Clinical Outcomes and Donor-specific Antibody Rebound 5 y After Kidney Transplant Enabled by Imlifidase Desensitization by Ian S. Jaffe, BS, Anna Runström, MSc, Vasishta S. Tatapudi, MD, Elaina P. Weldon, MSN, ACNP-BC, Cecilia L. Deterville, MS, Rebecca A. Dieter, PharmD, Robert A. Montgomery, MD, DPhil, Bonnie E. Lonze, MD, PhD, Massimo Mangiola, PhD

“…We present 5-y outcomes and donor-specific antibody (DSA) levels for clinical trial participants from a single site who received imlifidase for desensitization before incompatible transplantation (NCT02790437). …”
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Efficacy of Lurasidone in First-Episode Psychosis: Patient Phenotypes, Dosage, and Recommendations from an Expert Panel by Miquel Bernardo, Marina Díaz Marsá, Ana González-Pinto, Manuel Martín Carrasco, Víctor Pérez Sola, Pilar Alejandra Sáiz, Eduard Vieta, Marta Torrens, Celso Arango, Benedicto Crespo-Facorro

“…Furthermore, patients with a first-episode psychosis (FEP) who experience a good early response to antipsychotic medication show a clinical and functional benefit over the longer term if they continue low-dose antipsychotic treatment. …”
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Reasons for Undesirable Pregnancy Outcomes among Women with Appendicitis: The Experience of a Tertiary Center by Baris Mantoglu, Fatih Altintoprak, Necattin Firat, Emre Gonullu, Enis Dikicier, Yesim Akdeniz, Mehmet Aziret, Unal Erkorkmaz

“…Seventy-eight pregnant patients with acute appendicitis who underwent laparoscopic or open technique intervention enrolled in this retrospective study. …”
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COVID-19–sensitive tumour response: 2-year assessment of the SARS-CoV-2 humoral response in cancer patients in oncology hospital in Poland by Piotr Kosiorek, Bożena Mikołuć, Samuel Stróż, Anna Hryniewicz, Dorota E. Kazberuk, Robert Milewski, Anna Grzeszczuk, Magdalena J. Borkowska, Anna Stasiak‐Barmuta

“…Results The obtained results indicate a naturally more significant humoral response in oncological patients who have not been vaccinated and have not undergone anticancer therapy, such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or surgical intervention. …”
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Predictores psicológicos de lesión en jóvenes deportistas / Psychological Predictors of Injury in Young Athletes by Rosendo Berengüí-Gil, Jorge L. Puga

“…Participants were 115 athletes, members of specialization programs, who were administered the Psychological Inventory on Athletic Execution (IPED), Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT) and Profile of Mood States (POMS). …”
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Human health risk from groundwater consumption: A case study in the Apaaso-Tafo Community in the Bono East Region of Ghana by Emmanuel Okyere, Ethel Bentil, Nana Adwoa Kusi-Addai, Lawson Mensah

“…Except for the pH, temperature, turbidity and total coliform bacteria, all parameters met the WHO standards. 40 % of the boreholes contained 50 to 500 cfu/100 mL of coliform bacteria and posed daily infection risks between 1 and 7.63 %. …”
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Investigating the meteorological factors influencing upper respiratory tract infections: An observational study by Yeşim Yüksel, Cihan Bedel, Fatih Selvi, Okkes Zortuk, Yusuf Karanci

“…Understanding the environmental factors that contribute to the transmission of these infections is essential for effective public health planning and intervention strategies.Objective: This study aims to explore how various meteorological conditions impact the incidence of URIs across different seasons.Methods: We conducted a retrospective observational study involving patients who visited a tertiary education and research hospital in 2023. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with modern contraceptive use among women of reproductive age in 20 African countries: a large population-based study by Robert Akparibo, Paschal Awingura Apanga, Maxwell Tii Kumbeni, Emmanuel Awine Ayamga, Mark B Ulanja

“…Women were more likely to use a modern CP if they: had a primary (adjusted prevalence odds ratios (aPORs): 1.68, 95% CI: 1.47 to 1.91)) or secondary/higher education (aPOR: 2.16, 95% CI: 1.80 to 2.59) compared with women with no formal education; had no delivery in the last 2 years (aPOR: 3.89, 95% CI: 2.76 to 5.47) compared with women who delivered in the last 2 years; were aged 25–34 years (aPOR: 1.33, 95% CI: 1.20 to 1.47) compared with women aged 15–24 years; were of middle-income status (aPOR: 1.25, 95% CI: 1.11 to 1.39) or rich (aPOR: 1.53, 95% CI: 1.27 to 1.84) compared with poor women and had two or more antenatal care visits compared with women without a visit. …”
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Hubungan Dukungan Keluarga dengan Kejadian Depresi pada Usia Tua di Nagari Tanjung Banai Aur, Kecamatan Sumpur Kudus, Kabupaten Sijunjung Tahun 2012 by Figa Prima Dani, Yaslinda Yaunin, Edison .

