Associations between sedentary behaviour and sarcopenia among patients aged 40 and older with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a cross-sectional study by Dandan Wang, Ming Zhang, Jun Huang, Haihong Zhang, Si Chen, Kefang Wang

“…Although sedentary behaviour (SB) is common risk factor for COPD, its relationship with sarcopenia in this specific population remains unclear. …”
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Association of liver biopsy pathology on outcome of patients undergoing heart transplantation by Lauren S. Eichenwald, MD, Raffi Karagozian, MD, Adam J. Eichenwald, PhD, John Morrissey, MD MBA, Saurav Kini, MD, Ariella Stein, MSCIS-HI, Amanda R. Vest, MBBS MPH

“…Background: Patients with advanced heart failure needing heart transplant commonly suffer liver dysfunction. However, there is limited data on the impact of liver fibrosis on outcomes for heart transplant (HT) candidates. …”
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A rare intersection: squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil and the anti-TIF1 syndrome masquerade by Manush Sondhi, Megan Lear, Saleha Dar, Madiha Tariq

“…Anti-TIF1 antibodies are key biomarkers, with IgG2 isotype levels highly predictive of cancer risk. Common malignancies include ovarian, breast, and lung cancers, often detected within three years of dermatomyositis onset. …”
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Benign Adrenocortical Tumors and the Detection of Nonadrenal Neoplasia by Meng Hao, Miguel Angel Luque-Fernandez, Diana Lopez, Kathryn Cote, Jessica Newfield, Molly Connors, Anand Vaidya

“…These associations may have important implications for patient care and healthcare economics, regardless of whether they reflect incidental discoveries due to imaging detection or frequency bias, or a common risk for developing multiple neoplasia.…”
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القواعد الناظمة لشركة المضاربة بين النظرية والتطبيق القضائي: دراسة مقارنة بين القانونين الفلسطيني والأردني... by Anas Abu Musa Aloun

“… Speculative contract is one of the common contracts in practical reality, where a person who owns cash capital or other assets resorts to a merchant and delivers this capital to him for development and investment, and the reason for this contract is either that the owner of capital does not know trade and seeks to achieve profit and investment, or that he wants to increase his income without exerting effort, and we are here before a type of companies but this company has a special nature that does not comply with the rules stipulated in Decree-Law No. 42 of 2021 regarding companies, but rather complies with civil law rules. …”
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Mesalazine-Induced Acute Pancreatitis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients: A Systematic Review by Pan J, Li Z, Ye C, Zhang X, Yang Q, Zhang X, Zhou Y, Zhang J

“…The onset of pancreatitis occurred a median of 14 days (range 1– 730 days) after starting mesalazine. Common symptoms included abdominal pain (100%), vomiting (38.1%), fever (21.4%), and nausea (21.4%). …”
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Development of a machine learning model related to explore the association between heavy metal exposure and alveolar bone loss among US adults utilizing SHAP: a study based on NHAN... by Jiayi Chen

“…Abstract Background Alveolar bone loss (ABL) is common in modern society. Heavy metal exposure is usually considered to be a risk factor for ABL. …”
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The relationship between oxLDL, sLOX-1, PCSK9 and carotid intima-media thickness in patients with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes by Zeki Dogan, Abdulhalim Senyigit, Sinem Durmus, Canan Duvarcı, Remise Gelişgen, Hafize Uzun, Omur Tabak

“…We recruited 50 T2DM patients with macrovascular complications, 50 T2DM patients with uncomplicated, 50 prediabetes patients, and 50 healthy participants. The common carotid arteries were visualized by high-resolution B-mode carotid artery ultrasonography. …”
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Isotropy of an Upper Limb Exoskeleton and the Kinematics and Dynamics of the Human Arm by Joel C. Perry, Janet M. Powell, Jacob Rosen

“…At the same time, this orientation allowed the best exoskeleton manipulability at the most commonly used human arm configuration during ADLs. …”
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Comparative study between high and low dose methylene blue infusion in septic cancer patients: a randomized, blinded, controlled study by Ehab Hanafy Shaker, Ahmed Mohamed Soliman, Ahmed Abd Elmohsen Bedewy, Mai Mohamed Elrawas

“…Abstract Purpose Septic shock is a common threat, and is the primary cause of death in almost all critical care units. …”
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The Quality of Life in Heart Failure Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF) Patients: A Phenomenon of Obesity Paradox by Yogi Puji Rachmawan, Witri Pratiwi, Helda Helda

“…Coronary artery disease (89.6%), smoking (67.5%) and hypertension (49.4%) were the most common comorbidities and risk factors found. About 12.3% of sample experienced rehospitalization 3 times a year. …”
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A data-driven machine learning algorithm to predict the effectiveness of inulin intervention against type II diabetes by Shuheng Yang, Ralf Weiskirchen, Wenjing Zheng, Xiangxu Hu, Aibiao Zou, Zhiguo Liu, Hualin Wang

