Rate and predictors of response to glucocorticoid therapy in patients of takayasu arteritis at a tertiary level hospital of Bangladesh: A longitudinal study by Farzana Shumy, Ahmad Mursel Anam, Minhaj Rahim Choudhury, Md Abu Shahin, Syed Atiqul Haq, Md Zahid Amin, Sumayia Minhaj

“…Methods: The longitudinal study enrolled active TA patients who received 1 mg/kg/day of prednisolone. …”
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Economic impact of cholera in households in rural southern Malawi: a prospective study by Florian Marks, Wilm Quentin, Vittal Mogasale, Amber Hsiao, Enusa Ramani, Hye-Jin Seo, GiDeok Pak, Dan Vuntade, Maurice M’bang’ombe, Bagrey Ngwira

“…The COI tool captured household components of economic burden, including direct medical and non-medical costs, and indirect lost productivity costs.Results Between April 2016 and March 2020, 40 cholera cases were enrolled in the study, all of whom participated in the COI survey. …”
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HIV Testing and Counselling in Colombia: Local Experience on Two Different Recruitment Strategies to Better Reach Low Socioeconomic Status Communities by Jaime Galindo-Quintero, Hector Fabio Mueses-Marin, David Montaño-Agudelo, María Virginia Pinzón-Fernández, Inés Constanza Tello-Bolívar, Beatriz Eugenia Alvarado-Llano, Jorge Luis Martinez-Cajas

“…A total of 2085 individuals were enrolled in BAFI-1 and 363 in BAFI-2. The effectiveness indicators for BAFI-1 and BAFI-2, respectively, were HIV positive-confirmed prevalence = 0.29% and 3.86%, return rate for confirmatory results = 62.5% and 93.7%, return rate for comprehensive care = 83.3% and 92.8%, and ART initiation rate = 20% and 76.9%. …”
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Topical riboflavin versus 5-aminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy for the treatment of mild to moderate acne: A split-face randomized study by Aijia Ding, Li Shi, Feng Jiang, Chong Wang, Jianglin Zhang

“…Methods: 33 eligible patients were enrolled, and 30 patients completed follow-up. Either side of the face was assigned randomly to riboflavin or ALA blue-light-PDT. …”
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Helicobacter pylori Infection and Anemia in Taiwanese Adults by Hsiang-Yao Shih, Fu-Chen Kuo, Sophie S. W. Wang, Yi-Chang Liu, Meng-Chieh Wu, Yang-Pei Chang, Guei-Fen Chiu, Pi-Yu Chang, Deng-Chyang Wu, Ming-Chia Hsieh, Yao-Li Chen

“…Materials and Methods. We enrolled 882 patients from January 2010 to April 2013. …”
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Clinical Features and Risk Factors of Active Tuberculosis in Patients with Behçet’s Disease by Yaxu Liu, Lifan Zhang, Ziyue Zhou, Luxi Sun, Baotong Zhou, Xiaoqing Liu, Wenjie Zheng

“…BD patients with ATB were enrolled as the case group. The control group was selected by random number sampling from the remaining BD patients, including those with latent tuberculosis infection, previous tuberculosis, or without tuberculosis. …”
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Cardiac Effects of Thyrotropin Oversuppression with Levothyroxine in Young Women with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer by Kyung-Soon Hong, Jung-Woo Son, Ohk Hyun Ryu, Moon-Gi Choi, Ji Yeon Hong, Seong Jin Lee

“…Fourteen young female patients with DTC were enrolled. The duration of TSH-suppressive therapy was 5 to 9 years. …”
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Sarcopenia as a Predictor of Mortality in a Cohort of Elderly Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography by Giacomo Mulinacci, Clara Benedetta Conti, Alberto Savino, Davide Gandola, Davide Ippolito, Roberto Frego, Alessandro Ettore Redaelli, Marta Maino, Marco Emilio Dinelli

“…Results: In total, 256 patients were enrolled, of whom 30 (11.7%) were sarcopenic. Cardiopulmonary complications of ERCP occurred in 3.5%. …”
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Armado y desarmado de una confederación: el liderazgo de Calfucurá en el período de la organización nacional by Ingrid de Jong

“…Apuntamos específicamente a reconstruir dentro de este contexto el proceso seguido por el liderazgo del cacique Calfucurá, con el objeto de identificar el impacto de las intervenciones estatales sobre el alcance de su convocatoria política a lo largo del período.…”
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Higher Levels of High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Is Positively Associated with the Incidence of Hyperuricemia in Chinese Population: A Report from the China Health and Retireme... by Hui-Xu Dai, Zhi-Ying Zhao, Yang Xia, Qi-Jun Wu, Yu-Hong Zhao

“…A total of 5,419 healthy participants were enrolled in the final cohort analysis. The high-sensitivity CRP level was measured by immunoturbidimetric assay. …”
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Mapping spreading depolarisations after traumatic brain injury: a pilot clinical study protocol by Anant Naik, Samuel W Cramer, Isabela Peña Pino, Danielle Carlson, Michael C Park, David P Darrow

