Prevalence and factors associated with modern contraceptive use among women of reproductive age in 20 African countries: a large population-based study by Robert Akparibo, Paschal Awingura Apanga, Maxwell Tii Kumbeni, Emmanuel Awine Ayamga, Mark B Ulanja

“…Objective To assess the prevalence and factors associated with modern contraceptive (CP) use among women of the reproductive age.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting We used data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICSs) from 20 African countries collected between 2013 and 2018.Participants Data on 1 177 459 women aged 15–49 years old.Methods Multivariable logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with modern CP use, while controlling simultaneously for independent variables, and accounting for clustering, stratification and sample weights from the complex sampling design. …”
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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

“…Sleep quality, BMI and multiple comorbid conditions were also linked with raised HbA1c. …”
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Loss of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) increases Lysyl oxidase-like 2 (LOXL2) expression enhancing the growth of fallopian tube epithelial cells as three-dimensional spheroi... by Angela Russo, Junlone Moy, Manead Khin, Timothy R. Dorsey, Alfredo Lopez Carrero, Joanna E. Burdette

“…Background: High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) accounts for 70–80% of all ovarian cancer-related deaths. Multiple studies have suggested that the fallopian tube epithelium (FTE) serves as the cell of origin of HGSOC. …”
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of Australian dairy goat farmers towards the control of gastrointestinal parasites by Endris A. Ali, Ghazanfar Abbas, Ian Beveridge, Sandra Baxendell, Berwyn Squire, Mark A. Stevenson, Abdul Ghafar, Abdul Jabbar

“…After a pilot survey (n = 15 respondents), a link to the questionnaire was available to all (n = 456) registered members of the Dairy Goat Society of Australia Ltd from 17 April to 16 June 2023. Multiple correspondence analyses (MCA) were performed to explore the association between selected parasite control practices. …”
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Biodistribution of a Mitochondrial Metabolic Tracer, [18F]F-AraG, in Healthy Volunteers by Jelena Levi, Heying Duan, Shahriar Yaghoubi, Juliet Packiasamy, Lyna Huynh, Tina Lam, Faiq Shaikh, Deepak Behera, Hong Song, Joseph Blecha, Salma Jivan, Youngho Seo, Henry F. VanBrocklin

“…Regions of interest were delineated for multiple organs, and the area under the time-activity curves was calculated for each organ and used to derive time-integrated activity coefficient (TIAC). …”
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Involvement of p38 MAPK and MAPKAPK2 in promoting cell death and the inflammatory response to ischemic stress associated with necrotic glioblastoma by Soo Yeon Kim, Miaolu Tang, Stephen Y. Chih, Jessica Sallavanti, Yan Gao, Zhiqiang Qiu, Hong-Gang Wang, Wei Li

“…Gene expression in these cells recapitulated multiple features observed in peri-necrotic tumors from patient GBM. …”
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Association of uric acid with the decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate in middle-aged and elderly populations: evidence based on the China Health and Retirement Longitud... by Ying Liang, Ming Lei, Liu Lin, Peijia Liu, Sini Cui, Kaiyuan Hu, Xinning Shao

“…Logistic models corrected for multiple covariables were used to analyse the association of UA with the decline in eGFR.Results The median (IQR) concentrations of serum UA grouped by quartiles were 3.1 (0.6), 3.9 (0.3), 4.6 (0.4) and 5.7 (1.0) mg/dL, respectively. …”
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Long-term risk factors for developing Barrett’s oesophagus in patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a longitudinal cohort study by John F Dillon, Paul Brennan, James Cotton, James Carberry, Christopher J Byrne

“…Logistic regression analysis was undertaken to assess the effects of multiple parameters on the likelihood of developing BO.Results 1197 participants were recruited. …”
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Why and how should we simulate platform trials? Learnings from EU-PEARL by Elias Laurin Meyer, Tobias Mielke, Marta Bofill Roig, Michaela Maria Freitag, Peter Jacko, Pavla Krotka, Peter Mesenbrink, Tom Parke, Sonja Zehetmayer, Dario Zocholl, Franz König

“…Abstract Background Platform trials are innovative clinical trials governed by a master protocol that allows for the evaluation of multiple investigational treatments that enter and leave the trial over time. …”
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Exploring the experiences of women and people with diabetes in pregnancy in metropolitan and rural Australia: a national survey by Ellen Payne, Susan Heaney, Clare Collins, Megan Rollo, Leanne J. Brown

“…The survey included multiple choice and open-ended questions. Responses from the open-ended question asking participants the changes they would want made to their care delivery were interpreted using qualitative content analysis. …”
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Is sleep bruxism associated with smartphone use, neck pain, and sleep features among adolescents? by Ivana Meyer PRADO, Letícia Fernanda MOREIRA-SANTOS, Gabriela de Faria e Barboza HOFFMAM, Lucas Guimarães ABREU, Sheyla Márcia AUAD, Isabela Almeida PORDEUS, Júnia Maria SERRA-NEGRA

“…Participants were selected using multiple-stage sampling. Descriptive analysis and multinomial regression were performed (p ≤ 0.05). …”
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Parametric modeling of under-5 children survival among 30 African countries: Lognormal accelerated failure time gamma shared frailty model. by Bikis Liyew, Kemal Tesfa, Kassaye Demeke Altaye, Abeje Diress Gelaw, Alemu Teshale Bicha, Ayanaw Guade Mamo, Kassaw Chekole Adane

