Perbedaan Hasil Pemeriksaan Sputum Basil Tahan Asam Antara PasienTuberkulosis Yang Perokok Dan Bukan Perokok Di Balai Pengobatan Penyakit Paru Lubuk Alung by Nurul Ziqra, Elizabeth Bahar, Edison Edison

“…The conclusions was TB patients are found in the productive age and the male gender. Acid fast bacilli positive in smoker is higher than non-smokers.…”
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That “darned Dorsiceratus case” (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Cletodidae T. Scott)—an attempt of a systematic approach, including the description of three new species by Kai Horst George, Lukas Tönjes, Songül Yurtdaş

“…., and Do. karinae sp. nov., and one male specimen appears to resemble Do. ursulae. However, the remaining 44 individuals could not be morphologically assigned to any of the known or new species. …”
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Effects of on-farm hatching versus hatchery hatching on growth performance, gut development, and intestinal health and function in broiler chickens by Muhammad Zeeshan Akram, Ester Arévalo Sureda, Matthias Corion, Luke Comer, Nadia Everaert

“…A total of 560 Ross 308 male chicks were reared until d 38, hatched either in a hatchery (n = 280) or on-farm (n = 280), with 14 replicates per system and 20 birds per pen. …”
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A qualitative study exploring the acceptability of the TEXTPAD telehealth and virtual supervised exercise intervention and trial for patients with peripheral arterial disease livin... by Maddey Patterson, MPH, Letitia Sermin-Reed, MSc, James Prentis, MBBS, Arathi Radhakrishnan, MBBS, Eileen Kaner, PhD, Sandip Nandhra, MBBS, Maisie Rowland, BSc, Gabriel Cucato, PhD, Mackenzie Fong, PhD

“…Fifteen patients were male and three were female. Overall, the TEXTPAD and walking programs were highly acceptable to and positively perceived by participants. …”
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Comparison of retinal vascular abnormalities in the fellow eyes of children with Coats’ disease and normal subjects using ultra-widefield fundus fluorescein angiography by Shenshen Yan, Haixia Ji, Yuzhu Liu, Haicheng She, Haiying Zhou

“…Results: Among the 190 eyes of 95 patients with unilateral Coats’ disease, 83 (87.4%) were male, and the median age was 9.00 (7.00, 12.25) years (4–18 years). 93 (97.9%) fellow eyes had peripheral capillary telangiectasia that most commonly located in the temporal periphery. 59 (62.1%) fellow eyes had microaneurysms and 19 (20.0%) had vascular leakage; 29 (30.5%) fellow eyes had peripheral vascular tortuosity and 86 (90.5%) eyes had peripheral right-angle vessels. …”
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New job, new habits? A multilevel interrupted time series analysis of changes in diet, physical activity and sleep among young adults starting work for the first time by Alena F. Oxenham, Tanya Braune, Esther van Sluijs, Hannah Fairbrother, Adam Martin, Eleanor M. Winpenny

“…The increase in physical activity was greater among males, among those with no degree and among those starting lower socioeconomic classification jobs. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Testosterone Supplement on Heart and Muscle Damage in Rats Applied with Swimming Exercise by Ömer Kulaksız, Sefa Lök

“…The study was conducted on 30 day-old 27 (Wistar, male) rats that were supplied from “Selçuk University Experimental Medicine Research and Application Center”. …”
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Burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease attributable to ambient ozone pollution across China and its provinces, 1990–2021: An analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Stud... by Yixuan Jiang, Fanshu Yan, Haidong Kan, Maigeng Zhou, Peng Yin, Renjie Chen, Jing Ni

“…Generally, a higher burden was observed among males, the elderly, and the population residing in regions with worse health conditions. …”
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Evaluating the differences in healthy lifestyle behaviors between Chinese urban and rural residency after the termination of social distancing: analysis based on propensity score m... by Yudong Miao, Dongfang Zhu, Zhanlei Shen, Yi Li, Wanliang Zhang, Junwen Bai, Ruizhe Ren, Jingbao Zhang, Dan Guo, Clifford Silver Tarimo, Wenyong Dong, Rongmei Liu, Qiuping Zhao, Xue Zhou, Jianping Hu

“…Healthy lifestyle behaviors score among males was lower than that among females in both urban (β = -1.98, 95%CI: -3.05 to -2.10) and rural residents (β = -2.57, 95%CI: -2.37 to -1.60). …”
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The Creation of the Arabic Version of the Hyperhidrosis Quality of Life Index (HidroQoL©) with Validation and Cross-Cultural Adaptation by Almuhaideb QA, AbuDujain NM, Alghamdi KM

“…For validity, we conducted an exploratory factor analysis with an interitem correlation matrix and a rotated component matrix.Results: A total of 167 participants were enrolled in this study; 61.1% were males, and 92.8% were Saudi. All 18 items of the HidroQoL©, including the daily life activities domain, psychosocial life domain, and whole HidroQoL©, had Cronbach’s alpha values above 0.7. …”
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The potential of supplementing compound organic trace elements at lower levels in Chinese yellow-feathered broiler diets, Part I: Impacts on plasma biochemical parameters, antioxid... by Xiaoyan Nie, Yucheng Yin, Qi Lu, Fei Zhao, Yang Dai, Rui Wang, Yiwen Ji, Huihua Zhang, Cui Zhu

“…A total of 960 one-day-old male broilers were randomly allocated to six treatment groups. …”
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Combination of Metformin and Magnesium Citrate Reduces TNF-α, NF-κB p65, IL-6, CD4, and MMP-9 Expressions in Diabetic Model Rats by Rachmi Fauziah Rahayu, Adi Prayitno, Bambang Purwanto, Widiastuti Soewondo, Ida Nurwati, Eti Poncorini Pamungkasari, Paramasari Dirgahayu

