The prevalence and 6-year incidence of myopic tessellation in a Chinese rural adult population: the Handan Eye Study by Caixia Lin, Jian Wu, Kai Cao, Bingsong Wang, Yuxin Fang, Ohno-Matsui Kyoko, Yunyun Sun, Jie Hao, Lixia Ma, Ye Zhang, Qing Zhang, Ningli Wang, the Handan Eye Study Group

“…Methods The Handan Eye Study was a population-based longitudinal study, with 6830 eligible subjects included in the baseline period, and 5394 subjects (follow-up rate: 85.3%) took part in the follow-up study. …”
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Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and risk of four intrahepatic and extrahepatic diseases by Yiyuan Xiao, Sihua Xu, Wenyan Hu, Jiapeng Huang, Deke Jiang, Rong Na, Zhaoqing Yin, Jingjing Zhang, Haitao Chen

“…Results: Among 39,230 eligible individuals, 6,865 MASLD subjects, 2,379 MetALD subjects and 884 ALD subjects were diagnosed. …”
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Serum Growth Differentiation Factor 15 is Negatively Associated with Leukocyte Telomere Length by Jie Yu, Yiwen Liu, Huabing Zhang, Fan Ping, Wei Li, Lingling Xu, Yuxiu Li

“…Serum GDF15,leukocyte lelomere length(LTL) and mtDNAcn were determined in 802 subjects.LTL and mtDNAcn was quantified by real-time PCR assay. …”
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The Modulation of Reward and Habit Systems by Acupuncture in Adolescents with Internet Addiction by Yang Wang, Yun Qin, Hui Li, Dezhong Yao, Bo Sun, Zhiliang Li, Xin Li, Yu Dai, Chao Wen, Lingrui Zhang, Chenchen Zhang, Tianmin Zhu, Cheng Luo

“…Twenty-seven IA individuals and 30 demographically matched healthy control subjects (HCs) were recruited in this study. We acquired the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data in IA subjects before and after 40 days of acupuncture treatment. …”
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Increases Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor as well as Decreases Systemic Immune-Inflammatory Index and Systemic Inflammatory Response Index in Autism Sp... by Verna Biutifasari, Ni Komang Sri Dewi Untari, Pramita Anindya Nugraheni, Ronald Pratama Adiwinoto, Djatiwidodo Edi Pratiknya, Vendra Setiawan, Hartono Kahar, Betty Agustina Tambunan

“…Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) is known to enhance cerebral blood flow and reduce inflammation, however, not many studies have observed the its effect on BDNF level, SII, and SIRI in ASD subjects; therefore, this study was performed. METHODS: Fifteen ASD subjects were involved in this study and received HBO therapy 10 times within a 2-week period. …”
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Estimating Body Related Soft Biometric Traits in Video Frames by Olasimbo Ayodeji Arigbabu, Sharifah Mumtazah Syed Ahmad, Wan Azizun Wan Adnan, Salman Yussof, Vahab Iranmanesh, Fahad Layth Malallah

“…Our evaluation on 1120 frame sets of 80 subjects from a newly compiled dataset shows that the mentioned soft biometric information of human subjects can be adequately predicted from set of frames.…”
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Anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects of rosuvastatin in patients with low-to-moderate cardiovascular risk by VAVLUKIS ANA, VAVLUKIS MARIJA, DIMOVSKI ALEKSANDAR, PETRUSHEVSKA GORDANA, EFTIMOV ALEKSANDAR, DOMAZETOVSKA SASHKA, MLADENOVSKA KRISTINA

“…Statins have shown anti-inflammatory pleiotropic effects in subjects with/at risk of cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the inflammatory/immunomodulatory properties of rosuvastatin in subjects at low-to-moderate cardiovascular risk. …”
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Elevated Circulating Angiogenic Progenitors and White Blood Cells Are Associated with Hypoxia-Inducible Angiogenic Growth Factors in Children with Sickle Cell Disease by Solomon F. Ofori-Acquah, Iris D. Buchanan, Ifeyinwa Osunkwo, Jerry Manlove-Simmons, Feyisayo Lawal, Alexander Quarshie, Arshed A. Quyyumi, Gary H. Gibbons, Beatrice E. Gee

“…We studied the number and function of angiogenic progenitor cells and growth factors in children aged 5–18 years without acute illness, 43 with Hemoglobin SS and 68 with normal hemoglobin. Hemoglobin SS subjects had at least twice as many mononuclear cell colonies and more circulating progenitor cell than Control subjects. …”
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Impact of the Breakdown Behavior on Chinese Traditional Stewed Pork with Brown Sauce: Physical Properties Using Microstructural Analysis by Dengyong Liu, Yajun Deng, Ana Gong, Yaohui Han, Hui-Min David Wang

