Noninvasive Predictors of High-Risk Varices in Patients with Non-Cirrhotic Portal Hypertension by Morven E. Cunningham, Gilda Parastandeh-Chehr, Orlando Cerocchi, David K. Wong, Keyur Patel

“…In NCPH, LSM is often higher than healthy controls but lower than matched cirrhotic patients. The aim of this study was to assess whether LSM or other noninvasive assessments of portal hypertension could predict HRV in NCPH patients. …”
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Risk factors associated with pregnancy loss after single euploid blastocysts transfer by Xiaohui Dong, Juanzi Shi, Xiaohua Liu, Danmeng Liu, Wei Li, Xiaoli Zhao, Xia Xue

“…Compared to the live birth group, the PL group had lower E2 levels (2376.03 ± 1553.25 vs 3412.88 ± 2116.47, P=0.007), higher LH levels (2.66 ± 2.47 vs 1.96 ± 1.52, P=0.023) on trigger day of fresh cycle, fewer retrieved oocytes (10.08 ± 5.01 vs 12.77 ± 7.20, P=0.044), higher female BMI (23.26 ± 3.27 vs 22.05 ± 2.69, P=0.016), higher proportion of maternal smokers (50% vs 20.51%, P<0.001), and more day 6 blastocyst transfers ((38.89% vs14.53, P=0.001). …”
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Effectof Unit Hydrographs and Rainfall Hyetographs on Critical Rainfall Estimates of Flash Flood by Fanzhe Kong, Wei Huang, Zhilin Wang, Xiaomeng Song

“…The results show that TR values for different TIVUHs are significantly different and the TR-Pa curve gradient of TVUHs is lower than that of TIVUHs. It is observed that CR corresponds to the combination of linearly increasing hyetograph and TVUHs. …”
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Healthcare and non-healthcare professionals’ knowledge about nutrition in older adults: a cross-sectional study by Marijana Matek Sarić, Tamara Sorić, Ana Sarić, Paula Smoje, Anamarija Rozić, Marina Matković, Sanja Zoranić, Marija Ljubičić

“…Compared to non-healthcare professionals, healthcare professionals had lower knowledge about the importance of nutrition in disease prevention and treatment (β = − 0.16; p = 0.024). …”
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Effect of Sustained Translatory Joint-play Techniques Combined with Stretching Technique on Shoulder Dysfunction after Rotator Cuff Injury by Mingliang JIN, Hua YUAN, Xiang MU, Qiang DUAN, Xu HU, Zhongqi LU

“…The control group accepted converser treatment including tepid magnetic vibration therapy, lower power He-Ne laser therapy, range of motion exercise, shoulder muscle strengthen exercise, rotator cuff muscle strengthen exercise, Maitland joint mobilization and cold therapy, once a day,6 days per week, lasted for four weeks. …”
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Association between maternal satisfaction and other indicators of quality of care at childbirth: a cross-sectional study based on the WHO standards by Marzia Lazzerini, Emanuelle Pessa Valente, Chiara Semenzato, Ilaria Mariani

“…Among the 61 variables explored, 46 (75.4%) were significantly associated with women’s satisfaction, 33 with higher satisfaction and 13 with lower satisfaction. Multivariate analysis largely confirmed univariate findings, with six out of eight groups of correlated variables being statistically significantly associated with women’s satisfaction. …”
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Depressive and Negative Symptoms in the Early and Established Stages of Schizophrenia: Integrating Structural Brain Alterations, Cognitive Performance, and Plasma Interleukin 6 Lev... by Fabiana Corsi-Zuelli, Gary Donohoe, Siân Lowri Griffiths, Cristina M. Del-Ben, Andrew J. Watson, Tom Burke, Paris A. Lalousis, Declan McKernan, Derek Morris, John Kelly, Colm McDonald, Saahithh R. Patlola, Carmine Pariante, Nicholas M. Barnes, Golam M. Khandaker, John Suckling, Bill Deakin, Rachel Upthegrove, Maria R. Dauvermann

“…Higher plasma IL-6 levels and lower general cognitive performance were associated with reduced brain metrics (p < .05). …”
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Performance Analysis of Iteratively Decoded Convergent Source Mapping with Sphere Packing-Assisted Differential Space-Time Spreading Technique for Efficient Video Transmission by Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nasru Minallah, Jaroslav Frnda, Jan Nedoma

“…Clearly, we can say that higher dH,min and lower CSM values are favourable for our proposed setup.…”
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Outcomes and Adverse Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation on the Ventral Intermediate Nucleus in Patients with Essential Tremor by Guohui Lu, Linfeng Luo, Maolin Liu, Zijian Zheng, Bohan Zhang, Xiaosi Chen, Xing Hua, Houyou Fan, Guoheng Mo, Jian Duan, MeiHua Li, Tao Hong, Dongwei Zhou

