Investigating the relationship of hydration status on the clinical outcomes of COVID-19 patients by Mahdiye Rezaei, Nader Salari, Amirhossein Naghibzadeh, Mohammad Mohammadi, Alireza Abdi

“…Furthermore, the Pearson correlation test revealed no significant relationship between the Free Water Deficit tool results and levels of sodium, potassium, urea, creatinine, blood osmolality, total and direct bilirubin, blood lactate, PaO2, FiO2, platelet counts, mean arterial pressure and patient weight. …”
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Changes in Corneal Parameters after DMEK Surgery: A Swept-Source Imaging Analysis at 12-Month Follow-Up Time by Anna Machalińska, Agnieszka Kuligowska, Karolina Kaleta, Monika Kuśmierz-Wojtasik, Krzysztof Safranow

“…Best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), endothelial cell count (ECC), central corneal thickness (CCT), mean keratometry (MK), mean astigmatism (MA), astigmatism asymmetry (AA), and higher-order aberration (HOA) were assessed at baseline and 1, 3, 6 and 12 months after the surgery using CASIA2 anterior segment swept-source OCT (Tomey, Japan). …”
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Prediction of Liver Steatosis and Fibrosis Based on Clinical Variables Using a Large National Survey Database by Yanal Alnimer, Touleen Alnimer

“…Body mass index, hemoglobin A1c, serum triglyceride level, sex, and age could provide a good prediction for liver steatosis, while body mass index, blood pressure, platelet counts, hemoglobin A1c, serum LDL, or HDL are highly associated with liver fibrosis and should be used as an initial screening tool prior referral for VCTE/CAP.…”
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Efficacy of clomiphene citrate and tamoxifen on pregnancy rates in idiopathic male subfertility: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Shadi Khashaba, Shehab Khashaba, Anil Krishan, Angus Bruce, Abdullatif Almaghlouth, Jason Huang, Mahmoud Mima, Craig Niederberger

“…Secondary outcomes included serum follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, and testosterone levels, and sperm count and motility. We calculated the pooled odds ratio, risk ratio, and risk difference to ascertain possible alterations in the direction of the pooled effect size. …”
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Impact of Minimal Incision Repair of Rectus Abdominis Diastasis on Quality of Life and Stress Incontinence: A Prospective Study by Asmatullah Katawazai, Göran Wallin, Anna Ärlebäck, Gabriel Sandblom, Gabriel Sandblom

“…Physical activity intensity was monitored using accelerometers.ResultsSignificant improvements were observed in vigorous physical activities (Z = −2.352, p = 0.019), vector magnitude counts per minute (Z = −2.163, p = 0.031), and steps per minute (Z = −3.131, p = 0.002). …”
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Late Onset of Antiretroviral Therapy in Adults Living with HIV in an Urban Area in Brazil: Prevalence and Risk Factors by Priscila Ribeiro Guimarães Pacheco, Ana Laura Sene Amâncio Zara, Luiz Carlos Silva e Souza, Marília Dalva Turchi

“…Late initiation of ART was defined as CD4+ cell count < 200 cells/mm3 or presence of AIDS-defining illness. …”
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Glucose Supplementation Enhances the Bactericidal Effect of Penicillin and Gentamicin on <i>Streptococcus sanguinis</i> Persisters by Kazuya Takada, Yoshie Yoshioka, Kazumasa Morikawa, Wataru Ariyoshi, Ryota Yamasaki

“…<b>Results</b>: Following 48 h of treatment with PCG (1600 μg/mL) and GM (64 μg/mL), <i>S. sanguinis</i> survived, albeit with a low bacterial count, indicating the presence of persisters. The addition of glucose or arginine to PCG and GM increased the bactericidal effect on residual persister cells and reduced the number of persister cells. …”
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Understanding human papillomavirus vaccine response and efficacy in people living with HIV: A systematic mixed studies review and meta-analysis. by Alvine M Akumbom, Alanna J Bergman, Howard Strickler, Chakra Budhathoki, Manka Nkimbeng, Raeven Grant, Nancy R Reynolds, Kawsar R Talaat

“…Risk factors for incident or persistent infections in PWH included: failure to seroconvert after vaccination, baseline CD4+ T-cell count <500 cells/mm3, early age of sexual debut, HIV viral load ≥ 400 copies/mL. …”
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Satisfaction with a daily supportive text messaging program aimed at promoting psychological well-being of educators: Outcomes from implementation of the Wellness4Teachers by Belinda Agyapong, Pamela Brett-MacLean, Raquel da Luz Dias, Yifeng Wei, Vincent Israel Opoku Agyapong

“…Participants’ satisfaction levels were assessed using a Likert scale to evaluate the responses to different aspects of the program. Frequency counts and percentages were used to summarize quantitative responses. …”
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The Impact of the Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) on City-Level Youth Crime Victimization Rates by Anthony Petrosino, Herbert Turner, Thomas Hanson, Trevor Fronius, Patricia Campie, Cailean Cooke

“…Eleven cities with the highest count of violent offenses reported to the police in 2010 were selected for SSYI funding in 2011 and began implementing the program. …”
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Laboratory diagnosis of H. pylori among dyspeptic patients using Culture and Rapid urease test by Hogir Mohammed Shukri Saadi, Ali Yahya Saeed

