Association between dietary components and gut microbiota: a Mendelian randomization study by CHEN Haimiao, MA Yan, LIU Mingqi, MA Shanshan, LI Jun, XU Laichao

“…Methods: Genome-wide association study (GWAS) data for dietary components were collected from the DietGen, while GWAS data for gut microbiota were collected from the MiBioGen. …”
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Prevalence of malocclusion and orthodontic treatment need in a sample of 12-15-year-old kurdish schoolchildren in Ranyia district by Zana Qadir Omer, Hashem Omer Karim

“…The Dental Health Component (DHC) and the Aesthetic Component (AC) of the Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need (IOTN) were used to analyse the relationship of malocclusion with gender and age.The data were recorded in questionnaires. Results: Statistical analysis revealed that 47.1 % of children do not need orthodontic treatment while 52.7% of them have malocclusion with varying treatment needs. …”
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Improving patient safety through better teamwork: how effective are different methods of simulation debriefing? Protocol for a pragmatic, prospective and randomised study by Wolf E Hautz, Juliane E Kämmer, Julia Freytag, Fabian Stroben, Dorothea Eisenmann

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Health-related quality of life after prosthodontic rehabilitation in patients with COVID-19-associated mucormycosis: A systematic review by Gunjan Chouksey, Rupali Choure, Kritika Singhal

“…This systematic review aimed to evaluate the impact of prosthodontic rehabilitation on the HRQOL of individuals affected by COVID-19-associated mucormycosis. …”
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Psychological Status and Related Factors in Medical Isolated Persons during Outbreak of COVID-19 by Qin WANG, LI Li, Xia ZHOU, Zhimei LIU, Bingshan GUO, Renqi DONG

“…Objective:To evaluate the mental health status of the residents in the epidemic area of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and analyze its influencing factors, so as to provide evidence for psychological intervention timely for the quarantine population in special period.Methods:A total of 130 residents in COVID-19 epidemic area of Jinan were collected with general data and their anxiety/depression state was assessed through an online questionnaire from February 9th to 11th,2020. …”
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Metabolic syndrome index measurement tool (MSI): scale development, reliability and validity study by Zahide Akeren, Emine Apaydın

“…The data obtained were evaluated using SPSS 22.0 and MedCalc 19.1 statistical programmes. …”
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Logistic Regression Model in a Machine Learning Application to Predict Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipients with Worse Renal Function One Year after Kidney Transplant: Elderly KTbo... by Ubiracé Fernando Elihimas Júnior, Jamila Pinho Couto, Wallace Pereira, Michel Pompeu Barros de Oliveira Sá, Eduardo Eriko Tenório de França, Filipe Carrilho Aguiar, Diogo Buarque Cordeiro Cabral, Saulo Barbosa Vasconcelos Alencar, Saulo José da Costa Feitosa, Thais Oliveira Claizoni dos Santos, Helen Conceição dos Santos Elihimas, Emilly Pereira Alves, Marcio José de Carvalho Lima, Frederico Castelo Branco Cavalcanti, Paulo Adriano Schwingel

“…Pretransplant immune variables were similar between two groups. No significant differences (P>0.05) between groups were observed after KT on laboratory data means and for the prevalences of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, acute rejection, cytomegalovirus, polyomavirus, and urinary infections. …”
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Bibliometric Review on Corporate Social Responsibility of the Food Industry by Mingli He, Weiping Yu, Xiaoyun Han

“…The main findings of the research are as follows: (1) The overall development status of the research in the field. The analysis of the three fields that constitute the knowledge structure. (2) Research in this field has become a hot spot, but the research is rather scattered, and the scholars and experts do not have a special research core. (3) The keywords’ cluster results in 9 clustering tags, which are further grouped into 7 groups. …”
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Diversity Assessment of Some Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Genotypes Cultivated in Northern Ghana Using Morphological and Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) Markers by Raphael Adu-Gyamfi, Ruth Prempeh, Issahaku Zakaria

