Lifting COVID-19-associated non-pharmaceutical interventions: potential impact on notifications of infectious diseases transmitted from person to person in 2022 in Bavaria, Germany by Judith Hausmann, Judith Hausmann, Judith Hausmann, Achim Dörre, Katharina Katz, Sarah van de Berg

“…By analysing surveillance data from the federal reporting system for notifiable infectious diseases, we aimed to assess the potential impact of lifting COVID-19 associated NPIs on notifications of selected infectious diseases in Bavaria, 2022.MethodsWe compared influenza, chickenpox, norovirus gastroenteritis, rotavirus gastroenteritis weekly case numbers in a pre-pandemic period (2016–2019) and 2022 using two time series analyses approaches: (i) a predictive model forecasting weekly case numbers for the pandemic years 2020–2022, based on 2016–2019 data, (ii) interrupted time series model, based on 2016–2022 data, including a term per pandemic period.ResultsIn 2022, incidence rates were higher compared to pre-pandemic period for influenza (IRR = 3.47, 95%CI: 1.49–7.94) and rotavirus gastroenteritis (IRR = 1.36, 95%CI: 0.95–1.93), though not significant for rotavirus gastroenteritis. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with false hyperkalaemia in Asians in primary care: a cross-sectional study (the Unlysed Hyperkalaemia- the Unseen Burden (UHUB) study) by Ngiap Chuan Tan, Alicia Ying Ying Boo, Yi Ling Eileen Koh, Pei Lin Hu

“…Risk factors significantly associated with false hyperkalaemia included estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) (60–89 mL/min/1.73 m2, OR=3.25, p<0.001;>90 mL/min/1.73 m2, OR=3.77, p<0.001) and delayed laboratory processing time (beta coefficient 0.001, p<0.001).Conclusion The prevalence of false hyperkalaemia was 86.4%. …”
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Increased Phenotype Severity Associated with Splice-Site Variants in a Hungarian Pediatric Neurofibromatosis 1 Cohort: A Retrospective Study by Klára Veres, Benedek Nagy, Zsófia Ember, Judit Bene, Kinga Hadzsiev, Márta Medvecz, László Szabó, Zsuzsanna Zsófia Szalai

“…Among the remaining 45 pathogenic variants, 17 (37.7%) frameshift, 11 (24.4%) nonsense, 8 (17.8%) splice-site, 4 (8.9%) missense mutations, and 5 (11.11%) copy number variations (CNVs) were detected. …”
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Cardiovascular and Metabolic Adverse Events of Endocrine Therapies in Women with Breast Cancer: A Disproportionality Analysis of Reports in the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System by Shaimaa Elshafie, Lorenzo Villa‐Zapata, Randall L. Tackett, Iman Y. Zaghloul, Henry N. Young

“…We also observed a significantly increased risk of heart failure with letrozole (ROR = 1.3; 95% CI: 1.1–1.6) and stroke with tamoxifen (ROR = 1.7; 95% CI: 1.5–2.1). …”
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Clinical and laboratory profile and its outcome in scrub typhus-positive acute febrile illness cases in the Pediatric Department of BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur by Anamika Chaudhary, Bhoopendra Sharma, Ashok Kumar Pandey, Priyanka Singh

“…About 69.7% of rural land is scrub typhus positive. Fifty-four (75.0%) patients had thrombocytopenia, whereas hyperbilirubinemia was noted in 7 (9.7%) cases. …”
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Significance of siderophore-producing cyanobacteria on enhancing iron uptake potentiality of maize plants grown under iron-deficiency by Mandees Bakr Brick, Mervat H. Hussein, Amr M. Mowafy, Ragaa A. Hamouda, Amr M. Ayyad, Dina A. Refaay

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Interplay between Body Size Measures and Thyroid Cancer Aggressiveness: A Retrospective Analysis by Thaís Gomes de Melo, Ligia Vera Montali da Assumpção, Denise Engelbrecht Zantut-Wittmann

“…We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients’ records from the Thyroid Cancer Unit, assessing body size measures, clinical and laboratory prognostic factors, and disease evolution. 337 patients, aged 45.95 ± 13.04 years old, with BMI of 27.87 ± 5.13 kg/m2 and BSA of 1.74 ± 0.18 m2 were enrolled. …”
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Clinical efficacy of various resuscitation fluids in the management of sepsis in postoperative surgical and trauma patients: a systematic review and meta‑analysis by Yongjie Wang, Kewu Chen, Xiaolu Li, Jianing Guan

“…We found that Ringer’s lactate solution was more effective than saline in reducing mortality (OR, 0.53; 95% CI, 0.41–0.7; χ2= 3.47; degree of freedom [df] = 6; Z = 4.6; I2 = 0%; P <⁠0.001) and improving hemodynamic parameters (OR, 2.64; 95% CI, 2.45–2.86; χ2 = 48.36; df = 6; Z = 24.84; I2 = 18%; P <⁠0.001). …”
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Effects of intracuff and intravenous lignocaine on recovery from anaesthesia after thyroid surgery. A single-centre randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial (The IOLANT stu... by Sergey M. Efremov, Alexey Y. Kulikov, Valeria P. Govorushkina, Daniil D. Sidorov, Alexey A. Ladutko, Oleg V. Kuleshov

