Pre-surgery Factors to Predict Mortality and Major Complications in Coronary Surgery with no Extracorporeal Circulation by Yanier Coll Muñoz, Francisco Javier Vázquez Roche, Dayan García Cuesta, René M. Cabrera Núñez, Claudio R. Pérez Alfonso, Lázaro de la Cruz Avilés

“…It would be important to know their effectiveness in patients who underwent surgery with no extracorporeal circulation and cardioplegic cardiac arrest. …”
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Urethral Prolapse Case Report: Surgical and Social Considerations in Senegal by Mohamed Jalloh, Jennifer Heibig, Oumar Gaye, William Ghaul, Gabrielle Yankelevich, Medina Ndoye, Mouhamadou Moustapha Mbodji, Ayun Cassell, Lamine Niang, Serigne Magueye Gueye

“…We present three cases of urethral prolapse in prepubertal females in Senegal who presented with vulvar bleeding. Careful gynecologic and urologic physical exams were performed and revealed urethral origin and prolapse. …”
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Diagnostic Concordance Characteristics of Oral Cavity Lesions by Ufuk Tatli, Özgür Erdoğan, Aysun Uğuz, Yakup Üstün, Yaşar Sertdemır, İbrahim Damlar

“…A retrospective analysis was conducted on the patients, who were admitted with oral cavity pathology and underwent biopsy procedure between 2007 and 2011. …”
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Combination Ciprofloxacin and Metronidazole for Active Crohn’s Disease by Susan L Greenbloom, A Hillary Steinhart, Gordon R Greenberg

“…A clinical response was noted in 29 of 43 patients (67%) who were not taking concurrent prednisone treatment and in 26 of 29 patients (90%) receiving prednisone (mean dose of 15 mg/day). …”
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Lung ultrasound to evaluate the outcome and prognosis of transient tachypnea of the newborn by Peng Jiang, Jing Wei, Meiying Han

“…The average clinical recovery durations of neonates with mild illness, those who required non-invasive ventilation, and those who required invasive ventilation were 1.42 ± 0.50, 3.36 ± 0.51, and 6.00 ± 1.12 days, respectively. …”
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Persistence of newly prescribed 5-aminosalicylic acid in patients with ulcerative colitis: A nationwide comprehensive database study. by Tatsuya Noda, Kotaro Kuwaki, Munehito Machida, Yasuyuki Okumura, Yuichi Nishioka, Tomoya Myojin, Tomoaki Imamura

“…Among the 137 million patients who were covered by the universal health insurance in Japan during the study period, 68,234 eligible patients were identified. …”
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Hip Stability Isometric Test (HipSIT): Concurrent Validity and Reference Values for CrossFit® Participants by Thiago R T Santos, Ana Luiza R Rodrigues, Henrique M P Faria, Stéphane M Teixeira, Livia S Pogetti, Andressa Silva, Renan A Resende, Juliana M Ocarino

“…Clinicians can use the data as reference values for athletes who participate in CrossFit® and should consider the difference between sexes and lower limbs…”
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REPRESENTATION OF YOON SUK-YEOL AND LEE JAE-MYUNG IN SOUTH KOREA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION NEWS by Lia Amelia Nurkhazanah, Nani Darmayanti, Fahmy Lukman

“…In Chosun news, there is a tendency to portray the presidential candidate debate that was held on February 3, which tends to portray Lee Jae-myung as a person who is careless in answering questions, while Yoon Seok-yool as a person who is not ready to become a presidential candidate. …”
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Insights Into Genetic Variations of the OCT1 Gene in Metformin Poor Responders Among Bangladeshi Type 2 Diabetic Patients by Rokeya Begum, Arindita Das, Md. Jahangir Alam, Gazi Nurun Nahar Sultana

“…Clinical features of 56 Bangladeshi T2DM patients (who showed altered response to metformin) were analyzed, and genomic DNA was extracted from their blood samples. …”
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The Impact of Change in Protected Forest Utilization in RPH Mangunan on Income of Pine Sap Tapper by Slamet Riyanto, Wahyu Andayani, Hilma Nadhifa

“…The important findings of this study are: (1) Only a portion of pine sap tappers (35 respondents) can switch their activities to workers in recrational forest (2) Average level of household income for tappers who cannot shift to workers in recreational forest are Rp 16033,062 /year and Rp. 13,320,967 /year, (3)Meanwhile, for tappers who can switch to workers in recreational forest are Rp. 12,076,329 / year and Rp. 29,809,157/year respectively for before and after changes in forest utilization(4) Income from tapping activitiy contributed 23% and income from activities in pine recreational forest contributed 62% to total annual income.…”
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Case report: a patient with spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma recovered after conservative treatment by Jingge Cheng, Bo Li, Shuaiye Liu, Yiming Liu, Yipeng Zhao

