Pharyngeal airway dimensions and adipose distribution in the minipig by Doris H. Rosero Salazar, Riana Grewal, Anuj Vimawala, Daniel F. Leotta, Swati R. Levendovszky, Zi-Jun Liu

“…Objective: To evaluate the pharyngeal airway dimensions and regional pharyngeal adipose distribution in the young adult minipig model. Materials and methods: Eight 7-8-months-old Yucatan minipigs, half male and female, were sedated and placed prone to scan the pharyngeal region. …”
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Effects of Kettlebell Swing Style and Mass on Female Hip Joint Kinetics by Kasey M Murphy, Bryan L Riemann

“… # Purpose/ Hypothesis The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of swing style (SHS, OHS) and KB mass on hip extension kinematics and kinetics in young adult females. A secondary purpose was to determine the effects of swing style and KB mass on the forces applied to the total body center of mass and KB. …”
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Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and Lifestyle Characteristics of University Students in Cyprus: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Elena Hadjimbei, George Botsaris, Vassilis Gekas, Andrie G. Panayiotou

“…Tailored-made strategies targeting the young adult population could be warranted.…”
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Analysis of new varieties adoption behavior of Chinese turbot farmer based on the perspective of heterogeneity by Qilei Ding, Zhengyong Yang, Renjie Xu, Yifei Chen

“…The results indicated that new varieties are more likely to be adopted in enterprises, young adult, and large-scale farmers groups. Policy implications from this research included strengthen government incentives for the promotion of new varieties, constructing the systematic and long-term training system and constructing the farmers-centered promotion system.…”
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The Association between Adiponectin Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Side Effects of Isotretinoin in Acne Patients by Munir Garba, Omar F. Khabour, Karem H. Alzoubi, Ahmed Abu-Siniyeh, Firas Al-Qarqaz

“…In this study, the effect of genetic polymorphisms, rs2241766 and rs1501299, of the adiponectin gene was investigated in relation to the side effects of isotretinoin-treated young adult acne patients (n = 230). Methods. Several biochemical parameters were measured at baseline and after treatments with isotretinoin. …”
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Outcome of Excision with Primary Midline Closure for Sacrococcygeal Pilonidal Sinus Disease by Bahzad Waso Hamad

“…Sacrococcygeal Pilonidal sinus disease is common chronic inflammatory disease affecting chiefly young adult male . It cause much discomfort and morbidity and affect negatively the quality of life of patients. …”
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Age- and Gender-Specific Prevalence of Risk Factors in Patients with First-Ever Ischemic Stroke in China by Xiao-ying Yao, Yan Lin, Jie-li Geng, Ya-meng Sun, Ying Chen, Guo-wen Shi, Qun Xu, Yan-sheng Li

“…Methods. 1027 patients with first-ever ischemic stroke (IS) were recruited and divided into young adult (<50 years), middle-aged (50∼80 years), and very old (>80 years) groups according to stroke onset ages. …”
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Basis for the Age-related Decline in Intestinal Mucosal Immunity by Douglas L. Schmucker, Robert L. Owen, Robert Outenreath, Karine Thoreux

“…Quantitative immunohistochemical analyses demonstrated a 2-fold increase in the number of IgA+ cells in the PPs, coupled with significant declines in the numbers of IgA+ and antibody-positive cells in the intestinal LP of senescent rats compared to young adult animals. These data suggest that aging diminishes the emigration of IgA immunoblasts from these lymphoid aggregates, as well as their migration to the intestinal LP. …”
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Effect of Radiation, Organic Solvents and Vibration Occupational Exposure on the Thyroid Disease: Results from Project ELEFANT by Bibo Yuan, Citlalli Osorio-Yáñez, Junkai Fang, Lei Zhao, Ander Wilson, Marco Sanchez-Guerra, Hongbin Liu, Peng-Hui Li, Liqiong Guo

“…We reviewed the medical records, including the thyroid disease history, of young adult participants and measured the TSH levels in the females via automated immunometric assay. …”
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AAV-KLF7 Promotes Descending Propriospinal Neuron Axonal Plasticity after Spinal Cord Injury by Wen-Yuan Li, Ying Wang, Feng-Guo Zhai, Ping Sun, Yong-Xia Cheng, Ling-Xiao Deng, Zhen-Yu Wang

“…In vitro, KLF7 and target proteins were successfully elevated and axonal outgrowth was enhanced. In vivo, young adult C57BL/6 mice received a T10 contusion followed by an AAV-KLF7 injection at the T7–9 levels above the lesion. …”
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Psychiatric assessment in image-based sexual abuse case: a case report on imputability in personality disorder with narcissistic traits by Lorenzo Lodde, Claudia Zandara, Andrea Martella, Mirko Manchia, Mirko Manchia, Pasquale Paribello, Irene Mascia, Martina Pinna