“…Therefore, this study aims to determine the feasibility of using a multistrip electrode array to identify CSDs and characterise their propagation in space and time after TBI.Methods and analysis This pilot, prospective observational study will enrol patients with TBI requiring therapeutic craniotomy or craniectomy. …”
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Infection and HLA-G Molecules in Nasal Polyposis by Roberta Rizzo, Nicola Malagutti, Daria Bortolotti, Valentina Gentili, Antonella Rotola, Enrico Fainardi, Teresa Pezzolo, Claudia Aimoni, Stefano Pelucchi, Dario Di Luca, Antonio Pastore

“…Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is one candidate for the development of SNP for its epithelial cell trophism, hyperproliferative effect, and the induction of immune-modulatory molecules as HLA-G. We enrolled 10 patients with SNP without concomitant allergic diseases (SNP-WoAD), 10 patients with SNP and suffering from allergic diseases (SNP-WAD), and 10 control subjects who underwent rhinoplasty. …”
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Comparison of management options for spontaneous bleeding into soft tissues in patients with COVID-19 by A. E. Tyagunov, D. Y. Trudkov, A. Y. Polyaev, E. A. Stradymov, M. V. Baglaenko, S. V. Mosin, A. V. Sazhin

“…A total of 227 participants with spontaneous hematomas into soft tissues were enrolled in this retrospective single-center study at a COVID-19-hospital between March 3, 2020 and March 3, 2022. …”
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Lower Extremity Peripheral Arterial Disease Is an Independent Predictor of Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke Risks in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in China by Xiao-Hong Pang, Jue Han, Wan-Lan Ye, Xue Sun, Yue Ding, Wen-Juan Huang, Yi-Ming Zhao, Han-Yu Lou, Li-Zhen Shan, Ying-Xiu Kang, Xiao-Xiao Song, Song-Zhao Zhang, Wei Gu, Peng-Fei Shan

“…We aimed to determine the relationship between lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD), 10-year coronary heart disease (CHD), and stroke risks in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) using the UKPDS risk engine. We enrolled 1178 hospitalized T2DM patients. The patients were divided into a lower extremity PAD group (ankle-brachial index≤0.9 or >1.4; 88 patients, 7.5%) and a non-PAD group (ankle-brachial index>0.9 and ≤1.4; 1090 patients, 92.5%). …”
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Desarrollo de las organizaciones complejas bajo una perspectiva sinérgica del talento humano by José Luis Márquez

“…Este trabajo surge de la problemática que presentan algunas organizaciones merideñas, que funcionan conforme a principios y lineamientos gerenciales basados en los modelos administrativos tradicionales, sin tomar en cuenta el pensamiento paradigmático actual, que emerge en el contexto de la postmodernidad y sus complejas relaciones dentro de la organización y el entorno. Esta investigación de campo y de naturaleza cualitativa, a partir del método fenomenológico, tiene como propósito generar una aproximación teórica-axiológica acerca del desarrollo de las organizaciones complejas bajo la perspectiva sinérgica del talento humano, para la transformación empresarial socialmente eco-construida, en el contexto de la postmodernidad en Venezuela. …”
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Malaria exposure remodels the plasma proteome of Ghanaian children by Aisha M. Mohammed, Charles Ochieng’ Olwal, Andrea Fossati, Nancy K. Nyakoe, Jacqueline M. Fabius, Martin Gordon, Benjamin J. Polacco, Danielle L. Swaney, Gordon A. Awandare, Nevan J. Krogan, Mehdi Bouhaddou, Yaw Bediako

“…Methods Symptomatic children residing in high and low malaria transmission areas of Ghana were enrolled into the study and followed for 3 weeks from the day of malaria confirmation. …”
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Vitamin E and N-Acetylcysteine as Antioxidant Adjuvant Therapy in Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by Youssef Al-Tonbary, Mohammad Al-Haggar, Rasha EL-Ashry, Sahar EL-Dakroory, Hanan Azzam, Ashraf Fouda

“…Forty children newly diagnosed with ALL were enrolled in this study. Twenty children (group I) have taken vitamin E and NAC supplementations with chemotherapy and the other twenty children (group II) have not taken any adjuvant antioxidant therapy. …”
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Impact of Preventive Intravenous Amiodarone on Reperfusion Ventricular Fibrillation in Patients With Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Undergoing Open-Heart Surgery: Randomized Controll... by Chan-Juan Gong, Xiao-Kai Zhou, Zhen-Feng Zhang, Yin Fang

“…MethodsA total of 54 patients with LVH scheduled for open-heart surgery were enrolled and randomly divided (1:1) into 2 groups—group A (amiodarone group) and group P (placebo-controlled group). …”
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Aspirin does not confer protection against major ischemic vascular events in patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis by Chao Gao, Qiqi Hou, Hongxia Cao, Cangtuo Li, Xu Peng, Quanle Han, Shouling Wu, Kangbo Li

“…Methods Patients with RA were recruited from a population of 118, 500 participants who were enrolled into the Kailuan Cohort Study between 2014 and 2016. …”
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Effect of Voluntary Wheel Running on Striatal Dopamine Level and Neurocognitive Behaviors after Molar Loss in Rats by Linlin Zhang, Yi Feng, Wenliang Ji, Jianzhang Liu, Kun Liu

“…Twenty-four Sprague-Dawley rats were enrolled in this study and randomly divided into following 4 groups: control group (C group), molar loss group (ML group), 1-week physical exercise before molar loss group (1W-ML group), and 4-week physical exercise before molar loss group (4W-ML group). …”
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