Dietary Supplementation with Inulin Modulates the Gut Microbiota and Improves Insulin Sensitivity in Prediabetes by Xiaojing Wang, Tong Wang, Qian Zhang, Li Xu, Xinhua Xiao

“…A total of 49 subjects with prediabetes (WHO 1999 criteria) were voluntarily enrolled. Each subject received a daily supplement with 15 g of inulin for 6 months. …”
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Depressive Symptoms among Fourth Form Students in St. Kitts and Nevis High Schools by Gillian A. Lowe, Garth Lipps, Sharon Halliday, Amrie Morris, Nelson Clarke, Rosemarie N. Wilson

“…Kitts and Nevis. Students enrolled in the fourth form during the 2006/2007 academic year in all high schools were administered the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II). …”
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Human leukocyte Antigen-B*27 allele subtype prevalence and disease association of ankylosing spondylitis among south indian population by Vikram Haridas, Praveenkumar Shetty, M Nirmal Kumar, K C Vasanthakumar, Kiran Haridas, Vitthal Khode, Anil Bargale

“…AS clinical manifestations also involve sacroiliac joints and spine. Genetic factors play a key role in AS susceptibility. …”
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Análise dos estilos de liderança: uma pesquisa sobre a percepção de acadêmicos do curso de administração by Gregory Zeppenfeld, Andressa Schaurich dos Santos, Matheus Machado Laurini

“…E, ao versar sobre estilos de liderança, o estudo contribui em avançar nas discussões dessa temática dentro da literatura de estudos organizacionais. …”
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Long-term antibody responses to COVAXIN and COVISHIELD vaccines in rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy control population – A cross-sectional study by Vijaya Prasanna Parimi, Anand Pyati, Madhavi Eerike

“…Methodology: This cross-sectional study (IEC approval no: AlIMS/BBN/IEC/AUG/2021/60-R dated Sept 05, 2022, and Ref No: 799/U/IEC/ESICMC/F490/09/2022 dated Oct 31, 2022) enrolled 103 diagnosed RA patients receiving DMARDs and 183 healthy controls. …”
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Clinicopathological and Prognostic Significance of CD47 Expression in Lung Neuroendocrine Tumors by Mario Orozco-Morales, Alejandro Avilés-Salas, Norma Hernández-Pedro, Rodrigo Catalán, Graciela Cruz-Rico, Ana Laura Colín-González, Elsa Dosal-Mancilla, Pedro Barrios-Bernal, Oscar Arrieta

“…A total of 51 patients with LNET were enrolled in our study. The mean age at diagnosis was 57.6 (±11.6) years; 30 patients were women (59%). 27.5% of patients were positive for CD47 expression, and 72.5% of patients showed a CD47 expression of less than 1% and were considered as negatives. …”
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Male Gender Is Associated with Lymph Node Metastasis but Not with Recurrence in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma by Jiang Zhu, Rui Huang, Ping Yu, Haoyu Ren, Xinliang Su

“…A total of consecutive 2536 patients were enrolled in this study. Males accounted for 25.2% (639 cases) of all patients. …”
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Cerebellum abnormalities in vascular mild cognitive impairment with depression symptom patients: A multimodal magnetic resonance imaging study by Yirong Chen, Liling Chen, Liyu Hu, Jianjun Wang, Jinhuan Zhang, Hanqing Lyu, Jinping Xu, Jianxiang Chen, Haibo Yu

“…Objective: This study aimed to investigates the gray matter volume and functional alterations in the cerebellum of svMCI patients, with and without depression symptoms, and their correlation with cognitive and depressive symptoms. Methods: We enrolled 16 svMCI patients with depression symptoms (svMCI+D), 15 without (svMCI-D), and 12 normal controls (NC). …”
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Dynamic Changes of Th1 Cytokines and the Clinical Significance of the IFN-γ/TNF-α Ratio in Acute Brucellosis by Guang Xu, Peng Zhang, Rongjing Dang, Yanfang Jiang, Feng Wang, Bin Wang, Mingyuan Yang

“…Fifty-one individuals with acute brucellosis and 17 healthy subjects were enrolled in this study. The brucellosis patients were diagnosed based on clinical symptoms, laboratory tests, and clinical examination. …”
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Comparing the Efficacy of Two Cognitive Screening Tools in Identifying Gray and White Matter Brain Damage among Older Adults by Paula Andreatta Maduro, Manoel Pereira Guimarães, Mateus de Sousa Rodrigues, Ana Paula Pereira Rolim Coimbra Pinto, Américo Alves da Mota Junior, Alaine Souza Lima Rocha, Juliana Magalhães Duarte Matoso, Bruno Bavaresco Gambassi, Paulo Adriano Schwingel

“…Ninety older adults (62 women) with an average age of 69 ± 7 years were enrolled and categorized as having no cognitive impairment (NCI), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), or moderate cognitive impairment (MoCI). …”
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Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Use in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease—Reports from a Romanian Center by Roxana Matran, Andra-Mihaela Diaconu, Andreea Maria Iordache, Irina Dijmărescu, Alexandra Coroleucă, Daniela Păcurar, Cristina Becheanu

