Effect of Oral intake of Stevia Leaf Powder on Body Weight – An Experimental study by Amna Faruqi, Sikander Subuctageen, Irfan Afzal Mughal, Shahida Parveen, Tooba Zafar, Asma Irfan

“…The stevia leaf powder was added to the diet of group 3. Diet intake was noted for all the groups. …”
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Impact of caffeine and vitamin D3 on the body-weight of pregnant BALB/c mice by Maimoona Khan, Muhammad Saad Abdullah, Fareeha Mushtaq, Faiza Umbreen, Muhammad Rizwan Bashir Kiani, Ayesha Shahid

“…In comparison to the control group G1, the body-weights of animals in experimental group G2 showed more decrease in accrual of body-weight than noted in experimental group G3.  …”
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Laser Assisted New Attachment Procedure: An Adjunct to Scaling and Root Planing in Moderate to Deep Periodontal Pockets Treatment by Arif Siddiqui, Zoya Chowdhary, Anamika, Disha Gupta, Monika Loitongbam, Vikas Singh

“…Results: PPD and CAL in the test groups showed a clinically significant decline, and the values of the test and control groups at six and twenty-four weeks differed statistically significantly. …”
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Indicators of Esophageal pH-Impedance Monitoring and High-Resolution Manometry in Patients with Various Forms of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease by I. V. Maev, E. V. Barkalova, M. A. Ovsepyan, D. N. Andreev, Yu. A. Kucheryavyi

“…According to the data of 24-hour pH-impedance monitoring, the total time in the esophagus with pH < 4 was 2.4 % in the control group, 9 % in the NERD group, 20.25 % in the ERD group and 23.5 % in the patients with BE (p < 0.05). …”
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Role of tranexamic acid via intravenous and irrigation fluid route in controlling TURP-associated bleeding by Vinay S. Kundargi, Santosh Patil, Siddanagouda B. Patil, Manoj K. Vaidya, Basavesh S. Patil, A. Nawaz Shariff, Vikas Shukla

“…Other parameters such as resection time, intraoperative endoscopic vision, irrigation fluid volume and complications were noted. Results When measured at 4 h postoperatively, the drop in haemoglobin and haematocrit, respectively, was maximum in the control group (ΔHb = 0.78 g/dl, ΔHCT = 1.23%) followed by the irrigation group (ΔHb = 0.51 g/dl, ΔHCT = 0.72%) and was least in the I/V group (0.27 g/dl, 0.62%). …”
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Randomised Trial: Adrenaline & Dexamethasone Vs. Adrenaline In Children With Bronchiolitis by Sidra Choudhary, Israr Liaqat, Sidra Tul Muntaha, Rafiq Ahmad, Jawad Niazi, Mian Mansoor

“…The clinical severity score was noted down at baseline. The patients were randomized into two groups with 32 in each group. …”
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Effectiveness of multimedia tools in enhancing consonant-vowel-consonant reading performance and phonics interest and enthusiasm among kindergarten ESL students by Rhazhiel Dominica P. Pesebre, Rosario F. Quicho, Leila M. Collantes, Carlos N. Lamson Jr., Jupeth T. Pentang

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“Effect of oral systemic administration of vitamin D on the rate of maxillary canine retraction: A randomized controlled trial” by Davender Kumar, Revathi Mn, Rekha Sharma, Ashuma Sachdeva, Nameksh Raj Bhupali, Ravinder Solanki

“…The differences in the mean canine retraction between group 1 and group 2 at T1-T0, T2-T1, T3-T2, T4-T3, and T4-T0 were 0.28 ± 0.12, 0.29 ± 0.10, 0.31 ± 0.08, 0.37 ± 0.06 and 1.18 ± 0.10 mm respectively. …”
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Comparative analysis of morphologival parameters in isolated and fused L5 spondylolysis patients on the basis of CT features by Rui Ma, Xiaoxia Huang, Luyao Li, Ye Kai, Jun Liu, Gao Leilei, Xiangning Sun, Yong Teng

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Impact of tunnel enlargement on patient-reported outcomes following isolated posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction by Kun-Han Lee, Tai-Jung Huang, Hsuan-Hsiao Ma, Kun-Hui Chen, Hsiao-Li Ma, En-Rung Chiang

