Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Systemic Sclerosis Lung Disease by Natalie K. Kozij, John T. Granton, Philip E. Silkoff, John Thenganatt, Shobha Chakravorty, Sindhu R. Johnson

“…Methods. Consecutive subjects in the UHN Pulmonary Hypertension Programme were recruited. …”
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Effect of a Ketogenic Diet on Metabolic Dysfunction‐Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) Progression: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Sakkarin Chirapongsathorn, Wiwit Rintaravitoon, Bhagawat Tangjaturonrasme, Samitti Chotsriluecha, Yanisa Pumsutas, Achariya Kanchanapradith, Sombat Treeprasertsuk

“…Results There were no significant differences between groups in liver stiffness and steatosis measurement after interventions. Subjects on a ketogenic diet had lost more weight than subjects in the control group at 8 weeks (mean change [95% CI], −6.16 [−7.22, −5.10] vs. −2.14 [−4.49, 0.21] kg; p = 0.001). …”
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Clinical presentations and outcomes of celiac disease in children and adolescents at a tertiary care center in Lebanon by Dana Andari, Rima Hanna-Wakim, Sarah Khafaja, Nadine Yazbeck

“…Females represented 60% of the pediatric subjects with celiac disease. The most common symptoms reported were abdominal pain (51.1%), weight loss or failure to thrive (45.6%), and diarrhea (24.4%). …”
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Association between Drinking Habits and Oral Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Study Based on Japanese National Statistical Data by Takeshi Kamoda, Akira Komatsuzaki, Sachie Ono, Satoshi Tanaka, Yasuno Yokoi

“…Methods. The subjects were 8,698 respondents of the Japan National Livelihood Survey 2013, in their 30s to 60s. …”
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Comparative, cross-sectional study of the format, content and timing of medication safety letters issued in Canada, the USA and the UK by Jeremy M Grimshaw, Margaret C Watson, Lise M Bjerre, Matthew Hogel, Cody D Black, Simon Parlow, David de Launay, Donald R Mattison

“…Of these 227 letters, 21 (9%) medication problems were the subject of letters released in all three countries; 40 (18%) in two countries and 166 (73%) in only one country. …”
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The effect of mortality salience and early-life maternal care on neuroendocrine, autonomic, and psychological stress responses by Ulrike U. Bentele, Paula Strobel, Maria Meier, Annika B. E. Benz, Raphaela J. Gaertner, Elea S. C. Klink, Bernadette F. Denk, Stephanie J. Dimitroff, Eva Unternaehrer, Jens C. Pruessner

“…Moreover, we found an interaction between MS and MC concerning subjective stress and autonomic measures. Specifically, low MC individuals in the control compared to the mortality condition showed both overall higher subjective stress levels, and less increase in heart rate variability following stress. …”
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Automatic Classification of Difficulty of Texts From Eye Gaze and Physiological Measures of L2 English Speakers by Javier Melo, Leigh Fernandez, Shoya Ishimaru

“…., using multiple sensors, to detect subjective difficulty. In this study (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$N=30$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) we determined L2 speakers&#x2019; subjective difficulty while reading using language proficiency and objective text difficulty, combined with physiological data. …”
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Time Course of Acute Hip Adduction Range of Motion Changes Following Foam Rolling by Anthony D’Amico, Kevin Silva, Joseph Gallo

“…Subjects rolled the lateral portion of each thigh for 3 bouts of 20 seconds. …”
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Scoping review of happiness and well-being measurement: uses and implications for paediatric surgery in low- and middle-income contexts by Carrie Dolan, Jillian Harrison, Cate Pringle

“…A key finding was the strong reciprocal relationship between subjective well-being and physical health: subjective well-being impacts health outcomes, while health outcomes influence subjective well-being. …”
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Comparison of Advanced Threshold and SITA Fast Perimetric Strategies by Bartosz L. Sikorski, Adriana Laudencka

“…The ADV test duration was shorter both in healthy subjects (by 5%) and patients with glaucoma (by 18%). …”
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The Intracellular Growth of M. tuberculosis Is More Associated with High Glucose Levels Than with Impaired Responses of Monocytes from T2D Patients by Martha Torres, María Teresa Herrera, Guadalupe Fabián-San-Miguel, Yolanda Gonzalez

