Comprehensive Iranian guidelines for the diagnosis and management of maple syrup urine disease: an evidence- and consensus- based approach by Noushin Rostampour, Setila Dalili, Hossein Moravej, Zhila Afshar, Negar Yazdani, Seyedeh Tahereh Mousavi, Parastoo Rostami, Daniel Zamanfar, Maryam Yahay, Abdolhossein Nikravesh, Zahra Beyzaei, Mohamad Ahangar Davoodi, Atefeh Sedaghat, Tahora Hakemzadeh, Ali Talea

“…This guideline is provided through a literature search on articles in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Sciences, Cochrane, and Embase databases from 2001 to 2022 accompanied by a consensus of physicians of different centers in Iran who are experts in the diagnosis and management of this disease. …”
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RESILSTIGMA. Resilience to self-stigmatization experienced by people living with HIV: Which self-reported factors improve awareness among health workers? by Christine Jacomet, Cécile Miele, Emilie Goncalves, Céline Lambert, Clément Belletier, Françoise Linard, Josiane Phalip-Le Besnerais, Pierre Dellamonica, Michaël Dambrun

“…The proportion of PLHIV experiencing self-stigma was accurately estimated by only 31 (23.7%) health workers. Those health workers who did not minimize the prevalence of self-stigmatization among PLHIV had no particular characteristics.…”
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Central obesity is a burden even in normal weight adolescents of a non-metropolitan Indian City: A case for alarm and action for prevention and control by Tabassum Nawab, Zulfia Khan, Iqbal M. Khan, Mohammad A. Ansari

“…CO was defined as >90th age-and-sex-specific percentile of WC and GO by BMI-for-age-and-sex percentiles given by WHO Growth Reference 2007. Chi-square test and logistic regression analysis were done using IBM SPSS version 20.0. …”
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Functional Outcome by Evaluation of DASH Score on Drop Hand Patient Treated with Jones’ Tendon Transfer: A Retrospective Study by Tito Sumarwoto, Seti Aji Hadinoto, Adhitya Indra Pradhana

“…This study aimed to assess the functional outcome and evaluate the DASH score in drop hand patients who underwent Jones tendon transfer surgery at Prof. …”
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Correlation Between Vitamin D3 Levels, Autoantibodies, and Antibody-Related Diseases in Patients with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis by Ali Saad Kadhim, Abdullah Salim Al-Karawi

“…Materials and Methods: The current involved 150 male's patients, aged 25-50 years, who were compared with same numbers and aged of as healthy controls. …”
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MOSQUITO-BORNE PARASITES IN PATIENTS NEWLY INFECTED WITH HIV IN RELATIONSHIP WITH CD4 COUNT AND TNF ΑLPHA by Mathew Folaranmi Olaniyan

“…., 2001) Plasmodium spp. and 8% (WHO, 2019) W. bancrofti obtained in the non-HIV infected control subjects. …”
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Effective community engagement in one health research in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review by Sidney Sangong, Farrukh Ishaque Saah, Luchuo Engelbert Bain

“…Empirical peer-reviewed research articles on community engagement in one health research published from January 2000 to September 2023 in English or French were retrieved from seven databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, WHO Afro Library, the National Institute for Health Research, and African Journals Online databases. …”
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A new ASAP Scoring System and Risk Table to predict second prostate biopsy outcomes by Ediz Caner, Akan Serkan, Kaya Neslihan, Ihvan Aysenur

“…Material and methods The study reviewed the data of 2,845 patients; who underwent transrectal ultrasonography-guided prostate biopsy in the period between January 2008 and May 2019. …”
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Healthcare Worker Attitudes to Living Donation Prior to Planned Withdrawal of Care by Smruti Rath, MD, Claire Luo, MD, Laura Washburn, MD, Matthew Brent Price, MD, Matthew Goss, MD, Priyanka Moolchandani, MD, Sandra Parsons, PhD, Abbas Rana, MD, FACS, John Goss, MD, FACS, Nhu Thao Nguyen Galván, MD, MPH, FACS

“…This study assesses the attitudes of healthcare practitioners toward Living Donation Prior to Planned Withdrawal of Care (LD-PPW): the recovery of a living donor organ before withdrawal of life-sustaining measures in a patient who does not meet criteria for brain death, but for whom medical care toward meaningful recovery is deemed futile. …”
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Structural Equation Modeling of the Mediating Role of Resilience in the Relationship between Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies and Psychological Well-Being of Patients with I... by Mohammad Reza Tamannaeifar, Zahra Shirani

