Peroral Endoscopic myotomy (POEM) in pediatric achalasia: a retrospective cohort on institutional experience and quality of life by Thijs Kuipers, Carlijn Mussies, Aaltje Lei, Gwen M.C. Masclee, Marc A. Benninga, Paul Fockens, Barbara A.J. Bastiaansen, Albert J. Bredenoord, Michiel P. van Wijk

“…The SF-36 mental health component score was significantly lower (44.2 vs. 53.1; p = 0.036) in patients treated with POEM compared to those treated with PD and LHM. …”
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Caracterización de pacientes con patologías tiroideas intervenidos quirúrgicamente by Yusleidy Jiménez García, Yelina Martínez Bravo, Osviel Martínez Díaz, Dairelis López Caraballo, Lázaro Pablo Linares Cánovas, Diana Iris Gómez Blanco

“…La correlación entre estudios citológicos y la biopsia demostró que el 4,42 % de los resultados fueron negativos falsos y el 3,09 % positivos falsos, de forma que durante la validación del procedimiento citológico se tuvo una sensibilidad de 94,95 % y una especificidad de 97,30 %. …”
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Enhancing Medical Student Engagement Through Cinematic Clinical Narratives: Multimodal Generative AI–Based Mixed Methods Study by Tyler Bland

“…Key findings include the majority of surveyed students preferring the CCN over traditional clinical cases (14/18), as well as high average scores for triggered situational interest (mean 4.58, SD 0.53), maintained interest (mean 4.40, SD 0.53), maintained-feeling interest (mean 4.38, SD 0.51), and maintained-value interest (mean 4.42, SD 0.54). Students achieved an average score of 88% on examination questions related to the CCN material, indicating successful learning and retention. …”
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Anemia and Associated Factors among Public Elementary School Children in Asella Town, Southeast Ethiopia: A Facility-Based Cross-Sectional Study by Ararso Hordofa Guye, Kasim Hansa, Kasahun Ketema, Meseret Moroda, Dame Banti Shambi

“…A school-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Asella Town from April 5 to May 5, 2022. A total of 442 school children aged 7–14 years were included in the study using the multistage sampling method. …”
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Immunoinformatics Approach for Multiepitope Vaccine Prediction from H, M, F, and N Proteins of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus by Bothina B. M. Gaafar, Sumaia A. Ali, Khoubieb Ali Abd-elrahman, Yassir A. Almofti

“…For instance, 358STKSCARTL366 from the F protein interacted with five alleles, followed by 340SQNALYPMS348 and 442IDLGPAISL450 that interacted with three alleles each. …”
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Acinetobacter baumannii infection in critically ill patients with COVID-19 from Tehran, Iran: the prevalence, antimicrobial resistance patterns and molecular characteristics of iso... by Mahsa Ghamari, Fereshteh Jabalameli, Shirin Afhami, Shahnaz Halimi, Mohammad Emaneini, Reza Beigverdi

“…More than 90% (39/43) of A. baumannii isolates were resistant to cefepime, ampicillin-sulbactam, gentamicin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and amikacin. Furthermore, 44.2% (19/43) of isolates were resistant to colistin. …”
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Magnitude of immediate postpartum anaemia and associated factors among mothers at selected public hospitals in North Shoa Zone, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional s... by Genanew Nigusu, Negash Wakgari, Mistiwat Abebe, Meseret Moroda

“…Factors significantly associated with immediate postpartum anaemia included postpartum haemorrhage (AOR: 4.95; 95% CI 2.09 to 11.76), history of abortion (AOR: 4.01; 95% CI 1.93 to 8.35), rural residence (AOR: 3.03; 95% CI 1.49 to 6.16), poor adherence to iron and folic acid supplementation (AOR: 2.66; 95% CI 1.27 to 5.58) and midupper arm circumference (MUAC) <23 cm (AOR: 2.19; 95% CI 1.08 to 4.42).Conclusion The magnitude of immediate postpartum anaemia was a moderate public health problem. …”
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Investigating the cost of mechanized unpaved road maintenance operations in Uganda by Obeti, Andrew Moses, Byaruhanga, Chris Bic, Muhwezi, Lawrence, Kakitahi, John Muhumuza

