Smoking and Diseases of the Gastrointestinal System: An Epidemiological Review with Special Reference to Sex Differences by Mary Jane Ashley

“…Smoking increases the risk of peptic ulcer disease and death from it. Smoking delays peptic ulcer healing, with or without treatment, and increases the risk of recurrence after healing. …”
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The Scanian Economic-Demographic Database (SEDD) by Martin Dribe, Luciana Quaranta

“…At the individual level, SEDD combines various demographic and socioeconomic records, including causes of death, place of birth and geographic data on the place of residence within a parish. …”
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Immune Response in Severe Infection: Could Life-Saving Drugs Be Potentially Harmful? by Maja Surbatovic, Jasna Jevdjic, Milic Veljovic, Nada Popovic, Dragan Djordjevic, Sonja Radakovic

“…Critically ill patients suffer a high rate of nosocomial infection with secondary sepsis being a common cause of death. Usage of antibiotics and catecholamines is often necessary, but it can compromise complex immune response to infection. …”
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“The Poor will always be with you”: Ethical Implications for the Church and Development in Africa. by Rugyendo, Medard

“…However, in the gospels, Jesus in Matthew 26:11 echoed the words of Deuteronomy 15: 11 that the “poor will always be with you” when a woman poured expensive oil on him preparing him for his death. To most people, it is believed that he meant that poverty is unstoppable, unbreakable, unavoidable, and predetermined by God yet it is created by human beings when they disobey God and neglect their neighbor. …”
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“The Poor will always be with you”: Ethical Implications for the Church and Development in Africa by Medard, Rugyendo

“…However, in the gospels Jesus in Matthew 26:11 echoed the words of Deuteronomy 15: 11 that the “poor will always be with you” when a woman poured expensive oil on him preparing him for his death. To most people, it is believed that he meant that poverty is unstoppable, unbreakable, unavoidable and predetermined by God yet it is created by human beings when they disobey God and neglect their neighbor. …”
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Leave no child behind: Using data from 1.7 million children from 67 developing countries to measure inequality within and between groups of births and to identify left behind popul... by Antonio P Ramos, Martin J Flores, Robert E Weiss

“…Targeting the 20% highest risk children based on our model better identifies under-5 deaths than targeting the 20% poorest. For all surveys, we report efficiency gains from 26% in Mali to 578% in Guyana. …”
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Prevalence, management, and outcomes of haemorrhagic events in left ventricular assist device recipients by Laetitia Pourtau, Maxime Beneyto, Jean Porterie, Jerome Roncalli, Montse Massot, Caroline Biendel, Pauline Fournier, Romain Itier, Michel Galinier, Olivier Lairez, Clement Delmas

“…Each bleeding episode multiplied the risk of death by 1.8 (95% CI 1.2–2.7, P < 0.01). Finally, only early bleedings (<9 months post‐implantation) had an impact on mortality (HR 4.2, 95% CI 1.6–11.1, P < 0.01). …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy in Patients Undergoing Coronary Stent Implantation: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis by Yi Xu, Yimin Shen, Delong Chen, Pengfei Zhao, Jun Jiang

“…No significant difference in all-cause mortality and cardiac death was observed. In patients with acute coronary syndrome, DAPT 6Mo was comparable to DAPT 12Mo. …”
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Clinical Significance of Negative Costimulatory Molecule PD-1/PD-L1 on Peripheral Blood Regulatory T Cell Levels among Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis by Chenchen Yang, Fanchao Dai, Rexiti Pulati, Yan Jiao, Qian Xu

“…This study aimed to investigate the expression and clinical significance of negative costimulatory molecules programmed death-1 (PD-1) and programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) on CD4+CD25+CD127low regulatory T cells (Tregs) in peripheral blood of patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). …”
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Melanoma-Targeted Chemothermotherapy and In Situ Peptide Immunotherapy through HSP Production by Using Melanogenesis Substrate, NPrCAP, and Magnetite Nanoparticles by Kowichi Jimbow, Yasue Ishii-Osai, Shosuke Ito, Yasuaki Tamura, Akira Ito, Akihiro Yoneta, Takafumi Kamiya, Toshiharu Yamashita, Hiroyuki Honda, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Katsutoshi Murase, Satoshi Nohara, Eiichi Nakayama, Takeo Hasegawa, Itsuo Yamamoto, Takeshi Kobayashi

“…NPrCAP was exploited from melanogenesis substrates, which are expected to be selectively incorporated into melanoma cells and produce highly reactive free radicals through reacting with tyrosinase, resulting in chemotherapeutic and immunotherapeutic effects by oxidative stress and apoptotic cell death. Magnetite nanoparticles were conjugated with NPrCAP to introduce thermotherapeutic and immunotherapeutic effects through nonapoptotic cell death and generation of heat shock protein (HSP) upon exposure to alternating magnetic field (AMF). …”
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Risk Factors and Outcome of Sepsis in Traumatic Patients and Pathogen Detection Using Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing by Yiqing Tong, Jianming Zhang, Yimu Fu, Xingxing He, Qiming Feng