“…<b>Results</b>: Of 40 patients enrolled, 22 (55%) had Crohn’s disease (CD). The median (IQR) age at diagnosis was 14.8 years [10.8–15.9]. …”
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Major Aortopulmonary Collateral Arteries and Their Effects on Perioperative Parameters and Mortality of Children with Tetralogy of Fallot: A Case-control Study by Mohammadreza Edraki, Amir Naghshzan, Hamid Amoozgar, Kambiz Keshavarz, Nima Mehdizadegan, Hamid Mohammadi

“…The Chi square, Mann-Whitney, and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to analyze the data.Results: 59 patients were enrolled, with a mean age of 27.98±24.19 months. The control group included 34 patients with no collaterals, the closed MAPCA group had 12 patients with occluded collaterals, and the open MAPCA group had 13 patients with small collaterals unsuitable for closure. …”
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Familial Mediterranean Gene (MEFV) Mutation in Parents of Children with Familial Mediterranean Fever: What Are the Exceptions? by Leila Shahbaznejad, Sayed-Reza Raeeskarami, Raheleh Assari, Abbas Shakoori, Hamidreza Azhideh, Yahya Aghighi, Fatemeh Tahghighi, Vahid Ziaee

“…Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is one of the most prevalent periodic fever syndromes; MEFV, the responsible gene for the disease, is in the short arm of chromosome16. …”
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Association of Chronic Toxoplasma gondii Infection with Pro-Inflamatory Cytokine Interleukin (IL)-12 Responses in Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients of Bangladesh by Tamanna Ashraf, Pankaj Kumar Sarker, Md. Ismail Hosen, Atiqur Rahman, A. K. M. Mahbub Hasan, Taibur Rahman

“…For this, 100 (N=100) patients with T2DM and 100 (N=100) healthy controls were enrolled to determine the seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). …”
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Sublingual Sufentanil vs. Intravenous Fentanyl for the Treatment of Acute Postoperative Pain in the Ambulatory Surgery Center: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Aaron Berg, Jason Habeck, Michael Strigenz, Jonah Pearson, Alexander Kaizer, Jacob Hutchins

“…Patients aged 18–80 undergoing general anesthesia who developed a postoperative pain score of ≥ 4 were enrolled and randomized to receive either 30 mcg SST or 50 mcg IV fentanyl. …”
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Aberrant SNHG expression predicts poor prognosis in esophageal cancer using meta-analysis and bioinformatics analysis by Ke Shi, Li-De Huang, Dan Li, Wei-Min Luo, Hua-Song Liu, Dong-Xiao Ding, Qiang Guo, Yue-Feng Liu

“…Abstract Background Small nucleolar RNA host gene (SNHG) family were reported involved in various biological processes and may be used as a promising prognostic marker in esophageal cancer (EC). …”
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Development and validation of a Non-INvaSive Pregnancy RIsk ScoRE (INSPIRE) for the screening of high-risk pregnant women for gestational diabetes mellitus in Pakistan by Romaina Iqbal, Iqbal Azam, Subhash Chandir, Rahat Qureshi, Ali Jaffar, Neelofur Babar, Sabahat Naz, Samreen Jamal, Aisha Syed Wali

“…Our study aimed to develop a Non-INvaSive Pregnancy RIsk ScoRE (INSPIRE) for GDM screening in Pakistani pregnant women based on risk factors reported in the literature.Methods Using a cross-sectional study design, we enrolled 500 pregnant women who attended antenatal clinics at one tertiary and two secondary care hospitals in Karachi between the 28th and 32nd weeks of gestation. …”
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Mea culpa e autopunição: o colaboracionista em Não falei, de Beatriz Bracher, e o desertor em Azul-corvo, de Adriana Lisboa by Karina Marques

“…Retirados de un contexto lógico causal, esos actos son igualados y juzgados fuera del sistema jurídico, analizados dentro de las esferas personales, según apreciaciones morales y afectivas. …”
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Rapid Improvement in Neck Disability, Mobility, and Sleep Quality with Chronic Neck Pain Treated by Fu’s Subcutaneous Needling: A Randomized Control Study by Ching-Hsuan Huang, Lung-Hung Tsai, Mao-Feng Sun, Zhonghua Fu, Jian Sun, Li-Wei Chou

“…Participants (n = 60) with chronic neck pain for more than 2 months with pain intensity scored by visual analog scale (VAS) more than five were enrolled in this trial. Participants were equally randomized into the FSN or transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) group who received interventions once a day on day 1, day 2, and day 4. …”
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Bearberry in the treatment of acute uncomplicated cystitis (BRUMI): protocol of a multicentre, randomised double-blind clinical trial by Péter Hegyi, Noémi Gede, Szilárd Váncsa, Barbara Tóth, András Jávorházy, Péter Nyirády, Boglárka Csupor-Löffler, Péter Birinyi, George Zhanel, Kurt Naber, Reinhard Länger, Nóra Vörhendi, Dezső Csupor

“…At least 504 patients (allocated as 1:1) will need to be enrolled to access non-inferiority with a non-inferiority limit of 14% for the primary endpoint.Improvement of symptoms of uncomplicated cystitis (based on the ACSS score) at day 7 is defined as the primary endpoint, whereas several secondary endpoints such as the number and ratio of patients with bacteriuria at day 7, frequency and severity of side effects; recurrence of urinary tract infection, concurrent use of other over the counter (OTC) medications and food supplements will be determined to elucidate more detailed differences between the groups. …”
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