Prevalence and risk factors for long COVID among cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Hongkun Xu, Hongkun Xu, Tingting Lu, Yajie Liu, Jingqi Yang, Simeng Ren, Baojin Han, Honghao Lai, Long Ge, Jie Liu

“…Patients with comorbidities are at a high risk of developing long COVID. Further randomized controlled trials with rigorous methodological designs and large sample sizes are needed for future validation.Systematic review registrationhttps://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/, identifier CRD42023456665.…”
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Risk factors for ocular biological parameters in Chinese preschool children: a cohort study from the Beijing whole childhood eye study by Xi Qin, Yunyun Sun, Yunyun Sun, Shana Wang, Xiaolan Xie, Lei Gao, Huijian Li, Huijian Li, Ruihua Wei, Jing Fu, Jing Fu, Bidan Zhu

“…Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effects of these factors on the AL, CR, and AL/CR ratio in children aged 3–6 years in Beijing.MethodsIn this 3-month study, initiated in November 2021, children aged 3–6 years from nine kindergartens in Beijing were randomly selected for ocular biological parameter measurements. …”
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A digital intervention to reduce home-office workers’ sedentary behaviour: protocol for the evaluation of the Click2Move programme, a cluster randomised controlled trial by Judit Bort-Roig, Iris Parés-Salomón, Bette Loef, Cristina Vaqué-Crusellas, Alan Coffey, Arnau Gustems-Morral, Anna M. Señé-Mir, Izabela Luznik, Maja Pajek, Kieran P. Dowd, Anna Puig-Ribera, Karin I. Proper

“…Participants within each company will be randomly allocated to the intervention or control group at the unit/cluster level. …”
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Effects of two kinds of vestibular function training on reducing motion sickness in college students by Linyao Shi, Jing Zhao, Jiamei Lu, Chuanxia Cao, Qikun Zhang, Chuanjing Qiu, Zhanguo Jin, Shengguang Yan, Shengguang Yan, Shengguang Yan

“…Vestibular function training has increasingly replaced MS medications over the past few years and has almost no side effects.MethodsWe selected 109 students with MS from a university in Tangshan, China, and randomly assigned them to either an electric rotating chair group or a visual-motion cage rotating chair group. …”
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Impact of Ecobiol plus ® feed additive on growth performance, physiological response, oxidative status and immunological status of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fingerlings... by Amira A. Omar, Doaa H. Assar, Mustafa Shukry, Aya Abo El-Ezz, Foad A. Farrag, Wesam E. Abd El-Aziz, Eman M. Moustafa

“…A total of 525 Nile tilapia fingerlings, averaging 30.00 ± 5.00 g in initial weight, were randomly divided into four groups (control and three experimental groups), each with three replicates of 25 fish. …”
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Biofeedback Acupoint Stimulation Combined with Rood Technique on Walking Function of Stroke Patients in Convalescent Period by MENG Haichao, QU Shujie, CHANG Yongxia, HAO Lisha, ZHAO Hailu, MA Qiuyun, ZUO Xiaohong, WANG Zhengtian

“…ObjectiveTo observe the effect of biofeedback acupoint stimulation combined with Rood technique on walking function of stroke patients in convalescent period.MethodsA total of 120 stroke patients in convalescent period hospitalized in the Rehabilitation Medicine Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Hebei North University from January 2020 to January 2021 were randomly divided into control group and observation group, with 60 cases in each group. …”
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Different starch sources and amino acid levels on growth performance, starch and amino acids digestion, absorption and metabolism of 0- to 3-week-old broilers fed low protein diet by Caiwei Luo, Jinping Wang, Wei Jiang, Dafei Yin, Gang Meng, Jiwei Wang, Jing Xu, Jianmin Yuan

“…The experiment was conducted with 702 Arbor Acres Plus broilers at 1 d old, which were randomly divided into 9 treatments with 6 replicates of 13 chickens each. …”
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Comparative study of pulpal response following direct pulp capping using synthesized fluorapatite and hydroxyapatite nanoparticles by Eman M. Salem, Omnia M. Abdelfatah, Rania A. Hanafy, Rehab M. El-Sharkawy, Ghadir Elnawawy, Wafaa Yahia Alghonemy

“…Material and methods A total of 72 upper and lower incisor teeth from 18 rabbits were randomly categorized into 3 groups)24 incisors from six rabbits each. …”
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Application of high-quality nursing under the humanistic care nursing model in hospitalized elderly patients with chronic diseases (人文关怀护理模式下的优质护理在住院老年慢性病患者中的应用效果)... by LI Yueru (李月茹), CAO Hongjing (曹红京), LI Ning (李宁), LI Jing (李静), PENG Kun (彭堃)

“…Methods Totally 70 elderly patients with chronic diseases admitted to the hospital from January 2022 to January 2023 were selected as the research objects. They were randomly divided into the study group and the control group, with 35 patients in each group. …”
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Effect of periodontal therapy on endothelial function and serum biomarkers in patients with periodontitis and established cardiovascular disease: a pilot study by Ana Molina, Nagore Ambrosio, María Molina, Eduardo Montero, Leire Virto, David Herrera, Elena Figuero, Mariano Sanz

“…AimTo investigate the effect of periodontal therapy on endothelial function of subjects with periodontitis in stages III or IV and established cardiovascular disease.Materials and methodsA triple-blinded, parallel groups, randomized clinical trial of 6 months duration, on patients with history of coronary heart disease and periodontitis in stages III or IV was performed. …”
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Clinical benefits of modifying the evening light environment in an acute psychiatric unit: A single-centre, two-arm, parallel-group, pragmatic effectiveness randomised controlled t... by Håvard Kallestad, Knut Langsrud, Melanie Rae Simpson, Cecilie Lund Vestergaard, Daniel Vethe, Kaia Kjørstad, Patrick Faaland, Stian Lydersen, Gunnar Morken, Ingvild Ulsaker-Janke, Simen Berg Saksvik, Jan Scott