“…VIM-DBS is an efficient and safe surgical method in ET, and the efficacy was not affected by the body distribution of tremor, age at surgery, and disease duration. Lower preoperative FTM-TRS scores likely indicate greater improvement, and the effect of VIM-DBS declines over time.…”
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Combined use of respiratory multiplex PCR and procalcitonin to reduce antibiotic exposure in sickle-cell adult patients with acute chest syndrome (The ANTIBIO-STA study): a randomi... by Alexandre Sabaté-Elabbadi, Armand Mekontso-Dessap, François Lionnet, Aline Santin, Charlotte Verdet, Paul-Louis Woerther, Julien Lopinto, Matthieu Turpin, Alexandra Rousseau, Romane Lacoste-Badie, Keyvan Razazi, Guillaume Voiriot, Muriel Fartoukh

“…Consecutive adult patients with ACS were randomly assigned to the conventional or interventional strategy, where antibiotic therapy was targeted on the results of mPCR performed on lower respiratory tract secretions (LRTS) samples, and antibiotic discontinuation based on PCT values and kinetics at Day 1 (D1), D3 and D7. …”
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Technoeconomic Feasibility of Wind and Solar Generation for Off-Grid Hyperscale Data Centres by William Rollinson, Andrew Urquhart, Murray Thomson

“…The results show that off-grid generation could provide lower cost and carbon emissions for each of Europe’s data centre hotspots in Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Dublin. …”
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A rare case of adult-onset vanishing white matter leukoencephalopathy with movement disorder, expressing homozygous EIF2B3 and PRKN pathogenic variants by Bashar Kamal Ali Douden, Yazan Mohammad Abdullah Abufara, Mahmood Fayez Ali Aldrabeeh, Naela Ramadan Mohammad Tell, Ismail Abudaya

“…Case presentation A 39-year-old male from Hebron, Palestine, presented with a 7-month history of postural instability, imbalanced gait, and progressive deterioration of his lower extremities. Additionally, the patient suffered from ocular abnormalities and sphincteric issues. …”
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Differences in health related quality of life among older migrants and nonmigrants in India by Vasim Ahamad, Ram B. Bhagat

“…The findings of our study reveal that persons with migration status had lower HRQoL than non-migrants. Some migration-related factors were significantly associated with HRQoL among migrants. …”
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Retrospective cross-sectional study on bronchiectasis in adult Aboriginal Australians: disease characteristics and comparison with ethnically diverse global bronchiectasis registry... by Timothy Howarth, Subash Heraganahally, Claire Gibbs, Lata Jayaram, Asanga Abeyaratne, Shiidheshwar J Ravichandran, Davaadorj Erdenebayar, Winnie Chen, Hubertus Jersmann

“…Chest CT demonstrated multilobar and lower lobes involvement in 73% and inhaled pharmacotherapy use was recorded in up to 62% and long-term antibiotics in 5%.Conclusion The overall bronchiectasis disease burden is higher in Aboriginal Australian adults in comparison with global ethnically diverse non-Indigenous populations. …”
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Prevalence of anaemia and the associated factors among hospitalised people living with HIV receiving antiretroviral therapy in Southwest China: a cross-sectional study by Jie Yuan, Hai Long, Min Liu, Juan He, Jue Liu, Yu Wu, Wenzhan Jing, Min Du, Manna Zhang, Yaping Wang, Su Song, Siqi Liu, Guiying Cao, Yuedong Liang, Xiaoxin Xie, Yanhua Fu

“…Mild, moderate and severe anaemia were diagnosed as below the gender‐specific lower limit of normal but ≥110 g/L, 80–110 g/L and &lt;80 g/L, respectively.Results The prevalence of anaemia was 27.5%, and that of mild, moderate and severe anaemia was 9.2%, 12.2% and 6.1%, respectively. …”
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The combined effect of bed-to-nurse ratio and nurse turnover rate on in-hospital mortality based on South Korean administrative data: a cross-sectional study by Hyun-Young Kim, Yunmi Kim, Jiyun Kim

“…The risk of death among patients admitted to hospitals with a bed-to-nurse ratio of < 2.5 and a nurse turnover rate of ≥ 12% was lower than among patients admitted to hospitals with a bed-to-nurse ratio of ≥ 4.5 and a nurse turnover rate of ≥ 12% (odds ratio [OR] = 0.63; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.48–0.82). …”
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Evaluating the Impact of Commonly Used Pesticides on Honeybees (Apis mellifera) in North Gonder of Amhara Region, Ethiopia by Zewdie Abay, Amssalu Bezabeh, Alemayehu Gela, Asaminew Tassew

