South to south collaboration: advancing quality of abortion care through health care professionals exchange program by Abraham Fessehaye Sium, Wondimu Gudu, Abrham Getachew, Diomede Ntasumbumuyange, Polyphile Nithinyurwa, Tamrat Endale Woldemichael, Delayehu Bekele

“…Among them, 35 (63.6%) were from Rwanda, 20 (36.4%) were from Ethiopia, 23.6% were females, 80.0% were residents and 16.4% were midwives. …”
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Effects of Yanghe Decoction on IL-1 and TNF-α of Papain in Rabbit Knee Osteoarthritis by Zhenqiang HONG, Hongjian GAO, Junjun HE, Zeling HUANG

“…Objective:To observe the effect of Yanghe decoction on interleukin 1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) in rabbit knee osteoarthritis model, and to explore the mechanism of Yanghe decoction in the prevention and treatment of osteoarthritis.Methods:The 32 healthy New Zealand rabbits aged 4-6 months, half male and female, body weight (2.25±0.25) kg, were randomly divided into the control group, the model group, the Yanghe decoction group and the Jingu Tongxiao pill group according to the method of random number table, with 8 cases in each group. …”
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Skeletal Status, Body Composition, and Glycaemic Control in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Elzbieta Wierzbicka, Anna Swiercz, Pawel Pludowski, Maciej Jaworski, Mieczyslaw Szalecki

“…Skeletal status and body composition were evaluated in 60 adolescents with T1DM (53.3% female; mean aged: 15.1 ± 1.9 years; disease duration: 5.1 ± 3.9 years) using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (GE Prodigy). …”
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Male sex ratio of red tilapia Oreochromis sp. after soaking in different concentrations of coconut milk at larvae stadia by Fajar Maulana, Agus Oman Sudrajat, Andre Permana, Lina Mulyani, Harton Arfah

“…Male tilapia has a faster growth rate than female tilapia. Masculinization can be carried out to produce monosexual tilapia seeds to accelerate fish growth. …”
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CMV Pancreatitis in an Immunocompromised Patient by Jaffer Ahmad, Najia Sayedy, Raghavendra Sanivarapu, Jagadish Akella, Javed Iqbal

“…A 45-year-old Hispanic female with no past medical history presented to the emergency department (ED) for three days of abdominal pain associated with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. …”
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Outcomes of Open Reduction and Modified McLaughlin’s Procedure in Neglected Posterior Shoulder Dislocation by Vikas, Jatin Prakash, Karan Maggo, Jujhar Singh, Ankesh Jain, Naval Bhatia

“…Results: The study included 13 patients (4 females, 9 males) with a mean age of 40.69 years and a mean delay of 8.5 weeks from injury to diagnosis. …”
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baran Luka Korban Kecelakaan Lalu Lintas yang Dilakukan Pemeriksaan di RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Isnu Lucky Riandini, Rika Susanti, Amel Yanis

“…Male victims were larger than female victim,. The largest age group were found 19 – 35 years old. …”
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Admission Blood Glucose Level with a Cutoff Value of 15 mmol/L Is a Reliable Predictor of Mortality in Polytraumatized Patients—a Prospective, Observational, Longitudina... by Armanious TR, Khalifa AA, Abubeih H, Badran M, Adam FF, Farouk O

“…Patients were divided into five groups based on the admission blood glucose levels.Results: We included 202 patients, having a mean age of 44± 13.9 (20 to 70) years, and 52% were females. The mortality rate was 10.9% (including all patients presented with blood glucose levels≥ 15 mmol/L). …”
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Relationship between alcohol use and overactive bladder disease: a cross-sectional study of the NHANES 2005–2016 by Yixin Zhang, Weijun Qin

“…A greater proportion of nondrinkers, a higher proportion of females, higher blood pressure, older age, and lower income levels were observed in OAB patients compared to non-OAB patients. …”
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Risk factors for gastric cancer and related serological levels in Fujian, China: hospital-based case–control study by Lin Cai, Wen Wang, Ping Yuan, Lan Lin, Kuicheng Zheng, Sihan Wu, Liangxiang Huang, Bingshan Wu, Tiehui Chen, Xiaoqing Li

“…Objective To explore the relationships between gastric cancer and serum pepsinogen I (PG I), PG II, PG I/II ratio, gastrin 17 (G-17) and Helicobacter pylori infection, and to investigate dietary and lifestyle risk factors for gastric cancer in Fujian Province, China.Design A hospital-based, 1:1 matched case–control study.Setting Patients with newly diagnosed gastric cancer were recruited from the Fujian Provincial Hospital and the No. 900 Hospital of the Joint Support Force of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army between July 2014 and December 2016.Participants A total of 180 pairs of patients with gastric cancer and control subjects were recruited in the study, including 134 (74.4%) male pairs and 46 (25.6%) female pairs.Investigation and analysis measures Serological indicators were tested with ELISA kits. …”
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Enhancing reproductive capacity in hybrid Red Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus ×‎ O. mossambicus) via dietary administration of date palm pollen (Phoenix dactylifera L.)‎ by Nashi K. Alqahtani, Hesham S. Ghazzawy, Roshmon Thomas Mathew, Yousef‎ Ahmed Alkhamis, Rashid Saleh Alngada, Moaheda E.H. Eissa, Sameh A. Abdelnour, Sara F. Ghanem, Layla A. Almutairi, El-Sayed Hemdan Eissa

