Analysis of indoor radon concentration levels and trends in China by Bowei Ding, Yunyun Wu, Yanchao Song, Changsong Hou, Bing Shang

“…The results showed that the weighted and arithmetic mean radon concentrations in China were 29.4 Bq/m3 and 33.2 Bq/m3 (n = 17,940) before 2000, 44.7 Bq/m3 and 43.3 Bq/m3 (n = 10,692) in 2000–2010, 57.6 Bq/m3 and 60.8 Bq/m3(n = 9,254) after 2010, respectively. …”
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Comparing Mortality Risk Predictive Ability of Different Scoring Systems in Cirrhotic Patients with Bacteremia by Chi-Chieh Hung, Yin-Chou Hsu, Kuo-Hsuan Lin

“…A single-center, retrospective cohort study was performed among adult patients who visited the emergency department from January 2015 to December 2018. …”
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Interaction of Hypertension and Insulin Resistance Exacerbates the Occurrence of Diabetes Mellitus in Healthy Individuals by Baomin Wang, Yumei Yang, Xiaomu Li

“…The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlations between different blood pressure levels and different degrees of insulin resistance, as well as their interactions, with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus. Methods. We conducted a retrospective study on 1251 adult medical examiners who were examined in the Physical Examination Center of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University (Shanghai, China) during 2015. …”
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Prognostic Implications of the Number of Lymph Node Metastases in Oral Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Population Study of the SEER Database and an Institutional Registry by Wenjie Huang, Yu Zhang, Hao Li, Zhiying Liang, Shumin Zhou, Jie Pan, Hui Xie, Chao Luo, Shuqi Li, Guangying Ruan, Fei Ai, Yanfeng Chen

“…Materials and Methods Newly diagnosed and nonmetastatic adult patients with OTSCC who underwent curative resection were identified between January 2010 and December 2020. …”
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Is Weight Loss the Main Driver for A1C Improvement by Glucagon‐Like Peptide 1 (GLP‐1) Receptor Agonists? A 2.5‐Year Analysis in Real‐World Clinical Practice by Marwa Al‐Badri, Shilton Dhaver, Osama Hamdy

“…However, it remains unclear whether weight reduction is the primary driver of glycemic improvement. Methods We retrospectively evaluated 256 patients with T2D who were treated with exenatide (n = 84), dulaglutide (n = 99), or semaglutide (n = 73) for 2.5 years without interruption in real‐world clinical practice. …”
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Congenital laryngeal anomalies in childhood by Yulia E. Stepanova

“…Based on the clinical and endoscopic picture of the larynx, we have identified two degrees of dystopia. The first degree was diagnosed in 18 (21%), and the second in 11 (13%) children. …”
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Differences in prevalence and associated factors of underweight and overweight/obesity according to rural–urban residence strata among women of reproductive age in Bangladesh: evid... by Rajat Das Gupta, Mohammad Rashidul Hashan, Gulam Muhammed Al Kibria, Brendan Day

“…Rural women who used contraceptives had significantly decreased odds (adjusted OR (AOR) 0.8, 95% CI 0.7 to 0.9) of being underweight compared with contraceptive non-users; no such association was noted in urban women. …”
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Clinical and Radiographic Evaluation of Bone Profile Around Dental Implants Placed in the Esthetic Zone by Alssum L, Al-Kattan R, Al-Shibani N, Al Ali H, Aldossari F, Allam E

“…Lamees Alssum,1 Reem Al-Kattan,1 Nouf Al-Shibani,1 Hafsah Al Ali,2 Farah Aldossari,2 Eman Allam3 1Department of Periodontics and Community Dentistry, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 2College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 3Research and Graduate Studies Department, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesCorrespondence: Lamees Alssum, Department of Periodontics and Community Dentistry College of Dentistry King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Email lalssum@ksu.edu.saObjective: To evaluate the bone profile around dental implants placed in the esthetic zone through periodontal assessment and radiographic analysis using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT).Methods: We conducted a clinical observational study of 35 subjects who received dental implants placed in the esthetic zone to replace lost anterior teeth. …”
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Serum vascular endothelial growth factor levels as a marker of skin thickening, digital ischemia, and interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis by Chinnadurai Saranya, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Mahendran Bhuvanesh, Chilukuri Balaji, Selvakumar Balameena, Sankaralingam Rajeswari

“…Methods: Serum VEGF levels were measured in 55 patients with SSC who fulfilled 2013 ACR/EULAR classification criteria for scleroderma and 30 healthy age- and gender-matched controls by ELISA. …”
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Prognostic Significance of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for First Acute Myocardial Infarction with Heart Failure: Five-Year Follow-Up Results by Zichao Cheng, Yuchen Shi, Hongyu Peng, Donghui Zhao, Qian Fan, Jinghua Liu

