Comparative- and Cost-Effectiveness Research Determining the Optimal Intervention for Advancing Transgender Women With HIV to Full Viral Suppression (Text Me, Alexis!): Protocol fo... by Cathy J Reback, Thomas Blue, Ali Jalali, Raphael Landovitz, Michael J Li, Raymond P Mata, Danielle Ryan, Philip J Jeng, Sean M Murphy

“…ResultsRecruitment began on April 10, 2024, and the first participant was enrolled on April 11, 2024. …”
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Evaluation of a peer support group programme for vulnerable host population and refugees living with diabetes and/or hypertension in Lebanon: a before-after study by Leah Anku Sanga, Carla Njeim, Éimhín Ansbro, Rima Kighsro Naimi, Ali Ibrahim, Benjamin Schmid, Jasmin Lilian Diab, Jytte Roswall, Tim Clayton, Lars Bruun Larsen, Pablo Perel

“…To assess the association between the implementation of the PSG strategy and changes in clinical outcomes, including systolic blood pressure (SBP), glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), and body mass index (BMI), analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) models were used, adjusting for age, sex, and the baseline values of the outcome being analyzed (baseline SBP and baseline HbA1c, respectively). …”
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Improving Mental Health and Well-Being Through the Paradym App: Quantitative Study of Real-World Data by Athina Marina Metaxa, Shaun Liverpool, Mia Eisenstadt, John Pollard, Courtney Carlsson

“…The sample was diverse, with 2000 users (61.8%) being located outside of the United States. At baseline, many users reported experiencing strong feelings of burnout (677/1627, 41.6%), strong insecurities (73/211, 34.6%), and low levels of thriving (140/260, 53.8%). …”
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Comparative cardiometabolic safety and effectiveness of aripiprazole in people with severe mental illness: A target trial emulation. by Alvin Richards-Belle, Alvin Richards-Belle, Naomi Launders, Sarah Hardoon, Al Richards, Kenneth K C Man, Neil M Davies, Elvira Bramon, Joseph F Hayes, David P J Osborn

“…Analyses adjusted for baseline confounders, including sociodemographics, diagnoses, concomitant medications, and cardiometabolic parameters. …”
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Long-Term Safety and Efficacy of Lenabasum, a Cannabinoid Receptor Type 2 Agonist, in Patients with Dermatomyositis with Refractory Skin Disease: Follow-Up Data from a 3-Year Open-... by Caroline J. Stone, Geeta Ahuja, Lais Lopes Almeida Gomes, Joy Poroye, Daniella Forman Faden, Lillian Xie, Rui Feng, Barbara White, Victoria P. Werth

“…Study registration was first submitted on June 2, 2015.…”
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Phantom motor execution as a treatment for phantom limb pain: protocol of an international, double-blind, randomised controlled clinical trial by Brian E McGuire, Lina Bunketorp-Käll, Eva Lendaro, Liselotte Hermansson, Helena Burger, Corry K Van der Sluis, Monika Pilch, Katarzyna Kulbacka-Ortiz, Ingrid Rignér, Anita Stockselius, Lena Gudmundson, Cathrine Widehammar, Wendy Hill, Sybille Geers, Max Ortiz-Catalan

“…Changes in PLP measured using the Pain Rating Index between the first and last session are the primary measure of efficacy. …”
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Study protocol for Adaptive ChemoTherapy for Ovarian cancer (ACTOv): a multicentre phase II randomised controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of adaptive therapy (AT) with carbo... by Michelle Lockley, Kathy Robinson, Rowan Miller, Charlie Gourley, Nicholas Counsell, Iain Mcneish, Trevor Graham, Uma Anne Mukherjee, Helen Hockings, Apini Patel, Priya Narayanan, Katie Wilkinson, Harjot Dhanda, Alexander R A Anderson

“…The primary endpoint is modified progression-free survival (investigator-assessed using RECIST 1.1 (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Cancers) compared with the baseline prerandomisation scan rather than the radiological nadir), clinical progression or death from any cause. …”
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Immune responses in rodent whole eye transplantation: elucidation and preliminary investigations into rejection diagnosis and monitoring by Bing Li, Yong Wang, Charles R. Owens, Touka Banaee, Charleen T. Chu, Kayvon Jabbari, Anna D. Lee, Neil J. Khatter, Alan G. Palestine, An-Jey A. Su, Christene A. Huang, Kia M. Washington

