Diabetes Complications at Presentation and One Year by Glycated Haemoglobin at Diagnosis in a Multiethnic and Diverse Socioeconomic Population: Results from the South London Diabet... by Mohsin Azam, Lindsey Marwood, Khalida Ismail, Tyrrell Evans, Sobha Sivaprasad, Kirsty Winkley, Stephanie Anne Amiel

“…Results. Of 1488 participants, 22.8% had diagnostic HbA1c<48 mmol/mol. …”
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Preferences of people with type 2 diabetes for telemedical lifestyle programmes in Germany: protocol of a discrete choice experiment by Veronika Gontscharuk, Andrea Icks, Michael Roden, Markus Vomhof, Sandra Grobosch, Jana Sommer, Jan Dyczmons

“…The final DCE is being implemented within a randomised controlled trial for investigating whether participation in a telemedical lifestyle intervention programme sustainably improves the HbA1c values in 850 members of a large German statutory health insurance with T2DM. …”
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Physical Inactivity and Food Insecurity Are Associated with Social Capital: A Large-Scale Population-Based Study in Tehran by Amin Nakhostin-Ansari, Paria Akbari, Maryam Selk-Ghaffari, Amir Hossein Memari, Mohamad-Reza Vaez-Mahdavi, Mohsen Asadi-Lari

“…A total of 5030 individuals were included in this study, with 3139 (62.4%) males. The mean age of participants was 44.08 years (SD = 16.33, range = 15–90). …”
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Association of Phthalate Exposure with Thyroid Function and Thyroid Homeostasis Parameters in Type 2 Diabetes by Yi Chen, Wen Zhang, JingSi Chen, Ningjian Wang, Chi Chen, Yuying Wang, Heng Wan, Bo Chen, Yingli Lu

“…Concurrent urine and blood samples were collected from 639 participants with type 2 diabetes in the METAL (Environmental Pollutant Exposure and Metabolic Diseases in Shanghai) study. …”
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Low back pain treatment adherence barriers in Eswatini private physiotherapy practices: A pilot study by Tapiwa Chikaka, Monique M. Keller

“…Results: Twenty-two (35.5%) participants missed appointments because of feeling better. …”
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Value-based healthcare for social insurance medicine: key enablers for adoption in practice by Sylvia J van der Burg-Vermeulen, Philip J van der Wees, Jan L Hoving, Nina Zipfel, Marijke Melles, Marije E Hagendijk

“…Background Driven by rising retirement age and increasing prevalence of chronic diseases impacting work participation, there is an increasing need for quality and efficiency improvement in social insurance medicine (SIM). …”
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Art Education Experiences in Unified Classrooms: A Phenomenological Study by Ünal Bastaban, Ela Kurnaz

“…Repeating this research after the participants were given art education might make a difference in terms of both education and participants.…”
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Association between exposure to 35 environmental pollutants and mortality from cerebrovascular diseases: A long-term prospective study by Lingjun Yan, Bingqin Xie, Zilin Liu, Yu Huang, Chenyu Ding, Wenhua Fang, Fuxin Lin, Yuanxiang Lin, Dezhi Kang, Fa Chen

“…The average age of participants was approximately 46 years, with male participants comprising around 48 % of the cohort. …”
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Prevalence of metabolic syndrome with different serum vitamin D levels in middle-aged and older adults by Ya Zhao, Danting Su, Lichun Huang, Mengjie He, Dan Han, Dong Zhao, Yan Zou, Ronghua Zhang

“…Results A total of 11,305 participants were included in this study. MetS was prevalent in 31.7% of participants. …”
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Brief intervention to reduce fatigue impact in patients with inflammatory arthritis: design and outcomes of a single-arm feasibility study by Paul Ewings, Emma Dures, Sarah Hewlett, Joanna Thorn, Mwidimi Ndosi, Siobhan Creanor, Jo Adams, Lance M McCracken, Joe Lomax, Susan Bridgewater, Bryan Abbott, Alice Berry, Marie Urban

“…Following training, RHPs delivered two to four sessions to participants. Baseline data were collected before the first session (T0) and outcomes at 6 weeks (T1) and 6 months (T2). …”
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Universal parent-focused child sexual abuse prevention: A quasi-experimental protocol. by Ella Abourjaily, Kate Guastaferro, Kassidy McElwee, Christian M Connell

“…The experimental group will participate in a Smarter Parents. Safer Kids. workshop between the Surveys 0 and 1. …”
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Role Of Endoscopic Gastric Biopsy in Patients With Chronic Dyspepsia For Diagnosis Of H. Pylori by Muhammad Zafar Majeed, Ghulam Mustafa, Haseeb Ahsan

“…The presence of H pylori has been evaluated in participants of different age groups, residences, symptoms, and conditions. …”
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Mental Skill Usage of Athletes with Physical Disabilities by Ferhat Esatbeyoğlu, Mark Campbell

“…Exploration of years participating in sport comparison has also discovered differences among groups (P lt;0.01). …”
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Research on the Relationship between Dynamic Message Sign Control Strategies and Driving Safety in Freeway Work Zones by Wenxiang Xu, Xiaohua Zhao, Yufei Chen, Yang Bian, Haijian Li

“…In this study, five control strategies are proposed by combining five DMSs with different contents (“change lane” versus “go straight”). A total of 32 participants participated in this study. Each participant drove in five scenarios in a high-fidelity driving simulator corresponding to strategies 1-5. …”
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HIV-related stigma among young men who have sex with men in HIV care in Plateau State Nigeria by Tolulope O. Afolaranmi, Tolulope O. Afolaranmi, Beth Chaplin, Ayuba I. Zoakah, Phyllis J. Kanki

“…The total HIV- related stigma score for the participants was 121.9 ± 18.8 with high-level of stigma reported among 40 (32.8%) of the participants. …”
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Asthma Risk Prevalence and Associated Factors in Stunted Children: A Study Using Asthma Predictive Index by Gartika Sapartini, Gary W. K. Wong, Agnes Rengga Indrati, Cissy B. Kartasasmita, Budi Setiabudiawan

“…<i>Results</i>: A total of 422 participants with an average age of 43.1 ± 9.7 months were included. …”
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Respectful community engagement in health research with diverse im/migrant communities by M Ruth Lavergne, Shira Goldenberg, Mei-ling Wiedmeyer, Stefanie Machado, Samira Karsiem

“…Specifically, we share our core community engagement project structures, Commitments to Community and our Community Engagement Backbone, both collaboratively developed with im/migrant community memebers.Participants People with varied experiences of im/migration and connections to multiple, specific im/migrant communities participate in the project as participants, community researchers, community advisory board members, faculty members and students. …”
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A study of epidemiological determinants and quality of life in physically differently abled persons attending physical medicine and rehabilitation center in a Metropolitan city by Rajesh Katre, Rohan Sangam, Mridula Solanki, Shalini Rawat

“…The sample size was calculated to be 177, and participants were enrolled using the convenient sampling method. …”
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Does opting in or out affect the take up of incentives in a long running population-based cohort study: A nested randomised trial in ALSPAC. by Kate Northstone, Claire Bowring

“…<h4>Background</h4>Financial incentives may be important for improving response rates to data collection activities and for retaining participants in longitudinal studies. However, for large studies, this introduces significant additional costs. …”
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The role and activities of the public in the implementation of anti-corruption reforms by O. S. Bondarenko

“…The article is devoted to an important and topical issue of legal description of the role and activities of the public in the implementation of anti-corruption reforms. …”
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