Income-related inequalities in the prevalence of dental pain intensity in adults: gender differences by Carolina Veloso Lima, Alanna Barros de Arruda, Mayara dos Santos Noronha, Aline Araujo Sampaio, Marise Fagundes Silveira, Andrea Maria Eleuterio de Barros Lima Martins, Raquel Conceição Ferreira, Aline Netto de Godoy, Daniela Marques da Silva Sousa, Patrick Pereira Garcia, Cyrene Piazera Silva Costa, João Gabriel Silva Souza, Bárbara Emanoele Costa Oliveira

“…Associations were investigated for the entire sample and stratified by gender using multilevel Poisson regression models.ResultsDental pain was reported by 41% of the included sample (n = 4,512 adults). Maximum pain intensity was reported more frequently for women than for men. …”
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Aortic Valve Surgery in Patients Over 75 Years Old: Early Results and Predictors of Hospital Mortality by Selman Dumani, Laureta Dibra, Ermal Likaj, Saimir Kuci, Edlira Rruci, Aferdita Veseli, Klodian Krakulli, Andi Kacani, Edvin Prifti, Ilir Tanku, Devis Pellumbi, Alessia Mehmeti, Adelina Musliu, Ali Refatllari, Altin Veshti

“…The age range was 75-85, averaging 77.12±2.31 years. Hospital mortality was 4.1%. The incidence of major perioperative complications such as low cardiac output, stroke, respiratory problems, bleeding, atrial fibrillation, wound infection, and conduction disturbances was 6.8%, 2.7 %, 4.1%, 2.7 %, 21.9 %, 2.6%, and 4.2 %. …”
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Impact of Thrombocytopenia on In-Hospital Outcome in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Zhongxiu Chen, Zheng Liu, Nan Li, Ran Liu, Miye Wang, Duolao Wang, Chen Li, Kai Li, Fangbo Luo, Yong He

“…It seems feasible for patients with thrombocytopenia to receive PCI, but close attention should be paid to advanced thrombocytopenia, the risk of postprocedure bleeding in ACS patients, and the use of more potent P2Y12 inhibitor.…”
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Efficacy of electroacupuncture for insomnia in cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Xiaodong Liu, Ning Xu, Shangpei Wang, Qingjun Jia

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Sleep as a mediator between chronic diseases and depression: a NHANES study (2005–2018) by Ming Tan, Ming Tan, Haihong Zhao, Haihong Zhao, Ruya Nie, Ruya Nie, Pingping Deng, Pingping Deng, Cuixiao Wang

“…Logistic regression, subgroup analysis, restricted cubic spline (RCS) analysis, and mediation analysis were employed to explore the relationship between common chronic diseases and depression, and the mediating role of sleep.ResultsThe adjusted model indicated that stroke (OR = 1.712, 95% CI: 1.399, 2.103), heart disease (OR = 1.419, 95% CI: 1.262, 1.598), diabetes (OR = 1.243, 95% CI: 1.116, 1.386), and hypertension (OR = 1.249, 95% CI: 1.160, 1.346) were associated with an increased probability of depression. …”
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Antimicrobial resistance, virulence gene profiles, and molecular epidemiology of enterococcal isolates from patients with urinary tract infections in Shanghai, China by Weiyi Wu, Shuzhen Xiao, Lizhong Han, Qiong Wu

“…In contrast, E. faecium primarily exhibited esp (65%) and hyl (12.5%). Among the E. faecalis strains, 21 distinct MLST types were identified, with ST16 and ST179 prevailing. …”
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Patient-Generated Collections for Organizing Electronic Health Record Data to Elevate Personal Meaning, Improve Actionability, and Support Patient–Health Care Provider Communicatio... by Drashko Nakikj, David Kreda, Karan Luthria, Nils Gehlenborg

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我国华南中麝鼩分子系统地理学分析 by 栾天琪, 郭秋颖, 高艺, 韩美凤, 张春凤, 陈欢, 蔡赫, 金志民, 张隽晟, 刘铸

“…在华南中麝鼩的32个样本中发现23个单倍型，核苷酸多样性0.012 85。种群历史分析暗示华南中麝鼩近期尽管经历了种群扩张，但并非为单次急剧扩张。…”
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Derivation of a simple risk calculator for predicting clinical worsening in patients with pulmonary hypertension due to interstitial lung disease by K. El-Kersh, R. Bag, N. Bhatt, C. King, A. Waxman, F. Rischard, H. Kim, D. Cella, E. Shen, SD Nathan

“…For the total point score models, the estimated c-indices were 0.703 (95% CI: 0.635, 0.783) and 0.683 (95% CI: 0.612, 0.761) for the invasive and non-invasive model, respectively. …”
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Acute Severe Anaphylaxis in Nepali Patients with Neurotoxic Snakebite Envenoming Treated with the VINS Polyvalent Antivenom by Sanjib Kumar Sharma, Emilie Alirol, Anup Ghimire, Suman Shrestha, Rupesh Jha, Surya B. Parajuli, Deekshya Shrestha, Surya Jyoti Shrestha, Amir Bista, David Warrell, Ulrich Kuch, Francois Chappuis, Walter Robert John Taylor

