Disproportionality analysis of upadacitinib-related adverse events in inflammatory bowel disease using the FDA adverse event reporting system by Shiyi Wang, Xiaojian Wang, Jing Ding, Xudong Zhang, Hongmei Zhu, Yihong Fan, Changbo Sun

“…BackgroundUpadacitinib, a Janus kinase inhibitor, has been increasingly used over the past few years to treat moderate to severe ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease in patients who are insufficiently responsive or intolerant to tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antibodies, demonstrating notable clinical efficacy. …”
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Relieving or Aggravating the Burden: Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) of Electronic and Conventional Cigarette Users (Dual Users) in Indonesia by Faizal R. Moeis, Risky K. Hartono, Renny Nurhasana, Aryana Satrya, Teguh Dartanto

“…The sample is limited to respondents aged 15 – 64 years old who either only used e-cigarettes (e-cigarette single users), only used conventional cigarettes (conventional cigarette single users) or used both e-cigarettes and conventional cigarettes (dual users) in the last month. …”
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Plant Species Composition and Community Perception Towards Landscaping Work Executed at Hawassa University-Main Campus, Ethiopia by Birhanu Kagnew, Firew Kebede

“…Especially students in higher educational institutions who spend much of their time focused on their studies need of clean, green and attractively well-designed landscape in their campus. …”
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Optimizing hypoglycaemia prediction in type 1 diabetes with Ensemble Machine Learning modeling by Daphne N. Katsarou, Eleni I. Georga, Maria A. Christou, Panagiota A. Christou, Stelios Tigas, Costas Papaloukas, Dimitrios I. Fotiadis

“…The dataset comprises 29 individuals with T1D, who were monitored for 2 to 4 weeks during the GlucoseML prospective observational clinical study. …”
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On Chinese Translations of Colloquial Russian Pragmatic Approximator Markers: Analyzing Speech Patterns from Literary Fiction by Xiang Yanan, Natalia V. Bogdanova-Beglarian

“…Presence of the functional units makes character speech more natural but may pose significant difficulties for translators who are forced to look for adequate analogues in the target language. …”
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Effectiveness of women-led community interventions in improving tuberculosis preventive treatment in children: results from a comparative, before–after study in Ethiopia by Jacob Creswell, Degu Jerene, Ahmed Bedru, Dawit Assefa, Kalkidan Tesfaye, Samuel Bayu, Samuel Seid, Fikirte Aberra, Amera Khan

“…Objectives Our objective was to evaluate the impact of a service delivery model led by membership-based associations called Iddirs formed by women on tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) initiation and completion rates among children.Design Comparative, before-and-after study design.Setting Three intervention and two control districts in Ethiopia.Participants Children who had a history of close contact with adults with infectious forms of tuberculosis (TB). …”
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Oral Findings, Salivary Copper, Magnesium, and Leptin in Type II Diabetic Patients in Relation to Oral Candida Species by Mohammed Jasim Mohammed, Abbas S. Al-mizraqchi, Salah M. Ibrahim

“…Forty-five type II diabetic patients in the study included participants between 40 and 60 years old, with a minimum duration of one year, as well as 45 healthy control subjects who were matched in terms of age and sex, and had no underlying systemic diseases. …”
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Stemness-related gene signatures as a predictive tool for breast cancer radiosensitivity by Jinzhi Lai, Rongfu Huang, Jingshan Huang

“…This study developed a stemness-based signature to identify BRCA patients who are likely to benefit from radiotherapy.MethodsGene expression data for BRCA patients were obtained from the TCGA and METABRIC databases, including 920 TCGA-BRCA and 1980 METABRIC-BRCA patients. …”
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Exploring the Role of Radiosurgery for Atypical Meningiomas: Addressing Suboptimal Local Control in High-Risk Patients by Sanjeev Sreenivasan, MD, MCh, Salem Najjar, BA, Daniel Ma, MD, Sabrina L. Begley, BS, Yen-Ruh Wuu, MD, Zaker Rana, MD, Emile Gogineni, DO, Michael Schulder, MD, Anuj Goenka, MD

“…We aimed to conduct a comprehensive review of a consecutive cohort of patients diagnosed with high-risk atypical meningioma who underwent SRS, either as a single-fraction SRS or in the hypofractionated SRS (hf-SRS), and evaluate the LC rates (LCR) with a specific emphasis on patterns of treatment failure. …”
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Association between breastfeeding duration and educational attainment in rural Southwest Uganda: a population-based cohort study by Shamsudeen Mohammed, Clara Calvert, Joseph O Mugisha, Makanga Ronald, Gershim Asiki, Judith R Glynn, Laura L Oakley, Milly Marston

