Loneliness and Social Isolation with Risk of Incident Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, UK Biobank 2006 to 2022 by Ya Miao, Xiaoke Kong, Bin Zhao, Fang Fang, Jin Chai, Jiaqi Huang

“…Results: During a median follow-up of 13.6 years, there were 5,570 cases of NAFLD identified. …”
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Endoscopic tympanoplasty type I using interlay technique by Masahiro Takahashi, Masaomi Motegi, Kazuhisa Yamamoto, Yutaka Yamamoto, Hiromi Kojima

“…We then compared the data with those of patients who underwent microscopic surgery (MS) using the underlay technique between 1998 and 2009 (n = 104). …”
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Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Stem Cell-Based Therapy in Treating Asherman Syndrome: A System Review and Meta-Analysis by Yiming Zhao, Qifan Luo, Xiao Zhang, Yafei Qin, Jingpeng Hao, Dejun Kong, Hongda Wang, Guangming Li, Xiangying Gu, Hao Wang

“…We systematically searched PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, and Web of Science database (published up to October 3, 2020). …”
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Occurrence of Clinostomum Metacercariae in Oreochromis mossambicus from Mashoko Dam, Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe by Casper Mutengu, Wilson Mhlanga

“…Of the 180 fish collected during the study, 113 (62.8%) were infected by 284 Clinostomum larvae in the cranial cavity while 67 fish were not infected. …”
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The Importance of Radiological Patterns and Small Airway Disease in Long-Term Follow-Up of Postacute COVID-19: A Preliminary Study by Roberto Mogami, Ronaldo Carvalho Araújo Filho, Carolina Gianella Cobo Chantong, Fernando Carlos Santos de Almeida, Ana Célia Baptista Koifman, Gustavo Federico Jauregui, Thiago Thomaz Mafort, Hanna da Silva Bessa da Costa, Glenda Aparecida Peres dos Santos, Bruna Zangerolame de Carvalho, Gabriel da Silva Passos, Erick de Souza Barbosa, Angelo Thomaz Abalada Ghetti, Laura Braga Monnerat, Mariana Soares da Cal, Desiree Louise Souza Santos Batista, Helen Aksenow Affonso, Gabriel Oliveira Bousquet, Jose Ignacio Marenco Avila, Anna Luiza Bento Dutra, Caio Leal Leidersnaider, Alexandre Malta da Costa Messeder, Alexandra Monteiro, Agnaldo José Lopes

“…In conclusion, the results of this study show that CXR is a relevant examination and may be used to detect nonspecific alterations during the follow-up of post-COVID-19 patients. …”
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Implementation of the financial standards of the European Union on the example of the legislative system of Ukraine and Germany by Coughlan V.

“…The following methods of scientific knowledge were used during the research: dialectical, systemic-structural, terminological, systemic-functional, historical, normative-dogmatic, generalization method. …”
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Predictors of radiological progression of rheumatoid arthritis while receiving conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs by O. B. Iaremenko, G. M. Mykytenko

“…Statistical processing was carried out using SPSS 29.0 software. Results. During 2 years of study, radiological progression according to the OMERACT 4 criteria was observed in 104 patients (63.8 %): in 97 patients (59.5 %) according to the total van der Heijde’s Sharp score (SHS); 53 (32.5 %) – erosion scale; and 99 (60.7 %) – narrowing scale. …”
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Relationship of Serum Levels of IL-17, IL-18, TNF-α, and Lung Function Parameters in Patients with COPD, Asthma-COPD Overlap, and Bronchial Asthma by Nailya Kubysheva, Marina Boldina, Tatyana Eliseeva, Svetlana Soodaeva, Igor Klimanov, Anastasia Khaletskaya, Venera Bayrasheva, Valery Solovyev, Luis Alfonso Villa-Vargas, Marco Antonio Ramírez-Salinas, Moisés Salinas-Rosales, Dmitry Yu. Ovsyannikov, Ildar Batyrshin

“…A total of 147 patients with COPD (n=58), ACO (n=57), and BA (n=32) during a stable period have been examined in this study. …”
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Problematic aspects of defining a child as a victim of domestic violence by O. V. Korol, A. S. Bakhaieva

“…It has been noted that due to the lack of proper legal regulation in domestic legislation of the procedure for documenting the facts of domestic violence witnessed by a child, there is a problem of closing administrative proceedings in courts due to the absence of an offence or due to insignificance. …”
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In out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, is the positioning of victims by bystanders adequate for CPR? A cohort study by Julia Braun, Patrick Wagner, Hans-Richard Arntz, Jan Breckwoldt, Sebastian Schloesser

“…Until now, no study has systematically analysed whether bystanders of OHCA apply appropriate positions to victims and whether the position is associated with a particular outcome.Design Prospective observational cohort study.Setting Metropolitan emergency medical services (EMS) serving a population of 400 000; dispatcher-assisted CPR was implemented. We obtained information from the first EMS vehicle arriving on scene and matched this with data from semi-structured interviews with witnesses of the arrest.Participants Bystanders of all OHCAs occurring during a 12-month period (July 2006–July 2007). …”
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Diffusion-weighted MRI-Derived ADC and tumor volume as predictive imaging markers for neoadjuvant chemotherapy response in muscle-invasive bladder cancer by Abolfazl Razzaghdoust, Anya Jafari, Arash Mahdavi, Bahram Mofid, Abbas Basiri

