Understanding road accident injury dynamics in Iran: a growth mixture modelling perspective by Ziba Zarrin, Kamran Gholamizadeh, Elaheh Talebi-Ghane, Erfan Ayubi, Omid Hamidi

“…Understanding these trends is crucial for informing targeted interventions and resource allocation, ultimately contributing to the reduction of road traffic injuries.Design Ecological study.Setting The data were obtained from the official database of the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization, which includes the injury rates of all provinces due to road accidents, from 2012 to 2021.Participants All records registered with injuries due to road traffic accidents across Iranian provinces.Outcome measures The incidence and average annual percentage of injury rates across provinces were illustrated using a map. …”
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Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal and aromatic plants used by the population of Settat Province, Morocco by Manal Lahyaoui, Nadia Dakka, Naoual El Menyiy, Mansour Sobeh, Pakhrur Razi, Khang Wen Goh, Yaser Mohammed Al-Worafi, Muhammad Junaid Farrukh, Abdelhakim Bouyahya

“…The results provided a database on the modes of use, plant parts utilized, treated pathologies, and recommended dosages for 51 medicinal and aromatic plants from the Settat province and enabled us to calculate their Familiarity Index (FI). …”
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DNA Barcoding and Phylogenetic Analysis of Culex and Anopheles Species in Siirt, Türkiye by Halil Dilmen, Behcet İnal, Mehmet Salih Özgökçe, Mustafa Cemal Çiftçi, Hilmi Kara, Sedriye Çatkın, Meryem Özer Dilmen, Gülcihan Koyunçu

“…Mitochondrial gene PCR products were sequenced, and the sequences were uploaded to the NCBI database for public access. Phylogenetic analysis was conducted using these sequences to investigate the genetic distances and evolutionary relationships among the mosquito species. …”
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Deaths in children in England from SARS-CoV-2 infection during the first 2 years of the pandemic: a cohort study by Shamez N Ladhani, Peter Fleming, Tom Williams, Karen Luyt, Godwin Oligbu, David Odd, Sylvia Stoianova, Anna Thursby-Pelham

“…Mortality rates were calculated, assuming a Poisson distribution, for the whole population, and split by demographics and patient characteristics.Setting England.Participants 6389 CYP deaths in England reported to the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD).Main outcome Risk of death.Results 88 of the 6389 deaths of CYP were identified as deaths probably due to COVID-19. …”
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Identification of tacrolimus-related genes in familial combined hyperlipidemia and development of a diagnostic model using bioinformatics analysis by Yuan Xu, Hongfei He, Haiyang Li

“…Methods: Dataset GSE1010 containing information on patients diagnosed with FCHL was obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), and an ensemble of tacrolimus-related genes (TRGs) was retrieved from the GeneCards, STITCH, and Molecular Signatures Database databases. A thorough weighted gene co-expression network analysis was conducted, including a differential expression analysis of the GSE1010 and TRG datasets, to identify intricate patterns of gene co-expression and provide insights on the underlying molecular dynamics within the datasets. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Acute Ischemic Stroke Presentation, Treatment, and Outcomes by Timothy G. White, Gabriela Martinez, Jason Wang, Michele Gribko, Artem Boltyenkov, Rohan Arora, Jeffrey M. Katz, Henry H. Woo, Pina C. Sanelli

“…A retrospective review of patients with a discharge diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke from the Get With The Guidelines database was performed from January 1, 2019, to July 1, 2020. …”
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Improved insulin sensitivity and reproductive profile in overweight/obese PCOS patients undergoing integrative treatment with carnitines, L-arginine, L-cysteine and myo-inositol by Alessandro D. Genazzani, Christian Battipaglia, Martina Foschi, Elisa Semprini, Claudia Aio, Eleonora Spelta, Anna Kostrzak, Maria Laura Rusce, Anna Szeliga, Blazej Meczekalski

“…Objective To evaluate the effects of a combination of carnitines, L-arginine, L-cysteine and myo-inositol on metabolic and reproductive parameters in PCOS overweight/obese patients.Methods This was a retrospective study analyzing information of a group of PCOS (n = 25) overweight/obesity patients, not requiring hormonal treatment, selected from the database of the ambulatory clinic of the Gynecological Endocrinology Center at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy. …”
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Research hotspots and trends in the antioxidant effects of acupuncture: A bibliometric analysis from 2003 to 2024 by Zhilin Huang, Song Li, YiHao Zhou, Anhong Dai, Yi Zhang, Meifang Liu, Mengqi Le, Jing Shi

“…Methods: Articles pertaining to the acupuncture antioxidant effects were systematically retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection database, encompassing the temporal scope from inception to September 6, 2024. …”
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Survival outcomes of marijuana users in p16 positive oropharynx cancer patients by Han Zhang, Michael Xie, Marc Levin, Stuart D. Archibald, B. Stanley Jackson, J. E. M. Young, Michael K. Gupta

“…Methods Patients who were marijuana users were identified from a prospectively collected database of HNC patients from January 2011 to 2015. …”
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Detection of Dengue Virus-Specific IgM and IgG Antibodies through Peptide Sequences of Envelope and NS1 Proteins for Serological Identification by Pradeep Kumar Nagar, Deepali Savargaonkar, Anupkumar R. Anvikar

