Understanding the Utilization of Wasted Bread as a Brewing Adjunct for Producing a Sustainable Wheat Craft Beer by Katry Dall’Acua, Manuela Poletto Klein, Bárbara Iegli Tech, Alessandra Fontana, Ludmylla Tamara Crepalde, Roger Wagner, Fernanda de Candido de Oliveira, Voltaire Sant’Anna

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Can the Rwandan Catholic Church Overcome its History of Politicization? A Reply to Philippe Denis by Anthony Court

“…Consequently, when in the aftermath of the genocide,the church declared that ‘ethnism’ lay at the heart of all social and politicalills, moreover refusing to acknowledge its own role in propagating a state ideology of ethnic racism, it not only risked re-inscribing a binary-logic that guided its thinking and defined its role in the Rwandan politics throughout the 20thcentury, but alsodeflected attention away from its problematic assumption of moral authority to mediate between perpetrators and victims/survivors. …”
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The Prevalence and Risk Factors of Hypokalemia in Pregnancy-Related Hospitalizations: A Nationwide Population Study by Chien-Wen Yang, Si Li, Yishan Dong

“…Notably, those who had hypokalemia were younger, of African American race, and of a low-income level. Congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, Cushing’s syndrome, GH, and hyperemesis gravidarum were found to be associated with hypokalemia during pregnancy.…”
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Relationship of Hyperglycaemia, Hypoglycaemia, and Glucose Variability to Atherosclerotic Disease in Type 2 Diabetes by Caroline Jane Magri, Dillon Mintoff, Liberato Camilleri, Robert G. Xuereb, Joseph Galea, Stephen Fava

“…Macrovascular disease was defined as one or more of the following: history of ischaemic heart disease (IHD), cerebrovascular accident (CVA), ABI < 0.9, or abnormal CIMT. …”
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Evaluation of Cardioprotective Effect of 3,5,3′-Tri-iodo-L-thyronine in Isoproterenol-Induced Cardiotoxicity by Vinay Mishra, Priya Ghumatkar, Maulik V. Patel, Shilpesh Devada, Ramchandra Ranvir, Prabodha Swain, Rajesh Sundar, Rajesh Bahekar, Mukul R. Jain

“…As expected, ISO-induced significant changes were observed in low-density lipoprotein, total cholesterol, ALT, CK-MB to TCK ratio, and prolongation of QT interval in electrocardiogram, which is toward normalization after T3 treatment. Lower heart weight, upregulation of cardiac myosin heavy chain alpha (MHC-α), and reduced inflammatory cell infiltration, myonecrosis, vacuolar changes, and a trend toward normal cardiac muscle fiber architecture in microscopic examination of cardiac tissue further support the cardioprotective effect of T3.…”
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The Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among Employees in the Kingdom of Bahrain between October 2010 and March 2011: A Cross-Sectional Study from a Workplace Health... by Ameera Ali AL-Nooh, Abdulhussain Abdulabbas Abdulla Alajmi, David Wood

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Association of Premature Ventricular Contraction (PVC) with hematological parameters: a data mining approach by Nafiseh Hosseini, Sara Saffar Soflaei, Pooria Salehi-Sangani, Mahdiyeh Yaghooti-Khorasani, Bahram Shahri, Helia Rezaeifard, Habibollah Esmaily, Gordon A. Ferns, Mohsen Moohebati, Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan

“…In this study, 9,035 participants were enrolled in the Mashhad stroke and heart atherosclerotic disorder (MASHAD) cohort study. …”
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Developing a Predictive Tool for Hospital Discharge Disposition of Patients Poststroke with 30-Day Readmission Validation by Jin Cho, Krystal Place, Rebecca Salstrand, Monireh Rahmat, Misagh Mansouri, Nancy Fell, Mina Sartipi

“…The top five risk scores were admission from a skilled nursing facility, acute heart attack, intracerebral hemorrhage, admission from “other” source, and an age of 75 or older. …”
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Associations between heavy metal exposure and vascular age: a large cross-sectional study by Yuntao Feng, Chengxing Liu, Litang Huang, Jun Qian, Na Li, Hongwei Tan, Xuebo Liu

“…We measured urinary concentrations of nine heavy metals and assessed their associations with vascular age, estimated pulse wave velocity (ePWV) and heart vascular age (HVA). Additionally, sex-stratified analyses, Weighted Quantile Sum (WQS) regression and Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression were conducted to explore the effects of individual and mixed metal exposures. …”
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Assessment of a Low-Cost Ultrasound Pericardiocentesis Model by Marco Campo dell'Orto, Dorothea Hempel, Agnieszka Starzetz, Armin Seibel, Ulf Hannemann, Felix Walcher, Raoul Breitkreutz

