Serum amylase level measurement in acute abdominal pain by Taher Abdullah Hawramy, Dara Ahmed Mohammed, Botan H. Tahir

“…Overall, 68 patients were included, with mean age of 45.9 years over the aforementioned time period, 44 females (64.7%) and 24 males (35.3%), of which 37 patients had normal serum amylase level (14 male and 23 female patients), defined as levels between (35 IU/L-115 IU/L) by the laboratory (ELISA) device used for all the tests, while the other 31 patients (10 males and 21 females) had high serum amylase levels due to different disease processes, the most common two with equal frequencies were acute calculous cholecystitis (41.9%) and acute pancreatitis (41.9%).   …”
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De la función residencial a la función turística en los espacios urbanos: medición de los factores causantes a partir de herramientas digitales by Pilar Díaz Cuevas, Alfonso Fernández Tabales

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Endoscopic Biopsy in Differential Diagnosis of Colorectal Serrated Lesions by K. D. Khalin, M. Yu. Agapov, L. V. Zvereva, K. V. Stegniy

“…The assay used data on 56 morphologically verified serrated adenomas diagnosed and resected in 50 patients (14 men, 36 women; average age 66.9 ± 10.5 years). Biopsy was taken from all tumours before endoscopic resection. …”
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Leveraging the Aspects of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice as an Alternative to Prevent Detrimental Impacts of Stunting by Novia Luthviatin, Ninna Rohmawati, Dwi Martiana Wati, Jihan Darmaningtyas, Yessinia Hanatha Pasha

“…Objectives: This study aimed to measure the differences in the levels of knowledge, attitudes, and practices in school-age children following health education about nutrition. …”
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Safety of Dupilumab Therapy for Atopic Dermatitis during Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Verónica Sánchez-García, Eva de-Miguel-Balsa, José-Manuel Ramos-Rincón, Isabel Belinchón-Romero

“…Fifteen observational studies involving 115 pregnant women with a mean age of 33.46 years (standard deviation [SD] 3.02 were included). …”
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Clinicopathological spectrum of central nervous system germ cell tumors: A single-institution retrospective study by Sreelekha Appasani, Neelima Radhakrishnan, Anitha Mathews

“…Results: Of the total 34 cases with CNSGCT, age ranged from 1 to 27 years, majority in the second decade (19/34; 56%). …”
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Muscle Strength, Oxygen Saturation and Physical Activity in Patients with Chronic Exertional Compartment Syndrome Compared to Asymptomatic Controls by Lisa Urup Tønning, Bjarne Mygind-Klavsen, Troels Kjeldsen, Ulrik Dalgas, John Brincks, Inger Mechlenburg

“… # Method Maximal isometric muscle strength of the ankle plantar and dorsiflexors was tested in patients with CECS and sex- and age-matched controls using an isokinetic dynamometer and oxygen saturation (StO~2~) during running was tested by near infrared spectroscopy. …”
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Paisaje agrario en contextos periurbanos mediterráneos: el caso del Gran Sousse (Túnez) by Abdelkarim Hamrita, Rafael Mata, Nieves López-Estébanez, Hichem Rejeb

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Survey of Indoor Air Pollution Health Literacy among Community-dwelling Adults in Taiwan by Jia-Ling Wu, Yu-Han Huang, Yi-Chin Huang, Chien-Cheng Jung, Pei-Chen Lee, Ming-Yeng Lin, Wen-Hsuan Hou, Chung-Yi Li

“…The weighted sample size was 616 subjects aged between 20 and 88 years old (mean: 45.8 years, standard deviation: 18.1). …”
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Relevance of Invasive Testing in Era of Non-Invasive Testing for Prenatal Chromosomal Abnormalities by Abhijeet Kumar, Madhusudan Dey, Devendra Arora

“…Conventional tools for prenatal screening included maternal age, maternal serum markers, ultrasound marker (nuchal thickness), and their combinations. …”
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Gastronomy vs gastro-anomie? Japan’s foodscape by А. V. Malov, S. V. Chugrov

