Magnitude, risk factors and economic impacts of diabetic emergencies in developing countries: A systematic review. by Halefom Kahsay Haile, Teferi Gedif Fenta

“…Identifying high-risk individuals is crucial for implementing tailored strategies to reduce emergency visits and hospital admissions. …”
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Obstacles and opportunities for care collaboration through the utilisation of a preventive care process for frail older adults: a study protocol for a mixed methods study design by Åsa Larsson Ranada, Elisabet Rothenberg, Helle Wijk, Martina Karin Boström, Pia Skott, Anette Erichsen

“…Additionally, 30 semi-structured individual interviews with residential care managers and other relevant stakeholders will explore obstacles and opportunities for effective care collaboration.Discussion We foresee that the results will contribute to the development of a model for effective PcP and care collaboration that can be used to improve patient safety and quality of care for frail older adults. …”
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Investigation of 25-hydroxy vitamin D deficiency prevelance in healthy adults aged 18-65 years in Istanbul, Türkiye by Ülfer Gözde

“…Methods: The vitamin 25(OH)D levels of 9,778 adults who presented to our hospital's internal medicine checkup outpatient clinic between January 2022 and December 2023 were analyzed retrospectively. Individuals with chronic disorders were excluded from the study. …”
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Does sociality affect evolutionary speed? by Socias-Martínez, Lluís, Peckre, Louise Rachel

“…Such studies regard social interactions and the social units arising from them as a dividing force that splits a population into smaller parts, tweaking the number of reproducing individuals and unbalancing the contribution of both sexes. …”
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Retinal assessment in 143 patients with white matter lesions: the potential of OCTA as an evaluation tool by Dong Zhang, Xueying Jiang, Yan Zhang, Jingcui Qin

“…Its effectiveness in screening early asymptomatic individuals or those with mild cognitive impairment is somewhat limited.…”
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Regional Arterial Stiffness in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by V. V. Genkel, R. G. Portnova, T. V. Antipina, I. I. Shaposhnik

“…At the same time, the proportion of individuals with an increase in the cfPWV of more than 10 m/s was higher in the group of IBD patients. …”
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Efficacy of 2 L versus 3 L polyethylene glycol in bowel preparation: a real-world study by LI Jiaojun, LI Jiaojun, TAN Xianhao, TAN Xianhao, ZHANG Chen

“…Methods A real-world, single-center cohort study was conducted on the individuals undergoing colonoscopy in Department of Gastroenterology of Chengdu Third People’s Hospital between May and October 2023. …”
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HPRS: hierarchical potential-based reward shaping from task specifications by Luigi Berducci, Edgar A. Aguilar, Dejan Ničković, Radu Grosu

“…Through ablation studies, we analyze the impact of individual requirement classes on emergent behavior. …”
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Prevalence and associated factors of corneal opacity among adults in Kolladiba town, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study by Endalew Mulugeta Worku, Sofonias Addis Fekadu, Bersufekad Wubie Alemie, Merkineh Markos Lorato

“…A total of 846 adult individuals were recruited for the study. Ethical approval was obtained from the University of Gondar School of Medicine Ethical Review Committee. …”
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Tools used to measure quality of life in adults with cystic fibrosis– a systematic review by Dorota Snop-Perkowska, Jakub Świtalski, Katarzyna Wnuk, Paweł Olszewski, Anna Augustynowicz

“…In turn, new tools that may be used in economic analyses (CFQ-R-8 dimensions) or in individualized assessment of quality of life using a mobile application (Q-Life) seem promising. …”
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The antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of diabetic foot ulcers in the South African public healthcare sector by M J Turner, S Leigh-de Rapper, T P Mokoena, S van Vuuren

“…Each sample swab was spread onto blood agar plates, and thereafter individual pathogens were isolated. The antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of all isolated pathogens were determined using zone of inhibition measurements. …”
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Direct and Indirect Protection with Pediatric Quadrivalent Live-Attenuated Influenza Vaccination in Europe Estimated by a Dynamic Transmission Model by Laetitia Gerlier, Judith Hackett, Richard Lawson, Sofia Dos Santos Mendes, Catherine Weil-Olivier, Markus Schwehm, Martin Eichner

