NT-Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Levels in Infants with Failure to Thrive due to Caloric Deprivation by L. B. Mänhardt, K. Norozi, C. Müller, C. Willaschek, B. Kostuch, R. Buchhorn

“…We analyzed the impact of nutritional state on N-BNP levels in infants with failure to thrive (FTT) and in infants with severe heart failure (HF). The purpose of this study was to compare N-BNP levels in infants with FTT with infants with severe HF and healthy controls. …”
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Inter- Not Intraindividual Differences in sTWEAK Levels Predict Functional Deterioration and Mortality in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy by Kai-Uwe Jarr, Manfred Nelles, Hugo A. Katus, Emmanuel Chorianopoulos

“…Soluble TWEAK levels predicted not only a combined mortality/heart transplantation endpoint after 4 years (P=0.0001), but also the risk for clinical deterioration (P=0.0001). …”
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‘Superfluous people’ at the turn of the era: Culture of utilization or culture of development? by L. G. Fishman

“…The first strategy places the struggle for rent at the heart of all social and political activities, which implies distribution of benefits according to one’s social status rather than economic productivity. …”
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Investigation of rs1746661 Polymorphism in FNDC5 Gene in Obese Patients by Elham Hadi, Hashem Nayeri, Ali Mohammad Ahadi, Ziba Rezvani Sichani

“…FNDC5 is a glycosylated membrane protein that is highly expressed in the heart, brain, and skeletal muscle tissues in mice. …”
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Prevalence and Pattern of Morbidity Triads among the Elderly Population: A Cross-sectional Study in Bankura District, West Bengal by Ujjwal Das, Nishamani Kar

“…The highest prevalence of triad morbidity among the elderly was arthritis, hypertension, and heart disease (79.6%), followed by diabetes, hypertension, and depression (78%). …”
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Psoriatic Arthritis Is an Indicator of Significant Renal Damage in Patients with Psoriasis: An Observational and Epidemiological Study by Abidullah Khan, Iqbal Haider, Maimoona Ayub, Mohammad Humayun

“…Recent studies have demonstrated an increased risk of essential hypertension, ischemic heart disease, and stroke in psoriatic patients. …”
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Effects of Exercise in Immersive Virtual Environments on Cortical Neural Oscillations and Mental State by Tobias Vogt, Rainer Herpers, Christopher D. Askew, David Scherfgen, Heiko K. Strüder, Stefan Schneider

“…Each trial was 5 minutes in duration and was followed by posttrial assessments of heart rate, perceived sense of presence, EEG, and mental state. …”
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Waist Circumference as Measure of Abdominal Fat Compartments by Scott M. Grundy, Ian J. Neeland, Aslan T. Turer, Gloria Lena Vega

“…This study examines intercorrelations among waist circumference (WC), intraperitoneal fat (IPF), and subcutaneous abdominal fat (SAF) in ethnically diverse Dallas Heart Study consisting of 1538 women and 1212 men (50% Black). …”
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How Much Do They Know? Determination of Knowledge about Harmful Effects of Smoking and Alcohol Use in University Students and the Predictors of Substance Use: A Cross-Sectional Stu... by Hatice Kübra Barcın Güzeldere, Gülin Öztürk Özkan, Berna Dincer

“…Smoking and alcohol consumption have a significant share in the occurrence of chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular heart disease. This study aims to evaluate university students’ level of knowledge on the harmful effects of smoking and alcohol use on health and determine the predictors of smoking and alcohol use. …”
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Case Report: Left ventricular assist device implantation combined with cryoballoon ablation for ventricular tachycardia by Shuang Zhang, Jianming Li, Changming Tan, Mingxian Chen, Lin Hu, Hanze Tang, Liyi Liao, Xuping Li

