Unraveling the Impact of COVID-19 on Rheumatoid Arthritis: Insights from Two Romanian Hospitals—Preliminary Results by Andreea-Iulia Vlădulescu-Trandafir, Gelu Onose, Constantin Munteanu, Ioana Iancu, Andra-Rodica Bălănescu, Daniela Opriș-Belinski, Florian Berghea, Cristiana Prefac, Elena Grădinaru, Sorina Aurelian, Vlad Ciobanu, Violeta-Claudia Bojincă

“…Additionally, RA treatments, particularly rituximab (RTX), were associated with more severe COVID-19 outcomes (but with no statistical significance), potentially due to the advanced disease stage and comorbidities in these patients. …”
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Laparoscopic radical antegrade modular pancreatosplenectomy vesus laparoscopic distal pancreatosplenectomy for left-sided pancreatic cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Xutao Jiang, Xutao Jiang, Yu Zhu, Jianwei Li, Wei Li, Weizong Zheng, Caiming Xu, Caiming Xu, Guixin Zhang, Guixin Zhang

“…The meta-analysis results indicated that L-RAMPS was associated with the retrieval of more lymph nodes (MD: 3.06; 95% CI: 2.51 to 3.62, p < 0.00001) and longer operative time (MD: 20.05; 95% CI: 13.97 to 26.12, p < 0.00001) compared to L-DPS for left-sided pancreatic cancer patients. …”
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Biomonitoring result of PFAS exposure from Gabreski Air National Firefighting foam among residents in Westhampton, NY by Yichun Liu, Eric J. Rose, Karen Wilson, Wanhsiang Hsu, Ming Liu, Monica Nordstrom, Elizabeth J. Mullin, Steven P. Forand

“…The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) conducted a PFAS biomonitoring program for a sample of the population served by the public water supply in the Westhampton, NY area (n = 161). …”
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Transforming Brain Tumor Care: The Global Impact of Radiosurgery in Multidisciplinary Treatment Over Two Decades by Zerubbabel K. Asfaw, Tirone Young, Cole Brown, Mehek Dedhia, Lily Huo, Kunal K. Sindhu, Stanislav Lazarev, Robert Samstein, Sheryl Green, Isabelle M. Germano

“…Neurosurgery specialists authored more Gamma Knife‐based articles, and radiation oncology specialists authored more LINAC‐based papers (p < 0.0001). …”
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Variations in the milk lipidomic profile of lactating dairy cows fed the diets containing alfalfa hay versus alfalfa silage by Kaizhen Liu, Meiqing Chen, Guoxin Huang, Chuanyou Su, Wenhao Tang, Ning Li, Jiyong Yang, Xufang Wu, Boxue Si, Shengguo Zhao, Nan Zheng, Yangdong Zhang, Jiaqi Wang

“…Previous research has shown that the storage method of grass significantly influences milk composition. …”
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Nurturing Self-Esteem: Understanding the Role of Parenting Styles by Safi Dakhil Nawam, Ali Sabry Al-Yasari, Walaa Yehya Abed Zead

“…Results The result showed for those 110 students, the age of participants was 51.8% were 18-20 years, 93.6% of the sample was single and more than half of the sample was female the great percentage of participants have enough monthly income. …”
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The pulmonary mycobiome-A study of subjects with and without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. by Einar M H Martinsen, Tomas M L Eagan, Elise O Leiten, Ingvild Haaland, Gunnar R Husebø, Kristel S Knudsen, Christine Drengenes, Walter Sanseverino, Andreu Paytuví-Gallart, Rune Nielsen

