Respiratory function and respiratory complications in spinal cord injury: protocol for a prospective, multicentre cohort study in high-income countries by David J Berlowitz, Maria T E Hopman, Martin Schubert, Gabi Mueller, Martin W G Brinkhof, Xavier Jordan, Anja M Raab, Karin Postma, David Gobets, Sven Hirschfeld, Burkhart Huber, Margret Hund-Georgiadis, Renate Wildburger

“…Inpatients with acute SCI, with complete or incomplete cervical or thoracic lesions, 18 years or older and not/no more dependent on 24-hour mechanical ventilation within the first 3 months after injury are eligible for inclusion. …”
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Assessment of printed lung cancer surgery patient education materials in the United StatesCentral MessagePerspective by Woorin Jang, BS, Savanna Kerstiens, MA, Rachel Nordgren, PhD, Anne Dijkstra, MB, Marina DePablo, MPH, DNP, RN, Lauren Gleason, MD, MPH, Darren Bryan, MD, Jessica S. Donington, MD, MSCR, Mark K. Ferguson, MD, Jane L. Holl, MD, MPH, Maria Lucia Madariaga, MD

“…Here we assessed printed lung cancer surgery PEMs for readability, understandability, actionability, and accessibility. Methods: Various lung cancer programs throughout the United States were contacted for their lung cancer surgery PEMs. …”
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METABOLISM IN VARIOUS EMBODIMENTS, THE RECOVERY OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM IN PATIENTS AFTER GASTRECTOMY by A. G. Baryshev, V. A. Porhanov, A. Y. Popov, A. N. Lishenko, N. V. Hachaturyan, D. A. Valyakis, M. V. Bodnya, Yu. V. Efremenko

“…Tank possible small bowel transplant, replacement remote stomach and the reconstruction of the duodenal passage is allowed to eat more food in single dose (530 ± 80 ml) than after loop reconstruction method (380 ± 50 ml).Conclusion. …”
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Efficacy of a Self-Vaccination Strategy for Influenza A Virus, <i>Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae</i>, <i>Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae</i>, and <i>Lawsonia intracellularis</i> in Swine by Lucas Caua Spetic da Selva, Rebecca Robbins, Courtney Archer, Madelyn Henderson, Jessica Seate, Luis G. Giménez-Lirola, Ronaldo Magtoto, Arlene Garcia, Allen Jimena Martinez Aguiriano, Emerald Julianna Salinas, John J. McGlone

“…Baseline samples were collected to determine initial antibody status, and serum and oral fluids’ IgG and IgA levels were measured post-vaccination to assess immune response. …”
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Intimate partner violence in reproductive-age and pregnant-postpartum women with autoimmune rheumatic diseases: a comparative cross-sectional study by Mara Alejandra Ponce-Santillán, Anahí Carrazco-Chapa, Andres Manuel Ortiz-Rios, Maria Eugenia Corral-Trujillo, Jesus Alberto Cardenas-de la Garza, Cassandra Michele Skinner-Taylor, Dionicio Angel Galarza-Delgado, Lorena Perez-Barbosa

“…Pregnant and postpartum women were more likely to report IPV than women of reproductive age. …”
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Fact sheet: nationwide trends in dietary intakes among Korean adults, 2013–2022 by Hannah Oh, Garam Jo, Oh Yoen Kim, Hyunjung Lim, SuJin Song, Jeong-Hwa Choi, Jae Hyun Bae, Eun-Sun Jin, Rockli Kim, Yujin Lee, In-Kyung Jeong, Min-Jeong Shin

“…This study aimed to investigate the recent nationwide trends in major dietary risk factors for dyslipidemia and atherosclerosis. Methods We estimated age-standardized mean intakes of fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, whole grains, dietary fiber, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs); and mean percentage of energy intake from protein, total fat, saturated fat, and polyunsaturated fat using nationally representative samples from the Korean National Health Examination and Nutrition Survey 2013–2022. …”
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Development of differential diagnostic models for distinguishing between limb-girdle muscular dystrophy and idiopathic inflammatory myopathy by Guangyu Wang, Lijun Fu, Lining Zhang, Kai Shao, Ying Hou, Tingjun Dai, Pengfei Lin, Chuanzhu Yan, Bing Zhao

“…Further studies with larger samples are needed to refine the predictive efficiency of the differential diagnostic models.…”
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The positive correlation between amphiregulin and insulin resistance by Yun Zhao, Ting Lu, Mian Wu, Xingna Hu, Rong Xiang, Min Feng, Honghong Lu

“…More importantly, this correlation remained after obese diabetes patients were treated with drugs to relieve insulin resistance. …”
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Effect of Age at First Calving on the Reproduction Parameters, Metabolic Profile, and Fatty Acid Composition of Polish Holstein Friesian (PHF) and Crossbreds PHF × Swedish Red (SRB... by Paweł Solarczyk, Marcin Gołębiewski, Jan Slósarz, Antonio Natalello, Martino Musati, Ruggero Menci, Tomasz Sakowski, Karol Tucki, Kamila Puppel

“…Milk and blood samples were collected at 35 ± 5 days postpartum for analysis. …”
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Differences in bipolar disorder type I and type II exposed to childhood trauma: A retrospective cohort study by Hernán F Guillen-Burgos, Juan F Gálvez-Flórez, Sergio Moreno-Lopez, Angela T.H. Kwan, Oscar Gomez, Gerardo González-Haddad, Roger S. McIntyre

