Association between exposure to ambient air pollutants and metabolic syndrome in the vicinity of the Taklamakan Desert by Zhe Wang, Weidong Ji, Yushan Wang, Lin Li, Kai Wang, Hongze Liu, Yining Yang, Yi Zhou

“…To investigate the association between air pollutants and the prevalence of MetS and its components, Spatial Generalized Linear Mixed Models were applied, with adjustments made for relevant covariates. …”
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The Wayqecha Amazon Cloud Curtain Ecosystem Experiment: A new experimental method to manipulate fog water inputs in terrestrial systems by Daniel B. Metcalfe, Darcy F. Galiano Cabrera, Luis Miguel Alvarez Mayorga, Roxana Sacatuma Cruz, Daniela Corrales Alvarez, Blanca Rosa Espinoza Otazu, Walter Huaraca Huasco, Jimmy R. Chambi, Maria E. Ezquerra, Beisit L. Puma Vilca, Mark Mulligan, Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur, Heidi Asbjornsen, Paulo R. L. Bittencourt, Aline B. Horwath, David C. Bartholomew

“…The treatment caused a small but significant increase in air temperature above the canopy but a decrease in temperature in and near the soil, while mixed effects were observed at 2 m height above the ground. …”
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The Role of Atrial Fibrillation and Oral Anticoagulation Status in Health‐Related Quality of Life 12 Months After Ischemic Stroke or TIA by Manuel C. Olma, Lena Steindorf‐Sabath, Serdar Tütüncü, Claudia Kunze, Cornelia Fiessler, Paulus Kirchhof, Joanna Dietzel, Johannes Schurig, Patrick Oschmann, Ludwig Niehaus, Christian Urbanek, Götz Thomalla, Darius G. Nabavi, Joachim Röther, Ulrich Laufs, Roland Veltkamp, Peter U. Heuschmann, Karl Georg Haeusler, Matthias Endres, for the MonDAFIS Investigators

“…HRQOL was measured using the EQ‐5D‐3L‐questionnaire (including EQ‐index/EQ‐VAS) at baseline and after 12 months using multivariable linear mixed models. AF symptom severity was assessed using the European Heart Rhythm Association classification and symptom severity score (EHRA score) categorizing patients with no/mild/severe/disabling AF‐related symptoms. …”
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Healthy food prescription incentive programme for adults with type 2 diabetes who are experiencing food insecurity: protocol for a randomised controlled trial, modelling and implem... by Colleen Norris, Tyler Williamson, Richard Oster, Dana Lee Olstad, Laura White, David J T Campbell, Sharlette Dunn, Kim D Raine, Mary L'Abbé, Richard Lewanczuk, Lorraine L Lipscombe, Eldon Spackman, Reed Beall, Kienan Williams, Sara Scott, Gabrielle L Zimmermann, Kerry A McBrien, Kieran J D Steer, Catherine B Chan, Sheila Tyminski, Seth Berkowitz, Alun L Edwards, Terry Saunders-Smith, Saania Tariq, Naomi Popeski, Sara Nejatinamini, Aruba Naser, Carlota Basualdo-Hammond, Petra O’Connell, Judy Seidel, Jason Cabaj

“…Outcomes will be assessed at baseline and follow-up (6 months) in the RCT and analysed using mixed-effects regression. Longer-term outcomes will be modelled using the UK Prospective Diabetes Study outcomes simulation model-2. …”
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Combination of reverse shock index and simplified motor score as a strong discriminator of trauma outcomes by Meng-Yu Wu, Giou-Teng Yiang, Ding-Kuo Chien, Sy-Jou Chen, Chi-Ming Chu, Jui-Yuan Chung, Hon-Ping Ma, Mau-Roung Lin

“…Furthermore, rSI-sMS had better accuracy for discriminating clinical outcomes in patients with an injury severity score (ISS) ≥16, motor vehicle collisions, falls, no chronic disease, and cardiovascular disease as well as in geriatric and nongeriatric patients. In patients with mixed and isolated brain injuries, rSI-sMS accurately discriminated the four clinical outcomes, similar to rSI-GCS. …”
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Pelvic Drop Changes due to Proximal Muscle Strengthening Depend on Foot-Ankle Varus Alignment by Aline de Castro Cruz, Sérgio Teixeira Fonseca, Vanessa Lara Araújo, Diego da Silva Carvalho, Leonardo Drumond Barsante, Valéria Andrade Pinto, Thales Rezende Souza

