Determinants of Level of Household Income Utilization and Decision Making Among the Educated Working Married Employees in Mbarara Municipality, Mbarara, Uganda by Adebayo, Sanni T., Atia Agnes, Apusigah, Cleophas, Karooma

“…The study findings established that age, marital status, religion, educational qualification, years of marriage, monthly income influence the level of income utilization and decision-making among working educated married employees. …”
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University Lecturers and Students Could Help in Community Education About SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Uganda. by Echoru, Isaac, Keneth Iceland, Kasozi, Usman, Ibe Michael, Mukenya Mutuku, Irene, Ssebuufu4, Robinson, Decanar Ajambo, Patricia, Ssempijja, Fred, Mujinya, Regan, Matama, Kevin, Musoke, Grace Henry, Tiyo Ayikobua, Emmanuel, Ninsiima, Herbert Izo, Dare, Samuel Sunday, Ejike, Daniel Eze, Eriya Bukenya, Edmund, Keyune Nambatya, Grace, Ewan, MacLeod, Welburn, Susan Christina

“…Method: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study of 103 lecturers and students both men and women of age group 18 to 69 years in western Uganda. Data were obtained through a pretested questionnaire availed online. …”
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La chirurgie cardiaque mini-invasive vidéo-assistée : une étude comparative à la voie conventionnelle [Less-invasive video-assisted cardiac surgery : a comparative study with the c... by Sami Bouchenafa, Ahmed Zaki Boukli-Hacene, Boukri Hamouda, Mohamed Atbi

“…Results -The patients’mean age was 49.5+16.3 years in the minimally invasive video-assisted group and 43.4+16.7 in the vertical median sternotomy group. …”
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Barriers to 12-month treatment of common anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders in the World Mental Health (WMH) surveys by Maria Carmen Viana, Alan E. Kazdin, Meredith G. Harris, Dan J. Stein, Daniel V. Vigo, Irving Hwang, Sophie M. Manoukian, Nancy A. Sampson, Jordi Alonso, Laura Helena Andrade, Guilherme Borges, Brendan Bunting, José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida, Giovanni de Girolamo, Peter de Jonge, Oye Gureje, Josep Maria Haro, Elie G. Karam, Viviane Kovess-Masfety, Jacek Moskalewicz, Fernando Navarro-Mateu, Daisuke Nishi, Marina Piazza, José Posada-Villa, Kate M. Scott, Cristian Vladescu, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Zahari Zarkov, Ronald C. Kessler, Timothy Kessler, World Mental Health Survey collaborators

“…Methods Data on barriers were obtained from face-to-face interviews in 22 community surveys across 19 countries (n = 102,812 respondents aged ≥ 18 years, 57.7% female, median age [interquartile range]: 43 [31–57] years; 68.5% weighted average response rate) in the World Mental Health (WMH) surveys. …”
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Effect of body mass index on inpatient rehabilitation outcome after stroke in a Southeast Asian cohort: a prospective study by Sze Chin Jong, Jovic Aguipo Fuentes, Angie En Qin Seow, Chien Joo Lim, Gobinathan Chandran, Karen Sui Geok Chua

“…Results: Two hundred and forty-seven stroke subjects were enrolled. The mean age of the cohort was 59.48 (standard deviation [SD] 12.35) years; 64.4% (n = 159) were male and 52.6% (n = 130) had ischaemic stroke. …”
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Real-World Treatment Patterns, Survival, and Costs for Ovarian Cancer in Canada: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using Provincial Administrative Data by Manjusha Hurry, Shazia Hassan, Soo Jin Seung, Ryan N. Walton, Ashlie Elnoursi, Jacob D. McGee

“…**Results:** Of the 2539 OC patients included in the study, the mean age at diagnosis was 60.4±11.35 years. The majority were diagnosed with stage III disease (n=1247). …”
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Experiences of working as a clinical nurse while pregnant during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic: a qualitative study by Lin Ye Wu, Wing Fai Yeung, Yao Lin Pei, Ling Xi Chen, Meng Qi Li, Jia Yin Ruan

“…Results Eleven Chinese nurses with a mean age of 31.8 years, ranging from 26 to 40 years, participated in this study. …”
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Growth performance and meat quality of medium-growing chickens fed with live black soldier fly larvae by Cristina Tognoli, Sara Bellezza Oddon, Luisa Zaniboni, Ilaria Biasato, Niko Gioacchino Zeni, Manuela Renna, Laura Gasco, Stefano Paolo Marelli, Annalaura Lopez, Achille Schiavone

“…A total of 90 male chicks, Naked Neck Label, were randomly allotted in 15 pens (5 pens/treatment) and raised until 82 days of age. Each pen was assigned to one of dietary treatments: (1) control group (CTRL) which received a commercial chicken diet, (2) BSFL10 group which received commercial feed and live BSFL at 10% of the expected weekly feed intake and (3) BSFL20 group which received commercial feed and live BSFL at 20%. …”
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The Effect of Maternal Body Mass Index on in Vitro Fertilization-Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection Treatment: A Prospective Comparative Study by Zeynep Ozturk Inal, Hasan Ali Inal

