FTO rs17817449 Variant Increases the Risk of Severe Obesity in a Brazilian Cohort: A Case-Control Study by Salum KCR, Assis ISS, Kopke ÚA, Palhinha L, Abreu GM, Gouvêa LW, Teixeira MR, Mattos FCC, Nogueira Neto JF, Felício RFM, Rosado EL, Zembrzuski VM, Campos Junior M, Maya-Monteiro CM, Cabello PH, Carneiro JRI, Bozza PT, Kohlrausch FB, da Fonseca ACP

“…Kaio Cezar Rodrigues Salum,1,2 Izadora Sthephanie da Silva Assis,1,2 Úrsula de Almeida Kopke,3 Lohanna Palhinha,4 Gabriella de Medeiros Abreu,2,5 Laura Wendling Gouvêa,1,2 Myrela Ribeiro Teixeira,2,6,7 Fernanda Cristina C Mattos,5 José Firmino Nogueira Neto,8 Rafaela de Freitas Martins Felício,9,10 Eliane Lopes Rosado,5 Verônica Marques Zembrzuski,2 Mario Campos Junior,2 Clarissa Menezes Maya-Monteiro,4 Pedro Hernán Cabello,2 João Regis Ivar Carneiro,1 Patrícia Torres Bozza,4 Fabiana Barzotto Kohlrausch,6 Ana Carolina Proença da Fonseca2,4,11 1Medical Clinic Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 2Human Genetics Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 3Chester Medical School, University of Chester, Chester, UK; 4Laboratory of Immunopharmacology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 5Institute of Nutrition Josué de Castro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 6Human Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biology, Federal Fluminense University Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 7Postgraduate in Sciences and Biotechnology, Fluminense Federal University Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 8Department of Pathology and Laboratory, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 9Birth Defect Epidemiology laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 10Health Care Network for Congenital Anomalies of the Central Nervous System, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 11Genetics Laboratory, Grande Rio University, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilCorrespondence: Ana Carolina Proença da Fonseca, Laboratory of Immunopharmacology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), 4365 Brasil Avenue, 108 Building – Office 44, Rio de Janeiro, 21040-360, Brazil, Tel +55(21)38658192, Email ana.proenca@ioc.fiocruz.br Kaio Cezar Rodrigues Salum, Human Genetics Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), 4365 Brasil Avenue, Leônidas Deane Building – Office 611/615, Rio de Janeiro, 21040-360, Brazil, Tel +55 21 38658213, Fax +55 21 38658239, Email kaio.salum@hotmail.comPurpose: Obesity is a complex disease caused by a combination of genetic, environmental, and epigenetic factors, and is associated with an increased risk of chronic diseases. …”
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Survey on the Status and Training Demands of Capabilities for Diagnosing and Treating Common Diseases of Primary Care General Practitioners in Hunan Province by LI Lingqi, GAO Yinyan, ZHANG Yuqin, SUN Dingkui, WU Xinyin, ZHANG Weiru

“…Additionally, 77.2% (260/337) of participants lacked sufficient knowledge of clinical practice guidelines; 90.8% (306/337) of participants rarely consulted guidelines when facing decision-making difficulties, mainly because they felt guidelines could not address complex cases[50.0% (153/306) ], were unclear on how to search for guidelines[43.1% (132/306) ]and the resources available for retrieving guidelines[34.3% (105 /306) ]; participants mainly obtain the guidelines through the WeChat official account[72.5% (237/327) ] and databases such as the China National Knowledge Infrastructure [50.2% (164/327) ]. 97.0% (327/337) of participants expressed a demand for training to improve their capabilities, suggesting that training should be tailored to the specific needs of primary care institutions[60.8% (205/337) ]; the preferred approaches are advanced training in higher-level hospitals[71.3% (233/327) ]and primary care institutions with high diagnostic and treatment capabilities[56.3% (184/327) ]; the preferred training programs are on standardized treatment of common diseases[78.0% (263/337) ]and multiple coexisting diseases[69.4% (234/337) ]. …”
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Zolpidem: Efficacy and Side Effects for Insomnia by Amber N. Edinoff, Natalie Wu, Yahya T. Ghaffar, Rosemary Prejean, Rachel Gremillion, Mark Cogburn, Azem A. Chami, Adam M. Kaye, Alan D. Kaye

“…The most concerning adverse effects, which are often the most publicized, include the complex behaviors that have been seen in patients taking Zolpidem, such as sleeping, hallucinations, increased suicidality, driving cars while asleep, and even a few cases of committing homicide. …”
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Vingt années de recherches à Oedenburg (Biesheim et Kunheim, Haut-Rhin) : un bilan by Michel Reddé