“…Samples in this study were people with age more than 60 years who lives with his/her in Nagari Tanjung Aur Banai, Kecamatan Sumpur Kudus Kabupaten Sijunjung, which were counted as 82 people, and taken by stratified sampling method. old age with depression have low family support. …”
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Magnitude of Prompt HIV-Seropositive Status Disclosure to Partner and Associated Factors among Adult Clients on ART at Holeta Health Center, Central Ethiopia, 2020 by Guta Kebede, Adugna Dufera, Tufa Kolola, Teka Girma, Daniel Belema

“…A cross-sectional study was carried out from September 15, 2019, to March 15, 2020, among 438 people living with HIV who were more than 18 years old and had sexual partner attending ART clinic at Holeta Health Center, central Ethiopia. …”
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Evaluatıon of contrast enhancement intensity, pattern, and kinetics of breast lesions on contrast-enhanced spectral mammography by Ayşe Füsun Bekirçavuşoğlu, Sibel Kul, Süleyman Bekirçavuşoğlu, Dilara Atasoy, Merve Erkan

“…Methods This retrospective study included 64 patients who were treated between 2015 and 2019. A pathological breast craniocaudal (CC) radiograph was obtained 2 min after contrast. …”
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Clinical characteristics and associated factors of pediatric acute necrotizing encephalopathy: a retrospective study by Huiling Zhang, Yilong Wang, Qianyun Ding, Xuekun Li, Sheng Ye

“…Laboratory tests revealed that patients who died had higher creatinine, lactate, activated partial thromboplastin time, thrombin time, interleukin (IL)-6, IL-10, creatine kinase, and D-dimer than survivors. …”
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The Relationship Between Preferred Learning Styles and Academic Achievement of Undergraduate Health Sciences Students Compared to Other Disciplines at a Middle Eastern University U... by Gangadharan S, Al Mezeini K, Gnanamuthu SS, Al Marshoudi KA

“…These results have practical implications for educators, who should consider learning styles to enhance teaching strategies, address unique student challenges, and create an inclusive educational environment.Keywords: learning style, VARK, academic achievement, health sciences, university, undergraduate students…”
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Implementasi Load Balancing dan Failover to Device Mikrotik Router Menggunakan Metode NTH (Studi Kasus: PT.GO-JEK Indonesia) by Achmmad Mustofa, Desi Ramayanti

“…So also found on the PT.Gojek Indonesian who has used two ISP. When many requests from users, the network devices will be burdened because they have to do a lot of service processes for requests from users. …”
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Demographic and motivational factors affecting the whole-body donation programme in Nanjing, China: a cross-sectional survey by Li Yuan, Jiayi Jiang, Mingyi Zhang, Haojie Meng, Xiang Cui, Yuxin Yang, Chuan Su, Jinfan Wang, Luqing Zhang

“…Demographic analysis of the donating information of deceased donors and in-depth interviews of potential body donors.Setting Eleven districts in Nanjing, China.Participants Deceased whole-body donors who had donated their bodies to the body donation receiving station of Nanjing Medical University between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2019 (n=835), and living registered whole-body donors (n=68).Results Among the whole-body donor population, the numbers of males, people older than 65 years and those working as teachers, government officials, medical staff and farmers were significantly higher than those of the general Nanjing population. …”
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Mortality and risk of cardiac complications among immediate survivors of accidental electric shock: a Danish nationwide cohort study by Christian Torp-Pedersen, Sam Riahi, Lars Køber, Steen Møller Hansen, Peter Søgaard, Rikke Mortensen, Søren Hjortshøj

“…We examined whether electric shock patients have an increased risk of developing cardiac disease, cardiac arrhythmias or death compared with the general Danish population.Design Matched cohort study.Setting A nationwide study in Denmark from 1994 to 2011.Participants We identified 11 462 Danish patients who visited an emergency ward or were admitted to a hospital due to electric shock from 1994 to 2011. …”
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Flanker Task-Elicited Event-Related Potential Sources Reflect Human Recombinant Erythropoietin Differential Effects on Parkinson’s Patients by Maria L. Bringas Vega, Shengnan Liu, Min Zhang, Ivonne Pedroso Ibañez, Lilia M. Morales Chacon, Lidice Galan Garcia, Vanessa Perez Bocourt, Marjan Jahanshahi, Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa

“…The samples were 18 medicated PD patients (nine of them received rHuEPO in addition to their usual anti-PD medication through random allocation and the other nine patients were on their regular anti-PD medication only) and 9 age and education-matched healthy controls (HCs) who completed the flanker task with simultaneous EEG recordings. …”
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Minimizing skull defects in retrosigmoid approach: precision mapping of the sigmoid sinus with mastoid emissary vein canal by Artem V. Rozumenko, Mykola V. Yehorov, Vasyl V. Shust, Dmytro M. Tsiurupa, Anton M. Dubrovka, Petro M. Onishchenko, Volodymyr O. Fedirko

“…Materials and methods. Consecutive patients who underwent retrosigmoid approaches for cerebellopontine angle occupying lesions from October 2023 through August 2024 were included in the study. …”
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Nutritional knowledge and practices of low-income women during pregnancy: a qualitative study in two Oaxacan cities by Marian Marian, Ramona L. Pérez, Amanda C. McClain, Samantha Hurst, Elizabeth Reed, Kathryn M. Barker, Rebecka Lundgren

“…Methods Guided by Ecological Systems Theory and an Intersectionality Framework, this qualitative study was carried out in Oaxaca City and Puerto Escondido, in Oaxaca, a Mexican state with high levels of food insecurity. Women who had at least one child in the past five years and had lived in Oaxaca for the past five years were eligible to participate. …”
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Intrahepatic Lipid Content and Insulin Resistance Are More Strongly Associated with Impaired NEFA Suppression after Oral Glucose Loading Than with Fasting NEFA Levels in Healthy Ol... by Francis M. Finucane, Stephen J. Sharp, Mensud Hatunic, Alison Sleigh, Ema De Lucia Rolfe, Avan Aihie Sayer, Cyrus Cooper, Simon J. Griffin, David B. Savage, Nicholas J. Wareham

“…We performed a cross-sectional analysis of 70 healthy participants in the Hertfordshire Physical Activity Trial (39 males, age 71.3 ± 2.4 years) who underwent oral glucose tolerance testing with glucose, insulin, and NEFA levels measured over two hours. …”
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