“…Differential equations described demographic changes, exposure to infectious individuals, recovery and immunity dynamics. For each country, the basic reproduction number (R0) was calibrated to published influenza incidence statistics. …”
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Association between advanced lung cancer inflammation index and all-cause and cause-specific mortality among asthma patients: a cohort study by Tu-Lei Tian, Xiang-Kun Qu, Hong-Bo Zhang, Cun-Cun Wang, Qing-Qing Yuan, Jing Xia, Li-Fang Cao, Kui Liu

“…This study aimed to evaluate the association between ALI and mortality from all causes, as well as specific causes including cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer-related mortality, among individuals with asthma.MethodsWe analyzed data from 4,829 asthma patients who participated in the U.S. …”
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Risk of first venous thrombosis by comparing different thrombin generation assay conditions: results from the MEGA case-control study. by Kristien Winckers, Eugenia Biguzzi, Stella Thomassen, Alexandra Heinzmann, Frits R. Rosendaal, Tilman Mathias Hackeng, Astrid van Hylckama Vlieg

“…Thrombin generation (TG) is a global coagulation assay that measures an individual’s clotting tendency. We hypothesise that slow onset TG (achieved by using a low procoagulant stimulus or an inhibitor of coagulation) is optimal responsive to detect hypercoagulability. …”
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Cross-Modal Augmented Transformer for Automated Medical Report Generation by Yuhao Tang, Ye Yuan, Fei Tao, Minghao Tang

“…Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method on two datasets.Clinical impact: This work aims to design an automated framework for explaining medical images to evaluate the health status of individuals, thereby facilitating their broader application in clinical settings.Clinical and Translational Impact Statement: In our preclinical research, we develop an automated system for generating diagnostic reports. …”
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Biomarkers to predict the outcomes of surgical intervention for aortic dissection by Abanob G. Hanna, Fabian Jimenez Contreras, Omar M. Sharaf, Griffin P. Stinson, Philip J. Hess

“…Further studies should compare these biomarkers to determine the best predictive marker for individual disease states and surgeries.…”
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A Comparison of Resting Scapular Posture and the Davies Closed Kinetic Chain Upper Extremity Stability Test by John D Heick, Jenna Haggerty, Robert C Manske

“… # LEVEL OF EVIDENCE 2b: Individual Cohort Study…”
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Estimación de la función de daño potencial y nivel de daño económico de Caliroa cerasi L. (Hymenoptera: tenthredinidae) en el Valle Inferior del Río Chubut (región Patagonia sur, A... by Silvina BADO

“…La metodología consistió en determinar el área foliar consumida por larva mediante una cría individual llevada a cabo en laboratorio y del rendimiento potencial (kg arbol-1), teniendo en cuenta la relación lineal entre la radiación fotosintéticamente activa interceptada (IPAR) y el rendimiento. …”
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Muscle Activity and Kinematics During Three Hamstring Strengthening Exercises Compared to Sprinting: A Cross-Sectional Study. by Adelso Jorge, Eric Lichtenstein, Oliver Faude, Ralf Roth

“… # Methods Muscle activity of the posterior kinetic chain (biceps femoris, semitendinosus, gluteus maximus, and medial gastrocnemius) was measured with surface electromyography (sEMG) during the exercises and treadmill running at 75% of the individual maximal sprint velocity in male athletes. sEMG data were normalized to maximal sprinting. 3D-motion capture was employed to assess hip and knee angles…”
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Impact of handgrip strength on cardiovascular, cancer and all-cause mortality in the Korean longitudinal study of ageing by Gyu Ri Kim, Jiyu Sun, Minkyung Han, Sohee Park, Chung Mo Nam

“…The cause-specific hazards regression analysis was also used to model cardiovascular and cancer mortality, by treating deaths from the cause of interest as events and other causes of death as censored.Participants 5859 participants aged 50 years or older were followed up until death or until the date of censoring (31 December 2014).Primary outcome measures The study outcomes of interest were all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality.Results Of the participants included in analyses, 515 individuals (8.8%) died, reflecting an overall crude mortality rate of 11.0 deaths per 1000 person-years. …”
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