Antibiotic Prophylaxis Prescribing Practices for Dental Implant Placement in Croatia: A Questionnaire-Based Cross-Sectional Study by Mare Ković, Ajka Pribisalić, Joško Viskić, Jure Martinić, Josipa Grubišić, Ante Vardić, Tina Poklepović Peričić

“…Also, the dentists reported using antibiotics in patients with artificial joints (N = 52, 69.3%), diabetes (N = 48, 64%), HIV (N = 51, 34.2%), or those on antiresorptive drugs (N = 46, 61.3%), with 17 dentists (22.7%) prescribing antibiotics to all (<i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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Environmental burden of disease resulting from long-term nitrogen dioxide exposure in Germany by Paulina Sell, Dietrich Plass, Sarah Kienzler, Hajo Zeeb

“…We first conducted a systematic literature review to identify exposure–response functions (ERFs) which mathematically represent the association between NO2 exposure and the health outcomes: asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), ischemic heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, and cardiovascular and respiratory mortality. …”
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Patterns of Comorbidity and Multimorbidity Among Patients With Multiple Sclerosis in a Large US Commercially Insured and Medicare Advantage Population by Dingwei Dai, Ajay Sharma, Amy L. Phillips, Carroline Lobo

“…Age-related and other comorbidities (ie, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, dyspepsia, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, glaucoma, diabetes, cerebrovascular, cancer) were more common among patients 65 years and older Medicare Advantage (all _P_ < .0001). …”
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The efficacy and safety of rhGH treatment combined with letrozole/GnRHa in adolescent boys by Ying Zhang, Xin Yuan, Kenneth McCormick, Xiao-Hong Yang, Shi-Jun Chen, Rui-Min Chen

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Carbamazepine-Mediated Adverse Drug Reactions: CBZ-10,11-epoxide but Not Carbamazepine Induces the Alteration of Peptides Presented by HLA-B∗15:02 by Gwendolin S. Simper, Gia-Gia T. Hò, Alexander A. Celik, Trevor Huyton, Joachim Kuhn, Heike Kunze-Schumacher, Rainer Blasczyk, Christina Bade-Döding

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Serum Magnesium Level among Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients and Its Correlation with Intra-hospital Complications: A Cross-sectional Single-center Study among Sudanese Patient... by Mohammed Taha, Ayman Azhary, Nooh Mohamed Hajhamed, Waleed Azhary Sir Alkhatim, Salahdeen Ismail Mohammed, Abdullah M Bakheit, Abdallah Elssir Ahmed, Abubakar Abdelbagi

“…Moreover, the most prevalent heart disease determinants among patients were diabetes mellitus (n = 50; 50%) and hypertension (n = 50; 50%). …”
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Optimal Timing for Resuming Antithrombotic Agents and Risk Factors for Delayed Bleeding after Endoscopic Resection of Colorectal Tumors by Kazuko Beppu, Taro Osada, Naoto Sakamoto, Tomoyoshi Shibuya, Kenshi Matsumoto, Akihito Nagahara, Takeshi Terai, Tatsuo Ogihara, Sumio Watanabe

“…We investigated (1) patient-factors: resuming antithrombotic agents within 5 days following endoscopic resection, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus; and (2) tumor-factors: morphology, size, location, and resection technique by conditional logistic regression. …”
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Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Screening for Magnesium Deficiency by Paolo Severino, Lucrezia Netti, Marco Valerio Mariani, Annalisa Maraone, Andrea D’Amato, Rossana Scarpati, Fabio Infusino, Mariateresa Pucci, Carlo Lavalle, Viviana Maestrini, Massimo Mancone, Francesco Fedele

“…In fact, magnesium deficiency is involved in the pathophysiology of arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome, endothelial dysfunction, coronary artery disease, cardiac arrhythmias, and sudden cardiac death. …”
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Beneficios y desafíos de la bioculturalidad Mazahua para un envejecimiento saludable by Tania de la Caridad García Castellanos, María Consuelo Marín-Togo, Deyra López Evangelista, Alberto Velazco Hernández, Yesenia Aguilar Segundo, Carlos Uriel Antonio Amado, Paula Guevara Lara

“…Los adultos mayores padecen enfermedades de filiación cultural como sentimientos y el mal de aire y enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles como la hipertensión y la diabetes mellitus, todos los adultos mayores encuestados utilizan las plantas medicinales para el alivio de sus males. …”
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The relationship between anthropometric indices and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in adults: a cross-sectional study by Mina Radmehr, Reza Homayounfar, Reza Homayounfar, Abolghasem Djazayery

“…BackgroundNon-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a widespread liver condition associated with diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular diseases, yet public awareness remains low. …”
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Association between serum total indoxyl sulfate, intraperitoneal inflammation, and peritoneal dialysis technique failure: a 3-year prospective cohort study by Natalia Stepanova, Victoria Driianska, Lesya Korol, Lyudmyla Snisar

“…Results Patients in the high-tIS group were older and had a higher prevalence of diabetes, a greater incidence of PD-related peritonitis, elevated diastolic blood pressure, and lower HDL cholesterol compared to those in the low-tIS group. …”
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Body composition, mitochondrial oxygen metabolism and metabolome of patients with obesity before and after bariatric surgery (COMMITMENT): protocol for a monocentric prospective co... by Sina M Coldewey, Charles Neu, Philipp Baumbach, Utz Settmacher, Kornel Skitek, Hermann Kissler, Ricardo Esper Treml