“…Methods We analysed longitudinal data on 3018 children who had information on breastfeeding and were followed for at least 5 years, with at least one primary school grade recorded by 2005. …”
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Prospective cohort study of voice outcomes following secondary tracheoesophageal puncture in gastric pull-up reconstruction after total laryngopharyngoesophagectomy by Emily C. Deane, Harman Parhar, Linda Rammage, Amanda Hu, Donald W. Anderson

“…Methods This was a prospective cohort study of patients with advanced laryngopharyngeal malignancies who underwent gastric pull-up and secondary tracheoesophageal puncture between 1988 and 2017 at a tertiary-care academic institution. …”
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The prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder and its correlation with health beliefs among medical students by Mohammad Amiri, Zahra Mehmannavaz Mikal, Elham Sadeghi, Ahmad Khosravi

“…Furthermore, people with moderate to high anxiety levels due to COVID-19 had a considerably higher average PTSD score, roughly 13.3 higher, than those who experienced lower stress levels. Conclusion: The findings indicate a negative correlation between the total score of health behaviors and the average score of PTSD. …”
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Patterns and Determinants of Change in Cortisol Levels and Thyroid Function as a Function of Cardiac Risk in Children Undergoing Cardiac Surgery by Khouloud Abdulrahman Al-Sofyani, Mohammed Shahab Uddin, Ebtehal Ahmed Qulisy, Osman Osama Al-Radi

“…The study involved 46 children aged 14 years or younger who underwent elective cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. …”
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Impact of immigration-specific stress on safety attitudes: a national cross-sectional study on overseas qualified nurses in Japan by Xinyi Chang, Xiuzhu Gu

“…Background Many countries have addressed the global issue of nursing shortage by recruiting overseas nurses who are also qualified in the host country. Nevertheless, such nurses may encounter various obstacles in their personal and professional lives in the host country, leading to apprehensions about their perceptions of workplace safety in healthcare organisations.Objective This study investigated the current state of immigration-specific stress among overseas qualified nurses (OQNs) working in Japan and its impact on safety attitudes.Settings Invitation letters with a Quick Response (QR) code for a survey were sent to 119 hospitals across Japan that accepted OQNs as per the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. …”
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Assessing the readability, quality and reliability of responses produced by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity regarding most frequently asked keywords about low back pain by Erkan Ozduran, Volkan Hancı, Yüksel Erkin, İlhan Celil Özbek, Vugar Abdulkerimov

“…Background Patients who are informed about the causes, pathophysiology, treatment and prevention of a disease are better able to participate in treatment procedures in the event of illness. …”
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The impact of educational intervention based on the theory of planned behavior on preventive behaviors for gastric cancer in obese and smoking individuals by Siamak Najafi, Fatemeh Mohammadkhah, Saina Alempour Salemi, Amirhossein Kamyab, Ali Khani Jeihooni

“…Methods This quasi-experimental study was conducted in 2021–2022 on 150 obese or overweight individuals, more than 25 years old who smoked (cigarettes and hookah) in Fasa city, Iran. …”
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Associations of the levels of adipokines and cytokines in individual follicles with in vitro fertilization outcomes in women with different ovarian reserves by Xuelan Li, Chujun Li, Jie Yang, Min Lin, Xianli Zhou, Ziyang Su, Yuting Zhang, Xinning Li, Xin Chen

“…Methods A total of 115 women who underwent IVF were recruited. Patients diagnosed with DOR, defined as a basal antral follicle count < 5 or an anti-Mullerian hormone concentration < 1.1 ng/mL, were assigned to the DOR group, while patients with a normal ovarian reserve (NOR) were assigned to the NOR group. …”
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Monozygotic twins with myocarditis and a novel likely pathogenic desmoplakin gene variant by Antheia Kissopoulou, Eva Fernlund, Christina Holmgren, Eira Isaksson, Jan‐Erik Karlsson, Henrik Green, Jon Jonasson, Rada Ellegård, Hanna Klang Årstrand, Anneli Svensson, Cecilia Gunnarsson

“…The aim of this case presentation is to shed light upon a possible link between myocarditis, a desmoplakin (DSP) gene variant, and ARVC by describing a case of male monozygotic twins who presented with symptoms and signs of myocarditis at 17 and 18 years of age, respectively. …”
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In-hospital costs of diabetic foot infection at a national referral hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia by Fitrianingsih, Rani Sauriasari, Em Yunir, Agusdini Banun Saptaningsih

“…Aims: To determine the in-hospital costs of patients with diabetic foot problems who either require or do not require amputation. …”
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Enriched phenotypes in rare variant carriers suggest pathogenic mechanisms in rare disease patients by Lane Fitzsimmons, Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Brett Beaulieu-Jones, Shilpa Nadimpalli Kobren

“…Specifically, we look for enriched phenotypes across UKB participants who harbor rare variants in the same gene known or suspected to be causally implicated in a UDN patient’s recessively manifesting disorder. …”
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