“…Additionally, these findings establish an essential baseline for future research in this evolving field.…”
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Infection‐Related Hospitalization and Incident Heart Failure: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study by Rebecca L. Molinsky, Amil Shah, Melana Yuzefpolskaya, Bing Yu, Jeffrey R. Misialek, Bruno Bohn, David Vock, Richard MacLehose, Barry A. Borlaug, Paolo C. Colombo, Chiadi E. Ndumele, Junichi Ishigami, Kunihiro Matsushita, Pamela L. Lutsey, Ryan T. Demmer

“…Median follow‐up time was 27 years, 55% were women, 26% were Black, mean age at baseline was 54±6 years, 46% had an IRH, and 3565 had incident HF. …”
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Comparison of carbon dioxide control during pressure controlled versus pressure-regulated volume controlled ventilation in children (CoCO2): protocol for a pilot digital randomised... by Luregn J Schlapbach, Barbara Brotschi, Kristen S Gibbons, Florian Zapf, Rebeca Mozun, Daphné Chopard, Philipp Baumann, Anika Adam, Vera Jaeggi, Beat Bangerter, Juerg Burren

“…CO2 is measured using three methods: end-tidal (continuous), transcutaneous (continuous) and blood gas analyses (intermittent). Baseline, intervention and outcome data are collected electronically from the patients’ routine electronic health records. …”
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The initial results of using brolucizumab (Beovu®), an angiogenesis inhibitor, for choroidal neovascularization in patients with age-related macular degeneration by N.S. Zhayvoronok, O.V. Kolenko, L.P. Danilova, E.L. Sorokin

“…</p> <p> <b>Results</b>: the mean age of patients was 68±5 years. After the first injection of brolucizumab, there was a statistically significant decrease in the mean values of central retinal thickness (CRT) and macular volume (MV) vs the baseline values. …”
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A lightweight wheat ear counting model in UAV images based on improved YOLOv8 by Ruofan Li, Xiaohua Sun, Kun Yang, Zhenxue He, Zhenxue He, Xinxin Wang, Xinxin Wang, Chao Wang, Chao Wang, Bin Wang, Fushun Wang, Fushun Wang, Hongquan Liu, Hongquan Liu

“…Experimental results demonstrate that the improved PSDS-YOLOv8 model achieves Mean Average Precision(mAP) 50 and mAP50:95 scores of 96.5% and 55.2%, which increases by 2.8% and 4.4%, while the number of parameters is reduced by 40.6% in comparison with the baseline YOLOv8 model. Compared to YOLOv5, YOLOv7, YOLOv9, YOLOv10, YOLOv11, Faster RCNN, SSD, and RetinaNet, the improved model demonstrates superior accuracy and fewer parameters, exhibiting the best overall performance. …”
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How Antiretroviral Drug Concentrations Could Be Affected by Oxidative Stress, Physical Capacities and Genetics: A Focus on Dolutegravir Treated Male PLWH by Jessica Cusato, Anna Mulasso, Micol Ferrara, Alessandra Manca, Guido Accardo, Alice Palermiti, Miriam Antonucci, Gianluca Bianco, Francesco Chiara, Jacopo Mula, Maria Cristina Tettoni, Simone Cuomo, Giulia Trevisan, Stefano Bonora, Giovanni Di Perri, Corrado Lupo, Alberto Rainoldi, Antonio D’Avolio

“…Thirty PLWH were recruited and analyzed at baseline (triple therapy), and 6 months after (dual therapy). …”
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Maximum ozone concentrations in the southwestern US and Texas: implications of the growing predominance of the background contribution by D. D. Parrish, I. C. Faloona, I. C. Faloona, R. G. Derwent

