Comparison of Ziziphus jujube Mill. Syrup versus polyethylene glycol in children with functional constipation: a randomized clinical trial by Fatemeh Keihanian, Shohreh Maleknejad, Amin Saeidinia, Soheil Soltanipour, Amir Pirooz

“…A double-blind, randomized clinical trial was performed on children aged 2–10 years with functional constipation who were referred to the gastroenterology clinic of the 17-Shahrivar Hospital in Rasht, Iran. …”
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Persistent organochlorine pesticides and cardiometabolic outcomes among middle-aged Latina women in a California agricultural community: The CHAMACOS Maternal Cognition Study by Marcella Warner, Stephen Rauch, Brenda Eskenazi, Lucia Calderon, Robert B. Gunier, Katherine Kogut, Nina Holland, Weihong Guo, Julianna Deardorff, Jacqueline M. Torres

“…Material and methods: We used data from the Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas-Maternal Cognition Study (CHAMACOS-MCS). We included 468 women who had concentrations of organochlorine pesticides measured in serum collected in 2009–2011 and complete follow-up data in 2022–2024 (blood draw, anthropometry, personal interview). …”
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Socio-demographic and clinical determinants of self-care in adults with type 2 diabetes: a multicenter cross-sectional study in Zhejiang province, China by Xuefen Lan, Xiaozhen Ji, Xiaojia Zheng, Xiaoyu Ding, Hongyi Mou, Shunfei Lu, Bin Ye

“…By enhancing self-care self-efficacy and participating in diabetes self-management education, healthcare providers can develop tailored self-care interventions to improve diabetes care, particularly for adults with type 2 diabetes who are female, belong to minority groups, have complications, use insulin, or reside in the southwest of Zhejiang province.…”
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Potentially inappropriate prescribing in hospitalised children: a retrospective, cross-sectional study at a tertiary children’s hospital in China by Linan Zeng, Lingli Zhang, Dan Yu, Huiqing Wang, Liang Huang, Siyu Li, Guo Cheng, Zhi-Jun Jia

“…Introduction For improving and optimising drug use in children, we previously developed a tool (including a series of criteria for identifying potentially inappropriate prescribing in children) by literature review and the two-round Delphi technique to prevent inappropriate medication prescriptions at the prescribing stage.Objective To assess the prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescription (PIP) among hospitalised children and explore risk factors associated with PIP.Design A retrospective cross-sectional study.Setting A tertiary children’s hospital in China.Participants Hospitalised children with complete medical records who received drug treatment and discharged from 1 January to 31 December 2021.Outcome measures We evaluated the medication prescriptions by using a series of previously developed criteria for detecting the prevalence of PIP in hospitalised children and used logistic regression to explore the risk factors (including sex, age, number of drugs, number of comorbidities, days of hospitalisation and admission departments) for PIP in children.Results A total of 87 555 medication prescriptions for 16 995 hospitalised children were analysed, and 19 722 PIPs were detected. …”
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Sociodemographic Risk Factors for Mental Health Disorders Among School Children in Umuahia, South-East Nigeria by Ikechukwu F. Ogbonna, Chizoba F. Achor, Joseph Ezeogu

“…Also, children residing with widowed caregivers were five times more likely to have MHD than children residing with caregivers who belonged to another marital status (aOR = 5.19, 95% CI = 1.45–18.61, P = 0.012), and those residing with non-biological caregivers were four times more likely to have MHD than those residing with biological caregivers (aOR = 3.50, 95% CI = 1.55–7.74, P = 0.002). …”
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Laser Induced Spectroscopy (LIBS) Technology and Environmental Risk Index (RI) to Detect Microplastics in Drinking Water in Baghdad, Iraq by Estabraq Mohammed Ati, Shahla Hussien Hano, Rana Fadhil abbas, Reyam Naji Ajmi and Abdalkader Saeed Latif

“…The feasibility study for water bottling was approved, and the WHO water quality criteria were confirmed. As a result, we will undertake a thorough analysis of the best water bottling quality. …”
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The Modulation of Laser Refractive Surgery on Sensory Eye Dominance of Anisometropia by Hongting Liu, Qi Chen, Fangfang Lan, Yan Luo, Enwei Lin, Wuqiang Luo, Ming Kong, Jiangxia Wang, Fengju Zhang

“…The second part of the study included 40 subjects with nonanisometropic myopia and 40 subjects with anisometropic myopia who received the femtosecond laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (Fs-LASIK). …”
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Penerapan Algoritme Nearest Centroid Neighbor Classifier Based on K Local Means Using Harmonic Mean Distance (LMKHNCN) Untuk Klasifikasi Hasil Kinerja Pegawai Negeri Sipil by Adam Syarif Hidayatullah, Fitra Abdurrachman Bachtiar, Imam Cholissodin

“…This can cause not optimal work result, so it necessary to early identification of employees who have performance below average performance so that can be evaluated and minimize not optimal result. …”
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Determination of Factors Affecting Sleep Quality in Postoperative Patients and Improvement of Correctible Causes by Ayşegül Özgök, Gökçe Selçuk Sert, Dilek Öztürk Kazancı

“…Patients who had postoperative major abdominal surgery and major cardiovascular surgery were included in our study. …”
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Predictors of exclusive breastfeeding practice among migrant and non-migrant mothers in urban China: results from a cross-sectional survey by Chen Zhao, Jie Wang, Jia Li, Yifan Duan, Ye Bi, Jianqiang Lai, Jin Fang, Zhenyu Yang

