Proportional mortality and years of potential life lost due to liver diseases among agricultural workers, Brazil, 2017 to 2022 by Jailma dos Santos Silva, Soraia Arruda, Thayane Silva Nunes, Wiler de Paula Dias, Adedayo Michael Awoniyi, Armando Meyer, Cleber Cremonese

“…Workers’ profile was characterized according to sociodemographic variables and Brazilian regions, forming a comparison group with all other Brazilian workers aged from 18-69 years who died in the same period and from the same underlying cause. …”
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Learning deep forest for face anti-spoofing: An alternative to the neural network against adversarial attacks by Rizhao Cai, Liepiao Zhang, Changsheng Chen, Yongjian Hu, Alex Kot

“…This work provides a competitive option in a fusing scheme for improving system-level security and offers important ideas to those who want to explore methods besides CNNs. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt at exploiting the deep forest model in the problem of FAS, with the consideration of adversarial attacks.…”
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Assessing psychological health and reproductive function: Depression, anxiety, and stress in infertile men compared to controls: A case-control study by Seyedeh Narjes Roudbaraki, Maryam Ramezani, Bita Saifi, Mostafa Salimi, Massood Issapour Cheshani

“…Participants were divided into 2 groups: 60 infertile men and 60 healthy men who did not have fertility problems. Demographic information such as age, education, occupation, duration of the marriage, and duration of infertility was collected from their medical records, and they also completed the depression, anxiety, and stress scale 21 questionnaire through a telephonic interview. …”
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Renal Transplantation Dramatically Reduces IgA Anti-beta-2-glycoprotein I Antibodies in Patients with Endstage Renal Disease by Manuel Serrano, Jose Angel Martínez-Flores, Maria José Castro, Florencio García, David Lora, Dolores Pérez, Esther Gonzalez, Estela Paz-Artal, Jose M. Morales, Antonio Serrano

“…Among, positivity for IgA aB2GPI was higher than in patients who had received their first transplant that those were retransplanted. …”
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Clinical course and remodeling of left ventricle in patients with ST segment elevention acute myocardial infarction after primary coronary artery stenting by V.A. Skybchik, Yu.P. Melen

“…The study included 80 patients (group I) with STEMI, who had undergone primary coronary intervention, and 20 patients with STEMI, a control group (group II) without myocardial revascularization. …”
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The impact of Playdough games on the development of oral motor skills in preschool children with childhood apraxia of speech by K. Tychyna, N. Babych, Y. Lyndinа, O. Revutska

“…Children in the experimental group, who participated in Playdough therapy, demonstrated significant improvements in both manual and oral motor skills, increased precision and focus in movement execution, and enhanced accuracy and speed of articulatory movements. …”
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Toxic stress is associated with cardiovascular disease among younger but not older women in the United States: Results from the research goes red registry by Saam Honarvar, Samaah Sullivan

“…Stress may be an under-recognized risk factor for cardiovascular disease, especially among younger women who may benefit from interventions to mitigate and prevent stress.…”
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Improving diagnostics and surveillance of malaria among displaced people in Africa by Toufik Abdul-Rahman, Oyinbolaji Akinwande Ajetunmobi, Gafar Babatunde Bamigbade, Innocent Ayesiga, Muhammad Hamza Shah, Tolulope Sharon Rumide, Abdurahman Babatunde Adesina, Ganiyat Adekemi Adeshina, Oluwabusola Elizabeth Oni, Bet-ini Nsikak Christian, Abdullahi Tunde Aborode, Andrew Awuah Wireko, Hala Ibrahim Thaalibi, Iman Mustafa Abdalla, Sewar Basheer Banimusa, Justice Ndubuisi Jonathan, Isreal Ayobami Onifade, Md Ariful Haque

“…As a result, the occurrence of malaria is significantly more common among refugees and internally displaced individuals compared to those who are not displaced. This leads to greater rates of illness and death, especially among young people. …”
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Prospective cohort study of the evaluation of patient benefit from the redevelopment of a complete national forensic mental health service: the Dundrum Forensic Redevelopment Evalu... by Harry G Kennedy, Mary Davoren, Ken O’Reilly, Damian Mohan

“…They offer care and treatment to mentally disordered offenders who pose a high risk of serious violence to others. …”
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To Measure or Not to Measure: Direct Oral Anticoagulant Laboratory Assay Monitoring in Clinical Practice by Tania Ahuja, Veronica Raco, Sharonlin Bhardwaj, David Green

“…A retrospective review of the records of patients who had a DOAC drug-specific activity level checked from 2016 to 2019 was included. …”
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Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Genetics, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment - A Literature Overview by Maciej Rutkiewicz, Sabina Przygodzka, Katarzyna Gadżała, Karolina Garbino, Katarzyna Brudniak, Antoni Szuścik, Magdalena Czyczerska

