Unveiling Cuproptosis-Driven Molecular Clusters and Immune Dysregulation in Ankylosing Spondylitis by Wei B, Wang S, Li S, Gu Q, Yue Q, Tang Z, Zhang J, Liu W

“…It showed satisfactory performance in the GSE25101 dataset (AUC = 0.812). According to the blood serum samples of AS patients and controls, PELI1 had a higher expression level (AUC = 0.703, p = 0.07), while ICAM2 and RANGAP1 had lower expression levels (AUC = 0.724, 0.745, and p = 0.011, 0.000, respectively) in AS patients.Conclusion: We explored the correlation of cuproptosis in AS, and developed the optimal machine learning model to identify high-risk genes associated with AS. …”
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Arab representation in Israeli healthcare professions: achievements, challenges and opportunities by Bruce Rosen, Sami Miaari

“…In the 2022/3 academic year, the percentage of first-degree students in Israeli colleges and universities who were Arab was 70% in pharmacy, 33% in nursing, 23% in dentistry, and 9% in medicine. Between 2012/3 and 2022/3 the percentage of first-degree students who are Arab increased substantially for pharmacy, declined slightly for nursing, and declined substantially for medicine and dentistry. …”
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Interaction Effects of Lipoprotein Lipase Polymorphisms with Lifestyle on Lipid Levels in a Korean Population: A Cross-sectional Study by Jung-A Pyun, Sunshin Kim, KyungChae Park, Inkyung Baik, Nam H Cho, InSong Koh, Jong-Young Lee, Yoon Shin Cho, Young Jin Kim, Min Jin Go, Eugene Shim, KyuBum Kwack, Chol Shin

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Continuous high-soy protein soymilk intake affects ordinary walking speed in the Japanese pre-frail and frail elderly: a randomized controlled trial by Nene Sato, Yuji Terashima, Makoto Sugawara, Ryoichi Unno, Hiroaki Asao, Mitsuhiro Iwasaki, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Tomoko Uno, Mitsuo Maruyama

“…In the subgroup analysis, among participants with a walking speed of at least 1 m/s (n = 35, P = 0.012) and at least 5,000 steps/day before intervention (n = 27, P = 0.0083), the variation in walking speed after the 12-week intervention was significantly higher in the high-soy protein group than in the control group. …”
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Determinants of family planning services uptake among women within the reproductive age in the Yendi municipality in Northern Ghana by Iddrisu Sulemana, Collins Gbeti, Maxwell Dalaba, Adadow Yidana, Gifty Apiung Aninanya

“…Factors that made women less likely to use family planning were unfriendly service providers (aOR: 2.33; 95%CI: 1.28–4.21; p = 0.005), fear of side effects (aOR: 2.19; 95%CI: 1.19–4.05; p = 0.012), and lack of knowledge about available FP services (aOR: 0.45; 95%CI: 0.26–0.77; p = 0.004). …”
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Expanding diversity in developmental profiles of very-low-birth-weight infants during 6 years after birth by Kyoko Watanabe, Reina Ogata, Kenta Kajiwara, Hirosuke Inoue, Yoshihiro Sakemi, Masako Ichiyama, Toru Sawano, Kazuaki Yasuoka, Takahide Watabe, Hiroaki Kurata, Toshinori Nakashima, Yuri Sonoda, Pin Fee Chong, Satoshi Akamine, Masayuki Ochiai, Takuro Ohno, Hironori Yamashita, Yasunari Sakai, Shouichi Ohga

“…Participants were VLBWIs born at Kokura Medical Center (the first cohort) and Kyushu University Hospital (the second cohort) between 2012 and 2017. Recorded charts were used to collect growth profiles and developmental quotients (DQ) of the participants until age 6 years. …”
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Arte verbal del siglo XXI: la escritura como práctica artística post-literaria en el mundo contemporáneo by Adolfo Rodríguez Posada

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The Role of the Estimated Plasma Volume Variation in Assessing Decongestion in Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure by Andreea-Maria Grigore, Mihai Grigore, Ana-Maria Balahura, Gabriela Uscoiu, Ioana Verde, Camelia Nicolae, Elisabeta Bădilă, Adriana-Mihaela Ilieșiu

“…At 6 months, rehospitalization occurred in 35% of G2 and 21% of G1 (<i>p</i> = 0.04), with mortality rates of 37% in G2 and 11% in G1 (<i>p</i> = 0.012). Multivariate regression identified ∆ePVS as the only significant predictor of NT-proBNP decrease (OR 0.11, 95% CI 0.04–0.33, <i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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Extrapolating empirical measurements of wastewater exfiltration from sanitary sewers to estimate watershed-scale fecal pollution loading in urban stormwater runoff by Joshua A. Steele, Adriana González-Fernández, John F. Griffith, Darcy Ebentier McCargar, Sierra Wallace, Kenneth C. Schiff

“…Human fecal pollution loads from exfiltration via subsurface transfer during a storm event were calculated to be 1.5 × 1013 (95% CI: 1.79 × 1012 to 3.59 × 1013) HF183 gene copies per storm. …”
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Comparison of Community-Associated and Health Care-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Canada: Results from CANWARD 2007 by Kimberly A Nichol, Melissa McCracken, Melanie R DeCorby, Kristjan Thompson, Michael R Mulvey, James A Karlowsky, Daryl J Hoban, George G Zhanel

