Effect of Bronchoscopist-Directed Sedation and Other Factors on Patient Comfort during Diagnostic Flexible Bronchoscopy by Rahul Magazine, Keerthi Nedumala Sisupalan, Vyshak Uddur Surendra, Bharti Chogtu, Preetam Rajgopal Acharya, Vasudeva Guddattu

“…A total of 374 patients, aged ≥18 years undergoing flexible bronchoscopy, were enrolled in this prospective, single-center, cross-sectional study. …”
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Joint exposure to multiple air pollutants and residual cardiovascular risk in hypertension by Yalan Li, Wei Hong, Jingjing Wu, Jie Wang, Shiqi Liu, Hong Yuan, Jingjing Cai, Rujia Miao, Jiangang Wang, Yao Lu

“…Methods: 1981 hypertensive patients (≥ 18 years) from an ongoing longitudinal cohort in China, were enrolled between 2013 and 2019. Using high-quality datasets from China, the ground-level air pollutants concentrations, including PM2.5, PM2.5–10, SO2, O3, CO and NO2, at each participant’s residence were calculated. …”
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Five year mortality in an RCT of a lung cancer biomarker to select people for low dose CT screening. by Francis Michael Sullivan, Frances S Mair, William Anderson, Cindy Chew, Alistair Dorward, John Haughney, Fiona Hogarth, Denise Kendrick, Roberta Littleford, Alex McConnachie, Colin McCowan, Nicola McMeekin, Manish Patel, Petra Rauchhaus, Fergus Daly, Lewis Ritchie, John Robertson, Joseph Sarvesvaran, Herbert Sewell, Thomas Taylor, Shaun Treweek, Kavita Vedhara, Stuart Schembri

“…After 5 years 326 lung cancers were detected (2.7% of those enrolled). The total number of deaths reported from all causes in the intervention group was 344 compared to 388 in the control group. …”
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Real-time shear wave elastography in measuring normal ileocolon intestinal wall stiffness using colonoscopy as reference: A single-center research by Shuo Wang, Shihui Li, Shuling Chen, Manying Li, Xiaoyan Xie, Mao Ren, Yujun Chen

“…Method: 659 subjects who underwent intestinal SWE and colonoscopy were retrospectively enrolled. The wall elasticity of colonoscopy-confirmed normal/abnormal intestinal segment was measured by transabdominal SWE. …”
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Improved Outcomes of Combined Main Branch Stenting and Side Branch Drug-Coated Balloon versus Two-Stent Strategy in Patients with Left Main Bifurcation Lesions by Hengdao Liu, Hailong Tao, Xufei Han, Yang Lu, Xiaofei Xue, Ruihan Feng, Fenghua Lv, Yanwei Liu, Hongrui Jin, Lianjie Li, Heping Gu

“…A total of 100 patients diagnosed with LM bifurcation lesions by coronary angiography were retrospectively enrolled at our center from January 2018 to December 2019. …”
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Frecuencia de la inmunosupresión de BRAF V600E en ameloblastomas: Un análisis multi-insituticional de 86 casos en América Latina by Lauren Frenzel Schuch, Marcela Hernández, Mariana Villarroel-Dorrego, María Luisa Paparella, Nelly Molina-Frechero, Oscar Almeda Ojeda, Vanesa Pereira Prado, Estefanía Sicco, Felipe Martins Silveira, Ronell Bologna-Molina

“… Objetivos: Investigar la frecuencia de la inmunoexpresión de BRAF V600E en ameloblastomas diagnosticados en cuatro centros de América Latina y correlacionar este hallazgo con los tipos y subtipos histológicos de los casos analizados. …”
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Impact of Obstructive Sleep Apnea on In-Stent Restenosis in Coronary Heart Disease Patients after Elective Drug-Eluting Stenting by Wenjie Yang, Zhuoshan Huang, Ke Yang, Dinghui Liu, Junpeng Xiao, Zhen Wu, Ling Jiang, Shan Cao, Xujing Xie, Shujie Yu

“…Results: This study enrolled 206 individuals who were diagnosed with CHD, with a mean age of 62.01 ± 10.27 years, and males constituted 76.2% of the patient population. …”
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Combination of White Blood Cell Count to Mean Platelet Volume Ratio and Neutrophil-to-Platelet Ratio Predicts Long-Term Adverse Events in Patients with MINOCA by Ayman A. Mohammed, Lu Liu, Redhwan M. Mareai, Abdul-Quddus Mohammed, Guoqing Yin, Shekhar Singh, Yawei Xu, Fuad A. Abdu, Wenliang Che

“…A total of 274 MINOCA patients were enrolled. Baseline clinical data, blood cell panel, and biochemical parameters were evaluated. …”
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El desafío de la escritura académica utilizando herramientas virtuales by Verónica Patricia Simbaña Gallardo, Lilian Mercedes Jaramillo Naranjo, Santiago Fernando Vinueza Vinueza

“…La metodología empleada está enmarcada dentro del paradigma cualitativo de tipo no experimental y documental, posee un muestreo probabilístico intencional de 57 fuentes documentales primarias que reúnen artículos científicos, libros, fuentes oficiales, informes técnicos, autores y organizaciones que respaldan las teorías de las herramientas digitales para sustentar de forma científica el artículo. …”
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RAS/BRAF Circulating Tumor DNA Mutations as a Predictor of Response to First-Line Chemotherapy in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients by Jiannan Yao, Wanchun Zang, Yang Ge, Nathaniel Weygant, Pan Yu, Lei Li, Guanhua Rao, Zhi Jiang, Rui Yan, Linjia He, Yang Yu, Mulan Jin, Gang Cheng, Guangyu An

