Knowledge, attitudes and practices of oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among healthcare workers in the Ekurhuleni District, South Africa by E Mahlare, E Ramutshila, A Musekiwa, L Kuonza, T Mabuto

“…Despite HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) being one of the highly effective approaches to preventing HIV, and being freely available through primary healthcare clinics (PHCs), the uptake of HIV PrEP in South Africa (SA) is low. …”
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Difficultés diagnostiques de la tuberculose cérébrale by Chahrazed Benrabah

“…Globally and among all tuberculosis cases, WHO reports 14% extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (EPT) without concomitant pulmonary involvement. …”
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Maternal neonicotinoid pesticide exposure impairs glucose metabolism by deteriorating brown fat thermogenesis by Wenwen Zhu, Jiali Fang, Chenbo Ji, Hong Zhong, Tianying Zhong, Xianwei Cui

“…Moreover, we found statistically significant associations between TMX concentrations and 1hBG, and 2hBG. …”
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Erratum to ‘Cost differences between autologous and nonautologous cranioplasty implants: A propensity score–matched value driven outcomes analysis’ [World Neurosurgery: X (22C) (20... by Matthew Findlay, Sawyer Z. Bauer, Diwas Gautam, Matthew Holdaway, Robert B. Kim, Walid K. Salah, Spencer Twitchell, Sarah T. Menacho, Gurpreet S. Gandhoke, Ramesh Grandhi

“…Methods: The authors reviewed the hospital billing records over a 12-year period at their institution to identify patients who underwent cranioplasty after decompressive hemicraniectomy for trauma or stroke. …”
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Association between exposure to ambient air pollutants and metabolic syndrome in the vicinity of the Taklamakan Desert by Zhe Wang, Weidong Ji, Yushan Wang, Lin Li, Kai Wang, Hongze Liu, Yining Yang, Yi Zhou

“…A 10 μg/m³ increase in concentration was associated with the following respective odds ratios: PM1 (1.341, 95 % CI: 1.331, 1.351), PM2.5 (1.036, 95 % CI: 1.034, 1.037), PM10 (1.006, 95 % CI: 1.005, 1.007), O3 (1.385, 95 % CI: 1.374, 1.396), and CO (1.015,95 %, CI: 1.0147, 1.016). …”
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Risk factors for Clostridioides difficile infection among patients diagnosed with inflammatory intestinal and rheumatological diseases in the biologic era by Helena Martínez-Lozano, Paula Saralegui-Gonzalez, Elena Reigadas, Pablo Ramón Fueyo-Peláez, Aurea García-García, José Miranda-Bautista, Luis Alcalá, Juan Carlos Nieto, María Elena Lobato-Matilla, Ignacio Marín-Jiménez, Patricia Muñoz, Luis Menchén

“…Methods We included patients diagnosed with IBD (IBD-cohort) and immune-mediated inflammatory rheumatic diseases (Rheuma-cohort). …”
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A green forage diet enhances microbial diversity in buffalo rumen by Angela Salzano, Giovanna Bifulco, Alfio Calanni Macchio, Valentina Longobardi, Francesca Aragona, Giovan Maria Pacelli, Giuseppe Campanile

“…Indeed, at the order level, the Peptostreptococcales-Tissierellales, Veillonellales-Selenomonadales, and Bradymonadales groups showed statistically significant differences (p<0.05), with the former bacteria being more abundant in the Dry group and the other two in the Green group. …”
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A Community-Based Intervention for Mental Health and Wellbeing in Pregnancy and Postpartum: One Healthy Start Site&rsquo;s Story by Sampson M, Xu W, York FN, Roberson J

“…We used existing data from the program evaluation to answer both questions.We analyzed administrative data from 164 mothers in the program and analyzed anonymous qualitative data from focus groups (n=). …”
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Associations between interpersonal violence and cigarette smoking, e-cigarette use, and dual use among Mexican adolescent students by Rosibel Rodríguez-Bolaños, Evangelina Díaz-Andrade, Evangelina Díaz-Andrade, Paula Ramírez-Palacios, Anabel Rojas-Carmona, Anabel Rojas-Carmona, Katia Gallegos-Carrillo, Inti Barrientos-Gutiérrez, Lizeth Cruz-Jiménez, Dèsirée Vidaña-Pérez, Edna Arillo-Santillán, James F. Thrasher, James F. Thrasher

“…In adjusted multinomial models, adolescents who experienced physical violence (Adjusted Relative Risk Ratios: ARRR = 2.28, 95% CI [1.05–4.96]) were more likely to exclusively smoke cigarettes. …”
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Silent magnetic resonance angiography diagnostic value of intracranial unruptured aneurysms by Bin Lv, Tingyang Zhang, Ning Wang, Lu Liu, Mingyu Li, Meng Li, Mingguang Sun, Xiao Zang, Xinfeng Liu, Rongju Zhang, Xiangyu Cao, Zhihua Du, Jun Wang, Jinhao Lyu, Xueyang Wang, Qi Duan, Fangfang Guo, Xin Lou, Chenglin Tian

