Liver Transplant From a Deceased Donor With Cystinosis: A Case Report by Raeda Taj, Kim Ng, Sanmati R. Cuddapah, Elizabeth B. Rand, Melissa Bleicher, Sandra Amaral, Maarouf A. Hoteit, Rajendar K. Reddy, Eyob Feyssa, Emma E. Furth, Kim M. Olthoff, Samir Abu‐Gazala, Matthew H. Levine, Frederick Vyas, Peter L. Abt

“…The liver was successfully transplanted into a 65‐year‐old female recipient with hepatitis C (HCV) cirrhosis. …”
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Primary HIV Drug Resistance among Recently Infected Cases of HIV in North-West India by C. K. Chauhan, P. V. M. Lakshmi, V. Sagar, A. Sharma, S. K. Arora, R. Kumar

“…The proportion of primary drug resistance was 22.2% (2/9) among female sex workers, 14.3% (1/7) among men having sex with men, and 14.3% (3/21) among injecting drug users. …”
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Stress factors among physiotherapy students at a university in Gauteng, South Africa by Zander I. Collins, Chané Siepker, Kelebogile J. Ralehlaka, Boitshoko C. Molefe, Tiisetso C. Phala, Simphiwe A. Vilankulu, Makwena M. Sibuyi, Thembelihle S. Ntuli

“…However, attention needs to be directed to female students to develop emotional self-efficacy skills. …”
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Evaluation of the Management of Patients with Detectable Viral Load after the Implementation of Routine Viral Load Monitoring in an Urban HIV Clinic in Uganda by Nsumba Steven Mark, Musomba Rachel, Arvind Kaimal, Mubiru Frank, Tibakabikoba Harriet, Lwanga Isaac, Mohammed Lamorde, Castelnuovo Barbara

“…Of the 100 (10.1%) clinical files sampled, 61% were female, median age was 39 years (IQR: 32–47), 81% were on 1st-line ART, 19% on 2nd-line, median CD4 count was 249 cells/µL (IQR: 145–390), median log10 VL 4.42 (IQR: 3.98–4.92). …”
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Exploring the Determinants of Long-Term Physical Activity Maintainenance from a Maintainers Perspective: What do they say? by Livia Kellerhals, Claudio R. Nigg

“…Methods A constructivist grounded theory approach was employed to explore the phenomenon through obtaining the information from the PA maintainers themselves (n=10; mean age=39 (SD=16) years old; 60% female; mean moderate-to vigorous PA=567 (SD=670) min/week; mean strength training 2.6 times per week at 57 min per time; PAM mean=16.5 (SD=10.6, range=5-35) years; 50% rural, 20% agglomeration, 30% urban). …”
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Bloodstream infections at a tertiary hospital in the Gambia - a one-year retrospective study by Paul Rahden, Ebrima Barrow, Haddy Bah, Sheikh Omar Bittaye, David Nygren, Abdoulie Badjan

“…The median age was 3 years (interquartile range 0–31 years) and 46% were female. The most common pathogens were Staphylococcus aureus 106/260 (41%), Klebsiella spp. 41/260 (16%), other bacteria within the Enterobacterales order 33/260 (13%), Pseudomonas spp. 22/260 (8%) and Acinetobacter spp. 19/260 (7%). …”
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Assessment of Antibiotic Resistance and Efflux Pump Gene Expression in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Isolates from South Africa by Quantitative Real-Time PCR and Regression Analysis by Nireshni Mitchev, Ravesh Singh, Veron Ramsuran, Arshad Ismail, Mushal Allam, Stanford Kwenda, Florah Mnyameni, Nigel Garrett, Khine Swe Swe-Han, Abraham J. Niehaus, Koleka P. Mlisana

“…N. gonorrhoeae isolates, from female and male patients presenting for care at clinics in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, were analysed. …”
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Impact of a Virtual Reality Intervention on Stigma, Empathy, and Attitudes Toward Patients With Psychotic Disorders Among Mental Health Care Professionals: Randomized Controlled Tr... by Jing Ling Tay, Yuanrong Qu, Lucas Lim, Rohan Puthran, Chye Lee Robert Tan, Rajkirren Rajendran, Ker Chiah Wei, Huiting Xie, Kang Sim

“…In addition, certain outcome measures were positively associated with specific factors including female gender, higher education level, certain job roles, years of work, and presence of loved ones with a mental disorder. …”
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Breastfeeding Practices and Food Consumption of Socially Vulnerable Children by Natália A. Oliveira, Nathalia Pizato, Érika S. O. Patriota, Ariene S. do Carmo, Gabriela Buccini, Vivian S. S. Gonçalves

“…A total of 301 children were assessed, 51.16% of whom were female. In 58.99% of households, the reference person was the mother; 86.20% were unemployed, and 27.08% had a low education degree. …”
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Prevalence and influencing factors of non-suicidal self-injurious behaviour among Chinese college students: a Meta-analysis by TAO Silu, MAO Guoju, XIONG Yi, GUO Mengjia, WU Dongmei

