Use of nicotine replacement therapy to create a smoke-free home: study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial of a smoke-free home intervention in Scotland by Sean Semple, Rachel O’Donnell, Nicola McMeekin, Rebecca Howell, Tracy Henderson, Laura Sinclair, Karen Mather

“…This pilot randomised controlled trial tests the feasibility of providing parents, carers and relatives with posted-to-home nicotine replacement therapy alongside fortnightly telephone support to reduce children’s exposure to SHS.Methods and analysis 100 participants are being recruited through existing National Health Service (NHS) Lanarkshire initiatives and social media. …”
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Comparative Assessment of 0.5% Levobupivacaine and 0.5% Ropivacaine for Anaesthetic Potency in Mandibular Third Molar Extractions: A Randomised Controlled Trial by Prachi Surolia, Rajanikanth Kambala, Nitin Bhola, Anchal Agarwal

“…Introduction: Patients often experience postoperative pain for more than 24 hours after the extraction of impacted mandibular third molars. …”
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Comportamiento de interleucinas proinflamatorias después de una contrarreloj de 20 minutos en ciclistas altamente entrenados (Proinflammatory interleukins behavior after functional... by Javier Porras Alvarez, Ivan Leonardo Duque vera

“…Thus, this study aimed to determine the behavior of proinflammatory interleukins following the functional threshold power test in cyclists. Materials and Methods: Twenty-nine male cyclists, with an average age 22±3.9 years and an average cycling experience 6.9±4.2 years, participated. …”
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An investigation into the psychological status and influencing factors among residents undergoing standardized training by Zhenhua Liu, Haoyuan Zhang, Haoyuan Zhang, Haoyuan Zhang, Yufei Zhang, Lifang Zhou, Yixuan Wu, Zihan Lang, Leyuan Zhang, Haoyu Zhang, Qianqian Yu

“…This study aims to assess the mental health status of Chinese resident physicians and identify key demographic and professional factors associated with psychiatric symptoms.MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted among 276 resident physicians at Qilu Hospital, Shandong University. …”
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Intervention With WhatsApp Messaging to Compare the Effect of Self-Designed Messages and Standardized Messages in Adherence to Antiretroviral Treatment in Young People Living With... by Jeffrey Freidenson-Bejar, Dianne Espinoza, Rodrigo Calderon-Flores, Fernando Mejia, Elsa González-Lagos

“…ObjectiveThe objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of WhatsApp messages created by participants (self-designed) compared to WhatsApp messages designed by the researchers (standardized) over adherence to ART at 16 weeks of intervention in young people living with HIV who receive HIV care under routine conditions at a public hospital in Lima, Peru. MethodsA 2-arm randomized controlled trial with a parallel assignment of 1:1, with no blinding of study intervention, was performed. …”
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Impact of clinical pharmacy services on medication adherence and quality of life in pre-dialysis patients with CKDu: a randomized controlled trial from Sri Lanka by Dilmi Wickramasinghe, Catherine Lynch, Judith Coombes, Shaluka Jayamanne, Shamila De Silva

“…As disease progresses, patients experience comorbidities (anemia, bone mineral disorder, cardiovascular complications). …”
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The Prognostic Significance of Sleep and Circadian Rhythm for Myocardial Infarction Outcomes: Case-Control Study by Wei-Chih Chin, Pao-Hsien Chu, Lung-Sheng Wu, Kuang-Tso Lee, Chen Lin, Chien-Te Ho, Wei-Sheng Yang, I-Hang Chung, Yu-Shu Huang

“…Nonparametric analysis of actigraphy data was performed to examine the circadian rhythm of patients. MethodsPatients with MI in the intensive care unit (ICU) were enrolled alongside age- and gender-matched healthy controls. …”
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Comparative efficacy and acceptability of novel biologics in the treatment of myasthenia gravis: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized trials by Chang Guan, Peixi Zhao, Meijin Song, Jing Lu, Huijing Cui, Dongxu Li, Tianying Chang, Yingzi Cui, Xikang Ding, Jian Wang, Peng Xu

“…These data may help inform the design and sample size calculation of future clinical trials and assist selection of combination therapy. …”
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Association between female genital mutilation/cutting and caesarean delivery in singleton births across Sub-Saharan Africa by Demisu Zenbaba, Sylvester Okeke, Deborah Okeke-Obayemi, Sanni Yaya

“…In this study, we aim to explore whether FGM/C decreases the likelihood of a C-section in singleton births across sub-Saharan Africa. Methods This is a cross-sectional study using Demographic and Health Survey data from Burkina Faso, Gambia, Kenya, Senegal, and Tanzania. …”
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Clinicians’ Perceptions and Potential Applications of Robotics for Task Automation in Critical Care: Qualitative Study by Jiafeng Song, Rishika Iytha Sridhar, Darlene Marie Rogers, Cheryl Hiddleson, Carolyn Davis, Tina Lynn Holden, Shanna Ramsey-Haynes, Lisa Reif, Julie Swann, Craig S Jabaley, Mary Gullatte, Rishikesan Kamaleswaran

“…We focused on the degree of acceptance, perceived challenges, and potential applications for improving patient care in 5 Southeastern US hospitals between January and August 2023. MethodsA qualitative study through semistructured interviews and questionnaires was conducted with 15 ICU clinicians (7 nurses, 6 physicians, and 2 advanced practice providers) from 5 hospitals in the Southeast United States. …”
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Link of TMPRSS2 expression with tumor immunogenicity and response to immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancers by Karthikeyan Subbarayan, Helena Bieber, Chiara Massa, Felipe Adonis Escalona Rodríguez, SM Al Amin Hossain, Lisa Neuder, Wafa Wahbi, Tuula Salo, Sandy Tretbar, Ahmed Al-Samadi, Barbara Seliger

