Comparing spirometry, impulse oscillometry with computed tomography for assessing small airway dysfunction in subjects with and without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by Suyin Huang, Fan Wu, Zhishan Deng, Jieqi Peng, Cuiqiong Dai, Lifei Lu, Kunning Zhou, Xiaohui Wu, Qi Wan, Gaoying Tang, Shengtang Chen, Changli Yang, Yongqing Huang, Shuqing Yu, Pixin Ran, Yumin Zhou

“…The consistency of spirometry, IOS and CT for diagnosing SAD was assessed using Kappa coefficient. …”
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Trifluridine-tipiracil in previously treated patients with oestrogen receptor-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer (BOOG 2019-01 TIBET trial): a single-arm, multicentre... by Niels A.D. Guchelaar, Ron H.J. Mathijssen, Maaike de Boer, Marlies L. van Bekkum, Joan B. Heijns, Birgit E.P.J. Vriens, Mandy M. van Rosmalen, Lonneke W. Kessels, Lisanne Hamming, Karin J. Beelen, Peter Nieboer, Susan M. van den Berg, Esther Oomen-de Hoop, Rhodé M. Bijlsma, Monique E.M.M. Bos

“…Methods: Adult patients at least 18 years old diagnosed with hormone receptor positive, HER2− receptor negative MBC with a performance status of 0 or 1 who have been treated with capecitabine in the metastatic setting and up to two other lines of chemotherapy, including a taxane, were enrolled in this single-arm, multicentre, phase 2 study in the Netherlands. …”
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Barcelona scale for buccophonatory apraxia: Quantitative assessment tool by N. Montagut, S. Borrego-Écija, J. Herrero, A. Lladó, M. Balasa, E. Muñoz, F. Valldeoriola, R. Sánchez-Valle

“…The scale was administered to 64 participants with diagnoses of: nfvPPA, semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA), Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, as well as a group of healthy controls. …”
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Dynamic Challenges of Active Tuberculosis: Prevalence and Risk Factors of Co-Infection in Clinical and Microbiological Characteristics at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah... by Mokhtar JA, Attallah DM, Jiman-Fatani AA, Al-Rabia MW, Alqarni MA, Saleh BH, Amboon MM, Altorki TA, Alkuwaity KK, Abujamel T, Kaki R, Albarakati TN, Daghistani H, Ismail MA, Alharbi O, Abu ITM, Alfadil A, Ibrahem K, Mufrrih M, Sait AM

“…Patients undergoing hemodialysis, and those with respiratory comorbidities, cancer, diabetes, and smoking were found to have a higher mortality hazard, indicating these as significant risk factors for TB.Conclusion: This study highlights TB’s prevalence and drug resistance at KAUH, emphasizing high-risk groups, including males and young adults. …”
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Activités artisanales sur la rive droite de la Vesle à Reims/Durocortorum by Émilie Jouhet, Michaël Brunet, Pierre Mathelart, Véronique Matterne

“…Measuring nearly a meter in diameter, the walls of this building rest on hundreds of oak piles driven into the underlying clay sediments, belonging to an ancient branch of the river. …”
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ApoB100 remodeling and stiffened cholesteryl ester core raise LDL aggregation in familial hypercholesterolemia patients by Maria Teresa La Chica Lhoëst, Andrea Martínez, Eduardo Garcia, Jany Dandurand, Anna Polishchuk, Aleyda Benitez-Amaro, Ana Cenarro, Fernando Civeira, Amable Bernabé, David Vilades, Joan Carles Escolà-Gil, Valerie Samouillan, Vicenta Llorente-Cortes

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Application of cellular microstructural diffusion MRI (cell size imaging) in rectal lesions: a preliminary study by Peisi Kou, Liangjie Lin, Ying Li, Hui Qin, Kun Zhang, Wenhua Zhang, Juan Li, Yong Zhang, Jingliang Cheng

“…Parameters including mean cell diameter (dmean), intracellular fraction (vin), extracellular diffusivity (dex), cellularity, and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values (ADCPGSE, ADC17Hz, ADC33Hz, and ADC of conventional DWI) were measured in different histopathologic types, grades, stages, and structure invasion statuses. …”
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Les fours « à pain » dans les Gaules et les Germanies (ve s. av. J.-C.-ve s. apr. J.-C.), un regard technique by Nicolas Monteix, Camille Noûs

“…AD, furnaces larger than 2 m in diameter appeared, which would correspond to a diversification of production needs. …”
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凉山州14个核桃品种主要经济指标 及脂肪酸组成分析" "Analysis of main economic indexes and fatty acid composition of 14 walnut cultivars in Liangshan Prefecture"... by 金银春1，任波1，胡定林2，陈善波1，余凌帆1 JIN Yinchun1, REN Bo1, HU Dinglin2, CHEN Shanbo1, YU Lingfan1

