Air pollution exposure and prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and related cirrhosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Xingyi He, Shipeng Zhang, Qinglin Bai, Moshen Pan, Yanjie Jiang, Weiwei Liu, Wei Li, Yuanyuan Gong, Xueping Li

“…Methods: Through a comprehensive and systematic search of the EMBASE, PubMed, Web of Science, and Cochrane library databases, studies published up to March 30, 2024, that met the eligibility criteria were identified. …”
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Analisis Dukungan Petugas Kesehatan Dalam Optimalisasi Competence Baby Care Pada Ibu muda Melalui Pendekatan Maternal Sensitivity Models Berbasis Keluarga (Analysis of Health Of... by diyan indriyani

“…Purposive sampling was used for the sampling techniques conducted in March to August 2016. The data were then analyzed both in quantitative and qualitative methods.Results: The findings confirmed that the most common diseases undergone by infants were respiratory infections, such as diarrhea and febrile. …”
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Effect of an Internet-Based Pilates Telerehabilitation Intervention in People With Multiple Sclerosis: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial by Andrea Tacchino, Michela Ponzio, Paolo Confalonieri, Letizia Leocani, Matilde Inglese, Diego Centonze, Eleonora Cocco, Paolo Gallo, Damiano Paolicelli, Marco Rovaris, Loredana Sabattini, Gioacchino Tedeschi, Luca Prosperini, Francesco Patti, Edoardo Sessa, Elisabetta Pedrazzoli, Mario Alberto Battaglia, Giampaolo Brichetto

“…ResultsRecruitment for the trial started on March 16, 2022, and the first participant was randomized the same day. …”
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Effect of optimizing the nursing process of green channel on time course of intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke (优化绿色通道护理流程对急诊缺血性脑卒中静脉溶栓时间节点的影响)... by PENG Hong (彭红), LIU Ruihua (刘瑞华), LI Xue (李雪), ZHAN Qian (张倩)

“…Methods Totally 99 AIS patients who received intravenous thrombolysis were divided into two groups according to the according to date of hospital admission: 41 cases who received intravenous thrombolysis before implementation of optimized nursing process of green channel (between November 2020 and March 2021) were included as the control group, 48 cases who received intravenous thrombolysis after implementation of optimized nursing process of green channel (between April 2021 and October 2021) were included as the observation group. …”
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Biologics as well as inhaled anti-asthmatic therapy achieve clinical remission: Evidence from the Severe Asthma Network in Italy (SANI) by Giorgio Walter Canonica, MD, Francesco Blasi, PhD, Pierluigi Paggiaro, MD, Enrico Heffler, PhD, Fulvio Braido, MD, Luisa Brussino, PhD, Giulia Scioscia, PhD, Cristina Cardini, MsC, Chiara Oriecuia, MsC, Isabella Sala, MsC, Vincenzo Bagnardi, PhD, Cecilia Calabrese, PhD, Gianna Camiciottoli, MD, Giovanna Elisiana Carpagnano, PhD, Stefano Centanni, PhD, Angelo Guido Corsico, PhD, Maria Teresa Costantino, MD, Claudia Crimi, PhD, Alice D'Adda, MD, Simona D’Alò, MD, Maria D'Amato, PhD, Corrado D'Andria, MD, Stefano Del Giacco, MD, Fabiano Di Marco, PhD, Nicola Cosimo Facciolongo, MD, Alessandro Farsi, MD, Manuela Latorre, PhD, Manlio Milanese, PhD, Eustachio Nettis, MD, Eleonora Nucera, MD, Giovanni Passalacqua, MD, Girolamo Pelaia, MD, Laura Pini, MD, Luisa Ricciardi, PhD, Fabio Luigi Massimo Ricciardolo, PhD, Luca Richeldi, PhD, Erminia Ridolo, PhD, Pierachille Santus, PhD, Nicola Scichilone, PhD, Gianenrico Senna, MD, Giuseppe Spadaro, MD, Antonio Spanevello, MD, Paolo Tarsia, MD

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Association between major depressive disorder or depressive symptoms and the risk of vascular complications among patients with type 2 diabetes, and the mediating role of metabolic... by Guochen Li, Yongfu Yu, Chunqing Lin, Shichen Zheng, Hong Tu, Wanghong Xu

