Coagulation Profile of Convalescent Plasma Donors and Recipients by Hanna H Pitkänen MD, PhD, Tuukka Helin MD, PhD, Tamim Khawaja MD, Jukka-Pekka Pietilä MD, Mikael Kajova MD, Hanna Välimaa MD, PhD, DDS, Tero Vahlberg MSc, Jarkko Ihalainen MD, Antti Vierikko MD, Olli Vapalahti MD, PhD, Anu Kantele MD, PhD, Riitta Lassila MD, PhD

“…Convalescent plasma (CP) therapy for COVID-19 infection may have favorable safety but varying efficacy, with concerns about its procoagulant impact. …”
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C1q/TNF-Related Protein5 (CTRP5) as a Biomarker to Predict Metabolic Syndrome and Each of Its Components by Feiyu Jiang, Min Yang, Xili Zhao, Rui Liu, Gangyi Yang, Dongfang Liu, Hua Liu, Hongting Zheng, Zhiming Zhu, Ling Li

“…This trial is registered with ChiCTR-OCS-13003185.…”
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Design, defect analysis, compressive strength and surface texture characterization of Laser Powder Bed Fusion processed Ti6Al4V lattice structures by Bruno Zluhan, Shubhavardhan Ramadurga Narasimharaju, Abhijit Cholkar, Ken Thomas, Ramesh Raghavendra, Eder S.N. Lopes

“…The intricate arbitrary design and layer-wise LPBF building of Voronoi lattice resulted in the worst surface roughness Sa of 0.59 μm while BCC's uniform surface distribution and non-existence of staircase effect led to the best Sa of 0.17 μm.…”
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Prognostic value of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio dynamics in patients with septic acute kidney injury: a cohort study by Wei Wei, Caihong Liu, Guojiao Song, Letian Yang, Jian Li, Bo Wang, Ting Yin, Yingying Yang, Liang Ma, Ling Zhang, Ping Fu, Yuliang Zhao

“…After adjustment for potential confounders, high ΔNLR remained an independent predictor of 90-d mortality (HR = 2.80; 95% CI = 1.74–4.49, p < 0.001). Furthermore, ΔNLR had the highest AUROC for 90-d mortality (0.685) among the various biomarkers and exhibited an improved NRI (0.314) and IDI (0.027) when incorporated with PCT and CRP. …”
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Modelling emergency response times for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) patients in rural areas of the North of England using routinely collected data by Megan Harries, Anastasia Ushakova

“…Conclusion For each extra km the incident was away from an ambulance station, the response time to scene increased by 37 seconds. The ambulance station which displayed the largest increase in response time, Station L was 170 seconds (95% CI: 79, 261) longer than Station N, which had a median performance across all stations, as measured by median survival rate to return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC). …”
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Natural Polymer Derivative-based pH responsive Nanoformulations Entrapped Diketo-tautomers of 5-fluorouracil for Enhanced Cancer Therapy by Anbazhagan Thirumalai, Koyeli Girigoswami, Karthick Harini, Venkatakrishnan Kiran, Pazhani Durgadevi, Agnishwar Girigoswami

“…Dynamic light scattering revealed that OSA nanoparticles, initially 177.8 nm, grew to 226.6 nm after encapsulating 5-FU, retaining high zeta potential for stability. …”
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Association between Air Pollution and Risk of Hospital Admission for Pediatric Pneumonia in a Tropical City, Kaohsiung, Taiwan by Peng-Huei Liu, Kuo-Chen Huang, Yu-Lun Tseng, I-Min Chiu, Hsiu-Yung Pan, Fu-Jen Cheng

“…An interquartile range increments of PM2.5 (odds ratio [OR]: 1.677, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.381–2.041), PM10 (OR: 1.568, 95% CI: 1.312–1.880), NO2 (OR: 1.383, 95% CI: 1.179–1.625), SO2 (OR: 1.261, 95% CI: 1.170–1.361), and O3 (OR: 1.182, 95% CI: 1.024–1.366) were statistically significantly associated with the risk of pediatric pneumonia hospitalization on lag 0–3. …”
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Evaluación de tres intensidades de poda y cuatro fases lunares en híbridos de cacao by Jaime Fabián Vera-Chang, Luis Alberto Bautista-Palma, Luis Humberto Vásquez-Cortez, Kerly Estefanía Alvarado-Vásquez, Diego Armando Tuarez-García, Sanyi Lorena Rodríguez-Cevallos, Juan José Reyes-Pérez, Frank Guillermo Intriago-Flor, Matteo Radice, Maddela Naga-Raju, Karol Revilla-Escobar, Jhonnatan Placido Aldas-Morejon

