Contemporary Approach to Active Surveillance by Urologists: Is There a Need for a Postgraduate Education Program? by Günal Özgür, Murat Kars, Yusuf Şenoğlu, Onur Can Özkan, Bahadır Şahin, Kamil Çam

“…Materials and Methods: A survey was conducted among urologists registered in the Society of Urological Surgery database. A 27-question survey, including items on current management strategies for descriptive cancer cases, was created on the Research Electronic Data Capture website and sent via an online messaging application. …”
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Volatile Organic Compounds and Carbonyls Pollution in Mexico City and an Urban Industrialized Area of Central Mexico by Elizabeth Vega, Omar Ramírez, Gabriela Sánchez-Reyna, Judith C. Chow, John G. Watson, Diego López-Veneroni, Monica Jaimes-Palomera

“…Lifetime cancer risks (LCR) from benzene ranged from 1.5 × 10−5 to 6.1 × 10−5 in 2006 and from 8.8 × 10−6 to 2.2 × 10−5 in 2012 for the urban MER site. This database establishes baselines for evaluating the effectiveness of emission reduction strategies.…”
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GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: A Promising Therapy for Modern Lifestyle Diseases with Unforeseen Challenges by Patrycja Kupnicka, Małgorzata Król, Justyna Żychowska, Ryszard Łagowski, Eryk Prajwos, Anna Surówka, Dariusz Chlubek

“…This review was conducted through an examination of the literature available in the MedLine (PubMed) database, covering publications from 1978 to 10 May 2024. …”
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Global Occupational Exposure to Blood and Body Fluids among Healthcare Workers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Dechasa Adare Mengistu, Gebisa Dirirsa, Elsai Mati, Dinku Mekbib Ayele, Kefelegn Bayu, Wegene Deriba, Fekade Ketema Alemu, Yohannes Mulugeta Demmu, Yohanis Alemeshet Asefa, Abraham Geremew

“…Of the 3912 articles identified through the electronic database search, 33 that met the inclusion criteria were included in the final analysis. …”
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The Impact of Childhood Obesity on Mental Health: A Comprehensive Review by Jan Spychalski, Mikołaj Musiał, Maria Spychalska, Adrianna Dylik, Weronika Gryczyńska, Wiktoria Grochowska, Mikołaj Kaczmarek, Łukasz Krawczak, Hanna Gulaczyk

“…Aim of the study: The aim of this study is to analyse the available literature in order to examine the impact of childhood obesity on mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, eating disorders and schizophrenia, Materials and methods: Comprehensive review of the literature available on PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus database by searching the keywords “obesity”, “overweight”, “ mental health”, “childhood”, “mood disorders” “psychiatric disorders”, “anxiety”, “depression”, “eating disorders”, “ADHD”   Results and conclusion: Childhood obesity is a growing global problem with physical and health consequences. …”
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Expansion of supraglacial lake area, volume and extent on the Greenland ice sheet from 1985 to 2023 by Yubin Fan, Chang-Qing Ke, Lanhua Luo, Xiaoyi Shen, Stephen John Livingstone, James M. Lea

“…Here, we produce the first annual ice-sheet wide database of maximum summer SGL extents spanning 1985 to 2023 using all July and August Landsat images. …”
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Safety and effectiveness of appropriately and inappropriately dosed rivaroxaban or apixaban versus warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation: a cohort study with nested case–co... by Luis Alberto García Rodríguez, Pareen Vora, Luke Roberts, Gunnar Brobert, Samuel Fatoba, María Eugenia Sáez, Antonio González-Pérez

“…Objectives To investigate effects of appropriately and inappropriately dosed apixaban/rivaroxaban versus warfarin on effectiveness and safety outcomes in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF).Design Cohort study with nested case–control analyses using primary care electronic health records (IQVIA Medical Research Data UK database).Setting UK primary care.Participants Patients aged ≥18 years with NVAF newly prescribed apixaban (N=14 701), rivaroxaban (N=14 288) or warfarin (N=16 175) between 1 January 2012 and 30 June 2018, and followed up to 31 December 2018.Primary and secondary outcome measures Incident cases of ischaemic stroke/systemic embolism (IS/SE) and intracranial bleeding (ICB). …”
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Sele-targeted siRNA liposome nanoparticles inhibit pathological scars formation via blocking the cross-talk between monocyte and endothelial cells: a preclinical study based on a n... by Luyu Li, Yong Wang, Jing Meng, Xue Wang, Xiaojin Wu, Yan Wo, Ying Shang, Zhen Zhang

“…Single-cell sequencing analysis from the GEO database, complemented by Western blotting, immunofluorescence, and co-immunoprecipitation, confirmed the role of Sele-mediated monocyte adhesion in PS formation. …”
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Real-world Data of Antithrombotic Therapy in Neuroendovascular Therapy: Analysis of JR-NET 4 by Nozomi SASAKI, Yukiko ENOMOTO, Hiroshi YAMAGAMI, Koji IIHARA, Akira ISHII, Hirotoshi IMAMURA, Nobuyuki SAKAI, Chiaki SAKAI, Tetsu SATOW, Yuji MATSUMARU, Shinichi YOSHIMURA

“…Details on antithrombotic therapy in neuroendovascular therapy for ruptured cerebral aneurysms, unruptured cerebral aneurysms, and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty or stenting were collected from the JR-NET 4 database. These data were analyzed and compared with those from the JR-NET 2 (January 2008 to December 2009) and JR-NET 3 (January 2010 to December 2014). …”
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A multi-trait approach identified 7 novel genes for back pain by Nadezhda M. Belonogova, Elizaveta E. Elgaeva, Irina V. Zorkoltseva, Anatoliy V. Kirichenko, Gulnara R. Svishcheva, Maxim B. Freidin, Frances M. K. Williams, Pradeep Suri, Tatiana I. Axenovich, Yakov A. Tsepilov

