Renal Dysfunction among Ghanaians Living with Clinically Diagnosed Hypertension in the Asutifi-South District: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study at the St. Elizabeth Hospital, Hw... by Sylvester Yao Lokpo, James Osei-Yeboah, William K. B. A. Owiredu, Francis Abeku Ussher, Verner Ndudiri Orish, Felix Gadzeto, Paul Ntiamoah, Felix Botchway, Ivan Muanah, Romeo Asumbasiya Aduko

“…This study aimed at evaluating the burden of renal dysfunction among people living with hypertension in the Asutifi-South District of the Brong Ahafo Region, who were attending clinic at the St. Elizabeth Hospital in Hwidiem. …”
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Insights of Outcome after Resection of Small Nonfunctioning Neuroendocrine Pancreatic Tumors by Estela Regina Ramos Figueira, Julia Fray Ribeiro, Thiago Costa Ribeiro, Ricardo Jureidini, Guilherme Naccache Namur, Thiago Nogueira Costa, Telesforo Bacchella, Ivan Cecconello

“…We retrospectively evaluated 14 patients with sporadic NF-PNETs who underwent pancreatic resection. Data were collected from patients’ medical records. …”
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A multicenter, cross‐sectional analysis to assess the safety and usage pattern of brivaracetam in the management of partial‐onset seizure with BAEs—BREEZE study: A post‐hoc analysi... by Arvind Sharma, Krishnaprasad Korukonda, Amit Haldar, Usha Kant Misra, R. V. Anand, Yakshdeep Dave, Girish Kulkarni

“…Exposure of LEV leads to considerable BAEs compared to patients without LEV exposure. Patients who switched to BRV due to LEV‐induced BAEs significantly improved tolerability with BRV irrespective being used as monotherapy or as adjuvant therapy. …”
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Risk Factor Analysis of Ski and Snowboard Injuries During the 2023/2024 Winter Season: A Single, High-Volume Trauma Center Database Analysis by Michele Paolo Festini Capello, Pieralberto Valpiana, Giuseppe Aloisi, Giovanni Cristofolini, Svea Caren Misselwitz, Giuseppe Petralia, Mario Muselli, Salvatore Gioitta Iachino, Christian Schaller, Pier Francesco Indelli

“…<i>Results:</i> The final database included 579 questionnaires from 579 patients who ultimately entered the study: 285 were females and 294 were males. …”
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Hubungan Indeks Massa Tubuh dengan Kejadian Preeklampsia di RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Cintya Andriani, Nur Indrawati Lipoeto, Bobby Indra Utama

“…The research was done at medical records department using cross sectional study comparative’s design toward 46 preeclamptic patients and 46 pregnant women who did not preeclampsia, which gave birth in RSUP Dr. …”
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The prognostic value of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in nasopharyngeal cancer by Mustafa Kandaz, Atalay Balsak, Hatice Bengü Çobanoğlu

“…Results: The study included a total of 97 patients who were treated for NPC and had available data. …”
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The management and clinical outcome of paracetamol poisoning in South African adults: A single-centre retrospective review by C Kotze, J Swanepoel, E C Kruger, E Decloedt

“…Mortality was lower in those who received intravenous N-acetylcysteine (NAC) before serum paracetamol concentrations were known compared with those who only received NAC after concentrations were known (8.8% v. 36%, p=0.03). …”
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Pairing regression and configurational analysis in health services research: modelling outcomes in an observational cohort using a split-sample design by Jason J Sico, Laura J Myers, Dawn M Bravata, Ying Zhang, Anthony J Perkins, Edward J Miech, Joanne Daggy

“…The quality-of-care outcome was the without-fail rate (proportion of patients who received all processes for which they were eligible, among seven processes).Results For the recurrent stroke or death outcome, configurational analysis yielded a three-pathway model identifying a set of (validation sample) patients where the prevalence was 15.0% (83/552), substantially higher than the overall sample prevalence of 11.0% (relative difference, 36%). …”
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Cluster randomised controlled trial to examine medical mask use as source control for people with respiratory illness by Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Chandini Raina MacIntyre, Yi Zhang, Quanyi Wang, Bayzidur Rahman, Haiyan Zhang, Holly Seale, Daitao Zhang, Yanhui Chu

“…Since 43 index cases in the control arm also used a mask during the study period, an as-treated post hoc analysis was performed by comparing outcomes among household members of index cases who used a mask (mask group) with household members of index cases who did not use a mask (no-mask group).Main outcome measure Primary outcomes measured in household members were clinical respiratory illness, ILI and laboratory-confirmed viral respiratory infection.Results In an intention-to-treat analysis, rates of clinical respiratory illness (relative risk (RR) 0.61, 95% CI 0.18 to 2.13), ILI (RR 0.32, 95% CI 0.03 to 3.13) and laboratory-confirmed viral infections (RR 0.97, 95% CI 0.06 to 15.54) were consistently lower in the mask arm compared with control, although not statistically significant. …”
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Associations among circulating sphingolipids, β-cell function, and risk of developing type 2 diabetes: A population-based cohort study in China. by Huan Yun, Liang Sun, Qingqing Wu, Geng Zong, Qibin Qi, Huaixing Li, He Zheng, Rong Zeng, Liming Liang, Xu Lin

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>The current study included 826 men and 1,148 women who were aged 50-70 years, from Beijing and Shanghai, and without T2D in 2005 and who were resurveyed in 2011. …”
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Tradition and Development of Lithuanian Terminology by Antanas Smetona

