The Predictive Value of PKC and ET-1 Levels in Cerebrospinal Fluid for Vasospasm and Prognosis in Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage by Li H, Li D, Li M, Hu Z

“…Age, aneurysm diameter ≥ 6 mm, cerebral vasospasm, Hunt-Hess classification ≥grade III, PKC and ET-1 were all risk factors related to the prognosis of ASH (P < 0.05). …”
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Risk Factors Associated with Subtalar Fusion Within 5 Years Following Calcaneal ORIF by Elisabeth White BS, Sylvester Okoro BS MS, Ameer Tabbaa MD, Ariel Nicolas Rodriguez MD, Bhavya Sheth MD, Andrew Horn MD, Afshin Razi MD, Amr Abdelgawad MD, MBA

“…Results: Patients with STF had a higher proportion of alcohol abuse (21.3% vs. 16.2%), depression (58.1% vs. 43.1%), drug abuse (29.1% vs. 19.7%), obesity (40.3% vs. 28%) and tobacco use (62.2% vs. 50.3%), all exhibiting a p-value of less than 0.001. …”
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A Review of Sports-Related, Life-Threatening Injuries Presenting to Emergency Departments, 2009–18 by Abiye Ibiebele, Rebekah Mannix, William Meehan III

“…Introduction: In the United States, 3.7 million people present to an emergency department (ED) annually with an injury related to sports or athletic activity. …”
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Liver MRI proton density fat fraction inference from contrast enhanced CT images using deep learning: A proof-of-concept study. by Md Nasir, Yixi Xu, Kyle Hasenstab, Alekhya Yechoor, Rahul Dodhia, William B Weeks, Juan Lavista Ferres, Guilherme Moura Cunha

“…The final study cohort was of 94 patients, mean PDFF = 3.8%, range 0.2-22.3%. When comparing ground truth to segmented reference (MRI-PDFF), our model had an MAE of 0.56, an RMSE of 0.77, and a mean error of 0.06 (-1.75,1.86); when comparing medians of the predicted and reference MRI-PDFF images, our model had an MAE, an RMSE, and a mean error of 2.94, 4.27, and 1.28 (-4.58,7.14), respectively. …”
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Population prevalence and distribution of ankle pain and symptomatic radiographic ankle osteoarthritis in community dwelling older adults: A systematic review and cross-sectional s... by Charlotte Murray, Michelle Marshall, Trishna Rathod, Catherine J Bowen, Hylton B Menz, Edward Roddy

“…The prevalence of ankle pain was 11.7% (10.8,12.6) and symptomatic, radiographic ankle OA grade≥2 was 3.4% (2.3, 4.5) (grade≥1: 8.8% (7.9,9.8); grade = 3: 1.9% (1.0,2.7). …”
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Clinical and economic effectiveness of Schroth therapy in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: insights from a machine learning- and active learning-based real-world study by Erdal Ayvaz, Merve Uca, Ednan Ayvaz, Zafer Yıldız

“…Results Exercise-based therapy resulted in a mean Cobb angle reduction of 6.8° (SD = 3.1), with significant improvements in pain and function (p < 0.001). …”
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The frequency of dentition defects among adults in Zaporіzhzhia, who applied for prosthetic treatment by B. N. Mirchuk, Y. V. Maksymov

“…The diagnosis was established on the Kennedy classification. Patients were divided into 5 age groups: Group I - 149 patients (100 - women 49 - men) aged 20 to 30 years; Group II - 93 patients (61 - woman, 32 - men) aged 31 to 40 years old; Group III - 85 patients (49 - women 36 - men) aged 41 to 50 years; Group IV patients (74 - women 41 - men) aged between 51 and 60 years; Group V - 83 patients (55 - women 28 - men) aged 61 years and older. …”
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Optimization of extraction process of polysaccharides from Ganoderma lucidum fruit body and improving effect on asthmatic mice by LI Caolong, WU Xirou, WANG Xiaoshuang, LI Chaowei, GAO Xing, LIU Mengqi, ZHANG Qiqi, XIONG Liyao, XIN Xiaobing

“…Under these optimal conditions, the extraction rate of polysaccharides was (3.22&#x00B1;0.04)%. Compared with the model group, the pathological changes such as obvious thickening of blood vessels and bronchial walls in the lung tissue of asthmatic mice and massive infiltration of inflammatory cells were significantly improved in the high-dose G. lucidum polysaccharides group, and the numbers of white blood cells, lymphocytes, neutrophils, and eosinophils and the concentrations of IL-6 and TNF-α in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid were significantly reduced to (34.96&#x00B1;5.81)&#x00D7;10⁴ CFU/ml, (25.61&#x00B1;3.59)&#x00D7;10⁴ CFU/ml, (4.67&#x00B1;1.59)&#x00D7;10⁴ CFU/ml, (3.06&#x00B1;1.131)&#x00D7;10⁴ CFU/ml, (82.62&#x00B1;14.07) pg/ml and (208.16&#x00B1;19.60) ng/L, respectively. …”
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Congenital Anomalies in Children of Mothers Taking Antiepileptic Drugs with and without Periconceptional High Dose Folic Acid Use: A Population-Based Cohort Study. by Lu Ban, Kate M Fleming, Pat Doyle, Liam Smeeth, Richard B Hubbard, Linda Fiaschi, Laila J Tata

