Public knowledge, attitudes, practices, and barriers to skin cancer screening in the United Arab Emirates. by Anan S Jarab, Walid Al-Qerem, Karem H Alzoubi, Mariam Al Mohammad, Shrouq R Abu Heshmeh, Yazid N Al Hamarneh, Tareq Mukattash, Maher Khdour

“…Older age (OR = 0.985, 95%CI: 0.971-0.998) and lack of health insurance (OR = 0.478, 95%CI: 0.301-0.758) were associated with lower screening practices. Female gender (OR = 1.833, 95%CI: 1.361-2.469), being married (OR = 1.415, 95%CI: 1.006-1.992), being a non-smoker (OR = 1.568, 95%CI: 1.045-2.352) or a former smoker (OR = 2.555, 95% CI: 1.082-6.034), and more favourable attitudes (OR = 1.071, 95%CI: 1.044-1.096) were associated with higher screening practices.…”
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Evaluating Ultrafine Particles and PM2.5 in Microenvironments with Health Perspectives: Variability in Concentrations and Pollutant Interrelationships by Sheng Xiang, Shaojun Zhang, Yu Ting Yu, Hui Wang, Ye Deng, Qinwen Tan, Zihang Zhou, Ye Wu

“…Here, the R2 showed a comparable seasonal trend (winter lower than autumn) and similar magnitude as the literature, but no strong correlation (R2 < 0.15) was found. …”
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Hindguts of Kyphosus sydneyanus harbor phylogenetically and genomically distinct Alistipes capable of degrading algal polysaccharides and diazotrophy by Cesar T. Facimoto, Kendall D. Clements, W. Lindsey White, Kim M. Handley

“…Ruminant- and fish-derived Alistipes had significantly smaller genomes than human-derived strains, and lower GC contents, possibly reflecting a symbiotic relationship with their hosts. …”
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Effect of Melatonin as an Antioxidant Drug to Reverse Hepatic Steatosis: Experimental Model by Blanca Martínez Soriano, Antonio Güemes, Guillermo Pola, Azucena Gonzalo, Pilar Palacios Gasós, Ana C. Navarro, Roberto Martínez-Beamonte, Jesús Osada, José J. García

“…As for lipid metabolism, animals that maintain the steatotic diet and take melatonin lower total and LDL cholesterol levels and increase HDL levels, although these results do not acquire statistical significance. …”
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The Effects of Concentrate Supplement Levels on Feed Utilization and Red Meat Production of Blackhead Somali Sheep Fed Natural Pasture Grass Hay as a Basal Diet by Shashie Ayele Yimenu, Mengistu Urge Letta

“…On the other hand, the lean‐to‐fat ratio was significantly lower in sheep fed T2 than T1. In most parameters considered in this study, sheep fed T2 (1.75% BW) were superior, but its intramuscular fat (IMF) content was much higher than the limit that the consumers needed. …”
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Corneal Topographic Changes Due to Pediatric Epiblepharon Surgery by Shindo J, Matsumura N, Nakamura J, Asano M, Ohno T, Mizuki N

“…Jun Shindo,1,2 Nozomi Matsumura,1 Jutaro Nakamura,2 Mizuki Asano,1 Tomoko Ohno,1 Nobuhisa Mizuki2 1Department of Ophthalmology, Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 232-8555, Japan; 2Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 236-0004, JapanCorrespondence: Jun Shindo, Department of Ophthalmology, Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center, Mutsukawa, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 232-8555, Japan, Tel +81 45 711 2351, Fax +81 45 721 3324, Email junjunon.nike.6228@gmail.comPurpose: This study aimed to investigate changes in corneal morphology following pediatric lower-lid epiblepharon surgery using a topographic modeling system 5 (TMS-5®).Patients and Methods: A randomized controlled trial compared two surgical interventions for pediatric epiblepharon: incisional (modified Hotz procedure with lid margin splitting) and nonincisional. …”
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Parasitological and clinical correlates of Plasmodium–Schistosoma mansoni co-infection and its determinants among Plasmodium-infected patients in the Wolaita Zone, South Ethiopia r... by Kemal Mohamed, Tariku Belay, Ahmed Zeynudin