“…In this research appear males were less positive for H. pylori than females by urease test and no such statistical association was noticed count on the sex and Helicobacter pylori pathogenicity via culture. …”
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Clinical and psychosocial context of HIV perinatally infected young mothers in Harare, Zimbabwe: A longitudinal mixed-methods study. by Zivai Mupambireyi, Victoria Simms, Webster Mavhu, Concilia Mutasa, Edward Matsikire, April Ricotta, Margaret Pascoe, Tinei Shamu, Beula Senzanje, Chiara Pierotti, Angela Mushavi, Nicola Willis, Frances M Cowan

“…In 2013, all 19 mothers were taking antiretroviral therapy (median duration 8 years, range 2-11 years) and median CD4 count was 524 (IQR 272). In 2013, eight mothers (42.1%) had virological failure (≥1000 copies/ml) (3 of whom subsequently died) and 7 (36.8%) had evidence of drug resistance. …”
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Latent iron deficiency in non-anemic children under five years of age by Qurat ul Ain Riaz, Saima Ahsan, Tanveer Hussain Chaudhary, Abdul Hafeez Soomro, Muhammad Sabir Khan, Shanza Nazish

“…A total of 145 non-anemic children, ages 2-59 months were enrolled through non-probability consecutive sampling in this study. The complete blood count and C-reactive protein were sent for laboratory tests to rule out infection/inflammation. …”
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EDUCATIONAL TRAINING SIMULATOR FOR MONITORING READING TECHNIQUE AND SPEED BASED ON SPEECH-TO-TEXT (STT) METHODS by Olesia Barkovska, Heorhii Ivashchenko, Dmytro Rosinskiy, Daniil Zakharov

“…The proposed and tested trainer for monitoring the technique and speed of reading of primary school students for a mobile digital device recognizes the child’s voice with high accuracy (up to 94.84%), detects misread words and counts the number of words read in the given time period. …”
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Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial on the use of intraoperative ultrasound-guided laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy (UGLOC) as a method of fertility preservation in the... by Srdjan Saso, Sadaf Ghaem-Maghami, Jan Yvan Jos Verbakel, Benjamin P Jones, Joseph Yazbek, Mona El-Bahrawy, Lorraine S Kasaven

“…The primary outcome will be the difference in anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) (pmol/L) and antral follicle count (AFC) measured 3 and 6 months postoperatively from the preoperative baseline. …”
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Serum Galectin-3 Predicts Mortality in Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Patients by Jianlong Zhu, Dehui Guo, Liying Liu, Jing Zhong

“…Compared with the nonsurvivors, survivors had lower acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE) II scores (p < 0.001), increased left ventricular ejection fraction (p < 0.05), lower Gal-3 levels at 24 and 72 h (both p = 0.001), lower BNP levels at 24 and 72 h (both p = 0.001), and higher platelet counts (p = 0.009). Further multivariable analysis showed that APACHE II score, BNP-T72, and Gal-3-T72 were independent risk factors for death in VA-ECMO patients. …”
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Gender and melanoma subtype‐based prognostic implications of MUC16 and TTN co‐occurrent mutations in melanoma: A retrospective multi‐study analysis by Nilesh Kodali, Simona Alomary, Abhijit Bhattaru, Ahmed Eldaboush, Robert A. Schwartz, Shari R. Lipner

“…Univariate Cox regression and Student's t‐tests were used to analyze hazard ratios and total mutation count comparisons, respectively. Results TTN mutations, either alone or concurrently with MUC16 mutations, significantly correlated with worse prognosis overall, in both genders, and in CM patients. …”
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Development of a Magnetic LED-based Sterilisator for Inactivation of Contaminant Bacteria by Yonatan ., Suryani Dyah Astuti, Khusnul Ain, Deny Arifianto, Ahmad Khalil Yaqubi, Perwira Annissa Dyah Permatasari

“…The highest reduction in bacterial count, 81.92% ± 7.92%, was observed with the combined treatment of static magnetic fields and LED illumination at the F8 microplate location, with an exposure time of 40 min. …”
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Pulsed Light Accelerated Crosslinking versus Continuous Light Accelerated Crosslinking: One-Year Results by Cosimo Mazzotta, Claudio Traversi, Anna Lucia Paradiso, Maria Eugenia Latronico, Miguel Rechichi

“…Patients underwent clinical examination of uncorrected distance visual acuity and corrected distance visual acuity (UDVA and CDVA), corneal topography and aberrometry (CSO EyeTop, Florence, Italy), corneal OCT optical pachymetry (Cirrus OCT, Zeiss Meditec, Jena, Germany), endothelial cells count (I-Conan Non Co Robot), and in vivo scanning laser confocal microscopy (Heidelberg, Germany) at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months of follow-up. …”
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Crotalaria madurensis flavonol glycosides’ antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus by Hala Sh. Mohammed, Salwa A. Abu El Wafa, Mona H. Ibrahim, Rasha Mohammad Fathy, Noha A. Seif-Eldein

“…Both the plant extract and metabolite 1 significantly reduced the viability and cell count of MRSA at concentrations of 1.0 and 0.5 mg/ml. …”
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