Role of Perineal Length Estimation in The Prediction of Maternal and Fetal Outcomes by Sabah R. H. Ahmed, Hala A. Ali

“…A purposive sample of 139 parturient women recruited during the period from the first of December 2018 to the end of August 2019. …”
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Toward person-centred measures of contraceptive demand: a systematic review of the relationship between intentions to use and actual use of contraception. [version 3; peer review:... by Christine Galavotti, Kelsey Quinn Wright, Victoria Boydell, Shatha Elnakib

“…Current measures of demand for contraception are misinterpreted. More direct measures of intention to use (ITU) contraception do exist but remain underexplored. …”
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Translation and validation of the caffeine use disorder questionnaire in Arabic by Feten Fekih-Romdhane, Rabih Hallit, Diana Malaeb, Fouad Sakr, Mariam Dabbous, Sahar Obeid, Souheil Hallit

“…Future studies are required to further confirm the psychometric soundness of the Arabic CUDQ in more representative samples, specific populations and other Arab countries.…”
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Efficacy of different modalities of faecal microbiota transplantation in ulcerative colitis: systematic review and network meta-analysis by Julia Chapon, Julien Scanzi, Harry Sokol, Bruno Pereira, Anthony Buisson

“…The combination of lower GI FMT and oral capsule was significantly more effective than upper GI FMT to induce clinical remission (RR = 10.7 (1.1–104.2)). …”
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Assessing comorbid PTSD, depression, and anxiety in fibromyalgia patients: a retrospective observational study by Aneesh Rahangdale, Jeffrey Ferraro

“…Significant age differences emerged. Younger patients had more PTSD than those 65 + years old. Those 30–39 years old had the highest PTSD prevalence. …”
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Evaluating a Customized Version of ChatGPT for Systematic Review Data Extraction in Health Research: Development and Usability Study by Jayden Sercombe, Zachary Bryant, Jack Wilson

“…This tool may offer a viable option for researchers seeking to reduce resource demands during the extraction phase, although more research is needed to evaluate test-retest reliability, performance across broader review types, and accuracy in extracting statistical data. …”
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A multi-level meta-analysis of the relationship between decision-making during birth and postpartum mental health by Louisa Arnold, Marie Völkel, Jenny Rosendahl, Michael Rost

“…The present study aims to fill this gap in order to provide hands-on evidence on how to further improve perinatal care.Methods A systematic literature search using Bolean logic was conducted. …”
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A comparative study of fruit and vegetable consumption and its association with metabolic risk factors for non communicable diseases among rural and urban males in Zimbabwe by Norman Manyeruke, Kerry Vermaak, Wilfred Njabulo Nunu, Nicholas Mudonhi

“…This study focused on the comparison of the consumption of fruits and vegetables between rural and urban settings and their relationships with metabolic risk factors for NCDs and demographic variables.MethodsA sample of 400 males was obtained from the two provinces, i.e., 200 men from Bulawayo (urban) and Mashonaland East (rural). …”
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Effects of Probiotic Supplementation on Depressive Symptoms, Sleep Quality, and Modulation of Gut Microbiota and Inflammatory Biomarkers: A Randomized Controlled Trial by S Rehan Ahmad, Abdullah M. AlShahrani, Anupriya Kumari

“…<b>Background:</b> More than merely determining our sleep pattern, our body’s internal clock also improves the quality of our sleep, alleviates the symptoms of depression, and maintains the balance of our gut flora. …”
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Results of coronary bypass surgery performed in the early stages of non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndrome by Yu. V. Neverova, R. S. Tarasov, S. V. Ivanov, A. B. Nishonov, L. S. Barbarash

“…The aim of the work was to assess the results of revascularization by the method of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), performed in the early stages of NSTE-ACS.Material and methods. …”
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Direct and indirect connections of androgen status with ejaculate parameters in men from infertile couples by E. A. Epanchintseva, V. G. Selyatitskaya

“…The analysis of medical histories of 358 men with infertility in marriage was carried out. The sample was divided into comparison groups according to tT level: group 1 – less than 12.1, group 2 – from 12.1 to 20.9, group 3 – 21.0 nmol/l or more. …”
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How safe is COVID-19 vaccination among pregnant women and its outcome – A hospital-based retrospective study in Indian population by Niraj B. Pandit, Purvi R. Fulmali, Piyusha Chandrayan, Kishor Chauhan, Dipika L. Bhil, Manish N. Rasania