“…Data collected were subjected to Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and a dendrogram showing similarity between the accessions were drawn. …”
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Association of exposure to second-hand smoke during childhood with blood DNA methylation by Marta Cosin-Tomas, Thanh Hoang, Cancan Qi, Giulietta S. Monasso, Ryan Langdon, Simon Kebede Merid, Lucinda Calas, Paula de Prado-Bert, Rebecca Richmond, Vincent VW Jaddoe, Liesbeth Duijts, John Wright, Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Regina Grazuleviciene, Marianna Karachaliou, Gerard H. Koppelman, Erik Melén, Olena Gruzieva, Martine Vrijheid, Paul Yousefi, Janine F. Felix, Stephanie J. London, Mariona Bustamante

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Life cycle assessment and life cycle cost of tofu production and its extended recycling scenario by S. Hartini, A.N. Fatliana, N.U. Handayani, P.A. Wicaksono, B.S. Ramadan, T. Matsumoto

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Identification of WDR74 and TNFRSF12A as biomarkers for early osteoarthritis using machine learning and immunohistochemistry by Yiwei Chen, Yiwei Chen, Jiali Lin, Detong Shi, Yu Miao, Yu Miao, Feng Xue, Feng Xue, Kexin Liu, Kexin Liu, Xiaotao Wang, Changqing Zhang, Changqing Zhang

“…URGs were retrieved from GeneCards, and ubiquitination scores were calculated using the AUCell package. Gene module analysis based on co-expression network analysis was conducted to identify core genes. …”
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Carbon balance dynamic evolution and simulation coupling economic development and ecological protection: a case study of Jiangxi Province at county scale from 2000–2030 by Yuliang Deng, Min Huang, Daohong Gong, Yong Ge, Hui Lin, Daoye Zhu, Yong Chen, Orhan Altan

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Life cycle assessment of agricultural waste recycling for sustainable environmental impact by S. Sumiyati, B.P. Samadikun, A. Widiyanti, M.A. Budihardjo, S. Al Qadar, A.S. Puspita

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Early-life famine exposure and subsequent risk of chronic diseases in later adulthood: a population-based retrospective cohort study by Rui Zhao, Qi Zheng, Le-qin Chen

“…However, it remains unclear whether this association also increases the risk of multimorbidity in later adulthood.ObjectivesThis study aimed to systematically evaluate the association between early-life famine exposure and the subsequent development of 14 chronic diseases, as well as multimorbidity, and whether there exists a discrepancy in gender, residence, and famine severity.MethodsData are from the 2018 Wave 4 CHARLS database, a national survey covering 19,816 participants aged 45 years or older. …”
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Thyroid cancer survival and prognostic factors in Yantai, China (2012–2022): a population-based study by Haiyun Liu, Shuxia Zhang, Xiaohui Liu, Qianqian Wang, Hongjie Zhang, Weihong Cui

“…Moreover, the Asian population consists of different ethnic groups that are not homogeneous. This study aimed to perform a population-based analysis of survival outcomes and prognostic factors in thyroid cancer patients. …”
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Predictive Modeling of Volume and Biomass in Pinus pseudostrobus Using Machine Learning and Allometric Approaches by Pablo Antúnez, Christian Wehenkel, Erickson Basave-Villalobos, Celi Gloria Calixto-Valencia, César Valenzuela-Encinas, Faustino Ruiz-Aquino, David Sarmiento-Bustos

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Characterization of Anthocyanins Including Acetylated Glycosides from Highbush Blueberry (<i>Vaccinium corymbosum</i> L.) Cultivated in Korea Based on UPLC-DAD-QToF/MS and UPLC-Qtr... by Ju Hyung Kim, Ryeong Ha Kwon, So Ah Kim, Hyemin Na, Jeong-Yong Cho, Heon-Woong Kim

“…These comprehensive anthocyanin profiles of Korean blueberries will serve as fundamental data for breeding superior cultivars, evaluating and developing related products as well as clinical and metabolomic research.…”
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Effects of acupuncture-related intervention on chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy and quality of life: An umbrella review by Mei-Ling Yeh, Chin-Che Hsu, Matthew Lin, Chuan-Ju Lin, Jaung-Geng Lin

“…Results: The outcomes were evaluated using data obtained from 14 SRs that demonstrated moderate to high methodological and reporting quality. …”
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Development and validation of a risk assessment tool for uncontrolled type 2 diabetes among patients in South Karnataka, India by Deepak Anil, Sunil Kumar Doddaiah, Rajendra Prasad Shivaswamy, Arun Gopi, Sayana Basheer, Mysore Ramakrishnaiah Narayana Murthy

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