Teeth and Covariates: Association with Risk of Falls by Shivani Kohli, Aaron Lam Wui Vun, Christopher Daryl Philip, Cassamally Muhammad Aadil, Mahenthiran Ramalingam

“…Subjects with depression (p=0.03) and presence of illness related to fall showed statistically significant difference (p=0.001) in comparison with those who did not suffer from the same. Compromised ADL (p=0.001) (which included ability to perform several tasks like indoor mobility, climbing stairs, toilet use, and feeding) and low monthly income (p=0.03) was also observed among subjects who had higher risk of falls. …”
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Factors associated with early-onset androgenetic alopecia: A scoping review. by Li-Ping Liu, Mary Adumo Wariboko, Xiao Hu, Zi-Han Wang, Qian Wu, Yu-Mei Li

“…Additionally, young men with AGA tended to suffer from psychological issues such as anxiety and low self-esteem compared to those without hair loss.…”
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Drawing-Aware Parkinson’s Disease Detection Through Hierarchical Deep Learning Models by Ioannis Kansizoglou, Konstantinos A. Tsintotas, Daniel Bratanov, Antonios Gasteratos

“…Still, many handcrafted feature extraction techniques suffer from low accuracy, which is rather than optimal for diagnosing such a serious condition. …”
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Severe Injuries of Former Portuguese Football Players: A Post-Career Burden? by Eduardo Teixeira, Carlos Silva, Félix Romero, Mauro Miguel, António Vicente

“…The aim of this study is to characterize the severe injuries that former Portuguese football players suffered throughout their professional careers and investigate the resulting impacts on the physical domain of QoL after retirement. …”
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of a peptide-cytokine agent in the complex therapy of recurrent candidal vulvovaginitis by Elena A. Rosyuk

“…The literature shows that up to 75% of women of reproductive age suffer at least one episode of acute candidal vulvovaginitis (CVV) in life, up to 45% report 2 cases or more, up to 20% experience recurrent (often complicated) course of this disease. …”
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Blast loading prediction in a typical urban environment based on Bayesian deep learning by Weiwen Peng, Meilin Pan, Chunjiang Leng, Shufei Wang, Wei Zhong

“…Commonly used numerical simulation methods can provide accurate blast loading prediction results, but suffer from high computation time and cost. In this paper, a novel and fast method for blast loading prediction in a typical urban environment is proposed. …”
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Anomaly Detection Using Explainable Random Forest for the Prediction of Undesirable Events in Oil Wells by Nida Aslam, Irfan Ullah Khan, Aisha Alansari, Marah Alrammah, Atheer Alghwairy, Rahaf Alqahtani, Razan Alqahtani, Maryam Almushikes, Mohammed AL Hashim

“…The dataset used in this study suffers from the class imbalance issue; therefore, experiments were conducted using the original and sampled datasets. …”
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Clinically approved treatments for refractory glaucoma by Т.А. Zhigalskaya, O.I. Krivosheina

“…More than 70 million patients suffer from glaucoma worldwide. Its incidence progressively increases thus resulting in the steady growth of disability. …”
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Functional Outcome (Short Term) of Modular Cementless Bipolar HemiArthroplasty (Hydroxyapatite-Coated Stem) for Fracture Neck of Femur in the Elderly by Navin K. Shukla, Lata Keshkar, Jayanta Mukherjee, Ratnesh Kumar, Shivendra Singh, Alok C. Agrawal

“…Significantly more female patients suffered from NOF fracture (male - 13 [32.5%]: female - 27 [67.5%]; P = 0.03). …”
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Solid lipid nanoparticles for increased oral bioavailability of acalabrutinib in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia by Swagata Sinha, Punna Rao Ravi, Makarand Somvanshi, S. R. Rashmi

“…Abstract Acalabrutinib (ACP) is a first-line treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia but suffers from poor and variable oral bioavailability due to its pH-dependent solubility, CYP3A4 metabolism, and P-gp efflux. …”
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Epidemiological characteristics of injury in 7–22-year-old badminton players by age and sex by Xiao Zhou, Kazuhiro Imai, Xiao-Xuan Liu, Zhuo Chen, Eiji Watanabe, Hongtao Zeng

“…Among all the 711 badminton players, 60.3% (429 players) suffered from at least one badminton-related injury. …”
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COVID-19 pandemic: mental health (distress as depression) in orthodontists by Eloisa Peixoto Soares Ueno, Liana Fattori, Edgard Michel-Crosato, Wilze Laura Bruscato, José Rino Neto, João Batista de Paiva