“…Our result also highlighted that tested LD50 of all pesticide incidents were significantly lower than the manufacturer-based LD50. This shows that local honeybees A. m. jemenetica are extremely sensitive to commonly used agricultural pesticides, which may affect the colony level due to the intensive application of these pesticides in Ethiopia.…”
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Central Aortic Pressure and Arterial Stiffness in Parkinson’s Disease: A Comparative Study by Mehmet Balal, Meltem Demirkiran, Saime Paydas

“…In young people, CAP is lower than peripheral arterial blood pressure. In older people, the difference between CAP and peripheral arterial blood pressure decreases depending on the extent of arterial stiffness (AS). …”
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Global, regional and national sodium intakes in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis of 24 h urinary sodium excretion and dietary surveys worldwide by J Lennert Veerman, Sarah Lewis, John Britton, Bruce Neal, Kathryn G Andrews, Goodarz Danaei, Majid Ezzati, Yanping Li, Yu Chen, Farshad Farzadfar, Jean-Michel Gaspoz, Idris Guessous, Lital Keinan-Boker, Paul Elliott, Carukshi Arambepola, Antonia Trichopoulou, Philippos Orfanos, Martin C Gulliford, Renata Micha, Dariush Mozaffarian, Wen-Harn Pan, Shoichiro Tsugane, Habibul Ahsan, Manami Inoue, Luz Maria Sanchez-Romero, Andrew Fogarty, Christos Pitsavos, Edward Giovannucci, Stefaan De Henauw, Stephen S Lim, Cho-il Kim, Inge Huybrechts, Didier Garriguet, Simón Barquera, Katia Castetbon, Neville Calleja, Peilin Shi, Hsing-Yi Chang, Yasuhiro Matsumura, Hubert Barennes, Guansheng Ma, Shahab Khatibzadeh, Saman Fahimi, John Powles, Morteza Abdollahi, Anahita Houshiar-rad, Eda Koksal, Sahar Zaghloul, Sirje Vaask, Ana Baylin, Simon Forsyth, Rosely Sichieri, Christian Haerpfer, Ian Brown, Demosthenes B Panagiotakos, Jacqui Webster, Androniki Naska, Dorothy Gauci, Rebecca E Engell, Tim E Byers, Stephanie Smith-Warner, Ibrahim Elmadfa, Mayuree Rao, Pamela A Abbott, Enrique O Abeyá Gilardon, Suad N Al-Hooti, Wulf Becker, Peter Bjerregaard, Lesley T Bourne, Mario V Capanzana, Melanie J Cowan, Dulitha N Fernando, Regina M Fisberg, Brahmam NV Ginnela, Wilbur Hadden, Daniel J Hoffman, Nahla C Hwalla, Hajah Masni Ibrahim, Maria D Jackson, Lars Johansson, Hae-Jeung Lee, Chan Mei Fen, Gert BM Mensink, Rafael A Monge-Rojas, Balakrishna Nagalla, Marga C Ocke, Maciej Oltarzewski, Marja-Leena Ovaskainen, Gulden Ayla Pekcan, Stefka Petrova, Noppawan Piaseu, Leanne M Riley, Rusidah BT Selamat, Chansimaly Simmala, Laufey Steingrimsdottir, Gillian Swan, Lucjan Szponar, Heli Tapanainen, Robert Templeton, Anastasia Thanopoulou, Holmfridur Thorgeirsdóttir, Inga Thorsdottir, Aida Turrini, Nowak Verena, Anna Waskiewicz, Gábor Zajkás, Shadi Kalantarian, Pattra Wirojratana, Mary Anne Land, Tricia McKeever, Mohannad Abed Alfattah Al Nsour, Medical Science, Heléne Enghardt Barbieri, Aida Filipovic Hadziomeragic, Nur Indrawaty Lipoeto, Stephen T. McGarvey, Abdulrahman Obaid. Musaiger, Luz Gladys. Posada, Elz˙bieta Halina. Sygnowska

“…Regional mean intakes in North America, Western Europe and Australia/New Zealand ranged from 3.4 to 3.8 g/day. Intakes were lower (&lt;3.3 g/day), but more uncertain, in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. …”
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Repurposing the prostaglandin analogue treprostinil and the calcium-sensing receptor modulator cinacalcet to revive cord blood as an alternate source of hematopoietic stem and prog... by Michaela Prchal-Murphy, Julia Zehenter, Marlene Fischer, Anita Pirabe, Madeleine Themanns, Behnaz Afrashteh, Eva Maria Putz, Karoline Kollmann, José Basílio, José Basílio, Manuel Salzmann, Wolfgang Strohmaier, Günther Krumpl, Alex Farr, Veronika Sexl, Michael Freissmuth, Eva Zebedin-Brandl

“…Eight-week-old female and male C57BL/6J, BALB/c, or female NSG mice served as recipient models.ResultsWhen administered concomitantly, treprostinil and cinacalcet exhibited mutual antagonism: the survival of recipient animals was lower when both drugs were administered together compared to either agent alone. …”
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