“…Methods: We conducted this prospective analysis among the participants of the UK Biobank who were diagnosed with T2DM and free of vascular complications at baseline between March 13, 2006 and September 30, 2010. Major depressive disorder (MDD) was ascertained according to the hospital admission records and self-report of doctor-diagnosed conditions, while the presence of depressive symptoms was assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire-2. …”
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Clinical analysis of microscopic modified ostium obstruction surgery for symptomatic sacral Tarlov cysts by HUANG Qin‐guo, WU Yan‐yu, LI Hong, ZHOU Qiang, PENG Lin, LU Yun‐tao

“…Methods Thirty ⁃ five consecutive patients underwent the microscopic modified ostium obstruction surgery in Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University due to symptomatic sacral TCs from January 2016 to March 2021. The operation time, intraoperative blood loss, postoperative hospitalization time, follow⁃up time, as well as the situation of nerve roots passing through the cysts and the postoperative outcome of the cysts were recorded. …”
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Application of lacrimal gland ultrasonography in the evaluation of chronic ocular graft-versus-host-disease by Mingxia Zhong, Siyuan Liu, Jinghan Luo, Qin Zhang, Zhou Yang, Shanshan Zhang

“…The study was conducted at the oGVHD clinic of Peking University People’s Hospital between March to June 2023. Patients were categorized into groups according to the International Chronic oGVHD (ICCGVHD) consensus group diagnostic criteria or the 2005 National Institutes of Health (NIH) classification criteria for Chronic GVHD. …”
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Psychosocial risks and mental health of health and social care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by Nadia Vilahur Chiaraviglio

“… Certainly, our perception of the world we live in has changed since COVID-19 irrupted in our lives in March 2020. Many of our certainties in the European continent were shaked by the unequivocal evidence of our vulnerability as individuals and our lack of preparedness as a society to manage a health emergency of unknown boundaries, despite having one of the most well-developed health systems across the globe. …”
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Diplomacy and Recruitment of Mercenaries before the Battle of Žalgiris by Sven Ekdahl

“…That important source shows evidence that about 2,000 mercenaries arrived too late to join the main army when it marched from Thorn at the beginning of July in order to stop the expected intervention. …”
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Intimate partner violence among women of reproductive age during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Gizachew Yilak, Alemayehu Sayih Belay, Aychew Kassie, Befkad Derese Tilahun, Ambaw Abebaw Emrie, Mulat Ayele, Eyob Shitie Lake, Legese Fekede Abza

“…Therefore, this study aimed to assess the pooled prevalence of IPV and its determinants among women of reproductive age during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia.Design Systematic review and meta-analysis.Data sources The review was done as per the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guideline using different search databases such as: PubMed/Medline, Cochrane Library, Virtual Health Library Regional Portal, HINARI (research4life), and Google Scholar.Eligibility criteria Those quantitative studies conducted in Ethiopia during the COVID-19 pandemic, that reported the prevalence of IPV among women of reproductive age, and were published in English from 13 March 2020 to 15 October 2025, were included for this study.Data extraction and synthesis All authors independently extracted data using the Joanna Briggs Institute manual for evidence synthesis. …”
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Current status and influencing factors of eating-related distress among patients with advanced cancer (晚期癌症患者饮食相关困扰现状及影响因素研究) by LU Jingjing (卢晶晶), WU Lihua (武丽华), CHEN Xingyu (陈星宇), GAO Yang (高洋), CAO Moli (曹茉莉)

“…Methods Convenience sampling method was used to select 243 patients with advanced cancer diagnosed by clinical and guidelines in a tertiary hospital in Shanxi from March to June 2024 as the survey objects. The general information Questionnaire, the Chinese Version of of the Questionnaire for Eating-Related Distress among Patients with advanced cancer (QERD-P), the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core version 3, and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 were used for the questionnaire survey. …”
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Early and high-volume administration of sodium bicarbonate in sepsis-associated acute kidney injury in patients with malignancies, during continuous renal replacement therapy by Lamei Ouyang, Yin Pan, Ya-Fei Wu, Qiang Tang, Dao-Feng Wang, Ning Lou