“…Preantivenom subcutaneous adrenaline (SCAd) was introduced in the second study year (2012). Of 155 envenomed patients who received ≥ 1 antivenom dose, 13 (8.4%), three children (aged 5−11 years) and 10 adults (18−52 years), developed clinical features consistent with severe ARA, including six with overlapping signs of severe envenoming. …”
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Travoprost Intracameral Implant in Eyes with Glaucoma or Ocular Hypertension: Early Short-Term Real-World Outcomes by Teymoorian S, Kaur J

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Structured reporting of neuroendocrine tumors in PET/CT using [18F]SiTATE - impact on interdisciplinary communication by Anna Hinterberger, Lukas Trupka, Sophia Kortbein, Ricarda Ebner, Nicola Fink, Matthias F. Froelich, Dominik Nörenberg, Carmen Wängler, Björn Wängler, Ralf Schirrmacher, Adrien Holzgreve, Matthias Brendel, Stefanie Corradini, Christoph Auernhammer, Johannes Rübenthaler, Freba Grawe

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Association between the atherogenic index of plasma and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in Korean pregnant women: secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study by Rong Shuai, Yuxing He, Dongqian Yang, Yingying Zhang, Li Zhang

“…We observed a positive linear association between AIP and NAFLD (OR = 1.33, 95% CI: 1.19–1.48), which persisted after adjusting for potential confounders (OR = 1.2, 95% CI: 1.06–1.37). When AIP was used as a categorical variable, after adjusting for covariates, the NAFLD risk was significantly higher in the highest tertile of AIP than in the lowest group (OR = 2.02, 95% CI: 1.11–3.68). …”
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The Epidemiology of Bloodstream Infections and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns: A Nine-Year Retrospective Study at St. Dominic Hospital, Akwatia, Ghana by John Gameli Deku, Mavis Puopelle Dakorah, Sylvester Yao Lokpo, Verner N. Orish, Francis Abeku Ussher, Godsway Edem Kpene, Vida Angmorkie Eshun, Eunice Agyei, Waldermer Attivor, James Osei-Yeboah

“…Staphylococcus aureus was the leading causative agent of bacteraemia for the first two scalar years (2009–2011 (38.9%) and 2012–2014 (42.2%)) while coagulase-negative staphylococcus (CoNS) (50.5%) was predominant for the last scalar year (2015–2017), followed by Staphylococcus aureus (169/587 (28.8%)). …”
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GR-Athena++: General-relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics Simulations of Neutron Star Spacetimes by William Cook, Boris Daszuta, Jacob Fields, Peter Hammond, Simone Albanesi, Francesco Zappa, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, David Radice

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Development of a Web-Based Intervention for Middle Managers to Enhance Resilience at the Individual, Team, and Organizational Levels in Health Care Systems: Multiphase Study by Eva Gil-Hernández, Irene Carrillo, Jimmy Martin-Delgado, Daniel García-Torres, José Joaquín Mira

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Factores asociados al conocimiento sobre la COVID-19 y salud mental en médicos residentes by Christian Mejía, Fiorella Inga-Berrospi, José Antonio Grández-Urbina, Marcos Saavedra-Velasco, Rainer Echeverría-Ibazeta, Renzo Peñalva-Saji, Palmer José Hernández-Yépez

“…En el análisis multivariado, la percepción del conocimiento se asoció a trabajar en emergencias (p= 0,007), a la cantidad de amistades positivos a la COVID-19 (p= 0,012) y a realizar recientemente una intubación (p= 0,035); estas fueron ajustadas por el puntaje de la percepción de salud mental. …”
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Synthetic inhibition of SREBP2 and the mevalonate pathway blocks rhabdomyosarcoma tumor growth in vitro and in vivo and promotes chemosensitization by Silvia Codenotti, Michela Asperti, Maura Poli, Luisa Lorenzi, Alberto Pietrantoni, Matteo Cassandri, Francesco Marampon, Alessandro Fanzani

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Literature study of Zn supplementation in feed for optimizing Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus growth by Muhammad Agus Suprayudi, Hendri Inarto, Julie Ekasari

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Projeto Toy Box: estimulando a atividade física ao brincar em família durante a pandemia de COVID-19 by Raiane Maiara dos Santos Pereira, Rafael dos Santos Cruz, Claudia Dias Leite, Isabela Almeida Viana Ramos

“…Objetivou-se analisar o impacto da disponibilização de uma caixa com brinquedos populares no nível de atividade física (NAF) de crianças. 33 crianças de 7 a 11 anos, foram divididas em: grupo controle, sem intervenção, (GC, n = 12, ♂ = 4, ♀ = 8) e grupo experimental (GE, n= 21, ♂ = 6, ♀ = 14), que recebeu uma caixa com brinquedos populares para interagir com a família por 1 mês. …”
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