Associations of carbohydrate quality and cardiovascular risk factors vary among diabetes subtypes by Katharina S. Weber, Sabrina Schlesinger, Janina Goletzke, Klaus Straßburger, Oana-Patricia Zaharia, Sandra Trenkamp, Robert Wagner, Wolfgang Lieb, Anette E. Buyken, Michael Roden, Christian Herder, for the GDS group

“…Abstract Background Assess the intake of carbohydrate quality and their association with cardiovascular risk factors among diabetes subtypes. Methods Participants of the German Diabetes Study (GDS) (recent-onset diabetes (n = 487) and 5-years thereafter (n = 209)) were allocated into severe autoimmune diabetes (SAID, 35%), severe insulin-deficient diabetes (SIDD, 3%), severe insulin-resistant diabetes (SIRD, 5%), mild obesity-related diabetes (MOD, 28%), and mild age-related diabetes (MARD, 29%). …”
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Vocational and psychosocial predictors of medical negligence claims among Australian doctors: a prospective cohort analysis of the MABEL survey by Anthony Scott, Marie Bismark, Owen M Bradfield, Matthew Spittal

“…Objective To understand the association between medical negligence claims and doctors’ sex, age, specialty, working hours, work location, personality, social supports, family circumstances, self-rated health, self-rated life satisfaction and presence of recent injury or illness.Design and setting Prospective cohort study of Australian doctors.Participants 12 134 doctors who completed the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life survey between 2013 and 2019.Primary outcome measure Doctors named as a defendant in a medical negligence claim in the preceding 12 months.Results 649 (5.35%) doctors reported being named in a medical negligence claim during the study period. …”
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What are the important factors influencing the physical activity level of junior high school students: a cross-sectional survey by Huijun Ma, Xuefeng Li, Chengliang Ma, Da Teng

“…The data on students’ physical activity levels were collected through the Children’s Leisure Activities Study Survey Questionnaire, and the data on factors affecting students’ physical activity were collected through the Student Perceived Factors Affecting Physical Activity Questionnaire.ResultsIn this study, students from the 7th, 8th, and 9th grades participated in physical activities, averaging 214.500 min per week in moderate-intensity and 25.000 min in high-intensity activities, cumulatively averaging 280.000 min weekly. …”
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The Small Wars Doctrine of the US Marine Corps and Colonial Experience of the European Powers by S. G. Malkin

“…Building on a wide array of primary sources, presented both by the works of military experts, direct participants in various counterinsurgency operations in the colonies, as well as by the teaching materials and field manuals of the US Marine Corps, the author traces the evolution of this concept which implied establishment of external management and/or control through military and police measures. …”
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Prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and associated factors among male prisoners in Great Tehran Prison by active case finding by Behnam Farhoudi, Elnaz Shahmohamadi, Seyedahmad Seyedalinaghi, SeyedAlireza Nadji, Fatemeh Pahlaviani, Mehrzad Tashakorian

“…They were examined by complete genital and anal examination, followed by molecular testing for a definite diagnosis. The mean age of participants was 33.4 years. During active and passive case findings, 27 (19.4%) prisoners reported abnormal urethral discharge, and 89 (59.5%) individuals claimed that they have had STIs, most of them gonorrhea. …”
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Protocol for a multicentre, prospective, open-label, randomised controlled trial to compare PROs and safety outcomes between preoperative and postmastectomy radiotherapy in locally... by Li Zhang, Jiong Wu, Guangyu Liu, Shuang Hao, Jianjing Hou, Changming Zhou, Yifeng Hou, Keda Yu, Zhen Hu, Genhong Di, Zhi Min Shao, Xiaoli Yu

“…The target sample size will be 80 participants.Ethics and dissemination This study will be performed according to the Helsinki Declaration. …”
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Turismo e dimore di scrittore, tra libri e lettere by Aurore Bonniot-Mirloup

“…La ricerca dell’autore aspira a comprendere il significato, o piuttosto, le variazioni di senso che assumono queste dimore di scrittore nell’incontro  con gli immaginari e le pratiche turistiche diverse e in evoluzione. Attraverso confronti  con i visitatori sulle loro aspettative, insieme anche ad uno studio delle annotazioni e osservazioni lasciate nei registri di commenti, l’autore va ad esplorare le percezioni e le emozioni del visitatore, in grado di svelare e mettere a fuoco un vasto immaginario tutto attorno alla dimora di scrittore, testimonianza della sua natura eterotopica. …”
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Health and economic cost estimates of short-term total and wildfire PM2.5 exposure on work loss: using the consecutive California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data 2015–2018 by Michael Jerrett, Yu Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Diane Garcia-Gonzales, Mohammad Z Al-Hamdan, Miriam E Marlier, Joseph L Wilkins, Ninez Ponce