“…Two implications arise from these findings. First, alternate emission control strategies may provide more effective approaches to ozone air quality improvement; as background ozone makes the dominant contribution to even the highest observed concentrations, an international effort to reduce northern midlatitude baseline ozone concentrations could be pursued, or a standard based on the anthropogenic increment above the regionally varying US<span id="page264"/> background ozone concentration could be considered to provide a regionally uniform emission reduction challenge. …”
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Deep learning on CT scans to predict checkpoint inhibitor treatment outcomes in advanced melanoma by Laurens S. Ter Maat, Rob A. J. De Mooij, Isabella A. J. Van Duin, Joost J. C. Verhoeff, Sjoerd G. Elias, Tim Leiner, Wouter A. C. van Amsterdam, Max F. Troenokarso, Eran R. A. N. Arntz, Franchette W. P. J. Van den Berkmortel, Marye J. Boers-Sonderen, Martijn F. Boomsma, Fons J. M. Van den Eertwegh, Jan Willem de Groot, Geke A. P. Hospers, Djura Piersma, Art Vreugdenhil, Hans M. Westgeest, Ellen Kapiteijn, Ardine A. De Wit, Willeke A. M. Blokx, Paul J. Van Diest, Pim A. De Jong, Josien P. W. Pluim, Karijn P. M. Suijkerbuijk, Mitko Veta

“…The present work is the first to investigate the value of deep learning on CT imaging of metastatic lesions for predicting ICI treatment outcomes in advanced melanoma. …”
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Multi-spatial urban function modeling: A multi-modal deep network approach for transfer and multi-task learning by Zhaoya Gong, Chenglong Wang, Bin Liu, Binbo Li, Wei Tu, Yuting Chen, Zhicheng Deng, Pengjun Zhao

“…We further validate the superior generalizability of our approach across various urban tasks, such as predicting urban land-use, housing prices, and population density, over other baselines. Enabling such a doubly-informed framework of urban theory and AI, this study provides a pilot demonstration for the new scientific paradigm of AI for Urban Science and Modeling.…”
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Sedentary Behavior and Its Association With Psychological Well-Being and Sleep Quality in Adolescents: Evidence from a Propensity Score Analysis by Zhang L, Zhao S, Zhao S, Zheng H, Ke Y, Yang W, Lei M

“…Following propensity scores matching, no significant differences in baseline characteristics were found between the two groups (All P> 0.282), indicating a successful matching process. …”
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RETRACTED: Postoperative Pulmonary Complications in Patients With Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Implantation—Implications for Physiotherapists by Peng-Ming Yu, Peng-Ming Yu, Yu-Qiang Wang, Ze-Ruxing Luo, Raymond C. C. Tsang, Oystein Tronstad, Oystein Tronstad, Jun Shi, Ying-Qiang Guo, Alice Y. M. Jones

“…Pre-operative pulmonary risk assessment score, diabetes mellitus, a low baseline MIP and 6MWD were associated with a high incidence of PPCs. …”
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Hypofractionated radiotherapy combined with a PD-1 inhibitor, granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor, and thymosin-α1 in advanced metastatic solid tumors: a multicenter P... by Jiamin Yu, Li Yin, Wenjie Guo, Qiang Wang, Juying Liu, Lansheng Zhang, Hongxun Ye, Jianhong Xia, Youyou Xia, Jianfeng Wu, Wanwei Wang, Yanguang Yang, Dan Zong, Xia He, Lijun Wang, Hong Jiang

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Decrease in platelet count in patients with AKI and its association with major adverse kidney events by Ramón Medina-González, Jose J. Zaragoza, Eduardo M. Hernández-Barajas, Juarez Correa-de Leon, Rolando Claure-Del Granado, Armando Vazquez-Rangel, Liliana M. Pineda-Segura, Martha K. Franco-Garcia, Gael Chávez-Alonso, Juan A. Gómez-Fregoso, Francisco G. Rodríguez-García, Guillermo Navarro-Blackaller, Luz Alcantar-Vallin, Alejandro Martínez Gallardo-González, Gabriela J. Abundis-Mora, Guillermo García-García, Jonathan S. Chávez-Iñiguez

“…The mean age was 54 years, 60% were male, and 44% had sepsis. The mean baseline platelet count was 194 x 103 cells/µL, and 65% of the KDIGO3 patients met these criteria. …”
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