“…Sodium valproate and lamotrigine were both associated with increased risks of any CA (aOR 2.63,1.46-4.74 and aOR 2.01,1.12-3.59 respectively) and system-specific risks. Stratification by folic acid supplementation did not show marked reductions in AED-associated risks (e.g. for CAs overall aOR 1.75, 1.01-3.03 in the high dose folic acid group and 1.94, 95%CI 1.21-3.13 in the low dose or no folic acid group); however, the majority of mothers taking AEDs only initiated high dose folic acid from the second month of pregnancy.…”
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Interobserver variability in her2 immunohistochemistry analysis and its clinical implications with the advent of the HER2-low category by Ana Catharina Joaquim, Lucas Kliemann Bazzaneze, Ana Paula Percicote, Ana Paula Martins Sebastião

“…The agreement was 73.8% (moderate concordance kappa). The diagnoses of the 3 observers were concordant for only 42 patients (20.3%). …”
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Characterising COVID-19 empirical research production in Latin America and the Caribbean: A scoping review. by Cristián Mansilla, Cristian A Herrera, Laura Boeira, Andrea Yearwood, Analia S Lopez, Luis E Colunga-Lozano, Eva Brocard, Tatiana Villacres, Marcela Vélez, Gabriel Di Paolantonio, Ludovic Reveiz

“…Using a modified version of WHO's COVID-19 Coordinated Global Research Roadmap classification, 54.2% were epidemiological studies, followed by clinical management (22.3%) and candidate therapeutics (12.2%). …”
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Determination of factor Xa inhibition doses of low-molecular heparin, nadroparin and reviparin in urological patients by Pavlović Svetlana, Živković Slađana, Koraćević Goran

“…The examination included 80 urological patients divided into 4 groups after urological, uroradiological and anesthesiological preoperative preparation and categorization of anesthesiological risk according to the ASA III classification. The first two groups, of 20 patients each, received the recommended doses of LMH in accordance with the preoperative risk, and an inhibition of FXa 48 hours after the surgical operation and four hours after the administration of LMH was determined. …”
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Can a referral diagnosis code for duplex ultrasound "predict" carotid artery stenosis? by O. V. Gaisenok, I. V. Samorodskaya, O. M. Drapkina

“…To evaluate the detection rate of carotid artery stenosis (CAS) based on the diagnosis code according to the International Clas­sification of Diseases of 10th revision (ICD-10), used in appointment card for carotid duplex ultrasound.Material and methods. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of a quaternary composite based on RGO/MWCNTs/choline chloride + malonic acid for methyl orange dye adsorption by Zainab Hussein Abd Al-khuder, Faiq F. Karam

“…The results showed that according to Giles classification, the adsorption curve on the surface of the prepared compound is (S3) for methyl orange dye, which follows the Freundlich model and enables adsorption. …”
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Nomograms predicting cancer-specific survival and overall survival of advanced salivary gland malignancy patients: a study based on the SEER database by Congzhi Ma, Xiaolin Nong

“…Methods Retrospective data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) 8.4.3 version were utilized. Clinical variables collected included patient age, gender, race, diagnosis year, SERR historic stage A, histological types(The histological classification of advanced salivary gland malignant tumors in this study mainly include acinic cell carcinoma, adenoid cystic, mucoepidermoid carcinoma, salivary duct carcinoma, carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma, squamous cell carcinoma NOS, salivary gland carcinoma NOS and other histological types), T stage, N stage, M stage, treatment modalities (including surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy), marital status, cancer-specific survival (CSS), overall survival (OS), and survival status. …”
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Occurrence and assessment of chronic pain fatigue and sleep disturbance in axial spondyloarthritis patients by Eman Abdel Ghani Sayed, Samer Samy, Faruk Ali Abdi, Anna Abou-Raya

“…ESR (p = 0.001), CRP (p = 0.001), and PAPID3 (p = 0.001) showed a significant positive correlation. …”
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Performance of Sisal Fabre as Natural Geotextile to Reinforce Soil Layers on Unpaved Road. by Kyomugasho, Lilian

“…The findings relating to these laboratory tests include: The liquid limit was 38%, plastic limit was 21%, plasticity index 17%, MDD was increased from 1.829 to 1.849Mg/M3 and CBR values using 60,30 and 10 blows increased from 3.7% to 9.2%,6.9%, 5.2%after the application of sisal fibre after the second, third and fourth layers of the soil compared to the CBR values without sisal and particle size was obtained and the clay soil was classified as silty or clayey grave sand and soil sample fall under group classification of A-2-6. …”
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Pore Structure Characteristics and Permeability Prediction Model in a Cretaceous Carbonate Reservoir, North Persian Gulf Basin by Hao Lu, Hongming Tang, Meng Wang, Xin Li, Liehui Zhang, Qiang Wang, Yulong Zhao, Feng Zhao, Jijia Liao

“…Due to their isolated pores, the permeability is low in types III and IV, and out of these two, type III has better storage capacity. …”
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Artificial intelligence-based prescription of personalized scalp cosmetics improved the scalp condition: efficacy results from 100 participants by Bo Ri Kim, Min Jae Kim, Jieun Koo, Hwa-Jung Choi, Kyung Ho Paik, Soon Hyo Kwon, Hye-Ryung Choi, Chang Hun Huh, Jung Won Shin, Dong-sun Park, Jung-Im Na

“…Using the SPI, the scalp conditions were evaluated at baseline and at weeks 4, 8, and 12 of treatment.Results: The accuracies of the SPI-AI for dryness, oiliness, erythema, folliculitis, and dandruff were 91.3%, 90.5%, 89.6%, 87.3%, and 95.2%, respectively. …”
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Available techniques to minimize scars in surgical management of gynecomastia – a comprehensive review by G. Frigerio, A. Serre, P.E. Engels, D.F. Kalbermatten, D. André-Lévigne

“…All articles provided Simon's grade classification, with most studies including patients with and without skin laxity. …”
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