A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Single-Session Digital Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Intervention by Michael E. Levin, Miriam N. Mukasa, Emily M. Bowers, Korena S. Klimczak, Ty B. Aller

“…A total of 61 students were recruited, which was below the target of 100 participants. …”
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Examining the physical and psychological effects of combining multimodal feedback with continuous control in prosthetic hands by Digby Chappell, Zeyu Yang, Angus B. Clark, Alexandre Berkovic, Colin Laganier, Weston Baxter, Fernando Bello, Petar Kormushev, Nicolas Rojas

“…Twenty-eight participants without and ten participants with upper limb difference (ULD) were recruited to holistically evaluate the physical and psychological effects of the controller via isolated control and sensory tasks, dexterity assessments, embodiment and task load questionnaires, and post-study interviews. …”
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Macrophage metabolic reprogramming ameliorates diabetes-induced microvascular dysfunction by Qiu-Yang Zhang, Hui-Ying Zhang, Si-Guo Feng, Mu-Di Yao, Jing-Juan Ding, Xiu-Miao Li, Rong Ye, Qing Liu, Jin Yao, Biao Yan

“…Mechanistically, cSPECC1 regulates GPX2 expression by recruiting eIF4A3, enhancing GPX2 mRNA stability and altering arachidonic acid metabolism. …”
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Helicobacter pylori Infection Is Associated with Type 2 Diabetes, Not Type 1 Diabetes: An Updated Meta-Analysis by Jun-Zhen Li, Jie-Yao Li, Ting-Feng Wu, Ji-Hao Xu, Can-Ze Huang, Di Cheng, Qi-Kui Chen, Tao Yu

“…Published studies reporting H. pylori infection in both DM and non-DM individuals were recruited. Results. 79 studies with 57,397 individuals were included in this meta-analysis. …”
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Strategies Australian junior doctors use to maintain their mental, physical and social well-being: a qualitative study by Melanie Hobi, Sonya Yegorova-Lee, Christopher Chun-lin Chan, Hailin Zhao, Stephen Jiang, Dan Tran, Gayathri Nair, Erika Borkoles

“…Objectives This study aimed to uncover the strategies that junior doctors implement to maintain their mental, physical and social well-being, and the barriers they experience in practising these strategies.Participants Fifteen junior doctors in their postgraduate year 1 or 2 currently practising in Australia were recruited.Outcome measures Semistructured interviews were conducted, and the transcripts underwent thematic analysis.Results Three key themes emerged from thematic analysis, namely: well-being strategies, barriers to well-being and and future interventions. …”
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Identification of novel serum lipid metabolism potential markers and metabolic pathways for oral cancer: a population-based study by Na Wang, Yujia Chen, Jianli Lin, Yulan Lin, Haoyuan Song, Weihai Huang, Liling Shen, Fa Chen, Fengqiong Liu, Jing Wang, Yu Qiu, Bin Shi, Ling Li, Lisong Lin, Lizhen Pan, Baochang He

“…Methods A total of 41 OC patients and 41 controls were recruited from a hospital in Southeast China to examine the serum lipidomics by Ultra-high Performance Liquid Chromatography Q Exactive Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC-QE-MS). …”
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New Insights into Behçet’s Syndrome Metabolic Reprogramming: Citrate Pathway Dysregulation by Anna Santarsiero, Pietro Leccese, Paolo Convertini, Angela Padula, Paolo Abriola, Salvatore D’Angelo, Faustino Bisaccia, Vittoria Infantino

“…Thirty-nine consecutive BS patients fulfilling ISG criteria, and 21 healthy controls suitable for age and sex were recruited. BS patients were divided into two groups according to the presence (active) or absence (inactive) of clinical manifestations. …”
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Adrenal Insufficiency in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)-Infected Patients without Preexisting Adrenal Diseases: A Systematic Literature Review by Mehrbod Vakhshoori, Maryam Heidarpour, Niloofar Bondariyan, Niyousha Sadeghpour, Zohreh Mousavi

“…A total of 10 records (cross-sectional studies: 3, N = 256, males: 176 (68.7%), and case reports: 7, N = 7, males: 4 (57.1%)) were recruited. The age spectrum ranged from 22 to 96 years. …”
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Income level is associated with differences in primary and secondary stroke prevention in China by Huiming Ren, Junrong Ma, Xu Guo, Ruijie Zhang, Liyuan Pu, Tian Zhao, Fangfang Zeng, Chang Shu, Liyuan Han, Yunzhi Wang, Qiang Li, Xiaojie Wang

“…Community residents (n = 512,715) aged 30–79 years were recruited. Stroke was determined by the self-reporting of a doctor’s diagnosis, and participants with a high risk of stroke were identified using the model developed in the Prediction for ASCVD Risk in China study. …”
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Factors Associated with Poor Eye Drop Administration Technique and the Role of Patient Education among Hong Kong Elderly Population by Bonnie Nga Kwan Choy, Ming Ming Zhu, Jason Chun Sum Pang, Jonathan Cheuk Hung Chan, Alex Lap Ki Ng, Michelle Ching Yim Fan, Lawrence Pui Leung Iu, Joseph Shiu Kwong Kwan, Jimmy Shiu Ming Lai, Patrick Ka Chun Chiu

