The rationale, design of the Assisted reproductive technology cohort nested in a pre-pregnancy family cohort (APP-Cohort) by Wei Xiong, Qinghan Liang, Xiaojie Han, Qiaolu Cheng, Qihang Liu, Xifang Zuo, Huiyu Wang, Huijing He, Guangliang Shan

“…Family/Birth cohort studies are essential for exploring ways to enhance health outcomes at both the individual and societal levels. …”
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Neonatal outcomes in offspring of mothers with pregestational diabetes: a hospital-based multicentre prospective cohort study protocol by Manu Raj, Vishnu Renjith, Renjitha Bhaskaran, Anju Philip Thurkkada, Radhamany Kunjukutty, Sobha S Nair, Annie Soman, Sethulakshmi Ramachandran

“…All pregnant women will be evaluated for diabetic state via RBS, HbA1c and FBS based on the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups criteria during their initial visit to the study sites. …”
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Surgical treatment of obesity and excess risk of developing heart failure in a controlled cohort study by Christina E. Lundberg, Shabbar Jamaly, Martin Adiels, Jesper Lagergren, Carl Johan Svensson, Lena Björck, Annika Rosengren

“…The obesity cohort was divided into two groups: 27 882 patients who had undergone gastric bypass surgery within 2 years of obesity diagnosis and 39 564 patients who had not undergone such surgery. …”
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More than words: a study on the visibility of hand gestures in public spaces by Kamil Kopij, Kaja Głomb, Szymon Popławski

“…They show not only how many people could have potentially seen the gestures, but also what percentage of the theoretically available space could have been occupied by people who had the potential to see them. According to the findings, only a little under half (44.8%) of the maximum possible audience were able to detect all types of gestures (various levels of detail) at the LR Roman Forum, while at Pyramid No 3 in Tikal, just a mere 16.7% were able to do so. …”
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Haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation using post-transplant cyclophosphamide in patients with inborn errors of immunity: Experience in a reference center in Colomb... by Diego Medina, Jhonier Orlando Castro, David Esteban Castro, Estefanía Beltrán, Eliana Manzi, Alexis Antonio Franco, Manuela Olaya

“…Materials and methods. We conducted a retrospective and observational study of a case series of pediatric patients who underwent haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation with post-transplant cyclophosphamide and follow-up with weekly chimerism. …”
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Inverse Occlusion: A Binocularly Motivated Treatment for Amblyopia by Jiawei Zhou, Zhifen He, Yidong Wu, Yiya Chen, Xiaoxin Chen, Yunjie Liang, Yu Mao, Zhimo Yao, Fan Lu, Jia Qu, Robert F. Hess

“…Patients who required refractive correction or whose refractive correction needed updating were given a 2-month period of refractive adaptation. …”
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Role of postoperative radiotherapy in pT3N0 rectal cancer: A risk‐stratification system based on population analyses by Yun‐xia Huang, Yan‐zong Lin, Jin‐luan Li, Xue‐qing Zhang, Li‐rui Tang, Qing‐yang Zhuang, Fei‐fei Lin, Xi‐jin Lin, Jun‐xin Wu

“…In this review of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database (2010‐2014), we analyzed the data of pT3N0 rectal cancer patients who had not undergone neoadjuvant radiotherapy. …”
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Sports effect on depression level of elementary school students by Ahmet Gursel Oguz, Oksay Oguz

“…Individuals doing sports were found to be lower than students who did not score depression. …”
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Menorrhagia in inherited bleeding disorders in Iraqi women by Yusra Ghiath Yaseen, Elaf Zuhair Hmeed, Nidal Karim Al Rahal, Baan Abdulatif Mtashar

“…RESULTS: Out of the 193 women with menorrhagia who participated in this study, the majority of whom had an unidentified cause (36.3%), followed by VWD (30.1%) and platelet function disorders (21.2%). …”
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A modified vertical pressure bandage to prevent pharyngocutaneous fistula after total laryngectomy by Xuwei Duan, Jian Xu, Xueqin Liu, Duoping Wang, Biaoyou Chen

“…Methods: This retrospective study included patients with H&N cancer who underwent TLE at our hospital between January 2010 and January 2021. …”
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HIV status and contraceptive use in Zimbabwe among sexually active adolescent girls and women: Secondary analysis of Zimbabwe Demographic Health survey data by G Musuka, G Murewanhema, Z Mukandavire, I Chingombe, D Cuadros, F Mutenherwa, T Dzinamarira, R Eghtessadi, N Malunguza, M Mapingure