“…Oedenburg I presents military camps from the Julio-Claudian dynasty; Oedenburg II assesses the research carried out on the religious complex and its surroundings, as well as on the wetlands habitat of the site, with studies of the archaeobotanical and faunal remains; Oedenburg III focuses on the excavation of a sector with a complete stratigraphy of the occupation, from the reign of Tiberius until the Merovingian period. …”
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Identification of positive selection signatures associated with milk and composition traits in Murciano-Granadina and Barki by Hossein Mohammadi, amir hossien khaltabadi farahani, Mohammad Hossein Moradi

“…Results of gene ontology analysis identified two biological pathways namely skeletal system development and calcium channel complex with two important KEGG pathways including glucagon signaling pathway and AMPK signaling pathway which play an important role in glucose metabolism and homeostasis and skeletal system development. …”
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Clinical implication of NT-proBNP to predict mortality in patients with acute type A aortic dissection: a retrospective cohort study by Rui Zhang, Hao Wang, Chenxi Song, Rui Fu, Kefei Dou, Shuai Liu, Qianqian Liu, Xiaohui Bian, Weida Liu, Chengang Zhu, Jingjing Gao, Sheng Yuan, Xinming Cui, Sijia Qin, Yumeng Li

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Effectiveness of ertugliflozin during Ramadan fasting in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a real-world study (ErtuRamadan study) by Md Faruque Pathan, Nazma Akter, Marufa Mustari, M. Saifuddin, Mirza Sharifuzzaman, Mohammad Motiur Rahman, Mohammed Ripon, S. M. Mohiuddin, A. B. M. Kamrul-Hasan, Mohammad Abdul Hannan, Muhammad Shah Alam, Samira Mahjabeen, Faria Afsana, Muhammed Abu Bakar, Tahniyah Haq, Afsar Ahammed, Samir Kumar Talukder, Sourav Sarkar, Shahjada Selim

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Multiplex immunohistochemistry to explore the tumor immune microenvironment in HCC patients with different GPC3 expression by Mingzhen Zhou, Ziyan Zhou, Lina Hu, Sidong Chen, Fanyan Meng, Jun Chen, Jie Shen

“…This methodology provides valuable insights into the complex interactions and spatial organization of immune cells in the context of hepatocellular carcinoma progression. …”
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Association of depression in multiple sclerosis with fatigue, sleep disturbances, disability, and health-related quality of life: Outcomes of a cross-sectional study by E. Aparicio-Castro, A. Candeliere-Merlicco, C.M. Santa, R. Villaverde-González

“…These findings contribute valuable insights into the complex interplay between mental health, disease variables, and QoL in MS. …”
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Medical Jousting: Going for the kill! by Dr.Fuad Ahmed Khan Niazi

“…This fear leads to insecurity and creates competition out of friends. These complexes tend to flourish more in private healthcare sector where money and high patient turnover matters. …”
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The Role of Butirprost^® as an Adjuvant in Enhancing the Effect of Antibiotics in Patients Affected by Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis: A Randomized Prospective Trial by Felice Crocetto, Armando Calogero, Michele Santangelo, Agostino Fernicola, Filippo Varlese, Benito Fabio Mirto, Fabio Machiella, Alfonso Falcone, Giovanni Pagano, Fabrizio Dinacci, Gaetano Giampaglia, Domenico Varriale, Francesco Trama, Salvatore Iaconis, Francesco Del Giudice, Gian Maria Busetto, Matteo Ferro, Francesco Lasorsa, Giuseppe Lucarelli, Ciro Imbimbo, Biagio Barone

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The Influence of Migration Timing and Local Conditions on Reproductive Timing in Arctic‐Breeding Birds by W. B. English, B. Lagassé, S. Brown, M. Boldenow, J. Burger, B. Casler, A. D. Dey, S. Feigin, S. Freeman, H. R. Gates, K. E. Iaquinto, S. Koch, J. F. Lamarre, R. B. Lanctot, C. Latty, V. Loverti, L. McKinnon, D. Newstead, L. Niles, E. Nol, D. Payer, R. Porter, J. Rausch, S. T. Saalfeld, F. Sanders, N. R. Senner, S. Schulte, K. Sowl, B. Winn, L. Wright, M. B. Wunder, P. A. Smith

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Prevalence of peptic ulcer disease and its associated factors in Jeddah Saudi Arabia by Muazzam Sheriff Maqbul, Reem Saleh Alzaki, Reema Sami Meeralam, Norah Abdulmajeed Alqutami, Bayan Mohammed Alturki, Lina Sultan Alhazmi, Reem Mamdouh Alaseeri, Lama Saad Alghamdi, Reem Khalid bin Brik, Shaima Tariq Mansoor Beig, Muath Saeed Alamri, Wjood Abdullah A. Alshehri, Turki Ayed Almutairi, Maha Abdullah Alqurashi, Ahmed Jamal Nasef