“…It is part of the metabolic syndrome, which encompasses arterial hypertension, dyslipoproteinaemia and diabetes. Obesity is viewed as a systemic disease with pathophysiological mechanisms on the molecular level. …”
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Excess mortality and associated community risk factors related to hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico by Kristen N Cowan, Diego E Zavala, Erick Suarez, José A Lopez-Rodriguez, Omar Alvarez

“…Results: In the 6 months following Maria there were increases in mortality risk for cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, sepsis, chronic respiratory disease, hypertension and all-cause mortality. …”
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Sex Disparity in Characteristics, Management, and In-Hospital Outcomes of Patients with ST-Segment Elevated Myocardial Infarction: Insights from Henan STEMI Registry by Shan Wang, You Zhang, Qianqian Cheng, Datun Qi, Xianpei Wang, Zhongyu Zhu, Muwei Li, Junhui Zhang, Dayi Hu, Chuanyu Gao, On behalf of Henan STEMI registry study group

“…Women were older and had a higher prevalence of hypertension (53.3% vs. 41.1%, P<0.001) and diabetes (24.5% vs. 15.2%, P<0.001). Eligible women were less likely to receive reperfusion therapy (56.1% vs. 62.4%, P<0.001); the onset to first medical contact (FMC) (255 vs. 190 minutes, P<0.001), onset to fibrinolysis (218 vs. 185 minutes, P<0.001), and onset to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (307 vs. 243 minutes, P<0.001) were significantly delayed in women. …”
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Visual analysis of the research frontiers, hotspots and development trends of immunization programs for women and children by Jiachen Zhang, Yani Zhang, Litao Zhang, Jiaxing Wang, Xinheng Qu, Mu Li, Ruochen Zhang, Bo Zhang, Yuqing Zhang, Jianping Zhou

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A 10-year review of isoniazid-resistant TB management in Uzbekistan 2009-2020 by M.L. Rekart, P. Thit, M. Oluya, S. Moe, T. Hasan, N. Parpieva, K. Safaev, A. Khristusev, T. Zinaida, J. Singh, S. Allamuratova, I. Azamat, C.G. Restrepo, N. Sitali, J. Achar, J.L. Alvaraez, A. Sinha

“…Unsuccessful outcomes were more common with older age, diabetes, chest X-ray cavities, smear positivity, smear-positive persistence, and male sex. …”
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Lipoprotein Particle Predictors of Arterial Stiffness after 17 Years of Follow Up: The Malmö Diet and Cancer Study by Jacob Hartz, Ronald M. Krauss, Mikael Göttsater, Olle Melander, Peter Nilsson, Michele Mietus-Snyder

“…Associations between c-fPWV and lipoprotein particles were determined with multiple linear regression, controlling for sex, presence of diabetes, waist-to-hip circumference, and smoking status at baseline, as well as heart rate (measured at the carotid artery), mean arterial pressure, antihypertensive and lipid-lowering medications, C-reactive protein (CRP), and age at the time of c-fPWV measurement. …”
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Protective Effects of Two Safflower Derived Compounds, Kaempferol and Hydroxysafflor Yellow A, on Hyperglycaemic Stress-Induced Podocyte Apoptosis via Modulating of Macrophage M1/M... by Yuanping Li, Dan Zheng, Dayue Shen, Xilan Zhang, Xiaoyun Zhao, Hui Liao

“…The primary initiating mechanism in diabetes nephropathy (DN) is hyperglycemia-induced inflammation in which macrophage and podocyte play important roles. …”
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Clinical Risk Factors for Gastroduodenal Ulcer in Romanian Low-Dose Aspirin Consumers by Anca Negovan, Mihaela Iancu, Valeriu Moldovan, Septimiu Voidazan, Simona Bataga, Monica Pantea, Kinga Sarkany, Cristina Tatar, Simona Mocan, Claudia Banescu

“…In univariate analysis, factors significantly associated with ulcers were male gender (p=0.001), anticoagulants (p=0.029), nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (p=0.013), heart failure (p=0.007), liver (p=0.011) or cerebrovascular disease (p=0.004), diabetes mellitus (p=0.043), ulcer history (p=0.044), and alcohol consumption (p=0.018), but not Helicobacter pylori infection (p=0.2). …”
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Age, creatinine, and ejection fraction score is a risk factor for acute kidney injury after surgical aortic valve replacement by Tingting Wu, Rui Li, Jing Chen, Xiaqiu Tian, Ran Zhang, Xiaotong Hou

“…There was a significantly higher prevalence of older age, higher body mass index (BMI), and diabetes mellitus in the AKI group. Previous use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors/angiotensin receptor blocker (ACEI/ARB) and β-blocker, intake and output volumes within 24 h, mechanical ventilation time, length of intensive care unit and hospital stay, baseline creatinine, baseline, 24 h, and 48 h estimated glomerular filtration rate were strongly associated with the incidence of AKI. …”
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