“…In this study, the incidence of heart failure (LVEF < 50%) in patients with acute myocardial infarction who underwent PCI was 15.9% at a five-year follow up. …”
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Correlation of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism Levels and Serum Uric Acid Levels with Diabetic Retinopathy in Type 2 Diabetic Mellitus Patients by Tiantian Li, Yan Wu

“…The duration of DM disease, fasting blood glucose (FBG), glycosylated hemoglobin, type A1C (HbA1c) levels, cholesterol (TC), triacylglycerol (TG), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and SUA levels were higher in the DR group than those in the NDR group, and the differences were significant (P<0.05). …”
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One-step diagnosis of infection and lung cancer using metagenomic sequencing by Shaoqiang Li, Yangqing Zhan, Yan Wang, Weilong Li, Xidong Wang, Haoru Wang, Wenjun Sun, Xuefang Cao, Zhengtu Li, Feng Ye

“…Methods In this study, data were gathered from 223 participants presenting symptoms of lung infection or tumor who underwent Onco-mNGS testing. Patients were categorized into four groups based on clinical diagnoses: infection, tumor, tumor with infection, and non-infection-non-tumor. …”
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Correlation of Aspergillus fumigatus Sensitization with Mucus Plugging in COPD by Luo Y, Ren J, Liang L, Qu J, Chang C, Sun Y

“…However, little is known about the association between Aspergillus hypersensitivity and mucus plugging in patients with COPD.Methods: We retrospectively enrolled COPD patients who had visited Peking University Third Hospital and received measurement of the Aspergillus Fumigatus specific IgE (Af sIgE) from Oct 1, 2018 to Sep 30, 2023. …”
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Lived experiences of people with chronic kidney disease on maintenance dialysis: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies by Maya Annie Elias, Wim Van Damme, Grace Marie V Ku, Mahesh Kadammanavar, Edwin Wouters

“…Methods Adhering to PRISMA and PiCO guidelines for systematic review, we identified original studies published between 2000 and 2024, focusing on the lived experience of patients with CKD on dialysis, across PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases. …”
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Finnish national patient data repository as data source for FINRISK risk calculator by Viljami Männikkö, Henna Kujanen, Joona Munukka, Klaus Förger

“…The highest categorization performance was achieved for the year 2022, where we were able to identify the FINRISK risk category of 1.69% of persons. …”
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PHARMACEUTICAL CARE OF ACNE PATIENTS USING SYSTEMIC RETINOIDS by Yuliya Nastyukha, Andriy Zimenkovsky, Diana Klapko

“…The objects of the study: relevant information sources; current standards of pharmacotherapy, instructions for medical use of isotretinoin of the State Register of Medicines of Ukraine (n=4), 14th edition of the State Drug Formulary; questionnaires of acne patients who use systemic retinoids (n=53); pharmacy quotes for isotretinoin drugs and laboratory quotes for liver biopsy and lipid testing. …”
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Epidemiological Trends of Human Monkeypox Cases in Northern, Southern, Western, and Eastern Regions in Europe: A Cross-Sectional Study by Sultan Ayoub Meo, Abdulaziz Hassan Alsomali, Abdullah Abdulrahman Almushawah, Anusha Sultan Meo

“…The data about the monkeypox outbreak in European countries were recorded by the World Health Organization (WHO), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. …”
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Severity and Determinants of Anemia in TB/HIV Coinfected Adults at Mekelle, Ethiopia: Hospital Based Retrospective Study by Kebede Embaye Gezae, Kiflom Hagos, Assefa Ayalew Gebreslassie

“…Therefore, this study is aimed to assess severity level and determinants of TB/HIV-associated anemia. Methods. A hospital based retrospective study was conducted among 305 TB/HIV coinfected adults who enrolled for antiretroviral therapy (ART) from January, 2009 to December, 2016 in two public hospital of Mekelle, Ethiopia, by reviewing ART register. …”
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Effects of using different levels of dietary chitosan on some immune indices and antioxidant defense system in Vannamei shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei by Saeed Dayani, Valiallah Jafari, Roghayeh Safari, Seyed Hossein Hoseinifar

“…So that the highest amounts of these two enzymes were observed in T2 and the control group, respectively. …”
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Cardiomyopathy and kidney function in agalsidase beta‐treated female Fabry patients: a pre‐treatment vs. post‐treatment analysis by Christoph Wanner, Ulla Feldt‐Rasmussen, Ana Jovanovic, Aleš Linhart, Meng Yang, Elvira Ponce, Eva Brand, Dominique P. Germain, Derralynn A. Hughes, John L. Jefferies, Ana Maria Martins, Albina Nowak, Bojan Vujkovac, Frank Weidemann, Michael L. West, Alberto Ortiz

“…Abstract Aims Long‐term treatment effect studies in large female Fabry patient groups are challenging to design because of phenotype heterogeneity and lack of appropriate comparison groups, and have not been reported. We compared long‐term cardiomyopathy and kidney function outcomes after agalsidase beta treatment with preceding treatment‐naive outcomes. …”
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