Specialized Medical Weight Management Intervention for High-Risk Obesity by Gitanjali Srivastava, Chelsea Paris, Jessica Johnson, Emma Barnes, Brittany L. Cunningham, C. J. Stimson, Kevin D. Niswender, Sabrina J. Poon

“…**Results:** Patients ranged in age from 18-72 years, and 77.7% were female. Patients ranged in weight from 160-443 pounds, with a mean body mass index (BMI) of 42.7 kg/m2 (Class 3a severe obesity; BMI range 28.4-74.5). …”
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Obesity as a risk factor for COVID-19 breakthrough infection among the fully vaccinated urban population of South Gujarat – A retrospective cohort study by Mayank Jha, Pratham Kholwadwala, Vatsal Kalariya, Mamta Rani, Jayant Patel, Hitesh Shah, Rushikesh Shukla

“…Accordingly, 409 obese and 409 nonobese participants were recruited. The mean age of participants was 41.3 ± 14.9 years. As high as 144 (17.6%) of respondents were having history of previous infection before vaccination, and around 42 (5.1%) respondents of the overall study population were infected after the first dose of vaccination. …”
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¿Recuperación económica o incremento de la desigualdad urbana? Tendencias de consumo y percepción del precio del agua en los hogares del litoral de Alicante by Rubén Alejandro Villar Navascués, María Hernández Hernández, Antonio Manuel Rico Amorós

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La sostenibilidad económica de las ayudas al turismo rural del Método Leader en áreas de montaña: dos casos de estudio españoles (Valle del Jerte y Sierra de Gata, Extremadura)... by Angela Engelmo Moriche, Ana Nieto Masot, Julian Mora Aliseda

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Successful Management of a Cystic Lesion Which Had Been Caused by Menstrual Blood Above the Dehiscence of Cesarean Incision Scar: Case Report by Uğur Keskin, Fahri Burçin Fıratlıgil, Mustafa Ulubay, Ulaş Fidan, Rıza Efendi Karaca, Ali Ergün

“…A female patient with the age of 40 (Gravida:2, parity:2 (2 C/S) applied to our policlinic because of amenorrhoea. …”
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Cerebrovascular accidents association between serum trace elements and toxic metals level, a case-control study. by Khosro Jamebozorgi, Alireza Kooshki, Mahbobeh Saljoughi, Mohamadjavad Sanjari, Zahra Ahmadi, Seyed Mohammad Mosavi Mirzaei

“…<h4>Results</h4>As the mean age of the CVA group was 48.68  ±  15.25 years and for the non-CVA group was 47.89 ± 9.65 years, the result indicated that the serum level of Cu and Pb has been statically higher in the CVA group (respectively; P  <  0.001 and P  =  0.002) and Ni level was significantly lower (P  =  0.003). …”
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Quadriceps Strength Influences Patient Function More Than Single Leg Forward Hop During Late-Stage ACL Rehabilitation by Meredith Chaput, Marcus Palimenio, Brooke Farmer, Dimitrios Katsavelis, Jennifer J. Bagwell, Kimberly A. Turman, Chris Wichman, Terry L. Grindstaff

“… # Study Design Descriptive Laboratory Study # Methods Forty-eight individuals with a history of ACL-R (32 female, 16 male; mean±SD age=18.0±2.7 y; height=172.4±7.6 cm; mass=69.6±11.4 kg; time since surgery=7.7±1.8 months; IKDC=86.8±10.6) completed the IKDC survey, quadriceps isometric strength, and single-leg forward hop performance. …”
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Physiotherapists’ perspectives on the implementation of direct access to physiotherapy services in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study by Hosam Alzahrani, Razaz Shaheen, Osama Mohammed, Elaf Marouf

“…The study included licensed physiotherapists currently working in Saudi Arabia.Results The study included 401 participants, with a nearly equal distribution of 203 males (50.6%) and 198 females (49.4%). The most common age group was 25–34 years, comprising 70.6% of the participants. …”
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Improvement of surgical treatment of an acute biliary pancreatitis at elderly and senile patients by V. I. Midlenko, A. L. Charyshkin, O. V. Midlenko, I. I. Midlenko, V. Yu. Shchegolev

“…The third group (61 patients) was operated by laparoscopic method. The mean age of patients in groups was 73,1 years. In 100% of cases patients had two and more concomitant diseases. …”
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Outcome of Management of Midshaft Clavicular Fractures with Titanium Elastic Nail System: A Case Series by Karthik Chithartha, Vanasekar Mokkasamy

