Prevalence, risk factors, and adverse perinatal outcomes in Chinese women with preeclampsia: a large retrospective cohort study by Lin Chai, Shuai Li, Binbin Yin, Xiaojun Zhu, Bo Zhu, Kaiqi Wu

“…Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2019, which enrolled 38,496 women without preeclampsia (non-PE) and 1130 women with PE. …”
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A Pilot Study of Parent Mentors for Early Childhood Obesity by Byron A. Foster, Christian A. Aquino, Mario Gil, Jonathan A. L. Gelfond, Daniel E. Hale

“…Sixty participants were enrolled, and forty-eight completed the six-month intervention. …”
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Association of Fontan Pathophysiology With Plasma Bile Acids by Ashish H. Shah, MD, MD-Research, Arun Surendran, MSc, Pedram Hassan-Tash, BSc, MD, C. Nolan Turnbull, BSc, Nicole Johnston, MSc, David Goodlett, BSc, PhD, Jun Han, PhD, Robin A. Ducas, MD, James W. Tam, MD, Eberhard Renner, MD, Todd A. Duhamel, PhD, Michel Aliani, MSc, PhD, Amir Ravandi, MD, PhD, Richard A. Krasuski, MD

“…Results: Twenty Fontan patients (28.8 ± 9.8 years of age; 35% women) and 20 healthy controls (29.7 ± 6.0 years of age; 30% women) were enrolled. Fontan patients had significantly lower skeletal muscle mass, took longer to complete the 5 times sit-to-stand test; achieved lower %VO2 max, and had lower resting and postexercise hemodynamic parameters. …”
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Blog de viagem, entre a encenação pessoal e o alinhamento comercial - um quadro conceitual by Nora Winsky, Julia Dickow

“…Neste artigo, os processos de mercantilização e profissionalização, bem como a situação específica dos blogs de viagem na interface dos mundos on e offline, são levados em conta para apresentar uma estrutura conceitual diferenciada e adaptável para a análise de blogs de viagem. Dentro dessa estrutura, os blogs estão situados entre a encenação pessoal e o alinhamento comercial. …”
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Safety and Efficacy of Adding Fixed-Combination Brinzolamide/Timolol Maleate to Prostaglandin Therapy for Treatment of Ocular Hypertension or Glaucoma by Anton Hommer, Douglas A. Hubatsch, Juan Cano-Parra

“…Forty-seven patients were enrolled and received treatment. The most commonly used PGAs were latanoprost (47%) and travoprost (32%). …”
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Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Level Correlates with Lipoprotein Subfractions in Obese Nondiabetic Subjects by Sándor Somodi, Ildikó Seres, Hajnalka Lőrincz, Mariann Harangi, Péter Fülöp, György Paragh

“…Subjects and Methods. We enrolled fifty nondiabetic obese patients and thirty-two healthy volunteers. …”
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Impact of Coronary Artery Disease and Diabetes Mellitus on the Long-Term Follow-Up in Patients after Retrograde Recanalization of the Femoropopliteal Arterial Region by Joanna Wojtasik-Bakalarz, Zoltan Ruzsa, Tomasz Rakowski, Andreas Nyerges, Krzysztof Bartuś, Agata Stanek, Dariusz Dudek, Andrzej Surdacki, Paweł Kleczyński, Stanisław Bartuś

“…In this study, eighty-six patients with PAD with diagnosed CTO in the femoropopliteal region and at least one unsuccessful attempt of antegrade recanalization were enrolled in 2 clinical centers. Mean time of follow-up in all patients was 47.5 months (±40 months). …”
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Nurse-led counselling programme on the adherence to eye patch application among children with amblyopia: a randomised control trial by Srishti Raj, Savleen Kaur, Mona Duggal, Shivani ­, Sushma Kumari Saini

“…A total of 70 children with amblyopia were enrolled in the study by using total enumeration sampling techniques and randomised into experimental and control groups with 35 children in each group. …”
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Serum Albumin Is Independently Associated with Persistent Organ Failure in Acute Pancreatitis by Wandong Hong, Suhan Lin, Maddalena Zippi, Wujun Geng, Simon Stock, Zarrin Basharat, Bicheng Cheng, Jingye Pan, Mengtao Zhou

“…A total of 700 patients with acute pancreatitis were enrolled. Multivariate logistic regression and subgroup analysis determined whether decreased albumin was independently associated with persistent organ failure and mortality. …”
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Blended Vision Achieved by Combining High and Low Addition Power Diffractive Intraocular Lenses with Micromonovision: A Clinical Outcome by Masayuki Ouchi, Takuya Shiba