“…The prevalence of NSSI among Chinese college students was 14.3%[95%CI(12.2%, 16.5%)]. Female [OR=0.83, 95%CI(0.78, 0.89)], neutral personality [OR=0.76, 95%CI(0.69, 0.83)], extroverted personality [OR=0.75, 95%CI(0.68, 0.82)] were the protective factors for the prevalence of NSSI in Chinese college students. …”
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Cryoballoon ablation for atrial fibrillation in South Africa: One-year outcome from the Cryo Global Registry by A Stanley, K A van Bragt, V Obidigbo, B Vezi

“…Participants in the SA cohort were a mean (standard deviation) of 60 (12) years old, 19 (23.5%) were female, and 48 (59.3%) presented with PAF. The overall presence of baseline comorbidities in the SA cohort was relatively low compared with the entire Cryo Global Registry cohort. …”
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Prevalence and association of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and insulin resistance among non-diabetic obese, overweight, and metabolically obese normal-weight adult patients at... by Samik Pramanik, Jimmy Barua, Lokanathan V, Sharmistha Roy

“…Results: The mean age (mean± standard deviation) of the patients was 36.91±11.01 years with a range of 18–67 years. 53 (38.7%) and 84 (61.3%) of the patients were male and female, respectively. Out of the 137 patients, 73 (53.3%) of patients had NAFLD. …”
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Participant Experiences in the Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young Study: Common Reasons for Withdrawing by Barbro Lernmark, Kristian Lynch, Judith Baxter, Roswith Roth, Tuula Simell, Laura Smith, Ulrica Swartling, Suzanne Bennett Johnson, TEDDY Study Group

“…The blood draw was more common among female participants; being too busy was more common among males. …”
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Experience with the implementation of central venous catheters by medical oncologists in a non-surgical setting by Alfonso Revuelta, Luka Mihic, Alfredo Castillo, Axel Mariño, Lucía Mateos, Claudia Iglesias, Carmen Sáenz de Jubera, Cristina Fernández, David Rodríguez-Rubí, Paula Jiménez-Fonseca, José Pablo Berros, Emilio Esteban

“…From January 2015 to March 2019, five hundred port systems were implanted, with a median age of 62 years (range 18–81), male 286/female 214. Most patients had a digestive tumor (79.4%). …”
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Symptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerosis in an Australian Context: Common and Underdiagnosed in Multiple Ethnic Groups by Davor Pavlin‐Premrl, Michael Waters, Vincent Thijs, Peter J. Mitchell, Nawaf Yassi, Mark W. Parsons, Louise Weir, Lauren Pesavento, Julian Maingard, Geoffrey Cloud, Vimal Stanislaus, Mei Ngun, Bruce C.V. Campbell

“…Results Of 1328 patients included (mean age, 73 years; 43% female), the proportion of patients with centrally read symptomatic ICAD was 14%, of whom 39% were diagnosed by the stroke clinical team and 65% by the reporting radiologist. …”
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Relationship between caries indexes and obesity in a sample of Puerto Rican adolescents by Lydia M. Lopez del Valle, Mariely Nieves-Plaza, Sona Rivas-Tumanyan, Rosana Hanke-Herrero

“…Statistical analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistics.ResultsNearly 60% of the sample population was female, with a mean age of 15.7 (±1.25). The mean BMI percentile was 72.24 (±28.78); 48.66% of the participants had a healthy weight, 19.79% were overweight, and 30.48% were obese. …”
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Multi-disciplinary treatment of broncho-esophageal fistula in a high-risk single-lung patient by Rune Haaverstad, Kjell Ovrebo, Lorentz Sandvik, Håvard Seland, Gunnar Reksten Husebø, Vegard Skalstad Ellensen, Marit Farstad, Eivind Strandenes, Rajinder Sharma, Marianne Øksnes, Anders Kjellevold Storesund, Solveig Moss Kolseth

“…Case presentation BEF presented in a 40-year-old female patient 8 years after curative treatment with pneumonectomy and radio-chemotherapy for advanced lung cancer. …”
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Imaging the large‐scale and cellular response to focal traumatic brain injury in mouse neocortex by Yelena Bibineyshvili, Thomas J. Vajtay, Shiva Salsabilian, Nicholas Fliss, Aastha Suvarnakar, Jennifer Fang, Shavonne Teng, Janet Alder, Laleh Najafizadeh, David J. Margolis

“…We used in vivo calcium imaging in awake, head‐restrained male and female mice to measure large‐scale and cellular resolution neuronal activation, respectively, in response to a mild/moderate TBI induced by focal controlled cortical impact (CCI) injury of the motor cortex (M1). …”
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Effect of natural accelerated growth in the per- formance of buffalo calves in a dual-purpose production system by Luis Mantilla, Omar Castellano, Rubiela Rodríguez

“…The weaning average weight in T1 was 134 Kg for females and 141 Kg for males. In T2, females reached 192 Kg and males 206 Kg. …”
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Is Weight Loss the Main Driver for A1C Improvement by Glucagon‐Like Peptide 1 (GLP‐1) Receptor Agonists? A 2.5‐Year Analysis in Real‐World Clinical Practice by Marwa Al‐Badri, Shilton Dhaver, Osama Hamdy

“…Baseline characteristics included an average age of 61.8 ± 11.9 years, 51.5% female, diabetes duration of 12.9 ± 8.3 years, weight of 103.1 ± 20.7 kg, BMI of 35.7 ± 7.5 kg/m2, and A1C of 8.2% ± 1.5%. …”
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