“…<h4>Results</h4>The oral and pulmonary mycobiomes from controls and participants with COPD were dominated by Candida, and there were more Candida in oral samples compared to BAL for both study groups. …”
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A catalog of numerical centrosome defects in epithelial ovarian cancers by Jean‐Philippe Morretton, Anthony Simon, Aurélie Herbette, Jorge Barbazan, Carlos Pérez‐González, Camille Cosson, Bassirou Mboup, Aurélien Latouche, Tatiana Popova, Yann Kieffer, Anne‐Sophie Macé, Pierre Gestraud, Guillaume Bataillon, Véronique Becette, Didier Meseure, André Nicolas, Odette Mariani, Anne Vincent‐Salomon, Marc‐Henri Stern, Fatima Mechta‐Grigoriou, Sergio Roman Roman, Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Roman Rouzier, Xavier Sastre‐Garau, Oumou Goundiam, Renata Basto

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Physicochemical and Sensory Characteristics of Winter Yoghurt Produced from Mixtures of Cow’s and Goat’s Milk by Aslı Akpınar, Harun Kesenkaş, Oktay Yerlikaya, Elif Özer, Necati Akbulut, Cem Karagözlü

“…Significant differences were found between sensory, rheological properties and color values of winter yoghurts however no significant differences were found between physicochemical properties of the samples. Especially, winter yoghurts produced from 100% goat milk were the more appreciated samples…”
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Employing X-Ray computed tomography for the analysis of intact ice core sections by Александра Гаяровна Хайрединова, Станислав Сергеевич Кутузов, Владимир Николаевич Михаленко, Дмитрий Вячиславович Корост, Алексей Николаевич Хомяк

“…Currently a wide range of methods is available for studying ice cores. However, most of the methods have disadvantages related to the destruction of samples and their melting during the analyses. …”
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Emotional suffering in school-aged children and adolescents with and without developmental language disorder by Nadia Ahufinger, Mari Aguilera, Ernesto Guerra, Albert Giberga, Oriol Verdaguer-Ribas, Raquel Balboa-Castells, Llorenç Andreu, Núria Esteve-Gibert, Mònica Sanz-Torrent

“…Aims: To describe the emotional suffering experienced by school-aged children and adolescents with DLD. Methods and procedures: Psychological symptoms were measured using the Spanish version of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) in a sample of 109 (67 boys) children and adolescents with DLD and 101 (62 boys) TD participants reported by their parents. …”
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Machine-learning prediction for hospital length of stay using a French medico-administrative database by Franck Jaotombo, Vanessa Pauly, Guillaume Fond, Veronica Orleans, Pascal Auquier, Badih Ghattas, Laurent Boyer

“…The typical clinical profile of these patients (17.5% of the sample) was the elderly patient, admitted in emergency, for a trauma, a neurological or a cardiovascular pathology, more often institutionalized, with more comorbidities notably mental health problems, dementia and hemiplegia.Discussion: The integration of ML, particularly the GB algorithm, may be useful for health-care professionals and bed managers to better identify patients at risk of PLOS. …”
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Assessment of the effect of social media use on medical students’ academic performance: cross-sectional study from Jordan by Hana Taha, Hana Taha, Diana Abu-Surrah, Luna Abu-Awadh, Ameen Mahmoud, Tamara Al-Qadi, Layan Al Hamdan, Moumen Hijazi, Abdulla Al Ani, Vanja Berggren

“…The integration of social media platforms into the life of medical students and their effect on their academic performance has not been studied enough.ObjectiveThis study examines the duration of time spent on social media, the type of content medical students is exposed to, the online engagement in study groups, and the influence of the interaction between students and their professors via social media on students’ academic performance.MethodsA cross-sectional study that used structured self-administered online questionnaire to assess the use of social media by a random sample of 429 medical students in Jordan. …”
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Characterisation of Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Prostate in Younger Men with Normal Prostate-specific Antigen Within the PROBASE Study by Rouvier Al-Monajjed, Lars Schimmöller, Jan Philipp Radtke, Jale Lakes, Agne Krilaviciute, Heinz-Peter Schlemmer, Kathleen Herkommer, Petra Seibold, Nikolaus Becker, Rudolf Kaaks, Boris Hadaschik, Gerald Antoch, Peter Albers, Matthias Boschheidgen

