Effects of prophylactic antibiotic administration and antibiotic timing on culture results and clinical outcomes of paediatric musculoskeletal infection: a protocol for a randomise... by Chao You, Yibiao Zhou, Zhiyong Liu, Chao Deng, Yongjie Xia, Dechao Wu, Liangfu Xie, Bing E, Jingming Han

“…Individuals aged 0–18 years with a diagnosis of MSI will be screened and evaluated at the Shenzhen Children’s Hospital. The participants will be randomly allocated into four groups, and they will receive the antibiotic treatment at different time points, that is, 1 week, 3 days, 1 day prior to tissue culture collection and 1 day after tissue culture collection, respectively. …”
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Associations between changes in the gut microbiota and liver cirrhosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ye Liu, Ziwei Chen, Chang Li, Tianhan Sun, Xuanmei Luo, Boyue Jiang, Meilan Liu, Qing Wang, Tong Li, Jianfu Cao, Yayu Li, Yuan Chen, Lu Kuai, Fei Xiao, Hongtao Xu, Hongyuan Cui

“…Methods We searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library and collected related articles published before March 10, 2024. Ratio of autochthonous to non-autochthonous taxa was calculated as the cirrhosis dysbiosis ratio (CDR). …”
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Quo vadis autoimmune hepatitis? - Summary of the 5th international autoimmune hepatitis group research workshop 2024Keypoints by Bastian Engel, David N. Assis, Mamatha Bhat, Jan Clusmann, Joost PH. Drenth, Alessio Gerussi, María-Carlota Londoño, Ye Htun Oo, Ida Schregel, Marcial Sebode, Richard Taubert

“…Patient representatives from the European Reference Network (ERN) Rare Liver Youth Panel participated in the workshop. The specific objectives of this year's 5th Workshop were: (1) To further improve diagnostics. (2) Initiate clinical trials including knowledge transfer on drugs from extrahepatic immune-mediated diseases, including B cell-depleting CAR T cells. (3) Utilisation of multi-omics approaches to improve the understanding of disease pathogenesis. (4) Application of machine learning-based approaches established in oncology or transplantation medicine to improve diagnosis and outcome prediction in AIH.…”
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Predicting postoperative nausea and vomiting after cesarean section: a nomogram model combined with gastric ultrasound by Yingchao Liu, Huohu Zhong, Zhisen Dai, Yuxin Huang, Yibin Liu, Hefan He, Yuewen Liao, Weifeng Liu

“…Methods The clinical data of 116 adult patients who underwent Cesarean section procedures between August 2022 and February 2023 were included. Participants were randomly divided into training (n = 87) and verification sets (n = 29) in a 3:1 ratio. …”
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Role of Opioid Ligands in the Irritable Bowel Syndrome by Enrico Corazziari

“…Endogenous opioids participate in the regulation of nervous visceral afference and sensitivity as well as of several visceral motor function induced by the central nervous system and through the enteroenteric and the myoenteric reflexes. …”
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Comparison of mortality in people with type 2 diabetes between different ethnic groups: Systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. by Umar Ahmed Riaz Chaudhry, Rebecca Fortescue, Liza Bowen, Stephen J Woolford, Felicity Knights, Derek G Cook, Tess Harris, Julia Critchley

“…<h4>Results</h4>From 30,825 searched records, we included 13 studies (7 meta-analysed), incorporating 573,173 T2D participants; 12 were good quality. Mortality risk was lower amongst people with T2D from South Asian [HR 0.68 (0.65-0.72)], Black [HR 0.82 (0.77-0.87)] and Chinese [HR 0.57 (0.46-0.70)] ethnicity compared to people of White ethnicity. …”
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Review of Decadal Changes in ASEAN Emissions Based on Regional and Global Emission Inventory Datasets by Shimul Roy, Yun Fat Lam, Shauhrat S. Chopra, Md. Mahbubul Hoque

“…The study observed a considerable increase in SO2, NOx, CO, CO2, and particulate matter (PM) emissions in ASEAN during this period. …”
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The dynamic interplay of opposites in zoroastrianism by Florentin Smarandache

“…Before investigating these vague areas, the concept of unclear conceptual borders is explored, emphasizing the indeterminacy and imprecision inherent in defining opposites or partially opposite concepts. The law of included infinitely-many-middles suggests that between opposites, there exist infinitely many nuances or middle values. …”
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Effectiveness and maintenance of behavior change and exercise programs on depressive symptoms in older adults by Lucelia Borges, Simone Meurer, Tânia Benedetti

“…In total, 119 older adult participants were allocated into different groups: behavior change (BCG; n=40), exercise (EG; n=51) and control (CG; n=28), assessed at baseline (A1) and followed-up at three (A2), six (A3) and twelve months (A4). …”
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The risk of believing that emotions are bad and uncontrollable: association with orthorexia nervosa by L. Vuillier, M. Greville-Harris, R. L. Moseley

“…Suppression, but not reappraisal, partially mediated the relationship between beliefs about emotions and ON symptoms. …”
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Abortion and contraception within prison health care: a qualitative study by Martha J. Paynter, Clare Heggie, Anja Mcleod, Wendy V. Norman