“…It is proved that, along with the import of foreign food products, which undermined the food self-sufficiency of the state, the patterns of the Euro-American civilization were imported, which modified the model of social behavior, ingrained eating habits, and age-old culinary foundations of Japanese society. …”
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ASA score is an independent predictor of 1-year outcome after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury by Olivia Kiwanuka, Philipp Lassarén, Alexander Fletcher-Sandersjöö, Charles Tatter, Jonathan Tjerkaski, David W. Nelson, Eric P. Thelin

“…Logistic regression evaluated the contribution of ASA score to the International Mission for Prognosis and Clinical Trials in Traumatic Brain Injury (IMPACT) core + CT outcome prediction model incorporating age, admission GCS, pupillary reactivity, Marshall CT classification, hypoxia, hypotension, epidural hematoma, and subarachnoid hemorrhage. …”
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Aplicación de la metodología de valoración biogeográfica "LANBIOEVA" a las agrupaciones vegetales altoandinas de Atacama (Chile) by Mª Cristina Díaz Sanz, Pedro José Lozano Valencia, Roxana Lebuy Castillo, Guillermo Meaza Rodriguez

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Triple Endobutton with Coracoacromial Ligament Transfer: A Modified Technique for Fixation of Acromioclavicular Joint Dislocation by Vikas Kesari, Jatin Prakash, Jyoti Garg, Divesh Jalan, Karan Maggo, Naval Bhatia

“…Results: In this study, 38 patients underwent ACJ dislocation repair using the triple Endobutton and CAL transfer technique. The patients’ ages ranged from 22 to 48 years, with a mean age of 39.4 years. …”
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Women are worse off in developing and recovering from temporomandibular disorder symptoms by Anna Lövgren, Simon Vallin, Birgitta Häggman-Henrikson, Flavia P. Kapos, Christopher C. Peck, Corine M. Visscher, Per Liv

“…Therefore, our aim was to explore variations over time in TMD symptoms and possible sex or age differences. In this cohort study, data were prospectively collected 2010–2017 from the general population in Västerbotten, Northern Sweden. …”
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Single treatment selective laser trabeculoplasty in a Southern African resource-constrained context by Emma J. Pons, Jonathan J. Pons, Elly S. Grossman, Daniel Louw, Merle Werbeloff

“…Results: In all, 59 eyes of 36 patients were analysed. The mean patient age was 57.8 years (± 10.0). Sixty four per cent of the patients had SLT on both eyes. 83% of the patients were black ethnicity or of mixed race ethnicity. …”
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Smokeless, not harmless: Understanding Naswar's cardiovascular risks in the northwestern Pakistan by Ihsanur Rahman, Fayaz Ahmad, Naveed Sadiq

“…Results: There were statistically significant differences in age distribution, income levels, house ownership, family history of heart disease, comorbidities, and Naswar usage between cases and controls. …”
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Coronectomy versus total odontectomy of impacted lower third molars with close relation tothe inferior alveolar canal: An open clinical trial. by Hundren Muhammad, Rozh Mumtaz, Dilman Najmaddin, Omed Ikram

“…Postoperative sequels of pain, swelling, trismus, nerve injury, and root movement were recorded. Results: The mean age (+ SD) of the studied sample was 25.5 + 4.1 years. …”
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Duodenal Eosinophilia in Functional Dyspepsia by A. S. Silaeva, E. L. Bueverova, Yu. O. Shulpekova

“…., 40 years old, complained of dyspeptic phenomena, the first appearance of which she had noted at the age of 18. The patient noted poor tolerance to canned and fermented foods, which provoked an increase in dyspepsia and sometimes caused watery diarrhea. …”
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La funcionalidad turística aplicada a Geoparques Mundiales de la UNESCO: los casos de Mixteca Alta (México) y Villuercas-Ibores-Jara (España) by Germán Pareja-Pareja, Gonzalo Fernández de Castro Martínez, Daniel Barrera-Fernández, Emilio Martínez-Ibarra

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