“…This study aimed to compare the diagnostic value of S-MRA and three-dimensional time of flight (3D-TOF) MRA for unruptured intracranial aneurysms. We included patients diagnosed with unruptured intracranial aneurysms using digital subtraction angiography (DSA) who subsequently underwent S-MRA and 3D-TOF MRA. …”
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Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus screening among African individuals in Spain: Lessons to learn by Helena Miriam Lorenzo Juanes, Amparo López-Bernus, Belen Vicente, Montserrat Alonso-Sardón, Beatriz Rodríguez Alonso, Josue Pendones Ulerio, Pedro Fernandez Soto, Juan Luis Muñoz Bellido, Antonio Muro, Moncef Belhassen-García

“…This study aimed to evaluate the importance of CCHFV infection in migrants from Africa who attended a tertiary health care centre in Spain. …”
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Socioeconomic correlates of mental health in Moldova: A nationally representative door-to-door survey by J.M. van Baar, C. Ciofu, F. Thompson, A.I. Luik, O. Mereanu, J. Kramer, F. Schouten, V. Condrat, L. Voorham, J. Chihai, L. Shields-Zeeman

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Translation and Validation of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale for Eritrea: A Screening Tool for Postpartum Depression in Primary Health Care Facilities by Gebregziabher NK, Netsereab TB, Alazar FA, Fessaha YG, Sium AH, Ghebrehiwet NK

“…This is crucial as PPD is a severe condition affecting maternal and family well-being, and existing tools were not tailored for the Eritrean cultural context.What did the researchers do and find?…”
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Athletic Shoulder Test Differences Exist Bilaterally in Healthy Pitchers by Aaron Trunt, Brandon T. Fisher, Lisa N. MacFadden

“…However, the test has not been explored widely in throwing athletes who are known to have significant musculoskeletal adaptations to the throwing shoulder…”
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Association of social frailty, sarcopenia, and oral frailty with depressive symptoms in Chinese older adults: a cross-sectional study by Yuanhao Sun, Huan Liu, Xiangdong Li, Lin Zhang, Wenwen Xu, Hairong liu, Ting Yuan

“…Future research should further explore the two-way relationship between these factors and depressive symptoms and assess the effectiveness of different interventions. …”
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Analisis Sentimen Berbasis Aspek Pada Ulasan Pelanggan Restoran Menggunakan Algoritma Support Vector Machine (Studi Kasus: Depot Bamara) by Muhammad Fariz Firdaus, Dian Eka Ratnawati, Nanang Yudi Setiawan

“…Penelitian menggunakan data ulasan pelanggan tahun 2021-2022 sebanyak 1029 ulasan melalui web scraping di situs Google Review. Kata-kata dalam ulasan diberi bobot menggunakan teknik pembobotan frequency inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) dan diklasifikasi menggunakan algoritma support vector machine (SVM). …”
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Suatu Pendekatan Hibrid Menggunakan Topsis - Entropi pada Penentuan Siswa Penerima Beasiswa Prestasi Berbasiskan Kriteria Objektif by Maria Ulfah Siregar, Titik Nasiroh, Muhammad Mustakim

“…The limited money for scholarship and students who are eligible to get the aids are many in number require a system which can ease in determining the merit scholars objectively. …”
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Remnant cholesterol and its variability independent of low density lipoprotein cholesterol predict metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease by Yuting Sun, Xinlei Miao, Manling Hu, Xiaoling Xie, Shuang Liu, Ziping Song, Jiayi Deng, Fei Xu, Meng Li, Yangxuan He, Song Leng

“…A longitudinal cohort study involving 43,065 participants who underwent at least two physical examinations was conducted. …”
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An evidence-based tailored eHealth patient education tool for patients with knee osteoarthritis: A randomized controlled trial by Chong Li, Chuanmei Zhu, Kangping Song, Xiaona Xiang, Xiaoyi Wang, Jing Hu, Zhao Li, Yi Deng, Daoxin Jiang, Lixin Guo, Ting Ren, Luwen Zhu, Haibo Ai, Shaojun Zhang, Zhongliang Liu, Yonghong Yang, Siyi Zhu, Chengqi He

“…This study aimed to evaluate the long-term effectiveness on patient knowledge level and analyzed the patient's satisfaction with the proposed tool. Methods A two-arm randomized controlled trial was performed, with 218 KOA patients allocated 1:1 to two groups by balanced block randomization. …”
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A first study on sperm sexing in water buffalo through magnetic nanoparticles by Syed Murtaza Hassan Andrabi, Muhammad Hammad Fayyaz, Muhammad Shafiq Haider, Ghulam Muhammad Ali

“…Validation of the sexing technique was done through SYBR® Green Real-Time (RT) PCR using two sets of primers for gender-specific genes, i.e., X-linked proteolipid protein (PLP) and sex-determining region Y protein (SRY). …”
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