The impact of thyroid disorder on cardiovascular disease: Unraveling the connection and implications for patient care by Nanny Natalia Mulyani Soetedjo, Dessy Agustini, Hikmat Permana

“…An antiarrhythmic drug, amiodarone, may also induce both thyrotoxicosis and hypothyroidism, so its use requires serial thyroid function testing. Every CVD patient is recommended to be screened and treated for any possible thyroid dysfunction to reduce the patient’s mortality and morbidity.…”
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Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease and Bronchial Asthma: Updated View on the Problem of Comorbidity by Hanych T.

“…Although after such therapy the majority of patients with erosive form of GERD demonstrated both less severe asthma symptoms and lower demand in controller medications, there was no any improvement in the results of lung function testing. In patients with asymptomatic GERD the treatment had no effect on the clinical presentations and asthma control. …”
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NK-like T cells and plasma cytokines, but not anti-viral serology, define immune fingerprints of resilience and mild disability in exceptional aging. by Abbe N Vallejo, David L Hamel, Robert G Mueller, Diane G Ives, Joshua J Michel, Robert M Boudreau, Anne B Newman

“…Blood samples were collected and examined blindly for humoral factors and T cell phenotypes. Based on results of physical and cognitive performance testing, elders were classified as "impaired" or "unimpaired", accuracy of group assignment was verified by discriminant function analysis. …”
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Respiratory risk assessment prior to extrathoracic surgery by P.F. Aucamp, M. Prins

“…A diligent preoperative clinical evaluation, supplemented with appropriate preoperative pulmonary function testing, would identify the majority of important risk factors for postoperative complications. …”
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Segmental Faithfulness to Semantic Heads in Novel Spanish Blends by Metta Crouse, Jennifer L. Smith, Katya Pertsova

“…These results replicate and extend previous results from English, confirming that the semantic head can function as a phonologically strong position. More broadly, these findings contribute to evidence that factors beyond phonetic salience are able to motivate phonological privilege. …”
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GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED PANEL REGRESSION (GWPR) MODEL FOR POVERTY DATA IN WEST JAVA PROVINCE 2019-2021 by Ramadhoni Nasri, Nurul Gusriani, Nursanti Anggriani

“…The purpose of this study is to produce a GWPR model using the Weighted Least Square (WLS) method with the Tricube adaptive kernel weighting function. By conducting overall and partial testing through the F test and t test, the results show that the model for each location and the factors that influence the percentage of poor people in West Java are different for each location due to spatial variations in the relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable.…”
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Research status and progress of tilted optic disc syndrome by YAO Haoyu, ZUO Wenjun

“…In the diagnostic process of TDS, a combination of methods is typically employed, including fundus examination, optical coherence tomography (OCT), and visual field testing, to comprehensively assess the morphology and function of the optic disc. …”
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Individual Differences in Sustained Attention: Effects of Age, Sex, and Time of Day Based on Psychomotor Vigilance Task Performance by Emi Yuda, Yutaka Yoshida

“…A general linear model was applied with sex and testing time (8:00–12:00, 13:00–16:00, 16:00–18:00) as fixed factors and age as a covariate. …”
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Cognitive impairments in cerebrovascular disease by A. Yu. Emelin

“…The comprehensive approach to examining patients with cognitive dysfunctions, which encompasses physical examination with a mandatory evaluation of neurological symptoms, neuropsychological testing, laboratory studies, instrumental diagnostic methods, and structural and functional neuroimaging techniques, are most justified now. …”
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Clinical and genetic analysis of methylmalonic aciduria in 60 patients from Southern China: a single center retrospective study by Hiba Abid, Areeba Abid, Sarah Sohail, Sara Jawaid

“…We highlight the variability in serum MMA levels due to dietary intake, renal function, and external factors, advocating for the integration of supplementary diagnostic tools, such as the 1–13 C-propionate oxidation breath test, alongside biomarkers like fibroblast growth factor 21, growth differentiation factor 15, and lipocalin-2, to improve diagnostic accuracy. …”
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Predicting soil organic carbon with ensemble learning techniques by using satellite images for precision farming by Shyamal Mundada, Pooja Jain

