Comprehensive coronary CT angiography in people living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Binh T Nguyen, Edward Hulten, Venkatesh L Murthy, Tarin Phillips, Gregory M Blake, Jonathan A Aun, Lisa M Conte, Ritika Gadodia, Aakash Tuli, Sara L Robinson, Travis E Harrell

“…Increased power may reveal a difference in the prevalence of high-degree stenosis and median SIS score in PWLH, while controls may have a greater prevalence of calcified plaque.…”
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Cellular senescence induced by cholesterol accumulation is mediated by lysosomal ABCA1 in APOE4 and AD by Shaowei Wang, Boyang Li, Jie Li, Zhiheng Cai, Cristelle Hugo, Yi Sun, Lu Qian, Julia TCW, Helena C. Chui, Dante Dikeman, Isaac Asante, Stan G. Louie, David A. Bennett, Zoe Arvanitakis, Alan T. Remaley, Bilal E. Kerman, Hussein N. Yassine

“…Treatment of APOE4-TR mice with cyclodextrin reduced brain oxysterol levels, ABCA1 lysosome trapping, mTORC1 activation, and attenuated senescence and neuroinflammation markers. …”
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Outcome of Different Preemptive Analgesia Modalities in Patients Undergoing Total Knee Replacement Surgeries: A Prospective Randomized Study by Narendra Vaidya, Gourav S. Pawar, Anup P Gadekar, Nilesh A. Patil, Pravin Rameshrao Kutemate, Mohit Kolhapure

“…Hence, the objective of this study was to assess the pain score in patients undergoing TKR using different preemptive anesthesia modalities. …”
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Dietary and lifestyle indices for hyperinsulinemia and odds of MAFLD in overweight and obese children and adolescents by Ali Nikparast, Maryam Razavi, Parmis Mirzaei, Pooneh Dehghan, Mahdi Amani Farani, Golaleh Asghari

“…A total of 334 (49.1% boys) with mean ± SD age and BMI-for-age-Z-score of 9.3 ± 1.8 and 2.55 ± 0.69, respectively, were enrolled. …”
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A Study to Assess Resilience and Empathy among the BSc Nursing Students by S. Anand, K. R. Anoopa, J. P Haripriya

“…More than 50% of the participants had average resilience and moderate empathy. The mean resilience score was 65.5 and the mean empathy score was 50.25. …”
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Single High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Session as a Whole Gland Primary Treatment for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: 10-Year Outcomes by Ksenija Limani, Fouad Aoun, Serge Holz, Marianne Paesmans, Alexandre Peltier, Roland van Velthoven

“…Complications were graded according to the Clavien score. Results. At a median follow-up of 94months, 48 (44.4%) and 50 (46.3%) patients experienced biochemical recurrence for Phoenix and Stuttgart definition, respectively. …”
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The effect of telenursing follow-up on blood glycosylated hemoglobin and quality of life in the elderly with diabetes type 2 by Elahe Asadi, Fariba Borhani, Abbas Abbaszadeh

“…Results: The results of this study showed that by adjusting the variables of weight, baseline level of the quality of life score (before the intervention), age, gender, and physical activity, the difference in the mean changes of the quality of life score in the control and intervention groups in the nurse telephone follow-up intervention was significant (P = 0.054). …”
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THE ACCEPTANCE OF AN EDUCATIONAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT TO LEARN PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS by Nor Farahwahida Mohd Noor, Aslina Saad, Abu Bakar Ibrahim, Norashady Mohd Noor

“…The C-SOLVIS evaluation using the SUS instrument has yielded a SUS mean score of 86.07. This score is interpreted by SUS as an A grade that indicates C-SOLVIS as a highly usable application and thus is accepted for C programming learning. …”
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Assessing Quality of Sensitization Programs of State-Wide Youth Mental Health Promotion Program – An Indian Example by Upashana Medhi, Pradeep S. Banandur, B A Arvind, Gautham M. Sukumar, Rajeshwari, Sathya Velu, Vani Naik, Sonia Therat, Azad Devyani

“…Each attribute within the checklist was scored, and a composite mean score and mean percentage scores for quality were calculated. …”
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Anti-TNF-Alpha-Adalimumab Therapy Had Time Lag of Improvement in Synovial Hypertrophy Compared to Rapid Response in Power Doppler Synovial Vascularity by Ying-Chou Chen, Chi-Hua Ko, Jia-Feng Chen, Chung-Yuan Hsu, Wen-Chan Chiu, Tien-Tsai Cheng

