Pregnancy Outcomes among Patients with Sickle Cell Disease in Brazzaville by F. O. Galiba Atipo Tsiba, C. Itoua, C. Ehourossika, N. Y. Ngakegni, G. Buambo, N. S. B. Potokoue Mpia, A. Elira Dokekias

“…From the logistic regression analysis using the comparison group as the reference group, there was excessive risk in SCD compared to non-SCD of infection (29.3% vs. 4.6%, OR = 21.7, 95% CI [7.6–62.7]; p=0.001), cesarean (63% vs. 35.4%, OR = 3.1, 95% CI [1.6–5.7]; p=0.001), prematurity (75.4% vs. 30.8%, OR = 8, 95% CI [3.0–23.2]; p=0.001), low birth weight (52.3% vs. 16.1%, OR = 4.7, 95% CI [2.4–9.4]; p=0.001), neonatal requiring admission to the intensive care unit (40.3% vs. 17.5%, OR = 3.2, 95% CI [1.6–6.3]; p=0.01), and neonatal death (21.5% vs. 4.8%, OR = 4.3, 95% CI [1.5–12.2]; p=0.01). …”
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Copy number variations at the Rhg1 locus and their relationship with resistance to soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines) by Dinesh Poudel, Guiping Yan, Carrie Miranda, Gustavo Fernando Kreutz, Intiaz Amin Chowdhury

“…This study assessed the host resistance of 100 soybean breeding lines to SCN populations HG type 2.5.7 (S1) and HG type 7 (S2). Two controlled growth chamber experiments involved inoculating plants with 2,000 SCN eggs and juveniles, followed by counting SCN white females and calculating the female index (FI) to classify resistance responses. …”
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Clinical Predictors of Aspirin Resistance in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Fan Zhang, Hongyan Zheng

“…Specifically, the laboratory parameters associated with AR included fasting glucose level (mean difference (MD) = 8.21; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 2.55 to 13.88), glycated hemoglobin (MD = 0.22; 95% CI = 0.06 to 0.38), high-density lipoprotein (HDL) level (MD = –2.02; 95% CI = –3.62 to –0.42), low-density lipoprotein (LDL) level (MD = 7.00; 95% CI = 2.87 to 11.13), total cholesterol level (MD = 9.52; 95% CI = 4.37 to 14.67), and triglyceride levels (MD = 12.51; 95% CI = 3.47 to 21.55). …”
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Traumatic peripheral nerve injuries in young Korean soldiers: a recent 10-year retrospective study by Chul Jung, Jae-hyun Yun, Eun Jin Kim, Jaechan Park, Jiwoon Yeom, Kyoung-Eun Kim

“…After adjusting for other possible predictors, multiple PNI was identified as a significant predictor of a complete PNI (odds ratio, 3.583; P=0.017). Conclusions In this study, we analyzed the characteristics of enlisted Korean soldiers discharged due to traumatic PNI and found that the most common injury mechanism was adjacent fracture or dislocation (57.6%). …”
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Novel primers improve species delimitation in Cercospora by Mounes Bakhshi, Mahdi Arzanlou, Asadollah Babai-ahari, Johannes Z. Groenewald, Pedro W. Crous

“…The robust eight-gene phylogeny revealed several novel clades within the existing Cercospora species complexes, such as C. apii, C. armoraciae, C. beticola, C. cf. flagellaris and Cercospora sp. …”
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Adicción a teléfonos inteligentes, ansiedad, depresión y estrés en estudiantes de enfermería mexicanos by Cornelio Bueno-Brito, Eduardo Pérez-Castro, Josefina Delgado-Delgado

“…Respecto a los modelos de regresión logística simple, se encontró que los estudiantes con adicción al teléfono móvil tienen 2,57 veces más probabilidad de padecer depresión, 2,50 de presentar ansiedad y 3,34 de sufrir estrés comparado con los estudiantes que no tienen adicción al teléfono móvil. …”
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Impact of Oseltamivir and Diabetes Development by Bor-Show Tzang, Chih-Chen Tzang, Pei-Hua Chuang, I-Ying Kuo, Yu-Chun Pan, Pei-Hsun Wu, Tsai-Ching Hsu