“…Moreover, mid-treatment ΔADC% and mid-treatment ΔTV% should not be used as predictors of tumor response in these patients. …”
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Study on the crack propagation morphology and initiation law of coal rock under the action of underwater electric pulse by XianKai Bao, Bin Jiang, GuangQin Cui, XiaoFan Zhang, Tong Zhang, Wu Zhang

“…Combined with CT scans, the crack spatial distribution inside the post-break coal rock mass was analyzed and found that the edge of the water injection hole is prone to produce double-wing cracks along the drilling hole diameter. ABAQUS is used to verify the physical test and extend the test conditions, the geometric parameter change, morphological expansion rule and crack initiation mechanism of double-wing crack in coal rock mass under different discharge conditions and ground stress conditions are studied. …”
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Caloric labels do not influence taste pleasantness and neural responses to erythritol and sucrose by Aleksandra Budzinska, Laura Byl, Fabienne Teysseire, Emilie Flad, Patrick Dupont, Bettina Wölnerhanssen, Anne Christin Meyer-Gerspach, Lukas Van Oudenhove, Nathalie Weltens

“…Introduction: The beneficial effects of substituting sugar with non-caloric sweeteners (NCSs) remain uncertain due to the mismatch between their rewarding sweet taste and lack of energy content. …”
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Administrative and legal tools of the Ministry of Internal Affairs service centers interaction with other law enforcement agencies by О. V. Dzhafarova, О. V. Shatrava

“…Attention is focused on revealing the content of the new service ideology of service centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and law enforcement agencies, aimed at ensuring the rights and freedoms of people and citizens, as well as the interests of legal entities during the provision of high-quality public services in the field of road safety. …”
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Impact of the family doctor system on medication adherence among type 2 diabetes patients in China: a difference-in-differences analysis by Xichen Tong, Haiyan Zou, Luying Zhang, Wen Chen

“…Adult patients with T2DM who continuously registered with family doctors from 2015 to 2019 (n = 18,841) were assigned to the intervention group, while those who never registered during this period (n = 1,429) were classified as the control group. …”
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MAF1 inhibits hepatocarcinogenesis by fostering an immunostimulatory tumor microenvironment by Di Cao, Shi-Juan Mai, Hui-yun Wang, Ge Ren, Yue-Ning Wang, Chao-Yue Sun, Haojiang Li, Yu-Feng Zhou, Mei-Yin Zhang, Shuo-Cheng Wang

“…Liver tissues and tumors were harvested and analyzed using histology, immunohistochemistry, immunoblotting, quantitative reverse-transcription PCR, and flow cytometry. …”
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The impact of age and sex on the occurrence of pathology in the wall of the upper gastrointestinal tract by Przemysław Dyrla, Jerzy Gil, Stanisław Niemczyk, Marek Saracyn, Krzysztof Kosik, Sebastian Czarkowski, Arkadiusz Lubas

“…Material and methods : Out of 20012 gastroscopies during the 4-year follow-up study, we enrolled 199 patients with pathological lesions in the wall of the UGIT. …”
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Statin Use and Mortality among Patients Hospitalized with Sepsis: A Retrospective Cohort Study within Southern California, 2008–2018 by Brannen Liang, Su-jau T. Yang, Kenneth K. Wei, Albert S. Yu, Brendan J. Kim, Michael K. Gould, John J. Sim

“…Statins exhibit pleiotropic effects. Objective. We sought to compare mortality outcomes among statin users versus nonusers who were hospitalized with sepsis. …”
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'A journey around his room': Genre uniqueness of I.A. Goncharov's novel 'Oblomov' by L.A. Sapchenko

“…The author gives a number of examples proving that the novel “Oblomov” can be defined as “anti-travel”: as a book about a man who “did not go”: did not travel through Europe, did not go to the springs, did not visit Oblomovka, did not keep his promise to come to Paris… The comparative-historical method of analysis (historical-typological and “contact”) have been used during the research. As a result, the following conclusions have been drawn: 1) the artistic entity of the novel contains the genre signs of “anti-travel”; 2) this genre component represents the actualization of the sentimentalist tradition in a parody aspect and in part - the transformation of Xavier de Maistre's famous book “A Journey Around My Room”; 3) the commonality of the two works reveals itself at various levels: at the genre level, the central character and the plot and in the system of characters and in the figurative and symbolic system. …”
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Adding salt to foods and risk of incident depression and anxiety by Weiwei Wang, Xiaotian Chang, Feifei Lin, Lei Feng, Mengying Wang, Jie Huang, Tao Wu

“…Adding salt to foods was measured using a four-point Likert scale at baseline from a touch-screen questionnaire. …”
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