Current Treatment Options for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis by Melanie D Beaton

“…It is also recognized that cardiovascular disease is a significant cause of death in these patients. Significant work evaluating various treatments has been performed in recent years; however, to date, no ideal therapy exists. …”
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Estate Planning: Preparing a Letter of Last Instructions by Josephine Turner, Martie Gillen

“…The letter should express your wishes following your death so that your personal representative or family member has the information they will need about your personal and financial matters. …”
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Facts about Wildlife Diseases: Ehrlichiosis by Yasmin Tavares, Samantha M. Wisely

“…In most cases, symptoms are mild, but sometimes if antibiotic treatment is delayed, it can cause severe illness and even death. In Florida, ehrlichiosis is an emerging disease. …”
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Clostridium difficile – an Important Opportunistic Pathogen in Healthcare-Associated Infections by Soohyoun Ahn, Amarat H. Simonne

“…One opportunistic pathogen, Clostridium difficile, has been getting more attention in recent years because of its association with antibiotic use and high death rate in the elderly. This factsheet will provide an overview of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) with a focus on healthcare-associated infections. …”
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The personal library of the poet Jovaras by Gražina Narbutaitė

“…He had written that there were 2,000 books in his collection. However, after his death, the collection was dispersed. Jovaras never kept an inventory of his collection. …”
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Leaf Spots and Leaf Blights of Palm by Monica L. Elliott

“…Other diseases may cause death of leaflets and leaf segments but are actually the result of a pathogen infecting the leaf petiole or rachis. …”
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Fall Prevention by Martie Gillen, Kristen D. Smith, Jenny Jump

“…Among older adults (those 65 or older), falls are the leading cause of injury and death. When someone falls, they face long-term disability, lower productivity, and loss of independence. …”
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COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Perinatal Outcomes between Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Women by Inas Babic, Faten Alsomali, Sana Aljuhani, Sahar Baeissa, Inam Alhabib, Ebtisam AlAhmari, Magdy Omer, Khalid Alkhalifa

“…Maternal composite adverse outcomes were higher in the symptomatic group and showed either one or more outcomes, positive chest radiological findings, requiring hospitalization with oxygen supplementation, or maternal death (8% vs. 0.7%) (p<0.05). Composite fetal and neonatal adverse outcomes such as miscarriage, fetal or neonatal death, admission to neonatal intensive care unit, and neonatal COVID-19 infection were not statistically significant (p>0.05) between symptomatic and asymptomatic women. …”
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SNAP II and SNAPPE II as Predictors of Neonatal Mortality in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Does Postnatal Age Play a Role? by Mirta Noemi Mesquita Ramirez, Laura Evangelina Godoy, Elizabeth Alvarez Barrientos

“…Variables analyzed were SNAP II, SNAPPE II, perinatal data, and known risk factors for death. The Hosmer-Lemeshow test and the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve were used with SPSS 17.0 for statistical analysis. …”
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Midterm Clinical Impacts of Biodegradable Polymer Everolimus-Eluting Stents Compared with Durable Polymer Everolimus-Eluting Stents: A 3-Year Propensity-Matched Study by Hiroaki Matsuda, Ai Kagase, Takahiro Tokuda, Yusuke Ochiumi, Akira Murata, Yoriyasu Suzuki, Tatsuya Ito

“…The primary endpoint was a 3-year cumulative incidence of target lesion failure (TLF) defined as cardiac death, target vessel myocardial infarction (MI), and clinical indicated target lesion revascularization (TLR). …”
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Depression, anxiety and its predictor among internally displaced person in metekel Ethiopia, 2023: using a structural equation model by Solomon Debela Bekeko, Teshome Demis Nimani, Samuel Demissie Darcho, Feyisa Shasho Bayisa

“…Structural equation modeling was employed to assess the relationship.ResultThe overall prevalence of depression and anxiety was 79.64% (95% CI: 77.02 82.03) and 74.62% (95% CI =71.83%, 77.23%) respectively. age (adjusted β = 0.0034, 95% CI: 0.0012, 0.0056), history of the death of a loved one (adjusted β = 0.132, 95% CI: 0.0803, 0.185), had formal education (β = -0.164, 95% CI: -0.229, -0.098) occupation other (adjusted β = -0.183, 95% CI: -0.261, -0.105), Not having medically confirmed mental illness (adjusted β = -0.185, 95% CI: (-0.325, -0.045), PTSD score (adjusted β = 0.0082, 95% CI: 0.0048, 0.012) associated with anxiety.ConclusionDisplacement medically confirmed mental illness, death of a loved one, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) significantly impact anxiety. …”
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Empiric antibiotic therapy resistance and mortality in emergency department patients with bloodstream infection: a retrospective cohort study by Leonhard M. von Beck, Gabriella Anna Rapszky, Veronika E. Kiss, Szilard Sandor, Szabolcs Gaal-Marschal, Tamas Berenyi, Csaba Varga, Bank G. Fenyves