“…Therefore, the aim of the study was to determine the expression, function and clinical relevance of TMPRSS2 in tumors. Methods Publicly accessible RNA sequencing data from tumors, adjacent tissues and whole blood samples of COVID-19 patients as well as data from human tumor epithelial and endothelial cells infected with SARS-CoV-2 were analyzed for TMPRSS2 expression and correlated to the expression of immune-relevant genes and clinical parameters. …”
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Model of Health-Related Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients Using Cross-Sectional Data: The Role of Resilience by Velickovic K, Olsson Möller U, Ryden L, Bendahl PO, Malmström M

“…The aim of this study was to investigate paths between resilience, physical activity, and mental, physical, and global health-related quality of life in breast cancer patients.Patients and Methods: Structural equation modeling was conducted to evaluate the proposed structural paths using a sample of 638 women with newly diagnosed breast cancer patients from Sweden.Results: Resilience was directly associated with physical activity and mental health-related quality of life. …”
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Exploring the Relationship Between Public Social Media Accounts, Adolescent Mental Health, and Parental Guidance in England: Large Cross-Sectional School Survey Study by Wakithi Siza Mabaso, Sascha Hein, Gabriela Pavarini, Mina Fazel

“…ObjectiveThis study aims to investigate the association between having a public social media account and anxiety and depression in school-going adolescents. MethodsOverall, 80 secondary schools and further education colleges in England were sampled using a cross-sectional web-based survey as part of the 2023 OxWell Student Survey. …”
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Caregiver burden in family caregivers of individuals with cancer in Iran: an analytical cross-sectional study by Arvin Mirshahi, Zahra Farsi, Seyedeh Azam Sajadi, Fatemeh Pakdin, Ali Faridfar, Arsia Taghva

“…Methods This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted at Imam Reza Hospital in Tehran, Iran, in 2024. …”
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The EmpkinS-EKSpression Reappraisal Training Augmented With Kinesthesia in Depression: One-Armed Feasibility Study by Marie Keinert, Lena Schindler-Gmelch, Lydia Helene Rupp, Misha Sadeghi, Robert Richer, Klara Capito, Bjoern M Eskofier, Matthias Berking

“…This feasibility study was conducted as a precursor to a large-scale randomized controlled trial. MethodsIn total, 10 healthy participants engaged in a single 90-120-minute session of smartphone-based CR training. …”
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Prevalence and risk factors for long COVID among cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Hongkun Xu, Hongkun Xu, Tingting Lu, Yajie Liu, Jingqi Yang, Simeng Ren, Baojin Han, Honghao Lai, Long Ge, Jie Liu

“…This study aimed to determine the prevalence of long COVID and explore potential risk factors among cancer patients.MethodsA systematic search was performed on PubMed, Web of Science, and Embase from database inception until 21 March 2024, to identify studies that reported long COVID in cancer patients. …”
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Intra-arterial selective hypothermia for acute ischemic stroke neuroprotection: A multicenter pilot trial in China. by Zhi-Xin Huang, Miaomiao Hu, Pan Zhang, Xuying He, Xinan Ma, Quanlong Hong, Ping Chen, Huanhuan Luan, Zongyi Wu, Chaolai Liu, Wei Li, Yongkun Li, Yongtao Yu, Min Li, Yajun Li, Dezhi Liu, Zhongkui Han, Weiliang Shi, Jilong Yi, Liang Liu, Guoqiang Xu, Haike Lu, Lizhi Zhou, Xinfeng Liu, Wen Sun, ISOLATION Group

“…Despite advances in reperfusion treatments, many patients still experience poor outcomes, highlighting the urgent need for additional therapeutic approaches. …”
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Genetic diversity of Vif protein in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 variants (Retroviridae: <i>Orthoretrovirinae: Lentivirus: Human immunodeficiency virus-1</i>) that circulate... by Anastasiia A. Antonova, Larisa A. Protasova, Kristina V. Kim, Iana M. Munchak, Ekaterina N. Mezhenskaya, Elena A. Orlova-Morozova, Alexander Yu. Pronin, Alexey G. Prilipov, Anna I. Kuznetsova

“…The aim of the study: to study the genetic diversity of Vif in the HIV-1 variants that circulated in the Moscow region in 2019–2020. Materials and methods. 234 whole blood samples obtained from HIV-infected patients without experience of therapy were analyzed. …”
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Abnormal event detection based on local topology and l_1/2norm regularize by Qing YU, Ken CHEN, Meng LI, Fei LI

“…A new dictionary learning method was proposed by introducing a local topology term to describe structural information of video events and using the l_1/2norm as the sparsity constraint to the representation coefficients based on the traditional analysis dictionary learning method.In feature extraction,a histogram of interaction force(HOIF) containing rich motion information and a histogram of oriented gradient(HOG) containing texture information were merged.Then,the improved dictionary was used to train the feature data.Finally,the reconstruction error of the testing sample under the dictionary was used to determine whether the testing sample was an abnormal sample.Experiments on UMN show the high performance of the algorithm.Compared with the state-of-the-art algorithms,the analysis dictionary classification algorithm based on local topology and l_1/2norm has made more effective detection on the abnormal events in the crowd.…”
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Synthesis of Magnetic Halloysite Composites for the Effective Removal of Tetracycline Hydrochloride from Aqueous Solutions by Weisheng Guan, Xu Wang, Jianming Pan, Junru Lei, Ya Zhou, Chenchen Lu, Yongsheng Yan

“…The synthesized composites were characterized by the following methods: Fourier transform infrared, X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, vibrating sample magnetometry and atomic absorption spectrometry. …”
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