Tooth loss and need for prosthetic treatment. El Carmen, Barinas State, Venezuela, 2018 by Yoel Gonzalez Beriau, Nadia Jover Capote

“…<br /><strong>Results</strong>: female sex predominated, represented by 62.4%, and patients aged between 19 and 34 years old, with 48.7%. …”
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A U-shaped non-linear association between serum uric acid levels and the risk of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis: a cross-sectional study by Manli Yan, Wenhua Shi, Ping Gong, Yunsi Xie, Kaiyuan Zhang, Xiang Li, Hua Wei, Hua Wei

“…The relationship between metabolic indicators and HT was analyzed using SPSS 26.0, R (version 4.2.1), and Zstats.ResultsAmong the 2,015 non-diabetic adult participants included in the study, 1,877 were in the non-HT group, while 138 were in the HT group. …”
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves the effects of systemic steroid therapy for sudden sensorineural hearing loss by Yu-Ching Chen, Yu-Hsi Liu, Bor‐Hwang Kang, Cai-Sin Yao, Yao-Shen Chen, Wen-Chung Liu

“…The patients received either a systemic steroid (SS) alone or SS with HBOT. …”
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Cognitive Distortions in Depressed Women: Trait, or State Dependent? by Sedat BATMAZ, Sibel KOCBIYIK

“…The hypothesis of the study is that cognitive distortions are state dependent. Method: Three groups of outpatients (n=178 patients in acute major depressive episode, n=168 depressive patients in remission, n=177 healthy controls) presenting to the psychiatry clinics of three different state hospitals were recruited for the study. …”
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“You’re not taught to think about the words you use and then it just perpetuates”— a qualitative examination of medical students’ perspectives of stigmatising language in healthcar... by Saakshi Daswani, Elizabeth Gorecki, Lisa Mellon

“…Twenty-one medical students at the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences participated in four focus group interviews; a thematic analysis of the data was conducted. …”
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Postoperative Complications of Patellar Resurfacing In Total Knee Replacement by Ubair Ullah Shaheen, Sarmad Nasir Janjua, Shaheen Iqbal, Hafiz Muhammad Noman, Qasim Mahmood Ghouri, Muhammad Noman Khalid

“…Exclusion criteria: Patients undergone TKR with comorbid; diabetes, congestive heart disease, hypertension, neuropathological diseases & renal disorders.& unwilling to participate. …”
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Resting Energy Expenditure in Anorexia Nervosa: Measured versus Estimated by Marwan El Ghoch, Marta Alberti, Carlo Capelli, Simona Calugi, Riccardo Dalle Grave

“…Aim of this study was to compare the resting energy expenditure (REE) measured by the Douglas bag method with the REE estimated with the FitMate method, the Harris-Benedict equation, and the Müller et al. equation for individuals with BMI < 18.5 kg/m2 in a severe group of underweight patients with anorexia nervosa (AN). …”
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An expert perspective on diversity-oriented standards for assessing sex and gender in clinical research by Hannah R. Hambruch, Nora M. Laskowski, Robert-Paul Juster, Georg Halbeisen, Georgios Paslakis

“…IntroductionRandomized controlled trials require diverse patient groups to ensure broad applicability of results. …”
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Assessing awareness and treatment knowledge of preventable blindness in rural and urban South African communities by Z Kiva, J E Wolvaardt

“…Both groups had a similar composition of males and females. …”
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Comparative efficacy of programmed death ligand 1 inhibition and chemotherapy in advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer with combined positive score – a meta-analysis... by Zakari Shaibu, Fumeng Yang, Liu Ting, Lily Dzidula, Amina Elmi Yusuf, Zhi-hong Chen, Wei Zhu

“…A total of 10 studies comprising 4522 participants were included. Our analysis revealed no statistically significant difference in CPS values between PD-L1 inhibitors and chemotherapy groups (≥ 1 : 1.03 [95% CI: 0.86–1.24], ≤ 1 : 0.92 [95% CI: 0.77–1.11]). …”
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The Nature of Lexical-Semantic Access in Bilingual Aphasia by Swathi Kiran, Isabel Balachandran, Jason Lucas