“…The goal is to provide valuable clinical data for the management of cancer patients with sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (SAKI).Materials and methods A retrospective study was performed on 88 patients who were admitted to the ICU and received continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) for acute renal failure secondary to sepsis at the Cancer Center of Sun Yat-sen University from March 2010 to October 2021. Based on the initiation time of CRRT and the volume of sodium bicarbonate infusion, patients were divided into four groups: the early high-volume group, early low-volume group, late high-volume group, and late low-volume group.Results The results of this study showed that in the 28-day mortality model, established using the Cox proportional hazards method, early CRRT (HR 0.473; 95% CI 0.245–0.915, p = 0.026) and high-volume sodium bicarbonate infusion (HR 0.173; 95% CI 0.078–0.383, p < 0.001) were identified as two independent protective factors. …”
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Development and validation of a model to predict cognitive impairment in traumatic brain injury patients: a prospective observational studyResearch in context by Xiaofang Yuan, Qingrong Xu, Fengxia Du, Xiaoxia Gao, Jing Guo, Jianan Zhang, Yehuan Wu, Zhongkai Zhou, Youjia Yu, Yi Zhang

“…For the validation cohort, data were prospectively collected from TBI patients admitted to the Department of Neurosurgery at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University from March 1, 2024 to August 30, 2024, according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. …”
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Spatiotemporal analysis of rainfall and temperature variability and trends for a mixed crop-livestock production system: its implications for developing adaptation strategies by Sintayehu Alemayehu, Daniel Olago, Opere Alfred, Tadesse Terefe Zeleke, Sintayehu W. Dejene

“…The analysis identified that over 84% of the annual rainfall occurs during the March to May (MAM) and September to November (SON) seasons, with MAM contributing approximately 53% and SON over 31%, highlighting these as the primary rainfall periods. …”
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Acute gastrointestinal and post-acute COVID-19 gastrointestinal syndrome assessment on the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale scoring system: A questionnaire-based survey by Sunita Singh, Niraj K. Srivastava, Rahul Yadav, Saurabh Paul, Shefali Gupta, Sankalp, Priyanshi Dixit

“…The data incorporated patients treated from April 2021 to March 2023. Exclusion criteria were neurological disorders, dementia, inability to understand Hindi/English languages, and psychiatric problems. …”
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Pratiques de l’automédication à l’ère de la pandémie COVID-19 dans trois villes de l’Ouest algérien [Practices of self-medication in the COVID-19 pandemic era in three cities of We... by Derouicha Matmou, Asma Memou, Yassine Merad, Ayoub Bouzid, Sohaïb Abd-El-Koudous Bouzid, Aissa Brik, Mounia Sakouhi

“…Materials and methods- The study was carried out during the pandemic from January 01st, 2022 to March 31st, 2022 using a questionnaire distributed to community pharmacists prac­ticing in Tiaret, Sidi Bel-Abbes and El-Bayadh. …”
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Utilizing of black cumin (Nigella sativa) flour to increase the immunity system of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) against Aeromonas hydrophila bacteria attack by Norma Rizki Silviana, Rosidah, Wahyuniar Pamungkas, Roffi Grandiosa

“…This study was conducted from March – May 2021 and the experimental method is completely randomized design (CRD) with 5 treatments and 3 replications. …”
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Assessment of Bowel Preparation Using Low-Volume Sulphate-Based Preparations in Comparison with Macrogols: A Multicenter, Randomized, Comparative Clinical Study of the 3rd Phase by E. D. Fedorov, V. V. Veselov, S. V. Kashin, E. V. Tikhomirova, A. V. Veselov, D. V. Zavyalov, A. Kornowski, T. E. Gorskaya, M. Volteau, T. Ponchon

“…This study was conducted in three Russian research centres during the March–December, 2015 period. Men and women over the age of 18 scheduled to undergo routine diagnostic colonoscopy were randomly assigned either to the OSS group or to the Macrogol group with a fractional use mode before the colonoscopy. …”
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Comprehensive Evaluation of GPM-IMERG, CMORPH, and TMPA Precipitation Products with Gauged Rainfall over Mainland China by Guanghua Wei, Haishen Lü, Wade T. Crow, Yonghua Zhu, Jianqun Wang, Jianbin Su

“…The performance of IMERG V05B precipitation products was systematically evaluated using 542 precipitation gauges at multiple spatiotemporal scales from March 2014 to February 2017 over China. Moreover, IMERG V05B was compared with IMERG V04A, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 3B42, and the Climate Prediction Center Morphing technique (CMORPH)-CRT in this study. …”
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