“…Objective To explore and compare the predictors for exclusive breast feeding (EBF) among migrant and non-migrant mothers in China.Design A large-scale cross-sectional study.Setting 12 counties/districts were covered in China.Participants A total number of 10 408 mothers were recruited, of whom 3571 mothers of infants aged 0–5 months in urban China were used for analysis.Outcome The practice of EBF was calculated based on the foods and drinks consumed in the last 24 hours, as recommended by WHO.Results Around 30% of Chinese mothers with infants aged 0–5 months practised EBF in urban areas, with no significant difference between migrant and non-migrant mothers (p=0.433). …”
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ETHICS OF LIABILITY K.-O.APELY IN THE LANDSCAPES OF CONTRACTUALISM by Dmytro V. Usov

“…It was exactly K.-O. Apel who stresses that collective irresponsibility should be replaced by collective responsibility.…”
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Analysis of Factors Related to Pulmonary Nodules in Patients With Fatty Liver: A Large-Scale Cohort Study Based on a Physical Examination Population by Qin Y, Huang X, Lin J, Pan L, Liang Q, Li W

“…This study aimed to investigate the occurrence of lung nodules in fatty liver patients and explore influencing factors.Patients and Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 57,119 individuals who underwent health checkups at the People’s Hospital of Guangxi from May 2020 to May 2024. …”
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Utilization and quality of primary and specialized palliative homecare in nursing home residents vs. community dwellers: a claims data analysis by Juliane Poeck, Franziska Meissner, Bianka Ditscheid, Markus Krause, Ulrich Wedding, Cordula Gebel, Ursula Marschall, Gabriele Meyer, Werner Schneider, Antje Freytag

“…We want to add evidence by comparing nursing home residents (who had been living in a nursing home for at least one year) and nursing-care-dependent community dwellers in terms of utilization and quality of palliative homecare. …”
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Analysis of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes of Pregnant Women with Syphilis and Maternal-Infant Serological Association in Changzhou, China, 2015–2019 by Chaorong Bian, Zhiqiang Qin, Jieying Zhang, Mengtao Sun, Manman Gu, Kejin Chen

“…We also compared differences in syphilis titers among mothers who received different interventions, differences in serologic outcomes of their children, and correlations between them. …”
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Case Report: Efficacy and safety of recombinant growth hormone therapy in a girl with Loeys–Dietz syndrome by Kamil Dyrka, Aleksander Jamsheer, Michal Bartecki, Waldemar Bobkowski, Malgorzata Pawelec-Wojtalik, Justyna Rajewska-Tabor, Andzelika Tomaszewska, Justyna Balcerzak, Zuzanna Aniol, Marek Niedziela, Monika Obara-Moszynska

“…We present the case of a 16.5-year-old girl with LDS type 2 (LDS2) caused by a heterozygous pathogenic variant, c.1582C>T (p.Arg528Cys), in the transforming growth factor-beta receptor type 2 (TGFBR2) gene who was treated with recombinant growth hormone (rGH) due to coexisting GH deficiency (GHD). …”
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Presenting the Model of Eco-Leadership in Elementary Schools with an Interpretive Phenomenological Approach by Adel Zahed babolan, Seyyedmohammad Seyyedkalan

“…The research environment consists of school principals and teachers who have a history of green schools. They were selected using a targeted snowball sampling method to reach 23 participants until theoretical saturation was achieved. …”
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ADAPTATION OF INTERPERSONAL COUNSELLING FOR ADOLESCENTS (IPC-A) FOR FINNISH STUDENT WELFARE SERVICES – RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION BY USING AN EXPANDED FRAMEWORK FOR REPORTING ADAPTAT... by NOORA SEILO, KRISTIINA MÄMMI, OUTI LINNARANTA

“…The six domains of FRAME used were: 1) what was modified, 2) who made the decision to modify, 3) what was the goal, 4) when did the modification occur, 5) were the modifications fidelity-consistent, and 6) were adaptations planned. …”
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The Association between Polymorphisms of Vitamin D Metabolic-Related Genes and Vitamin D3 Supplementation in Type 2 Diabetic Patients by Zhiyong Hu, ShaSha Tao, Huaqing Liu, Guotao Pan, Bingyan Li, Zengli Zhang

“…Patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) who met the inclusive criteria were given 800 IU of vitamin D3 daily for 30 consecutive months. …”
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Effect of nutrition education on hemoglobin level of pregnant women in Southeast Ethiopia: a cluster randomized controlled trial by Girma Beressa, Susan J. Whiting, Tefera Belachew

“…A multistage cluster sampling technique followed by systematic sampling was used to select the pregnant women. Pregnant women who took part in the intervention arm received six nutrition education sessions, whereas pregnant women in the control group received routine standard care. …”
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Stakeholder perspectives on facilitators and barriers to implementing a zero-dollar copay program for chronic conditions study by Debra Winberg, Elizabeth Nauman, Lizheng Shi, Brice L. Mohundro, Kelly Louis, Eboni G. Price-Haywood, Tiange Tang, Alessandra N. Bazzano

“…Methods Focus group discussions and interviews were conducted with health plan leadership, health coaches and providers who participate in the health plan organization’s healthcare quality improvement program. …”
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