Cystatin C as a Predictor of Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in a Population with Chronic Kidney Disease by Ana Vigil, Emilia Condés, Luis Vigil, Paloma Gallar, Aniana Oliet, Olimpia Ortega, Isabel Rodriguez, Milagros Ortiz, Juan Carlos Herrero, Carmen Mon, Gabriela Cobo, Juana Jimenez

“…Background. We examine whether cystatin C, a surrogate marker of renal function, could identify patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) with an increased risk of renal disease progression, death, or cardiovascular events. …”
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Applications of Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models for Social Determinants of Health: Protocol for a Systematic Review by Swati Rajwal, Ziyuan Zhang, Yankai Chen, Hannah Rogers, Abeed Sarker, Yunyu Xiao

“…Three reviewers (SR, ZZ, and YC) will independently screen the studies to avoid voting bias, and two (AS and YX) additional reviewers will resolve any conflicts during the screening process. We will further screen studies that cited the included studies (forward search). …”
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Experiences Using Media Health Claims to Teach Evidence-Based Practice to Healthcare Students: A Mixed Methods Study [version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Astrid Dahlgren, Marianne Molin, Jürgen Kasper, Lisa Garnweidner-Holme, Hilde Tinderholt Myrhaug, Ida-Kristin Orjasaeter Elvsaas

“…Synthesizing the results, we found that students viewed the inclusion of health claim assessment as a useful entry point for learning evidence-based practice. …”
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Predicting nighttime black ice using atmospheric data for efficient winter road maintenance patrols by Jinhwan Jang

“…During winter, hazardous black ice can form anywhere on roads under various weather conditions, including fog, frost, rime ice, freezing rain, and snow. …”
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Diabetes Fact Sheets in Korea 2024 by Se Eun Park, Seung-Hyun Ko, Ji Yoon Kim, Kyuho Kim, Joon Ho Moon, Nam Hoon Kim, Kyung Do Han, Sung Hee Choi, Bong Soo Cha

“…Results Among Korean adults aged ≥30 years, the prevalence of diabetes is 15.5% during 2021–2022. Of these, 74.7% were aware of their condition, 70.9% received antidiabetic treatment, and only 32.4% achieved glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) <6.5%. …”
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Effects of Land-Use Dynamics on Soil Organic Carbon and Total Nitrogen Stock, Western Ethiopia by Yitayh Leul, Mohammed Assen, Shimeles Damene, Asmamaw Legass

“…Soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN) stock are key indicators of soil quality in tropical regions; however, their status is often degraded, especially due to massive deforestation in natural forest areas associated with extensive agricultural land use. …”
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Accelerated Modeling of Transients in Electromagnetic Devices Based on Magnetoelectric Substitution Circuits by Sergii Tykhovod, Ihor Orlovskyi

“…At present, we are not aware of publications showing the use of spectral methods for calculating transient processes in electromagnetic devices containing ferromagnetic cores. …”
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Associations between Zinc Deficiency, Taste Changes, and Salivary Flow Rates following Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgeries by Boshra Mozaffar, Hayat Mozaffar, Mohammed Alkharaiji, Aly Elbahrawy, Iskandar Idris

“…The prevalence of taste change (hypogeusia) and its association with zinc deficiency is unclear due to differences in methods of assessment. We investigate the prevalence of hypogeusia using mixed methods and link it with changes in zinc levels following mini gastric bypass (MGB) and sleeve gastrectomy (SG). …”
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Suicide mortality among individuals in federal prisons compared with the general population: a retrospective cohort study in the USA from 2009 to 2020 by Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Katherine LeMasters, Shabbar Ranapurwala, Mike Dolan Fliss, Michael Forrest Behne, Emilie Duchesneau, Jennifer Lao

“…Our objective was to compare reported suicides rate among those incarcerated in federal prisons and the general population, accounting for age distributions, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2009–2020).Methods Using data from the Federal Bureau of Prison, Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WONDER database and a retrospective cohort study design, we estimated age-standardised mortality rates and standardised mortality ratios comparing observed suicide mortality among those incarcerated in federal prisons to the expected mortality if they experienced the same age-specific suicide rates as the general population. …”
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Motor Neuron Disease Systematic Multi-Arm Adaptive Randomised Trial (MND-SMART): a multi-arm, multi-stage, adaptive, platform, phase III randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlle... by Jeremy Chataway, Suvankar Pal, Charis Wong, Elizabeth Elliott, Jenna M Gregory, Siddharthan Chandran, Judith Newton, Shuna Colville, Maria Stavrou, Christopher J Weir, Nigel Stallard, Malcolm R Macleod, Michelle Steven, Richard Anthony Parker, Arpan R Mehta, Robert J Swingler, Mahesh K B Parmar, Rachel S Dakin, Jill Williamson