“…Hemoglobin and hematocrit were significantly lower among co-infected individuals. On multivariate analysis, being male (AOR=3.03, CI: 1.56-5.91,p=0.001), being in the 6-15 years age group (AOR = 5.85, CI: 2.45–13.93,p=0.00), the presence of stream (AOR = 4.1, CI: 1.65–10.15,p=0.002), having a water body distance of less than 1,000 m (AOR=2.33, CI: 1.23–4.41,p=0.009), and presence of irrigation practice (AOR= 3.24, CI: 1.69–6.18,p=0.00) were found to be significant risk factors of co-infection.ConclusionMalaria attack and level of parasitemia were associated with the intensity of concurrent Schistosoma mansoni infection. …”
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The miR-1269a/PCDHGA9/CXCR4/β-catenin pathway promotes colorectal cancer invasion and metastasis by Haitao Mei, Qingshan Luo, Junyong Weng, Jialing Hao, Jinfeng Cai, Runkai Zhou, Ce Bian, Yingzi Ye, Shengzheng Luo, Yugang Wen

“…Results The expression of PCDHGA9 was found to be lower in CRC tissues compared with their corresponding adjacent tissues. …”
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Sex-related functional outcome after periacetabular osteotomy in mild to severe hip dysplasia by Maximilian Fischer, Lars Nonnenmacher, Andre Hofer, Alexander Zimmerer, Andreas Nitsch, Rico Großjohann, Sabrina Erdmann, Georgi I. Wassilew

“…Female patients had significantly lower preoperative PROMs: mHHS (47 vs 57.4; p = 0.002); HOOS pain (44.9 vs 60; p = 0.003), sport (47 vs 57.4; p = 0.002), ADL (58.9 vs 69.3; p = 0.032), and QoL (26.8 vs 39.3; p = 0.009); and UCLA (5.6 vs 6.7, p = 0.042) scores. …”
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Hypertension moderates the relationship between plasma beta-amyloid and cognitive impairment: a cross-sectional study in Xi’an, China by Ziyu Liu, Yaoli He, Simeng Cui, Liangjun Dang, Binyan Zhang, Jin Wang, Wenhui Lu, Kang Huo, Yu Jiang, Chen Chen, Ling Gao, Shan Wei, Yi Zhao, Ningwei Hu, Jingyi Wang, Hong Lv, Hong Lv, Qiumin Qu, Qiumin Qu, Suhang Shang

“…CI was defined as a Mini-Mental State Examination score lower than the cutoff. Firstly, plasma Aβ40, Aβ42, Aβ42/Aβ40 were analyzed as restricted cubic spline. …”
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Validation of the Polish version of the Functional Oral Intake Scale against flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing and the International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initi... by Magdalena Milewska, Barbara Jamroz, Mariusz Panczyk, Joanna Chmielewska-Walczak, Tomasz Czernicki, Marta Dabrowska-Bender, Marcin Folwarski, Marcin Folwarski, Dorota Szostak-Wegierek

“…Significant differences in FOIS-PL scores were evident across patient subgroups stratified by PAS severity (PAS ≤ 2, PAS 3–5, PAS &gt; 5) and IDDSI levels. Lower FOIS-PL scores corresponded with more impaired swallowing safety (PAS &gt; 5). …”
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Associations between Children’s Exposure to PM2.5 and their Serum Inflammatory Responses in Taiwan by Wei-Jung Tseng, Jian-He Lu, How-Ran Chao, Ming-Hsien Tsai, Yu-Ting Chang, Liang-Jen Wang, Chih-Cheng Chen, Wan-Nurdiyana-Wan Mansor, Juliana Jalaludin, Chih-Lung Wang, Ying-I Tsai

