ABO and RhD blood groups as contributors to dyslipidaemia – a cross-sectional study by Malin Mickelsson, Kim Ekblom, Kristina Stefansson, Per Liv, Anders Själander, Ulf Näslund, Johan Hultdin

“…The susceptibility to CVD is proposed to be partly mediated by dyslipidaemia in non-O individuals. Previous studies are scarce for the RhD blood group, but we recently showed that RhD − young individuals are associated with subclinical atherosclerosis. …”
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Sex estimation in a Chilean population by mandibular analysis in cone beam computed tomography images by F. Ceballos, N.F. Deana, N. Alves

“…Abstract Background Sex estimation is the first stage in the identification of an individual in the forensic context, and can be carried out from bone structures like the mandible. …”
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Wastewater-based epidemiology for novel Coronavirus detection in wastewater by G. Saini, P. Deepak

“…However, testing of individuals is an extensive, expensive and time-consuming exercise. …”
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Impervious surface cover and number of restaurants shape diet variation in an urban carnivore by Tal Caspi, Monica G. Serrano, Stevi L. Vanderzwan, Janet Kessler, Christopher J. Schell, Benjamin N. Sacks

“…We genotyped fecal samples for individual coyote identification and used DNA metabarcoding to quantify diet composition and individual niche differentiation. …”
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Suicide Ideation among Outpatients with Alcohol Use Disorder by Wen-Yu Hsu, Ting-Gang Chang, Cheng-Chen Chang, Nan-Ying Chiu, Chieh-Hsin Lin, Hsien-Yuan Lane

“…Introduction. Individuals with substance use disorders, particularly those with alcohol use disorder (AUD), have a high risk of suicide. …”
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Absolute Lymphocyte Count Is Not a Suitable Alternative to CD4 Count for Determining Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy in Fiji by Dashika A. Balak, Karen Bissell, Christine Roseveare, Sharan Ram, Rachel R. Devi, Stephen M. Graham

“…Correlation between the counts in individuals was poor (Spearman rank correlation r=0.5). …”
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Bacterial, fungal and parasitic co-infections in leprosy: A scoping review. by Luis Alberto Ribeiro Fróes, Tereza Setsuko Toma, Marie Jachiet, Laurie Rousset, Rosana Evangelista Poderoso, Maria Angela Bianconcini Trindade

“…Leprosy was the initial infection in 89% of cases, 82% of individuals had multibacillary disease, and 17% developed leprosy reactions. …”
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Sleeplessness and incident diabetes above the Arctic circle: a secondary analysis of cohort data from the Tromsø Study by Charlotte Warren-Gash, Sarah Cook, Olena Iakunchykova, Nick Chindanai Uthaikhaifar

“…Diabetes incidence risk over follow-up (20 years) was 7.2% (n=784); incidence risk among individuals reporting sleeplessness was 8.8%, compared with 6.8% among unexposed individuals. …”
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Validation of the German Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire in autistic adults by Isabel Marie Jakob, Veit Roessner, Melanie Ring

“…While the factor structure could not be confirmed, main findings of other validation studies were replicated: AQ and GSQ scores were moderately to strongly associated, with higher AQ and GSQ scores for autistic than for non-autistic individuals. Autistic individuals also showed more consistency in their sensitivity across sensory modalities. …”
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Dental caries and related factors in the elderly of the Azar cohort population: A cross-sectional study. by Maryam Hosseinpour Sarmadi, Nasrin Sharififard, Zeinab Mahboobi, Elnaz Faramarzi, Aylin Bilehjani

“…Approximately 70.8% of elderly individuals were edentulous. Women exhibited a higher mean DMFT score and a greater number of missing teeth compared to men. …”
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The concept and significance of registration and permit-licensing procedures in the activities of the National Police by О. А. Bud

“…The author’s definition of the concept of “registration and permit-licensing procedures in the activities of the National Police” has been proposed – these are successive legalized actions of a service nature, which are carried out by police bodies in the process of providing police services, upon completion of which an individual or legal entity receives a document (permit or license), which allows you to carry out various operations with objects of the permit system, items of individual protection and active defense, or provide specific services, in particular, guarding, maintenance of shooting ranges, transportation of oversized cargo.…”
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Screening Children with a Family History of Central Congenital Hypoventilation Syndrome by Hina Emanuel, Kimberly Rennie, Kelly Macdonald, Aravind Yadav, Ricardo A. Mosquera

