Feasibility of Early Definitive Internal Fixation of Pelvic Bone Fractures in Therapeutic Open Abdomen by Kyunghak Choi, Kwang-Hwan Jung, Min Ae Keum, Sungjeep Kim, Jihoon T Kim, Kyu-Hyouck Kyoung

“…Patients who underwent laparotomy and pelvic internal fixation were included. …”
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Demographic Characteristics Associated With Adolescent Receipt of Provider E-Cigarette Screening and Advice and the Impact on Harm Perception by John S. Acosta-Peñaloza, MS, Karen W. Geletko, MPH, Jon Mills, PhD

“…Results: Provider intervention was more likely among those aged 13–18 years, who are male, and who are White and/or non-Hispanic (p<0.001). …”
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Diagnostic accuracy of 4D-MRA for the detection and localization of spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas: A retrospective 10-year cohort study by Frederick J.A. Meijer, Vincent Raymaekers, Sjoert A.H. Pegge, Jeroen HD. Boogaarts

“…Patients were included who had undergone spinal 4D-MRA in the period January 2010–February 2021. …”
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Examination of Elder Abuse and Death Anxiety in Older Adults With a Chronic Disease by Seda Karaman, Gülcan Bahçecioğlu Turan, Merve Çayır Yılmaz, Elanur Yilmaz Karabulutlu

“…Methods This study was conducted with 200 patients who met the research criteria and agreed to participate in the study and who were admitted to the internal medicine outpatient clinics of a university hospital in Elazig, eastern Turkey. …”
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Psychoemotional states under pandemics / Stări psihoemoționale asociate situației pandemice by BALODE Neli

“…The research sample consisted of 45 subjects, adults aged from 23 to 34, who were asked to complete a number of questionnaires, i. e. …”
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Factors for Predicting Favorable Outcome of Percutaneous Epidural Adhesiolysis for Lumbar Disc Herniation by Sang Ho Moon, Jae Il Lee, Hyun Seok Cho, Jin Woo Shin, Won Uk Koh

“…Percutaneous epidural adhesiolysis has been applied to relieve pain and increase the functional capacity of patients who present this condition. Objectives. In this study, we retrospectively evaluated the factors which predict the outcome of percutaneous epidural adhesiolysis in patients who were diagnosed with lumbar disc herniation. …”
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Early plasma ferritin concentrations are not associated with time to red cell transfusions in extremely and very preterm neonates: a prospective single-site observational study by Naomi McCallion, Áine Fox, Fionnuala Ní Áinle, Claire Murphy, Lauren Murphy, Daniel O'Reilly, Anna-Claire Glynn, Grainne Kelleher

“…Neonates exposed to chorioamnionitis had an increased ferritin concentration versus those who were not. Neonates exposed to pre-eclampsia had a significantly lower ferritin concentration than those who were not. …”
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Women's Quality of Life After Surgical Treatment for Breast Cancer by Daniel Alejandro Arroyo Zumarraga, Ximena Elizabeth Trujillo Romero, Miguel Ramos Argilagos

“…Women who completed cancer treatment experienced less sexual dysfunction than those still undergoing treatment. …”
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A new STI in the city: MPOX in Barcelona. First outbreak (5/2022-5/2023) and subsequent resurgence. by David Palma, Montserrat Guillaumes, Carles Pericas, Anna de Andrés, Raquel Prieto, Laia Álvarez-Bruned, Jesús Ospina, Paula Santiá, Patricia García de Olalla, Cristina Rius

“…The analyses are presented for the hospitalized cases and the key population of men who have sex with men.<h4>Results</h4>Of 2037 notified cases, 82.6% were confirmed. …”
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A Cross-Sectional Study on the Readiness of Dentistry Specialty Students in the Role of Associate Educator by Hüseyin Hatırlı, Alem Coşgun, Işıl Sarıkaya

“…Aim: Our study aims to contribute to the literature by self-evaluating Dentists who graduated from different universities in our country, in the departments where they currently receive specialization training on Communication, Adaptation Skills, Information Management, Thinking and Problem Solving, and Professionalism.Methods: Research assistants who received specialist training in 8 departments of Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University Faculty of Dentistry and who had not completed the first year of their education were included in the study. …”
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Does Scoliosis-Specific Exercise Treatment in Adolescence Alter Adult Quality of Life? by Maciej Płaszewski, Igor Cieśliński, Paweł Kowalski, Aleksandra Truszczyńska, Roman Nowobilski