“…Despite decades of research and clinical trials there remains no cure and only one globally approved drug, riluzole, which prolongs survival by 2–3 months. …”
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Impact of hospital formulary intervention on carbapenem use: a segmented time-series analysis of consumption and a propensity score-matched non-inferiority study of treatment efficacy by Nakaba Okamura, Ayano Katagiri, Tomoya Komori, Kei Kawanabe, Hirofumi Koike, Yukiko Sahashi, Rie Kubota

“…Overall, carbapenem use significantly decreased during the study period. …”
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The effects of fatigue on instep kick performance in soccer by Bekir Mehtap, Sukru Balcı

“…The high intensity endurance protocol selected to be used in the present study has been previously applied to simulate soccer field conditions to occur fatigue on subjects. …”
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Prognosis and cardiotoxicity associated to adjuvant trastuzumab for breast cancer: real world study in a public health system by Ana Elisa Ribeiro da Silva Cabello, César Cabello, Susana Oliveira Botelho Ramalho, Otávio Rizzi Coelho, Otávio Rizzi Coelho-Filho, Helymar da Costa Machado, Délio Marques Conde, Luiz Carlos Zeferino

“…Treatment was suspended in 92.3% (36/39) of patients who presented with cardiotoxicity during trastuzumab treatment. The treatment was suspended in 46 of 255 patients and it was permanently interrupted in 84.8% (33/46) of these patients, with 84.8% (28/33) due to cardiotoxicity. …”
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Basal metabolic rate correlates with excess postexercise oxygen consumption across different intensities by Shu-Chun Huang, Kuan-Hung Chen, Watson Hua-Sheng Tseng, Lan-Yan Yang, Ching-Chung Hsiao, Yi-Chung Fang, Chen-Hung Lee

“…After each CWR test, the EPOC and the ratio of EPOC to oxygen consumption during exercise (OC) were calculated. Venous blood samples were collected immediately to assess the blood lactate concentration (BLa). …”
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Do Complications After Pancreatoduodenectomy Have an Impact on Long-Term Quality of Life and Functional Outcomes? by Ajami Gikandi, BA, Zhi Ven Fong, MD, MPH, DrPH, Motaz Qadan, MD, PhD, Raja R. Narayan, MD, MPH, Thinzar Lwin, MD, MS, Carlos Fernández-del Castillo, MD, Keith D. Lillemoe, MD, Cristina R. Ferrone, MD

“…Patients were stratified based on whether they experienced a complication during the index hospitalization. Results:. Of 305 patients >5 years post-PD survivors, with valid contact information, 248 completed the questionnaires, and 231 had complication data available. …”
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Chronic restraint stress affects the diurnal rhythms of gut microbial composition and metabolism in a mouse model of depression by Yue Wang, Peijin Cui, Maolin Cao, Ling Ai, Li Zeng, Xue Li, Dan Chen, Fang Gong, Liang Fang, Chanjuan Zhou

“…Methods Chronic restraint stress (CRS) was used to induce depressive-like behaviours in C57BL/6J mice. …”
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Predicting Compressive Strength of Concrete Containing Industrial Waste Materials: Novel and Hybrid Machine Learning Model by Mohammed Majeed Hameed, Mustafa Abbas Abed, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Mohamed Khalid Alomar

“…., SVR−PSO and SVR−GA) were used for the first time to predict CS of concrete where the cement component is partially replaced. …”
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Recognition of Health Care Provider's Patient Safety Culture in Kurdistan/Iraq by Ismail Ahmed Ali, Shewaz Abdalrahman Hussein, Shelan Omar Ali, Fuaad Azad Muhamad

“…Data was collected through a hard copy self-managed survey form using the Hospital Survey of Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC).Data was entered to SPSS and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. …”
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The narrative of the «Northern Territories» in the socio-political discourse of contemporary Japan by D. V. Streltsov

“…Of particular importance from the point of view of the emotional effect on public consciousness are the theses that the Southern Kurils are the “ancestral territory of Japan,” that the USSR committed aggressive and unfair actions against Japan during World War II, and modern Russia did not correct them, and that the Japanese natives of the Southern Kurils experience enormous moral suffering, not having the opportunity to freely visit the graves of their ancestors. …”
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Evaluation of the effect of SmearOFF on Smear Layer Removal and Erosion of Root Canal Dentin by Sohela Fakher Mahdi, Diyar Khalid Bakr

“…The teeth were randomly divided into 4 groups of 10 teeth each according to the type of final irrigants used during and after instrumentation: G1 6% NaOCl/ distilled water (control), G2 6% NaOCl/Qmix, G3 6% NaOCL/SmearOFF, G4 6% NaOCL/ 17% EDTA. …”
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