“…All patients were followed for a minimum of 6 months postoperatively (post-op) with radiographs and functional score assessment. Result: The average age of the study population was 38.8 ± 11 years. …”
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Propuesta metodológica para la identificación de zonas de atención prioritaria en materia de despoblación aplicada a la provincia de Badajoz (Extremadura) by Ana Isabel Horcajo Romo, Enrique Eugenio Ruiz Labrador, José Manuel Pérez Pintor, José Antonio Gutiérrez Gallego

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Hip and Trunk Variables in University Students with and without Recurrent Low Back Pain by BJ Lehecka, Jordin Burleson, Paige Diederich, Morgan Salem, Rachel Schoonover, Jason Tejano

“… # Results Twenty-six subjects aged 18 to 35 years with rLBP (n=10) and without rLBP (n=16) participated. …”
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The internet gaming disorder and its associated factors among college students at Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study by Khalid Bin Abdulrahman, Tariq Y. Alhomoud, Ismail S. Alateeq, Faisal N. Al-Mohaisen, Musab S. Alshamrani, Saleh I. Alhathlul, Mohammed Abdulaziz Khamsah

“…Objectives: This research aims to estimate the prevalence and examine the association of IGD scores with gender, age, sleeping hours, academic performance, and occurrence of arguing with others post-gaming among college students. …”
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Individualized prediction of stroke-associated pneumonia for patients with acute ischemic stroke by Lulu Zhang, Qi Wang, Qi Wang, Yidan Li, Qi Fang, Xiang Tang

“…T-test, Chi-square test and Fisher’s exact test were used to investigate the associations of patient characteristics with pneumonia and its severity, and multivariable logistic regression models were used to construct a prediction scale.ResultsThree variables with the most significant associations, including age, NGT placement, and right cerebral hemisphere lesions combined with gender, were used to construct a stroke-associated pneumonia prediction scale with high accuracy (AUC = 0.93). …”
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Feasibility and Reliability of a Novel Game-Based Test of Neurological Function in Youth: The Equilibrium Test Battery by Heather A Shepherd, Cody R van Rassel, Amanda M Black, Robert F Graham, Keith Owen Yeates, Carolyn A Emery, Kathryn J Schneider

“… # Results Fifty-five uninjured high school students (31 females and 24 males, mean age = 16.24 \[1.09\]) from three high schools participated in the study. …”
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Huerto urbano Adelfas (Madrid, 24 de enero de 2021) by Claudia Antón Biezma

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Impact of acute respiratory distress syndrome on outcome in critically ill patients with liver cirrhosis by Pischtaz Adel Tariparast, Kevin Roedl, Thomas Horvatits, Andreas Drolz, Stefan Kluge, Valentin Fuhrmann

“…A total of 735 patients during the study period. Median age was 58 (50–69) years and 61% (n = 447) were male. 57% (n = 421) of the patients received mechanical ventilation (MV). …”
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Sanidad y educación: de derecho básico a ¿causa? de despoblación en Andalucía. Calculando su accesibilidad by Eugenio Cejudo García, José Antonio Nieto Calmaestra, José Antonio Cañete Pérez

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Successful Surgical Treatment of “Complex” Abdominal Echinococcosis by A. B. Goncharov, Yu. A. Stepanova, V. S. Shirokov, I. A. Turchenko, Yu. A. Kovalenko, D. V. Kalinin, B. N. Gurmikov, A. V. Zhao

“…A 47-year-old patient who lived in Central Asia for up to 29 years of age was diagnosed with multiple echinococcosis of the abdominal cavity (CE1-2): II, Ivb, V, VI, VII segments of the liver, upper and lower poles of the spleen, lesser and greater omentum, small intestine, subphrenic space, area of the hepatoduodenal ligament, gastrocolic ligament. …”
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Using a Consumer Wearable Activity Monitoring Device to Study Physical Activity and Sleep Among Adolescents in Project Viva: Cohort Study by Yutong Zhang, Nicole Bornkamp, Marie-France Hivert, Emily Oken, Peter James

“…MethodsWe provided Fitbit Charge 2 ResultsWe collected over 7 million minutes of physical activity, heart rate, and sleep data from 677 participants, female. The mean (SD) age of participants was 17.7 (0.7) years. Among the 677 participants, were non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, were Hispanic, non-Hispanic Asian, and belonged to other races. …”
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