“…The intracellular growth of M. tuberculosis was evaluated by CFU counts at 0, 1, and 3 days in both monocytes from T2D patients and monocytes from healthy subjects cultured in HG. We did not find significant differences in TLR expression, cytokine production, or growth of M. tuberculosis in monocytes from T2D patients compared with those in monocytes from healthy subjects. …”
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Intraocular Foreign Bodies: Clinical Characteristics and Factors Affecting Visual Outcome by Yanyan Liang, Shuang Liang, Xiaoli Liu, Danyan Liu, Jialiang Duan

“…The demographic data, cause of injury, characteristics of IOFBs, postinjury ocular manifestations, and surgical details of the subjects were collected, and the factors affecting visual outcome and endophthalmitis development were analyzed. …”
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A cross-sectional study on the assessment of adherence to cardiovascular medications in Sudan heart center. by Adil A Mahmoud, Ali Awadallah Saeed, Asim Ahmed Elnour, Osama Nasreldin E M, Vineetha Menon, Semira Abdi Beshir, Sami Fatehi Abdalla, Abuelnor Mohammed, Mohamed Baraka, Fahad T Alsulami, Yousef Saeed Alqarni, Nadia Al Mazrouei, Khalid Awad Al-Kubaisi, Israa Yousif El Khidir, Kishore Ganana, Abdulla Al Amoodi

“…Most of the subjects were married (60.4%), were from Khartoum-State (67.8%), and were unemployed (77.6%). …”
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Metabolic Profile in a Cohort of Young Sicilian Patients with Klinefelter’s Syndrome: The Role of Irisin by Stefano Radellini, Valentina Guarnotta, Vincenzo Sciabica, Giuseppe Pizzolanti, Carla Giordano

“…Irisin blood levels of Klinefelter’s patients are higher than in healthy subjects and positively correlate with the degree of insulin resistance.…”
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The Role of Inflammatory Parameters and Antibody Seroconversion on COVID-19 Outcomes in Patients with Central Obesity by Syahidatul Wafa, Dicky Levenus Tahapary, Evy Yunihastuti, Heri Wibowo, Cleopas Martin Rumende, Kuntjoro Harimurti, Ketut Suastika, Farid Kurniawan, Rona Kartika, Tika Pradnjaparamita, Dante Saksono Harbuwono

“…Results: 23 of 178 (12.9%) subjects developed poor clinical outcomes during hospitalization. …”
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Mental State Inferences Abilities Contribution to Verbal Irony Comprehension in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment by G. Gaudreau, L. Monetta, J. Macoir, S. Poulin, R. Jr. Laforce, C. Hudon

“…The present study examined mentalizing capacities as well as the relative implication of mentalizing in the comprehension of ironic and sincere assertions among 30 older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 30 healthy control (HC) subjects. Method. Subjects were administered a task evaluating mentalizing by means of short stories. …”
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Insights into the relations between cell wall integrity and in vitro digestion properties of granular starches in pulse cotyledon cells after dry heat treatment by Ping Li, Bin Zhang, Rui Liu, Li Ding, Xiong Fu, Haiteng Li, Qiang Huang, Xiaowei He

“…In this study, garbanzo bean cells with varying degrees of cell wall integrity were subjected to dry heat treatment (DHT) and used to elucidate the food structure-starch digestion properties of pulse food. …”
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A Copy Number Variant on Chromosome 20q13.3 Implicated in Thinness and Severe Obesity by Sandra J. Hasstedt, Yuanpei Xin, Rong Mao, Tracey Lewis, Ted D. Adams, Steven C. Hunt

“…A 77-kilobase CNV on chromosome 20q13.3, confirmed by real-time qPCR, exhibited deletions in the obese subjects and duplications in the thin subjects (P=2.2×10-6). …”
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Sauna-Induced Body Mass Loss in Young Sedentary Women and Men by Robert Podstawski, Tomasz Boraczyński, Michał Boraczyński, Dariusz Choszcz, Stefan Mańkowski, Piotr Markowski

“…The smallest BML was noted in underweight subjects; students with normal weight lost more weight, whereas the greatest BML was reported in overweight and obese subjects. …”
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A pilot, four-week, dietary program with targeted nutraceuticals improves cardiometabolic functioning, metabolic transformation, and gut health by Wei Gao, Joseph J. Lamb, David Graham, Bhargavi Manda, Clinton J. Dahlberg, E. Wesley Huff, Michael Saunders, Matthew L. Tripp

“…Subjects expressed positive subjective health and symptom changes coincident with improvements in anthropomorphic variables, lipid profiles, glycemic measures, vascular biomarkers, cardiovascular risk, systemic inflammation, hepatic function, urinary heavy metal excretion, and gut health. …”
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