Predictors of HBsAg seroclearance in HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B patients treated with nucleotide analogs plus polyethylene glycol interferon by Yan Peng, Mingzhe Ma, Ting Liu, Wenmin He, Shutao Lin, Wa Zhong, Xiaohui Min

“…Moreover, for the first time, we found ALT change values from baseline to week 24 (dALT2) could act as a novel independent clinical efficacy predictors in the forementioned population.…”
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The Effects of Noxious Electrical Stimulation and Eccentric Exercise on Mechanical and Thermal Pain Sensitivity in Recreational Runners with Achilles Tendinopathy by Scott K. Stackhouse, Brian J. Eckenrode, Kathleen C. Madara

“…There were significant improvements from baseline to one month follow-up for heat temporal summation (p = 0.001) and heat pain threshold ( p < 0.001)…”
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Non-acid reflux and sleep apnea: the importance of drug induced sleep endoscopy by Carlos O’Connor-Reina, Jose Maria Ignacio Garcia, Peter Baptista, Maria Teresa Garcia-Iriarte, Carlos Casado Alba, Monica Perona, Paz Francisca Borrmann, Laura Rodriguez Alcala, Guillermo Plaza

“…The patient’s AHI decreased from 25.3 at baseline to 8 after treatment with sodium alginate. …”
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A histomorphological assessment of endoscopic biopsies in patients with upper gastrointestinal diseases in a tertiary hospital setting in Nigeria by Charles NC, Ikhuoria OC, Olalekan KS, Kufre UU, McEinstein EU, Chibuike OI

“…Of the 273 UGIE biopsies, only 4 (1.5%) malignant lesions were seen. Conclusion: A baseline data of the pattern of UGIE in Akwa Ibom State has been documented. …”
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Deep immunophenotypic dissection and clinical impact of T cells in the follicular lymphoma microenvironment by Sary El Daker, David Qualls, Andriy Derkach, Samida Beqaj, Leonardo Boiocchi, Venkatraman Seshan, Jeeyeon Baik, Menglei Zhu, Gilles Salles, Ahmet Dogan, Mikhail Roshal, Pallavi Galera

“…FL-UT cases with either increased T-reg TC or increased T follicular helper cells (TFH) showed reduced time to first treatment (…”
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Multisegment Parallel Coregistration of Sentinel-1 SAR Time-Series Images by Combining OpenMP With MPI by Yonghui Kang, Yonghong Zhang, Hong'an Wu, Jujie Wei, Xiaoxue Sun, Yue Zuo

“…In the enhanced spectral diversity coregistration, slave images are segmented by temporal baseline, with the first image processed serially and others in parallel. …”
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Gliosarcoma with Primary Skull Base Invasion by Quoc-Bao D. Nguyen, Avital Perry, Christopher S. Graffeo, Cody L. Nesvick, Aditya Raghunathan, Mark E. Jentoft, Brian P. O’Neill, Padraig P. Morris, Jonathan M. Morris, Jamie J. Van Gompel

“…However, this is the first report case of primary GS invading the surrounding musculature and orbit. …”
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Comparison of Clinical Efficacy of Intravenous Acetaminophen with Intravenous Morphine in Acute Renal Colic: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial by Kambiz Masoumi, Arash Forouzan, Ali Asgari Darian, Maryam Feli, Hassan Barzegari, Ali Khavanin

“…In this double-blind controlled trial, patients aged 18–55 years, diagnosed with acute renal colic, who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, were randomized into two groups. First, using the visual analogue scale (VAS), intensity of pain was assessed in both groups. …”
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Functional Brain Correlates of Upper Limb Spasticity and Its Mitigation following Rehabilitation in Chronic Stroke Survivors by Svetlana Pundik, Adam D. Falchook, Jessica McCabe, Krisanne Litinas, Janis J. Daly

“…Outcome measures included Modified Ashworth scale, sensory tests, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for wrist and hand movement. Results. First, at baseline, greater spasticity correlated with poorer motor function (P=0.001) and greater sensory deficits (P=0.003). …”
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PIVKA-II as a surrogate biomarker for therapeutic response in Non-AFP-secreting hepatocellular carcinoma by San-Chi Chen, Hsiang-Ling Ho, Chien-An Liu, Yi‑Ping Hung, Nai-Jung Chiang, Ming‑Huang Chen, Yee Chao, Muh-Hwa Yang