“…Chinese subjects above 60 years were recruited. Questionnaires, including Barthel index; Lawton’s instrumental activities of daily living (ADL); Fatigue, Resistance, Ambulation, Illnesses, and Loss of Weight (FRAIL) scale; and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), were used to correlate with eye drop application technique (before and after patient education) using Spearman correlation analysis. …”
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Patient-Related Determinants of Glycaemic Control in People with Type 2 Diabetes in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A Systematic Review by Mohammed J. Alramadan, Afsana Afroz, Sultana Monira Hussain, Mohammed Ali Batais, Turky H. Almigbal, Hassan Ahmad Al-Humrani, Ahmed Albaloshi, Lorena Romero, Dianna J. Magliano, Baki Billah

“…One study was population based, six recruited participants from multiple centres, and the remaining were single centred. …”
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The Impact of PTPRK and ROS1 Polymorphisms on the Preeclampsia Risk in Han Chinese Women by Huihui Li, Xingyu Yan, Man Yang, Mei Liu, Shan Tian, Mengru Yu, Wei-Ping Li, Cong Zhang

“…A further independent set of 958 cases and 1007 controls were recruited for genotyping to determine whether the genes of interest ROS1 and PTPRK are associated with PE. …”
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Evaluating Clinical Outcomes for Determining the Optimal Delay to Skin Incision under WALANT: A Prospective Series of 34 Patients from a Low-Resource Tertiary Setting by Alvin Hernandez, Mamer Rosario, Romina Mendoza-Torres, Carl Ryan Marino Taguba, Abigail Garcia, Geoffrey Battad

“…Thirty-four patients were consecutively recruited and allocated by either 7-min or 30-min delay for skin incision from local injection of epinephrine with lidocaine. …”
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COGEVIS: A New Scale to Evaluate Cognition in Patients with Visual Deficiency by Claire Meyniel, Dalila Samri, Farah Stefano, Joel Crevoisier, Florence Bonté, Raffaella Migliaccio, Laure Delaby, Anne Bertrand, Marie Odile Habert, Bruno Dubois, Bahram Bodaghi, Stéphane Epelbaum

“…Thirty-eight individuals, 17 women and 21 men with a mean age of 70.3 ± 1.3 years and a mean visual acuity of 0.12 ± 0.02, were recruited over a one-year period. Sixty-three percent of participants had normal cognitive status. …”
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Assessment of the predictive power the radiation-induced lymphocyte apoptosis method in prostate cancer patients by Gyöngyvér Orsolya Sándor, Gyöngyi Farkas, Gábor Székely, Péter Ágoston, Kliton Jorgo, László Gesztesi, Tibor Major, Csilla Pesznyák, András Herein, Gábor Stelczer, Dalma Mihály, Georgina Fröhlich, Zsolt Jurányi, Zoltán Takácsi-Nagy, Csaba Polgár, Zsuzsa S. Kocsis

“…Prostate cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men worldwide, which is usually treated with radiotherapy. We recruited 49 patients with localized prostate cancer and performed RILA measurements before radiotherapy. …”
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Psychological experience of inpatients with acute pancreatitis: a qualitative study by Yuanyuan Chen, Guotao Lu, Can Zhang, Yiwen Gao, Jingwen Qin, Weiwei Chen, Yan Ren, Shuli Ma, Weijuan Gong, Xiaoxi Yang, Hongmei He

“…Objective This study aimed to better understand the psychological experiences of inpatients with acute pancreatitis (AP).Design We used a qualitative descriptive study design to capture patients with AP’s thoughts, feelings and behavioural responses.Setting We conducted this study in the gastroenterology departments of two tertiary hospitals in Eastern China.Participants We used a convenience sampling approach to recruit 28 inpatients with AP from 1 August 2020 to 25 December 2020. …”
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Don’t Peak Too Early: Evidence for an ACL Injury Prevention Mechanism of the 11+ Program by Haraldur B Sigurðsson, Kristín Briem, Karin Grävare Silbernagel, Lynn Snyder-Mackler

“… # Methods Three teams (69 players) of collegiate female soccer athletes (Divisions I and II) were recruited. Two teams (49 players) volunteered to perform The 11+ three times per week for one season (~22 weeks plus three weeks pre-season), and one team (20 players) served as controls. …”
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Risk factors for diabetic retinopathy: a case-control study by Pratiksha Nathani, Pratik R. Kharat, Satish Wadde

“…Before performing structured interviews, a total of 252 people (126 cases and 126 controls) were recruited and matched for age (±2 years) and sex. Results The average age in the DR and non-DR categories was 63.7 9.5 years and 63.3 10.4 years, respectively. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Sleep Quality between Medical and Nonmedical Students at Gulu University, Uganda by Brenda Nakitto, Federes Nansubuga, Edward Omondi, Moses Opedo, Felix Bongomin

“…Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study recruiting undergraduate students of Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda. …”
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Effect of core stability exercises on upper limb reaching in children with spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsy: a randomized controlled trial by Nadia Hassan Abd-Elhameed, Heballah Mohammed Kamal, Mai Elsayed Abbass

“…For this purpose, 30 hemiparetic CP children of both sexes were recruited for the study. The children were between the ages of 4 and 6. …”
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