“…The results suggested the subjects’ saliva secretion and moisture content of the boluses during mastication increased significantly depending on subjects and food types studied (P<0.05) and led to increase of bolus apparent particle size because of saliva uptake. …”
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Psychobehavioural Factors Are More Strongly Associated with Successful Weight Management Than Predetermined Satiety Effect or Other Characteristics of Diet by Leila Karhunen, Marika Lyly, Anja Lapveteläinen, Marjukka Kolehmainen, David E. Laaksonen, Liisa Lähteenmäki, Kaisa Poutanen

“…During the WM, subjects were randomized into higher- and lower-satiety food groups. …”
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Emotional Stroop Test in online and offline experimental procedures: the comparison of two different modes of conducting studies by Adrianna Wielgopolan, Maciej Pastwa, Dawid Żuk, Kamil K. Imbir

“…Both modes of conducting studies yielded a similar pattern of results, namely interactions between valence and arousal, and a three-way interaction between valence, arousal, and subjective significance. We conclude that the pattern of disturbance in cognitive processing caused by affect is not susceptible to the setting that the subjects are in, which may be a significant argument for reliability of affect-related experiments conducted online.…”
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Following Up on Clinical Recommendations in Transitions from Hospital to Nursing Home by Lisa B. Caruso, Soe Soe Thwin, Gary H. Brandeis

“…To determine the extent of this problem, a retrospective cohort study of subjects discharged from an academic medical center and admitted to nursing homes (NH) was followed to determine the type of discharge recommendations and the rate of completion. …”
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Investigating two Possibilities in the Family Situation in Iran A Critique on the book The Decline of Patriarchy The Collapse of the Family or the Emergence of the Civil Family by Maryam Esakafi Noghani

“…The study of the structure, form, content, and method of research in this book showed that although the subject of the book is a very interesting, new topic and very attractive, there is a lot of research that could be the subject of future research and research dissertations. …”
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The Association of Obesity with Walking Independent of Knee Pain: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study by Daniel K. White, Tuhina Neogi, Yuqing Zhang, David Felson, Michael LaValley, Jingbo Niu, Michael Nevitt, Cora E. Lewis, James Torner, K. Douglas Gross

“…Subjects with a BMI ≥35 took 3355 fewer steps per day independent of knee pain compared with those with a BMI ≤25 (95% CI −3899, −2811). …”
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Flaxseed Ingestion Alters Ratio of Enterolactone Enantiomers in Human Serum by Niina M. Saarinen, Annika I. Smeds, José L. Peñalvo, Tarja Nurmi, Herman Adlercreutz, Sari Mäkelä

“…Flaxseed ingestion increased significantly the proportion of (+)EL in all subjects. Moreover, a small but significant increase in serum (−)EL concentration was measured. …”
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Combined semiquantitative nail-enthesis complex ultrasonography and capillaroscopy in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis by Giacomo Cafaro, Roberto Bursi, Valentina Valentini, Katharina Hansel, Carlo Perricone, Vincenzo Venerito, Onelia Bistoni, Manuela Sebastiano, Fabiana Topini, Luca Stingeni, Roberto Gerli, Elena Bartoloni

“…The clustering model effectively distinguished HC from PsA subjects, revealing a potential continuum between PSO and PsA. …”
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Associations of Salivary BPIFA1 Protein in Chronic Periodontitis Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Yue Guo, Lin-Na Guo, Jun-Fei Zhu, Chen-Yi Tang, Yun-Zhi Feng, Hou-De Zhou

“…BPIFA1 in saliva was detected at relatively high levels. T2DM subjects had decreased salivary BPIFA1 concentrations (P=0.031). …”
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Sexual Dimorphism for the Association between Vitamin D and Insulin Resistance in Chinese People by Bing Han, Qin Li, Ningjian Wang, Yi Chen, Chunfang Zhu, Yingchao Chen, Fangzhen Xia, Zhen Cang, Meng Lu, Ying Meng, Chi Chen, Yingli Lu

“…Methods. A total of 6597 subjects, including 2813 males and 3784 females, were analyzed. …”
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Association of ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter A1 Gene Polymorphisms in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus among Malaysians by Polin Haghvirdizadeh, Vasudevan Ramachandran, Ali Etemad, Farzad Heidari, Nooshin Ghodsian, Norzian Bin Ismail, Patimah Ismail

“…There was a significant difference between the subjects in terms of age, BMI, FPG, HbA1c, HDL, LDL, and TG P<0.05. …”
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Prevalence of risk factors for coronary artery disease in an urban Indian population by S Singh, M Singh, S K Singh, R Aggarwal, T Sekhri, R S Kanwar, R Wilfred, P Chugh, M Chhillar, Y K Sharma, J Sethi, J Sundriyal, K Bhadra, N Rautela, Tek Chand

“…Hypertension was present in 21% of subjects. The prevalence of dyslipidemia was significantly high, with 45.6% of study subjects having a high total cholesterol/high density lipoprotein ratio. …”
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