Clinical novel exploration of intractable fever in stroke rehabilitation: a single-center cross-sectional retrospective study by Huang Jingjie, Wu Bangqi, Qin Peng, Zhang Ziyi, Cheng Yupei, Wang Chaoran, Chen Yuyan, Bai Jing

“…A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. 15.7% of patients experienced intractable fever, which was significantly associated with brainstem lesions (P < 0.05). …”
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EIF1AX mutation in thyroid tumors: a retrospective analysis of cytology, histopathology and co-mutation profiles by Noha Elsherbini, Dong Hyun Kim, Richard J. Payne, Thomas Hudson, Véronique-Isabelle Forest, Michael P. Hier, Alexandra E. Payne, Marc P. Pusztaszeri

“…A p value of 0.05 or less was considered statistically significant. Results Out of 1583 patients who underwent FNA, 621 had further molecular testing. 31 cases (5%) harbored EIF1AX mutations. …”
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Discharge readiness and its influencing factors among pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus (妊娠期糖尿病产妇出院准备度现状及影响因素研究) by DUAN Meimei (段美美), SUN Guiyu (孙贵豫), LI Yuanyuan (黎媛媛)

“…Results The score of RHDS-NMFS of GDM women was (118. 16±18. 36) points, which was at the medium level. There were statistically significant differences in RHDS-NMFS scores of GDM women with education, other pregnancy complications or complications, mode of postpartum confinement, understanding of gestational diabetes, and whether they usually monitored blood glucose by themselves (P＜0. 05). …”
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Prevalence of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection in people living with HIV: a systematic review with meta-analysisResearch in context by Dimitra V. Pouliopoulou, Nicole Billias, Joy C. MacDermid, Erin Miller, Kelly K. O'Brien, Kieran L. Quinn, Monali S. Malvankar-Mehta, Tiago V. Pereira, Angela M. Cheung, Fahad Razak, Saverio Stranges, Pavlos Bobos

“…For the Q test, a P < 0.10 was considered statistically significant. PROSPERO registration: CRD42024577616. …”
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Effects of exercise interventions on fatigue of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients: A Meta-analysis (运动干预对造血干细胞移植患者疲乏影响的Meta分析)... by ZHOU Min (周敏), ZHANG Qing (张清), HU Shaoyan (胡绍燕), ZHOU Xuemei (周雪梅)

“…Results A total of six studies were included, and the results of meta-analysis showed a statistically significant difference in fatigue scores between the experimental and control groups ［SMD= -0. 24, 95% CI (-0. 44, -0. 03), P<0. 001］; subgroup analysis showed that exercise intervention improved fatigue in HSCT patients ［SMD= -0. 58, 95% CI (-0. 80, -0. 35), P<0. 001］; exercise interventions throughout the transplant period ［SMD= -0. 58, 95% CI (-0. 80, -0. 35), P<0. 001］, and duration longer than 12 weeks ［SMD= -0. 53, 95% CI (-0. 78, -0. 29), P<0. 001］ can reduce fatigue. …”
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Serum ALT activity and its isoenzymes as potential biomarkers for diagnosis of Sarcopenia in older adults: a retrospective, cross-sectional study by Jiangping Zeng, Nannan Li, Jiaying Ge, Huihui Ma, Siqi Sun, Yujie Jing, Chunhua Qian, Ran Cui, Shen Qu, Hui Sheng

“…According to the ROC curve analysis for discriminating sarcopenia, the performance of Logit_P2 (area under the curve = 0.830) seemed better than that of Logit_P1 (area under the curve = 0.789), although the difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.214). Conclusions In older adults, a low serum ALT activity level was an independent risk factor for low ASMI, HGS, physical performance, and sarcopenia. …”
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Clinical experience with heparin-containing eye ointment for dry eye by D.M. Safonova, A.O. Root, V.D. Yartsev, M.N. Narbut

“…Difference was considered statistically significant at p less than 0.05. SOFA Statistics 1.4.4 software (Paton-Simpson and Associates, New Zealand) was applied to perform statistical data analysis.…”
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Mechanism of Electroacupuncture Mediated Macrophages Infiltration on Dorsal Root Ganglion to Alleviate Paclitaxel-Induced Neuropathic Pain by XIANG Hongchun, ZHANG Hong, LI Jing, LONG Man, LI Man, CAI Guowei