“…Unpaved mechanized road maintenance costs at KSL and Gulu DLG were computed as a cost/km ratio of 26,442,032Ugx/km (6,958.4USD/km) and 32,674,895Ugx/km (8,598.65USD/km) respectively. …”
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Mediation Effect of Resilience Between Social Support and Depression Symptoms in Patients With Strabismus: A Cross-Sectional Study by Mo Y, Zhang H, Yu X, Xu Z, Xiao H, Gao L, Wang Y

“…Social support (β=− 0.407, P< 0.001) and resilience (β=− 0.367, P< 0.001) were predictors of depression symptoms, which explained 44.2% of all variations. Resilience partially mediated between social support and depression symptoms, accounting for 22.22% of the total effect (− 1.543/-6.944).Conclusion: Resilience mediates the relationship between social support and depression symptoms in patients with strabismus. …”
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El efecto de las superficies de la cancha sobre las respuestas fisiológicas y las actividades de juego de los tenistas recreativos de mayor edad by Bulent Kilit, Ersan Arslan, Yusuf Soylu

“…Veintidós jugadores de tenis recreativos de mayor edad (44.2 ± 3.3 años) jugaron dos partidos individuales cada uno, uno en una CD y el otro en una CA; se monitorearon las respuestas de la frecuencia cardíaca y las características de tiempo-movimiento (CTM) por medio de dispositivos GPS portátiles. …”
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The Impact of Hyperoxia on Outcome of Patients Treated with Noninvasive Respiratory Support by Seyhan Pala Cifci, Yasemin Urcan Tapan, Bengu Turemis Erkul, Yusuf Savran, Bilgin Comert

“…When the types of oxygen support therapies were investigated, hyperoxia frequency was found higher in patients treated with supplemental oxygen (nasal cannula, oronasal mask, high flow oxygen therapy) than patients treated with NIMV (44.2% vs. 25.5%, p<0.008). After exclusion of 56 patients who were intubated and treated with invasive mechanical ventilation after the first 24 hours, hyperoxemia was determined in 46 of 131 patients. …”
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Vasoreactive testing prevalence and characteristics in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension by Goncharova Natalia, Kirill Lapshin, Aelita Berezina, Irina Zlobina, Anton Ryzhkov, Zhaneta Matakaeva, Elizaveta Andreeva, Olga Moiseeva

“…METHODS: One hundred and sixty-six adult IPAH patients (44.2 ± 15.3 years, 34 males) comprised into prospective single-center study between 2008 and 2023 years. …”
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Особливості перебігу вагітності та пологів у жінок із запальними захворюваннями кишечника by L.M. Kupchik, T.V. Tsapenko, T.T. Narytnyk

“…Встановлено статистично вірогідно вищу частоту виникнення ускладнень вагітності в жінок із запальними захворюваннями кишечника, таких як анемія (59,3% у групі І-А і 69,2% у групі І-Б проти 30% у групі контролю); загроза передчасного переривання вагітності (40,7% у групі І-А і 53,8% у групі І-Б проти 15% у групі контролю); блювання вагітних (44,4% у групі І-А і 67,3% у групі І-Б проти 25% у групі контролю); прееклампсія (37% у групі І-А і 44,2% у групі І-Б проти 10% у групі контролю); передчасний  розрив плодових оболонок (37% у групі І-А і 21,1% у групі І-Б проти 10% у групі контролю). …”
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Factors and Reasons Associated with Hesitating to Seek Care for Migraine: Results of the OVERCOME (US) Study by Robert E. Shapiro, Eva Jolanda Muenzel, Robert A. Nicholson, Anthony J. Zagar, Michael L. Reed, Dawn C. Buse, Susan Hutchinson, Sait Ashina, Eric M. Pearlman, Richard B. Lipton

