The Impact of Acute Aerobic Exercise on General and Food-Related Inhibitory Function Among Young Adults with Obesity: An Event-Related Potential (ERP) Study by Chun Xie, Tao Huang, Yingying Wang, Peisi Wang, Yanxia Chen, Jiali Qian, Guozhuang Chen, Kun Wang

“…<b>Methods</b>: Eighteen young adult males with obesity [body mass index (BMI): 34.60 ± 4.21 kg/m², aged 24.50 ± 5.13 years (Mean ± SD)] were recruited. …”
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Finding the right dose: a scoping review examining facilitation as an implementation strategy for evidence-based stroke care by Oyebola Fasugba, Heilok Cheng, Simeon Dale, Kelly Coughlan, Elizabeth McInnes, Dominique A. Cadilhac, Ngai W. Cheung, Kelvin Hill, Kirsty Page, Estela Sanjuan Menendez, Emily Neal, Vivien Pollnow, Julia Slark, Eileen Gilder, Anna Ranta, Christopher Levi, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Sandy Middleton

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Evaluation of clinical, laboratory, radiographical and histopathological characteristics in patients with spinal tuberculosis in the context of HIV infection: An analysis of 52 pat... by J Scherer, M Locketz, S Castelein, R Dunn, M Held, F Thienemann

“…We assessed 52 patients with STB (mean (standard deviation (SD) age 38 (15.2) years, range 17 - 80 years), of whom 55.8% were female, and 59.6% HIV infected. …”
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Spot Versus 24-Hour Urine Osmolality Measurement in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: A Diagnostic Test Study by Ayub Akbari, Sriram Sriperumbuduri, Shreepryia Mangalgi, Vijay Joshi, Manish Sood, Amos Buh, Mohan Biyani, Christopher McCudden, Gregory L. Hundemer, Pierre Antoine Brown

“…Results: The mean 24-hour urine osm was 364 mmol/kg, and the mean spot urine osm was 424 mosm/kg. Mean age of 46 years, 52% females, and 47 (13.5%) were on tolvaptan. …”
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Effectiveness of Inactivated Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine Against Omicron BA.2.2 Infection in Beijing, China, 2022: A Cohabitation Retrospective Cohort Study by Shuaibing Dong, Ying Sun, Zhaomin Feng, Yi Tian, Lei Jia, Xiaoli Wang, Quanyi Wang, Daitao Zhang, Peng Yang

“…From April to June 2022, a total of 2259 cohabiting close contacts of 1308 patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection aged ≥3 years were included. Of the included close contacts, 737 (32.63%) were positive for SARS-CoV-2 during the isolation period: 140 (19.00%) were infected but asymptomatic, 525 (71.23%) had mild infection, and 72 (9.77%) had pneumonia. …”
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Monitoring of environmental gases and calf health in Italian Mediterranean buffalo herd by Simona Leonetti, Monica Ambrosio, Mirko Scamardella, Chiara Caso, Angelo Coletta

“…The calves analysed are all housed in completely closed structures equipped with doors and windows, usually left open in the summer, and closed in the winter. Furthermore, the age range of the animals housed ranges from 0 to 90 days of life, during which the calf mainly takes on reconstituted milk and then is sent towards weaning in the last few weeks. …”
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Can invasive interventions be avoided with a holistic swallowing therapy program in older patients in intensive care units: percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes or oral intake... by Çağla Eliküçük, Fatma Esen Aydinli, Nazan Has Selmi, Cansu Uzunoğlu, Murathan Köksal, Volkan Öter, Belgin Akan, Erdal Birol Bostanci, Güldeniz Argun

“…This study aimed to diagnose swallowing disorders and highlight the importance of swallowing therapy in older patients in intensive care units (ICUs).Materials and methodsTwenty-five older patients (12 men, 13 women, mean age 67.22 ± 24.03 years) hospitalized in the ICUs with complaints of dysphagia were analyzed prospectively. …”
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Outcome differences in acute vs. acute on chronic heart failure and cardiogenic shock by Tara L. Jones, Michael C. Tan, Vidang Nguyen, Kathleen E. Kearney, Charles C. Maynard, Emily Anderson, Claudius Mahr, James M. McCabe

“…A total of 235 patients were identified: 51 patients (32.8%) had acute CS, and 184 patients (64.3%) had acute decompensation of chronic HF with no differences in age (52 ± 22 vs. 55 ± 14 years, P = 0.28) or gender (26% vs. 23%, P = 0.75) between the two groups. …”
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Ethnic and racial discrimination in maternal health care in Mexico: a neglected challenge in the search for universal health coverage by Edson Serván-Mori, Sergio Meneses-Navarro, Rocío García-Díaz, Diego Cerecero-García, David Contreras-Loya, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Arachu Castro

“…Our study included n = 72,873 (N = 23,245,468) Mexican women aged 12–54 with recent live births. We defined ECMH as adequate antenatal care (ANC), skilled and/or institutional delivery care, timely postpartum care, and complication-free postpartum/puerperium. …”
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Community benefits of mass distribution of three types of dual-active-ingredient long-lasting insecticidal nets against malaria prevalence in Tanzania: evidence from a 3-year clust... by Eliud Andrea Lukole, Jackie Cook, Jacklin F Mosha, Nancy S Matowo, Manisha A Kulkarni, Elizabeth Mallya, Tatu Aziz, Jacklin Martin, Mark Rowland, Immo Kleinschmidt, Alphaxard Manjurano, Franklin W Mosha, Natacha Protopopoff