“…We report on a case of a 27-year-old young adult who is accused of image-based sexual abuse and other crimes, for whom the examining judge requested psychiatric assessment.MethodsWe conducted anamnestic collection (family, physiological and pathological, psychiatric, and toxicological), direct evaluation of the examinee, assessment of acquired health records, psychodiagnostic tests (i.e. graphic tests: Machover test, Koch test), Montreal Cognitive Assessment, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2, Pathological Narcissism Inventory, State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory 2, Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Thematic Apperception Test.ResultsThe clinical forensic assessment led to a diagnosis of Unspecified Personality Disorder (predominantly narcissistic traits) according to the DSM-5 criteria. …”
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Effectiveness of Super Floss and Water Flosser in Plaque Removal for Patients Undergoing Orthodontic Treatment: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Nozha Sawan, Afnan Ben Gassem, Faisal Alkhayyal, Aroob Albakri, Nada Al-Muhareb, Eman Alsagob

“…A single-blind, randomized, controlled, parallel clinical trial with a split-mouth protocol was conducted on young adult orthodontic patients who were recruited from Riyadh Specialized Dental Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. …”
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Magnitude and Predictors of Dietary Diversity among HIV-Infected Adults on Antiretroviral Therapy: The Case of North-Western, Ghana by Louis Nebayeng Mornah, Mahama Saaka, Diana Pireh

“…Having a secured salary paid job, not taking cotrimoxazole prophylaxis, and being a young adult were strong predictors of a high dietary diversity score. …”
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Rev-erb-α antagonism in alveolar macrophages protects against pneumococcal infection in elderly mice by Fabiola Silva Angulo, Claudine Vanessa Joseph, Lou Delval, Lucie Deruyter, Séverine Heumel, Marie Bicharel, Patricia Brito Rodrigues, Valentin Sencio, Tom Bourguignon, Marina Gomes Machado, Marie Fourcot, Stéphane Delhaye, Sophie Salomé-Desnoulez, Philippe Valet, Serge Adnot, Isabelle Wolowczuk, Jean-Claude Sirard, Muriel Pichavant, Bart Staels, Joel T. Haas, Ruxandra Gref, Jimmy Vandel, Arnaud Machelart, Hélène Duez, Benoit Pourcet, François Trottein

“…A lung circadian transcriptome analysis revealed that aging alters the daily oscillations in the expression of a specific set of genes and that some pathways that are rhythmic in young-adult mice are non-rhythmic or time shifted in elderly mice. …”
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Personal determinants of vandal behaviour among urban school and student youth from a gender perspective by O. V. Kruzhkova, I. V. Deviatovskaia, M. S. Krivoshchekova

“…At the same time, foreign and Russian researchers refer to adolescents and young adult males as the subjects of vandal activity, i.e. those young people, who are mostly the subjects of education (schoolchildren, students). …”
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Regenerative Potential of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells: Age-Related Changes by Flavia Bruna, David Contador, Paulette Conget, Benjamín Erranz, Claudia L. Sossa, Martha L. Arango-Rodríguez

“…Two different doses of bone marrow MSCs (BM-MSCs) from young, adult, or old mouse donors or two doses of their acellular derivatives mesenchymal stromal cells (acd-MSCs) were intradermally injected around wounds in the midline of C57BL/6 mice. …”
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Mortality in the families of children during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a repeated cross-sectional study of children in the United States by Kao-Ping Chua, Rena M. Conti, Nora V. Becker

“…Among these families, we calculated the proportion with ≥ 1 death of an adult family member aged ≥ 18 years enrolled in the plan, including young adult dependents aged 18–25 years. We used descriptive statistics to assess the age and sex of adult decedents and their surviving children. …”
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Association of Chlamydia trachomatis infection with cervical atypia in adolescent women with short-term or long-term use of oral contraceptives: a longitudinal study in HPV vaccina... by Indira Adhikari, Tiina Eriksson, Tapio Luostarinen, Dan Apter, Matti Lehtinen, Katja Harjula, Pekka Nieminen, Mari Hokkanen

“…Objective We assessed the relationship between Chlamydia trachomatis infection, duration of oral contraceptive (OC) use and cervical atypia among young adult Finnish women.Design A longitudinal study.Setting and participants Women who were included in this study participated in a community-randomised trial on the effectiveness of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and C. trachomatis screening at ages 18.5 and 22 years in Finland. …”
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Peri-Traumatic Near-Infrared Light Treatment Attenuates the Severity of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss by Rescuing (Type I) Spiral Ganglion Neurons in Mice by Max Meuser, Susanne Schwitzer, Parisa Faraji, Arne Ernst, Dietmar Basta

“…Methods: Frequency-specific auditory brainstem potential thresholds (ABR) were determined in young adult mice. One group (n = 8) underwent NIR irradiation (808 nm, 120 mW, 15 min) of the cochlea, followed by a 30 min noise exposure (5–20 kHz, 115 dB SPL). …”
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Glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) methylation, childhood maltreatment, multilevel reward responsiveness and depressive and anxiety symptoms: A neuroimaging epigenetic study by Yajing Xu, Shan Yang, Cong Cao

“…We conducted the first longitudinal study to investigate the extent to which DNA methylation of a stress-related gene—NR3C1—interacts with childhood maltreatment in association with young adult reward responsiveness (RR) and the downstream risk of depressive (anhedonia dimension in particular) and anxiety symptoms. …”
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