“…Before and after strengthening, we evaluated (1) pelvis and hip excursions in the frontal and transverse planes during walking, (2) isokinetic hip passive external rotator torque, and (3) isokinetic concentric and eccentric peak torques of the hip external rotator muscles. Mixed analyses of variance (ANOVAs) were carried out for each dependent variable related to walking kinematics and isokinetic measurements (α=0.05). …”
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Effects of a multicomponent resistance-based exercise program with protein, vitamin D and calcium supplementation on cognition in men with prostate cancer treated with ADT: seconda... by Helen Macpherson, Robin M Daly, Patricia M Livingston, Declan G Murphy, Patrick J Owen, Timo Rantalainen, Niamh L Mundell, Jeremy L Millar, Steve F Fraser, Jack Dalla Via, Stephen J Foulkes

“…Data were analysed with linear mixed models and an intention-to-treat and prespecified per-protocol approach (exercise-training: ≥66%, nutritional supplement: ≥80%).Results Sixty (86%) men completed the trial (Ex + Suppl, n=31; control, n=29). …”
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PrEP15-19 Choices: an implementation study protocol of HIV prevention with oral and long-acting injectable cabotegravir PrEP in real-world settings among sexual and gender minority... by Inês Dourado, Eliana Miura Zucchi, Laio Magno, Alexandre D Grangeiro, Márcia Thereza Couto, Mateus Westin, Eduardo Oliveira, Maria Mercedes Escuder, Dirceu Greco, Thais Regis Aranha Rossi, Fabiane Soares, Lorenza Dezanet, Paula Massa, Priscilla Caires, Ricardo de Paula Vasconcelos, Unaí Tupinambas, Beo Leite, Joilson Nascimento Paim, Guilherme Barreto Campos, Lucas Miranda Marques, Nathalia Suzart, Suilan Pedreira, DulceAurélia deSouza Ferraz, Dyemison Pinheiro, Eliane Sala, Raphaella Goulart, Ana Paula Silva, Erica Dumont Pena, Gabriella Jomara daSilva, Marília Greco, Matheus dePaula Alves

“…Safe and effective long-acting agents for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV infection are needed to increase preventive options among sexual and gender minority adolescents.Methods and analysis This is a multisite, prospective implementation study of three PrEP modalities (LAI-PrEP, event-driven (ED) and daily oral), using a mixed-method design with quantitative and qualitative approaches. …”
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Radiological abnormalities persist following COVID-19 and correlate with impaired health-related quality of life: a prospective cohort study of hospitalised patients by Rhian M Touyz, Ninian N Lang, Kevin G Blyth, Naveed Sattar, Patrick B Mark, Stefan Siebert, Colin Berry, Iain McInnes, Giles Roditi, Neil Basu, David Corcoran, Kenneth Mangion, Alex McConnachie, David Carrick, Jaclyn Carberry, Stuart Watkins, Paul Welsh, Sabrina Nordin, Katherine Scott, Christian Delles, Bernard Kelly, Fraser Goldie, John GF Cleland, Sharon Kean, Peter Kellman, David J Lowe, Andrew J Morrow, Antonia Ho, Rosemary Woodward, Tracey Hopkins, Ryan Wereski, Massimo Palmarini, Alasdair McIntosh, Campbell Rogers, Ammani Brown, Catherine Bagot, Kathryn Scott, Robert Sykes, Colin Church, Claire Rooney, Nicola Ryan, Clare Orange, Dirk Husmeier, Xiaoyu Luo, PETER W MACFARLANE, Heerajnarain Bulluck, Iain Findlay, Evonne McLennan, Michael Briscoe, Oliver Peck, Alastair J Rankin, Gruschen Veldtman, Varun Sharma, Kathryn McLaren, Elaine Butler, Sarah Mullen, Andrew Morrow, Patrick Mark, Daniel Doherty, Alexander Payne, Jennifer S Lees, Kaitlin J Mayne, Louise Inglis, Anna Kamdar, Hannah Bayes, Vivienne B Gibson, Lynsey Gillespie, Douglas Grieve, Pauline Hall Barrientos, Christopher McGinley, Connor Mckee, Sarah Allwood-Spiers, Sarah Weeden, Laura Knox, Lynn Abel, David Stobo, Andrew Dougherty, Liam Peng, David Barrie Stobo, Sylvia Wright, Stephen Dobbin, Keith Gillis, Sarah A Spiers, Ian Fergus, Kirsty Fallon, Lesley Gilmour, Chloe Cowan, Jurgen Van-Melckebeke, Kim Moran-Jones, Debra Stuart, Maureen Travers, Laura Dymock, Fiona Savage, Nicola Tynan, Sau Lee Chang, Mhairi Dupre, Lindsey Norton, George Bruce, Rosario Gonzalez-Lopez, Rebecca Stace, Dionne Russell, Jean Watt, Shahid Latif, Nick Hill, Amy Collinsworth, Ross McGeoch Vera Lennie, Robin P Weir

