Effectiveness of Outpatient Chronic Pain Management for Middle-Aged Patients by Internet Hospitals: Retrospective Cohort Study by Ling Sang, Bixin Zheng, Xianzheng Zeng, Huizhen Liu, Qing Jiang, Maotong Liu, Chenyu Zhu, Maoying Wang, Zengwei Yi, Keyu Song, Li Song

“…During the first and last patient visits, information on outcome variables such as the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI), medical satisfaction, medical costs, and adverse drug events was obtained through a telephone follow-up. …”
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Patients’ preferences for health insurance coverage of new technologies for treating chronic diseases in China: a discrete choice experiment by Jinsong Geng, Xiaowei Chen, Haini Bao, Danmin Qian, Yuting Shao, Hao Yu

“…After conducting the DCE, we analysed the data by mixed logit regression to examine patient-reported preferences for each attribute.Setting The DCE was conducted with patients in six tertiary hospitals from four cities in Jiangsu province.Participants Patients aged 18 years or older with a history of diabetes or hypertension and taking medications regularly for more than 1 year were recruited (n=408).Results The technology attributes regarding expected gains in health outcomes from the treatment, high likelihood of effective treatment and low incidence of serious adverse events were significant, positive predictors of choice by the study patients (p<0.01). …”
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Impact of Coronary Artery Disease and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation by Anthony G. Matta, Thibault Lhermusier, Francisco Campelo Parada, Frederic Bouisset, Ronan Canitrot, Vanessa Nader, Stéphanie Blanco, Meyer Elbaz, Jerome Roncalli, Didier Carrié

“…The difference in terms of the distribution of antithrombotic regimen may explain the higher prevalence of bleeding events in the PCI-TAVI group. Conclusion. This study provides direct clinical relevance useful in daily practice. …”
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Intracranial otogenic complications in adults: new factors that influenced its onset, frequency and nature by Małgorzata Wierzbicka, Michalina Staśkiewicz, Oskar Rosiak, Katarzyna Karmelita-Katulska, Witold Szyfter, Wojciech Gawęcki

“…Conclusions Despite the published data which suggest that CVST is a rare event associated with COVID-19 infection, based on our experience, CVST can be expected as a frequent component of intracranial otogenic complications during COVID-19 pandemic time. …”
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Methylation and Expression of Retinoblastoma and Transforming Growth Factor-β1 Genes in Epstein-Barr Virus-Associated and -Negative Gastric Carcinomas by Xia Liu, Xiuming Tang, Shaoyan Zhang, Yun Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Chengquan Zhao, Bing Luo

“…Methylation of RB is a common event in gastric carcinomas and EBV induces methylation of RB in EBVaGC, which may contribute to the development of gastric carcinomas. …”
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Open-label randomised clinical trial investigating whether robot-assisted kidney transplantation can reduce surgical complications compared to open kidney transplantation (ORAKTx):... by Milla Ortved, Julia Dagnæs-Hansen, Hein V. Stroomberg, Thomas Kistorp, Malene Rohrsted, Søren Schwartz Sørensen, Andreas Røder

“…Function of the kidney graft is not only dependent on medical factors but also on a complication-free surgical procedure. In the event of major surgical complications, the kidney graft is potentially lost and the patient will return to the waiting list which may be long. …”
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Role of Dolutegravir/Lamivudine in the Management of Pregnant People Living with HIV-1: A Narrative Review by William R. Short, Parul Patel, Gustavo Verdier, Ana Puga, Vani Vannappagari, Annemiek de Ruiter, Bryn Jones

“…Two studies evaluated DTG/3TC during pregnancy and both reported high virologic suppression rates [HIV-1 ribonucleic acid (RNA) < 50 copies/mL at delivery: 97% (30/31) overall], no events of vertical transmission, and no new safety signals, consistent with the use of DTG-based 3-drug regimens in pregnancy. …”
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Downregulation of serum miR-30c-5p serves as a biomarker to predict disease onset and short-term prognosis in acute coronary syndrome patients by Bo Chang, Xiangfeng Zhang, Riliang Fang, Huibin Li, Youdan Zhou, Yakun Wang

“…Furthermore, the prognostic value of miR-30c-5p on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events (MACE) occurrence was assessed by the Kaplan-Meier (K-M) curve to evaluate its prognostic significance. …”
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Immunonutrition for traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Linan Zeng, Lingli Zhang, Hailong Li, Rong Peng, Lijun Yang, Xinwei Chen, Zhenyan Bo

“…Outcomes of interest include the length of hospital stay, wound infections, all-cause mortality, non-wound infection, including pneumonia, urinary tract infection and bacteraemia, and the reports adverse events. Duration of follow-up has no restriction. …”
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Differences of simulated ankle dorsiflexion limitation on lower extremity biomechanics during long jump takeoff by Zanni Zhang, Datao Xu, Xiangli Gao, Huiyu Zhou, Julien S. Baker, Zsolt Radak, Yaodong Gu

“…The long jump is an athletic event that demands speed, power, force application, and balance, with each phase being critical to overall performance. …”
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Genetic differentiation and historical dynamics of the endemic species Rheum pumilum on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau inferred from phylogeography implications by Shuliang Liu, Jianxin Gao, Bo Xiao, Wenjie Guo, Qiushi Yu, Ailan Wang, Weiwei Li