“…Due to worsening cardiac function, the patient required surgical implantation of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) as a bridge to heart transplantation. During the procedure, we used the Ensite three-dimensional mapping system to perform activation and substrate mapping of the VT targets, followed by endocardial and epicardial cryoballoon ablation of clinical VT. …”
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Evaluation of adipocytokines and oxidative stress biomarkers in sera of hemodialysis patients by Shahad F. Obeid, Israa Abass Rashed, Mohammed S. Al-Hindawi

“…In conclusion, adipocytokine parameters and oxidative stress markers have been found to be abnormal in hemodialysis patients and have an effect on atherosclerosis and heart failure progression. [ J Adv Biotechnol Exp Ther 2025; 8(1.000): 79-90]…”
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Asymptomatic migration of ureteral stent to superior vena cava after ultrasound-guided percutaneous nephrolithotomy: An extremely rare case and review of the literature by Amir Hossein Hassani, Hooman Kamran, Javad Kojuri, Helia Bazroodi, Hossein Fatemian, Alireza Rasekhi, Nima Naderi, Saeed Kooshafar, Anahita Dehghani, Abdolreza Haghpanah

“…The stent passed through the heart and extended to the superior vena cava and right brachiocephalic vein. …”
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Risk factor of postoperative pulmonary complications after colorectal cancer surgery: an analysis of nationwide inpatient sample by Liping Huang, Junli Luo, Yifan Wang, Lu Gan, Nuo Xu, Jinzi Chen, Cai Li

“…Our study found that age, gender, number of comorbidities, type and location of hospital, and certain preoperative comorbidities, such as fluid and electrolyte disorders (odd ratio [OR] 2.53), coagulopathy (OR 2.16), congestive heart failure (OR 1.91), and chronic pulmonary disease (OR 1.57) were the risk factors of PPCs. …”
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A Turner Syndrome Patient Carrying a Mosaic Distal X Chromosome Marker by Roberto L. P. Mazzaschi, Juliet Taylor, Stephen P. Robertson, Donald R. Love, Alice M. George

“…Similar Turner mosaic marker chromosome cases have been previously reported in the literature, with a variable phenotype ranging from the mild “classic” Turner syndrome to anencephaly, agenesis of the corpus callosum, complex heart malformation, and syndactyly of the fingers and toes. …”
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Application prospect of speckle tracking echocardiography in pacemaker implantation by Nan Xu, Xiaoping Cheng, Lei Ren, Quan Yuan

“…Several potential risk factors for heart failure and arrhythmias after pacemaker surgery have been identified, but their occurrence remains difficult to predict clinically. …”
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Swirling Flow and Wall Shear: Evaluating the BioMimics 3D Helical Centerline Stent for the Femoropopliteal Segment by Timothy M. Sullivan, Thomas Zeller, Masato Nakamura, Colin G. Caro, Michael Lichtenberg

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Terroir and farming practices drive arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in French vineyards by Patricia Battie-Laclau, Adrien Taudière, Mathilde Bernard, Lucas Bodénan, Myriam Duchemin, Yvan de Roman, Azimê Yol, Dominique Barry-Etienne

“…BackgroundNature-based management of vineyards is at the heart of a sustainable development for the next decades. …”
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Olabiyi Babalola J. Yai (1939-2020): Philosopher, Polymath, Humanist by Sanya Osha

“…As Yai expressed the great loss, one felt his heart had been ripped out leaving behind a gaping void. …”
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The Cajun Renaissance and Cajun English. The Social, the Linguistic, the Imaginary by Olivier Glain

“…Being either a monolingual French speaker or a bilingual French-English speaker was long at the heart of what it meant linguistically to be Cajun (Dubois and Horvath 2001). …”
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Hypertension-Related Admissions and Outcome in a Tertiary Hospital in Northeast Nigeria by P. M. Kolo, Y. B. Jibrin, E. O. Sanya, M. Alkali, I. B. Peter Kio, R. K. Moronkola

“…Stroke had the highest mortality (39.3%), followed by chronic kidney disease (36.6%); hypertensive emergencies (30.9%) and hypertensive heart failure had the lowest intrahospital mortality (27.5%). …”
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