Effect of Counseling on the Knowledge and Attitude of Childbearing in Single-child Couples in Hamadan City, Iran: An Interventional Study by Sargol Shafiei, Batul Khodakarami, Farzaneh Soltani, Ghodratollah Roshanaei

“…There was no statistically significant difference in the average score of the childbearing attitude of women and men in the two test and control groups before the intervention, after the intervention and one month after the intervention (P>0.05). …”
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Epidemiology of Acute Pancreatitis in the North Adriatic Region of Croatia during the Last Ten Years by Davor Stimac, Ivana Mikolasevic, Irena Krznaric-Zrnic, Mladen Radic, Sandra Milic

“…According to the Ranson and APACHE II scores, pancreatitis was considered to be severe in 50% and 43% of the cases, respectively. …”
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Treatment compliance of liver cirrhosis patients by Ye. R. Olevskaya, A. I. Dolgushina, A. N. Tarasov, D. S. Mikhaylova, A. R. Molchanova, A. S. Kuznetsova

“…Overall 43 patients (17 men, 26 women) were enrolled to original study. …”
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College Students with Oral Habits Exhibit Worse Psychological Status and Temporomandibular-Related Quality of Life: A Correlational Study by Wenke Yang, Xin Xiong, Yange Wu, Yufan Zhu, Jiaqi Liu, Chengxinyue Ye, Qinlanhui Zhang, Jun Wang

“…Students with oral habits had higher OHIP-TMDs scores. Conclusion. More than half of the college students surveyed had specific oral habits, with a higher prevalence in women than in men. …”
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Thyroid hormones and neurological impairments during the first two days after stroke: A pilot study by Kobra Akhoundzadeh, Ashraf Zarvani, Fatemeh Mohajerani, Sakineh Shafia

“…P value < 0.05 was considered significant. Fifty patients (42 % men) with a mean age of 69.73 (SD ± 12.31) were included. …”
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BODY MASS INDEX AND ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING ELDERLY IN RURAL COMMUNITIES by Joko Susanto, Rukanah Rukanah, Iswatun Iswatun

“…Conclusions: The results of the study show that increasing the BMI value has a protective effect on ADL, so it can be concluded that higher body weight and BMI are associated with increasing Barthel ADL scores.…”
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Women's economic empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from cross-national population data by Eunice Williams, Sabu S. Padmadas, Heini Vaisanen

“…<b>Methods</b>: Using recent DHS data in 33 countries, we apply principal component analysis to generate a WEE score based on 9 indicators in order to better understand the contributors underlying this score and derive country typologies. …”
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Modeling the gameplay actions of elite volleyball players and teams based on statistical match reports by Sergii Iermakov, Tetiana Yermakova, Krzysztof Prusik

“…The study used statistical data on the World Volleyball Championship matches among men. …”
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Relationship between sleep quality, sleep duration, heart rate, and step counts in young adults by Alanur Kara, Halime Arıkan

“…A very strong positive correlation was found between sleep score and both time asleep (r = 0.730) and REM sleep (r = 0.743), as well as a strong correlation with deep sleep (r = 0.454). …”
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Camptocormia in Parkinson's Disease by Kazuo Abe, Yutaka Uchida, Masaru Notani

“…Analysis of NMSS subitems indicated that PD patients tended to show lower scores for sleep/fatigue, attention/memory, and miscellaneous items. …”
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Intravenous thrombolysis prevents neurological deterioration in patients with acute pontine infarction by Zhenxiao Chai, Weili Chen, Yichan Ye, Mengwan Song, Lingling Lin, Dongdong Lin, Xuerong Huang, Lifen Chi, Ruyue Huang

“…ND was defined as any ≥2-point increase in the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score between the maximal and initial neurological deficits during hospitalization. …”
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Relationship of Retinal Vessel Caliber with Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Sara Toulouie, Sean Chang, Julia Pan, Kiersten Snyder, Glenn Yiu

“…Univariate and multivariate regressions were used to determine the association of CRAE, CRVE, and AVR with age, sex, smoking status, presence of cilioretinal artery, and AMD severity at baseline and 5 years using the 9-step AMD severity score. Results. Only CRAE and CRVE were higher in men (P<0.001), current smokers (P<0.001), and the eyes with a cilioretinal artery (P=0.009−0.043). …”
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Degenerative gluteal tears associated with hip arthroplasty by Dani Gaillard-Campbell, Thomas Gross

“…We found no differences in mean HHS and VAS pain score in patients with repair gluteal tears versus a control group of cases without a tear. …”
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Dysautonomia Differentially Influences the Effect of Affective Pain Perception on Quality of Life in Parkinson’s Disease Patients by D. Rada, J. Seco, E. Echevarría, B. Tijero, L. C. Abecia, J. C. Gómez-Esteban

“…However, the influence of this dimension on PDQ-39 was different in the specific case of PD patients that experimented a high score (>12) in SCOPA-AUT (Scale for Outcomes in PD-Autonomic scale). …”
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Computer-tomography features of hemodynamics in hepatocellular carcinoma foci depend on the stage of histological differentiation by U. N. Tumanova, N. I. Yashina, Ye. A. Dubova, G. G. Karmazanovsky, A. I. Schegolev

“…The study was based on the clinical and morphological data of 19 patients (12 men and 7 women, aged 18–72 years), with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) without coexistent liver cirrhosis. …”
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Predictors of the occurrence of cardiovascular events in patients with atrial flutter during long-term follow-up by A.V. Aker, U.P. Chernyaga-Royko, N.S. Pavlyk, O.J. Zharinov

“…The one-center prospective study included 126 patients with various forms of AFL, among them 86 (68.3 %) men and 40 (31.7 %) women, median age 65.5 (quartile 55–73) years. …”
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Validation of an Individualized Measure of Quality of Life, Patient Generated Index, for Use with People with Parkinson’s Disease by Ayse Kuspinar, Kedar K. V. Mate, Anne-Louise Lafontaine, Nancy Mayo

“…The PGI and standard PRO measures were compared at the total score, domain, and item levels. Pearson’s correlations and independent t-tests were used, as well as positive and negative predictive values. …”
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The role of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the formation of atherosclerotic vascular lesions in patients with abdominal obesity by N. L. Denisov, V. B. Grinevich, Ye. V. Chernetsova, Yu. A. Kravchuk, K. V. Ivashkin

“…The study involved 60 patients with AO (waist circumference ≥80 cm in women and ≥94 cm in men) and NAFLD who provided written informed consent to participate in the study. …”
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Like a Wave in Its Variable Shape, Breadth, and Depth: A Qualitative Interview Study of Experiences of Daytime Sleepiness in People with Parkinson’s Disease by Arja Höglund, Peter Hagell, Ulrika Östlund, Sten Fredrikson, Christina Sandlund

“…Materials and Methods. Five women and seven men (42–82 years) with PD for 1.5 to 21 years and excessive daytime sleepiness (i.e., a score of >10 on the Epworth Sleepiness Scale) participated in the study. …”
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Perspective of Pain Clinicians in Three Global Cities on Local Barriers to Providing Care for Chronic Noncancer Pain Patients by S. Fatima Lakha, Peri Ballantyne, Hanan Badr, Mubina Agboatwala, Angela Mailis, Peter Pennefather

“…Key informants were pain clinicians (n = 4 women and 8 men) responsible for outputs of specialized pain clinics in academic hospital settings in three global cities: Toronto, Kuwait, and Karachi. …”
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