“…Mean differences were 1.1 (IVL vs placebo, 95%CI: −5.03, 7.15, z = 0.347) and 0.1 (TL vs placebo, 95%CI: −6.02, 6.23, z = 0.035). …”
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Impact of Acute Myocardial Injury on Short‐ and Long‐Term Outcomes in Patients With Primary Intracerebral Hemorrhage by Shenghui Ma, Jiawen Li, Qi Kong, Zhiming Xu, Haojie Wu, Yujia Jin, Xianghua Ye, Dong Luo, Lusha Tong, Feng Gao

“…AMI independently conferred an increased risk for major adverse cardiac events (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.69 [95% CI, 1.12–2.53]) and 90‐day unfavorable outcomes (adjusted odds ratio, 2.15 [95% CI, 1.26–3.67]) compared with patients without AMI. …”
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Development and validation of a recurrence risk prediction model for elderly schizophrenia patients by Biqi Zu, Chunying Pan, Ting Wang, Hongliang Huo, Wentao Li, Libin An, Juan Yin, Yulan Wu, Meiling Tang, Dandan Li, Xin Wu, Ziwei Xie

“…The AUC for the modeling cohort was 0.877 (95% CI: 0.837–0.917). For the external validation cohort, the AUC was 0.838 (95% CI: 0.776–0.899). …”
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A scoping review of strategies for the prevention of hip fracture in elderly nursing home residents. by Anna M Sawka, Nofisat Ismaila, Ann Cranney, Lehana Thabane, Monika Kastner, Amiram Gafni, Linda J Woodhouse, Richard Crilly, Angela M Cheung, Jonathan D Adachi, Robert G Josse, Alexandra Papaioannou

“…Data from 20 trials were included: 7--vitamin D (n = 12,875 participants), 2--sunlight exposure (n = 522), 1--alendronate (n = 327), 1--fluoride (n = 460), 4--exercise or multimodal interventions (n = 8,165), and 5--hip protectors (n = 2,594). …”
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Ethnicity-specific distribution of <em>TRPM8</em> gene variants in Eurasian populations: signs of selection by T. A. Potapova, A. G. Romashchenko, N. S. Yudin, M. I. Voevoda

“…The frequency of major H1 haplotype encompassing the 419Ser gene variant differs in examined populations; 0.738 (Russians), 0.507 (Kazakhs) and 0.337 (Chukchi), p &lt; 0.001. …”
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Lipid Levels and Lung Cancer Risk: Findings from the Taiwan National Data Systems from 2012 to 2018 by Jung-Yueh Chen, Nai-Hui Chi, Ho-Shen Lee, Chia-Ni Hsiung, Chang-Wei Wu, Kang-Chi Fan, Meng-Rui Lee, Jann-Yuan Wang, Chao-Chi Ho, Jin-Yuan Shih

“…Results A total of 4,704,853 participants (30,337 lung cancer participants and 4,674,516 nonlung cancer participants) were included. …”
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The Direct Healthcare Expenditures of Prostate Cancer by Disease Severity: Evidence from US National Survey Data by Peter J. Mallow, Jie Chen, John A. Rizzo, John R. Penrod, Geralyn C. Trudel, Teresa M. Zyczynski

“…PC had a larger effect on incremental costs for metastatic patients, $20 357, vs $16 709 for localized PC with chemotherapy, and $5238 for localized PC with no chemotherapy. …”
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Dengue virus infection among renal transplant recipients in Singapore: a 15-year, single-centre retrospective review by Sophie Seine Xuan Tan, Quan Yao Ho, Sobhana Thangaraju, Thuan Tong Tan, Terence Kee, Shimin Jasmine Chung

“…The most common clinical symptoms were fever (87.1%), myalgia (41.9%), gastrointestinal symptoms (38.7%) and headache (25.8%). …”
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Association of serum lycopene with low-frequency hearing loss in adults in their 70s based on NHANES database by Yuan Wang, Huifen Yang, Caiqin Huang

“…Serum total lycopene (OR = 0.575, 95% CI 0.337–0.984) and serum cis-lycopene (OR = 0.334, 95% CI 0.112–0.994) were associated with a lower risk of low-frequency hearing loss after adjusting for covariates. …”
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Effectiveness of skull X-RAY to determine cochlear implant insertion depth by Vinay Fernandes, Yiqiao Wang, Robert Yeung, Sean Symons, Vincent Lin

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Serum CXCL12 and S100A12 levels in peripheral blood fluid and their correlation with severity in patients with knee osteoarthritis by LijiangTao, Minjuan He, Yisheng Lu, Jie Zheng, Yili Ye

“…Conclusions: The levels of CXCL12 and S100A12 in PB and SF can provide the basis for the evaluation and prognosis of knee OS.…”
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Investigation of Strongyle Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors in Horses in and around Alage District, Ethiopia by Mulugeta Tesfaye Alemayehu, Belete Kuraz Abebe, Sharew Mekonnen Haile

“…While sex and peasant associations did not predict the problem significantly (p≤0.05), young horses and horses in poor and medium body conditions are 4.66 (CI: 2.22–9.76), 9.63 (CI: 3.77–24.63), and 1.93 (1.03–3.60) times more likely to be infected with Strongylosis, respectively. …”
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