“…Health-related quality of life in adults, who in adolescence participated in a scoliosis-specific exercise program, was not previously studied. …”
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Physicochemical properties of water quality of Imeh, Edegelem and Chokocho communities located along Otamiri-oche River in Etche Ethnic Nationality of Rivers State, Nigeria by BM Onyegeme-Okerenta, C Obia, MO Wegwu

“…The laboratory results of the selected physico-chemical parameters when compared with the world health organization (WHO) standard showed that all the selected physico-chemical parameters were within the world health organization (WHO) permissible in both rainy and dry season except pH. …”
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Association of Neonate’s Birth Weight with Material Weight Gain during Pregnancy by Syeda Surayya Jabeen, Shazia Iffet, Umber Imtiaz, Faria Mumtaz, Bushra Sultana, Ayesha Arif

“…Similarly, the mean birth weight was 2.92±0.23 in mothers who gained weight between 5 to 10 kg. Mean birth weight was 3.34±0.23 in mothers who gained weight more than 10 kg. …”
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Influence of soaking Malus domeri (Bois) Chev. leaves on gut microbiota and metabolites of long-living elderly individuals in Hezhou city, Guangxi, China by Hui Nie, Zhongyang Gao, Yanghe Luo, Yajuan Wang, Feiyang Wu, Guangqing Mu, Xiaomeng Wu

“…Interestingly, we discovered, that elderly individuals who had been drinking the soaking of M. domeri (Bois) Chev. leaves for a long time exhibited higher diversity of the gut microbiota than without drinking the soaking, notably. …”
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Evaluating oral health status in elderly Irula tribes of Tamil Nadu by using the Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index by Margret Beaula Alocious Sukumar, Roshni Mary Peter, Alex Joseph

“…Methods: A cross-sectional research was undertaken in the Irula settlements of Thiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu, focusing on inhabitants over 60 years who had lived there for at least 6 months. People who were chronically ill or who refused to agree were excluded. …”
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Access to mass media and teenage pregnancy among adolescents in Zambia: a national cross-sectional survey by David Mukunya, Daniel Mwamba, Quraish Sserwanja, Abigail Sitsope Sepenu

“…Majority of the adolescents resided in rural areas (55.9%) and had secondary education (53.6%). Adolescents who had exposure to internet, newspapers or magazines, radio and television were 10.5%, 22.6%, 43.1% and 43.1%, respectively. …”
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The Association between Adolescent’s Weight Perception and Health Behaviors: Analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Data, 2011–2014 by Furong Xu, Mary L. Greaney, Steven A. Cohen, Deborah Riebe, Geoffrey W. Greene

“…Therefore, these associations were explored using data from 2438 adolescents aged 12–19 years who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination 2011–2014 Survey. …”
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Prevalence of Osteoporosis in Patients with Distal Radius Fracture from Low-energy Trauma: An Observational Study by Manoj Kandel, Sarik Kumar Shrestha, Krishna Prasad Paudel, Sunil Panta, Deepak Banjade, Ramesh Syangtan, Sushil Thapa

“…Diagnosis of osteoporosis was made in 88 (91.67%) patients and diagnosis of osteopenia was made in 8 (8.33%) patients based on the T-score using the WHO criteria. Of the 88n(%) patients who met the diagnosis of osteoporosis, only 45 (46.88%) patients had started treatment with bisphosphonates for osteoporosis. …”
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How Russian Doctoral Education Fulfills Its Main Mission: Scientometric Assessments (Article 2) by B. I. Bednyi, A. A. Mironos, N. V. Rybakov

“…In the sample as a whole, the share of persons who defended their dissertations was 45% of the total number of graduates, which is 1.7 times higher than the share of graduates who defended their dissertations in the course of their studies at the doctoral school. …”
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The Association of Economic Outcome and Geriatric Syndromes among Older Adults with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) by Min Ji Kwak, Rafia Rasu, Robert O. Morgan, Jessica Lee, Nahid J. Rianon, Holly M. Holmes, Abhijeet Dhoble, Dae Hyun Kim

“…**Background:** The association of geriatric syndromes and economic outcomes among patients who are undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) remains unknown. …”
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