“…These are: LDL-Receptor (LDLR), Apolipoprotein B (ApoB), and Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin 9 (PCSK9). People who are affected by mutation have around thirteen times higher risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) and, in order to that, premature death. …”
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Smoking Induces the Circulating Levels of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 and Its Association with Cardiovascular Risk in Young Smokers by Dinesh NATH, Meera SHIVASEKAR, V. M. VINODHINI

“…Group one consisted of 120 healthy individuals with no physical and mental illness, group two consisted of 120 active smokers with a heart disease, and group three consisted of 120 active smokers with a heart disease and diabetes, who attended Sri Ramaswamy Memorial Hospital for cardiology checkup at the age of 20-55 years. …”
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A prognostic index model for predicting long-term recurrence of uterine leiomyoma after myomectomy. by Xiu Ming, Junying Zhou, Jinhai Gou, Na Li, Dan Nie, Luqi Xue, Zhengyu Li

“…<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 725 women who underwent myomectomy were enrolled in this retrospective multicenter study. …”
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Role of microvascular pericyte dysfunction in antibody-mediated rejection following kidney transplantation by Jie Xu, Junyan Pu, Hao Chen, Li Sun, Shuang Fei, Zhijian Han, Jun Tao, Xiaobing Ju, Zijie Wang, Ruoyun Tan, Min Gu

“…Objective To investigate the role of microvascular pericyte dysfunction in antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) of transplanted kidneys.Methods A total of 160 patients who underwent kidney transplantation in our hospital from 2004 to 2020 were enrolled, divided into 4 groups: ABMR group (n = 79), TCMR group (n = 20), mixed rejection group (n = 25) and control group (n = 36). …”
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Inter-reader agreement for diagnosing thymic cysts on chest MRI in two tertiary referral centers by Yura Ahn, Sang Min Lee, Chu Hyun Kim, Sehee Kim, Jooae Choe, Joon Beom Seo, Ho Yun Lee

“…A total of 76 anterior mediastinal lesions (≤ 30 mm) from two tertiary referral hospitals (55 from Institution A and 21 from Institution B) who underwent chest CT and contrast-enhanced chest MR were included. …”
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Iranian Pediatric COVID-19 Epidemiology and Clinical Characteristics by Shahnaz Armin, Mohammadreza Mirkarimi, Zahra Pourmoghaddas, Marjan Tariverdi, Azadeh Jafrasteh, Noushin Marhamati, Armin Shirvani, Abdollah Karimi, Sedigheh Rafiei Tabatabaei, Roxana Mansour Ghanaei, SeyedAlireza Fahimzad, Fariba Shirvani, Seyedeh Mahsan Hoseini-Alfatemi

“…In this study, most of the children who died had an underlying disease, so timely care and action is important in them. …”
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Effect of Preexisting Asthma on the Risk of ICU Admission, Intubation, and Death from COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Abhinav Bhattarai, Garima Dhakal, Sangam Shah, Aastha Subedi, Sanjit Kumar Sah, Shyam Kumar Mishra

“…We searched the electronic databases PubMed, WHO COVID-19 database, and Taylor and Francis Online for studies that compared the medical outcomes of COVID-19 between patients with and without asthma, from the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in December 2019 to the 3rd of September 2021, excluded duplicates, reviews, editorials, and case reports, and screened the titles, abstracts, and full texts. …”
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Metabolomic Links between Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake and Obesity by Bingjie Zhou, Reiko Ichikawa, Laurence D. Parnell, Sabrina E. Noel, Xiyuan Zhang, Shilpa N. Bhupathiraju, Caren E. Smith, Katherine L. Tucker, Jose M. Ordovas, Chao-Qiang Lai

“…Our results further identified participants who may exhibit an increased risk of obesity when consuming SSB. …”
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Occipital Nerve Blockade for the Treatment of Occipital Neuralgia-Like Acute Postcraniotomy Headache: A Retrospective Study by Shaoheng Wang, Xueye Han, Chunmei Zhao, Fang Luo

“…All data were retrospectively acquired from consultation records and electronic institutional medical documents. Forty-one patients, who developed drug-resistant ON-APCH after elective craniotomy and received ONB with lidocaine for diagnoses, were included in this study, all of whom were treated using dexamethasone and lidocaine. …”
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Incidence and prognosis associated with troponin elevation after cardiac surgery: a prospective cohort study by Arthur Clement, Lee S Nguyen, Anousone Daulasim, Magali Souibri

“…We aimed to confirm the accuracy of troponin, analysed as time-dependent variable, to predict mortality independently from other biomarkers; and to assess the incidence and prognosis of a 10 times upper normal value threshold (troponin10N) used in the current fourth definition of myocardial infarction.Methods In a prospective cohort of patients who underwent cardiopulmonary bypass cardiac procedures, we assessed the association between serum levels of troponin, creatinine, bilirubin, serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT), serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT), C-reactive protein (CRP), lactate and in-hospital mortality. …”
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