Treatment advances in Vitiligo: An Updated Review by Ishrat Binti Ismail, Yasmeen Jabeen Bhat, Mohd Shurjeel ul Islam

“…A comprehensive search of the literature was carried out through the PubMed electronic database from inception to 31 December 2023 using the following search terms “vitiligo” AND “JAK inhibitors”, “vitiligo” AND “prostaglandin”, “vitiligo” AND “afamelanotide”, “vitiligo” AND “antioxidants”, “vitiligo” AND “vitamin D3”, “vitiligo AND “statins”, “vitiligo” AND “TNF-alpha”, “vitiligo” AND “interleukin”, “vitiligo” AND “light therapy”. …”
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Utilization for Non-Communicable Diseases Management in Southeast Asia by Farah Luthfi Kaulina, Sukihananto Sukihananto

“…Keywords are combined using Boolean and/or the online database that the researcher chose. Articles that have been filtered are filtered again by selecting research locations in Southeast Asian countries. …”
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Mapping the association between mental health and people's perceived and actual ability to practice hygiene-related behaviours in humanitarian and pandemic crises: A scoping review... by Emily Yasmin Ghassemi, Astrid Hasund Thorseth, Karine Le Roch, Thomas Heath, Sian White

“…Published and grey literature was identified through database searches, humanitarian-relevant portals, and consultations with key stakeholders in the humanitarian sector. 25 publications were included, 21 were peer-reviewed published articles and four were grey literature publications. …”
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National Trends of Antiparkinsonism Treatment in Taiwan: 2004–2011 by Weng-Ming Liu, Ruey-Meei Wu, Chia-Hsuin Chang, Jou-Wei Lin, Ying-Chun Liu, Chin-Hsien Lin

“…Antiparkinsonism prescriptions, including levodopa, ergot/nonergot dopamine agonists (DAs), amantadine, selegiline, entacapone, and anticholinergics, were identified in the Taiwan National Health Insurance Database from 2004 to 2011. Time trend analyses were estimated assuming Poisson distribution. …”
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OSM May Serve as a Biomarker of Poor Prognosis in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma and Promote Tumor Cell Invasion and Migration by Shuzhang Wei, Yin Chen, Xiaokai Shi, Li Zuo, Lifeng Zhang

“…In this study, we used The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database to evaluate OSM expression characteristics, pathogenic factor distribution, and prognostic aspects in ccRCC. …”
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Evolution of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education From 2000 to 2024: Bibliometric Analysis by Rui Li, Tong Wu

“…MethodsDocuments were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection database from 2000 to 2024. VOSviewer, Incites, and Citespace were used to analyze the bibliometric metrics, which were categorized by country, institution, authors, journals, and keywords. …”
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Suicide in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study by Yu Jiang, Anying Bai, Jinjian Li, Yuhang Pan

“…This study examines whether changes in the suicide rate align with COVID-19 situations and anti-COVID-19 policy events in Hong Kong, focusing on vulnerable population groups based on demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.Methods Suicide data spanning 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2022 were sourced from the Hong Kong Suicide Press Database. Case-level data were aggregated monthly by district. …”
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Unlocking prognostic potential: A genomic signature of caloric restriction in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer. by Ori Tal, Tamar Zahavi, Liat Anabel Sinberger, Mali Salmon-Divon

“…Based on the gene expression of these proteins, we calculated a Non-Fasting Genomic Signature score for each ovarian cancer sample sourced from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. Subsequently, we examined the association between this genomic profile and various clinical characteristics.…”
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Association between a publicly funded universal drug program and antipsychotic and antidepressant medication dispensing to children by Sophie A. Kitchen, Tara Gomes, Mina Tadrous, Kathleen Pajer, William Gardner, Yona Lunsky, Melanie Penner, David Juurlink, Muhammad Mamdani, Tony Antoniou

“…We obtained dispensing data from the IQVIA Geographic Prescription Monitor database, and used interventional autoregressive integrated moving average models to examine whether the implementation of OHIP + and its subsequent revision were associated with changes in dispensing. …”
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Contribution of Experimental Animal Research Studies to the Emergency Medicine Literature by Umut Ocak, John H. Zhang