“…Methods. 76 mCRC patients treated in Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital from 2011 to 2017 were enrolled. Genotyping of RAS/BRAF in tumor tissue and ctDNA was determined by ARMS PCR and with a 40-gene panel using NGS, respectively. …”
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Diagnostic Test to Identify Parkinson’s Disease from the Blood Sera of Chinese Population: A Cross-Sectional Study by Guangan Tong, Pingping Zhang, Wenbin Hu, Kun Zhang, Xianwen Chen

“…A total of 209 patients having an onset of PD, along with 60 neurodegenerative (ND) disorders and 50 healthy controls were enrolled. Blood samples and CSF samples were collected and exosomes were isolated. …”
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Serum Indicators Reflecting Gastric Function May Also Correlate with Other Extragastric Diseases by Yuehua Gong, Wei Wang, Yi Li, Yuan Yuan

“…A total of 823 individuals were enrolled. Data on indicators reflecting blood lipids, blood glucose, indexes of stomach, kidney, liver, and thyroid function, and H. pylori IgG antibody level were collected. …”
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Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in a Surgical Population of Southeast China: A Large-Scale Multicenter Study by Ping Chen, Yang Zheng, Yubo Cai, Pengfei Zou, Nan Li, Conggao Peng, Hainv Gao, Jimin Liu, Yongping Chen, Zhaowei Tong, Lanjuan Li

“…Blood samples obtained from 78,484 surgical patients from 18 different city and county hospitals were enrolled. The incidence of serum HCV antibody positivity, HCV RNA load, and HCV genotyping, as well as demographics and relevant clinical history, were investigated. …”
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The Efficacy of Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields on Pain, Stiffness, and Physical Function in Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jie Tong, Zhengyu Chen, Guanghua Sun, Jun Zhou, Ye Zeng, Peirui Zhong, Chengyuan Deng, Xiaocui Chen, Liu Liu, Shiyong Wang, Jiaqian Chen, Ying Liao

“…Eleven RCTs consisting of 614 patients were enrolled in this meta-analysis, of which 10 trials comprised knee OA and one comprised hand OA. …”
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Long Term School Based Deworming against Soil-Transmitted Helminths Also Benefits the Untreated Adult Population: Results from a Community-Wide Cross Sectional Survey by Paul M. Gichuki, Gabriel Mbugua, Edwin K. Kiplelgo, Tabitha W. Irungu, Charles Mwandawiro

“…This was a cross sectional study where 3,292 individuals, ranging from 2 to 98 years, were enrolled. Stool samples were analyzed using duplicate Kato Katz thick smear technique for presence of STH eggs. …”
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The Reduced Expression of EOLA1 May Be Related to Refractory Diabetic Foot Ulcer by Mingxia Wu, Weiling Leng, Hang Pan, Xiaotian Lei, Liu Chen, Xinshou Ouyang, Ziwen Liang

“…A total of 79 patients were enrolled in the study. The results of immunofluorescence and immunohistochemistry showed that EOLA1 was expressed in the epithelial tissues of DFU. …”
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Dyadic effects of illness perception and maladaptive cognitive-emotional regulation strategies on the fear of cancer recurrence in breast cancer patients and spouses: an actor-part... by Hui Ren, Tianye Yang, Songli Mei, Zhu Zhu, Jianjun Shi, Lingling Tong, Jia Yang, Yabin Sun

“…Methods This was a cross-sectional study, and 202 dyads of breast cancer patients and their spouses were enrolled. Illness perception, maladaptive cognitive-emotional regulation strategies, and FCR were assessed by the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (BIPQ), the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), and the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory Short Form (FCRI-SF), respectively. …”
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Diagnosis of spondyloarthritis: Application of criteria in clinical practice by Sham Santhanam, Vinod Ravindran

“…Classification criteria are meant for research purposes to enroll a homogeneous cohort, unlike diagnostic criteria, which are meant for diagnosing diseases in the community and therefore must include all the heterogeneous manifestations of a disease. …”
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Licencias Comerciales para el Desarrollo Rural con Enfoque Ecoturístico del Estado de Guerrero México by Noemí Ascencio López, Frida Carpio Clemente, Georgina De León Vargas

“…Se plantearon los siguientes objetivos, describir la situación actual del municipio de la localidad de Xocomalatlán, municipio de Chilpancingo de los Bravo, Guerrero, para identificar las carencias y puntos de mejora que tiene hoy en día dentro de la industria del ecoturismo; así como, identificar la forma en que las autoridades de los tres niveles de gobierno pueden contribuir para mejorar esta localidad y los servicios que ofrecen. …”
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Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Patients with Low-Risk Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: A Taiwanese Cohort Study by Yuan-Ting C. Lo, Hsiu-Ying Ku, Cheng-Shyong Chang, Hui-Ju Ch’ang, Chih-Ming Ho, Tsang-Wu Liu, Shih-Min Lin

“…Materials and Methods: A total of 414 patients with the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage IA–IC and grade 1 EOC were enrolled from the Taiwan Cancer Registry. We used multivariable Cox proportional-hazards models to control for clinical factors. …”
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