Radiation-induced meningiomas following childhood cranial radiotherapy—report of four cases by Larisa Andrada Ay, Erkin Ozgiray, Nevhis Akintürk, Emine Serra Kamer, Yeşim Ertan

“…Four patients (two females and two males) between 4 and 13 years of age at the time of cranial irradiation developed secondary intracranial meningioma after a latency period of 8–34 years. …”
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PEROVSKITE FROM SPURRITE-MERWINITE MARBLES OF THE KOCHUMDEK CONTACT AUREOLE: APPLICATION TO U-Pb DATING OF A THERMAL EVENT by A.S. Deviatiiarova, E.V. Sokol, S.N. Kokh, E.N. Nigmatulina

“…Perovskite is the main host for Th (up to 1550 ppm), U (up to 450 ppm), Ti, Zr, and LREEs (La + Ce + Pr + Nd); the element incorporation ratios are KTh = 516–870 and КU = 374. The U-Pb isotopic age of perovskite of 248.0 ± 7.2 Ma is in agreement with isotopic age values of traps of the Kuz’movsky complex.…”
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A Prospective Clinical Study on the Correlation between Hamstring Graft Size and Anthropometric Parameters in Indian Population by Sandeep Pangavane, Ashutosh Ushir, Vaibhav Pawar, Devesh Asrani, Krishna Anerao, Jay Gujarati, Makarand Surwase, Ajinkya Mohite

“…Preoperatively, we recorded age, gender, height, weight, and body mass index (BMI). …”
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CD4 expression controls epidermal stem cell balance by Nadine Brandes, Heidi Hahn, Anja Uhmann

“…The progeny of CD4+ epidermal cells contributes to epidermal renewal and progressively colonizes the interfollicular epidermis and hair follicles with age, thereby developing to all epidermal lineages. …”
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Antiphospholipid Syndrome as a Cause of Recurrent Portal Vein Thrombosis in a Man with a Medical History of other Thrombosis by R. G. Sayfutdinov, R. R. Saifutdinov, R. R. Akhunova, T. V. Saifutdinova, G. R. Absalyamova, T. V. Dvoryankina, G. R. Akhunova

“…It should be remembered that cases of thrombosis at a young age may be due to APS.…”
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Portal-splenic-mesenteric venous thrombosis in COVID-19 patients: a systematic review by Ricardo Zanetti Gomes, Matheus Von Jelita Salina, Vitor Hugo Moro Pironatto, Julia Kapp Lepinski, Tiago Daniel Gueiber, Beatriz Moreira Salles Juliatto, Milena Zadra Prestes, Camila Marinelli Martins

“…Males were more prevalent (n=27; 65.85%), mean age was 51.54 years, and 19.57% had a previous history of endocrine diseases. …”
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Prevalence and distribution of hypertension and related risk factors in Jilin Province, China 2015: a cross-sectional study by Bin Liu, Wei Sun, Junduo Wu, Tianyi Li, Xianjing Song, Yangyu Zhang, Yingyu Liu, Longbo Li, Yunpeng Yu, Yihang Liu, Chao Qi

“…Moreover, the prevalence of hypertension increased with age in both sexes, and was higher in men than in women. …”
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Comparative Study on River Manufactured and Rock Sand on the Compressive Strength of Concrete Grade-25. by Rukundo, Patrick

“…It is noted that compressive strength does not only depend on water-cement ratio but also on some other factors such as cement strength class and fineness, concrete age, duration of curing, admixtures, and aggregate properties such as size, shape, texture, and strength. …”
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The Older Gamer in Games Studies: Marginalised or Idealised? by Wu Huan, Guo Chen

“…Instead, researchers need to explore the original motivation of ageing people or people with disability to play video games, the sociocultural environment in which they are exposed to games and the specific social conditions under which games affect them.…”
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Healthcare Utilization, Costs of Care, and Mortality Among Patients With Spinal Muscular Atrophy by Hiangkiat Tan, Tao Gu, Er Chen, Rajeshwari Punekar, Perry B. Shieh

“…Patients were classified into infantile, childhood-onset, and late-onset groups based on age of first SMA diagnosis. They were matched 1:1 to non-SMA patients based on age, gender, geography, and health plan type. …”
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Diabetes Risk Evaluation Using Indian Diabetes Risk Score among Adults of an Urban Slum in Bengaluru, Karnataka by S. Saraswathi, Amita Mukhopadhyay, M. Sumana, Ipsita Debata, Prem Sagar Panda