“…Whole protein sequences of E and NS1 of DENV were obtained from UniProtKB database. On the basis of algorithm prediction from DNASTAR, BCEPRED, and IEDB data resources, twelve peptides of E (EP1 to EP12) and eight peptides of NS1 (NS1-1 to NS1-8) were selected, which were common in all serotypes. …”
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Acute effects of physical exercise on cognitive function and neurotrophins in patients with type 1 diabetes: A systematic review by Emanuele Zanardo, Giulia Quinto, Francesca Battista, Federica Duregon, Marco Vecchiato, Chiara Bergia, Kirk Erickson, Andrea Ermolao, Daniel Neunhaeuserer

“…Methods: MEDLINE, Cochrane Library (CENTRAL database), EMBASE and SPORTDiscus were screened by 2 independent reviewers, who selected studies that analysed acute effects of physical exercise in patients with T1DM on BDNF levels or cognitive function tests before and after exercise. …”
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Suicide mortality among individuals in federal prisons compared with the general population: a retrospective cohort study in the USA from 2009 to 2020 by Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Katherine LeMasters, Shabbar Ranapurwala, Mike Dolan Fliss, Michael Forrest Behne, Emilie Duchesneau, Jennifer Lao

“…Our objective was to compare reported suicides rate among those incarcerated in federal prisons and the general population, accounting for age distributions, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2009–2020).Methods Using data from the Federal Bureau of Prison, Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WONDER database and a retrospective cohort study design, we estimated age-standardised mortality rates and standardised mortality ratios comparing observed suicide mortality among those incarcerated in federal prisons to the expected mortality if they experienced the same age-specific suicide rates as the general population. …”
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Harnessing national data systems to understand circumstances surrounding veteran suicide: linking Department of Veterans Affairs and National Violent Death Reporting System Data by Claire A. Hoffmire, Alexandra L. Schneider, Laurel A. Gaeddert, Joseph Logan, Julie A. Kittel, Ryan Holliday, Lindsey L. Monteith

“…Methods Multi-variable, multi-stage, deterministic linkage of VA-Department of Defense (DoD) Mortality Data Repository (MDR) and NVDRS-Restricted Access Database suicide and undetermined intent mortality records within 189 state-year strata (42 states, 2012–2018). …”
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G-UNETR++: A Gradient-Enhanced Network for Accurate and Robust Liver Segmentation from Computed Tomography Images by Seungyoo Lee, Kyujin Han, Hangyeul Shin, Harin Park, Seunghyon Kim, Jeonghun Kim, Xiaopeng Yang, Jae Do Yang, Hee Chul Yu, Heecheon You

“…The proposed method was evaluated on three public datasets, the Liver Tumor Segmentation (LiTS) dataset, the 3D Image Reconstruction for Comparison of Algorithms Database (3D-IRCADb), and the Segmentation of the Liver Competition 2007 (Sliver07) dataset, and achieved 97.38%, 97.50%, and 97.32% in terms of the dice similarity coefficient for liver segmentation on the three datasets, respectively. …”
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Tramadol use and incident dementia in older adults with musculoskeletal pain: a population-based retrospective cohort study by Si Nae Oh, Hye Jun Kim, Jae Yong Shim, Kyuwoong Kim, Seogsong Jeong, Sun Jae Park, Sang Hyun Lee, Joong Won Ha, Sang Min Park

“…This population-based retrospective cohort study using the Korean National Health Insurance Service database included a total of 1,865,827 older adult patients aged 60 years or older with common musculoskeletal pain between January 1, 2003, and December 31, 2007. …”
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Efficacy and safety of immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with advanced intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma by Ziting Peng, Jianhui Dong, Shuyao Tang, Jiaxu Shi, Tongdong Shi

“…BackgroundTo assess the efficacy and safety of PD-1 and PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in managing advanced intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC).MethodsA retrospective analysis of treatment data for patients with advanced ICC who received ICIs at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University from the inception of the inpatient medical record database until 30 April 2024. The analysis concentrated on the safety and efficacy of the treatment. …”
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Prevalence, influencing factors, and prediction model construction of anemia in ankylosing spondylitis based on real-world data: An exploratory study. by Yifan Gong, Kun Yang, Zhaoyang Geng, Hongxiao Liu

“…<h4>Methods</h4>In November 2023, we accessed the database from China Rheumatoid Arthritis Registry of Patients with Chinese Medicine (CERTAIN). …”
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Preoperative neck ultrasound combined with pathological data can significantly impact the outcome of medullary thyroid carcinoma by Maurilio Deandrea, Tommaso Piticchio, Alberto Mormile, Francesca Retta, Giovanni Canale, Alessandra Caracciolo, Lorenzo Daniele, Pierpaolo Trimboli

“…The aim of this study was to analyze whether perioperative data can modify the risk of relapse in these patients. The institutional database of Turin Mauriziano Hospital was searched to extract records of MTCs diagnosed between 2000 and 2021. …”
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Association of anxiety status and anxiety duration with constipation in adult Americans: a cross-sectional study using data from the NHANES 2007–2010 by Xinran Li, Conghui Bian, Hui Dai, Xingrui Chen, Haihua Qian, Dan Zhang

“…Methods Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database spanning from 2007 to 2010, a cross-sectional study included 8945 participants was performed to assess the relationships of anxiety status and anxiety duration with constipation. …”
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Prognostic model and immune-infiltrating cell landscape based on differentially expressed autophagy-related genes in TP53-mutated multiple myeloma by Yan-Hua Zheng, Hong-Yuan Shen, Xiang Chen, Juan Feng, Guang-Xun Gao

“…Material and methods Information about MM patients with TP53 mutations was downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. Cox proportional hazard regression was employed to determine the independent prognostic ARG and construct a risk signature. …”
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