The All-Cause Mortality and a Screening Tool to Determine High-Risk Patients among Prevalent Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients by Mohamad Adam Bujang, Pei Xuan Kuan, Xun Ting Tiong, Fatin Ellisya Saperi, Mastura Ismail, Feisul Idzwan Mustafa, Abd Muneer Abd Hamid

“…The model has moderate accuracy; the prognostic model can be used as a screening tool to classify T2DM patients who are at higher risk for mortality within five years.…”
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Experiences of patients talking about mental illness with their children: a qualitative study by Elizabeth Rapa, Athif Ilyas, Athif Ilyas, Simone de Cassan, Simone de Cassan, Louise J. Dalton

“…Perceived benefits of talking to children about parental mental illness, 3. Experience of ‘who’ talks to children about parental mental illness, 4. …”
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The Modified Frailty 5-Factor Index Predicts Adverse Outcomes After Ventral Hernia Repair in a National Database by Allison L. Diaz, BS, Wen-Yu Lee, MS, Cheongeun Oh, PhD, Laura L. Kimberly, PhD, MSW, MBE

“…A retrospective review of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database from 2015 to 2020 was performed for patients who underwent VHR with the component separation technique. …”
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Effect of a Ketogenic Diet on Metabolic Dysfunction‐Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) Progression: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Sakkarin Chirapongsathorn, Wiwit Rintaravitoon, Bhagawat Tangjaturonrasme, Samitti Chotsriluecha, Yanisa Pumsutas, Achariya Kanchanapradith, Sombat Treeprasertsuk

“…Methods We conducted an 8‐week, open‐label, randomized controlled trial involving 24 patients with MASLD who were randomly assigned to either the home delivery ketogenic diet or a nutrition education program on adherence to the DASH diet. …”
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Measurement of Several Hematological and Serological Parameters in Patients with Scabies by Mariam Y. Al-Fadhly, Wasan A. Al-Marsomy, Hiba H. Maqdasi .

“…The current study involved the collection of blood samples from a patient group infected with scabies disease, comprising sixty individuals, and a control group of sixty individuals who were in good health. The tests showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the scabies patients and the control group for Hb (12.86± 0.31, 12.88± 0.20), PCV (34.40±0.94, 40.35±0.59), and platelets (244.80±9.58, 237.23±8.97), Respectively. …”
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Impact of sleep quality on academic achievements of undergraduate medical students: a cross-sectional study from Saudi Arabia by Arwa Khaled, Dalia Almaghaslah, Ayesha Siddiqua, Geetha Kandasamy, Khalid Orayj

“…Additionally, students who had more than five courses per semester more frequently had daytime sleepiness p = 0.03. …”
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Incidence of extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing Escherichia coli isolated from women with urinary tract infections in Jordan by Rania Al-Groom

“…., Enterococci sp. and Proteus sp. with frequency of 132 (32.0%), 51 (12.4%), 15 (3.6%), 10 (2.4%), and 6 (1.5%) respectively. Female participants who were between the ages of 40 and 49 years old, married, and pregnant were more likely to develop urinary tract infections (UTIs). …”
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A Research Synthesis of Therapeutic Interventions for Whiplash-Associated Disorder: Part 1 – Overview and Summary by Robert W Teasell, J Andrew McClure, David Walton, Jason Pretty, Katherine Salter, Matthew Meyer, Keith Sequeira, Barry Death

“…For patients with chronic WAD who do not respond to conventional treatments, it appears that radiofrequency neurotomy may be the most effective treatment option. …”
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Comparison of the Efficacy and Safety of PD‐1/PD‐L1 Inhibitors in the Treatment of Small Cell Lung Cancer by Qichen Zhang, Xiaojuan Han, Jiayi Liu, Hui Qiao

“…Methods A retrospective analysis was performed on 37 SCLC patients who received PD‐1 or PD‐L1 inhibitors along with chemotherapy at the First Hospital of Lanzhou University between June 2018 and June 2023. …”
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Application of Multidomain Cognitive Training in a Tele-Neurorehabilitation Setting for Treatment of Post-Stroke Cognitive Disorders by Marianna Contrada, Loris Pignolo, Martina Vatrano, Caterina Pucci, Isabel Mantia, Federica Scarfone, Maria Quintieri, Antonio Cerasa, Gennarina Arabia

“…Purpose: Cognitive dysfunctions are still very common in the chronic phase of stroke when patients are discharged from neurorehabilitation centers. Even individuals who appear to have made a full clinical recovery may exhibit new deficiencies at home. …”
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Work-related grief and bereavement experiences of social and community service workers working with people experiencing social disadvantage: a rapid scoping review by Kara Whitlock, Zahra Premji, Ashley Mollison, Carolina Posada, Mauricio Arias-Rojas, Charlotte Futcher, Kelli I. Stajduhar