“…This included ground-glass opacification (45%), reticulation/architectural distortion (30%) or mixed pattern (19%). These features were very infrequent among a group of age-matched, sex-matched and cardiovascular risk factor-matched controls (n=29). …”
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Refinement of a meaning-centered counseling program for Chinese patients with advanced cancer: integrating cultural adaptation and implementation science approaches by Florence Lui, Qingyi Zhang, George Chengxi Bao, Bharat Narang, Ruo Yan Chen, Yunshan Niu, Jennifer Leng, William Breitbart

“…Abstract Background This mixed methods study identified needed refinements to a telehealth-delivered cultural and linguistic adaptation of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Chinese patients with advanced cancer (MCP-Ch) to enhance acceptability, comprehensibility, and implementation of the intervention in usual care settings, guided by the Ecological Validity Model (EVM) and the Practical, Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model (PRISM). …”
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Robotic-assisted surgery and kinematic alignment in total knee arthroplasty (RASKAL study): a protocol of a national registry-nested, multicentre, 2×2 factorial randomised trial as... by Ian A Harris, Samuel J MacDessi, Aziz Bhimani, Darren B Chen, Ian Harris, Michelle Lorimer, David Parker, Tamara Hooper, Richard Boyle, Jonathan Mulford, Daniel Franks, Gregory C Wernecke, Durga Bastiras, Emma Heath, Anthony Leong, Brett Fristch, David Penn, George Kirsh, John Limbers, Julian Yu, Maurice Guzman, Peter McEwen

“…Statistical analysis will include a generalised linear mixed model for repeated measures for continuous KOOS-12 scores. …”
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-Tyrosine Confers Residualizing Properties to a -Amino Acid-Rich Residualizing Peptide for Radioiodination of Internalizing Antibodies by Fook T. Lee PhD, Ingrid J. G. Burvenich PhD, Nancy Guo MBBS, MSc, Pece Kocovski BSc (Honors), Henri Tochon-Danguy PhD, Uwe Ackermann PhD, Graeme J. O’Keefe PhD, Sylvia Gong PhD, Angela Rigopoulos BSc, MSc, Zhanqi Liu MBBS, PhD, Hui K. Gan MBBS, FRACP, PhD, Andrew M. Scott MBBS, FRACP, MD

“…High-resolution immuno-PET/magnetic resonance imaging of tumors showed good correlation with biodistribution data. Conclusions: The mixed d / l -enantiomeric peptide, d Thr- d Pro- d Thr- dA sp -dA sp-Tyr -dA sp -dA sp- d Thr- d Pro- d Thr, is suitable for radiolabeling antibodies with radiohalogens such as 124 I for high-resolution immuno-PET imaging of tumors and for evaluation in early-phase clinical trials.…”
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Systemic Overexpression of GDF5 in Adipocytes but Not Hepatocytes Alleviates High-Fat Diet-Induced Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver in Mice by Yan Yang, Wenting Zhang, Xiaohui Wu, Jing Wu, Chengjun Sun, Feihong Luo, Zhou Pei