“…This study aimed to evaluate the anti-inflammatory effects of magnesium citrate, alone and in combination with metformin, by measuring TNF-α, NF-κB p65, IL-6, CD4, and MMP-9 expression in diabetic model rats. METHODS: Thirty male Wistar rats were divided into five groups: normal control, diabetes control, metformin (treated with 9 mg/200 g/day metformin), magnesium citrate (treated with 3.6 mg/200 g/day magnesium citrate), and combination therapy (treated with 4.5 mg/200 g/day metformin + 1.8 mg/200 g/day magnesium citrate). …”
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Effect of endoscopic sinus surgery on eustachian tube function in adult patients with chronic rhinosinusitis by Mahmoud Atef Abdelghaffar Youssef, Nassim Talaat Nassim, MohamedNourEddin Bashir Alkeeb, Tareq Muhammad Algarf

“…Results The ages of selected patients ranged from 21 to 45 years old with mean ± SD = 30.98 ± 10.24 years old. 52.5% of patients were males. Our results showed a statistically significant postoperative improvement in the Valsalva maneuver and the tympanogram type of both ears compared to preoperative with a p-value < 0.001. …”
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Impact on clinical outcomes, surgical interventions, anaesthetic decisions and complication rates following implementation of the NICE obstructive sleep apnoea guidelines during pr... by Gabrielle Shaw, Ricki Leggatt, Paige Roberts, Amanda Peace Witton, Nicole Moll, Akshay Dwarakanath

“…Results: 450 patients (Age 55 ± 14 years, male 69%, Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) 7 ± 5) with a STOP-Bang score of 3 or more underwent overnight oximetry (32%; normal, 44%; mild, 15%; moderate and 9%; severe OSA). …”
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State of spatial memory and antioxidant system activity of rats in the dynamics of development of blast-induced traumatic brain injury by Yu.V. Kozlova, H.S. Maslak, O.E. Abraimova, V.V. Koldunov, O.E. Khudyakov

“…The experiment was carried out on 67 albino male Wistar rats, which were randomly divided into three groups: I group – experimental (n=34), animals were subjected to inhalation anesthesia with halothane, fixed and was simulated blast-induced traumatic brain injury was simulated by generating a shock wave with an overpressure of 26.4±3.6 kPa, II group – sham (n=34), animals which were subjected only to inhalation anesthesia and fixation and III group – intact (n=34). …”
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Effect of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol and high phytase doses on performance, vitamin D status, bone mineralization, and mechanistic target of rapamycin gene expression of broilers by L.S. Bassi, C.C.S. Martins, C.A. Lozano-Poveda, I.C. Dias, S.G. Oliveira, A. Maiorka

“…A total of 1 200 one-d-old male broiler chicks were randomly allocated from one of four dietary treatments in a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement: 600 or 2 000 phytase units (FYT)/kg and with or without the inclusion of 25-OH-D3 at 69 µg/kg, with 12 replicates of 25 broilers each. …”
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Short-Term Efficacy of Using a Novel Low-Volume Bone Marrow Aspiration Technique to Treat Knee Osteoarthritis: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Daniel Kuebler, Alexandra Schnee, Lisa Moore, Jason Kouri, Alexis McLaughlin, Robert Hanson, Patrick Kuebler, Ignacio Dallo, Alberto Gobbi

“…Changes in visual analog scores (VAS) for overall daily activity were examined over a six-month time frame in these patients (63.5±0.97 years of age; 48.1% male). In addition, changes in the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC) and Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC scores) were examined over the same time frame in a smaller subset of patients (95 patients including 172 knees). …”
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A Comparison of Resting Scapular Posture and the Davies Closed Kinetic Chain Upper Extremity Stability Test by John D Heick, Jenna Haggerty, Robert C Manske

“… # STUDY DESIGN Multicenter, single session descriptive cohort # METHODS Sixty-one healthy participants (33 males, 28 females; mean age 24.19±2.61) completed testing across two locations in one testing session. …”
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Prediction of mortality and prioritisation to tertiary care using the 'OUR-ARCad' risk score gleaned from the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic-A retrospective cohort study from Sou... by Narendran Gopalan, Vinod Kumar Viswanathan, Vignes Anand Srinivasalu, Saranya Arumugam, Adhin Bhaskar, Tamizhselvan Manoharan, Santosh Kishor Chandrasekar, Divya Bujagaruban, Ramya Arumugham, Gopi Jagadeeswaran, Saravanan Madurai Pandian, Arunalatha Ponniah, Thirumaran Senguttuvan, Ponnuraja Chinnaiyan, Baskaran Dhanraj, Vineet Kumar Chadha, Balaji Purushotham, Manoj Vasanth Murhekar

“…<h4>Results</h4>Of 617 COVID-19 patients (325 survivors, 292 non-survivors), treated as per prevailing national guidelines, with a slight male predilection (358/617 [58.0%]), fatalities in the age group above and below 50 years were (217/380 [57.1%]) and (75/237 [31.6%]), p<0.001. …”
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Clinical Review of Ocular Traumas Resulting in Enucleation or Evisceration in a Tertiary Eye Care Center in Hungary by Gábor Tóth, Milán Tamás Pluzsik, Béla Csákány, Gábor László Sándor, Olga Lukáts, Zoltán Zsolt Nagy, Nóra Szentmáry

“…There were 124 enucleated/eviscerated eyes from 124 patients (91 males (73.4%)). The mean age at the time of trauma was 37.3 ± 26.0 years while the mean age at the time of enucleation/evisceration was 46.9 ± 20.3 years. …”
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