“…The "up and down" method was used to measure paw withdrawal mechanical threshold (PWMT); the hematoxylin-eosin (HE) staining was used to observe pathological characteristics of DRG tissues; immunofluorescence staining was used to detect the percentage of MCP-1 and CD68 immunopositive area in DRG tissues; Western blot method was used to detect the protein expression level of CD68, MCP-1, iNOS and IL-1β in DRG tissues, and transmission electron microscope was used to observe the ultrastructure of macrophages in DRG tissues.Results(1) PWMT: compared with the control group at the same time, PWMT in the model group decreased significantly at the 8th, 11th, 13th and 15th days (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05); compared with the model group at the same time, PWMT in the EA group increased significantly at the 11th, 13th and 15th days, and the differences were statistically significant (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). (2) Histopathological features of DRG tissues: the inflammatory cells are nearly round in shape and blue-purple in color. …”
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The triglyceride-glucose index trajectories are associated with cardiovascular diseases in people living with HIV: evidence from a prospective cohort study in China, 2005–2022 by Yinsong Luo, Liqin Sun, Yun He, Fang Zhao, Duo Shan, Fan Bu, Lingyun Ge, Xiaorui Li, Yiyao Hu, Xi Xiao, Hongzhou Lu, Jiaye Liu

“…While women also demonstrated a nonlinear association with a similar threshold (8.484), the relationship above the threshold was not statistically significant. Conclusions Higher baseline TyG index levels and the high-increasing trajectory were significantly associated with increased CVD risk in PLWH. …”
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Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine nursing under the theory of symptom management on the treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in patients with gynecological tu... by WEI Xiaolin (魏小林), LIU Dan (刘丹), XU Xuewen (徐雪雯), LIU Hui (刘慧)

“…In addition, here were statistically significant differences in the physical field, psychological field and environmental field of WHOQOL-BREF between the two groups(P<0. 05). …”
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Development of a Russian version of the Minnesota low vision reading chart by I.R. Stepanets, A.N. Kulikov, S.A. Koskin, D.I. Zhilchuk

“…Binocular MRS for test chart 1 was 198±4.51 words/min, for test chart 2 — 200±4.76 words/min; CPS in binocular conditions was the same for both charts and equaled to 0.08±0.02 logMAR; binocular RA for test chart 1 was (-)0.04±0.01 logMAR and test chart 2 — (-)0,06±0,01 logMAR; binocular ACC was 1.00±0.02 and 1.03±0.02, respectively. No statistically significant differences were found between all parameters measured with the use of test charts 1 and 2 (р&gt;0.05). …”
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Changes in muscle performance among older adults with myeloid malignancies engaging in a mobile health (mHealth) exercise intervention: a single arm pilot study by Marielle Jensen-Battaglia, Po-Ju Lin, Chandrika Sanapala, Erin E. Watson, Jason H. Mendler, Jane Liesveld, Ying Wang, Elisabeth Hayward, Marissa LoCastro, Soroush Mortaz, Richard F. Dunne, Karen Mustian, Kah Poh Loh

“…There were no statistically significant decreases from baseline to post-intervention. …”
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Investigating root and canal morphology of anterior and premolar teeth using CBCT with a novel coding classification system in Saudi subpopulation by Mohammed Mustafa, Mohmed Isaqali Karobari, Ali Abdullah Alwan Al-Maqtari, Abdulaziz Abdulwahed, Ahmed A. Almokhatieb, Laila S. Almufleh, Qamar Hashem, Abdullah Alsakaker, Mohammad Khursheed Alam, Hany Mohamed Aly Ahmed

“…However, the difference with other age groups (> 40–70 years) was not statistically significant (p < 0.05). For mandibular premolars, the code 1TN1 was observed in more than 90% of the teeth with no significant differences in gender and age groups (p > 0.05). …”
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4-Octyl itaconate inhibits synovitis in the mouse model of post-traumatic osteoarthritis and alleviates pain by Yu-Zhen Tang, Wan Chen, Bao-Yun Xu, Gang He, Xiu-Cheng Fan, Kang-Lai Tang