“…To this end, the experimental animal research articles published in EM journals indexed to the Science Citation Index Expanded database with a date of publication between January 1, 2008, and December 31, 2017, were reviewed retrospectively. …”
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Simultaneous cardiocerebral infarctions: a five-year retrospective case series reviewing natural history by Cheryl Zhiya Chong, Benjamin Yong-Qiang Tan, Ching-Hui Sia, Thet Khaing, Leonard Leong Litt Yeo

“…Methods: Using our prospective stroke database from 2014 to 2018, ten consecutive patients with CCI were identified (incidence = 0.29%). …”
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Use of NSAIDs via the Rectal Route for the Prevention of Pancreatitis after ERCP in All-Risk Patients: An Updated Meta-Analysis by Lei-Min Yu, Ke-Jia Zhao, Bin Lu

“…The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of the rectal administration of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in preventing post-ERCP pancreatitis (PEP). We searched database for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing periprocedural rectal administration of NSAIDs with placebo for the prevention of PEP. …”
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Robust Data-Driven Fault Detection: An Application to Aircraft Air Data Sensors by Yunmei Zhao, Hang Zhao, Jianliang Ai, Yiqun Dong

“…To guarantee the scalability, aircraft inertial reference unit measurements are adopted as equivalent inputs to the DNN, and a database associated with 6 different aircraft/flight conditions is constructed. …”
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Exploring Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Biomarkers through Integrated Bioinformatics Analysis: Uncovering Novel Diagnostic Candidates by Guanmou Li, Dongqun Lin, Xiaoping Fan, Bo Peng

“…We selected the GSE36961 and GSE180313 datasets from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database for differential analysis. GSE36961 generated 6 modules through weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA), with the green and grey modules showing the highest positive correlation with HCM (green module: cor = 0.88, p=2e−48; grey module: cor = 0.78, p=4e−31). …”
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GREEN FINANCE: CASE OF LITHUANIA by Giedrė Lapinskienė, Gitana Mečėjienė, Laima Steiblienė

“…The authors used the scientific analysis of literature and comparative analysis of statistical data from the Bloomberg database for 2009-2022. The research revealed that despite the ambitious goal and the high quality of the Strategy and Action Plan, Lithuania is not currently the leader in providing real green financial products, even among the Baltic countries. …”
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Calculating the average distance between horizontal projection peaks by D. V. Zaerko, V. A. Lipnitski

“…During the analysis and construction of the noise filtering algorithm at the stage of segmentation of character strings, the need to describe a special database or dictionary for storing model and skeletal projections of alphabet characters became clear. …”
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Psychometric properties of the Infant Motor Profile (IMP): A scoping review protocol. by Luiza Ribeiro Machado, Carolina Fioroni Ribeiro da Silva, Mijna Hadders-Algra, Eloisa Tudella

“…The search will be performed in Pubmed, Lilacs, PEDro, Scielo, CINAHL, Embase, Web of Science, Ovid PsycINFO, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, as well as in gray literature sources following the University of Toronto library guidelines. …”
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Psychosocial Factors in End-Stage Kidney Disease Patients at a Tertiary Hospital in Australia by Charan Bale, Alexandra Douglas, Dev Jegatheesan, Linh Pham, Sonny Huynh, Atul Mulay, Dwarakanathan Ranganathan

“…Patient demographics, cumulative social issues, and subsequent interventions were recorded directly into a database. Results. Of the 244 patients referred, the majority were >60 years (58.6%), male (60.7%), born in Australia (62.3%), on haemodialysis (51.6%), and reliant on government financial assistance (88%). …”
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Hyalomma aegyptium: Observed global distribution, imported specimens, preferred hosts and vector competence by Franz Rubel

“…The tortoise tick Hyalomma aegyptium (Linnaeus, 1758) is a three-host tick, predominantly infesting land tortoises of the genus Testudo. A database was compiled, resulting in 557 H. aegyptium georeferenced locations in the Palearctic. …”
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Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Single Center Retrospective Study in Malaysia by Piem Jie Leong, Anna Farazilah Mohd Salleh

“…Methods: A total of seven patients were selected from our hospital’s local SLE database between 2013 and 2024 based on the inclusion criteria. …”
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