“…Our study identifies risk factors for the incidence and death of sepsis in traumatic patients and shows that mNGS may serve as a better diagnostic tool for the identification of pathogens in post-traumatic sepsis than standard microbiological blood cultures.…”
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Gender and ethnoracial disparities in Veterans’ trauma exposure prevalence across differing life phases by Fernanda S. Rossi, Yael I. Nillni, Alexandria N. Miller, Annie B. Fox, Johanne Eliacin, Paula P. Schnurr, Christopher C. Duke, Jaimie L. Gradus, Tara E. Galovski

“…., sexual assault, physical assault, community violence, captivity, serious accident, witnessing violent death) at each wave of data collection using items from a modified Life Events Checklist. …”
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Generation and characterization of two induced pluripotent stem cell lines (ICGi052-A and ICGi052-B) from a patient with frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism-17 associated wit... by E. V. Grigor’eva, A. A. Malakhova, E. S. Yarkova, J. M. Minina, Y. V. Vyatkin, J. A. Nadtochy, E. A. Khabarova, J. A. Rzaev, S. P. Medvedev, S. M. Zakian

“…Frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism-17 is a neurodegenerative disease characterised by pathological aggregation of the tau protein with the formation of neurofibrillary tangles and subsequent neuronal death. The inherited form of frontotemporal dementia can be caused by mutations in several genes, including the MAPT gene on chromosome 17, which encodes the tau protein. …”
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Utilization and quality of primary and specialized palliative homecare in nursing home residents vs. community dwellers: a claims data analysis by Juliane Poeck, Franziska Meissner, Bianka Ditscheid, Markus Krause, Ulrich Wedding, Cordula Gebel, Ursula Marschall, Gabriele Meyer, Werner Schneider, Antje Freytag

“…Second, we analyzed the (adjusted) relationship between PPC-only and SPHC (both: starting ≥ 30 days before death), and noPC with healthcare indicators (death in hospital, hospitalization, emergencies, intensive care treatment within the last 30 days of life), and compared these relationships between nursing home residents and community dwellers. …”
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Does completion of radical hysterectomy improve oncological outcomes of women with clinical early-stage cervical cancer and intraoperative detection of nodal involvement?: protocol... by Hui Xu, Qing Liu, Yu Xu, Yi Du, Ai Zheng, Cui Hu, Ya Jia, Qianwen Zhang, Yue-Dong He, Shuang-Shuang Cui, Yong Tian, Lin Ran, Fengmei Ke

“…The primary outcome of this proposed study will be comparing the risk of recurrence or death from cervical cancer and the risk of all-cause death in patients with two different treatments (completion of radical hysterectomy or abandonment of radical hysterectomy); the secondary outcome of this proposed study will be comparing the risk of the grade 3/4 toxicities associated with the two types of management. …”
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Notation publications in the context of musical life in Lithuania in the XVI-XVII centuries by Jūratė Trilupaitienė

“…Furthermore, Radvila's death marked the end of Basilicus' career as a composer and the sudden disappearance of Bacfark from Vilnius. …”
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Gambaran Pengetahuan dan Sikap Mahasiswa Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Andalas tentang Rokok by Yosantaraputra ., Yanwirasti ., Abdiana .

“…</p><p>Abstract<br />Cigarettes are the top ten causes of death in the world where each year the total of mortality rate reached 500 million people. …”
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Using Health Utility Index (HUI) for Measuring the Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) Among Individuals with Chronic Diseases by Frank Mo, Bernard C.K. Choi, Felix C.K. Li, Joav Merrick

“…The HUI scores ranged from 0.00 (corresponding to a state close to death) to 1.00 (corresponding to perfect health); negative scores reflect health states considered worse than death. …”
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Histomorphological Study of Rodenticide Poisoning: An Autopsy-based Crosssectional Study from a Tertiary Care Centre, Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, India by P Narmadha Priya, Jayalakshmy Pechimuthu, V Palaniappan, Teleflo Boopathy, Jeevanandham Anbazhagan, Jeevitha Muniraj

“…In a retrospective study conducted by the National Poison Information Centre, it was found that death due to rodenticide poisoning accounted for about 17.06% when compared to other pesticides, indicating a rise in the global burden of rodenticide poisoning. …”
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Role of Chest X-Ray in Coronavirus Disease and Correlation of Radiological Features with Clinical Outcomes in Indian Patients by Satyanand Sathi, Richa Tiwari, Savita Verma, Anil Kumar Garg, Virendra Singh Saini, Manoj Kumar Singh, Amit Mittal, Devinder Vohra

“…Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient between maximum RALE score and clinical outcome parameters was as follows: age, 0.721 (p value <0.00001); >10 days of hospital stay, 0.5478 (p value <0.05); ≤10 days of hospital stay, 0.5384 (p value <0.0001); discharged patients, 0.5433 (p value <0.0001); and death, 0.6182 (p value = 0.0568). The logistic regression analysis revealed that maximum RALE scores (0.0932 [0.024–0.367]), (10.730 [2.727–42.206]), (1.258 [0.990–1.598]), and (0.794 [0.625–1.009]) predicted discharge, death, >10 days of hospital stay, and ≤10 days of hospital stay, respectively. …”
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