“…There was a significant positive correlation between the mean value of three diameters and single fruit weight, a significant negative correlation between protein content and α-linolenic acid content, and a significant negative correlation between oleic acid content and linoleic acid content. …”
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Utilizing a Wireless Radar Framework in Combination With Deep Learning Approaches to Evaluate Obstructive Sleep Apnea Severity in Home-Setting Environments by Lee KT, Liu WT, Lin YC, Chen Z, Ho YH, Huang YW, Tsai ZL, Hsu CW, Yeh SM, Lin HY, Majumdar A, Chen YL, Kuan YC, Lee KY, Feng PH, Chen KY, Kang JH, Lee HC, Ho SC, Tsai CY

“…Kun-Ta Lee,1 Wen-Te Liu,2– 6 Yi-Chih Lin,3,7 Zhihe Chen,8 Yu-Hsuan Ho,9 Yu-Wen Huang,9 Zong-Lin Tsai,9 Chih-Wei Hsu,9 Shang-Min Yeh,9 Hsiao Yi Lin,9 Arnab Majumdar,8 Yen-Ling Chen,10 Yi-Chun Kuan,3,11– 13 Kang-Yun Lee,4,6 Po-Hao Feng,4,6 Kuan-Yuan Chen,4,6 Jiunn-Horng Kang,5,6,14– 16 Hsin-Chien Lee,17 Shu-Chuan Ho,2,6,* Cheng-Yu Tsai2– 6,16,18,* 1Respiratory Therapy Room, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan; 2School of Respiratory Therapy, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Sleep Center, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan; 4Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan; 5Research Center of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; 6Research Center of Thoracic Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; 7Department of Otolaryngology, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan; 8Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK; 9Advanced Technology Lab, Wistron Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan; 10Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan; 11Department of Neurology, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan; 12Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; 13Taipei Neuroscience Institute, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; 14Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; 15Graduate Institute of Nanomedicine and Medical Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; 16Professional Master Program in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; 17Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; 18School of Biomedical Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Cheng-Yu Tsai, School of Biomedical Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wuxing Street, Taipei, 11031, Taiwan, Tel +886-2-2736-1661, Fax +886-2-2739-1143, Email b117101018@tmu.edu.tw Shu-Chuan Ho, School of Respiratory Therapy, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wuxing Street, Taipei, 11031, Taiwan, Tel +886-2-2736-1661, Fax +886-2-2739-1143, Email shu-chuan@tmu.edu.twObjective: Common examinations for diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are polysomnography (PSG) and home sleep apnea testing (HSAT). …”
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Efficacy of Alginate-Antacid Medication in the Treatment of Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease by O. A. Storonova, A. S. Trukhmanov, V. T. Ivashkin

“…In general, during the 24-hour pH impedance monitoring, pathological acid, weakly acid and non acid GERs were diagnosed in 28 (77.8 %), 15 (41.7 %) and 9 (25 %) patients, respectively. …”
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Tobacco control environment: cross-sectional survey of policy implementation, social unacceptability, knowledge of tobacco health harms and relationship to quit ratio in 17 low-inc... by Annika Rosengren, Li Wei, Khalid Yusoff, Martin McKee, Clara K Chow, Rajeev Gupta, Koon Teo, Sumathy Rangarajan, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Rafael Diaz, Alvaro Avezum, Fernando Lanas, Noorhassim Ismail, Romaina Iqbal, Jephat Chifamba, Gilles Dagenais, Salim Yusuf, Anna B Gilmore, Scott Lear, Wang Yang, Omar Rahman, Katarzyna Zatonska, Prem Mony, Rajesh Kumar, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Daniel J Corsi, Ehimario Igumbor, V Mohan, Annamarie Kruger, Krishnapillai Vijayakumar, Yuksel Altuntas, Ahmad Bahonar

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Hubungan Penurunan Kadar Natrium Terhadap Gangguan Pola Tidur Pasca TURP (Transurethral Resection of The Prostate) by Khomeini Khomeini, Dody E Dody E, Erkadius Erkadius

“…This study is a cross sectional study, all patients with diagnose Benign Prostate Hypertrophi should be check sodium level and get questionnaire sleep patterns disturbances. …”
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Decorin, an exercise-induced secretory protein, is associated with improved prognosis in breast cancer patients but does not mediate anti-tumorigenic tissue crosstalk in mice by Marit Hjorth, Casey L. Egan, Guilherme D. Telles, Martin Pal, David Gallego-Ortega, Oliver K. Fuller, Emma D. McLennan, Ryan D. Gillis, Tae Gyu Oh, George E.O. Muscat, Surafel Tegegne, Michael S.M. Mah, Joanna Skhinas, Emma Estevez, Timothy E. Adams, Matthew J. McKay, Mark Molloy, Kevin I. Watt, Hongwei Qian, Paul Gregorevic, Thomas R. Cox, Pernille Hojman, Julie Midtgaard, Jesper F. Christensen, Martin Friedrichsen, Renato V. Iozzo, Erica K. Sloan, Brian G. Drew, Jørgen F.P. Wojtaszewski, Martin Whitham, Mark A. Febbraio

