Early Pregnancy Serum Metabolite Profiles Associated with Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy in African American Women: A Pilot Study by Erin P. Ferranti, Jennifer K. Frediani, Rebecca Mitchell, Jolyn Fernandes, Shuzhao Li, Dean P. Jones, Elizabeth Corwin, Anne L. Dunlop

“…We found four metabolic pathways that were significantly (p<0.05) altered in women who developed PE and five pathways that were significantly (p<0.05) altered in women who developed gHTN compared to women who delivered full term without complications. …”
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Novel SMAD3 Mutation in a Patient with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome with Significant Aortic Aneurysm by Kristi K. Fitzgerald, Abdul Majeed Bhat, Katrina Conard, James Hyland, Christian Pizarro

“…Family screening for the mutation revealed that his father, who has vascular and skeletal features of AOS, and his brother, who is asymptomatic, also have the pathogenic mutation. …”
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Bangkit: mengungkap resiliensi pada remaja drop out by Aura Fajar Kumalasari, Arthur Huwae

“…Individuals who have dropped out need to be revived from this condition, one of which is by developing resilience. …”
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Contraindre sans contraindre : du « client idéal » de l’école maternelle aux difficultés professionnelles enseignantes by Fabienne Montmasson-Michel

“…The case of French nursery schools and language acculturation shows that pedagogical norms are based on an "ideal client" that is politically autonomous (a child who behaves well by himself) and cognitively autonomous (a child who learns by himself): an ideal of social class, far from most real children. …”
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Life insurance premium and Covid-19 by Glušac Danijela

“…This period of change could be a turning point and lead to transformational changes in the life insurance industry. Those who are able to adapt quickly to changes in the environment, who prioritize the insurance consumer and who see this crisis as an opportunity to start from scratch and fundamentally rethink the way they do business will quickly find their place when things calm down.…”
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Refugee, Shelter and Threat: Nature Represented in f. Sionil Jose’s Dusk by Kristiawan Indriyanto

“…Secondly, nature is also an untamed and even hostile force who can claim the life of people who pass through it. …”
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A Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess the Efficacy of Tiotropium in Canadian Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Charles KN Chan, François Maltais, Chris Sigouin, Jennifer M Haddon, Gordon T Ford, on behalf of the SAFE Study Group

“…BACKGROUND: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who smoke have a greater annual rate of decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) than those patients who have stopped smoking.…”
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Bevacizumab Demonstrates Prolonged Disease Stabilization in Patients with Heavily Pretreated Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Series and Review of the Literature by Nicole M. Agostino, Rebecca Gingrich, Joseph J. Drabick

“…We report our experience in 4 patients with metastatic RCC who had failed prior cytokine, TKI, and mTOR inhibitors who were treated with bevacizumab as single agent therapy. …”
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The Need for a Model of Accompanying Family Members for Elderly with Covid-19 During Isolation at Sembiring Delitua Public Hospital North Sumatera, Indonesia to Avoid Anxiety by Herri Novita Br Tarigan, Afrizal Afrizal, Andani Eka Putra, Adang Bachtiar, Rusdiana Rusdiana

“…The study examined isolated elderly patients who received assistance versus those who did not. …”
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Specificity of overcoming behavior within relationship to tolerance to uncertainty of convicted men by A. A. Shylina, O. M. Skliarov

“…It has been noted that a person during the execution of a sentence encounters other ways of life, culture, customs and attitudes towards him. …”
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The Effects of Mood Disorders and Dissociative Symptoms on Suicide Attempts by Halil &Ouml;zcan, Ali Emre &THORN;evik

“…Method: Seventy participants who were directed to psychiatry outpatient department from the Kastamonu State Hospital crisis intervention unit between January 2009 and January 2010 and who agreed to participate in the study were included. …”
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Vocational Bias: A Potential Pitfall in the Use of Key Informant Interviews in Pediatric Community Needs Assessments by Kimberly Northrip, Candice Chen, Jennifer Marsh

“…Those who worked in social services listed resource problems more often than those who did not (p < 0.05). …”
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A Threshold Technique Study to Understand Patient Preference for Smooth Versus Textured Breast Implants by Dallas Wood, PhD, Peyton N. Williams, MPH, Jessica E. Thompson, PhD, Susana Peinado, PhD, Avery A. Tilley, MS, David Gebben, PhD, Jacqueline M. Major, PhD, Jessica P. Weinberg, MPP, Sung W. Yoon, MD, Michelle E. Tarver, MD, PhD

