Risk of adverse cardiovascular events following spinal cord injury in patients with osteoporosis: Real-world evidence by Shih-Kai Kao, Yu-Ting Yu, Ming-Hsien Tsai

“…Subgroup analyses based on sex and age supported these findings. Conclusion: The complex interplay between SCI, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular health underscores the requirement for comprehensive management strategies for individuals with SCI who also have osteoporosis.…”
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Economic Evaluation of a Novel Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in US Motor Vehicle Drivers by Jacie T. Cooper, John E. Schneider, Jim Potenziano, David S. Fam

“…Compared with a population of 25% SOC-treated patients and 75% untreated patients, DXR use would save an average of $4581 per person per year across all age groups when priced at $80 per month, assuming all SOC-treated and untreated patients utilized DXR. …”
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Professional Baseball Player Type and Geographic Region of Origin Impacts Shoulder External and Internal Rotation Strength by Lori A. Michener, Adam J. Barrack, Bernard Y. Liebeskind, Ryan J. Zerega, Jonathan C. Sum, Ryan L. Crotin, Hillary A. Plummer

“… # Methods Minor league professional baseball players from North America and Latin America (n=242; age=22.4±2.3 years; n=135 pitchers and n=107 position players; n=162 North American and n=80 Latin American players) volunteered at spring training. …”
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கொங்கு நாட்டின் இராசிபுர வட்டார சிறுதெய்வங்களும் வழிபாட்டு முறைகளும் / Deities and Worshipping Methods in the Rasipuram Region of Kongu Nadu... by செ. தனபால் / S. Dhanapal

“…They were led to destruction either by violence or illness before they reached old age. Early uncivilized men could not understand causal relationships. …”
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Multicenter study for CH-VAD as a fully magnetically levitated left ventricular assist device by Yifan Lu, Shuanglei Zhao, Jie Han, Qiang Lv, Xin Du, Zhengdong Hua, Keli Huang, Zhenwei Ge, Xiaoning Sun, Dan Zhu, Yongfeng Shao, Hongjia Zhang, Ming Gong

“…This study evaluates the clinical outcomes of 77 patients implanted with the CH-VAD across seven centers in China from June 2022 to June 2024. Patients had a mean age of 57.5 years, primarily classified as INTERMACS 2 or 3, with dilated and ischemic cardiomyopathy as the main causes of heart failure (HF). …”
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How much inequality in exposure to high PM10 pollution is too much to be considered environmentally unfair? An assessment for vulnerable groups in two major Spanish cities by Antonio Moreno Jiménez, Rosa Cañada Torrecilla, Pedro Martínez Suárez, María Jesús Vidal Domínguez, Antonio Palacios García

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The Role of Phosphatidylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PEMT) Gene rs12449964 Polymorphism in the Development of Acute Pancreatitis and its Complications by T. A. Samgina, Yu. E. Azarova, Yu. V. Kanishchev, V. A. Lazarenko, P. M. Nazarenko, A. V. Polonikov

“…Whole blood samples were collected from 502 unrelated patients with acute non-biliary pancreatitis (97 women and 405 men) of Russian nationality who had been admitted to the surgical departments of the city of Kursk from 2015 to 2018, as well as from 513 unrelated individuals of Russian nationality without gastrointestinal diseases (101 women and 412 men). The average age of patients and healthy individuals was 48.9 ± 13.1 and 47.89 ± 12.1 years, respectively. …”
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Results of the ORION open comparative randomized trial: evaluation of efficacy of the Russian drugs Altevir and Phosphogliv in combined treatment of chronic hepatitis C by V. T. Ivashkin, M. V. Mayevskaya, P. O. Bogomolov, I. G. Nikitin, A. O. Buyeverov, A. V. Lapshin

“…Overall 80 out-patients over 18 years of age with the diagnosis of CHC confirmed by laboratory and instrumental methods have been included in original study. …”
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PERCEPTION OF ONLINE VERSUS PHYSICAL LEARNING AMONGUNIVERSITY STUDENTS by Ramna Shafique, Muhammad Abdullah, Tooba Nasir, Sundas Salim, Sabrina Jam, Bina Fawad

“…P-values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant. Results: The mean age of the participants was 20.65 ± 2.13 years, and the proportion of males was 28.5% (n=57). …”
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WEB-BASED LEARNING AND STUDENTS' SCHOLASTIC ACCOMPLISHMENT AT NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA by Taofeek Gbolahan Muibi

“…In light of the discoveries, it was suggested that administration ought to put more in training of this season of computerized age through satisfactory financing to empower schools obtain and introduce ICT foundation. …”
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Análisis temporal de sequías meteorológicas en la cuenca del Río Yaqui (México) y su relación con ENSO by Julián Cerano Paredes, Gerardo Esquivel Arriaga, Ignacio Sánchez Cohen, Josué Raymundo Estrada Arrellano

