Association between Chinese visceral adiposity index and risk of new-onset hypertension in middle-aged and older adults with prediabetes: evidence from a large national cohort stud... by Lanlan Li, Lanlan Li, Linqiang Xi, Qianhui Wang

“…Significantly higher incidence rates of hypertension were observed in individuals belonging to the highest quartile group (Q4) compared to those in the lowest quartile group (Q1) of CVAI (29.41% vs. 14.69%, p < 0.001). …”
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Atherogenic index of plasma and cardiovascular disease risk in cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome stage 1 to 3: a longitudinal study by Yu Zhang, Yue Song, Yinfei Lu, Tao Liu, Ping Yin

“…However, it remains unclear whether cumulative AIP and AIP control influence the future incidence of CVD in individuals with Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) syndrome. …”
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Efficacy in Japanese adults with growth hormone deficiency receiving weekly somapacitan or daily growth hormone: results from phase 3 REAL 1 trial by Fumio Otsuka, Michael Højby Rasmussen, Takaaki Endo, Claus Sværke, Shigeyuki Tahara, Gudmundur Johannsson

“…A total of 36 Japanese GH-naïve individuals with AGHD were allocated to somapacitan or daily GH (excluding the placebo group of the global trial). …”
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The combined impact of BMI and ABSI on all-cause mortality among American adults with diabetes by Shuwu Wei, Weimin Jiang, Huijuan Zheng, Jiale Zhang, Jie Yang, Yaoxian Wang, Yang Liu, Liqiao Sun, Xinrong Li, Junping Wei, Weiwei Sun

“…The weighted receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to assess the diagnostic value of individual anthropometric indices and their combinations in predicting mortality. …”
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Association Between Diabetic Control And Anti-Diabetic Medication Adherence Using 8-Point Morisky Medication Adherence Scale In Local Population Of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by Fuad Ahmad Siddiqi, Bilal Saeed, Mehmood Hussain, Wasif Anwar, Sidra Riaz, Naveed Abbas

“…Most common comorbid across study population was hypertension, seen in 59 (53.94%) diabetic patients, followed by cataract in 41 (37.47%) and IHD in 33 (30%) patients.  In all 110 individuals, only 29 (26.36%) individuals had good glycemic control i.e., HbA1c <7% with average glycosylated hemoglobin percentage measuring 8.29% ± 1.59%. …”
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Quantifying uncertainty in anthropogenic causes of injury and mortality for an endangered baleen whale by Daniel W. Linden, Jeffrey A. Hostetler, Richard M. Pace III, Lance P. Garrison, Amy R. Knowlton, Véronique Lesage, Rob Williams, Michael C. Runge

“…Our approach is relevant to other monitored populations where cause‐specific injuries from multiple threats can be observed in live and dead individuals.…”
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Tattoo ink exposure is associated with lymphoma and skin cancers – a Danish study of twins by Signe Bedsted Clemmensen, Jonas Mengel-From, Jaakko Kaprio, Henrik Frederiksen, Jacob von Bornemann Hjelmborg

“…Results In the case-control study, individual-level analysis resulted in a hazard of skin cancer (of any type except basal cell carcinoma) that was 1.62 times higher among tattooed individuals (95% CI: 1.08–2.41). …”
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Strategic Selenium Application Methods and Timing Enhance Grain Yield, Minimize Cadmium Bioaccumulation, and Optimize Selenium Fortification in <i>Triticum aestivum</i> L. by Dazhong Zhang, Jiajia Liu, Tingting Cheng, Hongyi Wang, Yongzhen Zhou, Zhengwu Gong, Tiezhu Hu

“…Under the 5 mg/kg Cd stress, the grain Cd content in the 3 + 1 treatment was 34.1% lower than that in CK and over 14.1% lower than those in Se individual treatments. Furthermore, grain Se content was the highest under the 3 + 1 treatment, being 160.8%, 99.7%, and 39.5% higher than those in the SeIV, SeVI, and SeMet individual treatments under 5 mg/kg Cd stress. …”
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Association between adolescent obesity and early adulthood healthcare utilization—a two-cohort prospective study by Emilia Hagman, Vidar Halsteinli, Resthie R. Putri, Christina Hansen Edwards, Gudrun Waaler Bjørnelv, Claude Marcus, Rønnaug A. Ødegård