“…Conclusion These findings suggest a correlation between genetic diversity, haplotype lineage divergence and key geological and climatic events, notably the uplift of the QTP, monsoon climate changes, and the climatic oscillations during the Quaternary ice ages. …”
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Prognostic and diagnostic accuracy of intracoronary electrocardiogram recorded during percutaneous coronary intervention: a meta-analysis by Jun Fan, Weijie Li, Yizhi Pan, Jialin He, Jiankai Huang, Pingan Chen

“…The pooled ORs with 95% CIs of ST-segment elevation recorded by IC-ECG were 4.65 (1.69 to 12.77), 5.08 (1.10 to 23.44), 4.53 (0.79 to 25.90) and 1.83 (0.93 to 3.62) for major adverse cardiac events, myocardial infarction, cardiac death and revascularisation, respectively. …”
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Dynamics and drivers of the carbonate system: response to terrestrial runoff and upwelling along the Northeastern Colombian Caribbean coast by Constanza Ricaurte-Villota, Magnolia Murcia-Riaño, José Martín Hernádez-Ayón

“…Taylor series decomposition analysis identified TA and DIC as primary drivers of carbonate system variability, modulated by seasonal and interannual changes in rainfall and river runoff, which are influenced by ENSO events. The observed trends in pH and pCO2 were driven by a decrease in DIC and TA, attributed to increased river runoff, contrasting with typical ocean acidification trends driven by rising atmospheric CO2 levels.DiscussionThis highlights the region's unique dynamics and underscores the importance of local studies. …”
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The Great Vietnamese Famine of 1944-45 Revisited by Geoffrey Gunn

“…Outside of Vietnam, very few articles or studies have sought to contextualize this event, whether from the side of Vietnamese history, or from the perspective of Japanese and/or French and American responsibility. …”
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Anisotropic compressive deformation behavior of hot-rolled Mg-3Al-0.5Ce alloy by Prakash C. Gautam, Somjeet Biswas

“…The presence of Al11Ce3 intermetallics delayed the ET nucleation event, which initiates at ε∼0.018. The ET fraction evolves to ∼0.85, lower than in the previous works on single phase Mg alloy. …”
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Endovascular Treatment and Outcomes for Femoropopliteal In-Stent Restenosis: Insights from the XLPAD Registry by Michael H. Vu, Glaiza-Mae Sande-Docor, Yulun Liu, Shirling Tsai, Mitul Patel, Chris Metzger, Mehdi H. Shishehbor, Emmanouil S. Brilakis, Nicolas W. Shammas, Peter Monteleone, Subhash Banerjee

“…Primary endpoint included major adverse limb events (MALE) at 1 year, a composite of all-cause death, target limb repeat revascularization, or major amputation. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Murivenna Anal Infiltration Compared to Diltiazem Topical Application in Chronic Anal Fissure: Protocol for a Prospective, Randomized, Open-Label Clinical Tr... by Pratap Shankar KM, Indu Puthan Purayil, Palengara Binitha, Amit Kumar Rai, Sophia Jameela, Azeem Ahmad, Chandra Sekhara Rao Bhogavalli, Narayanam Srikanth, Rabinarayan Acharya

“…The secondary outcomes will be the proportion of participants demonstrating complete healing after 7 days and 14 days of treatment, change in pain at or after defecation, cessation of bleeding, and any recurrence during the study period. Any adverse events will also be recorded during the trial period. …”
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PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY CRISIS EXPERIENCE BY TEACHERS by N. O. Sadovnikova, F. Zannoni

“…In the course of the analysis of the results of the pilot research, it was established that there are the following psychological peculiarities experienced by the teachers in the professional crisis: changes in the meanings of the performed activity and revaluation of values; uncertainty of temporal professional perspective (or lack thereof); falling interest in pedagogical activities; lack of self-actualization; frustration; inability to control the events of own life. However, for many teachers, the experience of a professional crisis is accompanied by a reflection of the content of professional activity, the need for reflection of own experiences and states, finding new semantic reference points, perception of own professional prospect. …”
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Tumor tissue samples collection for scientific research in morphology and molecular oncology by O. R. Khabarov, B. D. Seferov, K. A. Aliev, D. V. Zima, E. P. Golubinskaya, E. Yu. Zyablitskaya

“…When working with biocollections, it has to consider having registers of tissue biomaterials of target disorder groups of main localizations with downloading by year from an accessible information system, consider external factors affecting the database (changes in clinical recommendations and classifications, the population of patients served, pandemics and other significant events). The standard of the preanalytical stage, data collection, development of protocols for analytical molecular genetic studies and their evaluation, the utilization of the capabilities of working with reagents for scientific tasks and modeling experiments on laboratory animals are crucial.Conclusion. …”
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Sodium‐glucose cotransporter‐2 inhibitors in heart failure: an updated meta‐analysis by Yang Cao, Pengxiao Li, Yi Li, Yaling Han

“…SGLT2i can reduce the risk of total HHF or CV death (HR = 0.74, 95%CI = 0.68–0.81), first HHF (HR = 0.69, 95%CI = 0.64–0.75), CV death (HR = 0.88, 95%CI = 0.80–0.96), any death (HR = 0.90, 95%CI = 0.83–0.97), and any serious events (HR = 0.90, 95%CI = 0.87–0.93) in HF patients, at the cost of increased risk of urinary tract infections (risk ratio = 1.17, 95%CI = 1.03–1.33). …”
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