“…Methodology: A cross-sectional study was carried out in the community involving adults, aged 18 years and above, in the urban field practice area for 3 months. …”
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Spatial inequalities of COVID-19 incidence and associated socioeconomic risk factors in Portugal by Ricardo Almendra, Paula Santana, Claudia Costa

“…Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) models were applied to explore the spatially varying association between age-standardized COVID-19 incidence rate in 2020 and socioeconomic conditions in Portugal, at the municipality level. …”
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Analgesic Efficacy of Transversus Abdominis Plane block vs Local Infiltration of Lignocaine and Bupivacaine in Post-operative Patients by Shabbir Ahmad, Muhammad Kareemullah, Saeed Mahmood, Muhammad Azhar Alam, Qasim Farooq, Muhammad Rashid

“…The Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) was used to see the pain variation and effectiveness of both techniques at 6, 12, 18 and 24 hours. Results: The mean age in the TAP Block Group was 32.0 ± 9.92 years, and the mean age in the Local Wound Infiltration Group was 34.21 ± 10.01 years. …”
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Sex-specific prevalence, inequality and associated predictors of hypertension, diabetes, and comorbidity among Bangladeshi adults: results from a nationwide cross-sectional demogra... by Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Raisul Akram, Nausad Ali, Marufa Sultana, Nurnabi Sheikh

“…A higher prevalence of hypertension and comorbidity was significantly associated with individuals aged >70 years (AOR 7.0, 95% CI 5.0 to 9.9; AOR 6.7, 95% CI 3.0 to 14.9). …”
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Development of Chatbot-Based Oral Health Care for Young Children and Evaluation of its Effectiveness, Usability, and Acceptability: Mixed Methods Study by Kittiwara Pupong, Jaranya Hunsrisakhun, Samerchit Pithpornchaiyakul, Supawadee Naorungroj

“…Participants had a mean age of 34.5 (SD 8.6) years. The frequency of tooth brushing among caregivers significantly improved, increasing from 72.4% at baseline to 93.1% two months post baseline (PP ConclusionsThe 30-Day FunDee chatbot effectively enhanced caregivers’ perceptions of oral health care and improved tooth-brushing practices for children aged 6‐36 months. …”
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Are Trends in Economic Modeling of Pediatric Diabetes Mellitus up to Date with the Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Latest Scientific Findings? by Roque Cardona-Hernandez, Alberto de la Cuadra-Grande, Julen Monje, María Echave, Itziar Oyagüez, María Álvarez, Isabel Leiva-Gea

“…Neither guidelines nor models included recent findings, such as age at diagnosis or socioeconomic status, as prognostic factors. …”
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A Study Exploring Relationship between Risk Factors and Resilience among Youth by Fenny Leferty Kharpuri, Ramya Bhaskar

“…Of the 1.2 billion people live in India, 54% are <24 years of age. These young people are the futures of tomorrow. …”
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The global burden of chronic respiratory diseases attributable to tobacco from 1990 to 2021: a global burden of disease study 2021 by Haoshen Feng, Zhe Li, Rui Zheng

“…Methods This study extracted data on mortality, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR), and age-standardized DALY rate (ASDR) related to tobacco-attributable CRDs from the 2021 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. …”
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Initial versus Subsequent Injury and Illness and Temporal Trends Among Professional Hockey Players by Chelsea Martin, Allison Lieb, John Tokish, Ellen Shanely, Stefan Kluzek, Gary Collins, Garrett Bullock

“…The groin/hip/thigh was the most commonly injured body region with an IR of 1.14 per 1000 AGEs (95%CI:1.06-1.21), followed by the head/neck (0.72 per 1000 AGEs, 95%CI:0.66-0.78). …”
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COVID-19 prevention strategies and compliance among postnatal adolescent mothers with postnatal depression and generalised anxiety in rural Malawi: a cross-sectional study by Sharyn Burns, Linda Portsmouth, Chimwemwe Pindani Tembo

“…The mean age was±17 (SD 1.157). Most participants had recently given birth to their first child (91%, n=358). …”
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