The Electroanatomic Volume of the Left Atrium as a Determinant of Recurrences in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation After Pulmonary Vein Isolation: A Prospective Study by Amaia Martínez León, David Testa Alonso, María Salgado, Ruth Álvarez Velasco, Minel Soroa, Daniel Gracia Iglesias, David Calvo

“…<b>Methods</b>: This prospective study included 197 patients with AF who were referred for PVI to our center (Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Spain) between 2016 and 2020. …”
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Laminoplasty vs laminectomy in the surgical management of spinal intradural extramedullary tumors by Deepak Kumar Singh, Prevesh Kumar Sharma, Vipin Kumar Chand, Kaif Mohammad, Kuldeep Yadav, Neha Singh

“…Materials and method The clinical and radiological data of patients who underwent laminectomy or laminoplasty for spinal cord tumors were retrospectively analyzed. …”
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The Glucose/Potassium Ratio Exhibits a Predictive Role That is Both Earlier and More Efficacious Compared to The İnflammatory Response in The Context of Isolated Thoracic Trauma by Demet Acar, Emine Kadıoğlu, Nazlı Kenan, Emine Doğan, Asiye Müminat Çap, Yavuz Yılmaz

“…Conclusion: The findings of the study support the conclusion that individuals with an AIS 90 thoracic score above 3 and who need to be admitted to intensive care show higher GPR values than other groups. …”
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Reversal of Myopic Correction for Patients Intolerant to LASIK by Amr A. Gab-Alla

“…This study is a retrospective and case series of patients who decided to reverse their previous myopic LASIK correction between July 2012 and July 2020. …”
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Cancer mortality trends after implementation of the national programme for dispensarization of certain groups of the adult population: a population-based study from arkhangelsk, no... by L. E. Valkova, M. L. Levit, V. M. Merabishvili, A. Yu. Pankrateva, M. V. Krupina, D. M. Dubovichenko, A. V. Agaeva, A. Yu. Ryzhov, E. F. Potekhina, M. Yu. Valkov

“…We compared the averaged crude and age-standardized (WHO world standard 2001) mortality rates in the periods before (2006–2012) and after the implementation of DCGAP (2013–2019) in the entire population, as well as in men and women and in age groups 15–59 years old for males and 15–55 years old for the female population ("mortality at working age") and 30–69 years old ("premature mortality"). …”
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Long-term outcome of a treat-to-target strategy in late-onset rheumatoid arthritis with chronic lung disease: 5-year results of a prospective observational study by Manami Nomura, Takahiko Sugihara, Hiroyuki Baba, Tadashi Hosoya, Mari Kamiya, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Takumi Matsumoto, Kanae Kubo, Fumio Hirano, Masayo Kojima, Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Shinsuke Yasuda, Masayoshi Harigai

“…Abstract Background Controlling disease activity and improving physical function would be more difficult in patients with late-onset rheumatoid arthritis (LORA) who have chronic lung disease (CLD) at baseline. …”
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Association between C-reactive protein and chronic pain in US adults: A nationwide cross-sectional study. by Chunsheng Huang, Qizhen Tong, Qiaoling Tong

“…The study incorporated individuals who successfully fulfilled chronic questionnaires and had CRP assays. …”
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Poly-skilling and advanced practice roles in perioperative care: protocol for a realist synthesis of evidence by David Walker, Ann Griffin, Carolina Britton, Della Freeth

“…Recommended ethical considerations regarding the involvement of key informants, who are not study participants but a consultative group, are presented in this protocol. …”
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Individual, household, and community-level factors associated with high-risk fertility behaviour among Nigerian women: secondary analysis of the 2018 demographic and health survey... by Michael Ekholuenetale, Chimezie Igwegbe Nzoputam, Amadou Barrow, Amit Arora

“…Muslim women had 20% (aOR = 1.20; 95% CI 1.06–1.36) increase in the odds of HRFB, when compared with the Christian women. Those who had 3–4 living children had 3.97 times higher odds of HRFB, when compared with women with no child (aOR = 3.97; 95% CI 2.92–5.40). …”
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Inverted U-shaped association between the systemic immune-inflammation index and colorectal polyps in Chinese patients: a cross-sectional study by Jie Bao, Yajie Teng, Yingxue Yang, Qinghua Wang

“…We retrospectively collected data from 3,028 Chinese patients who underwent physical examinations, including colonoscopy, from 2018 to 2022. …”
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Do continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) metrics predict macrovascular and microvascular complications in diabetes? The FACULTY protocol of a retrospective real-world cohort study by Eric Vicaut, Ramzi A Ajjan, J Seufert, Gérard de Pouvourville, Emmanuel Cosson, Laure Carcaillon-Bentata, Tadej Battelino, Patrick Blin, Fleur Levrat-Guillen, Michael Joubert