“…Red Tilapia broodstock (150 ± 5.77 g), with a female: male ratio of 3:1, were fed an isonitrogenous and isocaloric basal diet (DPP0) or diets supplemented with 10 g (DPP10), 20 g (DPP20), and 40 g (DPP40) of DPP per kilogram of diet for a period of two months. …”
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A Muscle Physiology-Based Framework for Quantifying Training Load in Resistance Exercises by Frank Imbach, Stéphane Perrey, Thomas Brioche, Robin Candau

“…Methods: Following individual torque–velocity profiling, fifteen participants (11 healthy males, stature: 178.36 ± 3.95 cm, and body mass (BM): 77.48 ± 7.74 kg; 4 healthy females, stature: 169.25 ± 5.03 cm, and body mass: 60.62 ± 3.91 kg) performed isokinetic leg extension exercise sessions at low, moderate, and high intensities (LI, MI, and HI, respectively). …”
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Efficacy of Unsupervised YouTube Dance Exercise for Patients With Hypertension: Randomized Controlled Trial by Mizuki Sakairi, Taiju Miyagami, Hiroki Tabata, Naotake Yanagisawa, Mizue Saita, Mai Suzuki, Kazutoshi Fujibayashi, Hiroshi Fukuda, Toshio Naito

“…The mean age was 56 (SD 9.8) years, and 18 (53%) of the patients were female. The mean BMI was 28.0 (SD 6.3) m/kg2, and systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) were 139.5 (SD 17.1) mm Hg and 85.8 (SD 9.1) mm Hg, respectively. …”
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Associations of meteorological factors and ambient air pollutants with mumps incidence in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region: boosted regression tree model analysis by Xianglong LIU, Linlin CHEN, Jiayu YU, Rui GONG, Yaogeng CHEN, Yu ZHAO

“…ResultsA total of 6 660 new cases of mumps were reported in the region during the period, including 3 936 males (59.1%) and 2 724 females (40.9%); 2 230 (33.5%) were aged less than 4 years, 3 537 (53.1%) were aged 4 – 15 years and 893 (13.4%) were aged > 15 years. …”
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The Effect of Laboratory Parameters on the Hospital Stay and Mortality in Pediatric Patients Who Underwent Lobectomy and Pneumonectomy by Ahmet Ulusan, Hilal Zehra Kumbasar Danaci, Bekir Elma, Maruf Sanli, Ahmet Feridun Isik

“…The gender distribution of the patients in the study group was determined as 36 male patients (61%) and 23 female patients (39%). Lobectomy was the most commonly performed surgical procedure, accounting for 83% of cases, while pneumonectomy was applied in 17% of cases. …”
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Genetic inbreeding load and its individual prediction for milk yield in French dairy sheep by Simona Antonios, Silvia T. Rodríguez-Ramilo, Andres Legarra, Jean-Michel Astruc, Luis Varona, Zulma G. Vitezica

“…Inbreeding load estimations involved 658,731, 541,180 and 2,168,454 records of yearly milk yield from 178,123, 151,863 and 596,586 females in Basco-Béarnaise, Manech Tête Noire and Manech Tête Rousse, respectively. …”
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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

“…Multivariate analysis showed that age group (≥ 65 years: HR = 1.727), tumor site (location in the isthmus: HR = 3.117), tumor size (> 3 cm: HR = 3.170), cervival lymph node metastasis (HR = 1.876), TgAb levels (115 − 500 IU/ml: HR = 7.103; > 500 IU/ml: HR = 13.554), pathological types (MTC: HR = 2.060; ATC: HR = 10.747), clinical stages (stage II: HR = 2.224; stage III: HR = 3.361; stage IV: HR = 3.494), treatment timing (> 3 months: HR = 2.594), diagnosis period (2017 − 2022: HR = 0.633) and gender (female: HR = 0.711) were found to be associated with the risk of death; after stratified adjustment, significant differences in prognostic factors were identified among thyroid cancer patients with varying pathological types. …”
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Platelet-rich plasma combined with gypenosides for the treatment of psoriasis-like inflammation in mice by LI Dandan, WANG Bing, GE Yu, CHENG Hong, LI Mengxue, WANG Zhicheng, XIA Rong

“…[Methods] The 6-8 week-old female SPF BALB/c mice were randomly divided into five groups: control, model, PRP, GPs and PRP+GPs group, with 5 mice in each group. …”
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Regionalismo critico nell'Africa Subsahariana. Un nuovo modus operandi per comprendere attraverso la modernità il valore della città e della sua storia by Sara Coscarelli Comas

“…Tuttavia, questa modernità non può fermare la permanenza della tradizione locale poiché significherebbe far scomparire le identità. …”
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Comparison of the Impact of tNGS with mNGS on Antimicrobial Management in Patients with LRTIs: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study by Li D, Li Q, Huang Z, Wu W, Fan X, Liu J, Li R, Zhang Q, Su X

“…Dan Li,1– 3,* Qingling Li,4,* Zhen Huang,2 Wenhao Wu,2 Xinyuan Fan,2 Jing Liu,2 Ruoran Li,2 Qi Zhang,2 Xin Su1 1Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210000, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221000, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210002, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Xuzhou First People’s Hospital, The Affiliated Xuzhou Municipal Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221000, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Xin Su, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210000, People’s Republic of China, Email suxinjs@163.com Qi Zhang, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221000, People’s Republic of China, Email zhangqi1107@126.comBackground: tNGS and mNGS are valuable tools for diagnosing pathogens in lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs), which subsequently influence treatment strategies. …”
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