Patients with symptoms of delayed gastric emptying have a high prevalence of oesophageal dysmotility, irrespective of scintigraphic evidence of gastroparesis by George Triadafilopoulos, John O Clarke, Linda Nguyen

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Peripheral Arterial Disease and Its Associated Factors among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients at Debre Tabor General Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia by Yonas Akalu, Ambaye Birhan

“…Peripheral arterial disease (PAD), one of the major macrovascular complications of diabetes, is associated with cardiovascular mortality and a high rate of disability following the amputation of an extremity in diabetes patients. …”
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COVID-19 encephalopathy with severe neurological symptoms: a clinical case presentation with literature review by G. Baranauskienė, N. Tutlienė, G. Kaubrys

“…Encephalopathy is singled out as one of the most severe complications of the central nervous system caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus and associated with longer duration of the disease, increased disability, and mortality. Acute encephalopathy is a disorder of the brain that clinically occurs with a sudden change in the level of consciousness in otherwise healthy patients before the onset of symptoms. …”
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Households Sociodemographic Profile as Predictors of Health Insurance Uptake and Service Utilization: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Municipality of Ghana by Eric Badu, Peter Agyei-Baffour, Isaac Ofori Acheampong, Maxwell Preprah Opoku, Kwasi Addai-Donkor

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Altered Macular Vasculature in Migraine Patients without Aura: Is It Associated with Ocular Vasculature and White Matter Hyperintensities? by Nurdan Gamze Taşlı, Alevtina Ersoy

“…Visual evoked potentials (VEP) were recorded in all migraine patients. The migraine disability assessment (MIDAS) questionnaire was administered to all patients. …”
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Validity and reliability International Classification of Diseases-10 codes for all forms of injury: A systematic review. by Sarah Paleczny, Nosakhare Osagie, Jai Sethi, Michael Cusimano

“…<h4>Background</h4>Intentional and unintentional injuries are a leading cause of death and disability globally. International Classification of Diseases (ICD), Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes are used to classify injuries in administrative health data and are widely used for health care planning and delivery, research, and policy. …”
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Serum Sclerostin as a Possible Biomarker in Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Case-Control Study by Fabio Massimo Perrotta, Fulvia Ceccarelli, Cristiana Barbati, Tania Colasanti, Antonia De Socio, Silvia Scriffignano, Cristiano Alessandri, Ennio Lubrano

“…However, no significant correlations were found between serum sclerostin levels and radiographic damage, assessed by mSASSS, and between serum sclerostin levels and clinical indices of activity and disability or with laboratory parameters. Sclerostin levels did not show significant changes after 4 months of anti-TNF therapy. …”
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Clinical Outcomes of Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion in the Treatment of Adult Degenerative Scoliosis by Adam M. Caputo, Keith W. Michael, Todd M. Chapman, Gene M. Massey, Cameron R. Howes, Robert E. Isaacs, Christopher R. Brown

“…The study group demonstrated improvement in multiple clinical outcome scores. Oswestry Disability Index scores improved from 24.8 to 19.0 (P < 0.001). …”
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Percutaneous Vertebroplasty and Facet Blocking for Treating Back Pain Caused by Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fracture by Yongquan Cheng, Xiaoliang Wu, Jiawei Shi, Hui Jiang

“…Back pain was evaluated with Visual Analog Scale (VAS) and Oswestry Disability Index (ODI). The operation, fluoroscopic exposure time, and bone cement leakage were recorded. …”
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Spondylolisthesis and Scoliosis Progression and Associated Revision Rates Following Bilateral Lumbar Spine Microscopic Decompression by Walter-Soon-Yaw Wong, Ashton Kai Shun Tan, Kenneth Zhi Kuan Loi, Dhivakaran Gengatharan, Craigven Hao Sheng Sim, Hao Bin Chen, Yilun Huang

“…Secondary outcomes were revision rates, changes in Visual Analog Scores (bVAS/lVAS), and Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) scores, collected preoperatively and 1-2 years postoperatively. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of pancreatic cancer from 1990 to 2021, its attributable risk factors, and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the global burden of... by Tianyu Li, Chen Lin, Weibin Wang

“…This study examines global and regional trends in pancreatic cancer incidence, Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), and mortality from 1990 to 2021, utilizing data from the most recent Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021 database. …”
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Effect of Nebivolol and Olmesartan on 24-Hour Brachial and Aortic Blood Pressure in the Acute Stage of Ischemic Stroke by Eleni Georgianou, Panagiotis I. Georgianos, Konstantinos Petidis, Konstantinos Markakis, Ioanna Zografou, Asterios Karagiannis