“…Instruction To help determine the health protectiveness of government regulations and policies for air pollutant control for Americans, our study aimed to investigate the health and economic impacts of work loss due to sickness associated with daily all-source and wildfire-specific PM2.5 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter smaller than 2.5 μm) exposures in California.Methods We linked the 2015–2018 California Health Interview Survey respondents’ geocoded home addresses to daily PM2.5 estimated by satellites and atmospheric modelling simulations and wildfire-related PM2.5 from Community Multiscale Air Quality models. …”
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The Linda Kizazi study: a comparison of morbidity and mortality from birth to 2 years between children who are HIV-unexposed and HIV-exposed, uninfected in the era of universal ant... by John Kinuthia, Dara A Lehman, Dalton Wamalwa, Brenda Wandika, Emily R Begnel, Ednah Ojee, Judy Adhiambo, Eliza Mabele, Vincent Ogweno, Efrem S Lim, Soren Gantt, Jennifer Slyker

“…We followed the mother–infant pairs for 2 years post partum and collected data on symptoms of illness, clinical visits and diagnoses, and infant feeding every 3 months; a self-selected subset of participants also received weekly data collection for up to 1 year. …”
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Clinical expression of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy in carriers of 1–3 D4Z4 reduced alleles: experience of the FSHD Italian National Registry by Antonio Di Muzio, Corrado Angelini, Tiziana Mongini, Liliana Vercelli, Lucia Morandi, Giovanni Antonini, Gabriele Siciliano, Lucio Santoro, Maurizio Moggio, Giacomo Brisca, Luisa Villa, Giuliano Tomelleri, Francesco Sera, Carmelo Rodolico, Lorenzo Maggi, Giulia Ricci, Angela Berardinelli, Elena Pegoraro, Sabrina Ravaglia, Chiara Fiorillo, Michelangelo Cao, Rossella Tupler, Ana Nikolic, Elisabetta Bucci, Monica Govi, Fabiano Mele, Marta Rossi, Lucia Ruggiero, Maria Chiara D'Amico, Maria Grazia D'Angelo, Claudio Bruno

“…We searched for signs of perinatal onset and evaluated disease outcome through the systematic collection of clinical and anamnestic records of de novo and familial index cases and their relatives, carrying 1–3 DRA.Setting Italy.Participants 66 index cases and 33 relatives carrying 1–3 DRA.Outcomes The clinical examination was performed using the standardised FSHD evaluation form with validated inter-rater reliability. …”
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Integration and the Diplomatic Crisis: Current Realities of the GCC by L. V. Shkvarya

“…The article analyzes the integration process in the Gulf Cooperation Council group countries (GCC), which was founded in 1981. …”
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The Effect of Annealing in a Magnetic Field on the Microstructures and Magnetic Properties of (Nd_0.8RE_0.2)_2.2Fe₁₂Co₂B (RE = L... by Xiaohua Tan, Xuanbo Shi, Shiqi Zhang, Hui Xu

“…Here, we use low-cost and highly abundant La and Ce to partially substitute Nd and investigate the effect of annealing treatment with a 1 tesla (T) magnetic field on the microstructures and magnetic properties of (Nd_0.8RE_0.2)_2.2Fe₁₂Co₂B (RE = La, Ce) ribbons. …”
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Impact of multimorbidity and complex multimorbidity on mortality among older Australians aged 45 years and over: a large population-based record linkage study by Alamgir Kabir, An Tran, Sameera Ansari, Damian P Conway, Margo Barr

“…However, little is known about the impacts of MM and CMM on mortality in Australia.Design Community-based prospective cohort study.Setting New South Wales, Australia.Participants People aged 45 years and over who completed the baseline survey of the 45 and Up Study.Measures Baseline survey data from the 45 and Up Study were linked with deaths registry data. …”
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مداخلة علمیة حول النشر العلمى فى مصادر الوصول الحر Open Access بین التأیید والرفض by Gamal Al Dahshan