“…Here, we present the protocol for a real-world cohort study, aiming to establish the relationship between CGM-derived glycaemic metrics and the incidence of macrovascular and/or microvascular complications in people with diabetes.Methods and analysis This cohort study will use data from all CGM new users (FreeStyle Libre system) in France who uploaded their glycaemic values onto the LibreView cloud-based system, linked with data from the French nationwide Système National des Données de Santé claims database. …”
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Survival Status and Predictors of Mortality among Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients in Saint Peter’s Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Mikyas Arega Muluneh, Abayneh Birlie Zeru, Behailu Tariku Derseh, Abebaw Molla Kebede

“…An institutional retrospective cohort study was conducted using all MDR-TB patients who were enrolled in Saint. Peter’s Specialized Hospital from January 01, 2015, to December 31, 2017. …”
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Impact of Handgrip Strength on Survival in Hemodialysis Patients by Kyungho Park, Seongyeop Jeong, Hyerim Park, Eu Jin Lee, Young Rok Ham, Ki Ryang Na, Dae Eun Choi

“…<b>Methods</b>: This retrospective cohort study included 408 dialysis patients (221 males, 187 females) who underwent bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) and HGS assessments between March 2021 and August 2023. …”
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Sex Differences in Computed Tomography Coronary Stenosis Severity Versus Flow Impairment and Impact on Revascularization, Clinical Events and Health Care Costs: A FORECAST Substudy by Lavinia Gabara, Jonathan Hinton, Mohamed Kira, James Shambrook, Ausami Abbas, Sam Wilding, Jonathon A. Leipsic, Pamela S. Douglas, Nick Curzen

“…Methods and Results This is a secondary analysis of patients with stable coronary artery disease who underwent both coronary computed tomography angiography  and fractional flow reserve derived from computed tomography as part of the FORECAST (Fractional Flow Reserve Derived From Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography in the Assessment and Management of Stable Chest Pain) trial, investigating (1) the relationship between coronary stenosis severity on coronary computed tomography angiography and fractional flow reserve derived from computed tomography FFRCT by sex and (2) the association with revascularization, resource usage, and adverse clinical events. …”
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Coexistence of accompanying autoimmune diseases in adolescents with autoimmune thyroiditis by V.I. Pankiv

“…The purpose of the study was to investigate the coexistence of other accompanying autoimmune diseases in adolescents aged 14–18 years who were diagnosed and followed up at the Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Centre of Endocrine Surgery, Transplantation of Endocrine Organs and Tissues of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. …”
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Schoenberg – Schenker – Bach. A Harmonic, Contrapuntal, Formal Braid by Matthew Arndt

“…This article follows on the heels of one by Holly Watkins, who argues that music, “a subsystem of the social system of communication,” can evoke the organic (the bodily and the psychic) not by forming a self-contained unity of parts and whole but through the “internal recursiveness” of musical works, their external “recursiveness vis-à-vis other music,” and – crucially – “the knowingness the music displays toward its own operations.” …”
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Brain near-infrared study of upstairs movement after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction by Ziyuan Cao, Hao Zhang, Xipeng Wu, Yuxuan Zhang, Jiangli Yu, Wei Li

“…We aimed to provide a new theoretical basis for the changes in brain function after ACLR and neurorehabilitation of sports injuries.MethodsA total of 27 patients who undergoing right ACLR and 27 healthy controls participated in the study. …”
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The Association between Deoxyribonucleic Acid Hypermethylation in Intron VII and Human Leukocyte Antigen-C∗07 Expression in Patients with Endometriosis by Wenrong Zhao, Lei Lei, Rui Chen, Yanmin Zhang, Linlin Chang, Jingxin Cheng

“…Six patients with surgically confirmed ovarian endometriosis and six patients who received IUD implantation for contraception without endometriosis were recruited in the East Hospital of Tongji University in 2018. …”
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Serum levels of oxidative stress, IL-8, and pepsinogen I/II ratio in Helicobacter pylori and gastric cancer patients: potential diagnostic biomarkers by Marwa Nasier-Hussain, Jaleel Najah Samanje, Khatere Mokhtari, Mohsen Nabi-Afjadi, Zeinab Fathi, Asieh Hoseini, Elham Bahreini

“…Results Individuals with H. pylori infection exhibited elevated levels of IL-8 (940.5 ± 249.7 vs. 603.4 ± 89.1 pg/ml, P < 0.0001) and oxidative species (5.47 ± 0.7 vs. 1.64 ± 0.7 nM, P < 0.05) compared to gastric cancer patients, who, despite having lower levels of IL-8 and oxidative species, showed higher levels of MDA. …”
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Association between red cell distribution width to albumin ratio and all-cause mortality in patients with acute pancreatitis admitted to the intensive care unit: a retrospective st... by Xuan Chen, Yuchen Luo, Side Liu

“…Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the relationship between RAR and all-cause mortality in AP.MethodPatients with AP in the Critical Care Medical Information Market (MIMIC-IV) database who met criteria were included in this retrospective study. …”
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