“…Background: Although getting the Covid infection is equal for every person, during pregnancy, the women’s immunity is a little lower than usual, so they are more prone to infection. That is why they should be taken care of with more precautions. …”
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Marital Bargaining and Assortative Mating on Fertility Preference : Evidence based on Cross-sectional Data in China [version 4; peer review: 2 approved] by Hisahiro Naito, Meiyi Zhuang

“…Second, marriage matching is not random, as individuals are more likely to partner with those who share similar fertility preferences. …”
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COVID-19 in patients with severe mental illness: An analysis of in-patients at a psychiatric hospital in Cape Town by Haseena B. Sablay, Qhama Z. Cossie, Deirdre I. Pieterse

“…Background: Psychiatric patients in specialist units are more vulnerable to infections such as SARS-COV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) because of hospital infrastructure and patients’ mental health. …”
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Change and Stability in Sibling Resemblance in Obesity Markers: The Portuguese Sibling Study on Growth, Fitness, Lifestyle, and Health by Sara Pereira, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Donald Hedeker, José Maia

“…Hence, this study aims to (1) describe mean changes in obesity markers (body fat (%BF), body mass index (BMI), and waist circumference (WC)) across sib-ships; (2) analyze tracking of individuals within their sib-ship in these markers during 2 years of follow-up; (3) probe consistency in sibling resemblance in these markers; and (4) analyze the joint influence of individual and familial characteristics in these markers. Subjects/Methods. The sample comprises 168 biological Portuguese siblings (brother-brother (BB), sister-sister (SS), and brother-sister (BS)) aged 9–17 years. …”
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Aspects of patient rights in a developing country: a qualitative study by Deedat Safeer, Sanduni Wijerathne, Pumudu Weerasekara, Udari Wickramasinghe, Sanidi Edirisinghe, Anuki Hewavithana, Nadeeka Chandraratne, Saroj Jayasinghe

“…Future studies should include larger, multi-center samples, to gain a more comprehensive understanding of patient rights in Sri Lanka. …”
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New Species of Herbal Medicines in the Russian Pharmacopoeia: Nomenclature and Quality Requirements (Review) by O. V. Evdokimova, A. S. Alekseeva

“…The requirements for the quality of herbal drugs have undergone changes: in qualitative and in quantitative determination, analysis of substances with therapeutic activity is more and more often used; qualitative reactions have been mainly replaced by chromatographic methods of analysis using standard samples of active substances or markers (active or analytical). …”
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Call for Decision Support for Electrocardiographic Alarm Administration Among Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Staff: Multicenter, Cross-Sectional Survey by Xiaoli Tang, Xiaochen Yang, Jiajun Yuan, Jie Yang, Qian Jin, Hanting Zhang, Liebin Zhao, Weiwei Guo

“…Compared to nurses, physicians had more negative perceptions. Individuals with higher education levels and job titles had more negative perceptions of alarm systems than those with lower education levels and job titles. …”
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Thyroid nodule segmentation in ultrasound images using transformer models with masked autoencoder pre-training by Yi Xiang, Rajendra Acharya, Quan Le, Jen Hong Tan, Chiaw-Ling Chng

“…However, overall improvements are modest: the model achieves Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) scores of 0.63, 0.64, and 0.65 on AIMI, TN3K, and DDTI, respectively, highlighting limitations under small-sample conditions. Furthermore, adding cross-attention did not yield consistent gains, suggesting that data volume and diversity may be more critical than additional architectural complexity.DiscussionMAE pre-training notably reduces training time and helps themodel learn transferable features, yet overall accuracy remains constrained by limited data and nodule variability. …”
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Socioeconomic factors and feeding in the first two years of life associated with molar incisor hypomineralisation by Sara Ortega-Luengo, María Nieves Ábalos-Sanfrutos, María Isabel Calama-Fraile, Verónica Carballo-Tejeda, María Trinidad García-Vázquez, Antonia M. Caleya-Zambrano, Antonia M. Caleya-Zambrano

“…PurposeThe main objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between Molar Incisor Hypomineralisation (MIH) and socioeconomic factors in a sample of children in the Community of Madrid.MethodsAn observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, and multicentre study was designed. …”
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