Gastroesophageal reflux disease at children: epidemiology, diagnostic criteria, prognosis by E. M. Mukhametova, S. I. Erdes

“…Basic methods of instrumental diagnostics of GERD and its complications at children, as well as at adults, include esophagogastroduodenoscopy and 24-hour esophageal and gastric рН-monitoring. …”
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Trends in Mortality from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Alberta: Back to the Future? by Tee L Guidotti

“…There was a striking decline in mortality among older adults in the 1930s and 1940s. a nadir that lasted almost 10 years in the 1950s, and a striking increase thereafter. …”
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Knowing the Basics About 4-H Clubs by Marilyn N. Norman, Joy C. Jordan

“…It has the advantage of long-term involvement with the support of caring adults. This document is 4-HS FS101.6, one of a series of the Florida 4-H Program, UF/IFAS Extension. …”
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Knowing the Basics About 4-H Clubs by Marilyn N. Norman, Joy C. Jordan

“…It has the advantage of long-term involvement with the support of caring adults. This document is 4-HS FS101.6, one of a series of the Florida 4-H Program, UF/IFAS Extension. …”
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Onchocerciasis is not a major cause of blindness in two endemic villages in Sierra Leone by Ibrahim Kargbo-Labour, Victoria Redwood-Sawyerr, Abdulai Conteh, Doris Harding, Mohamed S. Bah, Patricia Houck, Sugandh Juneja, Achille Kabore, Darin Evans, Angela M. Weaver, Yaobi Zhang

“…There were 40.7% of all adults (N = 54) tested and 29.0% of 31 persons with self-reported vision loss who were positive for Ov-16 IgG4 antibodies, suggesting a history of exposure to onchocerciasis. …”
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Mapping outcomes for recovery of consciousness in studies from 1986 to 2020: a scoping review protocol by Monica Steiner, Elizabeth Burns, Trudy Mallinson, Joshua Rosenow, Jennifer Weaver, Alison Cogan, Parie Bhandari, Erica Jacobs, Ariana Pape, Chantal Nguyen, Ann Guernon, Tom Harrod, Theresa Bender Pape, Marilyn Pacheco, Catherine Burress Kestner, Kelsey Watters, Elizabeth Yost, Henk Eilander, Berno Overbeek, Sophie Leeds, Kelly Krese, Haylee Winden, Mary Philbin, Stefani Cleaver, Vanessa Silva, Konner Nelson, André Lindsey, Angela Hartman, Kristen Maisano, Erika Cooley, Jessica Rudin Portnoff, Bailey Widener, Sarah Hollingsworth, Coty Wardwell, Julianne Angel, Ladan Hakima, Jennifer Nebel, Bint-e Zainab Awan

“…To date, however, there is no comprehensive review of clinical outcome assessments that are used in intervention studies of adults with DoC. The objective of this scoping review is to develop a comprehensive inventory of clinical outcome assessments for recovery of consciousness that have been used in clinical studies of adults with DoC following TBI.Methods and analysis The methodological framework for this review is: (1) identify the research questions, (2) identify relevant studies, (3) select studies, (4) chart the data, (5) collate, summarise and report results and (6) consult stakeholders to drive knowledge translation. …”
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Mind at rest, mind at risk: A prospective population-based study of sleep and subsequent mental disorders by Mari Hysing, Allison G. Harvey, Ann Kristin Skrindo Knudsen, Jens C. Skogen, Anne Reneflot, Børge Sivertsen

“…Background: Depression and anxiety disorders are highly prevalent among young adults, with evidence suggesting sleep problems as key risk factors. …”
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Prevalence of diabetes-related sarcopenia and its defining components within primary care: A cross-sectional study by Rubén Silva-Tinoco, Lilia Castillo-Martínez, Berenice Cabrera-Victoria, Eileen Guzmán-Olvera, Christian Hinojosa-Segura, Alejandro Avalos-Bracho, Cira Santillán-Díaz

“…Conclusions: This primary care study, which included elderly and non-elderly adults with T2D, revealed a relatively high prevalence of altered MF assessments, including sarcopenia, low muscle strength, and low muscle mass. …”
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Approche comparative de la latéralité manuelle des primates humains et non humains by Pauline Fresnais, Louise Ducroix, Adrien Meguerditchian

“…Ces tâches nous ont permis d'observer à la fois l'effet de la complexité de la tâche et des gestes communicatifs, sur un échantillon de 188 humains (dont 97 adultes et 91 enfants) comparé à un échantillon de 112 babouins (dont 65 adultes et 37 jeunes). …”
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Emergency Medical Services Provider-Perceived Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in the Prehospital Setting by Esmeralda Melgoza, Valeria Cardenas, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez

“…Future research and more precise data collection is needed to ensure equity for older adults who access emergency care in the prehospital setting.…”
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Acute Kidney Injury, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia: A Cohort Study of Patients from SPRINT by Kristen L. Nowak, Anna Ostrow, Ester S. Oh, Zhiying You, Michel Chonchol

“…Setting & Participants: 8,148 older adults at high cardiovascular risk enrolled in the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT). …”
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High Prevalence of Prediabetes and Associated Risk Factors in Urban Areas of Pontianak, Indonesia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Indah Budiastutik, Martha I. Kartasurya, Hertanto W. Subagio, Bagoes Widjanarko

“…The incidence of T2DM among adults in Pontianak, Indonesia was reported remarkably high. …”
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Herpes zoster vaccine and the risk of stroke: a population-based cohort study using linked data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink by Fawziah Marra, Kathryn Richardson, Helen I McDonald, Yoon Kong Loke, Helen Mary Parretti

“…The historical cohort comprised 678 110 matched unvaccinated adults between 2007 and 2012. The active comparator comprised 653 373 adults receiving an influenza vaccination between 2013 and 2019 meeting herpes zoster vaccine eligibility. …”
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Te fauna of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of Armenia by V.A. Burlak, Yu.V. Andreeva, O.V. Shcherbakov, V.S. Fedorova, E.S. Soboleva, M.K. Haidara, S.S. Alekseeva, R.V. Slobodyanik, H.S. Gevorgyan, S.A. Aghayan, G.N. Artemov

“…In addition to using cytogenetic and molecular diagnostic methods, the larvae and adults morphological characteristics or egg chorion pattern were used to identify 1607 adults and 392 larvae. …”
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Abstract Word Definition in Patients with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment by Soo Ryon Kim, SangYun Kim, Min Jae Baek, HyangHee Kim

“…The aims of this study were to investigate concrete and abstract word definition ability (1) between patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and normal adults and (2) between the aMCI subtypes (i.e., amnestic single-domain MCI and amnestic multidomain MCI; asMCI and amMCI) and normal controls. …”
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Relationship Between Physical Activity Level and Primary Care Costs in Older Diabetic Patients From a Middle-Size Brazilian City: An Eight-Year Follow-Up Study by Kelly Akemi Kikuti Koyama, Monique Yndawe Castanho Araujo, Luana Carolina de Morais, Italo Ribeiro Lemes, Rômulo Araújo Fernandes, Bruna Camilo Turi-Lynch, Flávia Mori Sarti, Thais Cristina Delacosta, Henrique Luiz Monteiro, Jamile Sanches Codogno

“…This study aims to investigate the relationship between changes in physical activity level and changes in healthcare costs among older diabetic adults in an 8-year follow-up study.MethodsThe study followed 151 diabetic adults ≥50 years of age, for a period of 8 years, who were patients of Basic Health Care Units in the city of Bauru (Brazil). …”
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Parasite Fauna of the Blackbelly Garter Snake (<i>Thamnophis melanogaster</i>) in Central Mexico by Frida S. Silva-Trejo, Petra Sánchez-Nava, Armando Sunny, Crystian Sadiel Venegas-Barrera, Javier Manjarrez

“…A total of 24 snakes (20 adults and 4 neonates) were collected, but only the adults affected by parasitic metazoans were detected, accounting for 54.2% of the total sample. …”
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Microcirculatory Changes in Term Newborns with Suspected Infection: An Observational Prospective Study by Irene Alba-Alejandre, Stephan Hiedl, Orsolya Genzel-Boroviczény

“…Background. In adults severely disturbed microcirculatory flow can be observed by Orthogonal Polarized Spectral (OPS) imaging techniques during sepsis. …”
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The Effect of Age and Occupation on the Seroprevalence of Helicobacter pylori Infection by GI Perez-Perez, T Marrie, H Inouye, T Shimoyama, G Marshall, G Meiklejohn, MJ Blaser

“…A multiple linear regression analysis of the data confirmed that age and occupation in young adults were both significantly associated with seroprevalence of H pylori infections.…”
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VoxSenes Acoutic Database by Luciana Albuquerque, Catarina Oliveira, Ana Rita Valente, António Teixeira

“… Motivated by the need to increase knowledge about the effect of age on speech production, and by the lack of speech data on European Portuguese (EP), this work focuses on the development of a speech database, with acoustic data of healthy adults using standardized recording procedures. The objective of this database is to support a comprehensive analysis of age and gender effects in EP speech at segmental and suprasegmental levels.  …”
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