“…Limitations of this study are its small sample size, which provides more uncertainty regarding whether we were able to find reliable estimates for the outcomes explored in this study, the single-centre design, and the limited histopathological proof of nonmalignant cases. …”
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Design and Baseline Evaluation of Social Media Vaping Prevention Trial: Randomized Controlled Trial Study by William Douglas Evans, Megumi Ichimiya, Jeffrey B Bingenheimer, Jennifer Cantrell, Alexander P D'Esterre, Olivia Pincus, Linda Q Yu, Elizabeth C Hair

“…Just less than 45% of participants were non-Hispanic White (n=3728, 44.7%), just less than 47% (n=3913, 46.9%) of the sample was male, more than 44% (n=3704, 44.4%) reported completing high school, and 79.3% reported meeting basic needs or better. …”
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Application of additive manufacturing for the adaptive design of ultrasound phantoms by Lukas Zalka, Lukas Zalka, Johannes Köhrer, Johannes Köhrer, Chatsuda Songsaeng, Chatsuda Songsaeng, Peter Homolka, Christian Kollmann, Johann Hummel, Johann Hummel, Michael Figl, Michael Figl

“…These advanced imaging and reconstruction procedures require more complicated phantom designs that contain different materials with precisely designable acoustic properties for validation and quality assurance (QA).MethodsTo fabricate such phantoms, we produced molds for casting ultrasound phantoms using additive manufacturing. …”
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Unravelling the role of secretory Immnuoglobulin-A in COVID-19: a multicentre study in nursing homes during the first wave by Rafael Bielza, Patricia Pérez, Nuria García, Laura Ballesteros-Sanabria, Rosa María Martínez, Azam Ghazi, Clara Hernando, María Victoria Rodríguez, Israel J. Thuissard, Cristina Andreu-Vázquez, José Manuel Bautista

“…“Induced” SIgA-S1 patients were more likely to be symptomatic (60.3% vs. 29%; p < 0.001) and exhibited upper respiratory tract symptoms more frequently (25.1% vs. 6.5%; p = 0.020) compared to “non-induced” patients. …”
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Pulmonary Vascular Thrombosis in COVID-19: Clinical and Morphological Parallels by O. Ya. Porembskaya, V. N. Kravchuk, M. I. Galchenko, R. V. Deev, M. Sh. Chesnokov, A. V. Avanesyan, K. V. Lobastov, S. N. Tsaplin, L. A. Laberko, V. S. Ermakov, O. V. Pashovkina, I. V. Schastlivtsev, S. A. Sayganov

“…We aimed to study the histological and thrombotic changes in lung vessels in patients who died with COVID-19, to access the correlation between anticoagulation therapy (ACT) and thrombotic events (TE), treatment results, clinical and laboratory patients' characteristics.Material and Methods. We retrospectively analyzed treatment results of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and lung vessel samples of the deceased patients. …”
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Differential effects of aging, Alzheimer's pathology, and APOE4 on longitudinal functional connectivity and episodic memory in older adults by Larissa Fischer, Jenna N. Adams, Eóin N. Molloy, Niklas Vockert, Jennifer Tremblay-Mercier, Jordana Remz, Alexa Pichet Binette, Sylvia Villeneuve, Anne Maass, PREVENT-AD Research Group

“…Future studies should investigate more diverse samples, nonetheless, our approach allowed us to identify longitudinal functional changes related to aging and early AD pathology, enhancing cross-sectional research. …”
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A Causal Effect of Serum 25(OH)D Level on Appendicular Muscle Mass: Evidence From NHANES Data and Mendelian Randomization Analyses by Qian Ren, Jinrong Liang, Yanmei Su, Ruijing Tian, Junxian Wu, Sheng Ge, Peizhan Chen

“…In stratification analysis by sex, males (β = 0.024, SE = 0.002, p < 0.001) showed more pronounced positive associations than females (β = 0.003, SE = 0.002, p = 0.024). …”
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