“…The most common reasons participants stated for hesitating included (1) 44.2% wanting to try and take care of migraine on their own, (2) 33.8% feeling that their migraine or headache would not be taken seriously, (3) 29.2% thinking that their migraine was not serious/painful enough, and (4) 27.4% not being able to afford it or not wanting to spend the money. …”
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Shift from chronic to episodic migraine frequency in a long-term phase 3 study of galcanezumab by Hans-Christoph Diener, Kathleen A. Day, Sarah Lipsius, Sheena K. Aurora, Nada A. Hindiyeh, Holland C. Detke

“…Among galcanezumab-treated patients across the entire 12-month trial, 65.1% shifted from CM to EM frequency, with 44.2% shifting to LFEM and 21.5% shifting to VLFEM for ≥ 3 consecutive months. …”
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The assessment of routine health information system performance towards improvement of quality of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health services in Ondo and... by Victoria Oladoyin, Sunday Adedini, Kayode Ijadunola, Hassan Ogunwemimo, Olubunmi Folorunso, Elizabeth Chukwu, Ugo Okoli, Anthony Adoghe, Samuel Oyeniyi, Oniyire Adetiloye, Adesegun Fatusi

“…Data accuracy was 70.1% for Ondo and 40.4% for Ekiti (p <0.001); 82.9% of facilities in Ondo and 44.2% in Ekiti had complete data (p <0.001); almost all facilities (Ondo: 99.1%; Ekiti: 96.2%, p = 0.224) demonstrated data consistency; and, 82.9% of facilities in Ondo and 94.2% of facilities in Ekiti demonstrated timeliness in data submission (p = 0.048). …”
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Prevalence of carbapenemase-encoding genes carriage in patients admitted to multidisciplinary hospital in Moscow by Ni O.G., Shifman E.M., Yakovlev S.V., Bykov A.O., Gorbacheva A.A., Kruglov A.N., Belotserkovskiy B.Z., Matyushkov N.S., Galata A.A., Protsenko D.N.

“…A total of 737 patients aged 18 to 94 were included, 442 of them were females and 295 were males. Carriage of genes in at least one locus was found in 12.6% of patients. 70.9% of patients carried only one type of genes, but 16.1% carried two different types of genes and 12.9% carried from 3 to 6 different types of genes. …”
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Distribution characteristics of blood group antigen and susceptibility in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis by JU Min, LIU Bin, GONG Xiaoyan, LIN Guoyue

“…[Methods] The clinical information of hospitalized patients with pulmonary tuberculosis from different ethnic groups (n=32 508, infection group) and healthy people (n=15 442, control group) in the Eighth Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University and the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University from 2014 to 2020 was collected, and the frequency distribution of ABO and Rh blood group antigens in the two groups was analyzed retrospectively. …”
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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 2007 CANICULAR SUMMER IN ROMANIA by OCTAVIA BOGDAN, ION MARINICĂ, LOREDANA-ELENA MIC

“…In Juli 2007wurden 10 heiße Tage eingetragen und die höchste Temperatur hat Werte von ≥ 40°C bei 49 Wetterwarten erreicht, bei fünf von denen die Werte ≥ 44°C waren: 44.0°C bei Băileşti, Moldova Nouă und Moldova Veche, 44.2°C bei Bechet und 44.3°C bei Calafat / 24.07.2007; dieser letzte Wert hat mit 0.8°C in nur 7 Jahren denalten Rekord des Monats Juli überholt. …”
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Efficacy and Safety Outcomes of Intravitreal Dexamethasone Implant Therapy for the Treatment of Adult Coats’ Disease by Qingshan Chen, Saying Liang, Xizhen Wang, Chenli Hu, Jieting She, Zi Li

“…Ten eyes (10 patients) with Stage 3A Coats’ disease were included, and the mean follow-up time was 9.70 ± 4.42 months. The mean age was 44.20 ± 7.42 years, and 80% were male. …”
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