“…We assessed net usage at the cluster level and malaria infection in children aged from 6 months to 14 years in 45 households per cluster. …”
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Current Enzooticity of <i>Dirofilaria immitis</i> and <i>Angiostrongylus vasorum</i> in Central and Southern Italy by Donato Traversa, Simone Morelli, Angela Di Cesare, Chiara Astuti, Alessandra Barlaam, Mariasole Colombo, Fabrizia Veronesi, Barbara Paoletti, Raffaella Iorio, Raffaella Maggi, Alessandra Passarelli, Alessia Pede, Linda Rossi, Manuela Diaferia

“…The presence of cardiorespiratory clinical signs or non-specific signs, history of travel, and an age of >4 years old were significantly associated with positivity for <i>D. immitis</i>, while <i>A. vasorum</i> was significantly recorded in dogs with cardiorespiratory signs, or with a history of mollusk ingestion or permanent outdoor housing. …”
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Ten pressure points in primary care during COVID-19: findings from an international narrative review by Sally Hall Dykgraaf, Anne Parkinson, Michael Wright, William C. W. Wong, Jane Desborough, Lauren Ball, Elizabeth Sturgiss, Garang M. Dut, Katelyn Barnes, Danielle Butler, Steph Davis, Kirsty Douglas, Candan Kendir, Danielle Martin, Robert Marten, Katherine Rouleau, Shannon Barkley, Lucas de Toca, Michael Kidd

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Physical Activity Behavior in Swiss Secondary School Students: A Segmented Analysis by Marion Gasser, Andrea-Maria Nadenbousch, Fabienne Egger, Mario Kamer, Stefan Valkanover, Mirko Schmidt

“…A total of 637 students (mean age: 13.26 ± 0.55 years, 52.3% girls) from 12 secondary schools in the canton of Bern participated in the baseline assessment of the project. …”
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Risk Factors for Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction: Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study by Yanqi Kou, Shicai Ye, Yuan Tian, Ke Yang, Ling Qin, Zhe Huang, Botao Luo, Yanping Ha, Liping Zhan, Ruyin Ye, Yujie Huang, Qing Zhang, Kun He, Mouji Liang, Jieming Zheng, Haoyuan Huang, Chunyi Wu, Lei Ge, Yuping Yang

“…Stratified analyses by sex, age, occupation, marital status, and other subgroups consistently showed that the association between CHD and GIB remained robust across all subgroups. …”
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Dietary and lifestyle patterns identified through reduced rank regression and their association with insulin-related disorders: a prospective analysis from the Tehran Lipid and Glu... by Ebrahim Mokhtari, Hossein Farhadnejad, Farshad Teymoori, Mitra Kazemi Jahromi, Mehrnaz Nikkhah, Parvin Mirmiran, Fereidoun Azizi

“…Methods The current study was conducted on 1063 individuals aged ≥ 25 years old of the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study who have complete data on fasting blood sugar, plasma insulin, anthropometric variables, and nutritional intakes. …”
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Prevalence of common diarrheagenic enterobacteriaceae in Iran (2000–2023): a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mozhgan Derakhshan-Sefidi, Fereshteh Eidy, Somayyeh Nadi-Ravandi, Sareh Bagheri-Josheghani, Maryam Mirfakhraei

“…The criteria did not restrict patient demographics such as age, gender, health conditions, or occupation. This meta-analysis employed a 95% confidence interval (CI) for analysis. …”
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Early Postoperative Safety of Total Hip Arthroplasty in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients by YANG Xingdong, YU Muyang, XU Yiming, ZHU Wei, HU Mingwei, WENG Xisheng, FENG Bin

“…Using propensity score matching, we matched patients in the two groups at a 1∶1 ratio according to gender, age, and surgical side. Subsequently, we compared the clinical characteristics, incidence of major complications within 30 days postoperatively, and allogeneic blood transfusion rates between the two groups.ResultsA total of 270 patients in the SLE group who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected. …”
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Identifikasi Emosi Manusia Berdasarkan Ucapan Menggunakan Metode Ekstraksi Ciri LPC dan Metode Euclidean Distance by Siti Helmiyah, Imam Riadi, Rusydi Umar, Abdullah Hanif, Anton Yudhana, Abdul Fadlil

“…Voice data used with different sentences, actors, ages, and accents can influence the recognition of emotions, therefore the extraction of features in the recognition of speech patterns of human emotions is very important. …”
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Fatty Acids of Erythrocyte Membranes and Blood Serum in Differential Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases by M. V. Kruchinina, I. O. Svetlova, M. F. Osipenko, N. V. Abaltusova, A. A. Gromov, M. V. Shashkov, A. S. Sokolova, I. N. Yakovina, A. V. Borisova

“…We examined 110 patients (mean age 37,7 ± 12,1 years) with IBDs and 53 healthy patients in control group (43,3 ± 11,7 years). …”
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Time Interval for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis and Related Expenditure in Selected Health Centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Ezra Shimeles, Melaku Tilahun, Tsegaye Hailu, Fikre Enquselassie, Abraham Aseffa, Alemayehu Mekonnen, Getachew Wondimagegn

“…This cross-sectional study was conducted among pulmonary TB patients who are bacteriologically confirmed, whose age is above 15 years and diagnosed at health centres in Addis Ababa. …”
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