“…Resistance rates (CA-MRSA versus HA-MRSA) were 61.3% versus 97.7% to levofloxacin, 73.3% versus 96.7% to clarithromycin, 12.0% versus 74.8% to clindamycin and 0.0% versus 15.4% to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. …”
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两种鹭类主要食物的汞含量特征 by 郝宇琦 马志龙 周学红 李 枫

“…(3)对2种鹭类所食4种鱼类的总Hg含量进行了测量,其中葛氏鲈塘鳢的总Hg含量最高平均Hg含量为(118.86±64.11)μg/kg,其次为洛氏和鲫(101.73±29.67)μg/kg,(36.56±36.53)μg/kg,泥鳅的总Hg含量最低(14.65±5.34)μg/kg; 而2种鹭类所食4种鱼类的体长大小顺序为:鲫(15.26±5.22)cm>泥鳅(11.83±3.66)cm>葛氏鲈塘鳢(11.12±3.02)cm>洛氏(8.30±2.04)cm。…”
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Identificación del polimorfismo c.2448-25G>A en pacientes con diagnóstico clínico de la enfermedad de Wilson by Yulia Clark Feoktistova, Caridad Ruenes Domech, Elsa F García Bacallao, Teresa Collazo Mesa, Zoe Robaina Jiménez, Hilda Roblejo Balbuena

“…<br /><strong>Métodos</strong>: se realizó un estudio descriptivo, en el Centro Nacional de Genética Médica, durante el período 2008-2012, que incluyó 100 pacientes con diagnóstico clínico de enfermedad de Wilson. …”
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Timing of risk factors, prodromal features, and comorbidities of dementia from a large health claims case–control study by Stefan Teipel, Manas Akmatov, Bernhard Michalowsky, Steffi Riedel-Heller, Jens Bohlken, Jakob Holstiege

“…Methods We designed a case–control study using insurance claims of outpatient consultations of patients with German statutory health insurance between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2022. We included patients with an incident diagnosis of dementia and controls without a diagnosis of dementia matched 1:2 for age, sex, region, and earliest year of outpatient encounter. …”
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КИНЕТИКА ОКИСЛЕНИЯ АЛЮМИНИЕВОГО СПЛАВА АК7 И КОМПОЗИЦИОННОГО МАТЕРИАЛА НА ОСНОВЕ АЛЮМИНИЯ Al–Al2O3 («ОКСИДАЛЬ») В ТВЕРДОМ СОСТОЯНИИ... by Муъминджон Махмудзода, Бахтиер Бадалович Эшов, Иззатулло Наврузович Ганиев, Джамшед Хусейнович Джайлоев, Фируз Акбарович Рахимов

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自发性硬脑膜动静脉瘘诊断延误的相关因素及对预后的影响 by 尚文锦, 陈红兵, 束礼明, 唐舒锦

“…与诊断 较早组（诊断时间≤3个月）相比，诊断较晚组（诊断时间＞3个月）头痛（P = 0.012）、眼睑下垂（P = 0.035）和颅内病灶（P = 0.001）比例更低，结膜充血（P = 0.004）、耳鸣（P = 0.021）、视力障碍（P＜0.001）、孤立视力障碍（P = 0.007）和较晚完成影像 学检查（P＜0.001）比例更高，手术切除或夹闭病灶比例更低、血管内治疗比例更高（P = 0.005），出院时症状已痊愈或改善比 例更低（P = 0.033），其中有视力障碍者痊愈或改善的比例较无视力障碍者更低（P = 0.023）。…”
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The Commonly Encountered Bacterial Agents and their Antibiotic Sensitivity in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units of Cairo University Children Hospitals: An Observational Study by Dina Khedr, Peter Samaan, Abdulrahman Abdulrazek, Noha Adel Yassin

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Clinicopathological Characteristics and Prognosis of Upper Gastric Cancer Patients in China: A 32-Year Single-Center Retrospective Clinical Study by Yingbo Gong, Pengliang Wang, Zhi Zhu, Junyan Zhang, Jinyu Huang, Huimian Xu

“…We conducted a retrospective analysis of 649 patients with upper gastric cancer and 1551 patients with lower gastric cancer and R0 radical surgery at our institution between January 1980 and December 2012. Results. Survival after radical surgery for upper gastric cancer was 77.8% at 1 year, 49.6% at 3 years, and 41.1% at 5 years. …”
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Cross-Sectional Survey to Assess Tobacco and Nicotine Product Use since the Introduction of Heated Tobacco Products in Japan: Wave 2 by Prasad Krishna, Shetty Mandara, Edward Lauren, Kanitscheider Claudia, Marczykowski Felix

“…HTP dual use in combination with conventional cigarettes was 12.7%. The remaining 5.9% of users were categorised as poly users (i.e., use of 2 or more tobacco products). …”
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Microbial Contamination in Chicken Meat in Traditional Markets in Banyuwangi by Prima Ayu Wibawati, Yunia Chrismonica, Racca Biana Susanti, Mario Putra Himawan, Afaf Heny Sintya Devy, Juwita Ayu Nirmalasari, Abzal Abdramanov

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Asociación entre bajo peso al nacer y malformaciones congénitas by Guillermo Insfran, Raúl Aveiro, Alejandra Gomez, Pedro Melgarejo, Jeanine Bazzano, Federico Martinez, Laura Aria-Zaya, Luciana D. Garlisi-Torales, Gustavo Hernández-Córdova, Virgilio E. Failoc-Rojas, Mario J. Valladares-Garrido

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