Assessment of Antimicrobial Use for Companion Animals in South Korea: Developing Defined Daily Doses and Investigating Veterinarians’ Perception of AMR by Sun-Min Kim, Heyong-Seok Kim, Jong-Won Kim, Kyung-Duk Min

“…Descriptive analysis using data from 100 veterinary clinics revealed a rising trend in AMU between 2019 and 2022, with higher usage observed in larger clinics and non-capital regions. DDDA values for dogs were generally higher than for cats. …”
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Sex Differences in the Prognostic Value of Circulating Biomarkers in Patients Presenting With Acute Chest Pain by Gard Mikael Sæle Myrmel, MD, Nasir Saeed, Ole Thomas Steiro, MD, Hilde Lunde Tjora, MD, PhD, Jørund Langørgen, MD, PhD, Rune Oskar Bjørneklett, MD, PhD, Øyvind Skadberg, MD, Vernon Vijay Singha Bonarjee, MD, PhD, Øistein Rønneberg Mjelva, MD, Eva Ringdal Pedersen, MD, PhD, Kjell Vikenes, MD, PhD, Torbjørn Omland, MD, PhD, Kristin Moberg Aakre, MD, PhD

“…Methods: High-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn), hs-cTnI, N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), growth differentiation factor (GDF)-15, and C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations were measured in 1,476 patients admitted with suspected NSTE-ACS. Patients were followed up for a median of 1,547 (IQR: 873-1,842) days until a primary composite endpoint of all-cause mortality, incident myocardial infarction, or heart failure hospitalization. …”
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Genetic Polymorphisms in RNF138, ABCA1 and ESRRG-GPATCH2 Genes and their Role in Insulin Resistance Risk among Normal BMI Individuals in Indian Population: A Case-control Study by Sabitha Thummala, Sarah Fathima, Nithya Kruthi, Junaid Ahmed Khan Ghori, Katherine Saikia, Vivek Belde, Balamurali Andiyakkal Rajendran, Rahul Ranganathan

“…Introduction: India, characterised as the “diabetes capital” of the world, faces a rapidly increasing diabetes crisis, with over 65 million cases diagnosed. …”
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Assessing the Influence of High Population Growth Rate on Food Security in Nyamweru Subcounty Rubanda District. by Twinamasiko, Derrick

“…From the study findings, the role of the population growth rate towards food security in the Nyamweru sub-county Rubanda district promotes food production. encourages saving and investments, high population growth puts greater pressure on health and improves its quality, leads to a rapid increase in school-age population that calls for more investment in education, high population growth leads to an efficiency of developing countries and their political system and high population puts pressure on urban physical infrastructures leading to development, the study results also on challenges affecting population growth rate on food security in Nyamweru sub county Rubanda district, were inadequate capital for investment, shortage of enough land. poor infrastructure development, climatic changes, over-utilization of land, and political instability the study results also on how a high population growth rate promotes food security in the Nyanweru sub-county Rubanda district the findings were through the development of drought-resistant crops, investment in rural infrastructure, irrigation, improved storage facilities and investment in sustainable technologies. …”
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Role of Government Projects and Youth Employment in Kisoro District: A Case Study of Youth Livelihood Program. by Zaninka, Esther

“…The study also showed that lack of training of the youth and policy implementers was the major challenge affecting the YLP in the provision of quality service delivery among people in Kisoro district, YLP put more emphasis on multiple areas, namely to provide capital to young entrepreneurs, avail business development services, facilitate linkages in supply chain and create market opportunities for goods and services produces by youth services such as training and mentorship, business plan competition and developing partnership with public and private institutions. …”
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Small and Medium Enterprises Performance and Job Creation in Kabale Municipality. by Ruth, Namara

“…SMEs however lack start –up capital, high operating expenses in terms of license, taxes, wages, etc. which has reduced profits made by business operators and hence making some to quit the occupation hence increasing jobs in Kabale municipality. …”
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Outcome differences in acute vs. acute on chronic heart failure and cardiogenic shock by Tara L. Jones, Michael C. Tan, Vidang Nguyen, Kathleen E. Kearney, Charles C. Maynard, Emily Anderson, Claudius Mahr, James M. McCabe

“…Methods and results Sequential patients admitted with CS at a single quaternary centre between January 2014 and August 2017 were identified. …”
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Obtaining patient phenotypes in SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, and their association with clinical severity and mortality by Fernando García-García, Dae-Jin Lee, Mónica Nieves-Ermecheo, Olaia Bronte, Pedro Pablo España, José María Quintana, Rosario Menéndez, Antoni Torres, Luis Alberto Ruiz Iturriaga, Isabel Urrutia, COVID-19 & Air Pollution Working Group

“…We included adult patients admitted for in-hospital stay due to SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia. …”
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Clinical novel exploration of intractable fever in stroke rehabilitation: a single-center cross-sectional retrospective study by Huang Jingjie, Wu Bangqi, Qin Peng, Zhang Ziyi, Cheng Yupei, Wang Chaoran, Chen Yuyan, Bai Jing

“…This study evaluated 1,065 stroke patients in the rehabilitation phase who were admitted to the Neurorehabilitation Center between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2023. …”
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Effect of Tonifying deficiency and Zhengqi porridge on immune function reconstruction in HIV/AIDS patients with Qi deficiency (补虚正气粥对艾滋病气虚型患者免疫功能重建的影响研究)... by WEI Yan (魏艳), LI shu (李树), YUAN Hongxia (袁洪霞), ZHANG Ying (张英), LIU Xiaoli (刘小丽), LIU Lingling (刘玲玲)