“…Results A total of 7592 individuals from Norway (5.7% with adolescent obesity) and 1543 individuals from Sweden with adolescent obesity, accompanied with 7330 matched general population comparators, were included. …”
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Deep Learning-Based Glucose Prediction Models: A Guide for Practitioners and a Curated Dataset for Improved Diabetes Management by Saul Langarica, Diego de la Vega, Nawel Cariman, Martin Miranda, David C. Andrade, Felipe Nunez, Maria Rodriguez-Fernandez

“…Additionally, as part of our outcomes, we introduce a meticulously curated dataset inclusive of data from both healthy individuals and those with diabetes, recorded in free-living conditions. …”
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Public Employees Adherence to Life Quality Program and Nutritional Intervention by Taciana Maia de Sousa, Ana Maria dos Santos Rodrigues, Bárbara Danielle Liberato Ferreira Campos, Ana Cláudia Porfírio Couto, Dirce Ribeiro de Oliveira

“…Began the study 52 individuals, mostly women (76,9%), with an average of 40,8 ± 8,9 years old. …”
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Improved Honey Badger Algorithm and Its Application to K-Means Clustering by Shuhao Jiang, Huimin Gao, Yizi Lu, Haoran Song, Yong Zhang, Mengqian Wang

“…In this paper, an improved honey badger optimization algorithm is proposed: (1) The population is initialized using sin chaos to make the population uniformly distributed. (2) The density factor is improved to enhance the optimization accuracy of the population. (3) A nonlinear inertia weight factor is introduced to prevent honey badger individuals from relying on the behavior of past individuals during position updating. (4) To improve the diversity of solutions, random opposition learning is performed on the optimal individuals. …”
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Immunogenicity of Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination Followed by J&J Adenovirus COVID-19 Vaccination in Two Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia by Zoe L. Lyski, Myung Sun Kim, David Xthona Lee, David Sampson, Hans-Peter Raué, Vikram Raghunathan, Debbie Ryan, Amanda E. Brunton, Mark K. Slifka, William B. Messer, Stephen E. Spurgeon

“…Individuals with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) have significant immune disfunction, often further disrupted by treatment. …”
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Variations in Community Prevalence and Determinants of Recreational and Utilitarian Walking in Older Age by Elizabeth Procter-Gray, Suzanne G. Leveille, Marian T. Hannan, Jie Cheng, Kevin Kane, Wenjun Li

“…We examined influences of individual and community factors on walking habits in older adults. …”
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Effects of environmental variability on population dynamics of golden carpet shell clam (Polititapes aureus) by José Manuel Parada, José Molares

“…Density reached a value of 62.29 individuals m−2 and biomass was 76.30 g m−2. Recruitment was related to water temperature, to food availability measured as fluorescence and to density-dependent phenomena starting at 39 individuals m−2. …”
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HEIDEGGER’S HUMAN DIMENSION UNDERSTANDING OF TECHNOLOGY by Uliana R. Vynnyk

“…Philosopher’s important human dimension trends concerning technology are outlined in the research and are manifested in the concern for individuals to keep their humanity and dignity and make for the freedom eliminating everything that may adversely affect their essence.…”
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Parasites and plantations: Disease, environment and society in efforts to induce extinction of hookworm in Jamaica, 1919–1936 by Jonathan D. Roberts, Lorna L. Waddington, Rupert J. Quinnell, Graham Huggan, Alison M. Dunn

“…Worm burden (and thus pathology) varied greatly between individuals, even those living together; hookworm infection varied between environments, socioeconomic conditions and individuals. …”
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The Experience of Patients with Schizophrenia Treated with Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Auditory Hallucinations by Priya Subramanian, Amer Burhan, Luljeta Pallaveshi, Abraham Rudnick

“…Auditory hallucinations are a common symptom experience of individuals with psychotic disorders and are often experienced as persistent, distressing, and disruptive. …”
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INTERPASSIVITY AS A SUBJECTIVE EFFECT OF MODERN MEDIA-CULTURE: TO THE STATEMENT OF PROBLEM by Olena V. Khodus

“…Perceived privacy, although the individual reserves the right to individual control over personal space and personal statement (for example, through personal and individual electronic access to digital representations of reality), however, suggests certain techniques of "publication" themselves. …”
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Progress in mentalizing ability among people with psychosis through dialogic literary gatherings by Aitana Fernández-Villardón, Alfonso Sáez de Ibarra, Ana Domínguez-Panchón, Rocío García-Carrión

“…Dialogues during DLGs fostered empathy, awareness of individual differences, and deeper engagement with others’ emotions. …”
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