Evaluation of the Relationship between Early Troponin Clearance and Short-Term Mortality in Patients with Chronic Renal Failure by Ahmet Ozbek, Abdullah Algın, Gokhan Tas, Mehmet Ozgur Erdogan

“…The study included 300 patients with chronic renal failure who had a sepsis-related organ failure assessment (SOFA) score ≥3. By taking the baseline troponin at the time of emergency presentation as reference and comparing them with the fourth-hour troponin values, troponin clearance was investigated in the evaluation of mortality among hospitalized patients with CKD within the first month after discharge. …”
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Protocol for the impact of CBT for insomnia on pain symptoms and central sensitisation in fibromyalgia: a randomised controlled trial by Michael Robinson, Chokkalingam Siva, Christina S McCrae, Ashley F Curtis, Jason Craggs, Chelsea Deroche, Pradeep Sahota, Roland Staud

“…Participants will be assessed at baseline, post-treatment, 6 and 12 months follow-ups. …”
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Estimating mortality attributable to alcohol or tobacco – a cohort study from Germany by Ulrich John, Hans-Jürgen Rumpf, Monika Hanke, Christian Meyer

“…Conclusion First, more than 70% of the deceased persons had one or more alcohol- or tobacco-attributable disorders. …”
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The Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio is Associated with the Requirement and the Duration of Invasive Mechanical Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Patients: A Retrosp... by Lijuan Yang, Chang Gao, Ying He, Xiaowan Wang, Ling Yang, Shiqi Guo, Jiahao Chen, Siyu He, Yuanxiao Sun, Ye Gao, Qiang Guo

“…Our study aimed to investigate the relationship between baseline NLR and IMV in ARDS. Methods. A retrospective study was performed on patients who were diagnosed with ARDS using the Berlin definition and admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University from 2017 to 2022. …”
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Ciliary peristalsis flow of hydromagnetic Sutterby nanofluid through symmetric channel: Viscous dissipation in case of variable electrical conductivity by Sameh A. Hussein, Sameh E. Ahmed, Anas A.M. Arafa

“…Besides that, they provide a useful baseline for multi-physics simulations that are both experimental and numerical.…”
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Associations of Abnormal Sleep Duration and Chronotype with Higher Risk of Incident Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A UK Biobank Prospective Cohort Study by Gan Zhang, Wen Cao, Zhuoya Wang, Kailin Xia, Binbin Deng, Dongsheng Fan

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Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients with Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection by Saber Hassan, Rohit Samuel, Andrew Starovoytov, Carolyn Lee, Eve Aymong, Jacqueline Saw

“…These findings support the recommendation of conservative therapy as first-line management unless high-risk features are present.…”
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A checklist of indigenous flora in the Richtersveld National Park confirms high plant diversity in the arid north-western tip of South Africa by Pieter van Wyk, Hugo Bezuidenhout, Norbert Jürgens

“…As a basis for conservation planning, a first comprehensive vascular plant species checklist for the core Richtersveld National Park was compiled, based on the collection of more than 3000 new herbarium vouchers and in total studying over 8000 specimens and more than 4000 iNaturalist observations. …”
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Identifying Incident Causal Factors to Improve Aviation Transportation Safety: Proposing a Deep Learning Approach by Tianxi Dong, Qiwei Yang, Nima Ebadi, Xin Robert Luo, Paul Rad

“…Then, we take an open-source natural language model, which is well trained with a large corpus of Wikipedia texts, as the baseline and fine-tune it with the texts in incident reports to make it more suited to our specific research task. …”
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Long-Term Follow-Up after Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer and the Need for Active Monitoring by Gregory P. Swanson, Wencong Chen, Sean Trevathan, Michael Hermans

“…We excluded lymph node and seminal vesicle positive patients and an additional 47 patients that did not have baseline prostate-specific antigen (PSA). This left 581 patients for analysis. …”
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Association between Hyperreflective Foci on Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography and Early Recurrence of Diabetic Macular Edema after Intravitreal Dexamethasone Implantatio... by Kyung Tae Kim, Dong Yoon Kim, Ju Byung Chae

