Effect of combined oral contraceptives on menstrual migraine frequency and severity: a narrative review by Yethindra Vityala, Ruchika Garg, Samina Ausvi, Manjula Shantaram, Srikanya Tippabathini, Lekhashree Hosur Brahmananda Reddy, Yash Jain, Pavani Jaladi, Sai Praneeth Duvvuri, Krishna Chaitanya Meduri

“…Factors affecting these outcomes include patient age, menstrual cycle characteristics, and migraine type. …”
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Relationship between caries indexes and obesity in a sample of Puerto Rican adolescents by Lydia M. Lopez del Valle, Mariely Nieves-Plaza, Sona Rivas-Tumanyan, Rosana Hanke-Herrero

“…This study aimed to evaluate the association between caries and obesity in adolescents.MethodsThis was a cross-sectional study of a convenience sample of 187 Puerto Rican adolescents aged 13–19 years, attending, among them, five high schools. …”
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Burden assessment of podoconiosis in Wayu Tuka woreda, east Wollega zone, western Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study by Kebede Deribe, Gail Davey, Kenate Bekele, Tsige Amberbir, Geleta Tadele, Abdi Samuel

“…Most (92.2%) people with podoconiosis were in the economically active age group (15–64 years) in the first phase survey. …”
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Psychosocial distress, perceived need and utilization of psycho- social support services in patients in the early phase after the first cancer diagnosis by Hannah Zingler, Diana Steinmann, Jochen Ernst, Ute Goerling, Myriel Hermann, Beate Hornemann, Anja Mehnert-Theuerkauf, Tanja Zimmermann

“…Results Of 1,003 eligible patients who completed the questionnaire (53.0% men, mean age 60.3 years) 39.7% (n = 390) showed above-threshold psychosocial stress (DT: scores ≥ 5) and 21% (n = 207) indicated a perceived need for psycho- social support. 13.5% (n = 136) showed both, psychosocial distress and perceived need for psycho- social support. 15.2% (n = 150) out of all participating patients used psycho-oncology service, 60.7% (n = 597) were willing to accept such an offer. …”
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Construction and validation of risk prediction models for renal replacement therapy in patients with acute pancreatitis by Fei Zuo, Lei Zhong, Jie Min, Jinyu Zhang, Longping Yao

“…The optimal model was visualized and clarified using SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) and presented as a nomogram. Results The mean age of the cohort was 59.17 years, with an average Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score of 17.55. …”
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Reviewing the current treatment approaches for bullous pemphigoid – analysis of literature by Julia Nowak, Agnieszka Najdek, Daria Oleksy, Dawid Komada, Urszula Kaczmarska, Aleksandra Woźniak, Michał Jakub Cioch, Marcin Mycyk, Kamil Hermanowicz, Katarzyna Doman

“…The disease is defined by autoantibodies targeting BP180 (BPAG2) and BP230 (BPAG1) within the basement membrane zone. Advanced age is a significant risk factor for BP, with additional associations identified, including certain medications—such as dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors and aldosterone antagonists—and neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease. …”
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Preference and determinants of delivery mode in pregnant women with one cesarean scar: a cross-sectional study in two urban Ugandan public hospitals by Brenda Nabawanuka, Tom Ngabirano, Joyce Nankumbi

“…These were consecutively recruited into the study, and a modified Poisson regression was performed to identify factors associated with the preferred mode of delivery. Results The mean age of the participants was 28 (4.88) years. Out of 169 women, the majority 137 (81%) preferred a trial of labor. …”
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Translation of the UK Pediatric Influenza Vaccination Programme in Primary Schools to 13 European Countries Using a Dynamic Transmission Model by Laetitia Gerlier, Judith Hackett, Richard Lawson, Sofia Dos Santos Mendes, Martin Eichner

“…The evaluated versus reference strategies were compared using odds ratios (ORs) for PCC in the target (aged 5–10-years) and non-target adult (aged >17 years) populations as well as number needed to vaccinate (NNV) with QLAIV to avert one PCC, hospitalization or ICU admission. …”
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Instability of revised Korean Developmental Screening Test classification in first year of life by Ji Eun Jeong, You Min Kim, Na Won Lee, Gyeong Nam Kim, Jisuk Bae, Jin Kyung Kim

“…Purpose This study aimed to examine the stability of developmental classifications using the revised Korean Developmental Screening Test (K-DST) in healthy term infants aged 4–6 and 10–12 months. Methods Data were obtained from the Korean Children’s Environmental Health Study, a nationwide prospective birth cohort. …”
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Is it beneficial to use lateral protective crossing K-wires during medial open wedge high tibial osteotomy? A retrospective comparative study by Hossam Fathi Mahmoud, Ahmed Hatem Farhan, Ahmed Mohamed Abdelwahab, Ahmed Mohamed Elshaer, Mahmoud Abdo Mahmoud, Fahmy Samir Fahmy

“…There was no statistically significant difference regarding mean age, sex, KOOS-12, MPTA, and time of surgery between both groups. …”
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The association between pretransplant malignancy and post-transplant survival and cancer recurrence in bilateral lung transplantation: An analysis of 23,291 recipients by Wongi Woo, MD, Hye Sung Kim, MD, Ankit Bharat, MBBS, Young Kwang Chae, MD, PhD, MBA