“…Elevated blood pressure (BP) in the acute phase of ischemic stroke is associated with heightened risk of early disability and death. However, whether BP-lowering in this setting is beneficial and the exact levels at which BP should be targeted remain unclear. …”
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Effectiveness of interventions for middle-aged and ageing population with neck pain: a systematic review and network meta-analysis protocol by Alison B Rushton, Nicola R Heneghan, Taweewat Wiangkham, Uchukarn Boonyapo, Piyameth Dilokthornsakul, Nattawan Phungwattanakul

“…Any interventions and outcome measures detailed within The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health domains will be included. Two independent reviewers will search key databases (AMED, CENTRAL, CINAHL, Embase, MEDLINE, PEDro and PsycINFO), grey literature, key journals and reference lists in May 2022. …”
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Whole Exome Sequencing Reveals Compound Heterozygosity for Ethnically Distinct PEX7 Mutations Responsible for Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata, Type 1 by Jessie C. Jacobsen, Emma Glamuzina, Juliet Taylor, Brendan Swan, Shona Handisides, Callum Wilson, Michael Fietz, Tessa van Dijk, Bart Appelhof, Rosamund Hill, Rosemary Marks, Donald R. Love, Stephen P. Robertson, Russell G. Snell, Klaus Lehnert

“…We describe two brothers who presented at birth with bone growth abnormalities, followed by development of increasingly severe intellectual and physical disability, growth restriction, epilepsy, and cerebellar and brain stem atrophy, but normal ocular phenotypes. …”
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Prevention and treatment of recurrent fractures after percutaneous vertebroplasty with denosumab in patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures by Shouyu Xiang, Cheng Tang, Long Ling, Wei Liu, Bingwen Bai, Yanming Cao

“…[Methods] A total of 72 patients diagnosed with osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture and treated by percutaneous vertebroplasty in the orthopedic department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University from January 2022 to December 2022 were selected as the study subjects.Patients were randomly divided into two groups, each had 36 cases.The control group received conventional anti-osteoporosis treatment, and the observation group added denosumab on the basis of control group treatment.Both groups were followed for 1 year, while the fracture rate and the levels of bone mineral density(BMD), visual analogue scale(VAS) score, oswestry disability index(ODI), beck value, sagittal cobb angle and procollagen type ⅠN-terminal propeptid(PINP) and β-carboxy-terminal cross-linked telopeptide of type Ⅰ collagen(β-CTX) were compared between the two groups. …”
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Factors Associated with Serious Injuries among Adolescents in Ghana: Findings from 2012 Global School Health Survey by Martin Ackah, Mohammed Gazali Salifu, Hosea Boakye

“…Injuries are of public health concern and the leading cause of residual disability and death among teenagers, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). …”
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Impairment of Microcirculation Parameters in Patients with a History of Diabetic Foot Ulcers by Julien Vouillarmet, Audrey Josset-Lamaugarny, Myriam Moret, Christine Cugnet-Anceau, Paul Michon, Emmanuel Disse, Dominique Sigaudo-Roussel

“…<i>Results</i>: There was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of age, diabetes duration, transcutaneous oxygen pressure level, skin microcirculatory reactivity, neuropathy disability score, neuropathy symptom score, or thermal sensitivity. …”
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Efficacy of acupuncture for primary osteoporosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Tianyi Ma, Tiantian Zhang, Le Zhang, Haoming Zhao, Ke Liu, Jianjun Kuang, Liang Ou

“…The outcomes included bone mineral density (BMD), visual analogue scale (VAS) scores, clinical effectiveness rate, estradiol (E2), Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), and levels of serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP). …”
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Short-Term Postoperative Pain and Function of Unilateral Biportal Endoscopic Discectomy versus Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy for Single-Segment Lumbar Disc Herniation:... by Weihao Zhu, Yu Yao, Jie Hao, Wenbin Li, Feng Zhang

“…Computer searches of PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, CNKI, and Wanfang databases were performed to search for studies on UBE versus PELD for single-segment lumbar disc herniation (ssLDH) from the time of database construction to Mar. 2022, and two investigators independently performed literature screening and data extraction, and evaluation of the quality of the included studies was observed as operation time, complications, and visual analogue scale (VAS) at each preoperative and postoperative stage as well as Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), and meta-analysis was performed by applying the Review Manager 5.4 software. …”
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可穿戴设备在卒中风险预测及卒中后管理中的应用进展 Research Progress on the Application of Wearable Devices in Stroke Risk Prediction and Post-Stroke Management... by 吴雅婷1，魏宸铭1，桑振华1，陈乐1，梁怡凡1，武剑1，2，3 (WU Yating1, WEI Chenming1, SANG Zhenhua1, CHEN Le1, LIANG Yifan1, WU Jian1,2,3)

“…Abstract: Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Traditional monitoring and management approaches can no longer meet the growing health management needs of high-risk groups and patients with stroke. …”
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