“…Results: While there were no differences between the groups in terms of age, smoking status, etiology of infertility, thyroid-stimulating hormone, prolactin levels, antral follicle count, and stimulation protocol (p>0.05), there was a significant statistical difference in terms of body mass index, duration of infertility, baseline follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, estradiol (E2), duration of stimulation, total gonadotropin dose required, peak E2 levels, progesterone levels, endometrial thickness on hCG administration, and cycle cancellation rate (p<0.05). …”
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Hospitalizations for bronchiolitis among infants before and after the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: an area-based study of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy by Elisa Ballardini, Marco Manfrini, Silvia Fattori, Elena Pellacani, Branislava Ćosić, Giancarlo Gargano, Alberto Berardi

“…Methods This area-based retrospective study analyses 4,396 hospital discharge records (HDR) of children under 1 year of age admitted with a diagnosis of bronchiolitis (ICD9-CM codes 466.11 and 466.19), in Emilia-Romagna (Italy) from January1st, 2018 to December 31th, 2021. …”
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Association of early versus late care seeking for sport-related concussion in adolescent athletes in Canada: a historical cohort study by Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Carolina Cancelliere, Cameron Marshall, Darrin Germann, Mohsen Kazemi, David Youngwoo Oh

“…The association was expressed using hazard rate ratios (HRR) with 95% CIs.Results A total of 4696 patient records (mean age of 14.71 (±1.69 SD); 57.7% male) were eligible. …”
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Temporal relationship between hospital admissions for pneumonia and weather conditions in Shanghai, China: a time-series analysis by Yuan Liu, David Rogers, Yue Zhang, Haidong Kan, Weibing Wang, Jianming Xu, Renjie Chen, Xiaofang Ye, Li Peng

“…The magnitude of the effects of temperature varied across gender and age groups. Hospitalisations for pneumonia increased by 15.99% (95% CI 0.06% to 34.46%) in the cold period.Conclusions Cold temperature may be one of the important risk factors for pneumonia hospitalisations. …”
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Bullying in adolescents across three years in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated cross-sectional and prospective analysis by Bruno Nunes de Oliveira, Marcus Vinicius Veber Lopes, Bruno Gonçalves Galdino da Costa, Gabrielli Thais de Mello, Gabriel Pereira Maciel, Kelly Samara Silva

“…Adolescents (n = 1.987, 50.2% female, mean age 16.4 years) answered a questionnaire and bullying-related information were extracted from two different questions for victims and perpetrators. …”
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Examining rural-urban differences in life satisfaction and its association with health among elderly people in India: Evidence from LASI survey by Nipam Datta, Sushanta Biswas, Dwipen Barman, Bijoy Das, Piyal Basu Roy, Abhijit Sarkar

“…Methods: Data from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) Wave-1 conducted in 2017-18 were used, with a sample size of 30,268 individuals aged 60 and above. …”
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Patterns of colonic dismotility and visceral hypersensitivity at various clinical variants of irritable bowel syndrome by Ekaterina A. Bubnova, O. Yu. Fomenko, I. L. Khalif, V. V. Pavlenko

“…Overall 120 IBS patients were studied. The age of patients varied from 18 to 52 years (mean 34±11,4 years). …”
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The Impact of Zinc Supplementation on the Course of Infections by Justyna Woźniak, Ewelina Kopczyńska, Piotr Kulej, Wiktor Biesiada, Justyna Weronika Kmieć, Anna-Mariia Chernysh, Aleksandra Dusińska, Jakub Waszczyński, Kamila Fuczyło, Karolina Stankevič

“…Additionally, the research explored zinc’s effects on microbial cell membranes, gut microbiome balance, and immune modulation, focusing on age-related immune decline and infection susceptibility. …”
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Frequency of BK virus genotypes in patients with colorectal cancer by Mahsa Javadi, Gholamabbas Kaydani, Roya Pirmoradi, Abdolhassan Talaiezadeh, Azadeh Haghi Navand, Mohammad Karimi Baba Ahmadi, Manoochehr Makvandi

“…Materials and Methods: This investigation encompassed 50 specimens of colorectal adenocarcinoma tumors, 50 adjacent tissues, and 40 urine samples, with patients having a mean age of 61 years ± 12.4 years. The detection of BK virus DNA VP1 gene and genotyping were carried out through nested-PCR and sequencing techniques. …”
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Strategies in Management of Posterosuperior Wall Fracture of the Acetabulum by Kingsly Paulraj, Sathish Muthu

“…Results: A total of 20 patients (M:F = 16:4) of mean age 36.4 (±12.6) years were enrolled for analysis. …”
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Reliability and Validity of Visual Estimation in Determining Thorax Rotation Mobility using the Quadruped Lumbar-Locked Position by Katelyn S Whetstone, Kyle A Matsel, Andrew S Patton, Sarah E Gehres, Kate Schwartzkopf-Phifer

“… # Study Design Cross-sectional # Methods Thirty-eight subjects (21 female, 17 male) with a mean age of 27 years ± 6.67 were assessed with the quadruped lumbar-locked thorax rotation test by three examiners with various clinical experience in real-time and again one week later. …”
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Popliteal artery aneurysm is a cause that should not be forgotten in acute limb ischemia by Deniz Sarp Beyazpinar, Mehmet Emir Erol

“…All patients who underwent amputation had exclusively undergone embolectomy; no amputations were observed in patients with PAA (p=0.01). Results: The average age of the patients was 70.01±12.56 years (min 31-max 89). …”
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