“…However, after adjusting for age, sex, and race through propensity score matching, the survival difference between the groups became nonsignificant (HR 1.05, 95% CI 0.97-1.13, p = 0.229). …”
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Major adverse cardiovascular events among Black and White Veterans receiving androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer: a retrospective cohort study by Alexander R. Lucas, Dustin Bastiach, Bassam Dahman, Asit K. Paul, Samina Hirani, Vanessa B. Sheppard, W. Gregory Hundley, Bhaumik B. Patel, Rhonda L. Bitting, Michael G. Chang

“…At PC diagnosis, the mean age was 65.9 years. The majority had stage 2 disease (83.0%) classified as intermediate risk (43.1%). …”
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Construction and Validation of a Model for Predicting Fear of Childbirth: A Cross-Sectional Population Study via Machine Learning by Zhang ZL, Chen KJ, Chen H, Zhu MM, Gu JJ, Jiang LS, Zheng L, Zhou SG

“…Using univariate logistic regression and multivariate logistic regression to analyze the risk factors associated with the occurrence of FOC, we constructed a FOC risk predictive model via ten different machine learning methods and evaluated the predictive performance of the model.Results: Our study indicated that educational level, history of adverse pregnancy outcomes, history of cesarean section, planned pregnancy, assisted reproduction, income, payment, SAS scores, and age are independent risk factors for FOC. The risk predictive model included six factors, such as gravidity, history of adverse pregnancy outcomes, history of cesarean section, planned pregnancy, payment, and SSRS scores. …”
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Anterior Knee Pain Evaluation Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstruction Using Anterior Half of The Peroneus Longus (AHPL) Autograft by Pontoh LAP, Dilogo IH, Kamal AF, Rhatomy S, Putra A, Fiolin J, Herdiman JA, Pontoh EW

“…Patient demographics, surgical details, and Kujala scores were collected.Results: The average age of our participants was 25.88 ± 5.39 years, with mean BMI classified as obese. …”
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Multicomponent intervention for schoolchildren with asthma: Pilot cluster randomized controlled trial by Marina Reznik, MD, MS, Florinda Islamovic, MD, Jill S. Halterman, MD, MPH, Cheng-Shiun Leu, PhD, Jiaqing Zhang, PhD, Philip O. Ozuah, MD, PhD

“…Results: We included 107 children (53% male participants, 82% Hispanic, mean [standard deviation] age 9.0 [1.0] years, 76% with persistent or uncontrolled asthma). …”
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Assessment of stress hyperglycemia ratio to predict all-cause mortality in patients with critical cerebrovascular disease: a retrospective cohort study from the MIMIC-IV database by Yuwen Chen, Jian Xu, Fan He, An’an Huang, Jie Wang, Bingchen Liu, Qucheng Wei

“…Results We included a total of 2,461 patients, with a mean age of 70.55 ± 14.59 years, and 1,221 (49.61%) being female. …”
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The dual impact: physiological and psychological effects of rapid weight loss in wrestling by Barış Sarıakçalı, Fatma Neşe Şahin, Burhan Başoğlu, Levent Ceylan, Özkan Güler, Bade Yamak, Gökhan Arıkan, Gizem Ceylan Acar, Gülşah Sekban, Mehmet Vakıf Durmuşoğlu, Sezen Çimen Polat, Hamza Küçük

“…This study aimed to investigate the biochemical, hormonal, and psychological effects of weight reduction in elite wrestlers during the competition phase.MethodsThirty-seven elite male free style wrestlers (age: 19.02 ± 1.27) participated in the study. Samples were collected 5 days before and on the day of the match.ResultsA significant decrease in body weight was observed (p < 0.05). …”
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Short-Term Clinical Outcomes After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction In Adolescents During The COVID-19 Pandemic by Adam Weaver, Brandon Ness, Dylan Roman, Nicholas Giampetruzzi, Joshua Cleland

“…Patients were classified into pre-COVID (control) and COVID groups by surgical date and were then age- and sex-matched. Three-month postoperative outcomes were included for analysis, including normalized isometric quadriceps and hamstring peak torque, Anterior Cruciate Ligament – Return to Sport after Injury (ACL-RSI), and the Pedi International Knee Documentation Committee Form (Pedi-IKDC) scores…”
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Successful management of catheter injury or refractory infection by partial replantation of peritoneal dialysis catheters: a retrospective observational study by Seyoung Ryou, Eun Jeong Ko, Hoon Suk Park, Byung Ha Chung, Cheol Whee Park, Chul Woo Yang, Yong-Soo Kim, Hyung Duk Kim, Yaeni Kim

“…Results Nine patients (four males, mean age 56 years, average PD duration 66 months) employed the salvage method. …”
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Niveles de conservación y degradación de hábitat en los ecosistemas de una cuenca de alta biodiversidad en Tamaulipas (México) by Glenda Nelly Requena Lara, Juan Francisco Morales Pacheco, Rafael Cámara Artigas, Carlos Zamora Tovar

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