, Seung-Ho Hur, Kwang-Soo Cha, Seok-Kyu Oh, Jei-Keon Chae, Ung Kim

“…Methods We reviewed 16,831 patients in the Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry who were treated from July 2016 to June 2020, and 399 patients were enrolled with LM culprit lesion AMI treated with percutaneous coronary intervention. …”
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Knowledge, attitude, and perception of Pakistani populations toward monkeypox: a cross-section study by Humayun Yousaf, Abdul Qadeer, Muhammad Sohail, Maqbool Khan, Muhammad Farooq, Zakir Khan, Dalia Fouad, Yu-Chia Liu, Chien-Chin Chen, Chien-Chin Chen, Chien-Chin Chen, Chien-Chin Chen

“…Around more than half of the participants, 52.64% (1824), believe that those who receive the chickenpox vaccination are protected against Mpox. …”
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Posterior and Anterior Spinal Fusion for the Management of Deformities in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Masashi Sato, Takeshi Sainoh, Sumihisa Orita, Kazuyo Yamauchi, Yasuchika Aoki, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Masayuki Miyagi, Hiroto Kamoda, Miyako Suzuki, Gou Kubota, Yoshihiro Sakuma, Kazuhide Inage, Yasuhiro Oikawa, Junichi Nakamura, Masashi Takaso, Gen Inoue, Tomoaki Toyone, Kazuhisa Takahashi, Seiji Ohtori

“…Combined posterior and anterior fusion surgery is effective for patients who show scoliosis and kyphosis deformity, and symptomatic low back pain due to Parkinson's disease.…”
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Indocyanine Green Fluorescence Plus Blue Dye for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Patients Undergoing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: A Multicenter, Prospective Cohort Stu... by Miao Liu, Yang Yang, Bin Hua, Rui Feng, Tianyu Xu, Mengyuan Wang, Xiaowei Qi, Yingming Cao, Bo Zhou, Fuzhong Tong, Peng Liu, Hongjun Liu, Lin Cheng, Houpu Yang, Fei Xie, Siyuan Wang, Chaobin Wang, Yuan Peng, Danhua Shen, Lei Chen, Jun Jiang, Shu Wang

“…This study aims to examine diagnostic performance of dual indocyanine green (ICG) and methylene blue tracing for SLNB in patients who have completed NAC for breast cancer with initially cN1 disease. …”
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Delta radiomics modeling based on CTP for predicting hemorrhagic transformation after intravenous thrombolysis in acute cerebral infarction: an 8-year retrospective pilot study by Xiaxia Wu, Xiaxia Wu, Jinfang Yang, Jinfang Yang, Xianqun Ji, Yingjian Ye, Ping Song, Lina Song, Peng An, Peng An

“…ObjectiveTo explore the value of delta radiomics from cerebral CT perfusion (CTP) in predicting hemorrhagic transformation after intravenous thrombolysis for acute cerebral infarction (HT-ACI).MethodsClinical and imaging data of 419 patients with acute cerebral infarction who underwent CTP after treatment between November 2016 and August 2024 were retrospectively collected. …”
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Pharmacokinetic Analysis of an Isoniazid Suspension Among Spanish Children Under 6 Years of Age by Antoni Noguera-Julian, Emma Wilhelmi, Maria Cussó, Rob Aarnoutse, Angela Colbers, Loreto Martorell, Maria Goretti López-Ramos, Joan Vinent, Rosa Farré, Dolors Soy, Sílvia Simó-Nebot, Clàudia Fortuny

“…<b>Background</b>: Isoniazid (INH) remains a first-line drug for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in young children. In 2010, the WHO recommended an increase in the daily dose of INH up to 10 (7–15) mg/kg. …”
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Idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease in children: a single-center retrospective analysis by Junye Du, Jiafeng Yao, Honghao Ma, Li Li, Ang Wei, Liping Zhang, Dong Wang, Zhigang Li, Rui Zhang, Tianyou Wang