“…Results We conducted six focus groups with 35 recently incarcerated participants. Five themes emerged: (1) Competing health needs; (2) Institutional barriers to care; (3) Mistreatment and unethical care; (4) Health knowledge gaps; and (5) Challenges to care-seeking in community. …”
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Integrating psychiatry into basic clinical skills: A three‐year nationwide quantitative assessment of postgraduate training programs by Hidetaka Tamune, Hirohisa Fujikawa, Hiroyuki Harada, Tomoyuki Kodama, Masaaki Sasaki, Daichi Sone, Miwa Sekine, Masanobu Ito, Tadafumi Kato, Yuji Nishizaki, Yasuharu Tokuda

“…Results A total of 18,226 residents participated over the 3 years, of whom 5%–6% aspired to specialize in psychiatry. …”
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Assessment of Right Ventricle Function in Patients with Mitral Repair: Case Series by Yannis Amador, Jacobo Moreno Garijo, Azad Mashari, Giovanni Gadotti, Wilma M. Hopman, Tirone E David, Massimiliano Meineri

“…Setting: Toronto General Hospital. Participants: Thirty elective patients undergoing mitral valve repair. …”
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Psychosocial health stigma related to COVID-19 disease among COVID-19 patients in Jordan: a comparative study by Lina Jalal Daoud, Mamdouh El-hneiti, Mahmoud Ogla Al-Hussami

“…This comparative study aims to assess the psychosocial health stigma of COVID-19, and to evaluate the perceived stigma according to the sociodemographic variables during the pandemic in Jordan.Method A study in Jordan compared stigma between 112 COVID-19 patients (52 males and 60 females) and 118 healthy controls (56 males and 62 females), with participants ranging from 18 to over 60 years old in both groups.Results According to the data, 27% of COVID-19 patients had high-level stigma, with total stigma scores ranging from 46 to 111 and a mean of 80.23 (SD=12.79). …”
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Exploring the Dynamics of Work Satisfaction and Innovation Among Young Lecturers in Post-Pandemic Indonesia by Despinur Dara, Saparuddin Saparuddin

“…Research Methods: The study uses a mixed method approach in which 382 young lecturers from state universities in Indonesia participate in surveys, in-depth interviews, and participatory observations. …”
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Signature for Pain Recovery IN Teens (SPRINT): protocol for a multisite prospective signature study in chronic musculoskeletal pain by Fiona Campbell, Jennifer Stinson, Sara E Williams, Christopher D King, Laura Simons, Massieh Moayedi, Robert C Coghill, Martin S Angst, Nima Aghaeepour, Brice Gaudilliere, Marina López-Solà, Marie-Eve Hoeppli, Emma Biggs, Ed Ganio, Kenneth R Goldschneider, Danielle Ruskin, Elliot J Krane, Suellen Walker, Gillian Rush, Marissa Heirich

“…As foreign institutions, the University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) are overseen by their respective ethics boards. All participants provide signed informed consent. We are committed to open-access publication, so that patients, clinicians and scientists have access to the study data and the signature(s) derived. …”
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Effectiveness of school-based active breaks on classroom behavior, executive functions and physical fitness in children and adolescent: a systematic review by Tomás Reyes-Amigo, Gabriel Salinas-Gallardo, Edgardo Mendoza, Camilo Ovalle-Fernández, Jessica Ibarra-Mora, Nicolás Gómez-Álvarez, Hernaldo Carrasco-Beltrán, Jacqueline Páez-Herrera, Juan Hurtado-Almonácid, Rodrigo Yañez-Sepúlveda, Rafael Zapata-Lamana, Rafael Zapata-Lamana, Felipe Sepúlveda-Figueroa, Jorge Olivares-Arancibia, Jorge Mota

“…After screening 123 articles by title and abstract, 86 were excluded. Subsequently, 37 articles underwent full-text screening, resulting in 22 included studies. …”
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Investigation of the Mechanism of Complement System in Diabetic Nephropathy via Bioinformatics Analysis by Bojun Xu, Lei Wang, Huakui Zhan, Liangbin Zhao, Yuehan Wang, Meng Shen, Keyang Xu, Li Li, Xu Luo, Shasha Zhou, Anqi Tang, Gang Liu, Lu Song, Yan Li

“…The correlation analysis and subgroup analysis of 7 complement cascade-related hub genes and the clinical characteristics of DN showed that C1QA, C1QB, C3, CFB, ITGB2, VSIG4, and CLU may participate in the development of DN. Conclusions. We confirmed that the complement cascade-related hub genes may be the novel biomarkers for DN early diagnosis and targeted treatment.…”
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Dog alerting and/or responding to epileptic seizures: A scoping review. by Amélie Catala, Hugo Cousillas, Martine Hausberger, Marine Grandgeorge

“…Training methods differed between service animal programs, partially relying on hypothesized cues used by dogs (e.g., variations in behavior, scent, heart rate). …”
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Infertility and risk of ovarian cancer: A systematic review and meta analysis by Indra Sambasivam, H. Gladius Jennifer, Saravanan Chinnaiyan

“…The systematic review included 25 articles, while the meta-analysis included four. In total, data from 84,49,557 participants in 25 studies were extracted (21 cohort studies and 4 case-control studies). …”
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