Bucco-dental health state in the aged by Beatriz García Alpízar, Arturo Guerra Alfonso, Mikhail Benet Rodríguez

“…Only the 32,2 % of the sample had teeth; and of them, 3,4 % had 20 or more teeth. …”
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Third Molar Removal and Orofacial Pain: a Population-Based Survey by Laura J. Stevenson, Paul Coulthard, Anthony S. Blinkhorn, Tatiana V. Macfarlane

“…Objectives: The aim of the current study was to investigate whether there was a relationship between a history of third molar removal and the prevalence of orofacial pain in a sample of the general population.Material and methods: A survey was conducted in South East Cheshire, United Kingdom (81% participation rate). …”
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Impact of sex differences on patients with neuroendocrine neoplasms during hospital admission by Wan Ying Tan, Laura D. Cramer, Namrata Vijayvergia, Maryam Lustberg, Pamela L. Kunz

“…Design: Retrospective analysis. Methods: A descriptive analysis of sex differences was performed on patients with NENs discharged from U.S. community hospitals in 2019 from the National Inpatient Sample (NIS), Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. …”
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Lifestyle health behaviors and experience of depression among middle and high school students in South Korea: A comparison between 2010–2013 and 2020–2023 by Euijun Yang, Hyekyung Woo

“…The sample included 536,450 middle and high school students aged 13–18 years. …”
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Effects of four novel root-end filling materials on the viability of periodontal ligament fibroblasts by Makbule Bilge Akbulut, Pembegul Uyar Arpaci, Ayce Unverdi Eldeniz

“…Those cells exposed to the Biodentine and Dyract compomer eluates showed the highest survival rates (p < 0.05), while the PMTA, MM-MTA, SDR, and PMMA groups exhibited similar cell viabilities. Three-day samples were more cytotoxic than 1-day samples (p < 0.05). …”
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Ultrasound-enhanced fine-needle biopsy improves tissue yield in head and neck tumors ex vivo by Minna Rehell, Yohann Le Bourlout, Jetta Kelppe, Jaana Rautava, Emanuele Perra, Jouni Rantanen, Gösta Ehnholm, Nick Hayward, Kristofer Nyman, Kenneth P. H. Pritzker, Jussi Tarkkanen, Timo Atula, Heikki J. Nieminen, Katri L S Aro

“…In contrast, CNB provides a histological sample but is typically more labor-intensive to obtain. …”
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Visible and Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy for Investigating Soil Mineralogy: A Review by Qian Fang, Hanlie Hong, Lulu Zhao, Stephanie Kukolich, Ke Yin, Chaowen Wang

“…Finally, we suggest a few avenues of future research, including the development of theoretical calibrations of VNIR more suitable for various soil samples worldwide, better elucidation of clay mineral-soil organic carbon (SOC) interactions, and building the concept of integrated soil mapping through combined information (e.g., mineral composition, soil organic matter-SOM, SOC, pH, and moisture).…”
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Relationship between time under tension of muscle in resistance training with angiogenesis effective factors in inactive girls by Raziyeh Shiri, Mahsa Abdi, Sadegh Amani Shalamzari

“…Also, the more eccentric component was more associated with more strength in the 2s – 4s training.…”
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Does AI affect job burnout and insecurity differently by gender? A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) of 26 university faculty cases by Heran Guan, Rossilah Binti Jamil

“…With the development of artificial intelligence technology, university lecturers are experiencing a series of reactions that may occur after changing traditional teaching methods. This study uses 26 Chinese university lecturers as a sample, based on the grounded theory of qualitative research, and uses NVivo 14 and fsQCA 3.0 to explore the differentiated antecedent configuration pathways of job burnout and job insecurity among university lecturers of different genders under the influence of AI. …”
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Gender differences in victims of war torture: Types of torture and psychological consequences by Špirić Željko, Opačić Goran, Jović Vladimir, Samardžić Radomir, Knežević Goran, Mandić-Gajić Gordana, Todorović Milorad