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Efficacy of 5 µg and 10 µg Dexmedetomidine as Adjuvants to 3 mL 0.5% Hyperbaric Bupivacaine in Pelvic and Lower Limb Orthopaedic Surgeries: A Randomised Clinical Study by Jigisha Bharatbhai Mehta, Shreya Jatin Patel, Nilesh Vrajmohan Shah, Dinesh K Chauhan, Sara Mary Thomas

“…Materials and Methods: This randomised clinical and single-blind study study was conducted at the Operation Theatre (OT) complex of Dheeraj Hospital, SBKS, and MIRC, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Vadodara, Gujarat, India in the Department of Anaesthesia over a period of 18 months, from September 2022 to March 2024 and total of 82 patients scheduled for lower limb and pelvic orthopaedic surgery who were to receive spinal anaesthesia were divided into Group D1 and D2. …”
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Étude de trois grands tonneaux mis au jour à Reims/Durocortorum (Marne) : le savoir-faire des tonneliers antiques by Pierre Mille, Philippe Rollet

“…It contained a series of adjoining furnaces, but the function of this imposing complex, which was destroyed at the end of the 4th c. …”
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Designing a security-oriented leadership model of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences by Saeid Miladigorji, Mohammad Hassan Shakki, Mojtaba Rezaei Rad

“…Security-oriented leadership, used by leaders, is a process to influence the desired success of the vision and is accompanied by influencing the organizational culture, allocation of resources, guidance through policy-making and consensus on a complex, ambiguous, unreliable and transient global environment characterized by opportunities and threats. …”
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Potential and limitations of noise-based surface-wave tomography for numerical site effect estimation: a case study in the French Rhône valley by Lavoué, François, Froment, Bérénice, Gélis, Céline, Boué, Pierre,  Chaljub, Emmanuel, Stehly, Laurent, Beauprêtre, Sophie, De Martin, Florent,  Gisselbrecht, Loïc, Pilz, Marco, Moiriat, Denis, Cushing, Edward Marc

“…On the other hand, the numerical amplification predicted in the ANSWT model shows a good agreement with the observations at locations that seem less affected by 3D propagation effects, including in complex regions of the model where lateral variations must be taken into account. …”
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LRH‐1/NR5A2 targets mitochondrial dynamics to reprogram type 1 diabetes macrophages and dendritic cells into an immune tolerance phenotype by Nadia Cobo‐Vuilleumier, Silvia Rodríguez‐Fernandez, Livia López‐Noriega, Petra I. Lorenzo, Jaime M. Franco, Christian C. Lachaud, Eugenia Martin Vazquez, Raquel Araujo Legido, Akaitz Dorronsoro, Raul López‐Férnandez‐Sobrino, Beatriz Fernández‐Santos, Carmen Espejo Serrano, Daniel Salas‐Lloret, Nila vanOverbeek, Mireia Ramos‐Rodriguez, Carmen Mateo‐Rodríguez, Lucia Hidalgo, Sandra Marin‐Canas, Rita Nano, Ana I. Arroba, Antonio Campos Caro, Alfred CO Vertegaal, Alejandro Martín‐Montalvo, Franz Martín, Manuel Aguilar‐Diosdado, Lorenzo Piemonti, Lorenzo Pasquali, Roman González Prieto, Maria Isabel García Sánchez, Decio L. Eizirik, Maria Asuncion Martínez‐Brocca, Marta Vives‐Pi, Benoit R. Gauthier

“…Abstract Background The complex aetiology of type 1 diabetes (T1D), characterised by a detrimental cross‐talk between the immune system and insulin‐producing beta cells, has hindered the development of effective disease‐modifying therapies. …”
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Aerosol layer height (ALH) retrievals from oxygen absorption bands: intercomparison and validation among different satellite platforms, GEMS, EPIC, and TROPOMI by H. Kim, H. Kim, X. Chen, X. Chen, J. Wang, J. Wang, J. Wang, J. Wang, Z. Lu, Z. Lu, Z. Lu, M. Zhou, G. R. Carmichael, G. R. Carmichael, S. S. Park, J. Kim

“…Although aerosol vertical structures can be complex, assuming a certain shape for the aerosol vertical profile allows for the retrieval of a single parameter – aerosol layer height (ALH) – from passive remote sensing measurements. …”
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Decolonization Projects by Cornelius Ewuoso

“… Photo ID 279661800 © Sidewaypics|Dreamstime.com ABSTRACT Decolonization is complex, vast, and the subject of an ongoing academic debate. …”
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