“…Conclusions. Higher baseline numbers of HRF on SD-OCT may be a predictive indicator of early recurrence of macular edema after intravitreal DEX implantation for DME.…”
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Web-Based Exercise and Nutrition Intervention to Improve Leg Muscle Strength and Physical Functioning in Older Adults: Pre-Post Pilot Study by Berber Gijsbertha Dorhout, Nick Wezenbeek, Lisette C P G M de Groot, Pol Grootswagers

“…In addition, older adults were advised on increasing protein intake via two web-based consultations by a dietitian in the first 12 weeks and via an e-learning course in the second 12 weeks. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Prognostic Factors of Posterior Segment Intraocular Foreign Body: Canadian Experience from a Tertiary University Hospital in Quebec by Jean-Philippe Rozon, Guillaume Lavertu, Mélanie Hébert, Eunice You, Serge Bourgault, Mathieu Caissie, Eric Tourville, Ali Dirani

“…Predictive factors for a better visual outcome included first intention intraocular lens (IOL) implantation and the use of air tamponade. …”
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Reflection to enhance dental students´ awareness of and comfort with uncertainty – an experimental study by Joséphine Brodén, Helena Fransson, Niklas Vareman, Maria Pigg

“…Potential carryover effects were mitigated by analyzing intervention exercise data from both groups but control exercise data only from the first group. Results At baseline 80% (41/51) of the students stated feeling very uncertain, uncertain or neither certain nor uncertain about assessing the risk and 84% were comfortable or very comfortable with their ability to handle the situation, with no between-group differences. …”
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Effect of Two Different Penetration Depths of Micro-osteoperforation on the Rate of Orthodontic Tooth Movement: A Prospective Clinical Study by Abhay Kumar Jain, Shresthaa Singh, Parul Priya, Nishita Garg, Abhishek Kumar, Monalisa Goswami

“…Mild-to-moderate pain was experienced only in the first 24 h of the procedure. Conclusion: Three MOPs with a depth of 5 mm can be performed as an effective method to increase the rate of tooth movement. …”
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Human Motion Representation and Motion Pattern Recognition Based on Complex Fuzzy Theory by Xiangkun Li, Guoqing Sun, Yifei Li

“…In human behavior and action, recognition research based on behavior and action has the characteristics of convenience, intuition, strong interaction, rich expression information, and so on. It has become the first choice of many researchers for human behavior analysis. …”
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Comparison of the Efficacy and Safety of Temporary Spinal Cord Stimulation versus Pulsed Radiofrequency for Postherpetic Neuralgia: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial by Xiaohong Li, Pan Chen, Jian He, Xiang Huang, Dacheng Tang, Lumiao Chen, Xiaoping Wang

“…From September 1, 2019, to May 30, 2020, 44 PHN patients admitted to the Pain Department of the Foshan First People’s Hospital, China were enrolled in this study. …”
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Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae among Brazilian children: Interplay with viral co-infection. by Kauana Pizzutti, Juliana Comerlato, Daniele Vargas de Oliveira, Amanda Robaina, Mariana Preussler Mott, Pedro Uriel Pedrotti Vieira, Tiago Fetzner, Gabriela Rosa da Cunha, Muriel Primon de Barros, Jaqueline Verardo, Neide Maria Bruscato, João Carlos Batista Santana, Roberta Rigo Dalla Corte, Emilio Hideyuki Moriguchi, Vlademir Vicente Cantarelli, Cícero Armídio Gomes Dias

“…This study was one of the first investigations in Latin America to explore the relationship between respiratory viruses and pneumococcal carriage in a healthy children.…”
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Ranolazine Induced Bradycardia, Renal Failure, and Hyperkalemia: A BRASH Syndrome Variant by Syed Arsalan Akhter Zaidi, Danial Shaikh, Muhammad Saad, Timothy J. Vittorio

“…Ranolazine is a well-known antianginal drug, that was first licensed for use in the United States in 2006. …”
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Safety and efficacy of an Anti-CD20 Monoclonal antibody (RedituxTM) In Indian patients with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis by Arun Hegde, Vivek Vasdev, Krishnan Shanmuganandan, Kavita Singh, Sivasami Kartik, Abhishek Kumar

“…Background: Rituximab (RTX), an anti-CD 20 monoclonal antibody is one of the first line biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatoid drug indicated for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in patient's refractory to conventional Synthetic DMARDs (csDMARDs). …”
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