“…Methods Sixty (Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)HIV/AIDS patients admitted to the center for Disease Control and prevention in Huichuan District of Zunyi City were randomly divided into control group and treatment group by random number table. …”
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Analysis of the relationships between the degree of migraine with right-to-left shunts and changes in white matter lesions and brain structural volume by Xin Pan, Haoran Ren, Lili Xie, Yu Zou, Furong Li, Xiaowen Sui, Li Cui, Zhengping Cheng, Jiaojiao Wu, Feng Shi, Hongling Zhao, Shubei Ma

“…A total of 102 migraineurs with RLS admitted to the affiliated Central Hospital of Dalian University of Technology from December 2018 to December 2022 were enrolled in this study. …”
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Myocardial Infarction-Associated Shock: A Comprehensive Analysis of Phenotypes, SCAI Classification, and Outcome Assessment by Stanislav Dil, Maria Kercheva, Oleg Panteleev, Sergey Demianov, Aleksandr Kanev, Nina Belich, Boris Kornienko, Vyacheslav Ryabov

“…<i>Materials and Methods</i>: In this single-center, retrospective observational study, we reviewed the medical records of 1289 patients admitted to the emergency cardiology department from 1 January to 12 December 2020. …”
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Archeohandi: protocol for a national disabilities database in archaeology in France by Rozenn Colleter, Valérie Delattre, Cyrille Le Forestier, Alex Baiet, Philippe Blanchard, Fanny Chenal, Anne-Sophie Coupey, Stéphanie Desbrosse-Degobertière, Sylvie Duchesne, Cécile Durin, Jean-Luc Gisclon, Noémie Gryspeirt, Fanny La Rocca, Raphaëlle Lefebvre, Jérôme Livet, Cécile Paresys, Mikaël Rouzic, Isabelle Souquet, Florence Tane, Aminte Thomann, Ivy Thomson, Émilie Trébuchet, Marie-Cécile Truc, Jean-Baptiste Barreau

“…A database is designed within an interpretive, consensual framework, that can be adapted to overcome limitations and promote open-minded research on the care of the disabled in their own communities. …”
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Application of pediatric massage combined with Traditional Chinese Medicine application in antipyretic treatment of children with exogenous fever (小儿推拿联合中药敷贴在外感发热患儿退热中的应用)... by TANG Xianlan (汤先兰), GAN Na (甘娜), HUANG Biqiu (黄碧秋)

“…No adverse reaction was reported in the treatment group; There were 3 cased of headache and 7 cases of nausea/vomiting reported in the control group. The antipyretic onset time and complete antipyretic time in the treatment group were shorter than those in the control group (P＜0. 01). …”
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A retrospective study of pembrolizumab combined with XELOX regimen in the treatment of advanced gastric cancer by FENG Huizhi, LIU Jingmei, BU Xiaoqian

“…Methods: Clinical data of patients with advanced gastric cancer who were admitted to Shanxi Province Cancer Hospital from March 2020 to August 2022 were retrospectively collected. …”
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A qualitative study on health education knowledge demands of patients after gastric cancer surgery before discharge (胃癌术后患者出院前健康教育知识需求的质性研究)... by LAI Shurong (赖淑蓉), LAI Xiaoning (赖小令), YU Xiaoqing (喻小青), HUANG Xiaoyi (黄小恬)

“…The purposive sampling method was used to select 12 patients admitted to the Gastrointestinal Surgery Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University from January 2024 to March 2024 for semi-structured interviews, and Colaizzi's seven-step phenomenological data analysis method was used for analysis. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support for SARS-CoV-2: a multi-centered, prospective, observational study in critically ill 92 patients in Saudi Arabia by Saad Alhumaid, Abbas Al Mutair, Header A. Alghazal, Ali J. Alhaddad, Hassan Al-Helal, Sadiq A. Al Salman, Jalal Alali, Sana Almahmoud, Zulfa M. Alhejy, Ahmad A. Albagshi, Javed Muhammad, Amjad Khan, Tarek Sulaiman, Maha Al-Mozaini, Kuldeep Dhama, Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Ali A. Rabaan

“…Methods A case series study was conducted for the laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 patients who were admitted to the ICUs of 22 Saudi hospitals, between March 1, 2020, and October 30, 2020, by reviewing patient’s medical records prospectively. …”
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Establishment and validation a relapse prediction model for bipolar disorder by Xiaoqian Zhang, Xiaoqian Zhang, Xiaoqian Zhang, Xiaoqian Zhang, Minghao Wu, Daojin Wang, Long Wang, Long Wang, Long Wang, Wen Xie, Wen Xie, Wen Xie

“…Therefore, it is important to establish and validate predictive models for relapse risk in patients with BD.MethodWe used 303 patients with BD admitted to the Anhui Mental Health Center as a retrospective training cohort and 81 patients from the Wuhu Fourth People’s Hospital as an external validation cohort. …”
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The expression of MALAT1, plasma brain natriuretic peptide, and Tei index in sepsis-induced myocardial injury by Guangqing Huang, Wenzi Yang, Xu Zhao, Yong Bai, Xing Jiang, Jie Liu

“…Methods The current retrospective analysis focused on 146 sepsis patients admitted to our hospital from February 2021 to March 2023. …”
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Rehospitalization burden and morbidity risk in patients with heart failure with mid‐range ejection fraction by Enrique Santas, Rafael de laEspriella, Patricia Palau, Gema Miñana, Martina Amiguet, Juan Sanchis, Josep Lupón, Antoni Bayes‐Genís, Francisco Javier Chorro, Julio Núñez Villota

“…Methods and results We prospectively included 2961 consecutive patients admitted for acute HF (AHF) in our institution. Of them, 158 patients died during the index admission, leaving the sample size to be 2803 patients. …”
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