“…Finally, we replicated significantly associated genes using the FinnGen database. Results:. We identified 32 genes associated with BP and replicated 16 of them. …”
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Association of sleep duration and depressive symptoms with mortality in cancer survivors by Yanxiu Liu, Yujia Feng, Jiamin Wang, Jiaqi Peng, Mingzhu Su, Di Shao, Xiaojie Sun

“…Methods 2,111 participants from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys were involved and linked to a mortality database up to 31 December 2019. Sleep duration was self-reported at baseline. …”
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From Jargon to Clarity. Improving the Readability of Foot and Ankle Radiology Reports with An Artificial Intelligence Large Language Model by James J. Butler MB BCh BAO, Michael Harrington MD, Yixuan Tong MD, Andrew Rosenbaum MD, Alan P. Samsonov BS, Raymond J. Walls MD, FRCS (Orth), MFSEM, FAAOS, John G. Kennedy MD, MCh, MMSc, FFSEM, FRCS (Orth)

“…Methods: The radiology reports from 100 foot or ankle X-Rays, 100 computed tomography (CT) scans and 100 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans were randomly sampled from the institution’s database. The following prompt command was inserted into the AI-LLM. …”
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Impact of team-based community healthcare on preventable hospitalisation: a population-based cohort study in Taiwan by Hsiao-Yu Yang, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Chyi-Feng Jeff Jan, Che-Jui Jerry Chang, Shinn-Jang Hwang, Yu-Chun Chen, Cheng-Kuo Huang, Tai-Yuan Chiu

“…Objectives The objective of this study was to explore the impact of Taiwan’s Family Practice Integrated Care Project (FPICP) on hospitalisation.Design A population-based cohort study compared the hospitalisation rates for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) among FPICP participating and non-participating patients during 2011–2015.Setting The study accessed the FPICP reimbursement database of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI) administration containing all NHI administration-selected patients for FPICP enrolment.Participants The NHI administration-selected candidates from 2011 to 2015 became FPICP participants if their primary care physicians joined the project, otherwise they became non-participants.Interventions The intervention of interest was enrolment in the FPICP or not. …”
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Experiences and perceived health benefits of individuals with a disability participating in sport: A systematic review protocol by Paul Martin, Alison Rushton, Nicola R Heneghan, Andrew Soundy, Beth Aitchison

“…Two independent reviewers will conduct the searches, study selection, data collection and quality assessment independently. The online databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsychINFO, CINAHL Plus, Web of Science and SportDiscus will be electronically searched from database inception to February 2020. …”
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Clinical Features, Treatment, and Outcome of HIV-Associated Immune Thrombocytopenia in the HAART Era by Kimberley L. S. Ambler, Linda M. Vickars, Chantal S. Leger, Lynda M. Foltz, Julio S. G. Montaner, Marianne Harris, Viviane Dias Lima, Heather A. Leitch

“…Of 5290 patients in the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS database, 31 (0.6%) had an ITP diagnosis and platelet count <20 × 109/L. …”
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Impact of a national primary care pay-for-performance scheme on ambulatory care sensitive hospital admissions: a small-area analysis in England by Tim Doran, Christos Grigoroglou, Luke Munford, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Navneet Kapur, Darren Ashcroft, Roger Webb

“…Objective We aimed to spatially describe hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) in England at small-area geographical level and assess whether recorded practice performance under one of the world’s largest primary care pay-for-performance schemes led to reductions in these potentially avoidable hospitalisations for chronic conditions incentivised in the scheme.Setting We obtained numbers of ACSC hospital admissions from the Hospital Episode Statistics database and information on recorded practice performance from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) administrative dataset for 2015/2016. …”
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Using machine learning to predict outcomes following transcarotid artery revascularization by Ben Li, Naomi Eisenberg, Derek Beaton, Douglas S. Lee, Leen Al-Omran, Duminda N. Wijeysundera, Mohamad A. Hussain, Ori D. Rotstein, Charles de Mestral, Muhammad Mamdani, Graham Roche-Nagle, Mohammed Al-Omran

“…The Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) database was used to identify patients who underwent TCAR between 2016 and 2023. …”
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Weekend effect on in-hospital outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement: insights from a propensity-matched national analysis by Guangzhi Cong, Bo Shi, Xueping Ma, Congyan Ye, Rui Yan, Shizhe Fu, Kairu Wang, Haowei Li, Ru Yan, Shaobin Jia, Israel Gitangaza, Abdul Rehman

“…Methods A nationwide cohort study was conducted using the National Inpatient Sample Database. We identified 82,094 eligible patients aged ≥ 18 years admitted for TAVR between 2013 and 2021. …”
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A Systematic Review of Urban Vegetation Research during 2000–2023: A Bibliometric Analysis by Hassan Boukita, Fathalah Elwahab, Mohamed El Ammari, Abdelazziz Chemchaoui, Boutaina Benchahid, Youssef Haouazine, Najiba Brhadda, Rabea Ziri

“…This study examined 1,081 articles listed in the Scopus database on urban vegetation between 2000 and 2023. …”
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Mental health in autistic adults: A rapid review of prevalence of psychiatric disorders and umbrella review of the effectiveness of interventions within a neurodiversity informed p... by Eleanor Curnow, Marion Rutherford, Donald Maciver, Lorna Johnston, Susan Prior, Marie Boilson, Premal Shah, Natalie Jenkins, Tamsin Meff

“…<h4>Data sources</h4>MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.<h4>Study eligibility criteria</h4>English language; published 2011-2022; primary studies describing prevalence of psychiatric conditions in autistic adults; or systematic reviews evaluating interventions for autistic adults.…”
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