“…The overexpression of GDF5 in hepatocytes failed to improve lipid accumulation and inflammation-related reactions induced by mixed fatty acids, suggesting that the protective effect of GDF5 in NAFLD was mainly due to the reduction in adipose tissue and improvements in metabolism. …”
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The potential use of brewers' spent grain-based substrates as horticultural bio-fertilizers by Angela Bianco, Angela Bianco, Sara Melito, Matteo Garau, Vittoria Giannini, Giacomo Zara, Giacomo Zara, Davide Assandri, Safa Oufensou, Safa Oufensou, Roberta Coronas, Niccolò Pampuro, Marilena Budroni, Marilena Budroni

“…Biochar (B), vermicompost (V), compost (CP), and compost enriched with a microbial consortium (CPE), each mixed at 2 and 4% with peat, were compared with two control treatments: 100% peat (C1) and peat with ternary chemical fertilizer (C2). …”
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Emotion regulation-based internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for premenstrual dysphoric disorder: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial in Sweden by Filipa Sampaio, Alkistis Skalkidou, Gerhard Andersson, Cornelia Weise, Johanna M. Hoppe, Maria Kleinstaeuber, Johan Vegelius, Erika Comasco, Maria Gröndal, Elisavet Kaltsouni, Felicia Sundström, Monica Buhrman

“…Data will be analysed using latent Gaussian process modelling and linear mixed models. The economic evaluation will analyse individual-level societal costs and outcomes between trial arms. …”
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Increases in the susceptibility of human endometrial CD4+ T cells to HIV-1 infection post-menopause are not dependent on greater viral receptor expression frequency by Landon G. vom Steeg, Zheng Shen, Jane Collins, Mickey V. Patel, Fiona D. Barr, Daniel C. Hopkins, Christina Ochsenbauer, Charles R. Wira

“…Using a tissue-specific mixed cell infection model, we demonstrate that while no changes in CD14+ macrophage infection susceptibility were observed, CD4+ T cell HIV-1 infection frequency increases following menopause in the EM, but not CX nor ECX. …”
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Association between plasma perfluoroalkyl substances and high-grade serous ovarian cancer overall survival: A nested case-control study by Wei-Yi Xing, Fang-Hua Liu, Dong-Dong Wang, Jia-Ming Liu, Wen-Rui Zheng, Jia-Xin Liu, Lang Wu, Yue-Yang Zhao, He-Li Xu, Yi-Zi Li, Yi-Fan Wei, Dong-Hui Huang, Xiao-Ying Li, Song Gao, Qi-Peng Ma, Ting-Ting Gong, Qi-Jun Wu

“…Conclusions: Both individual and mixed plasma PFASs may relate to poor OS of HGSOC. …”
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Establishment of a rapid and quantitative method for detecting the range of infection exposure in preclinical dental education by Ayaka Ueda, Yuki Shinoda-Ito, Kazu Takeuchi-Hatanaka, Takashi Ito, Shintaro Ono, Kimito Hirai, Kazuhiro Omori, Tadashi Yamamoto, Shogo Takashiba

“…In vitro study, the correlation between adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels and Lactobacillus colony numbers in yogurt was examined using the ATP fluorescent method, with colony counting on yogurt only and a mixture of yogurt and ultraviolet (UV)-sensitive hand lotion. The mixed liquid of yogurt and hand lotion was used as artificial saliva. …”
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First report of Haemaphysalis bispinosa, molecular-geographic relationships of Ixodes granulatus and a new Dermacentor species from Vietnam by Sándor Hornok, Jenő Kontschán, Gergő Keve, Nóra Takács, Dat Van Nguyen, Khanh Ngoc Phuong Ho, Tamás Görföl, Yuanzhi Wang, Róbert Farkas, Thanh Thi Ha Dao

“…However, I. granulatus, the Asian rodent tick, has a mixed geographical pattern of haplotypes, probably because it may associate with either synanthropic or wild-living rodents as primary hosts. …”
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Investigating the implementation of infection prevention and control practices in neonatal care across country income levels: a systematic review by Emanuela Nyantakyi, Julia Baenziger, Laura Caci, Kathrin Blum, Aline Wolfensberger, Angela Dramowski, Bianca Albers, Marta Castro, Marie-Therese Schultes, Lauren Clack

“…The quality of included studies was assessed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. Results Out of 6,426 records, a total of 156 studies were included in the systematic review. …”
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