Neonatal mortality of live births with congenital diaphragmatic hernia in São Paulo State, Brazil: Failure of care? by Ana Sílvia Scavacini Marinonio, Milton Harumi Miyoshi, Daniela Testoni Costa Nobre, Adriana Sanudo, Kelsy Catherina Nema Areco, Mandira Daripa Kawakami, Rita de Cássia Xavier Balda, Tulio Konstantyner, Carina Nunes Vieira e Oliveira, Paulo Bandiera-Paiva, Rosa Maria Vieira de Freitas, Monica La Porte Teixeira, Bernadette Cunha Waldvogel, Carlos Roberto Veiga Kiffer, Maria Fernanda Branco de Almeida, Ruth Guinsburg

“…CDH definition was based on WHO-ICD-10 codes; CDH-associated neonatal death was defined as death up to 27 days after birth of infants with CDH. …”
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Linking Creatinine‐to‐Body Weight Ratio With Diabetes Incidence: A Multiethnic Malaysian Cohort Study by Noraidatulakma Abdullah, Ying‐Xian Goh, Aisyatul Najihah Khuzaimi, Azwa Shawani Kamalul Arifin, Nurul Ain Mhd Yusuf, Nazihah Abd Jalal, Norliza Ismail, Nurul Faeizah Husin, Mohd Arman Kamaruddin, Rahman Jamal

“…Methods A total of 13 047 eligible participants were selected from 119 560 The Malaysian Cohort participants. Of these, 750 who developed diabetes were selected as cases, while 3750 controls were chosen randomly from healthy participants. …”
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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Hypertension among Women in Southern Ghana: Evidence from 2014 GDHS by Cyprian Issahaku Dorgbetor, Kwamena Sekyi Dickson, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Kenneth Setorwu Adde

“…Women of Guan ethnicity had a lesser likelihood (aOR = 0.54, CI = 0.29–0.98) of being hypertensive. Women who engaged in agriculture had the least likelihood (aOR = 0.72, CI = 0.52–0.99) of being classified hypertensive compared to unemployed women. …”
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To Identify Predictors of Central Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with Clinically Node-Negative Conventional Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma by Jiru Yuan, Gang Zhao, Jialin Du, Xiaoyi Chen, Xiaodong Lin, Zhengbo Chen, Zeyu Wu

“…A total of 190 cN0 CPTC patients who underwent thyroidectomy with prophylactic central neck dissection (pCND) in the Department of General Surgery at Guangdong General Hospital between March 2014 and December 2015 were assessed retrospectively. …”
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Benign Adrenocortical Tumors and the Detection of Nonadrenal Neoplasia by Meng Hao, Miguel Angel Luque-Fernandez, Diana Lopez, Kathryn Cote, Jessica Newfield, Molly Connors, Anand Vaidya

“…Case-control study of patients with benign adrenocortical tumors (cases; n = 400) and normal adrenal glands (controls; n = 400), who underwent repeated abdominal cross-sectional imaging. …”
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Intraoperative Electrical Nerve Stimulation as a Prognostic Tool in Patients Undergoing Peripheral Nerve Neurolysis by Christoph A. Schroen, BS, Yufan Yan, MD, Christian E. Awah, MD, Unwana Abasi, MD, Paul J. Cagle, MD, Michael R. Hausman, MD, Steven M. Koehler, MD

“…Methods: A retrospective chart review of adult patients who underwent peripheral nerve neurolysis between September 2021 and December 2022 was performed. …”
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Prevalence of sudden unexpected death of infants and its subcategories in low- or middle-income countries: a systematic review protocol by Liesl Zühlke, David Coetzee, Mark Engel, Natasha R Rhoda, Eunice Turawa, Imen Ayouni, Shanaaz Mathews

“…We propose conducting a systematic review to evaluate the burden and trends of SUDIs in LoMICs since 2004.Methods and analysis We will systematically search PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, African Index Medicus, EBSCOHost, Google Scholar, WHOIS and WHO database to identify studies published from July 2004 until October 2024. …”
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The effect of Ocimum basilicum on the prevention of postpartum depression symptoms and sleep quality: A triple-blind randomized controlled clinical trial by Monireh Abdi, Elham Rezaei, Mojgan Mirghafourvand, Fatemeh Ebrahimi, Laleh Payahoo, Alireza Shafiei-Kandjani, Solmaz Ghanbari-Homaie

“…Methods: This triple-blind parallel clinical trial (participants, the researcher, and the data analyst were blinded to the assigned interventions) included 78 postpartum women at Taleghani Hospital, Tabriz, Iran, between April 2023 and April 2024. Participants who scored 12 or less on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) were included in the study. …”
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Filling the Gap to Address Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe by Tiago Correia, Anabela da Conceição Pereira, Anabela da Conceição Pereira, Henrique Barros, Nadav Davidovitch, Nadav Davidovitch, Lore Leighton, Alison Katherine McCallum, Paula Meireles, Judith E. Mueller, Judith E. Mueller, Robert Otok, Anna Odone, Anna Odone, Alena Petrakova, Roman Prymula, Roman Prymula, Walter Ricciardi, Silvia Gabriela Scintee, Carlo Signorelli

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Effect of Trandolapril on Regression of Retinopathy in Hypertensive Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Prespecified Analysis of the Benedict Trial by Piero Ruggenenti, Ilian Iliev, Marco Filipponi, Stefano Tadini, Annalisa Perna, Maria Ganeva, Bogdan Ene-Iordache, Paolo Cravedi, Roberto Trevisan, Antonio Bossi, Giuseppe Remuzzi