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Efficacy and safety of perioperative sintilimab plus platinum-based chemotherapy for potentially resectable stage IIIB non-small cell lung cancer (periSCOPE): an open-label, single... by Xiangyang Yu, Chujian Huang, Longde Du, Chunguang Wang, Yikun Yang, Xin Yu, Shengcheng Lin, Chenglin Yang, Hongbo Zhao, Songhua Cai, Zhe Wang, Lixu Wang, Xiaotong Guo, Baihua Zhang, Zhentao Yu, Jie He, Kai Ma

“…We designed this trial to explore the efficacy and safety of perioperative sintilimab plus platinum-based chemotherapy for potentially resectable stage IIIB NSCLC to facilitate further optimization of this therapeutic strategy. Methods: Patients diagnosed with stage IIIB NSCLC through invasive staging approaches and/or PET/CT scans and evaluated as having a high probability of radical resection of the primary lesion and metastatic lymph nodes with clear pathological margins by a multidisciplinary team were enrolled in this open-label, single-arm, phase II trial at a single centre in China. …”
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Ligadura de fugas venosas dorsales en pacientes con disfunción eréctil. Reporte de 50 pacientes con seguimiento a 6 meses by Juan F. Uribe-Arcila, John J. Zuleta-Tobón

“…Los resultados del SHIM pre- y posoperatorio se relacionaron con los diferentes grados de disfunción eréctil (grave, moderada y leve), y adicionalmente se dividieron en tres grupos según criterios definidos en exitoso, moderado y deficiente. El diagnóstico de fugas venosas se hizo mediante ecografía Doppler peneana con vasoactivo, registrando fugas venosas, grado de fibrosis peneana y presencia de glande blando. …”
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Serum NFL and neuropsychological performance over ∼8 years in women with and without HIV: a longitudinal repeated measures studyResearch in context by Deborah R. Gustafson, Xuantao Li, Alison E. Baird, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Jinbing Zhang, Amanda Blair Spence, Pauline Maki, Anjali Sharma, Kathleen Weber, Recai Yucel

“…The MWCCS is funded primarily by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), with additional co-funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), and in coordination and alignment with the research priorities of the National Institutes of Health, Office of AIDS Research (OAR). …”
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Nécropoles multipolaires et élaboration d’un nouveau modèle socio-politique au premier âge du Fer : réflexions à partir des sites du Camp de l’Église Sud à Flaujac-Poujols (Lot) et... by Antoine Dumas

“…In this particular sector, the anthropological data indicates that the dimensional variations of the stone circles (from 1 to 3 m in diameter) are related to variations in age of the deceased: the largest structures correspond to adult graves, while the smallest correspond to those of small children. …”
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Improved cardiac and venous pressures during hospital stay in patients with acute heart failure: an echocardiography and biomarkers study by Eiichi Akiyama, Raphaël Cinotti, Kamilė Čerlinskaitė, Lucas N.L. Van Aelst, Mattia Arrigo, Rui Placido, Tahar Chouihed, Nicolas Girerd, Faiez Zannad, Patrick Rossignol, Marc Badoz, Jean‐Marie Launay, Etienne Gayat, Alain Cohen‐Solal, Carolyn S.P. Lam, Jeffrey Testani, Wilfried Mullens, Gad Cotter, Marie‐France Seronde, Alexandre Mebazaa

“…In AHF patients, echocardiographic indices of cardiac and venous pressures, including inferior vena cava diameter [from 22 (16–24) mm to 13 (11–18) mm, P = 0.009], its respiratory variability [from 32 (8–44) % to 43 (29–70) %, P = 0.04], medial E/e' [from 21.1 (15.8–29.6) to 16.6 (11.7–24.3), P = 0.004], and E wave deceleration time [from 129 (105–156) ms to 166 (128–203) ms, P = 0.003], improved during hospitalization, similarly in HFPEF and HFREF patients. …”
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Effect of Sucrose Spray on some Phytochemical Characteristics of Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni) under Field Conditions by Vahid Akbarpour, Hossein Aruei, Kambiz Mashayekhi, Majid Azizi Arani, Mohammad Ali Bahmanyar

“…One of the features of this sweetener is that it is very useful for diabetics due to its lack of absorption in the digestive system. …”
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