Genotype Distribution of CNDP1 Polymorphisms in the Healthy Chinese Han Population: Association with HbA1c and Fasting Blood Glucose by Shiqi Zhang, Juan Xu, Di Cui, Shujuan Jiang, Xin Xu, Yi Zhang, Dongchun Zhu, Li Xia, Benito Yard, Yonggui Wu, Qiu Zhang

“…In contrast, individuals with the TT genotype of rs62099905 presented lower fasting blood glucose but higher HbA1c levels. …”
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Blood Pressure in relation to 24-Hour Urinary Sodium and Potassium Excretion in a Uruguayan Population Sample by Paula Moliterno, Ramón Álvarez-Vaz, Matias Pécora, Leonella Luzardo, Luciana Borgarello, Alicia Olascoaga, Carmen Marino, Oscar Noboa, Jan A. Staessen, José Boggia

“…Participants in cluster three had systolic blood pressure values that were 23.9 mmHg (95% confidence interval: −29.5 to −1.84) lower than those in cluster one. Participants in cluster two had blood pressure levels similar to those in cluster one (P = 0.32) and worse metabolic profiles than those in cluster one and three (P < 0.05). …”
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Short-term impact of low air pressure on plants' functional traits. by Silvia Lembo, Georg Niedrist, Bouchra El Omari, Paul Illmer, Nadine Praeg, Andreas Meul, Matteo Dainese

“…Lower atmospheric pressure affects biologically relevant physical parameters such as gas partial pressure and concentration, leading to increased water vapor diffusivity and greater soil water content loss through evapotranspiration. …”
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Diverse Leadership and Firm Success: The Role of Top Management Socialisation

“…Following an initial assessment of the dataset, we excluded 153 companies with fewer than three members on the board of directors or a cultural diversity score of zero and a further 66 that reported a return on assets below our lower limit. A regression analysis was then conducted on the remaining 442 companies via performance data from the OSIRIS global database. …”
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Uptake and safety of Sotrovimab for prevention of severe COVID-19 in a cohort and self-controlled case series study by Martina Patone, Andrew JHL Snelling, Holly Tibble, Carol Coupland, Aziz Sheikh, Julia Hippisley-Cox

“…There are marked variations in uptake between ethnic groups, which is higher amongst individuals categorised ethnically as Indian (15.0%; 95%CI 13.8, 16.3), Other Asian (13.7%; 95%CI 11.9, 15.8), white (13.4%; 95%CI 13.3, 13.6), and Bangladeshi (11.4%; 95%CI 8.8, 14.6); and lower amongst Black Caribbean individuals (6.4%; 95%CI 5.4, 7.5) and Black Africans (4.7%; 95%CI 4.1, 5.4). …”
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Eales&rsquo; Disease in Inuit: A Short Report and Clinical Update by Forshaw TRJ, Moldow B

“…Telemedical assessment was suspicious for vitritis or vitreous hemorrhage in the right eye, and the patient was flown from Greenland to Denmark, where examination revealed mild vitritis in the right eye, vitreous hemorrhage in the left eye and retinal neovascularization in both eyes. …”
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Association of iron status indicators with thyroid hormone concentrations during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mohammadamin Parsaei, Mohadese Dashtkoohi, Elahe Amirkhalili, Mohammadreza Chashmyazdan, Tim I. M. Korevaar, Tim I. M. Korevaar, Pantea Nazeri

“…However, regarding hemoglobin levels, iron deficiency was associated with higher thyroid-stimulating hormone (2.31 mIU/L vs. 1.75 mIU/L) and lower free T4 (10.7 pmol/L vs. 13.3 pmol/L), but not total T4. …”
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Lidar estimates of birch pollen number, mass, and CCN-related concentrations by M. Filioglou, P. Tiitta, P. Tiitta, X. Shang, A. Leskinen, P. Ahola, S. Pätsi, A. Saarto, V. Vakkari, V. Vakkari, U. Isopahkala, M. Komppula

“…Better linear agreement to the in situ observations was found at the longer wavelength of 910 nm, which is attributed to a combination of lower overlap and higher sensitivity to bigger particles compared to observations at 532 nm. …”
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Surgical treatment of anomalous aortic origin of the coronary artery in paediatric patients: a Chinese single-center experience by Kai Luo, Bin Ji, Qi-Liang Zhang, Xiao-Yang Zhang, Yan-Jun Pan, Zhong-Qun Zhu, Qiang Chen, Xiao-Min He, Jing-Hao Zheng

“…A comparison of clinical data between ALCA and ARCA patients revealed that the preoperative left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in ALCA patients was significantly lower than that in ARCA patients (p < 0.05). There were significantly more patients with preoperative complications, such as major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) and mitral regurgitation (MR), in the ALCA group than in the ARCA group (p < 0.05). …”
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Acylated Ghrelin Renders Chemosensitive Ovarian Cancer Cells Resistant to Cisplatin Chemotherapy via Activation of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR Survival Pathway by Attalla Farag El-kott, Ali A. Shati, Mohammed Ali Al-kahtani, Sultan Alqahtani

“…Concomitantly, in both control and Cis-treated cells, AG significantly lowered the protein levels of p53, p-p53 (Ser16), PUMA, cytochrome C, and cleaved caspase-3. …”
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Heterogeneous association of health with patient and general practice characteristics by region, age and chronic condition: pooled cross-sectional study of patient-level data from... by Hugh Gravelle, Yan Feng, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev

“…Objectives To investigate the association of individual patient health with their characteristics, including income deprivation, ethnicity and gender, with the size, quality and staffing of their general practices, and how these associations and income-related health inequality vary across chronic conditions, regions and age bands.Design Using observational pooled cross-sectional individual patient survey data linked with data on general practice clinical quality and staffing and deprivation at Lower-Layer Super Output Area level. Ordinary least-squares multiple regression models of patient health estimated on the full sample and on eight condition-specific, nine region-specific and six age-specific subsamples. …”
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Analysis of Ocular Injury Characteristics in Survivors of the 8.12 Tianjin Port Explosion, China by Hao Jiang, Chao Xue, Yanlin Gao, Yan Wang

“…In 5 eyes with RAPD, 3 had a final VA of NLP and a final outcome of enucleation. Eyes with lower OTSs generally had poorer outcomes. All eyes with a final VA of NLP and an enucleation outcome had Zone III injuries. …”
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Obesity phenotypes and dyslipidemia in adults from four African countries: An H3Africa AWI-Gen study. by Engelbert A Nonterah, Godfred Agongo, Nigel J Crowther, Shukri F Mohamed, Lisa K Micklesfield, Palwendé Romuald Boua, Alisha N Wade, Solomon S R Choma, Hermann Sorgho, Isaac Kissiangani, Gershim Asiki, Patrick Ansah, Abraham R Oduro, Shane A Norris, Stephen M Tollman, Frederick J Raal, Marianne Alberts, Michele Ramsay, as members of AWI-Gen and the H3Africa Consortium

“…Men had higher LDL-C (19% vs 8%) and lower HDL-C (35% vs 24%) while women had higher total cholesterol (15% vs 19%), triglycerides (9% vs 10%) and non-HDL-cholesterol (20% vs 26%). …”
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Effect of older age and/or ACL injury on the dose–response relationship between ambulatory load magnitude and immediate load-induced change in serum cartilage oligomeric matrix pro... by Simon Herger, Corina Nüesch, Anna-Maria Liphardt, Christian Egloff, Annegret Mündermann

“…Also, ∆_sCOMP(tpost) was 19% lower in older than younger participants (p = 0.030) and increased with body mass index (p < 0.001), sCOMP(tpre) (p = 0.008), and with 120%BW (p < 0.001), independent of age, ACL injury, or sex. …”
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The Association between Antihypertensive Medication Use and Blood Pressure Is Influenced by Obesity by Jash S. Parikh, Arshdeep K. Randhawa, Sean Wharton, Heather Edgell, Jennifer L. Kuk

“…In general, users of antihypertensive medications had lower BP than those not taking BP medications (NoBPMed) (P<0.05), whereby in women, the differences in systolic BP between angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) users and NoBPMed were greater in those with obesity (ACE inhibitors: −14 ± 1 mmHg; ARB: −16 ± 1 mmHg) compared to normal weight individuals (ACE inhibitors: −9 ± 1 mmHg; ARB: −11 ± 1 mmHg) (P<0.05). …”
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Language function improvement and cortical activity alteration using scalp acupuncture coupled with speech-language training in post-stroke aphasia: A randomised controlled study by Bingbing Lin, Jinglei Ni, Xiao Xiong, Lanlan Zhang, Jian Song, Mengxue Wang, Linsong Chai, Yunshi Huang, Jia Huang

“…Among non-global aphasia patients, acupuncture improved comprehension and naming tasks, with lower OxyHb in the right visual association cortex and angular gyrus (P < 0.05). …”
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Between-strain differences in hypothermic response in mice after intranasal administration of PtO nanoparticles by D. V. Petrovskii, A. V. Romashchenko, S. Yu. Troitskii, M. P. Moshkin

“…Thus, tbody was signi­ficantly lower after nasal administration the PtO nano­particles than after administration of the K2[PtCl 4] solution. …”
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Evaluation of the Flexural Performance and CO2 Emissions of the Voided Slab by Seungho Cho, Seunguk Na

“…However, concrete has been pointed out that it consumes a large volume of energy and emits a lot of carbon dioxide during its manufacturing. In order to lower such environmental burdens of concrete structures, a number of studies and approaches have been carried out. …”
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Limb-belt resisted sprint training improves physical fitness and ball-throw velocity in pubertal handball players by Emna Makni, Firas Zghal, Raouf Hammami, Mohamed Abdelkader, Raghad Tarwneh, Mohamed Elloumi

“…The study assessed the effect of six weeks of biweekly upper and lower limbs’ weighted-belt resisted sprint training (BRST) and weighted-vest resisted sprint training (VRST), or normal sprint training (NST) on muscle strength, speed, change of direction and handball-throwing velocity in young handball players. …”
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Nurse worry as a trigger for rapid response team activation improving outcomes: a retrospective cohort study in non-critical units by Luana L.S. Gentil, Milena S. Nascimento, Michele Jaures, Leonardo P. de Carvalho, Claudia R. Laselva, Simone Brandi

“…The group with nurse concern showed a lower need for transfers to the ICU (40%) compared to the group with changes in vital signs (50%) p < 0.001 although there was no difference in relation to the need for medical procedures,17% in both groups. …”
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