“…., Cary, NC, USA). <b>Results</b>: Cox proportional hazards regression and multivariate analyses revealed a statistically significant association between oseltamivir use and overall diabetes risk (HR = 1.027, <i>p</i> = 0.0186). …”
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Shiftwork and insulin resistance in professional drivers: exploring the association using non-insulin-based surrogate measures by Mirella Youssef Tawfik, Shaimaa A. A. M. Amer, Ahmed Mahmoud Fouad

“…Shiftwork was significantly associated with elevated TyG (OR: 5.04, 95% CI: 1.98–12.84), TyG-BMI (OR: 4.50, 95% CI: 2.45–8.26), and METS-IR (OR: 6.30, 95% CI: 2.72–14.58). …”
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Entomological assessment of hessian fabric transfluthrin vapour emanators as a means to protect against outdoor-biting Aedes after providing them to households for routine use in P... by Chicoye Supreme, Obrillant Damus, Joseph Frederick, Jean-Frantz Lemoine, Christian Raccurt, Justin McBeath, Nosrat Mirzai, Sheila B Ogoma, Vincent Corbel, Daniel Impoinvil, Gerry F Killeen, Cyrille Czeher

“…<h4>Results</h4>Across all three entomological field assessments, little evidence of protection against wild Ae. aegypti was observed, regardless of weather conditions, transfluthrin formulation or emanator placement: A generalized linear mixed model fitted to the pooled data from all three assessment rounds (921 females caught over 5129 hours) estimated a relative landing rate [95% Confidence interval] of 0.87 [0.73, 1.04] for users of treated versus untreated emanators (P = 0.1241). …”
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Clinical and Radiological Presentations of Various Pulmonary Infections in Hospitalized Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Prospective, Hospital-Based, Comparative, Case Series Study by Pravesh Vishwakarma, Kauser Usman, Rajiv Garg, Jyoti Bajpai, Rishi Sethi, Akshyaya Pradhan

“…The mean pneumonia patient outcomes research team (PORT) risk score was higher in diabetics (124.84±41.31) compared to nondiabetics (77.85±39.77) (p<0.001). Diabetics more commonly displayed bilateral lesions with multilobe or lower lobe involvement, the most common type of lesion being exudative. …”
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Asociación de polimorfismos del gen del receptor de vitamina D y la gravedad de la psoriasis by Claudia Romina Contreras, Isabel Acosta Colmán, Ana Ayala Lugo, Valerie Jolly, María Teresa Martínez de Filártiga, María Eugenia Acosta

“…Varios estudios han investigado la relación de la Vitamina D con enfermedades inmunomediadas y más recientemente, los polimorfismos de su receptor han sido relacionados con la susceptibilidad a padecer psoriasis y otras enfermedades inmunomediadas. …”
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Identification of antibiotic use patterns in poultry farms in the southwest region of Bangladesh by Sarder Safiqul Islam, Ratna Ghosh, Md. Shafiqul Islam, Minhazul Abedin Sun, Mustajabur Rahman, Dhiman Mondol

“…The results showed that the highest percentage of farmers kept broilers in their farms (30.0%), followed by layer (28.9%), Sonali (26.7%) and cockerel (14.4%). Farmers marketed broilers at an average of 35 days with a live weight of 2187.04 kg bird-1 and egg production of layer chickens was 88.88%. …”
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Randomised trials in maternal and perinatal health in low and middle-income countries from 2010 to 2019: a systematic scoping review by Joshua P Vogel, Jack Williams, Tari Turner, Steve McDonald, Alexander John Eggleston, Annabel Richards, Elise Farrington, Wai Chung Tse, Ayeshini Sella Hewage

“…Trials were conducted in 61 countries—231 trials (26.4%) were conducted in Iran. Only 225 trials (25.7%) were aligned with a cause of maternal mortality. …”
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Synthesis ratios of Mg-Al and Zn-Al layered double hydroxides efficiency and selectivity in nitrate removal from solution by M. Mohammadi, A. Mohammadi Torkashvand, P. Biparva, M. Esfandiari