“…Se empleó un Diseño Experimental Bifactorial con dos repeticiones y 6 unidades experimentales. …”
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Additively manufactured ultrafine grained Aermet100 with superior mechanical property by Yanwen Liang, Jie Liu, Xiaotian Zhang, Yonghao Weng, Sheng Zhong, Tiannan Li, Peng Zhang, Chunpan Yang, Ying Xing, Jiazhe Fu, Kehong Wang

“…The results indicate that the specimens were well-formed, achieving a relative density of 99.99% through an optimal combination of process parameters: a laser power of 220 W, scanning speed of 1000 mm/s, scanning rotation of 67°, and hatch spacing of 0.07 mm.The additively manufactured Aermet100 specimens exhibited ultrafine grains with an average size of 0.4 μm. …”
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The association between serum ferritin levels and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a prospective cohort study by Shaofei Su, Shen Gao, Enjie Zhang, Jianhui Liu, Shuanghua Xie, Yue Zhang, Ruixia Liu, Wentao Yue, Chenghong Yin

“…Results The median serum ferritin level in the first trimester was 57.7 ng/mL, and 13.5% of participants developed GDM. …”
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Sociodemographic characteristics and longitudinal progression of multimorbidity: A multistate modelling analysis of a large primary care records dataset in England. by Sida Chen, Tom Marshall, Christopher Jackson, Jennifer Cooper, Francesca Crowe, Krish Nirantharakumar, Catherine L Saunders, Paul Kirk, Sylvia Richardson, Duncan Edwards, Simon Griffin, Christopher Yau, Jessica K Barrett

“…For instance, the HR (95% CI; p-value) for the association of deprivation with T2D diagnosis when transitioning from MH is 2.03 ([1.95, 2.12], p < 0.001), compared to transitions from CVD 1.50 ([1.43, 1.58], p < 0.001), CKD 1.37 ([1.30, 1.44], p < 0.001), and HF 1.55 ([1.34, 1.79], p < 0.001). …”
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Identification and characterization of Serratia nematophila and Acinetobacter guillouiae from putrid-skin disease lesions in farmed Chinese spiny frog (Quasipaa spinosa) by Ling Guo, Xiyu Jin, Dan Yang, Li Wei, Jie Chen, Zhihua Lin, Li Ma

“…Experimental infections revealed median lethal concentrations (LD50) over 72 h of 3.98×107 CFU/mL for S. nematophila strain GL-XJ7 and 3.16 × 106 CFU/mL for A. guillouiae strain GL-XJ11. …”
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Helicobacter pylori infection at long-term treatment by proton pump inhibitors for acid-related diseases (Literature review and resolution of Advisory council, March 22, 2018) by V. T. Ivashkin, I. V. Mayev, R. A. Abdulkhakov, O. P. Alekseyeva, S. A. Alekseyenko, A. Yu. Baranovsky, Ye. K. Baranskaya, I. L. Klyaritskaya, N. V. Korochanskaya, Yu. A. Kucheryavy, T. L. Lapina, M. F. Osipenko, V. I. Simanenkov, G. N. Tarasova, A. S. Trukhmanov, I. B. Khlynov, A. A. Sheptulin

“…Monotherapy by proton pump inhibitors (PPI) in H. pylori-positive patients with GERD may lead to progression of gastric corpus atrophy that can be regarded as risk factor for stomach cancer development. …”
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Optical genome mapping to decipher the chromosomal aberrations in families seeking for preconception genetic counseling by Kaili Yin, Mengmeng Li, Hanzhe Zhang, Jiazhen Chang, Qingwei Qi, Xiya Zhou, Jiangshan Guo, Yaru Wang, Xuequn Mao, Na Hao, Yulin Jiang