“…We compared the incidence of retinopathy regression in 90 hypertensive type 2 diabetics randomized to at least 3-year blinded ACEi with trandolapril (2 mg/day) or non-ACEi therapy who had preproliferative or proliferative retinopathy at baseline. …”
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Participation in a pre-registration student interprofessional education (IPE) society: influence on subsequent professional practice by Christine Hirsch, Emily Audet, Emily Audet, Ekrahh Dawood, Freya Beardmore, Nafeesa Hussain, Wing Chi Wong, Robert J. Barry, Sharon Buckley

“…To inform institutional decisions about establishing and maintaining a student IPE society, we have investigated the perceptions of early career health professionals who were KASE members during their pre-registration training.MethodsKASE alumni working as early career health professionals were invited to participate in the study. …”
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Noninvasive diagnosis model for predicting significant liver inflammation in patients with chronic hepatitis B in the immune-tolerant phase by Shanshan Chen, Lu Huang, Yili Chu, Jiangshan Lian, Hui Shao, Tingting Wang, Xuehan Zou, Haijun Huang

“…This multicenter retrospective study included a total of 535 IT-phase CHB patients who underwent liver biopsy, and were randomly divided into a training and a validation set. …”
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Morphological and endoscopic diagnostic criteria of serrated adenomas of the colon by A. M. Nechipay, M. V. Zobnina, L. M. Cherkasova, I. B. Perfilyev, V. A. Krivopuskov

“…In 2010 a new variant of histological classification of colonic tumors have been accepted by WHO, according to which serrated neoplasms were defined as separate group of preneoplastic changes, along with colonic adenomas. …”
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Examining the association between child development and parental mental health after preterm birth-related stress: a systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis protocol by Lotte Haverman, Cornelieke S H Aarnoudse-Moens, Joost G Daams, Gerbrich E van den Bosch, Kirsten S Muller, Celina E Henke

“…Yet, NICU admission is not only stressful for the infant but can also have a long-lasting negative impact on parental mental health, who may worry about their child. Parental mental health problems might affect child development through parental behaviour and the parent–infant relationship. …”
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Characteristics That Predict Psoriatic Arthritis by the Classification Criteria for Psoriatic Arthritis in Patients With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis 18 Years After Disease Onset by Agnes Szentpetery, Mia Glerup, Kristiina Aalto, Ellen D. Arnstad, Anders Fasth, Troels Herlin, Charlotte Myrup, Ellen Nordal, Suvi Peltoniemi, Marite Rygg, Veronika Gjertsen Rypdal, Lillemor Berntson

“…Objective The purposes of this study were to assess the clinical characteristics of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) who fulfill the ClASsification criteria for Psoriatic ARthritis (CASPAR) 18 years after disease onset in a population‐based setting and to identify features likely to predict psoriatic arthritis (PsA). …”
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Retrospective Analysis Comparing Lung-RADS v2022 and British Thoracic Society Guidelines for Differentiating Lung Metastases from Primary Lung Cancer by Loredana Gabriela Stana, Alexandru Ovidiu Mederle, Claudiu Avram, Felix Bratosin, Paula Irina Barata

“…<b>Materials and Methods</b>: This retrospective study included 196 patients who underwent chest CT scans between 2015 and 2022 without a known history of cancer but with detected pulmonary nodules. …”
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Experience in the Management of Patients with Chronic Vascular Ulcers of the Lower Limbs Using Negatively Charged Polystyrene Microspheres by María Teresa Cacua Sánchez

“…Descriptive observational case series of 19 patients with diagnosis of chronic vascular ulcers of the lower limbs, treated at Medical Center Nuestra IPS and Medical Center Juan Pablo II in Bogotá between March 2018 and December 2018, who received PolyHeal® Micro as topical treatment for their lesions. …”
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Cardiometabolic risk factors of post-bariatric patients two years after COVID-19 pandemic onset: a longitudinal study by Raysa Manuelle Santos Rocha, Márcia Ferreira Cândido de Souza, Danielle Villela Costa, Larissa Monteiro Costa Pereira, Jamille Oliveira Costa, Rosely de Jesus Nascimento, Andreia Ferreira de Aragão Rabelo, Alex Menezes dos Santos-Junior, Mario Francisco Dantas de Santana-Filho, André Luiz de Jesus Morais, Leonardo Baumworcel, José Rodrigo Santos Silva, Marcos Antonio Almeida-Santos, Antônio Carlos Sobral Sousa

“…This is a longitudinal study carried out with patients who underwent bariatric surgery before the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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The South African Traditional Communities and Women for Rural Democracy and Land Rights by Wandile Brian Zondo

“…Goal and Objectives: This paper seeks to affirm and pay tribute to the contributions of women, such as the late activists Constance Mogale and Sizani Ngubane, who tirelessly advocated for the rights of traditional communities and rural women. …”
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Serum uric acid level and subclinical left ventricular dysfunction: a community‐based cohort study by Koki Nakanishi, Masao Daimon, Yuriko Yoshida, Jumpei Ishiwata, Naoko Sawada, Megumi Hirokawa, Hidehiro Kaneko, Tomoko Nakao, Yoshiko Mizuno, Hiroyuki Morita, Marco R. Di Tullio, Shunichi Homma, Issei Komuro

“…Methods and results We examined 1175 participants who underwent extensive cardiovascular health check‐up including laboratory tests and speckle‐tracking echocardiography to assess LV global longitudinal strain (GLS). …”
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