Research Progress on the Relationship between Ischemic Stroke and Immunoinflammatory Factors by Qiang TANG, Huilin HUANG, Luwen ZHU, Hongyu LI, Jiyao ZHANG, Ping QIN, Xia YIN, Jiashuai LI

“…Many studies have shown that inflammatory response plays an important role in the occurrence and development of ischemic stroke and participates in the process of pathological injury. At the same time, inflammatory response in the late stage to participate in the recovery of the disease, to protect and repair the nerve, play a dual role. …”
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Diabetes mellitus risk in post-myocardial infarction patients: FINDRISC versus self-assessment—a cross sectional study by Karianne Nölken, Jakob Linseisen, Philip Raake, Christine Meisinger, Timo Schmitz

“…These factors are components of the FINDRISC score, which estimates the likelihood of developing diabetes within the next 10 years. Furthermore, the participants were asked, how they would rate their personal risk to develop diabetes. …”
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Comparison of a Virtual and in-Person OSCE on Advanced Communication Skills: Qualitative Insights from Medical Student Debrief Transcripts by Alex Choi, Tanya D. Murtha, Laura J. Morrison, Jaideep S. Talwalkar

“…Afterwards, students participated in a faculty-led debrief (in-person in 2019, virtual in 2021). …”
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Revealing speckle obscured living human retinal cells with artificial intelligence assisted adaptive optics optical coherence tomography by Vineeta Das, Furu Zhang, Andrew J. Bower, Joanne Li, Tao Liu, Nancy Aguilera, Bruno Alvisio, Zhuolin Liu, Daniel X. Hammer, Johnny Tam

“…RPE cell spacing measured across a large set of AI recovered images from 3 participants were in agreement with expected normative ranges. …”
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A Comparison of Alexithymia in Individuals with Suicidal Ideation, Attempted Suicide, and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury by Sertaç Zengil, Orhan Delice, Hilal Uygur

“…This study investigated whether alexithymia levels would differ in three different groups consisting of participants exhibiting suicidal ideation, attempted suicide, and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). …”
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Efficacy and safety of trabeculectomy versus peripheral iridectomy plus goniotomy in advanced primary angle-closure glaucoma: study protocol for a multicentre, non-inferiority, ran... by Keith Barton, Tin Aung, Ling Jin, Ping Lu, Xiulan Zhang, Robert N Weinreb, Yi Zhang, Li Tang, Guangxian Tang, Hengli Zhang, Aiguo Lv, Huiping Yuan, Yunhe Song, Fengbin Lin, DENNIS S C LAM, Lin Xie, Kun Hu, Xiaohong Liang, Yingzhe Zhang, Wulian Song, Xiaomin Zhu, Xinbo Gao, Sujie Fan, Yuying Peng, Mengfei Liao, Xin Nie, Ki-Ho Park

“…All participants will be required to provide written informed consent. …”
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Association of arm circumference with the prevalence of gallstones in United States adults: a retrospective analysis on US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey by Jianjun Wang, Xi Chen, Wei He, Xintao Zeng, Pei Yang, Jianping Gong, Decai Wang

“…Consequently, this research sought to investigate the relationship between AC and the prevalence of GS among the general adult population in America.MethodsParticipant data were extracted from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2017–2020 cycle. …”
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Terminal Care Performance of Nurses Caring for COVID‐19 Patients: A Cross‐Sectional Descriptive Study by Juyeon Oh, Dong‐Hee Kim, Yujin Kim

“…Methods Using a convenience sampling method from June to October 2022, nurses who provided terminal care for COVID‐19 patients in a Korean tertiary hospital within the last 6 months from the time of the study were selected as participants. Socio‐demographic and work characteristics of the participants were collected, and COVID‐19 moral distress, terminal care stress and terminal care performance were assessed. …”
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Acceptability of Mobile Phone Technology for Medication Adherence Interventions among HIV-Positive Patients at an Urban Clinic by Christopher W. T. Miller, Seth Himelhoch

“…Approximately half of the participants reported some difficulty with adherence (CASE < 10). …”
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Estimated Pulse Wave Velocity Is Associated With All‐Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Mortality Among Adults With Chronic Kidney Disease by Xiao‐Hua Feng, Yi Chen, Xue‐Qi Chen, Wei‐Hong Zhao