“…No correlation between the level of TE and patient-reported outcomes is noted. However, when patients are classified into TE and non-TE group on the basis of 25% of enlargement, those who exhibit femoral TE have a lower postoperative Lysholm score (81.1 ± 13.0 vs. 90.5 ± 12.3, P = 0.031) and those with tibial TE have a lower postoperative IKDC score (76.0 ± 17.4 vs. 87.1 ± 12.1, P = 0.031). …”
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Understanding the Influence of Image Enhancement on Underwater Object Detection: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study by Ashraf Saleem, Ali Awad, Sidike Paheding, Evan Lucas, Timothy C. Havens, Peter C. Esselman

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Systemic therapy of skin metastatic melanoma with BRAF gene mutation by Yu. S. Shakh-Paronyants, S. V. Cheporov, N. P. Shiryaev, A. V. Ukgarskiy, P. V. Nesterov, N. S. Korzina

“…The median overall survival in the first group was 39.1 months, in the second group it was 30.4 months. …”
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Useful Reduction Mammoplasty Technique in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery and Reconstruction by Jong Ho Lee, Jeong Yeop Ryu, Kang Young Choi, Jung Dug Yang, Ho Yun Chung, Byung Chae Cho, Byeongju Kang, Jeeyeon Lee, Ho Yong Park, Joon Seok Lee

“…Four patients (5.3%) in the partial mastectomy group had fat necrosis. …”
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Reducing children’s anxiety and pain in dental environment using an eye massage device combined with natural sounds—a randomized controlled trial by Dajma Abed, Jamila Bchara, Dani Abed, Jina Alfeel, Nada Bshara

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Virtual reality head-mounted display game for intermittent exotropia in a randomized controlled trial by Hee Kyung Yang, Dong Hyun Kim, Je Hyun Kim, Taeg Keun Whangbo, Jeong-Min Hwang

“…Patients were randomly assigned to a video-game group that induced convergence (exercise group) and a placebo-game group not inducing convergence (control group), and completed the program 15 min/day for 4 weeks. …”
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Impact of the Nail Length (Short PFNA2 and Long PFNA2) in Surgical Treatment of Intertrochanteric Femur Fractures: A Randomised Clinical Study by Kuljit Kumar, Harpreet Kaur

“…A total of 11 complications were observed in the short PFNA2 group, while only two were noted in the long PFNA2 group, which was statistically significant with a p-value of 0.013. …”
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A biomechanical study of locking spongious screws and failure rates are higher than expected in plate fixation by Fatih Parmaksizoglu, Onur Cetin, Sinan Kilic, Yener Ince

“…According to these results, Group 3 adhere to the bone model 388.74% more strongly than those in Group 4 (P = 0.002). …”
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Intervention effectiveness in reducing the clustering of non-communicable disease risk factors in the workplace: A quasi-experimental study. by Nahla Guesmi, Sihem Ben Fredj, Nawel Zammit, Rim Ghammam, Imed Harrabi, Firas Chouikha, Maher Maoua, Jihen Maatoug, Hassen Ghannem

“…A minor non-significant increase, from 1.72 ± 0.97 to 1.78 ± 1.11, was noted in the control group. In the intervention group, the prevalence of two risk factor clusters dropped significantly from 40% to 34.4% pre- and post-intervention (p = 0.014). …”
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Effect of Attention Based Exercises in Balance Control and Fall Risk in Elderly Females - An Interventional Study by Arunima Sasidharan, L Gladson Jose

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Effect of Recast Cobalt Chrome Base Metal Alloy on Flexural Bond Strength of Metal Ceramic Restoration by Gibi Babu Philip, Kavan A. Patel, Liya Neha Bipinchandra, Ruchita Patel, Soniya Sara Jacob, V.H. Dhanya

“…Materials and Methods: 50 resin patterns were fabricated and divided into 5 equal groups and casted as: Group 1 containing 0%, Group 2 containing 20%, Group 3 containing 30%, Group 4 containing 40%, and Group 5 containing 100% recast alloy. …”
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