“…This study aimed to quantify whether survey respondents would be willing to accept a higher risk of BIA-ALCL in exchange for the potential reported benefits of textured breast implants. Methods:. We fielded a threshold technique survey to 405 respondents from 4 cohorts: (1) patients with breast cancer who were considering but did not receive reconstruction with implants, (2) patients with breast cancer who had received reconstruction with implants, (3) persons considering breast augmentation with implants, and (4) patients who had received breast augmentation with implants. …”
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Consumption of folk medicine in men-seeking treatment for infertility by Abdulaziz Baazeem, Thamer Mishal M. Alqurashi, Yasser Homaidi H. Alharbi, Raad Abdullah D. Aldahhas, Mutaz Hassan A. Fatani

“…Conclusion: About 38.9% of patients who attended our clinic were using some alternative medicine. …”
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Examining Internal and External Consent in Consensual and Non-Consensual Contexts in Women by Nieves Moyano, Antonio Rafael Hidalgo-Muñoz, María del Mar Sánchez-Fuentes, Kristen Jozkowski, Reina Granados

“…Then, among women who experienced nonconsensual sex (n = 252), we further analyzed situational factors associated with the encounter: setting (i.e., whether the participant was in a known vs. unknown location when the nonconsensual sex occurred), and whether the nonconsensual sex was sexual coercion or sexual assault. …”
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The Importance of Dose Escalation in the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension with Treprostinil by Piotr Kędzierski, Marta Banaszkiewicz, Michał Florczyk, Michał Piłka, Rafał Mańczak, Maria Wieteska-Miłek, Piotr Szwed, Krzysztof Kasperowicz, Katarzyna Wrona, Szymon Darocha, Adam Torbicki, Marcin Kurzyna

“…<b>Methods</b>: The factors influencing treatment response were analyzed in consecutive PAH patients who started receiving treprostinil treatment. …”
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A community-based study to assess the prevalence and predictors of stunting among under-five children in Sheger City, Oromia, Ethiopia by Firomsa Botorie, Bilisom Balcha Abera, Abera Botorie, Abera Botorie, Asonya Abera, Abebe Dukessa Dubiwak, Abebe Dukessa Dubiwak, Tesfaye Getachew Charkos, Godana Arero Dassie

“…Children whose mothers were daily laborers (AOR: 10.3), whose mothers’ education level was primary school (AOR: 4.3), whose fathers were daily laborers (AOR: 4), who were born into families with an average birth interval of ≤24 months (AOR: 7.9), who were from families with a size ≥5 (AOR: 7.3), who had a history of diarrhea (AOR: 6.3), who had meals ≤3 times per day (AOR: 13.9), who were underweight (AOR: 2.8), who were breastfed for less than 2 years (AOR: 5.6), who had low dietary diversity (AOR: 6.3), and who experienced food insecurity (AOR: 3.6) were identified as the predictors of stunting in under-five children.ConclusionApproximately one-fifth of the under-five children were stunted in the study setting. …”
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Evaluating Meaningful Changes in Patient‐Reported Outcome Measurement Information System–Fatigue Scores from Three Phase 3 Clinical Trials of Sarilumab for Patients With Rheumatoid... by Clifton O. Bingham, Emily Molina, Amy Praestgaard, Stefano Fiore, David Cella

“…Methods Data from three phase 3 randomized controlled trials of patients with RA who received sarilumab—MOBILITY, TARGET, and MONARCH—were evaluated. …”
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Successful Outpatient Management of Children at a Secondary Care Hospital in Pakistan in a Dengue Fever Epidemic and Their Clinical Outcomes by Ammara Farooq, Brekhna Aurangzeb, Taimur Khalil Sheikh, Huma Bashir, Maryam Ghuncha, Tehmina Mustafa

“…Additionally, clinical and laboratory features (Hb, HCT, TLC, PLT, and ALT) of the patients in the outpatient who remained stable with those who progressed to inpatient care during follow-up were compared; also, time of recovery of blood counts was assessed. …”
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Patient-reported systemic symptoms in women with silicone breast implants: a descriptive cohort study by Karlinde Amber Spit, Miranda Scharff, Christel JM de Blok, Frank B Niessen, Yara Bachour, Prabath W Nanayakkara

“…We aim to describe the symptoms and characteristics of women with SBI reporting these systemic symptoms and compare the clinical course of women who chose to keep their implants, to women who had their implants removed.Design Observational cohort study.Setting Specialised BII out-patient clinic at Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands, from 2011 to 2020.Participants All women presenting to the BII clinic with SBI and systemic symptoms.Results 467 women were included for baseline analyses and 398 women for follow-up. …”
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