Balanced crystalloid versus saline for resuscitation in pediatric septic shock: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Barkhá Vijendra, Ana Beatriz Bertol, Mylena Maria Guedes de Almeida, Pedro Henrique Aquino Gil de Freitas, Áurea Maria Salomão Simão, Bianca Lisa de Faria

“…Conclusion In pediatric septic shock patients, treatment with balanced solutions (BS) was associated with a lower need for renal replacement therapy and a reduced occurrence of hyperchloremia. …”
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Community disaster exposure and first onset of depression: A panel analysis of nationally representative South African data, 2008-2017. by Andrew Tomita, Busisiwe P Ncama, Yoshan Moodley, Rashieda Davids, Jonathan K Burns, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Albert T Modi, Rob Slotow

“…In sub-group analyses, greater likelihood of depression onset was found among females [but not in men] (aRR = 1.23, p<0.01, 95% CI: 1.09-1.38), Black African [but not in other population group] (aRR = 1.21, p<0.01, 95% CI: 1.09-1.36), lower education attainment group [but not in tertiary and above educational attainment group] (aRR = 1.20, p<0.01, 95% CI: 1.08-1.33), and lower income attainment group [but not in the top income quartile group] (aRR = 1.24, p<0.01, 95% CI: 1.11-1.38), due to cumulative community disaster. …”
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Effect of Baduanjin exercise combined with Jue-tone music therapy on anxiety and depression in patients with psoriasis vulgaris (健身气功八段锦联合角调式音乐对寻常型银屑病患者焦虑抑郁症状的干预效果)... by HU Wei (胡薇), GONG Yonghong (龚永红)

“…Results At one month after discharge form hospital, scores of SAS and SDS in intervention group A and intervention group B were lower than those in the control group, respectively(P＜0. 05), and scores of SAS and SDS in intervention group B were lower than those intervention group A(P＜0. 05). …”
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Target Groups for a Short Dexamethasone Course among Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients by Armen Oganesyan, Ruslan Menzulin, Yury Surovoy, Andrei Nikiforchin, Kirill Zykov

“…A 3-day dexamethasone course is not associated with lower 28-day mortality in critically ill COVID-19 patients, either in the entire ICU cohort or in the IMV. …”
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Wealth-based inequality in underweight among Scheduled Tribe women in India: a regional analysis by Anshika Singh, Aditya Singh, Mahashweta Chakrabarty, Shivani Singh, Pooja Tripathi

“…The northeastern region, characterized by initially lower levels of inequality, demonstrated no change in its ECI over the study period. …”
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Factors affecting quality of life in women post mastectomy for breast cancer in Baheya Foundation (Egypt): ‘A retrospective cohort study’ by Salsabil Mohammed Abdelrahman, Maher Hassan Ibraheem, Hemat Allam, Vikash Sewram

“…Urban women correlated with a lower SWB (-2.679, p < 0.05) and higher degree of insomnia. …”
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Association between spasticity and neuropathic pain in patients with multiple sclerosis by B. Afanasjeva, R. Balnytė

“…Neuropathic pain was most commonly occurring in the lower extremities, less frequently in the upper extremities. …”
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Dynamics of cortisol levels and the state of vitamin D supply during the full-scale war in Ukraine in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus by M.I. Bobryk, V.I. Pankiv, V.M. Yerokhovych, V.S. Yuzvenko, D.Yu. Malyi, Yu.I. Komisarenko, L.V. Mikulets

“…Patients with T2DM have a lower mean level of vitamin D and it decreases during the war, being significantly lower in 2023 and 2024 compared to 2021. …”
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Are the acute phase proteins related to anestrus in primiparous water buffaloes? Preliminary results by Frank Díaz-Huerta, Anthony Meléndez-Becerra, Justin Dijak, Héctor Nava-Trujillo

“…Body condition score was lower than 3 points in both groups (2.31±0.51 and 2.33±0.37 for early and late postpartum, respectively, p=0.947). …”
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Ambient pollution at hip fracture units and impact on mortality and post-operative delirium: A hormetic effect? by Chika Edward Uzoigwe, Rana Muhammad Anss Bin Qadir, Ahmed Daoub

“…Both the USA and UK have recently implemented news standards which are lower than their current values, but still exceed those espoused by WHO. …”
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Effect of bright light therapy combined with five-element music therapy on negative emotions and sleep quality of pregnant women (强光联合五音疗法对孕妇负面情绪及睡眠质量的影响)... by ZHANG Caixia (张彩霞), ZHANG Ping (张萍), CAI Donglin (蔡东林), AN Rongrong (安溶溶)

“…Results After intervention, except for the SDS score of the control group, the SAS, SDS and PSQI scores of the two groups were lower than before, and the differences were statistically significant (P<0. 01). …”
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Monkeypox-related knowledge and vaccination willingness among HIV-diagnosed and -suspected males: a cross-sectional survey in Changsha by Yingying Zhou, Jiemin Wang, Zhi Xie