“…In adjusted Cox models, patients with Escherichia coli or Staphylococcus aureus infection had 36% lower and 44% higher risk of death, respectively. Although resistance to emergency department-administered antibiotic therapy was not associated with overall mortality, one-year mortality of patients with Escherichia coli bacteremia was higher in those with antibiotic resistance (69.0% vs. 49.4%, p = 0.011); these patients had a 1.5-fold increased risk of death in an adjusted Cox model. …”
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Ferroptosis in thyroid cancer: mechanisms, current status, and treatment by Wenzhi Tian, Wenzhi Tian, Xi Su, Chenchen Hu, Dong Chen, Peng Li

“…Comprehensive investigations into the pathogenesis of TC have identified a significant association with ferroptosis, a newly characterized form of cell death mediated by iron ions. Distinct from apoptosis, necrosis, and autophagy, ferroptosis is characterized by the accumulation of lipid peroxides and reactive oxygen species, culminating in cellular damage and death.Recent research has elucidated a connection between ferroptosis and the initiation, progression, and treatment of thyroid cancer. …”
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A specific role of village doctors in reducing disparities: a quantile regression analysis of end-of-life medical care by Yuan Fang, Shih-Ting Huang, Chengrui Xiao

“…It is crucial for governments to improve the village doctors’ system, so that older residents in rural China can obtain high-quality EOL medical care services in their own communities and have a better quality of life before death.…”
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JNK1 Deficient Insulin-Producing Cells Are Protected against Interleukin-1β-Induced Apoptosis Associated with Abrogated Myc Expression by Michala Prause, Christopher Michael Mayer, Caroline Brorsson, Klaus Stensgaard Frederiksen, Nils Billestrup, Joachim Størling, Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen

“…JNK2 shRNA potentiated IL-1β-induced apoptosis and caspase 3 cleavage, whereas JNK3 shRNA did not affect IL-1β-induced β-cell death compared to nonsense shRNA expressing INS-1 cells. …”
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A Histologically Complete Response to Immunotherapy Using Pembrolizumab in a Patient with Giant Cell Carcinoma of the Lung: An Additional Report and Literature Review by Tomoo Kakimoto, Mamoru Sasaki, Tatsuya Yamamoto, Arifumi Iwamaru, Kentaro Ogata, Ko Lee, Shingo Nakayama, Naoto Minematsu

“…We previously reported a case of giant cell carcinoma in the lung, in which the use of antiprogrammed death 1 (PD-1) immunotherapy resulted in substantial tumor reduction. …”
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The GRACE Scale in the Prognosis of Patients with Takotsubo Syndrome by Malgorzata Zalewska-Adamiec, Lukasz Kuzma, Slawomir Dobrzycki, Hanna Bachorzewska-Gajewska

“…The GRACE scale is highly valuable for the prognostication of death risk in patients with TTS in the early and long-term observation.…”
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PREVENTION OF ONCOLOGICAL DISEASES AS THE BASIS OF INTERACTION OF ONCOLOGICAL SERVICE WITH PRIMARY LINK OF HEALTH CARE by L. M. Aleksandrova, V. V. Starinsky, A. D. Kaprin, Yu. V. Samsonov

“…Malignant neoplasms (MN) are the second cause of death for the population of Russia, resulted in 15.5% of all deaths in 2015. …”
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Serum Galectin-3 Predicts Mortality in Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Patients by Jianlong Zhu, Dehui Guo, Liying Liu, Jing Zhong

“…We used multivariable logistic regression to analyze significant risk factors and construct a VA-ECMO death prediction model. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were plotted to assess the predictive efficacy of the model. …”
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Reduction of orexin-expressing neurons and a unique sleep phenotype in the Tg-SwDI mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease by Yan Wu, Narayan R. Bhat, Meng Liu

“…Further studies are needed to determine the cause of the selective death of orexin-IR cells and relevant effects on cognition impairments in this mouse model of microvascular amyloidosis.…”
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