“…Inulin, a fructan-type soluble fiber that promotes the growth of probiotic species like Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus, is commonly used in nutritional interventions for T2DM. …”
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Experience in the Management of Patients with Chronic Vascular Ulcers of the Lower Limbs Using Negatively Charged Polystyrene Microspheres by María Teresa Cacua Sánchez

“…In this series, the mean age of patients was 67.9 years, they were mostly females (84%), and the most common location of ulcers was the internal malleolus (50%). …”
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Three-Dimensional Modelling of Desorbed Gas Volume and Comparison to Gas Production Rate in the Montney Plays, Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin by Gihun Song, Hyun Suk Lee, Hyundon Shin

“…This desorbed gas volume commonly occupies 10 to 40% of total gas production in shale gas play although it shows wide variety in cumulative gas volume and production time. …”
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Antibiotics Resistance in Escherichia coli Isolated from Livestock in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2014–2019 by Ghada Elderdiri Abdelwahab, Hassan Zackaria Ali Ishag, Zulaikha Mohamed Al Hammadi, Saeed Mohamed S Al Yammahi, Mohd Faoruk Bin Mohd Yusof, Muna Sayed Y. Al Yassi, Shaikha Saeed A. Al neyadi, Asma Mohammed A. Al Mansoori, Fawzia Hassan A. Al Hamadi, Ibtesam Abdullah S. Al Hamadi, Mohamed Ali Abdalla Al Hosani, Salama Suhail Mohammed Al Muhairi

“…Resistance mechanism was studied by PCR targeting the most commonly resistance genes: ampicillin (blaSHV, blaCMY, and blaTEM-1B), tetracyclines (tetA and tetB), co-trimoxazole [sulfamethoxazole (sul1, sul2, and sul3) + trimethoprim (dfrA1 and dfrA17)], aminoglycosides [aph(3'')-Ia, aph(6)-Id, and aac(3)-IV], and fluoroquinolones (qnrA and aac(6’)-Ib-cr). …”
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iTRAQ-based quantitative proteomic analysis of herbicide stress in Avena ludoviciana Durieu by Hossein Adim, Leila Fahmideh, Barat Ali Fakheri, Hamid Najafi Zarrini, Hamidreza Sasanfar

“…Abstract Winter wild oat (Avena sterilis subsp. ludoviciana (Durieu) Gillet & Magne) has been considered the most common and troublesome weed in wheat fields of Iran. …”
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The association between violence victimization and subsequent unplanned pregnancy among adolescent girls in Uganda: Do primary schools make a difference? by Katherine G Merrill, Louise Knight, Janet Nakuti, Angel Mirembe, Elizabeth Allen, Amiya Bhatia, Jenny Parkes, Dipak Naker, Karen M Devries

“…Violence victimization is a risk factor for adolescent pregnancy in high-income, low violence prevalence countries, but longitudinal data are lacking from settings where violence and adolescent pregnancy are common, including sub-Saharan Africa. We also know little about contextual factors which modify this association. …”
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Accuracy of Large Language Models for Infective Endocarditis Prophylaxis in Dental Procedures by Paak Rewthamrongsris, Jirayu Burapacheep, Vorapat Trachoo, Thantrira Porntaveetus

“…None of the LLMs met the commonly used benchmark scores. All models provided both correct and incorrect answers randomly, except Claude 3.5 Sonnet with a pre-prompt, which consistently gave incorrect answers to eight questions across five runs. …”
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Characterisation of internal tremors and vibration symptoms by Harlan M Krumholz, Mitsuaki Sawano, Richa Sharma, Tianna Zhou, Dorothy Massey, Anna D Baker, Diana Berrent Güthe, Nick Güthe, Suzanne Pincus Shidlovsky, Liza Fisher, Connor B Grady, Cesar Caraballo

“…Objectives To describe the experiences of patients who have postacute sequelae SARS-CoV-2 infection with internal vibrations and tremors as a prominent component, we leveraged the efforts by Survivor Corps, a grassroots COVID-19 patient advocacy group, to gather information from individuals belonging to its Facebook group with a history of COVID-19 suffering from vibrations and tremors.Setting and design A narrative analysis was performed on 140 emails and 450 social media comments from 140 individuals collected as a response to a call to >180 000 individuals participating in Survivor Corps between 15 July and 27 July 2021. We used common coding techniques and the constant comparative method for qualitative data synthesis and categorising emails. …”
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Patient education materials for non-specific low back pain and sciatica: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Kris Aubrey-Bassler, Amanda Hall, Michelle Swab, Bradley Furlong, Andrea Pike, Holly Etchegary, Georgia Darmonkow

“…Introduction Low back pain accounts for more disability than any other musculoskeletal condition and is associated with severe economic burden. Patients commonly present with negative beliefs about low back pain and this can have detrimental effects on their health outcomes. …”
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