“…Methods From January 2017 to September 2023, basic information, laboratory tests, treatment and prognosis of children diagnosed with iMCD who attended Beijing Children's Hospital of Capital Medical University were collected. …”
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Noninvasive Evaluation of Liver Fibrosis in a Sample of Putative Inactive HBV Carriers in Rome, Italy by Marco Delle Monache, Alessio Petrelli, Alessandra Rossi, Roberto Cecere, Concetta Mirisola, Gianfranco Costanzo, Chiara Francia, Federica Cerini, Andrea Cavani, Lorenzo Nosotti

“…Viral load, biochemical parameters, and LS have been retrospectively evaluated in 125 putative inactive HBV carriers, who visited two outpatient departments (Colleferro Hospital and INMP) from 01/03/2014 to 31/12/2019. …”
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Revealing the heterogeneity of treatment resistance in less‐defined subtype diffuse large B cell lymphoma patients by integrating programmed cell death patterns and liquid biopsy by Wei Hua, Jie Liu, Yue Li, Hua Yin, Hao‐Rui Shen, Jia‐Zhu Wu, Yi‐Lin Kong, Bi‐Hui Pan, Jun‐Heng Liang, Li Wang, Jian‐Yong Li, Rui Gao, Jin‐Hua Liang, Wei Xu

“…A potentially effective regimen was speculated for patients with high PCDI scores who tend to exhibit worse progression‐free survival.…”
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Large-scale prospective serum metabolomic profiling reveals candidate predictive biomarkers for suspected preeclampsia patients by Yan Cao, Lanlan Meng, Yifei Wang, Shenglong Zhao, Yuanyuan Zheng, Rui Ran, Jie Du, Hongqiang Wu, Jiaqi Han, Zhengwen Xu, Yifan Lu, Lin Liu, Lu Chen, Jing Wang, Youran Li, Yanhong Zhai, Zhi Sun, Zheng Cao

“…In order to explore the global changes of serum metabolites in PE patients and identify potential predictive biomarkers for suspected PE patients (pregnant women who had already shown PE-related symptoms in the middle to late stages of pregnancy, but were not yet confirmatively diagnosed as PE.), a large-scale serum metabolomic analysis was conducted in this study with a prospective cohort of 328 suspected PE patients in the middle or late pregnancy stages, as well as a retrospective cohort of 30 healthy pregnant women and 30 PE patients. …”
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Mid-term outcomes of percutaneous pulmonary valve replacement with Edwards-Sapien bioprosthesis in native right ventricular outflow tract by Yassin Belahnech, Gerard Martí-Aguasca, Laura Dos-Subirà, Pedro Betrian-Blasco, Bruno García del Blanco, Maria Calvo-Barceló, Eduard Ródenas-Alesina, Antonia Pijuan-Domènech, Ferran Gran, Queralt Ferrer, Gemma Giralt-García, Berta Miranda, Blanca Gordon, Víctor González-Fernández, José A. Barrabés, Ferran Roses-Noguer, Ignacio Ferreira-González

“…This study assesses mid-term outcomes in 76 patients who underwent PPVR between 2016 and 2022, comparing native (40.8%) and non-native (59.2%) RVOTs. …”
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Type 2 diabetes mellitus’ impact on heart failure patients’ exercise tolerance: a focus on maximal fat oxidation during exercise by Huiying Zhu, Huiying Zhu, Jianchao Pan, Jianxuan Wen, Jianxuan Wen, Xiaojing Dang, Xiaojing Dang, Xiankun Chen, Xiankun Chen, Yunxiang Fan, Yunxiang Fan, Weihui Lu, Weihui Lu, Wei Jiang, Wei Jiang

“…ObjectiveTo explore the impact of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) on exercise tolerance and fat oxidation capacity in patients with heart failure (HF).MethodsWe retrospectively analyzed 108 Chinese patients with HF who were divided into a diabetic group (T2DM group, n = 47) and a non-diabetic group (non-T2DM group, n = 61). …”
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