“…Although serum levels of MCP-1 in children exposed to low PM2.5 concentrations were lower than those in children exposure to high and TRAP PM2.5 levels, the differences were nonsignificant. …”
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Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Primary Aldosteronism After Adrenalectomy or Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonist Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis by Chien‐Wei Huang, Tse‐Ying Huang, Ya‐Fei Yang, Li‐Yang Chang, Yu‐Kang Tu, Vin‐Cent Wu, Jui‐Yi Chen

“…Patients with PA after adrenalectomy had a lower MACE incidence rate (2.00/100 patient‐years [95% CI, 1.40–2.60]) compared with those undergoing MRA treatment (3.30/100 patient‐years [95% CI, 2.40–4.10], P=0.017). …”
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Clinical Characteristics of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Combined with Gastrointestinal Perforation and Prognostic Value of Circulating Tumor DNA by Hong Yang, Dongwen Rong, Wenhui Yang

“…The survival rate in the high expression group was lower than that in the low expression group (7.02% (4/57) vs 36.38% (15/40)) (P<0.001). …”
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The association between violence victimization and subsequent unplanned pregnancy among adolescent girls in Uganda: Do primary schools make a difference? by Katherine G Merrill, Louise Knight, Janet Nakuti, Angel Mirembe, Elizabeth Allen, Amiya Bhatia, Jenny Parkes, Dipak Naker, Karen M Devries

“…School and peer connectedness modified the association (p<0.05); girls who experienced violence had higher odds of unplanned pregnancy in schools with lower versus higher connectedness. Violence victimization in early adolescence is strongly associated with subsequent unplanned pregnancy among adolescent girls in Uganda but attending schools with more school or peer connectedness attenuated this link. …”
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Accuracy of Large Language Models for Infective Endocarditis Prophylaxis in Dental Procedures by Paak Rewthamrongsris, Jirayu Burapacheep, Vorapat Trachoo, Thantrira Porntaveetus

“…Without a pre-prompt, Gemini 1.5 Flash's accuracy was significantly lower than Claude 3 Opus, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and GPT-4o. …”
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Effect of HBeAg/anti-HBe coexistence on HBeAg seroconversion in treatment-naïve chronic hepatitis B patients with peginterferon-α by Kaimin Song, Huitong Wang, Dawu Zeng, Yunyun Qian, Zhixiang Guo, Huatang Zhang, Yijuan Zheng, Yongjun Zhou, Xueping Yu, Zhijun Su

“…Patients with HBeAg/anti-HBe coexistence accounted for 11.4% of HBeAg-positive patients, and their hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and HBeAg levels were significantly lower than those of anti-HBe negative patients, but the HBeAg seroconversion rate was higher after Peg-IFN-α treatment. …”
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Risk of diabetic ketoacidosis caused by sodium glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors in patients with type 1 diabetes: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized cont... by Ying Liu, Shiwen Yang, Aidou Jiang, Dan Zou, Zhaoyang Chen, Na Su, Na Su

“…According to the P scores, SGLT2 inhibitors triggered a lower incidence of DKA than did the placebo. Treatment with 300 mg canagliflozin had the lowest incidence of DKA (P score = 0.8563).ConclusionAccording to our study, 5 mg dapagliflozin,10 mg empagliflozin 200mg sogliflozin and 400mg sogliflozin resulted in DKA when adjunctive insulin was used to treat T1DM. …”
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Antioxidant Stability of Moringa Leaves Extract Powders Obtained by Cocrystallization, Vacuum Drying, and Plating by Bambang Nurhadi, Fatsyarien Citra Angiputri, Robi Andoyo, Riksfardini Annisa Ermawar, Rudy Adi Saputra

“…While, vacuum drying resulted in powders with a lower but increased antioxidant activity (84.06%–86.43%). …”
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Investigation of 25-hydroxy vitamin D deficiency prevelance in healthy adults aged 18-65 years in Istanbul, Türkiye by Ülfer Gözde

“…The mean vitamin D level of the 18-50 age group was significantly lower than that of the group 51-65 age group (p=0.001; p<0.01). …”
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