“…In this study, children born in Western Africa; children born in Eastern Africa; children born to mothers aged 15-19 years; maternal educational status; maternal decision autonomy; being female; place of delivery; number of ANC visits; children born among mothers who delivered by Cesarean section; mothers who have multiple birth outcome; children who were second birth order; and third birth order and third birth order; children who were small in size at birth; children who were born from a community with a low women education; having poor wealth index; respondents working; mothers delivered at the age between 20-35 were significant predictors of survival time to event of under-five children in Africa.…”
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Comparative study of phenotypic and genotypic expression of virulence factors in colonizing and pathogenic carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) by Swati Sharma, Kamal Singh, Ashish Chaurasiya, Tuhina Banerjee, Royana Singh, Ghanshyam Yadav, Ashok Kumar

“…Abstract Abstract Carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii has evolved as the most troublesome microorganism with multiple virulence factors. Biofilm formation, porins, micronutrient capturing mechanism and quorum sensing, provide protection against desiccation, host-pathogen killing and enhance its persistence. …”
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FLT3 is associated with dendritic cell infiltration, tertiary lymphoid structure construction, and predict response to checkpoint inhibitors immunotherapy in solid cancers by Yongchang Tang, Hong Wang, Jiankun Zhang, Chunhui Yang, Fei Xu, Yan Song, Tianen Li, Qiangbo Zhang

“…We analyzed the frequency of FLT3 alterations, its mRNA expression levels, and its prognostic implications across multiple cancer types. Additionally, we explored genes co-expressed with FLT3 and performed gene ontology analysis to identify associated biological processes. …”
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Genome-wide identification of CAMTA gene family in teak (Tectona grandis) and functional characterization of TgCAMTA1 and TgCAMTA3 in cold tolerance by Wenlong Zhou, Jian Du, Runjie Jiao, Xianbang Wang, Tiansong Fang, Guihua Huang

“…Transgenic lines carrying the TgCAMTA1/3 promoter::GUS construct cold stress induction of TgCAMTA1/3 genes revealed the presence of multiple low-temperature responsive cis-acting elements in the TgCAMTA1/3 promoter region. …”
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Assessment of Air Pollution Tolerance and Physicochemical Alterations of Alstonia scholaris (L.) R.Br. along Roadsides of Lahore, Pakistan by Zahid Mehmood, Ali Hasnain, Muhammad Luqman, Sohaib Muhammad, Narayan Babu Dhital, Arooba John, Maryam Iqbal, Amna Ejaz, Matiba Tufail, Harma, Hsi-Hsien Yang, Muhammad Umer Farooq Awan

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Health-Related Quality of Life Subdomains in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: The Role of Gender by Anja Ophey, Carsten Eggers, Richard Dano, Lars Timmermann, Elke Kalbe

“…Therefore, our aim was to reevaluate the PDQ-39 structure and to further explore determinants of HrQoL in PD. 245 PD patients (age: M = 69.64, SD = 8.43; 62.9% male; H&Y: Md = 3.00; cognitive assessment with PANDA: M = 24.82, SD = 3.57) from the baseline database of the Cologne Parkinson Network were used to reevaluate the dimensionality of the PDQ-39 with a principal component analysis (PCA). Multiple regression analyses were conducted to clarify general and domain-specific relationships between clinical, (neuro)psychological, and sociodemographic variables, gender in particular, and HrQoL. …”
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Lipoprotein Particle Predictors of Arterial Stiffness after 17 Years of Follow Up: The Malmö Diet and Cancer Study by Jacob Hartz, Ronald M. Krauss, Mikael Göttsater, Olle Melander, Peter Nilsson, Michele Mietus-Snyder

“…Associations between c-fPWV and lipoprotein particles were determined with multiple linear regression, controlling for sex, presence of diabetes, waist-to-hip circumference, and smoking status at baseline, as well as heart rate (measured at the carotid artery), mean arterial pressure, antihypertensive and lipid-lowering medications, C-reactive protein (CRP), and age at the time of c-fPWV measurement. …”
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Institucionalidad y subjetividad, participación y valoración de lo institucional. Reflexiones a partir de estudio de caso en tribunal de familia by David Avalos Figueroa

“…Tendrá importancia en las reflexiones de este estudio la discusión acerca de una capacidad exclusiva de las instituciones, de instaurar una subjetividad y realizar este proceso en condiciones menos óptimas, en donde simplemente prevalece la evidencia de más violencia en sus múltiples expresiones. O en cambio consideramos el rol protagónico y emergente que pueden adquirir para este propósito las identidades populares locales. …”
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Nutritional content and healthiness in sweet and salty snacks and beverages popular in South Korea and the United States assessed by nutrition labels: a cross-sectional comparative... by Bo Jeong Gong, Segovia Lucas, Diewo Camara, Pauline E. Jolly, Chandrika Piyathilake, Taisun Hyun

“…The FoPNL system was used to assess the healthiness of the products, which included multiple traffic light labels, a Health Star Rating, and a Nutri-Score. …”
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