“…Nocturnal polysomnogram revealed evidence of hypoventilation in two individuals (1 offspring and mother) with the end-tidal CO2 median of 54. …”
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Assessment of Allometry in Environmental DNA and RNA Production From Ayu (Plecoglossus altivelis) in an Experimental Condition Using Mitochondrial and Nuclear Gene Markers by Toshiaki S. Jo, Yusuke Ozaki, Nao Matsuda, Hiroki Yamanaka

“…The finding has been supported mainly by field surveys but has not been verified sufficiently at the individual level in a controlled experimental condition. …”
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Stan biologiczny populacji ludzkich a przemiany środowiska społeczno-ekonomicznego by Anna Siniarska, Napoleon Wolański

“…Adaptation of life to the environment occurs at two levels - that of an individual and that of a population. In the first step of the process of adaptation variability is produced. …”
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Towards a Rational Design of an Asymptomatic Clinical Herpes Vaccine: The Old, the New, and the Unknown by Aziz Alami Chentoufi, Elizabeth Kritzer, David M. Yu, Anthony B. Nesburn, Lbachir BenMohamed

“…(ii) Why the majority of HSV seropositive individuals (i.e., asymptomatic individuals) are naturally “protected” exhibiting few or no recurrent clinical disease, while other HSV seropositive individuals (i.e., symptomatic individuals) have frequent ocular, orofacial, and/or genital herpes clinical episodes? …”
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Impact of over 6 months of digital hearing aid usage on auditory working memory in acquired severe to profound hearing loss by Arun K. Yadav, Amra Ahsan, Vijay Kumar, Arun Banik

“…Out of them, 30 individuals with a mean age of 53.5 ± 6.7 were using digital hearing aids and another 30 individuals with a mean age of 53.3 ± 5.4 years were not using a hearing aid. …”
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Impact of Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment on Standards of Living of Elderly Persons in Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Naturinda, Suzan

“…The study findings on the effect of social assistance grants for empowerment on investment of elderly in Kabale Municipality, the highest number of respondents mentioned that the program helps to ensure that elderly individuals have some financial support for investment to meet their essential expenses and the least number of respondents mentioned that the program serves as a supplement to other sources of income for elderly individuals to make investment. …”
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Alpha and Theta Oscillations Associated With Behavioral Phenotypes of Pain–Attention Interaction by Nikou Kelardashti, Benjamin T. Dunkley, Rima El‐Sayed, Vaidhehi Veena Sanmugananthan, Junseok Andrew Kim, Natalie Rae Osborne, Joshua C. Cheng, Anton Rogachov, Rachael L. Bosma, Ariana E. Besik, Karen Deborah Davis

“…ABSTRACT Purpose Pain is inherently salient and so draws our attention in addition to impacting performance on attention‐demanding tasks. Individual variability in pain–attention interactions can be assessed by two kinds of behavioral phenotypes that quantify how individuals prioritize pain versus attentional needs. …”
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Feasibility of a Mobile App–Based Cognitive-Behavioral Perinatal Skills Program: Protocol for Nonrandomized Pilot Trial by Andrea B Temkin-Yu, Aliza Ayaz, Ella Blicker, Michael X Liu, Ace Oh, Isabelle E Siegel, Meredith J Seewald, Alison D Hermann, Soudebah Givrad, Lara M Baez, Lauren M Osborne, Cori M Green, Maddy M Schier, Alexandra M Davis, Shasha Zhu, Avital Falk, Shannon M Bennett

“…There are many barriers that interfere with the ability of perinatal individuals to access traditional mental health care. …”
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Comorbidities and neurosurgical interventions in a cohort with connective tissue disorders by Ilene S. Ruhoy, Paolo A. Bolognese, Jared S. Rosenblum, Randall A. Dass, Navdeep S. Nayyer, Navdeep S. Nayyer, Jeffrey D. Wood, Jeffrey D. Wood, John B. Biggins, John B. Biggins

“…We found that individuals with hEDS had a higher frequency of certain comorbidities, such as Mast Cell Activation Disorder and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, and neurosurgical intervention compared to individuals without a CTD diagnosis (unaffected). …”
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