Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes: Artificial Intelligence-Augmented Propensity Score and Geospatial Cohort Analysis of 3,952 Patients by Dominique J. Monlezun, Alfred T. Samura, Ritesh S. Patel, Tariq E. Thannoun, Prakash Balan

“…We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of a prospectively collected multicenter dataset of adult patients who sequentially presented to Houston metro area hospitals from 01/01/07-01/01/16. …”
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Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Fetomaternal Outcomes of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Kuwait: A Cross-Sectional Study by Zainab Groof, Ghadeer Garashi, Hamid Husain, Shaikhah Owayed, Shaima AlBader, Hawra’a Mouhsen, Anwar Mohammad, Ali H. Ziyab

“…This cross-sectional study enrolled 947 mothers living in Kuwait, who had given birth within the previous four years. …”
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Early childhood caries and their association with serum iron, serum ferritin, serum albumin, and Vitamin D by Vasundhara Megha, Jeevendra Nath Shukla, Rajat Kumar Singh, Chitrita Gupta Mukherjee, Siddharth Anand, Aparna Singh

“…The mean value of Vitamin D was 17.44 (±7.59) ng/ml in ECC children and 35.9 (±9.56) in caries-free children who were significantly low in comparison with the non-ECC subjects (P < 0.0001). …”
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Association between Combined Structure Function Index and Glaucoma Severity by Shumpei Ogawa, Yoshimasa Tanabe, Yoshinori Itoh, Takahiko Noro, Hisato Gunji, Tadashi Nakano

“…We retrospectively reviewed medical records from September 2009 to July 2015, which included 195 eyes of 195 patients with OAG or normal-tension glaucoma who underwent SAP and optical coherence tomography on the same day (male: female, 128 : 67; mean age, 61.4 ± 11.3 years; mean spherical equivalent, −2.39 ± 2.3 D). …”
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Assessment of Hearing Ability in Patients after Head and Neck Cancer Radiotherapy by Sohaila Yazdani, Kolsoum Teimouri, Negin Farshchian, Karim Khoshgard

“…There was a statistically significant difference in SNHL thresholds between patients who underwent CRT versus those treated with RT alone (P-value < 0.05). …”
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The Development of Methods of BLOTCHIP^®-MS for Peptidome: Small Samples in Tuberous Sclerosis by Kunio Yui, George Imataka, Kotaro Yuge, Hitomi Sasaki, Tadashi Shiohama, Kyoichi Asada, Hidehisa Tachiki

“…Our study on peptide analysis in Protosera Inc (Osaka, Japan) revealed that three peptides that were related to inflammation in two patients with tuberous sclerosis, who showed a 30% decrease in ASD symptoms following everolimus treatment. …”
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EVALUATION OF GRADUATES OF RESIDENCY IN DIGESTIVE SURGERY AND COLOPROCTOLOGY IN A SINGLE CENTER: A 43 YEARS PORTRAIT by Gilton Marques FONSECA, Luiz Henrique DA COSTA, José Donizeti MEIRA JUNIOR, Nelson Fausto DELL’AQUILLA JUNIOR, Ulysses RIBEIRO JUNIOR, Paulo HERMAN, Luiz Augusto Carneiro D’ALBUQUERQUE

“…METHODS: A digital survey with 42 questions was sent to graduates who commenced training between 1979 and 2021. Results were analyzed in subgroups based on two eras (Era 1: 1979–2000; Era 2: 2001–2021), the impact of postgraduation, and respondents’ work locations. …”
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Contemporary Normative Values for Five Common Static Standing Tasks on Firm and Compliant Floor Surfaces in Children Two to Thirteen Years by Nancy S. Darr, Mary Rose Franjoine, Cathey Norton, Brenda L. Young

“…The primary purpose of this study was to investigate developmental trajectories of and relationships between four static standing positions (SPs [SU, SFT, TS, SLS]) in children aged 2 through 13 years who are developing typically. The effects of altered sensory input, including floor surface (firm and compliant) and vision (eyes open [SU] and eyes closed [SEC]), as well as influences of sex, height, weight, and BMI on static standing were also examined. …”
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Frequency and Predictors of Pneumonia After Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG): A Single-Center Study by Ozgur Baris, Tugba Asli Onyilmaz, Huseyin Kaya

“…<b>Methods:</b> This retrospective study analyzed 430 patients who underwent CABG between 2019 and 2024. Patient demographics, clinical characteristics, surgical details and laboratory data were collected. …”
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An Unusual Presentation of Glandular Fever by Dominic Worku, Li Hui Chang, Ian Blyth

“…Here we present a 21-year-old male who presented with a 2-week history of fever, dry cough, and a 4-week history of pharyngitis. …”
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Experiences and Expectations: Drivers of Urban Tourist Destination Competitiveness by Vladimir Pavković, Tamara Vlastelica, Milica Kostić-Stanković, Jasmina Dlačić

“…Data: The study was conducted on a sample of 312 respondents from Belgrade, a large outbound tourist centre, who met the pre-established set of criteria. Computer-aided web interviewing (CAWI) was used for data collection. …”
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A Preseason Training Program With the Nordic Hamstring Exercise Increases Eccentric Knee Flexor Strength and Fascicle Length in Professional Female Soccer Players by Karoline Baptista Vianna, Lívia Gonçalves Rodrigues, Nathalia Trevisol Oliveira, João Breno Ribeiro-Alvares, Bruno Manfredini Baroni

“…The NHE training group had 17 professional female soccer players who performed an 8-week training program with the NHE during preseason. …”
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A deep learning analysis for dual healthcare system users and risk of opioid use disorder by Ying Yin, Elizabeth Workman, Phillip Ma, Yan Cheng, Yijun Shao, Joseph L. Goulet, Friedhelm Sandbrink, Cynthia Brandt, Christopher Spevak, Jacob T. Kean, William Becker, Alexander Libin, Nawar Shara, Helen M. Sheriff, Jorie Butler, Rajeev M. Agrawal, Joel Kupersmith, Qing Zeng-Trietler

“…Abstract The opioid crisis has disproportionately affected U.S. veterans, leading the Veterans Health Administration to implement opioid prescribing guidelines. Veterans who receive care from both VA and non-VA providers—known as dual-system users—have an increased risk of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). …”
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Comparing Fetal Weight Estimates in the Third Trimester: Clinical Examination Findings, Ultrasonographic Estimation, and Actual Birth Weight by Ayesha Ghaffar, Sabeen Ashraf, Hafiza Alia Akbar Khan, Saba Yousaf, Tallat Farkhanda, Amartur Rabbal

“…A total of 1130 women between the ages of 18 and 40, gestational age of > 34 weeks, BMI of 18 to 25 kg/m2, single cephalic fetus and who gave consent were included. The patients with PIH, preeclampsia, eclampsia, anaemia, chronic renal disease, diabetes and conditions such as polyhydramnios, oligohydramnios, and congenital fetal anomalies were excluded from the study. …”
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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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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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