“…One hundred twenty eyes of 60 cases were enrolled. The +4 D add MIOLs were placed in the nondominant eye, the +2.75 D add MIOLs were placed in the dominant eye with a myopic target of −0.5 D in 30 cases (the MMBV group), and the +4 D add MIOLs were placed in both eyes in another 30 cases (controls). …”
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Comparison of Different Machine Learning Methodologies for Predicting the Non‐Specific Treatment Response in Placebo Controlled Major Depressive Disorder Clinical Trials by Roberto Gomeni, Françoise Bressolle‐Gomeni

“…This effect is not estimable at an individual level using the conventional parallel‐group study design, since each subject enrolled in the trial is assigned to receive either active treatment or placebo, but not both. …”
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Cytokines and Chemokines as Biomarkers of Community-Acquired Bacterial Infection by Michal Holub, David A. Lawrence, Nancy Andersen, Alžběta Davidová, Ondřej Beran, Vilma Marešová, Pavel Chalupa

“…In total, 57 subjects were enrolled: 21 patients with community-acquired bacterial infections, 26 patients with viral infections, and 10 healthy subjects (control cohorts). …”
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Conbercept Pretreatment before Vitrectomy in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy by Xiaochun Yang, Jianbiao Xu, Ruili Wang, Yan Mei, Huo Lei, Jun Liu, Ting Zhang, Haiyan Zhao

“…Methods. 107 eyes of 88 patients that underwent pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for active PDR were enrolled. All patients were assigned randomly to either preoperative IVC group or control group. …”
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Impact of Feedback in Flipped Learning on the Development of Soft Skills of University Students by Ricardo Sanchez-Gil-Machín, Salvador Baena Morales, Nuria Molina-García, Alberto Ferriz-Valero

“…This quasi-experimental study, conducted over three academic years, involved 255 s-year students (mean age = 20.47 ± 2.63; 60.4% female) enrolled in a Primary Education Teaching degree program at a Spanish public university. …”
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Students from all Layers of Society. Study Grants, Parents and the Education of their Children, 1815-2015 by Wouter Marchand

“…In the entire nineteenth century grants for university students were restricted to those already enrolled, minimizing the appeal for newcomers from low-income families. …”
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Pulmonary Embolism in the Elderly: From Symptoms to Speckle Tracking Echocardiography by Christos Ballas, Dimitrios Sfairopoulos, Ioanna Samara, Lampros Lakkas, Olga Kardakari, Athanasios Konstantinidis, Katerina K. Naka, Lampros K. Michalis, Christos S. Katsouras

“…Clinical characteristics, biomarkers and transthoracic echocardiography indices including right ventricular free wall longitudinal strain (RV-FWLS) were recorded. (3) Results: Of 200 patients enrolled, 19 patients had high-risk PE and were excluded from the study. …”
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Predictive value of preoperative pan-immune-inflammation value index in the prognosis of oral cancer patients undergoing radical resection by Weihai Huang, Yulan Lin, Enling Xu, Yanmei Ji, Jing Wang, Fengqiong Liu, Fa Chen, Yu Qiu, Bin Shi, Lisong Lin, Baochang He

“…Results A total of 779 patients were enrolled and followed up (mean follow-up time 34.14 ± 24.39). …”
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Análisis funcional y de correlaciones entre morfología y usos del suelo urbano en Madrid (España) by Ramón Aguilar Lucato

“…La investigación se basó, para cada tejido, en el análisis de 22 indicadores morfológicos y veinte funcionales y posibilitó conclusiones cuantitativas sobre las variaciones de carácter funcional dentro de una misma clase morfológica, pero en distintos paisajes sociales, bien como entre distintas clases, considerando un amplio espectro del espacio urbano madrileño. …”
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Prevalence and associated factors of epiretinal membrane using spectralis OCT in Fujian Eye Study by Yang Li, Xiaoxin Li, Yonghua Hu, Bin Wang, Mingqin Zhang, Qinrui Hu

“…Residents aged 50 years and older were enrolled and did the questionnaire (educational background, income, blood type, disease history, medication history, smoking, drinking and tea consumption, et al.), physical and ophthalmological examinations with height, weight, systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), heart rate (HR), refraction, intraocular pressure (IOP), slit lamp, nonmydriatic fundus photograph and spectralis optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging. …”
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Comparison the Efficacy of Fluconazole and Terbinafine in Patients with Moderate to Severe Seborrheic Dermatitis by Narges Alizadeh, Hamed Monadi Nori, Javad Golchi, Shahriar S. Eshkevari, Ehsan Kazemnejad, Abbas Darjani

“…Methods. 64 patients with moderate to severe seborrheic dermatitis (SD) were enrolled in a randomized, parallel-group study. One study group took terbinafine 250 mg daily (n=32) and the other one fluconazole 300 mg (n=32) weekly for four weeks. …”
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