“…Methods Patients with unresectable HCC undergoing systemic therapy were enrolled. Baseline imaging and PIVKA-II levels were recorded. …”
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Burden of Illness in Prostate Cancer Patients with a Low-to-Moderate Risk of Progression: A One-Year, Pan-European Observational Study by Cesare Selli, Anders Bjartell, Javier Burgos, Matthew Somerville, Juan-Manuel Palacios, Laure Benjamin, Libby Black, Ramiro Castro

“…Questionnaires were completed at baseline, at 3 months and 12 months after starting treatment. …”
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Impact of a Novel Insulin Management Service on Non-insulin Pharmaceutical Expenses by John E. Schneider, Anjani Parikh, Ivana Stojanovic

“…A prospective cost analysis was conducted using data from enrolled patients who completed the first 90 days of follow up. **Results:** Of the 192 patients who completed the 90-day study period, 54 (28.13%) were prescribed one or more expensive medications at baseline, but 45 (83.33%) of those patients were eligible for medication discontinuation after 90 days. …”
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Network intervention analysis to assess the trajectory of change and intervention effects associated with the use of self-control training for ego depletion aftereffects by JunJi Ying, Xiaofang Zhang, Lei Ren, RiHan Wu, Wei Xiao, Xufeng Liu

“…Networks were computed at the baseline, at the end of treatment, at 1-, 3-, 6-, 9- and 12-month follow up. 62 samples were recruited from universities and randomly divided into two groups. …”
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Methodological Tutorial Series for Epidemiological Studies: Confounder Selection and Sensitivity Analyses to Unmeasured Confounding From Epidemiological and Statistical Perspective... by Kosuke Inoue, Kentaro Sakamaki, Sho Komukai, Yuri Ito, Atsushi Goto, Tomohiro Shinozaki

“…To date, several approaches have been developed for selecting confounders. In this article, we first summarize the epidemiological and statistical approaches to identifying a sufficient set of confounders. …”
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Sparse Linear Discriminant Analysis With Constant Between-Class Distance for Feature Selection by Shuangle Guo, Yongxia Li, Jianguang Zhang, Yue Liu, Tian Tian, Mengchen Guo

“…The experimental results show that the proposed method has better performance compared to the baseline and six state-of-the-art relative methods, with improvements of over 1% on image datasets and over 2% on video datasets in most cases, while also demonstrating high stability, proving its effectiveness and advantage in practical applications.…”
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Rotigotine Objectively Improves Sleep in Parkinson’s Disease: An Open-Label Pilot Study with Actigraphic Recording by Giovanna Calandra-Buonaura, Pietro Guaraldi, Andrea Doria, Stefano Zanigni, Stefania Nassetti, Valentina Favoni, Sabina Cevoli, Federica Provini, Pietro Cortelli

“…Our study showed for the first time that rotigotine is associated with an objective improvement of nocturnal and diurnal sleep disturbances in PD patients with self-reported sleep complaints. …”
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Rationale and Design of a Randomized, Open‐Label, Parallel‐Group Study of Esaxerenone Versus Angiotensin Receptor Blockers in Older Patients With Uncontrolled Hypertension on Calci... by Kazuomi Kario, Tomohiro Katsuya, Tatsuo Shimosawa, Takashi Taguchi, Ayumi Tanabe, Mitsuru Ohishi, the ESCORT‐HT investigators

“…ABSTRACT Angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) and calcium channel blockers (CCBs) are commonly prescribed as first‐ and second‐line treatments for older Japanese patients with hypertension. …”
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The relationship between neutrophil percentage-to-albumin ratio and slow and normal coronary flow phenomenon by Renlin Yin, Wei Zhu, Weihai Chen, Jun Shen, Yanming Wu, Zhiming Wang

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Study on the Curative Effect and Safety of Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation via Zero-Fluoroscopy Transseptal Puncture under the Dual Guidance of E... by Fei Hang, Liting Cheng, Zhuo Liang, Ruiqing Dong, Xinlu Wang, Ziyu Wang, Zefeng Wang, Yongquan Wu

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FBATCNet: A Temporal Convolutional Network With Frequency Band Attention for Decoding Motor Imagery EEG by Shuaishuai Ma, Jidong Lv, Wenjie Li, Yan Liu, Ling Zou, Yakang Dai

“…In the classification of subject dependent, the FBATCNet is better than the baseline methods mentioned in this paper. These results confirm that the FBATCNet is feasible and offer fresh insights for designing and applying FMI-BCI.…”
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