“…The 71 patients who received adalimumab therapy had significantly decreased DAS28, ESR, and CRP. After one month, PD score decreased and then remained low for 12 months. …”
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Antibiotic Use among Patients Visiting Primary Hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Survey by Adeladlew Kassie Netere, Ashenafi Kibret Sendekie

“…The mean (±SD) knowledge score of the respondents was 3.69 (±1.7) (range: 0 to 10), and the majority (69.7%) had poor knowledge. …”
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Assessing the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Cigarette Smokers and Use of Alternative Nicotine Delivery Systems in Pakistan: A Cross-Sectional Study by Abdul Hameed, Daud Malik

“…Interestingly, the score of smokers who had ever tried to quit smoking was slightly higher than that of those who had never tried to quit. …”
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Efficacy of Nonpreserved Sodium Hyaluronate Artificial Tears in Dry Eye Disease Patients Treated with Prostaglandin Analogs for Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: A Prospective, Nonrando... by Giulia Coco, Danilo Iannetta, Igino Febbraro, Ester Elmo, Gianluca Manni

“…Secondary outcomes confirmed the positive results, with a statistically significant change in the OSDI score and CFS between the baseline and 4 (p=0.02 and p<0.001, respectively) or 12 weeks (both p<0.001) and TBUT after 4 weeks (p=0.01). …”
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Analysis of the effects of group progressive resistance training on inflammatory markers, cardiovascular fitness parameters, and respiratory function in elderly patients with chron... by Chunyang Li, Yijia Sun

“…However, the organization group had higher scores in these areas and lower levels of inflammatory factors (IL-8, IL-18, IL-6, IL-12) and mMRC scores compared to the conventional group, with statistically significant differences (P<0.05). …”
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A comparison of the efficacy of the effect of online versus face-to-face group counseling based on positive-approach on sexual intimacy of women after benign abdominal hysterectomy... by Orly Nazanin Kalimi, Tayebeh Mokhtari Sorkhani, Ali Dehghani, Mahshid Bokaie

“…In the Face-to-Face Group, the mean score increased from 70.21 ± 6.75 to 81.24 ± 5.55 at eight weeks and 85.03 ± 5.40 at twelve weeks (P < 0.001). …”
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Efficient Feature Selection and Hyperparameter Tuning for Improved Speech Signal-Based Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis via Machine Learning Techniques by Deepak Painuli, Suyash Bhardwaj, Utku Kose

“…It achieved an accuracy of 96.46%, a recall of 0.96, a precision of 0.97, an F1-score of 0.96, and an AUC score of 0.998, marking the highest performance metrics reported for this dataset in recent studies. …”
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Robust Forest Sound Classification Using Pareto-Mordukhovich Optimized MFCC in Environmental Monitoring by Ahmad Qurthobi, Robertas Damasevicius, Vytautas Barzdaitis, Rytis Maskeliunas

“…The results indicate that the proposed hybrid CNN-BiLSTM model significantly improved classification loss and accuracy scores compared to the standalone pre-trained models. …”
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The impact of individual and organizational factors on employee innovative work behavior: Empirical evidence from private companies in Vietnam by Tran Hai Yen, Chu Tien Minh, Nguyen Ngoc Diep, Khuc Dai Long

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Cognitive Abilities Predict Safety Performance: A Study Examining High-Speed Railway Dispatchers by Shi Lei, Zizheng Guo, Xi Tan, Xi Chen, Chengen Li, Jiaming Zou, Shi Cao, Guo Feng

“…The results suggested that better abilities in visual multiobject tracking, working memory, task switching, and cognitive flexibility were correlated with higher safety evaluation score (reflecting daily safety performance) and shorter train delay time (reflecting safety and efficiency in emergency disposal). …”
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The impact of specialised gastroenterology services for pelvic radiation disease (PRD): Results from the prospective multi-centre EAGLE study. by John N Staffurth, Stephanie Sivell, Elin Baddeley, Sam Ahmedzai, H Jervoise Andreyev, Susan Campbell, Damian J J Farnell, Catherine Ferguson, John Green, Ann Muls, Raymond O'Shea, Sara Pickett, Lesley Smith, Sophia Taylor, Annmarie Nelson

“…All men completed a validated screening tool for late bowel effects (ALERT-B) and the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Score (GSRS); men with a positive score on ALERT-B were offered management following a peer reviewed algorithm for pelvic radiation disease (PRD). …”
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