“…Manysocieties and institutions have embraced this movement and invested its variouscomponents in order to facilitate the flow of information not only in thesecommunities but throughout the world , This movement originated primarily as asolution to the problem of scientific communication, access to scientific researchat the time of publication or after a short period of time, and overcome theproblem of rising costs of participation in the traditional periodicals and theinability of libraries and individuals to bear the steady increase in this Field.We believe that although we believe that the scientific publishing in thesources of free access is the natural development of scientific publishing in thedigital age, we see at the same time the need to establish controls and conditionsand even standards to ensure its quality, and provide credibility to the clients andit is still not But with the revolution of electronic information and the ease of whatis described as the globalization of knowledge on the one hand, and the high costs of subscription imposed by the traditional publishing houses on the otherhand, it does not seem realistic to maintain the traditional form of publishing theexistence of the usual form, Of periodicals issued p A long-standing publishingrole for a mixed model combines the traditional model with this modelHence, openness should be open to the issue of publishing in the sourcesof free access, in addition to caution against falling into the trap of anonymouspublishers whose goal is to profit at the expense of the quality of what theypublish. …”
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Association between weight-adjusted waist-index and symptoms of sleep apnea in US adults: results from 2015–2018 national health and nutrition examination survey by Edmore Madondo, Paddington T. Mundagowa, Ayesha Mukhopadhyay, Debra Bartelli, Yu Jiang, Fawaz Mzayek

“…Results We analyzed data from 9,566 participants whose mean ± SD WWI was 11.03 ± 2.37 cm/√kg. …”
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Symptom patterns in patients newly sick listed for common mental disorders and associations with work-related and socioeconomic factors: a cross-sectional study in Swedish primary... by Cecilia Björkelund, Dominique Hange, Eva-Lisa Petersson, Irene Svenningsson, Nashmil Ariai, Lilian Wiegner

“…Objective The aim was to determine symptom patterns of depression, anxiety and stress-related mental disorders in newly sick listed due to common mental disorders in Swedish primary care patients and to examine associations with sick leave diagnosis, also in relation to socioeconomic, work-related and demographic factors.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting Primary care in western Sweden.Participants From a randomised controlled trial, patients aged 18–67, seeking primary care and on sick leave due to depression, anxiety and/or mental stress, in total 341 individuals, during 2018–2020.Primary outcome measures Patterns of depressive, anxiety and stress symptoms measured via self-assessment questionnaires (Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale-Self (MADRS-S), General Anxiety Disorder Scale-7 (GAD-7), Karolinska Exhaustion Disorder Scale (KEDS)), sick leave diagnosis, perception of Work Ability Index and job strain via the job strain model.Results A combination of high levels of depressive and stress-related symptoms was more frequent than single symptom clusters among persons with common mental disorders (CMD) on sick leave: 7% of the patients had scores above cut-off for one of the instruments MADRS-S, GAD-7 and KEDS, 12% above cut-off for two and 80% had above cut-off for all three instruments. …”
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Assessment of Biosecurity Status in Commercial Chicken Farms Found in Bishoftu Town, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia by Abdulbari Ismael, Adem Abdella, Shihun Shimelis, Asamenew Tesfaye, Yimer Muktar

“…Forty-one (93.18%) participants disclosed that their employees did not receive training on biosecurity. …”
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Unfolding insights about resilience and its coping strategies by medical academics and healthcare professionals at their workplaces: a thematic qualitative analysis by Salman Yousuf Guraya, Jacqueline Maria Dias, Mohamed Ahmed Eladl, Ayah Mohammad Rajai Rustom, Fatima Audi Saleem Alalawi, Majid Hassan Saleh Alhammadi, Yusra Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed, Amna Ali Omran Taryam Al Shamsi, Sarah Juman Bilalaga, Alfred Nicholson, Hani Malik, Shaista Salman Guraya

“…Results Our study recorded insights of 170 participants; 69 MHAs and 101 HCPs. Through an inductive thematic analysis, three overarching themes with sub-themes emerged; cognitive mastery (cognitive appraisal and problem-solving abilities), affective well-being (gratification from professional efficacy and social support), and conative efficiency (proactive approaches and introspection and reflection). …”
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The Validity Of 75gms OGTT For Detection Of GDM Keeping 100gms OGTT As Gold Standard by Shazia Mehreen, Muhammad Usman, Kashif Rauf, Saima Naz, Muhammad Abdul Rab Faisal Sultan, Muhammad Akram Randhawa

“…Informed consent for participating in the study was taken from all 205 patients. …”
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MOSQUITO-BORNE PARASITES IN PATIENTS NEWLY INFECTED WITH HIV IN RELATIONSHIP WITH CD4 COUNT AND TNF ΑLPHA by Mathew Folaranmi Olaniyan

“…Venous blood including Night blood samples and sputum samples were obtained from the participants for CD4 count by cyflowmetry, TNFα, HIVP24Ag-Ab, anti-HCV, HBsAg by ELISA and microscopic identification by Giemsa staining while Sputum sample was used for Ziehl Neelsen staining to demonstrate Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB). …”
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