“…This study found that across all tasks, the greatest predictors for performance were the effect of group and language ability rating (LAR). Bilingual controls had a greater score or produced more correct responses than participants with bilingual aphasia across all tasks. …”
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The effect of blue-blocking intraocular lenses on circadian biological rhythm: protocol for a randomised controlled trial (CLOCK-IOL colour study) by Taiji Hasegawa, Kenji Obayashi, Kimie Miyata, Tetsuo Ueda, Norio Kurumatani, Keigo Saeki, Nahoko Ogata, Hiroki Tsujinaka, Mariko Yamashita, Tomo Nishi, Nobuhiro Tone, Naonori Masuda, Yutarou Mizusawa, Masahiro Okamoto, Shinji Maruoka, Masashi Kojima, Toyoaki Matsuura

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Does Repeated Ticking Maintain Tic Behavior? An Experimental Study of Eye Blinking in Healthy Individuals by Daniel J. V. Beetsma, Marcel A. van den Hout, Iris M. Engelhard, Marleen M. Rijkeboer, Danielle C. Cath

“…In the control groups (air puffs without instruction to blink, no air puffs), these effects were absent. …”
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Inositols in Insulin Signaling and Glucose Metabolism by Arturo Bevilacqua, Mariano Bizzarri

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COVID-19 and children with congenital anomalies: a European survey of parents’ experiences of healthcare services by Ingeborg Barisic, Carlos Matias Dias, Amanda Neville, Anna Pierini, Anke Rissmann, Joan K Morris, Judith Rankin, Ester Garne, Anna Latos-Bielenska, Elena Marcus, Anna Jamry-Dziurla, Ljubica Odak, Clara Cavero- Carbonell, Elly Den Hond, Lucas Genard, Ana João Santos, L Renée Lutke, Christina Neergaard Pedersen, Annika Niemann, Lucía Páramo-Rodríguez

“…Regional differences in disruptions raise questions about the competence of certain healthcare systems to meet the needs of this vulnerable group of patients and indicate improvements should be strived for in some regions.…”
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Identifying Who Benefits the Most from a Community Health Worker-Led Multicomponent Intervention for Hypertension by Meng Pan, Andrea Beratarrechea, Rosana Poggio, Hua He, Chung-Shiuan Chen, Jing Chen, Vilma Irazola, Adolfo Rubinstein, Jiang He, Katherine T. Mills

“…The distribution of trial BP response among intervention patient subgroups was assessed. Results. Participants were 53.0% female, a mean age of 56 years, and 17.4% controlled BP at baseline. …”
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Depression among outpatients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy: prevalence and associated factors by Besher Gharaibeh, Aya Baniyones, Sawsan Abuhammad, Amat Al-Khaleq O Mehrass

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Quality of Life among Persons with HIV/AIDS in Iran: Internal Reliability and Validity of an International Instrument and Associated Factors by Pedram Razavi, Kaveh Hajifathalian, Behtash Saeidi, Gholamreza Esmaeeli Djavid, Mehrnaz Rasoulinejad, Mahboube Hajiabdolbaghi, Koosha Paydary, Parastoo Kheirandish, Mahsa Foroughi, SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi, Minoo Mohraz, Willi McFarland

“…Unemployed patients had significantly lower scores in overall quality of life (P = 0.01), level of independence (P = 0.004), and environment (P = 0.001) compared to employed participants. …”
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Care intertwined with anxiety and helplessness: the experiences of ICU nurses from COVID-19 disease’s end of life—a qualitative study by Neda Asadi, Zahra Royani, Sirous Pourkhajoei

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Health status of perimenopausal and postmenopausal women at Mangalore, Karnataka, India by C V Divya, Vasantkumar V Bhanushali, E Vinu, K S Premlal

“…In addition, the individual effect of these variables on daily activities was noted among the participants. The investigator also examined the patients and measured the relevant anthropometric measurements along with the record. …”
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