“…Statistically significant differences were noted in the use of condoms, with those who are HIV-positive having a higher use of condoms compared with those who are HIV-negative. …”
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Multimodality Treatment Including Triplet Regimen as First-Line Chemotherapy May Improve Prognosis of Serum AFP-Elevated Gastric Cancer with Liver Metastasis by Yakun Wang, Lin Shen, Ming Lu, Zhi Ji, Xiaotian Zhang

“…ORR of first-line chemotherapy was 43.3% and 56.1% of the two groups, respectively (P=0.024). Of patients who received doublet regimen, ORR of the AFP ≥ 20 ng/ml group was significantly lower (38.2 versus 56.9%, P=0.013), while in those received triplet regimens, ORR between two groups was similar (66.7% versus 66.7%, P=0.676). …”
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Peculiarities of Informing Parents about Mental Disorders of Their Minor Children by O. V. Petlenko, N. V. Gnidko

“…Therefore, juvenile prevention employees and psychologists need to carry out such explanatory work in order to facilitate the process of adaptation of minors to the conditions of the social environment without the risk of embarking on an illegal way of life. During a ten-year experiment in observing families who were informed about the condition of their children’s central nervous system, received clear recommendations on the proper adaptation of minors to social conditions, we came to certain conclusions that such work was extremely important for the prevention of juvenile delinquency. …”
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Guarding the Borders of Japan: Occupation, Korean War and Frontier Controls by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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Protéger et guérir : la mission du gouvernement et des associations d’aide aux détenues en Angleterre entre 1856 et 1914 by Alice Bonzom

“…They also faced obstacles, embodied by people who believed that guilty deviants were being unfairly ‘pampered’. …”
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Diabetes mellitus risk in post-myocardial infarction patients: FINDRISC versus self-assessment—a cross sectional study by Karianne Nölken, Jakob Linseisen, Philip Raake, Christine Meisinger, Timo Schmitz

“…Methods The study population includes individuals from the Myocardial Infarction Registry in Augsburg, Germany, who had not been previously diagnosed with diabetes and who received a postal follow-up questionnaire after hospital discharge. …”
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Prognostic accuracy of Whole Lung Perfusion Blood Volume as a predictor of 28-day Mortality in Acute Pulmonary Thromboembolism – A prospective study by N Krishna Reddy, Subathra Adithan, Shubhamoy Gantait, Venkateswaran Ramanathan, Manju Rajaram

“…Results: The area under the curve (AUC) was 0.696, indicating a moderate discriminatory power in distinguishing between patients who experienced mortality and those who did not. …”
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Enhancing diagnostic outcomes in kidney genetic disorders: the KidGen national kidney genomics study protocol by Amali Mallawaarachchi, Hugh McCarthy, Thomas A. Forbes, Kushani Jayasinghe, Chirag Patel, Stephen I. Alexander, Tiffany Boughtwood, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Aron Chakera, Sam Crafter, Ira W. Deveson, Randall Faull, Trudie Harris, Lilian Johnstone, Matthew Jose, Anna Leaver, Melissa H. Little, Daniel MacArthur, Tessa Mattiske, Christine Mincham, Kathy Nicholls, Catherine Quinlan, Michael C. J. Quinn, Gopala Rangan, Jessica Ryan, Cas Simons, Ian Smyth, Madhivanan Sundaram, Peter Trnka, Laura Wedd, Erik Biros, Zornitza Stark, Andrew Mallett

“…Genetic investigations are increasingly used in nephrology practice; however, many patients who undergo testing still lack a definitive diagnosis. …”
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Could Total Colectomy with Ileorectal Anastomosis Be an Alternative to Total Proctocolectomy with Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis in Selected Ulcerative Colitis Patients? by Francesco Tonelli, Carmela Di Martino, Francesco Giudici

“…Bowel function and quality of life were assessed. Functional and QoL studies were performed as a matched pair analysis, comparing 98 patients who underwent IRA versus 98 patients who underwent IPAA. …”
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Analysis of the Clinicopathological Characteristics, Genetic Phenotypes, and Prognostics of Primary Pulmonary and Bronchial Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma by Zhengyang Hu, Xing Jin, Jian Wang, Qihai Sui, Yanjun Yi, Dejun Zeng, Zhencong Chen, Qun Wang, Jiacheng Yin, Lin Wang, Zongwu Lin

“…The limma and matfools packages from R were used to compare the differential genes and mutations between PACC and LUAD, respectively. Results Two hundred and ninety‐two patients, 14 patients, and 12 patients with PACC were identified from the SEER, TCGA, and FDZSH databases, respectively. …”
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