“…His ideas are in line with those of Eugen Wüster, who is considered to be the founder of terminology. …”
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Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy and De-escalation of Surgery in Locally Advanced Breast Implant-associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma by Marzia Salgarello, Jaroslaw Krupa, Rebecca Allchin, Simon Pilgrim, Fiona Miall, Arianna Di Napoli, Maurizio Martelli, Giulio Tarantino

“…The first case was a 52-year-old patient with a left breast mass-like stage III disease who underwent combined targeted immunotherapy and chemotherapy (brentuximab vedotin [BV]–cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, prednisone [CHP]). …”
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Safety of interleukin inhibitors in patients with plaque psoriasis and history of neoplasms: a multicenter retrospective study – IL PSO (Italian landscape psoriasis) by Mario Valenti, Luciano Ibba, Sara Di Giulio, Luigi Gargiulo, Piergiorgio Malagoli, Anna Balato, Carlo G. Carrera, Paolo Dapavo, Eugenia V. Di Brizzi, Valentina Dini, Francesca Gaiani, Francesco Loconsole, Angelo V. Marzano, Matteo Megna, Alessandra Michelucci, Luca Potestio, Simone Ribero, Antonio Costanzo, Alessandra Narcisi

“…In particular, we evaluated 116 patients who developed the neoplasm before starting the biologic with a mean time from diagnosis of neoplasia to the first biologic dose of 8.31 years. …”
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Long-acting family planning uptake and associated factors among women in the reproductive age group in East Africa: multilevel analysis by Ermias Bekele Enyew, Abiyu Abadi Tareke, Habtamu Setegn Ngusie, Mulugeta Desalegn Kasaye, Shimels Derso Kebede, Mahider Shimelis Feyisa

“…In the multilevel logistic regression analysis, women in the age group of 35–49 years (AOR 1.09, 95% CI 1.06–1.17), women who were married (AOR 1.31, 95% CI 1.10–1.56), and women who were exposed to media (AOR 1.06, 95% CI 1.00–1.13) were significantly associated with LACM uptake. …”
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Сhanges in the donor site following bone-patellar tendon-bone graft harvesting with open or closed defects by Pavel A. Trachuk, Aleksandr P. Trachuk, Oleg E. Bogopolskiy

“…Group 2 (prospective) included 30 patients who received full-layer suturing of the patellar tendon and patellar and tibial bone defects plasty. …”
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Hubungan Antara Lamanya Ketuban Pecah Dini dengan Keberhasilan Induksi Persalinan pada Pasien Aterm di RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Juan Habli Soufal, Ariadi ., Sofina Rusdan Rusdan

“…The results showed that  16 patients (34.04%) who experienced PROM ≥ 6 hours showed successful induction of labor and 31 patients (65.96%) failed. …”
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COVID-19-related stress, anxiety and vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers in a tertiary hospital in South-Western Nigeria by Temitope Olumuyiwa Ojo, Tajudin Adesegun Adetunji, Stanley Chinedu Eneh, Baderinwa Opeyemi Akanji, Olusola Fajobi, Olanrewaju Elugbaju, Olanrewaju Ibikunle Ibigbami, Temilola Oladunmomi Owojuyigbe, Samuel Anu Olowookere, Olusegun Temitope Afolabi, Adedeji Ayodeji Onayade

“…Vaccine hesitancy, COVID-19 related stress and anxiety were assessed using the Vaccine Hesitancy Scale (VHS) and SAVE-6 scale respectively. Also, the WHO-5 index was used to assess the perceived mental wellbeing among study participants. …”
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Explainable machine learning model for predicting decline in platelet count after interventional closure in children with patent ductus arteriosus by Song-Yue Zhang, Yi-Dong Zhang, Hao Li, Qiao-Yu Wang, Qiao-Fang Ye, Xun-Min Wang, Tian-He Xia, Yue-E He, Xing Rong, Ting-Ting Wu, Rong-Zhou Wu

“…Moreover, SHapley Additive exPlanation (SHAP) to explain the importance of features and the ML models.ResultsThis study included 330 children who underwent successful transcatheter closure of PDA, of which 113 (34.2%) experienced DPC. …”
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Exploring Medium- and Long-Term Respiratory and Functional Sequelae in Young Adults Post-COVID-19 by Büşra Ülker Ekşi, Eylül Pınar Kısa, Özge Ertan Harputlu, Begüm Kara Kaya, Zeynep Hoşbay, Buket Akıncı

“…<i>Materials and Methods:</i> Participants aged 18–25 who had COVID-19 within the last 3–6 months (Post-COVID Group 1, n = 25) and 6–12 months (Post-COVID Group 2, n = 25) and age–gender-matched healthy controls (n = 25) were included in this study. …”
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Long-term results of antiviral therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis C with sustained virologic response by T. M. Ignatova, T. N. Lopatkina, V. P. Chulanov, Ye. V. Gaydasheva, S. N. Batskikh, G. V. Mikhaylovskaya, D. T. Abdurakhmanov, S. Yu. Karpov, Ye. N. Nikulkina, O. A. Chernova

“…Overall 208 patients with CHC, including 12 at the stage of liver cirrhosis (LC), who achieved SVO were investigated. Mean duration of the follow-up was 56,1±35,4 months. …”
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