“…Notably, OGM achieved a concordance rate of 94.7% and 100% with KT and CMA, respectively, presenting an overall concordance of 96.3%, as it missed detecting a centromeric translocation. …”
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Prevalence of viral hepatitis B and C infection and associated factors among pregnant women in southeast Ethiopia: community-based crossectional study by Nuruzelam Mohammed, Jeylan Kassim, Ahmednur Adem Aliyi, Muhammed Jemal Abdurebi

“…History of dental extraction (AOR = 2.70, 95% CI 1.09, 6.69), hospital admission (AOR = 6.96, 95%CI 1.73, 27.99), household contact (AOR = 3.93, 95% CI 1.37, 11.25), tattooing (AOR = 3.50 95% CI 2.31, 12.35), sexually transmitted infection (AOR = 11.42 95% CI 3.10, 42.35) were significantly associated with HBsAg infection whereas history of blood transfusion (AOR 5.58, 95% CI 1.03, 30.05, P = 0.045) and household contact (AOR 7.49, 95% CI 1.34, 41.76) were significantly associated with HCV infection among pregnant women.ConclusionsThe Seroprevalence of HBV and HCV was moderate endemicity according to WHO classification. …”
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Do Activity Sensors Identify Physiological, Clinical and Behavioural Changes in Laying Hens Exposed to a Vaccine Challenge? by Hyungwook Kang, Sarah Brocklehurst, Marie Haskell, Susan Jarvis, Victoria Sandilands

“…With behaviour observations from videos, the proportions of sitting, foraging and feeding behaviours (<i>p</i> = 0.044, 0.036 and 0.004, respectively), the proportion of total visit duration to the litter zone (<i>p</i> < 0.001) and perch (<i>p</i> = 0.037) with TrackLab and the proportions of visit counts of hens in the litter zone (<i>p</i> = 0.012) from video scanning changed significantly with days. …”
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Lifestyle risk factors for overweight and obesity among rural Indian adults: a community-based prospective cohort study by Rajesh Kumar Rai, Sabri Bromage, Jan-Walter De Neve, Anamitra Barik

“…From 2017–2018 to 2022–2023, the prevalence of overweight/obesity increased from 15.2% (95% CI: 14.1%–16.4%) to 21.0% (95% CI: 19.7%–22.3%) among men and from 24.1% (95% CI: 22.9%–25.2%) to 33.8% (95% CI: 32.5%–35.1%) among women. …”
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Impaction bone grafting for acetabular bone defects replacement in revision hip arthroplasty: biomechanical aspects by Vadim N. Golnik, Natalia V. Fedorova, Alexey Y. Larichkin, Svetlana V. Boyko, Andrey A. Panchenko, Alexandr M. Kosinov, Vladimir A. Peleganchuk, Vitaliy V. Pavlov

“…In the first case the change in the inclination was 18.7º, in the second case — 19.8º. The Hip Harris Score (HHS) was 97 points for the first patient, 53 points — for the second one. …”
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Triglyceride-glucose index predicts adverse cardiovascular events in patients with H-type hypertension combined with coronary heart disease: a retrospective cohort study by Changjiang Li, Shun Zhao, Yingkai Li, Songyuan He, Wen Jian, Yanci Liu, Zichao Cheng, Hongyu Peng

“…After adjusting for confounders, the fully adjusted ORs (95% CI) for T2 and T3 of the TyG index, with the lowest tertile as reference, were 1.64 (0.80–3.36) and 2.43 (1.19–4.97), respectively. …”
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Comparative evaluation of non-contrast MRI versus gadoxetic acid-enhanced abbreviated protocols in detecting colorectal liver metastases by Haoran Dai, Cheng Yan, Xi Jia, Yuyao Xiao, Xinyue Liang, Chun Yang, Kai Liu, Mengsu Zeng

“…Methods Ninety-four patients, including 55 with pathologically verified CRLM, were enrolled, totaling 422 lesions (287 metastatic, 135 benign). Two independent readers assessed three MRI protocols per patient: Protocol 1 included non-contrast sequences (T2-weighted turbo spin-echo, T1-weighted Dixon, diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), and ADC mapping). …”
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