“…A group of covariates has been chosen to function as potential predictor factors for soil properties, including four topographical variables, two soil-related remote sensing indices, and four climate variables which were retrieved from satellite images. …”
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Exploiting heart rate variability for driver drowsiness detection using wearable sensors and machine learning by Zakwan AlArnaout, Chamseddine Zaki, Yehia Kotb, Mouhammad AlAkkoumi, Nour Mostafa

“…The Support Vector Machine with Radial Basis Function (SVM-RBF) also shows strong generalization performance, with a testing F1-score of 87.15% and the smallest mean change of -3.97%. …”
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Storage damage of cold-stored whole blood in CPDA maintenance fluid during the whole effective storage period by Yingyu He, Yiquan Zhang, Wanbing Liu, Lidong Zhang, Yingkai Xu, Zihan Yuan, Junying Li, Lei Liu, Fangxiong Cheng

“…Aliquots were collected at storage days 0, 7, 14, 21, 28, and 35 for analysis. On each testing day, storage lesion related indicators of red blood cells (RBCs), plasma components, and platelets were respectively detected.ResultsOn the 14th day of CS-WB storage, no significant changes were found in the morphology, quantity, and function of RBCs. …”
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Determination of A1 and A2 β-casein in cow milk by high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry by Fengen Wang, Min Ding, Ruiju Li, Kun Wang, Xiuxin Zhao, Xia Li, Zengmei Li, Shiming Guo, Ligang Deng, Jianbin Li

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Designing a fuzzy system for lung disease diagnosis based on spirometry by firuze ebrahimpoor, vali derhami, mehrdad mostaghaci, mohammad javad zare, Raziyeh Soltani Gerdefaramarzi

“…Introduction: Nowadays, air pollution, occupational and industrial harmful exposure caused the increasing prevalence of lung diseases. The pulmonary function testing such as spirometry plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of lung diseases. …”
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Sap flow simulation of Cunninghamia lanceolata in degraded red soil region based on back propagation neural network by Tu Jie, Liu Qijing, Wei Jun, Hu Liang

“…The fitting accuracies of training samples were 83.57% and 83.06%, and the simulation accuracies of testing samples were 82.87% and 82.15%, respectively.In conclusion, the BP network model can well reflect the non-linear relationship between the meteorological factors and the sap flow velocity, thus may provide an effective tool for sustainable developing strategy of C. lanceolata plantations and scientific management of the associated water resource in the future.…”
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Muscle-homing peptides modified biomimetic curcumin nanoparticles ameliorate skeletal muscle dysfunction in aging mice by Jianjie Xie, Zongyu Huang, Nana Gao, Huicong Feng, Biaobiao Wang, Shuang Gao, He Tian, Chao Wu, Chang Liu

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Rare genetic associations with human lifespan in UK Biobank are enriched for oncogenic genes by Junyoung Park, Andrés Peña-Tauber, Lia Talozzi, Michael D. Greicius, Yann Le Guen

“…Our findings highlight the importance of understanding genetic factors driving the most prevalent causes of mortality at a population level, highlighting the potential of early genetic testing to identify germline and somatic variants increasing one’s susceptibility to cancer and/or early death.…”
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Chronic kidney disease for the primary care clinician by M. R. Davids, M. Y. Chothia

“…In patients with established CKD, renoprotective measures are indicated to arrest or slow down the loss of renal function. These patients are at high risk of cardiovascular disease and close attention should be paid to optimally managing their risk factors.…”
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NEGOTIATING COMMON GROUND IN COMPUTER-MEDIATED VERSUS FACE-TO-FACE DISCUSSIONS by Ilona Vandergriff

“…A number of factors, including communicative purpose or medium are hypothesized to affect the use of such strategies (Clark & Brennan, 1991). …”
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