“…Background: Childhood trauma (CT) exposure is associated with a more pernicious course in bipolar disorder (BD). …”
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Unsteady ground: understanding the problem of BPPV in the world of sports by Wojciech Nowak, Mirosław Sawicki, Jagoda Mikołajczyk, Paulina Krzemińska, Maciej Gołębski, Zuzanna Kukla, Sebastian Musialik, Stella Mieruszyńska, Jakub Włosiański, Izabela Sadowska

“…Material and methods: This article is based on a comprehensive review of the literature, conducted using PubMed and Google Scholar. …”
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Autistic Traits Are Associated with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder by Barbara Carpita, Benedetta Nardi, Federico Giovannoni, Chiara De Felice, Federica Tranchese, Chiara Bonelli, Gabriele Massimetti, Ivan Mirko Cremone, Stefano Pini, Maria Rosaria Anna Muscatello, Liliana Dell’Osso

“…The sample was divided into three groups based on suicidal ideation and behaviors. …”
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Behaviour change interventions to promote physical activity in people with intermittent claudication: the OPTIMA systematic review by Ukachukwu O Abaraogu, Philippa Dall, Chris Seenan, Sarah Rhodes, Trish Gorely, Joanna McParland, Julie Brittenden, Ebuka M Anieto, Lorna Booth, Cathy Gormal, Jeremy Dearling, Candida Fenton, Sarah Audsley, Kimberley Fairer, Lindsay Bearne, Dawn A Skelton

“…Systematic review 2: quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods research on patient/provider experiences. …”
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Characteristics of upper and lower respiratory tract microbiota after lung transplantation by Yuhang Cai, Yuchen Fan, Ao Chen, Xiaohua Wang, Lulin Wang, Jiaqi Chen, Zhang Wang, Jia Li, Xinzhu Yi, Chunrong Ju

“…Most amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) belonged to the families Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonadaceae, and Stenotrophomonas in BALF, while most ASVs belonged to the genera Streptococcus, Pseudomonadaceae, and Stenotrophomonas in sputum samples. Regarding dynamic changes, Corynebacterium and Staphylococcus were more prevalent in the early post-operative period but gradually decreased by 7 days post-operatively, while the common microbiota found in healthy populations based on literature became the most abundant ASVs at 6 months post-operatively in our study participants. …”
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Effect of microbubble as local drug delivery system in endodontic management - An In-Vitro study by V. Shyam Ganesh, K. Vijay Venkatesh, D. Sihivahanan, Pradeep Kumar Yadalam, Deepti Shrivastava, Kumar Chandan Srivastava

“…Furthermore, they are more suitable for focusing on particular body regions and are safer and non-invasive. …”
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Rationale and design of the preserved versus reduced ejection fraction biomarker registry and precision medicine database for ambulatory patients with heart failure (PREFER-HF) stu... by James L Januzzi, Hanna K Gaggin, Megan Welch, Daniel A Zlotoff, Kevin Wei, Andrew Abboud, Austin Nguonly, Asher Bean, Kemar J Brown, Roy F Chen, David Dudzinski, Neyat Fiseha, Melvin Joice, Davis Kimaiyo, Mackenzie Martin, Christy Taylor

“…A multidimensional characterisation of ambulatory patients with and without HF across LVEF groups is needed to better understand and manage patients with HF in a more precise manner.Methods and analysis To date, the first cohort of 1313 out of total planned 3000 patients with and without HF has been enroled in this single-centre, longitudinal observational cohort study. …”
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MLAR-Net: A Multilevel Attention-Based ResNet Module for the Automated Recognition of Emotions Using Single-Channel EEG Signals by M. Maithri, U. Raghavendra, Anjan Gudigar, Samir Kumar Praharaj, Karthikeyan Sriram, Massimo Salvi, Chai Hong Yeong, Filippo Molinari, U. Rajendra Acharya

“…Hence it becomes important to recognize emotions by using brain signals as they provide more reliable data. Brain signals can be captured using Electroencephalograms (EEG) electrodes. …”
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Correlation between T cell immunity and the duration of EGFR-TKI resistance acquisition in patients harboring EGFR mutations by Atsuto Mouri, Kyoichi Kaira, Ou Yamaguchi, Ayako Shiono, Yu Miura, Kosuke Hashimoto, Satoshi Yamasaki, Fuyumi Nishihara, Hisao Imai, Kunihiko Kobayashi, Hiroshi Kagamu

“…Blood samples were collected prior to and following 4 weeks of EGFR-TKI administration. …”
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Auto Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Network in Diabetes Mellitus Research—The Role of Histopathological Images in Designing and Exploring Experimental Models by Iulian Tătaru, Simona Moldovanu, Oana-Maria Dragostin, Carmen Lidia Chiţescu, Alexandra-Simona Zamfir, Ionut Dragostin, Liliana Strat, Carmen Lăcrămioara Zamfir

“…Images were acquired from vaginal, uterine, and ovarian samples from both MD and AD_DC specimens. The experiment received the approval of the Medical Ethics Committee of the “Gr. …”
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Occurrence of Alleles of the <i>HLA-A/B/C/DPB1/DQB1/DRB1</i> Genes in Autoimmune Hepatitis (Results of a Single-Center Study) by M. D. Chanyshev, Yu. G. Sandler, N. V. Vlasenko, N. A. Bodunova, A. G. Glushchenko, A. S. Chegodar, A. V. Vykhodtseva, E. V. Vinnitskaya, K. F. Khafizov, V. G. Akimkin

“…Aim: determination of alleles of HLA genes associated with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and overlap syndrome (OS) in the Russian population.Materials and methods. The study included 160 adult patients with a verified diagnosis of AIH or OS. …”
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