“…The aim of this study was to investigate gender differences in types of torture and psychological consequences in subjects who experienced war torture. Methods. A sample (410 men and 76 women) included clients of 'Centre for rehabilitation of torture victims - IAN, Belgrade' who experienced torture in prisons and concentration camps during civil wars in ex-Yugoslavia 1991-1995 and 1999. …”
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The effect of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on the level of homocysteinemia and the condition of coronary vessels in patients with myocardial infarction by T. V. Prokofieva, E. A. Lipnitskaya, B. Yu. Kuzmichev, O. S. Polunina, L. P. Voronina, E. A. Polunina

“…Lesions of 3 vessels or more were detected statistically significantly more often in patients with hyperhomocysteinemia with myocardial infarction and concurrent COPD. …”
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Routine Preoperative CT Scanning of Patients with Anorectal Sepsis is not Useful. A Retrospective Cohort Study by Jaro Van Zande, Ward Janssens, Natalie Poortmans, Martijn Schoneveld, Ellen Van Eetvelde, Laura Van Praet, Sarah Violon, David D.E. Zimmerman, Jasper Stijns

“…More drains were placed in the preCTI group (P = .0001), and postoperative antibiotics were administered more often (P = .0008) in this group. …”
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To what extent do we learn from past epidemics: a mobile phone survey of selected villages in Liberia by Elisa Maria Maffioli, Daisey Yu

“…We found that those exposed to Ebola were less likely to have wrong beliefs about the virus and how to cure it; they were also more likely to state that they would go to the health facility for important needs such as birth delivery and child routine vaccination; and, they were more likely to get vaccinated during COVID-19. …”
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Epidemiology of respiratory infections during the different levels of non-pharmaceutical interventions by Ting Shi, Linlin Huang, Jianmei Tian

“…Under strict NPIs, inpatients with ARIs were more commonly boy and infants (p < 0.01). However, after the discontinuation of NPIs, they were more commonly children over 6 years of age (p < 0.01). …”
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Environmental education on the European Green Deal. Implications and promotion of the concept through different channels in Romania by Ionel Bran

“…So, in conclusion, people who already knew what the Green Deal meant showed a more sustainable behavior. The results suggest the importance of boosting the promotion of the European Green Deal, sustainability, circular economy, and so on, reaching more people, thus creating a more powerful educational system in this direction. …”
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Health Facts Medication Adherence in Transplantation (H-MAT) Study: A Secondary Analysis of Determinants and Outcomes of Medication Nonadherence in Adult Kidney Transplant Recipien... by Cynthia L. Russell, Heather J. Gotham, An-Lin Cheng, Suman Sahil, Preethi Yerram

“…Nonadherent patients were less likely to be readmitted, but more likely to have complications after transplant and medication side effects (p′s<0.01). …”
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Paediatric cerebellar glioblastoma - long-term survival following surgery and adjuvant chemoradiotherapy: A case report and literature review by Matthew I. Sanders, Daniel Gatt, Victoria Lee, Stephen B. Wharton, Veejay Bagga

“…Material and methods: Tumour histopathology plus retrospective molecular analysis of archived samples, as well treatment strategy and patient characteristics of a six-year-old child with cerebellar glioblastoma and prolonged progression-free survival were assessed. …”
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How and What Do Women Learn About Contraception? A Latent Class Analysis of Adolescents and Adult Women in Delaware by Mónica L. Caudillo, Fatima Zahra, Michael S. Rendall

“…Results: Adolescents are more likely than adults to report having recently acquired any information about contraception (76% vs. 64%), but they are more likely to rely primarily on a single source. …”
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Internalized stigma mediates the relationship between pelvic pain severity and both depression and anxiety in women with chronic pelvic pain by Sarah E. Francis, Jamey T. Brumbaugh, Jeongwi An, Emily J. Bartley, Daniel W. McNeil

“…Design: Quantitative, cross-sectional design. Methods: A sample of 241 adult women with CPP from the United States completed a series of questionnaires via an online survey. …”
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Relationship between vascular age and atherosclerosis-related cardiovascular diseases by R. N. Najafov

“…Pearson's chi-squared test with Monte Carlo simulation showed that within 10-month followup, myocardial infarction (MI) in presented sample was more common in age subgroups of 50-59 (10,0%) and 60-69 (8,3%) years. …”
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