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Assessing psychological health and reproductive function: Depression, anxiety, and stress in infertile men compared to controls: A case-control study by Seyedeh Narjes Roudbaraki, Maryam Ramezani, Bita Saifi, Mostafa Salimi, Massood Issapour Cheshani

“…Demographic information such as age, education, occupation, duration of the marriage, and duration of infertility was collected from their medical records, and they also completed the depression, anxiety, and stress scale 21 questionnaire through a telephonic interview. …”
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MiR-25-3p regulates pulmonary arteriovenous malformation after Glenn procedure in patients with univentricular heart via the PHLPP2-HIF-1α axis by Junpei Kawamura, Munekazu Yamakuchi, Kentaro Ueno, Teruto Hashiguchi, Yasuhiro Okamoto

“…Microarray in situ hybridization was performed to assess the miRNA (miRNA) profiles of serum from pediatric patients (0–6 years of age) with G-PAVMs and after the Fontan procedure without G-PAVMs. …”
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Comparing the Scores of The Functional Movement Screen™ in Individuals with Low Back Pain versus Healthy Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Khalid M. Alkhathami, Bijad Alqahtani

“…Further research is needed to assess the association of cofounders, such as age, gender, and body mass index, with the FMS™ score among LBP patients and controls…”
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Defining the high-risk category of patients with cutaneous melanoma: a practical tool based on prognostic modeling by Oleksandr Dudin, Oleksandr Dudin, Ozar Mintser, Vitalii Gurianov, Nazarii Kobyliak, Nazarii Kobyliak, Denys Kozakov, Sofiia Livshun, Oksana Sulaieva, Oksana Sulaieva

“…This drives to identification of prognostic biomarkers for predicting CM recurrence to guide appropriate treatment in patients with localized melanoma.AimThis study aimed to develop a prognostic model for assessing the risk of recurrence in patients with CM, enabling prompt prognosis-driven further clinical decision-making for high-risk patients.Materials and methodsThis case-control study included 172 patients with CM recurrence (high-risk group) and 30 patients with stable remission (low-risk group) 3 years after primary diagnosis. The impact of sex, age at diagnosis, anatomical site, histological characteristics (the histological type, pathological stage, ulceration; the depth of invasion, mitotic rate, lymphovascular invasion, neurotropism, association with a nevus, tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte density, tumor regression and BRAF codon 600 mutation status) on CM recurrence was evaluated.ResultsFive independent variables, including nodal status, a high mitotic rate, Breslow thickness, lymphovascular invasion, perineural invasion and regression features were identified as the most significant. …”
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Defining polypharmacy in the elderly: a systematic review protocol by Seyede Salehe Mortazavi, Mohsen Shati, Seyed Kazem Malakouti, Abasali Keshtkar, Mohsen Bazargan, Shervin Assari

“…Introduction Ageing—along with its associated physiological and pathological changes—places individuals at a higher risk of multimorbidity and treatment-related complications. …”
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Serum glutathione peroxidase-3 concentration at diagnosis as a biomarker for assessing disease activity and damage of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis at d... by Jihye Chung, Jang Woo Ha, Yong-Beom Park, Yong-Beom Park, Sang-Won Lee, Sang-Won Lee

“…Poor outcomes including all-cause mortality, end-stage kidney disease, and cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases were also investigated.ResultsThe median age of the study subjects was 63.0 years, 26 and 45 patients were males and females, respectively. …”
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New Composite Indexes through Factor Analysis Simplifying the Interpretation of Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes of Surgical Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Patients Complet... by Wai-Wang Chau, Bobby Kin-Wah Ng

“…Results: There were 135 severe AIS patients recruited in this study, of which 74.1% were female, and the mean age at operation was 15.97. Two factors were yielded after factor analysis (KMO = 0.633 and Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity < 0.001) with orthogonal rotation. …”
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Prostate cancer screening knowledge and attitude among men over 50 at a referral Hospital in Oshana region, Namibia by Lonia Kashihakumwa, Daniel O. Ashipala, Yahaya Jafaru

“…There is no significant association between the respondents’ prostate cancer screening knowledge and all the respondents’ characteristics (age, level of education, marital status and religion), p  0.05, respectively. …”
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Dyslipidaemia in patients with chronic kidney disease – a neglected cardiovascular risk factor by M R Essop, F Seedat, F J Raal

“…The median (interquartile range) age of this cohort was 58 (46 - 69) years; 50.4% were males and 64.4% black African. …”
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