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>From 10/25/2018 to 03/29/2019, and 10/01/2019 to 11/15/2019, all adults (≥18 years of age) admitted for acute inpatient psychiatric care in Trondheim, Norway, were randomly allocated to a ward with a blue-depleted evening light environment or a ward with a standard light environment. …”
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Vaccination in Nile tilapia broodstock with whole cell vaccine and disease resistance in its fry against Aeromonas hydrophila by Sukenda Sukenda, Odang Carman, Rahman Rahman, Dendi Hidayatullah, Nurfitriani Siti Yumaidawati

“…This study used complete randomized design with two treatments and three replications. …”
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Pengaruh Paparan Medan Magnet Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) terhadap Perubahan pH Pada Proses Fermentasi Biji Kopi Lanang (Peaberry) Kering by Mamik Purbawati, Sudarti Sudarti, Firdha Kusuma A A

“…The type of research that use in the experimental reseacrh with a randomized subject post test only control grup design, it aiming to examine the effect of treatment by repeating the experiment. …”
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Circular RNA circ-Olfm1 induces progression of Alzheimer’s disease by regulating FOXO3a by YANG Hongyan, LIAO Qirong, HOU Mingliang

“…Methods‍　‍Six-month-old APP/PS1 mouse model of AD and wild type (WT) mice were subjected and then randomly divided into WT group, WT+ circ-Olfm1 knockout group, AD group (transgenic APP/PS1 mice), AD+ circ-Olfm1 knockout group, AD+FOXO3a knockout group, with 3 mice in each group. ① The total RNA of mouse brain was extracted, and the differential expression of circRNAs and mRNAs between the AD mice and WT mice was detected, and the obtained circRNAs and mRNAs were analyzed with gene ontology (GO) analysis. ② RT‐qPCR was used to detect the expression of the top 10 up-regulated and down-regulated circRNAs, as well as the expression of circ-Olfm1 and miR-330-5p. ③ Lentiviral vectors were prepared and stereotaxically injected into the cortex or hippocampus of WT and AD mice to knock out circ-Olfm1 gene. …”
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Free fatty acids may regulate the expression of 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 in the liver of high-fat diet golden hamsters through the ERS-CHOP-C/EBPα signaling pathway... by Dandan Liu, Peipei Tian, Yilin Hou, Tingxue Zhang, Xiaoyu Hou, Lifang Liu, Xiaolong Li, Kunjie Zheng, Chao Wang, Guangyao Song

“…Methods A total of 24 male Syrian golden hamsters (SPF grade) were selected and randomly divided into a control group (Con, n = 8) fed a normal diet, and a high-fat diet group (n = 16) fed for 12 weeks. …”
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Effect of humanistic care combined with risk management nursing model on the incidence of venous thromboembolism in critically ill patients with cancer (人文关怀联合风险管理干预重症肿瘤患者静脉血栓栓塞症的效... by ZHEN Yuhong (郑玉红), PEI Xiaolu (裴晓璐)

“…Methods Totally 100 critically ill patients with cancer were randomly divided into the study group and the control group, with 55 cases in each group. …”
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Impact of Flexor Tendon Traction Tenolysis on Clinical Outcomes in Open A1 Pulley Release for Trigger Finger by Shalimar Abdullah, BMBS, MS, Syed Jeffrey Syed Ahmad Kabeer, MBChB, MD, Lim Chia Hua, MD, Jamari Sapuan, MD, MS, Parminder Singh Gill, MBBS, MS, Elaine Soh Zi Fan, MBBS, MD

“…Methods: A prospective study was conducted from January 2018 to June 2019, involving patients with grade II–III trigger finger requiring surgical intervention. Patients were randomized into two groups: group I (open A1 pulley release with flexor tendon traction tenolysis) and group II (open A1 pulley release without flexor tendon traction tenolysis). …”
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Survival in patients with CKD 3–5 after 12 months of exercise training – a post-hoc analysis of the RENEXC trial by Sara Denguir, Matthias Hellberg, Martin Almquist, Naomi Clyne

“…Methods This is a post-hoc analysis of the RENEXC trial, a randomized controlled study comparing 12 months of strength- and balance training both in combination with aerobic training. …”
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Hypofractionated image-guided radiotherapy with 70 Gy in 28 fractions for prostate cancer confined to the pelvis: a single institute experience in Taiwan by Hui-Lei Mu, Mau-Shin Chi, Hui-Ling Ko, Guang-Dar Juang, Thomas I-Sheng Hwang, Kwan-Hwa Chi, Kai-Lin Yang

“…Conclusions Hypofractionated image-guided radiotherapy, delivering 70 Gy at 2.5 Gy per fraction, is both effective and safe for Taiwanese patients with prostate cancer across all risk groups, consistent with findings from existing large randomized trials. Therefore, as a solution to enhance patient convenience, hypofractionated radiotherapy is a reasonable option for the definitive treatment of prostate cancer. …”
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Morphological characterization and yield of pepper (Piper nigrum L.) types grown in Morogoro District, Tanzania by Abdul Jafari Shango, Ramadhani Omari Majubwa, Amon Petro Maerere

“…Methods The evaluation of pepper morphological characters was conducted following a randomized complete block design with three replications and four treatments (pepper types). …”
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