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Evaluation of systemic immune-inflammation index for predicting severity of lower extremity arterial disease.

May 6, 2024

Predictive value of systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) has been shown in clinical outcomes and complexity of coronary artery disease, acute coronary syndrome, and heart failure. We sight to evaluate value of SII in...

Healthy eating among people on opioid agonist therapy: a qualitative study of patients’ experiences and perspectives.

May 6, 2024

People with substance use disorders often have unhealthy diets, high in sweets and processed foods but low in nutritious items like fruits and vegetables, increasing noncommunicable disease risks. This study investigates healthy...

Construct validation of the Japanese Core Outcome Measures Index and the impact of diseases on patient-reported outcome measures in preoperative patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and disk herniation: a single-center observational study.

Apr 29, 2024

The primary objective was to validate the construct validity of the Japanese Core Outcome Measures Index (COMI) in preoperative patients aged 60 years or older undergoing lumbar spine surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) and...

EXPRESS: Emotional anticipation for dynamic emotional faces is not modulated by schizotypal traits: A Representational Momentum study.

Apr 29, 2024

Schizotypy, a personality structure that resembles schizophrenia symptoms, is often associated with abnormal facial emotion perception. Based on the prevailing sense of threat in psychotic experiences, and the immediate...

EXPRESS: Uncertain World: How Children’s Curiosity and Intolerance of Uncertainty Relate to their Behaviour and Emotion under Uncertainty.

Apr 29, 2024

Curiosity and intolerance of uncertainty (IU) are both thought to drive information seeking but may have different affective profiles; curiosity is often associated with positive affective responses to uncertainty and improved...

The e-cigarette assessment for youth-Revised (EAsY-R): Preliminary results of a pilot study of measure refinement via cognitive interviewing.

Apr 29, 2024

The prevalence of youth vaping has, in a relatively short time, become an “epidemic.” In the wake of such labeling by the Surgeon General, a number of important examinations of vaping have been conducted. These have...

Incentivizing dental services in healthy behaviour Medicaid waivers.

Apr 29, 2024

In the United States, adult dental benefits are optional in the state-managed, public insurance program, Medicaid. States also have the option to adapt their Medicaid program via waivers which pair healthy behaviour incentives...

First Report of Powdery Mildew Caused by on subsp. in Hainan Province, China.

Apr 29, 2024

Youngia japonica (L.) DC. is a polymorphic annual herb of the Asteraceae family. Although this plant originated in Asia, it is now world-widely distributed. In China, Y. japonica is used for edible or folk medicine to treat...

Contemporary validation of cT1a vs. cT1b substaging of incidental prostate cancer.

Apr 29, 2024

The cT1a vs. cT1b substratification was introduced in 1992 but never formally tested since. We tested the discriminative ability of cT1a vs. cT1b substaging on cancer-specific survival (CSS) in contemporary incidental prostate...

Peri- and post-operative outcomes of robot-assisted radical cystectomy after the implementation of the EAU guidelines recommendations for collecting and reporting complications at a high-volume referral center.

Apr 29, 2024

No studies relied on a standardized methodology to collect postoperative complications after robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC). The aim of our study was to evaluate peri- and post-operative outcomes of patients undergoing...

Higher peripheral blood mitochondrial DNA copy number and relative telomere length in under 48 years Indonesian breast cancer patients.

Apr 29, 2024

Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer incidence and mortality among Indonesian women. A comprehensive investigation is required to enhance the early detection of this disease. Mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNA-CN) and...

Daidzein ameliorates nonmotor symptoms of manganese-induced Parkinsonism in zebrafish model: Behavioural and biochemical approach.

Apr 29, 2024

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative movement disorder characterized by motor dysfunction. Environmental factors, especially manganese (Mn), contribute significantly to PD. Existing therapies are...

Evolution of therapeutic management of patients with ANCA associated vasculitis in France after licensing Rituximab use.

Apr 29, 2024

In 2013, rituximab was approved in France for the treatment of ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV). The aim of the study was to compare the treatment and health events of adult incident patients with granulomatosis with...

Drivers of natural disaster risk-reduction actions and their temporal dynamics: Insights from surveys during an imminent hurricane threat and its aftermath.

Apr 29, 2024

To improve preparedness for natural disasters, it is imperative to understand the factors that enable individual risk-reduction actions. This study offers such insights using innovative real-time (N = 871) and repeated (N = 255)...

The role of fetal therapy in the management of mirror syndrome: a narrative review.

Apr 29, 2024

Mirror syndrome (MS) is a condition characterized by the presence of maternal, fetal, and placental edema and is reversible through delivery or pregnancy termination. As fetal hydrops itself may be amenable to treatment, we...

Real-World Efficacy and Safety of Universal 8-Week Glecaprevir/Pibrentasvir for Treatment-Naïve Patients from a Nationwide HCV Registry in Taiwan.

Apr 29, 2024

Eight-week glecaprevir/pibrentasvir (GLE/PIB) is indicated for treatment-naïve (TN) patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC), with or without compensated cirrhosis. Given that the Taiwanese government is committed to eliminating...

Presacral Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: A Multi-site Review of Surgical Outcomes.

Apr 29, 2024

Presacral neuroendocrine neoplasms (PNENs) are rare tumors, with limited data on management and outcomes.A retrospective review of institutional medical records was conducted to identify all patients with PNENs between 2008 and...

Expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase, nitrotyrosine, eosinophilic peroxidase, eotaxin-3, and galectin-3 in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, eosinophilic esophagitis, and in healthy controls: a semiquantitative image analysis of 3,3′-diaminobenzidine-stained esophageal biopsies.

Apr 29, 2024

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) share many histopathological features; therefore, markers for differentiation are of diagnostic interest and may add to the understanding of the...

Association of serum sclerostin levels with marrow adiposity in postmenopausal women with glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis.

Apr 29, 2024

Glucocorticoids and sclerostin act as inhibitors of the Wnt signaling pathway, thereby hindering bone formation. Given the pathway’s intricate association with mesenchymal stem cells, the hypothesis suggests that...

Association of stress hyperglycemia ratio and mortality in patients with sepsis: results from 13,199 patients.

Apr 29, 2024

The stress hyperglycemia ratio (SHR), adjusted for average glycemic status, is suggested for assessing actual blood glucose levels. Its link with adverse outcomes is known in certain populations, yet its impact on sepsis...

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