“…ABSTRACT This study aimed to assess the correlation between estimated pulse wave velocity (ePWV) and mortality rates related to all‐cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) among individuals diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the United States. A total of 4669 participants with CKD were identified from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted between 1999 and 2018. …”
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Relationship between METS-IR and ABSI index and the prevalence of nocturia: a cross-sectional analysis from the 2005–2020 NHANES data by Fei Xue, Yating Zhou

“…Specifically, compared to the lowest quartile (Q1), participants in the highest quartile (Q4) had an OR of 1.45 (95% CI: 1.30–1.61, p < 0.0001) for METS-IR and 1.38 (95% CI: 1.23–1.55, p < 0.0001) for ABSI. …”
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Evaluation of Sleep Disorders in the Elderly with Vestibular Vertigo by Zahra Hosseini Dastgerdi, Nasrin Gohari, Mobina Mehrabifard, Hasti Seifi, Bahare Khavarghazalani

“…The present study investigates the associations between vertigo-induced handicap and sleep quality in older people.Methods: This cross-sectional study included individuals aged 60–70 with vestibular vertigo. The participants completed two questionnaires—the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)—in the presence of one of the authors.Results: In this study, 96% of participants exhibited some degree of poor sleep quality. …”
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Novel Compound Heterozygous BBS2 and Homozygous MKKS Variants Detected in Chinese Families with Bardet–Biedl Syndrome by Li Huang, Limei Sun, Zhirong Wang, Songshan Li, Chonglin Chen, Xiaoling Luo, Xiaoyan Ding

“…Family A was a four-generation family with four affected and 15 unaffected members participating in the study, and family B was a consanguineous family with one affected and three unaffected members participating. …”
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Predictors of hospitalization, death and incomplete/non-recovery from SARS-CoV-2 in an ambulatory global population by Sarah L. Pett

“…By 28 days, 424(4.3%) participants were hospitalized or had died; most within 7 days of enrolment(3.4%). …”
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Association of Race and Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE): The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Cohort by Ericha G Franey, Donna Kritz-Silverstein, Erin L Richard, John E Alcaraz, Caroline M Nievergelt, Richard A Shaffer, Vibha Bhatnagar

“…Included in this longitudinal study were 12,770 black or white participants from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) cohort who completed a baseline visit (1987–1989) with PON genotyping. …”
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Attributes of cognitive impairment in patients on maintenance hemodialysis – A cohort study by Geet Gaurav, Deepa Sanjeev Sajjanar, G. V. Naregal, Sanjeev L. Sajjanar

“…About 88.6% of participants (n = 62) showed considerable cognitive impairment and 1.4% had frank dementia. …”
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Rationale and design for the thoracic Paravertebral Adjunctive Dexamethasone Palmitate Reducing chronic pain After cardiac surgery (PANDORA) trial: a parallel-group, double-blinded... by Jing Zhao, Hui Zhang, Ziyu Zheng, Baobao Gao, Lini Wang, Chong Lei, Hailong Dong, Taoyuan Zhang, Jiao Gao, Lihong Hou

“…The mechanism is not clear, and there is still a lack of safe and effective preventive measures.Methods and analysis The Paravertebral Adjunctive Dexamethasone Palmitate Reducing chronic pain After cardiac surgery (PANDORA) trial is a parallel-group, double-blinded, randomised controlled, single-centre study recruiting 902 participants undergoing MICS. Participants will be randomised in a 1:1 ratio to dexamethasone palmitate (D-PAL) emulsion group and dexamethasone (DSP) group. …”
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Optimizing Clinical Reasoning: Unpacking the Impact of Virtual Patient Educational Duration in Cancer Care and Nursing Students’ Experiences by Masoud Bahrami, Arash Hadadgar, Masoumeh Fuladvandi

“…Conclusions: The survey found that 85.60% of participants prefer using VPs for clinical reasoning education. …”
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Pretreatment Fatigue in Breast Cancer Patients: Comparison With Healthy Controls and Associations With Biopsychosocial Variables by Patricia Blickle, Martina E. Schmidt, Karen Steindorf

“…Methods Two hundred and thirty‐two breast cancer patients (mean age = 55.6) and 41 healthy participants (mean age = 49.3) were recruited via the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg. …”
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A randomised trial comparing the clinical effectiveness of different emergency department healthcare professionals in soft tissue injury management by Jonathan Richard Benger, Jane Powell, Fiona Cramp, Carey Middleton McClellan

“…Participants were adults (older than 16 years) presenting to the ED with a peripheral soft tissue injury eligible for management by any of the three professional groups. …”
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