“…Difference was considered statistically significant at p < 0.05. Results: The DMM surgery effectively induced a PTOA mouse model, which displayed significant symptoms of synovitis. …”
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Feasibility and usefulness of Gini coefficients of primary care visits as a measure of service inequality: preliminary findings from a cross-sectional study using region-wide elect... by Xin Yang, Jing Chai, Jing Cheng, DeBin Wang, XingRong Shen, Rong Liu, ManMan Lu, Jia Xu, Ningjing Yang, Guocheng Li

“…The multivariate modelling revealed statistically significant associations between the all-cause-GPV and 10 out of 14 commonly available community-level variables studied.Conclusions GPVs can be accurately estimated using a limited number of months of EMRs and, guided by the relevant framework, analysis of GPVs can unveil useful clues in addressing unequal primary healthcare utilisation.…”
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Metformin exerted tumoricidal effects on colon cancer tumoroids via the regulation of autophagy pathway by Roya Shabkhizan, Çığır Biray Avci, Sanya Haiaty, Marziyeh Sadat Moslehian, Fatemeh Sadeghsoltani, Ahad Bazmani, Mahdi Mahdipour, Leila Sabour Takanlou, Maryam Sabour Takanlou, Arezoo Rezaie Nezhad Zamani, Reza Rahbarghazi

“…Despite slight changes in released LDH contents, no statistically significant differences were achieved in terms of cell toxicity in MTF-exposed groups compared to the control tumoroids, indicating the insufficiency of MTF in the induction of tumor cell death (p > 0.05). …”
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Relationship between internet gaming disorder, interpersonal needs, loneliness, and depression among adolescents using a chain mediation model by GAO-QU Yige, MUZAI Baier, DONG Jingwen, ZHAO Yuxi, ZHU Pengyu, GU Xicheng, LIU Shangbin, CAI Yong, YUAN Dong, WANG Ying

“…Similarly, the incidence of depression among adolescents with alcohol consuming and without alcohol consuming was 61.94% and 35.94%, respectively. There were statistically significant differences between IGD, interpersonal needs, loneliness, and depression (P<0.01). …”
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Effect of bright light therapy combined with five-element music therapy on negative emotions and sleep quality of pregnant women (强光联合五音疗法对孕妇负面情绪及睡眠质量的影响)... by ZHANG Caixia (张彩霞), ZHANG Ping (张萍), CAI Donglin (蔡东林), AN Rongrong (安溶溶)

“…Results After intervention, except for the SDS score of the control group, the SAS, SDS and PSQI scores of the two groups were lower than before, and the differences were statistically significant (P<0. 01). The SAS, SDS and PSQI of the study group were lower than those of the control group (P<0. 01), and the scores of each item of nursing quality were higher than those of the control group, with significant differences(P<0. 01). …”
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Potential pharmacological effect of Quercetin Phytosome™ in the management of hyperuricemia: results from real-life clinical studies by Francesco Di Pierro, Francesco Di Pierro, Francesco Di Pierro, Fazle Rabbani, Meherullah Tareen, Roohi Nigar, Amjad Khan, Nicola Zerbinati, Maria L. Tanda, Massimiliano Cazzaniga, Alexander Bertuccioli, Alexander Bertuccioli, Paolo Falasca, Gabriele Damiani, Nicola Villanova

“…Additionally, triglyceride-lowering benefits were evident, particularly in metabolically compromised individuals (Cohorts 2 and 3), where these effects were statistically significant. With high tolerability, these findings highlight Quercetin Phytosome™'s potential as a safe adjunctive therapy for hyperuricemia management, meriting further investigation in larger, randomized trials to confirm its efficacy and safety.Clinical Trial Registrationclinicaltrials.gov, identifier NCT06652035.…”
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Structure of Patients with Hepatocellular Cancer (Data Analysis from Two Specialised Centres) by M. V. Mayevskaya, M. S. Novruzbekov, I. M. Borovkov, D. G. Trofimova, M. S. Zharkova, V. D. Lunkov, K. N. Lutsyk, O. D. Olisov

“…AVT before and after liver transplantation allows a statistically significant increase in the five-year posttransplant survival of HCC patients with chronic hepatitis C to be achieved.…”
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