“…The highest nitrate adsorption on Mg-Al-LDH (4:1) and a mixture of soil-Mg-Al-LDH (4:1) were 188.67 and 107.52 mg/g, respectively. Among the studied kinetic equations for nitrate adsorption on Mg-Al-LDH (4:1), the pseudo-second-order with R²=0.998 had the best fitness. …”
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Psychosocial distress, perceived need and utilization of psycho- social support services in patients in the early phase after the first cancer diagnosis by Hannah Zingler, Diana Steinmann, Jochen Ernst, Ute Goerling, Myriel Hermann, Beate Hornemann, Anja Mehnert-Theuerkauf, Tanja Zimmermann

“…Results Of 1,003 eligible patients who completed the questionnaire (53.0% men, mean age 60.3 years) 39.7% (n = 390) showed above-threshold psychosocial stress (DT: scores ≥ 5) and 21% (n = 207) indicated a perceived need for psycho- social support. 13.5% (n = 136) showed both, psychosocial distress and perceived need for psycho- social support. 15.2% (n = 150) out of all participating patients used psycho-oncology service, 60.7% (n = 597) were willing to accept such an offer. …”
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Optical Coherence Tomography May Help Distinguish Glaucoma from Suprasellar Tumor-Associated Optic Disc by Michael Mimouni, Hadas Stiebel-Kalish, Irena Serov, Gabriel Chodick, Mohammad Zbedat, Dan D. Gaton

“…The glaucoma group had a borderline greater total RNFL thickness (74.2 μm versus 62.8 μm, P=0.07), disc area (2.70 mm2 versus 2.16 mm2, P=0.004), and cup volume (0.20 mm3 versus 0.08 mm3, P=0.02). …”
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The double-edged sword of statins in intracerebral hemorrhage patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Zheng Li, Wen-qi Xu, Jiao-qi Wang, Jia-hui Yang, Xiao-hua Shi, Cheng-bing Wang, Zhong-xin Xu, Jin-lan Jiang

“…Our meta-analysis showed that statins significantly reduced overall mortality in patients with ICH (OR: 0.61; 95% CI: 0.51–0.73; I2 = 87%; p &lt; 0.01). Subgroup analyses further demonstrated lower mortality in ICH patients treated with statins compared to those not treated, including in the propensity score matching (PSM) group (OR: 0.59; 95% CI: 0.48–0.74; I2 = 90%; p &lt; 0.01), the prospective cohort study (PCS) group (OR: 0.56; 95% CI: 0.40–0.77; I2 = 89%, p &lt; 0.01), and the retrospective cohort study (RCS) group (OR: 0.64; 95% CI: 0.51–0.81; I2 = 87%, p &lt; 0.01).ConclusionOur meta-analysis of 30 studies suggests that statin use may be associated with improved mortality and functional outcomes in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH).Systematic Review Registrationhttps://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/, CRD42023493063.…”
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Decomposing social groups differential in stunting among children under five in India using nationally representative sample data by Mriganka Dolui, Sanjit Sarkar

“…The results revealed that the prevalence of stunting was higher among SC-ST (39.60%) children compared to non-SC-ST (33.27%). In addition, children aged 15–30 months (AOR: 1.895, 95% CI: 1.843–1.949), and male (AOR: 1.074, 95% CI: 1.053–1.095), mothers had lower BMI (AOR: 1.543, 95% CI: 1.492–1.595), mothers who had no education (AOR: 1.595, 95% CI: 11.532–1.662), belongs to poorest wealth index (AOR: 1.857, 95% CI: 1.766–1.952), and the children belong to the household with unhygienic satiation practices (AOR: 1.097, 95% CI: 1.070–1.123) were more likely to be stunted. …”
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سنجش تاب‌آوری سازمانی خبرگزاری‌های اصلی کشور برای مواجهه با زلزله احتمالی شهر تهران (موردمطالعه: خبرگزاری‌های ایرنا، ایسنا، مهر و فارس)... by سیاوش صلواتیان

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Diagnostic Potential of Systemic Eosinophil-Associated Cytokines and Growth Factors in IBD by Katarzyna Neubauer, Malgorzata Matusiewicz, Iwona Bednarz-Misa, Sabina Gorska, Andrzej Gamian, Malgorzata Krzystek-Korpacka

“…We assessed the concentrations of eosinophil-associated cytokines and growth factors in the group of 277 individuals (101 patients with Crohn’s disease (CD), 77 with ulcerative colitis (UC), 16 with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and 83 healthy controls) and referred to IBD activity and the levels of hsCRP. …”
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