“…The statistical population consisted of all patients with irritable bowel syndrome who were referred to the Digestive Health Center at Al-Zahra Hospital in Isfahan in 2023. …”
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Stress, Anxiety and Depression in First-year Medical Undergraduates and Coping Strategies Employed during COVID-19-induced Online Learning: A Cross-sectional Study from North India by Rashmi Malhotra, Manisha Naithani, Anita Verma, Yogesh Bahurupi, Kanchan Bisht, Brijendra Singh, Tanmay Joshi

“…Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study undertaken in first-year MBBS students who were admitted in February 2021 due to delay in the admission process. …”
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Unpacking the ‘explorer’ narrative and its impacts on African palaeoanthropology by Rebecca R. Ackermann, Keneiloe Molopyane, Sheela Athreya

“… • This is then linked to the disproportionately high number of white men working across Africa who haveachieved professional success under this rubric…”
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Spectrum of Chronic Gastritis Based on Morphological Examination of Gastric Biopsies by А. S. Tertychnyy, Т. L. Lapina, D. Р. Nagornaya, N. V. Pachuashvili, А. Р. Kiryukhin, А. А. Fedorenko, Р. V. Pavlov, D. D. Protsenko, V. Т. Ivashkin

“…The study included 3162 individuals who underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy with biopsy collection between 2017 and 2022. …”
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Emerging Nutritional Problem of Adult Population: Overweight/Obesity and Associated Factors in Addis Ababa City Communities, Ethiopia—A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study by Tsedeke Wolde Hailemariam, Samrawit Solomon Ethiopia, Andamlak Gizaw Alamdo, Haimanot Ewnetu Hailu

“…Illiterate people were 94% less likely to be obese compared to those who were literate people (AOR = 0.06 (95% CI: 0.01–0.44)). …”
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Orthodontic interventions as a management option for children with residual obstructive sleep apnea: a cohort study protocol by Carlos Flores-Mir, Nathalia Carolina Fernandes Fagundes, Arnaldo Perez-Garcia, Daniel Graf, Giseon Heo

“…This protocol describes a prospective cohort study that aims to assess the effectiveness of orthodontic interventions for managing residual paediatric OSA in patients with concomitant craniofacial issues.Methods and analysis Children aged 6–16 years who with an OSA diagnosis and did not benefit from previous T&A or qualified for T&A will be recruited. …”
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Sutured Intrascleral Posterior Chamber Intraocular Lens Fixation with Ciliary Sulcus Location Guided by Ultrasonic Biological Microscopy: A Retrospective Analysis of Anatomical and... by Ya Qu, Ping Duan, Shujia Huo, Fuliang Li, Jiawen Li

“…To report the outcome of sutured intrascleral posterior chamber intraocular lens (PC IOL) fixation with ciliary sulcus location guided by ultrasonic biological microscopy (UBM). Methods. Patients who underwent a sutured intrascleral PC IOL fixation were reviewed and divided into four groups. …”
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Hepatoid adenocarcinoma of the stomach with ideal response to neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy: a case report by Linchuan Li, Linchuan Li, Dexu Zhang, Jiankang Zhu, Jiankang Zhu, Guangyong Zhang, Guangyong Zhang

“…We present a case involving a 64-year-old male diagnosed with advanced HAS, who demonstrated significant antitumor responses following a preoperative regimen of chemotherapy combined with immunotherapy, specifically utilizing oxaliplatin, S-1, and sintilimab. …”
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Albumin-to-Fibrinogen Ratio Independently Predicts 28-Day Mortality in Patients with Peritonitis-Induced Sepsis by Huiyu Tai, Zhiyun Zhu, Haifeng Mei, Wenbin Sun, Wei Zhang

“…A total of 246 eligible patients who were scheduled to undergo surgical treatment for peritonitis-induced sepsis were enrolled in this study. …”
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Comparative Pitching Biomechanics Among Adolescent Baseball Athletes: Are There Fundamental Differences Between Pitchers and Non-pitchers? by Garrett Bullock, Tessa C Hulburt, Gary Collins, Brian R Waterman, Kristen F Nicholson

“… # Study Design Retrospective cross-sectional study # Methods Baseball players were designated as pitchers or non-pitchers, who then threw fastballs (FB), breaking balls (BB), and change-ups (CH) during a biomechanical assessment. …”
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Spicy food intake and overweight/obesity in rural Southwest China: findings from a cross-sectional study by Huali Xiong, Huali Xiong, Peng Zhao, Fengxun Ma, Dayi Tang, Daiqiang Liu

“…Compared with the participants who never consumed spicy food, after adjusting for confounding factors, the adjusted ORs (95% CIs) in frequency of spicy food intake in 1–2 days/week, 3–5 days/week, 6–7 days/week subgroups were 3.985 (1.855–8.560), 4.381 (2.011–9.543), 6.515 (3.101–13.686), respectively. …”
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