“…Depression was significantly associated with orthodontic practice type, self-confidence in providing dental care, pandemic impact on dental practice, remote care, monthly income, changes in financial expenses, fear of contracting COVID-19 and thinking about the future (p < 0.05).Conclusion Over half of the orthodontists experienced moderate-to-severe mental distress, and the same number suffered from mild-to-severe depression during the pandemic.…”
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"The COVID-19 pandemic in BRICS: Milestones, interventions, and molecular epidemiology". by Stephanie van Wyk, Monika Moir, Anindita Banerjee, Georgii A Bazykin, Nidhan K Biswas, Nikita Sitharam, Saumitra Das, Wentai Ma, Arindam Maitra, Anup Mazumder, Wasim Abdool Karim, Alessandra Pavan Lamarca, Mingkun Li, Elena Nabieva, Houriiyah Tegally, James Emmanuel San, Ana Tereza R Vasconcelos, Joicymara S Xavier, Eduan Wilkinson, Tulio de Oliveira

“…Our analyses indicated that BRICS suffered >105.6M COVID-19 infections, resulting in >1.7M deaths. …”
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Prevalence of common conditions and associated mortalities of dogs treated at the small animal clinic, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda by James Okwee-Acai, Benard Agwai, Patrick Mawadri, Christine Kesiime, Methodius Tubihemukama, Joseph Kungu, Benard Odur

“…Abstract Background In developing countries such as Uganda, domestic dogs suffer high burdens of infectious diseases often with high mortalities. …”
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EU fiscal governance and budget consolidation in Visegrád countries by Zh. N. Komissarova, E. A. Sergeev

“…Hungary was the only country, which took some active measures in the field of corporate taxation, and subsequently suffered from drop in tax collection. The Visegrád countries did cut government expenditures, but strived to use the most effective instruments such as curbing employment in public sector. …”
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Using a Two-Steps Clustering and PCA Analysis for Stratified Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Care: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study by Peiró AM, Barrachina J, Escorial M, Aguado I, Margarit C, Grimby-Ekman A

“…Ana M Peiró,1,2 Jordi Barrachina,1 Mónica Escorial,1 Isidro Aguado,1 César Margarit,1,3 Anna Grimby-Ekman4 1Neuropharmacology Applied to Pain (NED), Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Alicante Institute for Health and Biomedical Research (ISABIAL), Alicante, 03010, Spain; 2Institute of Bioengineering, University Miguel Hernández, Elche, 03202, Spain; 3Pain Unit, Alicante Department of Health -General Hospital, Alicante, 03010, Spain; 4School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, SwedenCorrespondence: Ana M Peiró, Alicante Institute for Health and Biomedical Research (ISABIAL), Hospital General Universitario Doctor Balmis, c/Pintor Baeza, 12, Alicante, 03010, Spain, Email apeiro@umh.esPurpose: Given the number of people who suffer from chronic pain and the impact on healthcare resources, it is imperative that the people with pain receive an appropriate matched treatment due and stratified care. …”
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DualTransAttNet: A Hybrid Model with a Dual Attention Mechanism for Corn Seed Classification by Fei Pan, Dawei He, Pengjun Xiang, Mengdie Hu, Daizhuang Yang, Fang Huang, Changmeng Peng

“…Existing classification algorithms often suffer from limitations such as reliance on single information sources, constrained feature extraction capabilities, time consumption, low accuracy, and the potential to cause irreversible damage to seeds. …”
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Clinical Holistic Medicine (Mindful, Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Complemented with Bodywork) Improves Quality of Life, Health, and Ability by Induction of Antonovsky-Sal... by Søren Ventegodt, Suzette Thegler, Tove Andreasen, Flemming Struve, Lars Enevoldsen, Laila Bassaine, Margrethe Torp, Joav Merrick

“…It seems that treatment with clinical holistic medicine is the cure of choice when the patients (1) present the triad of low quality of life, poor self-assessed physical and/or mental health, and poor ability to function; and (2) are willing to suffer during the therapy by confronting and integrating old emotional problems and trauma(s) from the past. …”
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Bioresorbable Material in Secondary Orbital Reconstruction Surgery by Hui Pan, Zhenzhen Zhang, Weiwei Tang, Zhengkang Li, Yuan Deng

“…A retrospective chart review was conducted on 16 consecutive patients treated for orbital fractures at Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, with inadequate prior surgeries between July 2010 and June 2017; patients who had suffered orbital blowout fractures had undergone primary surgeries elsewhere. …”
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Oral Hygiene Practices, Knowledge, and Self-Reported Dental and Gingival Problems with Rural-Urban Disparities among Primary School children in Lilongwe, Malawi by F. Mlenga, E. G. Mumghamba

“…Most pupils reported cleaning their teeth regularly, mostly using plastic toothbrush rather than chewing stick, using toothpaste, and having adequate knowledge about dental caries and gingival disease, and a quarter of them had suffered from these diseases with evidence of rural-urban disparities. …”
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