“…Unrealistically outer appearance and heart shape were rated as weakness of the model. …”
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Electrocardiographic Characteristics of Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Chemotherapy by Xufei Liang, Yueying Wang, Xi Yin, Xiaohong Gong, Shuo Pan, Ziliang Chen, Xuhong Geng

“…At the end of the treatment, heart rate, P-wave dispersion, corrected QT interval, T-peak to T-end, RR, SV1, RV5, Sokolow–Lyon index (SLI), and index of cardioelectrophysiological balance deteriorated markedly (all P<0.05). …”
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Health-related quality of life after prosthodontic rehabilitation in patients with COVID-19-associated mucormycosis: A systematic review by Gunjan Chouksey, Rupali Choure, Kritika Singhal

“…Independently, the three authors conducted a comprehensive quality assessment of the selected studies using the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) study quality assessment tool to gauge the risk of bias specifically for before–after (pre–post) studies lacking a control group. …”
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A global analysis of dairy consumption and incident cardiovascular disease by Pan Zhuang, Xiaohui Liu, Yin Li, Yang Ao, Yuqi Wu, Hao Ye, Xuzhi Wan, Lange Zhang, Denghui Meng, Yimei Tian, Xiaomei Yu, Fan Zhang, Anli Wang, Yu Zhang, Jingjing Jiao

“…Among Chinese participants, regular dairy consumption (primarily whole milk) is associated with a 9% increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and a 6% reduced risk of stroke compared to non-consumers. …”
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Accuracy and Reproducibility of a Modified Echocardiographic Method for Right Ventricular Output Calculation in Neonates by Carlotta Milocchi, Silvia Nogara, Giorgia Mazzuca, Federica Runfola, Martina Ciarcià, Iuri Corsini, Benjamim Ficial

“…All neonates with echocardiographic measurements of RVO and left ventricular output (LVO) without congenital heart disease, including patent ductus arteriosus and patent foramen ovale > 3 mm, were included. …”
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Thymosin β4 Improves Differentiation and Vascularization of EHTs by Tilman Ziegler, Rabea Hinkel, Andrea Stöhr, Thomas Eschenhagen, Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, Ferdinand le Noble, Robert David, Arne Hansen, Christian Kupatt

“…Additionally, engineered heart tissue (EHT) has been investigated as a therapy option in preclinical disease models with promising results, although their vascularization and functionality leave room for improvement. …”
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Inflammation and endothelial gene polymorphism are associated with ischemic stroke by Wanli Chen, Jie Li, Jintao Zhou, Xingyang Yi, Hong Chen

“…Compared with the healthy group, ischemic stroke group has a higher proportion of diabetes, heart disease, dyslipidemia, stroke family history, and a higher proportion of lack of exercise. …”
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Advances in cardiac organoid research: implications for cardiovascular disease treatment by Ziteng Huang, Keran Jia, Yadan Tan, Yang Yu, Wudian Xiao, Xiangyu Zhou, Jingyan Yi, Chunxiang Zhang

“…These organoids not only replicate the autonomous beating and essential electrophysiological properties of the heart but are also widely employed in studies related to cardiac diseases, drug efficacy testing, and regenerative medicine. …”
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The clinical features and outcomes of diabetes patients infected with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis comprising 192,693 patients by Kai Liu, Shu Liu, Ting-ting Xu, Hong Qiao

“…Compared with the non-diabetic group, the diabetic group had a higher incidence of complications in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), shock, acute heart injury, acute kidney injury and more regularly used oxygen therapy, invasive ventilation, non-invasive ventilation, continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment. …”
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Taquicardia ortostática postural em adolescentes: como e por que diagnosticar by Camila Magalhães Silva, Ludimila Dos Anjos Teixeira Romão, Lalleinny Franthiesca da Costa Alves, Roberta Leão Bassi, Rose Mary Ferreira Lisboa da Silva, Fátima Derlene da Rocha Araújo, Zilda Maria Alves Meira

“…Following a comprehensive physical examination (including heart rate and blood pressure assessment) and additional tests (electrocardiogram, transthoracic echocardiogram, and Tilt Test), she was diagnosed with POTS. …”
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Comprehensive analysis of inhibin-β A as a potential biomarker for gastrointestinal tract cancers through bioinformatics approaches by Rohit Kumar Verma, Prashant Kumar Srivastava, Ashutosh Singh

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