“…Participants in the age groups ranging 25–34 (aOR = 0.287, 95% CI: 0.086–0.959) and 35–44 (aOR = 0.136, 95% CI: 0.039–0.478) years showed a lower level of vaccination willingness, referred to the 15–24 year age group. …”
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Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in a subpopulation of older European clinical trial participants: a cross-sectional study by Manuel R Blum, Patricia M Kearney, Rose Galvin, Christine Baumgartner, Anette Van Dorland, Stephen Byrne, Nicolas Rodondi, Simon P Mooijaart, Carol Sinnott, Rosalinde K E Poortvliet, Jacobijn Gussekloo, David O Riordan, Carole Elodie Aubert, Kieran A Walsh, Robert S Du Puy, J Wouter Jukema, Vera McCarthy, Elaine K Walsh, Tinh-Hai Collet, Olaf M Dekkers

“…The overall prevalence of PPOs was approximately one-quarter in the Swiss (25.3%) and Dutch (24%) participants and lower in the Irish (14%) participants (P=0.04) and the difference was statistically significant. …”
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Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Awareness and Endorsement among Adolescents and Young Adults in Tanzania: Insights from the 2022 Demographic and Health Survey by Alpha Johnson Kapola, Rahma Musoke, Glenda Marie Manayon, Hassan Fredrick Fussi, Hafidha Mhando Bakari, Haji Mbwana Ally, Swalehe Mustafa Salim, Zuhura Mbwana Ally, Lynn Moshi, Mariam Salim Mbwana, Habib Omari Ramadhani

“…Female respondents (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 0.69; 95% CI 0.51–0.91) and rural residents (aOR = 0.78; 95% CI 0.61–1.00) had lower odds of PrEP awareness compared with male respondents and urban residents, respectively. …”
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Evaluation of the level of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and lactate dehydrogenase in acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients by Raghad Yaarob Ahmed, Zainab Issam Al Hatem

“…All of the postchemotherapy acute leukemia cases with lower TNF-α levels had complete remission (100%). …”
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Fermented palm kernel waste with different sugars as substrate for black soldier fly larvae by R.A. Nugroho, R. Aryani, E.H. Hardi, H. Manurung, R. Rudianto, W.N. Jati

“…Meanwhile, fructose-added substrate resulted in significantly higher crude protein and moisture values, but significantly lower ash and carbohydrate values than those of other groups. …”
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Effect of modified Traditional Chinese Medicine hot compress technique in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee (改良式中药热敷技术治疗膝骨关节炎效果观察) by CUI Yangfang (崔杨芳), LIU Ai (刘爱), ZHANG Xuejian (张雪键), ZHAO Yue (赵月), QI Mengying (齐梦颖)

“…Results The VAS score in the observation group was lower than that in the control group (P＜0. 01), The incidence of scalds in the observation group was lower than that in the control group (P＜0. 05). …”
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Social vulnerability and genetic service utilization among unaffected BRIDGE trial patients with inherited cancer susceptibility by Jemar R. Bather, Melody S. Goodman, Adrian Harris, Guilherme Del Fiol, Rachel Hess, David W. Wetter, Daniel Chavez-Yenter, Lingzi Zhong, Lauren Kaiser-Jackson, Rachelle Chambers, Richard Bradshaw, Wendy Kohlmann, Sarah Colonna, Whitney Espinel, Rachel Monahan, Saundra S. Buys, Ophira Ginsburg, Kensaku Kawamoto, Kimberly A. Kaphingst, on behalf of the BRIDGE research team

“…Results Patients living in areas of medium socioeconomic status (SES) vulnerability had lower odds of initiating pre-test genetic services (adjusted OR [aOR] = 0.81, 95% CI: 0.67, 0.98) compared to patients living in low SES vulnerability areas. …”
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Retinal vascular geometry and its association to silent brain infarction by Jing Wang, Tingli Chen, Jing Wang, Xiyun Bian, Xiaowei Zhang, Xiaolong Yang, Xing Qi, Yihan Li, Haixia Huang, Qian Qian, Fei Yuan

“…Logistic regression results showed that higher FD (OR, 0.04), FDa (OR, 0.07), FDv (OR, 0.06), CRAEB (OR, 0.02), CRAEC (OR, 0.04), CRVEB (OR, 0.03), CRVEC (OR, 0.06), and AVRB (OR, 0.55) were associated with a lower of SBI. There was no significant difference in AVRC between the two groups. …”
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The Effects of Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Antimelanoma Immunity Depend on the Timing of Their Administration by Dragana Miloradovic, Dragica Miloradovic, Bojana Simovic Markovic, Aleksandar Acovic, Carl Randall Harrell, Valentin Djonov, Nebojsa Arsenijevic, Vladislav Volarevic

“…Significantly higher plasma levels of TGF-β and IL-10, remarkably lower plasma levels of TNF-α and IFN-γ, and significantly reduced number of tumor-infiltrating, I-A-expressing, and IL-12-producing macrophages, CD80- and I-A-expressing DCs, granzyme B-expressing CTLs and NK cells, IFN-γ- and IL-17-producing CTLs, CD4+Th1, and Th17 cells were observed in B16F10+MSC14d-treated animals. …”
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