“…Abstract Background While an extensive body of research in palliative care exists on the experiences of grief and bereavement among family caregivers, much of this research is based on normative assumptions of who family caregivers are – housed, financially stable, and with extended family and/or friends to draw on for support. …”
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Does a Provider Contact Wristband Reduce Emergency Department Visit Rates Following Hip or Knee Arthroplasty? by David C. Hein, MD, Ajay K. Srivastava, MD, Seann E. Willson, MD, Paul M. Telehowski, MD, Patrick J. Atkinson, PhD, Theresa S. Atkinson, PhD

“…ED visit rates (30 and 90 days) and readmissions (90 days) were tabulated for 2 years prior to and up to 3 years after the implementation of the wristband program. Residents who responded to calls and call logs were also reviewed. …”
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Epidemic characteristics of diabetes in schizophrenic patients in Shanghai communities by ZHANG Yayun, WU Hemin, LU Yi, LIU Yanli, ZHANG Weibo

“…ObjectiveTo explore the characteristics and associated risk factors of diabetes in patients with schizophrenia living in communities, and to provide a basis for the prevention of diabetes comorbidity in this population.MethodsA stratified cluster sampling was used to randomly select patients with schizophrenia in Shanghai who participated in the free health examination provided by the National Basic Public Health Services in 2020. …”
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Is the Occurrence or Reversal of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Associated with Long-Term Helicobacter pylori Infection among Chinese Adults? A Cohort Study by Xia-Xia Zhao, Rui-Ling Wang, Ming-Hao Liu, Xiao-jun Huang

“…Participants with H. pylori infection had a higher rate of incident NAFLD than those who were uninfected (37/206; 18% versus 73/469; 15.6%) (p<0.001). …”
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Herbaspirillum Infection in Humans: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Rashmi Dhital, Anish Paudel, Nidrit Bohra, Ann K. Shin

“…We present a 58-year-old female with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who presented with pneumonia and was found to have Herbaspirillum seropedicae bacteremia. …”
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Oncology Clinicians' Perspectives of a Remote Patient Monitoring Program: Multi-Modal Case Study Approach by Ann Marie Mazzella-Ebstein, Robert Daly, Jennie Huang, Camila Bernal, Clare Wilhelm, Katherine S Panageas, Jessie Holland, Rori Salvaggio, Jill Ackerman, Jennifer Cracchiolo, Gilad Kuperman, Jun Mao, Aaron Begue, Margaret Barton-Burke

“…A nested sample of 5 clinicians who responded to the study survey (30% response rate) participated in interview sessions conducted from November 2021 to February 2022, averaging 60 minutes each. …”
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Retóricas em disputa: o debate intelectual sobre as políticas de ação afirmativa para estudantes negros no Brasil by Karine Pereira Goss

“…Their arguments will be analyzed from a typology created for Albert Hirschman (1992). The authors who develop arguments in opposition to the affirmative actions are partisan of a called rhetoric of conservative, while the ones that defend such politics are classified as partisan of a progressive rhetoric. …”
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Analysis of Age Appropriate Measles Immunisation among the Eligible Children in India: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of National Family Health Survey–5 by Avijit Debnath, Niranjan Roy, Dipankar Roy, Munmi Sarma, Dipanjan Roy, Kinnor Das, Deepmala Deb

“…Moreover, a considerable number of children did not even receive their first dose of the measles vaccine, and those who did generally did not receive it at the recommended age. …”
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Trends in InsurTech Development in Korea: A News Media Analysis of Key Technologies, Players, and Solutions by Yongsu Lee, Hyosook Yim

“…The extracted keywords were analyzed and discussed in terms of development trends: which technologies gained prominence over time, who the key players were, and what solutions were introduced. …”
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The evolution of cell-free fetal DNA testing: expanded non-invasive prenatal testing and its effect on target populations by Shaozhe Yang, Yanqi He, Jingshang Lv, Rongxiang Li, Xiuhong Fu

“…PurposeTo evaluate the clinical performance of expanded non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT-plus) in screening for fetal chromosome aneuploidy and copy number variations (CNVs) among pregnant women with different risk factors to investigate how the target population of cell-free fetal DNA may change in NIPT-plus.MethodsThe clinical data, test results, confirmatory invasive testing outcomes, and follow-up results of 6,220 pregnant women who underwent NIPT-plus were re-viewed. The performance indicators of the positive predictive value (PPV), positive rate (PR), specificity, and sensitivity in screening for common trisomies, sex chromosomal abnormalities (SCAs), rare autosomal aneuploidies (RAAs), and CNVs were calculated. …”
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