Exercise capacity after long-term physical activity on prescription provided by physiotherapists by Daniel Karsberg Zotterman, Åsa Cider, Stefan Lundqvist

“…Therefor exercise capacity was evaluated in patients with metabolic risk factors, after 4.5 years of PAP treatment provided by physiotherapists in primary healthcare.Method: This study included 98 patients (49% women; mean age, 56 years) with metabolic risk factors, who were still physically inactive after a previous 6-month PAP treatment. …”
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Safety and Outcomes of Permanent and Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filters in the Oncology Population by Saba S. Shaikh, Suneel D. Kamath, Debashis Ghosh, Robert J. Lewandowski, Brandon J. McMahon

“…A single-institution, retrospective study of patients with active malignancies and acute VTE who received a retrievable or permanent IVC filter between 2009-2013. …”
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Teaching healthy lifestyle behaviors based on philosophical thinking to preschool children: a randomized controlled trial by Zakieh Khoramaki, Mahin Nazari, Leila Ghahremani, Mohammad Hossein Kaveh, Abdolrahim Asadollahi

“…Methods This randomized controlled trial involved 120 preschoolers, who were randomly assigned to intervention groups for children, parents, and a control group. …”
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Marie Corelli, Wormwood, and the Diversity of Decadence by Jessica DeCoux

“…Marie Corelli was, in her day, a wildly popular best-selling author and public figure, one who captured the public’s imagination with her dramatic and fantastical novels. …”
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Acute kidney injury in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a single-center retrospective study by Ping Zhou, Bing Liu, Ning Shen, Xiaoting Fan, Shangwei Lu, Zhijuan Kong, Ying Gao, Zhimei Lv, Rong Wang

“…Therefore, we conducted a retrospective study on the incidence, risk factors, clinical features and renal recovery of ICI-AKI in all patients with malignancies treated with ICIs in Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University.Methods In this single-center retrospective cohort study, the data of 904 patients who received immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) treatment were retrospectively analyzed. …”
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Vitamin D Supplementation and Hemoglobin Levels in Hypertensive Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Jana B. Ernst, Andreas Tomaschitz, Martin R. Grübler, Martin Gaksch, Katharina Kienreich, Nicolas Verheyen, Winfried März, Stefan Pilz, Armin Zittermann

“…Two hundred patients with 25OHD levels <75 nmol/L who attended the Styrian Vitamin D Hypertension Trial were included, of whom 188 completed the trial. …”
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Intraoperative hypotension and postoperative delirium in elderly male patients undergoing laryngectomy: a single-center retrospective cohort study by Yiru Wang, Kaizheng Chen, Min Ye, Xia Shen

“…Methods: This study included male patients over 65 years old who underwent laryngectomy between April 2018 and January 2022. …”
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The Prevalence of the Burnout Syndrome and Factors Associated in the Students of Dentistry in Integral Clinic: A Cross-Sectional Study by Luis Alberto Chauca Bajaña, Luis Campos Lascano, Lourdes Jaramillo Castellon, Carlos Carpio Cevallos, Gabriela Cevallos-Pozo, Byron Velasquez Ron, Fábio França Vieira e Silva, Mario Perez-Sayans

“…The instruments were answered anonymously by a total of 300 students who participated in the study. Results. The emotional exhaustion of the participants was 48.3% at a higher level, the depersonalization was 46.7% at a higher level, and the low perception of personal fulfillment was 73%. …”
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Association between Self-Reported Bruxism and Sleeping Patterns among Dental Students in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Shereen M. Shokry, Eman E. El Wakeel, Nassr Al-Maflehi, Zaheera RasRas, Nida Fataftah, Enam Abdul Kareem

“…Poor sleeping pattern was an important factor among dental students, who reported sleep bruxism.…”
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Effects of Flash Glucose Monitoring on Dietary Variety, Physical Activity, and Self-Care Behaviors in Patients with Diabetes by Satoshi Ida, Ryutaro Kaneko, Kanako Imataka, Kaoru Okubo, Yoshitaka Shirakura, Kentaro Azuma, Ryoko Hujiwara, Hiroka Takahashi, Kazuya Murata

“…This study included outpatients with diabetes using insulin who presented at the Department of Diabetes and Metabolism of the Ise Red Cross Hospital. …”
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Impact of paralympic sports on the resilience of people with disabilities: evaluation and key analysis by Karollyni Bastos Andrade Dantas, Gabriel Gastélum-Cuadras, David Arnoldo García-Fernández, Francisco Prado Reis, Estélio Henrique Martin Dantas

“… Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the degree of resilience in people with motor disabilities, both those who do and do not practice para-sports. Methodology: This cross-sectional, quantitative study was conducted with 351 para-athletes (PDAP - X̄ = 30.9 ± 11.7 years) and 90 non-practicing individuals with motor disabilities (PDNP - X̄ = 31.6 ± 9.3 years). …”
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Relationship of Secondary School Mathematics Achievement with Engineering Mathematics 2 in Polytechnics by Husnira Binti Hussin, Marina Binti Majid, Rohayu Binti Ab Wahab

“…This is because the subject of Engineering Mathematics 2 is mostly related to calculus and only students who have taken Additional Mathematics subject during secondary school had a basic in the Engineering Mathematics 2. …”
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Stakeholders’ Views on Factors Influencing Nutrition Policy: a Qualitative Study Across Ten European Countries by Jeruszka-Bielak Marta, Sicińska Ewa, Wit Liesbeth de, Ruprich Jiří, Řehůřková Irena, Brown Kerry A., Timotijevic Lada, Sonne Anne-Mette, Haugaard Pernille, Guzzon Antonella, Garcia Noé Brito, Alevritou Eleni, Hermoso Maria, Sarmant Yuliya, Lähteenmäki Liisa, Roszkowski Wojciech, Raats Monique M.

“…The spectrum and weight of the factors influencing nutritional policy depends on nutrient, country and degree of its “advanced status” within nutrition policy, political environment, culture and socio-economic conditions as well as the point of view (who is expressing the opinion).…”
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Atypical Antiglomerular Basement Membrane Disease in a Pregnant Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Areerat Ounhasuttiyanon, Ngoentra Tantranont, Thatsaphan Srithongkul

“…We report a 29-year-old pregnant woman with underlying systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who presented with severe glomerulonephritis due to atypical antiglomerular basement membrane disease. …”
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Effects of dump site soil on the leaf structures of <i>Luffa cylindrical</i> (sponge gourd) and <i>Amaranthus viridis</i> (green amaranth) by S.I. Musa, K.O. Awayewaserere, K.I. Njoku

“…All the HMs detected at the three spots and control were below the World Health Organization (WHO) and Dutch pollutant standard level, except for (Zn) which was at the exact limit (50.000Mg/kg). …”
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Neonatal presentations to the paediatric emergency department in Singapore by Jia Mei Vanessa Lim, Vigil James, Yong Jie Edwin Yeo, Yi Mei Low, Yi Rong Chew, Sashikumar Ganapathy

“…Interestingly, 87.0% of the well babies who presented to the emergency department were brought in owing to parental concerns by the parents themselves, without prior consultation with the doctor. …”
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A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL EXPERIENCE OF TRANSVERSEABDOMINAL PLANE (TAP) BLOCK VERSUS LOCAL ANESTHESIAINFILTRATION AT SURGICAL SITE IN OPEN APPENDICECTOMIES by Rabia Tabassum et al

“…Patients aged 60 years, presented with American Society of Anaesthesiologist (ASA) I or II, who had to be planned open appendectomy were enrolled. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors for Glucose Intolerance among Saudi Women with Gestational Diabetes by Hayfaa Wahabi

“…The objective of this study was to determine the incidence and risk factors of glucose intolerance one year after delivery in women with gestational diabetes (GDM). Methods. All women who had GDM and completed one year since delivery at King Khalid University Hospital were contacted to participate in the study. …”
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Applicability of indocyanine green fluorescence tracing with subserosal dye injection in laparoscopic lymph node dissection for gastric cancer: a preliminary study by Zhangwei Yang, Pengwei Wang, Dandan Bao, Yi-Ren Hu, Senrui Chen, Yi Huang, Pingting Li

“…Materials and methods: This retrospective study included 20 patients who underwent distal gastrectomy at the Wenzhou People’s Hospital between January 2020 and December 2022. …”
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Hidden cause of paralysis: tight filum terminale in spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality by Yi Yuan, Yi Yuan, Zong Jian An, Fei Gao, Zhi Hui Li, Wei Li Xu, Yong Sun

“…ObjectiveTo explore the clinical characteristics and surgical treatment outcomes of spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality (SCIWORA) in children.MethodsA retrospective analysis was conducted on the clinical data of four children diagnosed with SCIWORA who were admitted to the Neurosurgery Department of Qingdao Women and Children's Hospital from November 2022 to June 2024. …”
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