“…This paper reports a case of a patient with this disease, a 68 years-old male who presented with sudden neck pain weakness, and numbness in the left limbs for 2 h. …”
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The Rising Burden of Diabetes and Hypertension in Southeast Asian and African Regions: Need for Effective Strategies for Prevention and Control in Primary Health Care Settings by Viswanathan Mohan, Yackoob K. Seedat, Rajendra Pradeepa

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Les monolingues parlent aux bilingues : Plurilinguisme et parole politique aux États-Unis et au Canada by Charles Brasart

“…Mixing languages is an act of identity with an “emblematic function” (Matras 2009: 57): it makes it possible to determine who is part of the group and who is not. A bilingual speaker may thus adopt a converging strategy by using his/her languages with members of his/her narrow community, or by sticking to one language with members of the wider monolingual community. …”
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Predictors of infliximab efficacy in patients with severe attack of ulcerative colitis by A. O. Golovenko, I. L. Khalif, O. V. Golovenko, V. V. Veselov

“…In groups of the patients, who undergone surgery and those, who avoided resection of the large intestine, various clinical, laboratory and endoscopic parameters were compared. …”
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Improved population coverage of the human papillomavirus vaccine after implementation of a school-based vaccination programme: the Singapore experience by Karuppiah Vijayalakshmi, Anne Hui Yi Goei

“…The rate of reported side effects, which were commonly known effects, was low at one in 1000. Among the students who reported side effects, those who received the second vaccine dose did so uneventfully. …”
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Diversity and inclusion for the All of Us research program: A scoping review. by Brandy M Mapes, Christopher S Foster, Sheila V Kusnoor, Marcia I Epelbaum, Mona AuYoung, Gwynne Jenkins, Maria Lopez-Class, Dara Richardson-Heron, Ahmed Elmi, Karl Surkan, Robert M Cronin, Consuelo H Wilkins, Eliseo J Pérez-Stable, Eric Dishman, Joshua C Denny, Joni L Rutter, All of Us Research Program

“…This paper describes how the program assessed demographic characteristics of participants who have enrolled in other U.S. biomedical research cohorts to better understand which groups are traditionally represented or underrepresented in biomedical research. …”
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Diagnostic validity of the fifth edition of the Wechsler intelligence scales for children in characteristics Neuro-psychology of students with learning disability by Marzieh Shiri Aminlou, Parviz Sharifi Avaradi, Javad Khalatbari

“…The number of 400 people with learning disabilities who were selected using a targeted and available sampling method and 400 normal people who were randomly selected from among all male and female students between the ages of 7 and 11 in Tehran in the academic year of 2018-2019. …”
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Oral Contraceptive Use and Alveolar Osteitis Following Third Molar Extraction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Madison Tang, Daniela Gurpegui Abud, Jaffer A. Shariff

“…Fifteen studies with a total of 1366 female participants who were OCP users and 2919 nonuser female participants were included in this meta-analysis. …”
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Evaluation of Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio and Platelet to Lymphocyte Ratio in Covid-19 Patients Treated with Tocilizumab Due to Cytokine Storm by Serkan Yavuz, Cengiz Burnik, Mehmet Mermer, Faysal Duksal

“…Materials and Methods: In this retrospective, cross-sectional study conducted in between March and December 2020, adult patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 were analyzed Results; The mean age of 519 patients included in the study was 61.6 ± 17.0 years, with male predominance (64.7%). 70.7% of patients had at least one type of comorbidity and the most common comorbid conditions were chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (45.9%) and asthma (28.7%). 399 patients who were given TCZ (group 1) and 120 patients who were not given TCZ (group 2) were evaluated. …”
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Perception and Awareness of Diabetes Mellites and Diabetes Ketoacidosis among the General Population in Sudair Area, Saudi Arabia by Yousef A. Alanazi, Bandar M. B. Alsaadoon, Talal M. A. Alanazi, Abdulaziz M. A. Alanazi, Sultan M. B. Alsaadoon, Majeed G. I. Alanazi, Abdulrahman N. N. Almutairi, Khalid F. Alanazi, Riyaz A. Shaik, Elsadig Y. Mohamed

“…The inclusion criteria were individuals who live in Sudair area of both gender and older than 18 years of age. …”
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