Updating the Relationship Between the Threshold Value of Average Nucleotide Identity and Digital DNA–DNA Hybridization for Reliable Taxonomy of <i>Corynebacterium</i> by Haitham Elbir

“…Currently, bacterial classification at the species level relies on the 95–96% average nucleotide identity (ANI) value that is known to be equivalent to a 70% digital DNA–DNA hybridization (dDDH) value. …”
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Association between diabetes mellitus and total hip arthroplasty outcomes: an observational study using the US National Inpatient Sample by Jasvinder A Singh, Sumanth Chandrupatla, Kranti Rumalla

“…Objectives To investigate the association of diabetes with postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing primary total hip arthroplasty (THA).Design Retrospective cohort study using data from the US National Inpatient Sample (NIS).Setting Study cohort was hospitalisations for primary THA in the USA, identified from the 2016–2020 NIS.Participants We identified 2 467 215 adults in the 2016–2020 NIS who underwent primary THA using International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision codes. Primary THA hospitlizations were analysed as the overall group and also stratified by the underlying primary diagnosis for THA.Outcome measures Outcome measures of interest were the length of hospital stay&gt;the median, total hospital charges&gt;the median, inpatient mortality, non-routine discharge, need for blood transfusion, prosthetic fracture, prosthetic dislocation and postprocedural infection, including periprosthetic joint infection, deep surgical site infection and postprocedural sepsis.Results Among 2 467 215 patients who underwent primary THA, the mean age was 68.7 years, 58.3% were female, 85.7% were white, 61.7% had Medicare payer and 20.4% had a Deyo-Charlson index (adjusted to exclude diabetes mellitus) of 2 or higher. 416 850 (17%) patients had diabetes. …”
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Identification of Diagnostically Relevant Biomarkers in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease by Comprehensive Analysis by Wu Z, Mo S, Huang Z, Zheng B

“…Not only are they minimally invasive and early detection, but they can also be used for classification and diagnosis of disease as well as prognostic assessment. …”
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Comprehensive evaluation of the incidence and prevalence of surgically diagnosed pelvic endometriosis in a complete population by Asdis Kristjansdottir, Vilhjalmur Rafnsson, Reynir Tomas Geirsson

“…The overall estimate of prevalence was 0.6%–3.6%, dependent on duration of symptoms from 5 up to 30 years. …”
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Quality of life and sleep impairment in chronic cocaine dependents Qualidade de vida e comprometimento do sono em dependentes crônicos de cocaína by Adriana Lima, Sueli Rossini, Rubens Reimão

“…METHOD: 40 patients, chronic cocaine dependents were evaluated (37 M; 3 F), with mean age of 28.92 years, along with 40 controls paired for gender and age. …”
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Viable Ileosigmoid Knotting, A Very Phenomenon Finding and Rare Cause of Intestinal Obstruction: A Case Report and Literature Review by Beyene SA, Bogale NT, Abdinasir MM, Desalegne AZ, Wossen MA

“…There are different classification schemes of ileosigmoid knotting depending on the active component of the knot and based on the viability of the bowel and physiology of the patient. …”
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Exploring Transfer Learning for Anthropogenic Geomorphic Feature Extraction from Land Surface Parameters Using UNet by Aaron E. Maxwell, Sarah Farhadpour, Muhammad Ali

“…However, the operationalization of these supervised classification methods is limited by a lack of large volumes of quality training data. …”
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Chorea: clinical correlates of 119 cases Coréia: análise clínica de 119 casos by Maria Fernanda Mendes, Luiz Augusto Franco De Andrade, Henrique Ballalai Ferraz

“…Sydenham's chorea (SC) was the most frequent cause of chorea (51.3%) of our sample. Other common causes were Huntington's chorea (18.5%) and chorea post-stroke (9.2%). …”
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STRUCTURE OF PRODUCT EXPORTS OF UKRAINE: ASSESSMENT OF THE ELASTICITY OF THE PRODUCT GROUPS DYNAMICS by Anatolii O. Zadoia

“…It was found that in group A, two product positions (chapters XV and XVI according to the Ukrainian classification of goods of foreign economic activity - UCG FEA) have a steady tendency to weaken positions, as well as two other positions (chapters II and III), on the contrary, constantly increase their specific weight in total exports. …”
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Leveraging AI to explore structural contexts of post-translational modifications in drug binding by Kirill E. Medvedev, R. Dustin Schaeffer, Nick V. Grishin

“…In this work, we identified small molecule binding-associated PTMs that can influence drug binding across all human proteins listed as small molecule targets in the DrugDomain database, which we developed recently. 6,131 identified PTMs were mapped to structural domains from Evolutionary Classification of Protein Domains (ECOD) database. Scientific contribution: Using recent AI-based approaches for protein structure prediction (AlphaFold3, RoseTTAFold All-Atom, Chai-1), we generated 14,178 models of PTM-modified human proteins with docked ligands. …”
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Australian Aboriginal children have higher hospitalization rates for otitis media but lower surgical procedures than non-Aboriginal children: A record linkage population-based coho... by Darren W Westphal, Deborah Lehmann, Stephanie A Williams, Peter C Richmond, Francis J Lannigan, Parveen Fathima, Christopher C Blyth, Hannah C Moore

“…Aboriginal children had higher hospitalization rates for OM than non-Aboriginal children (23.3/1,000 [95% Confidence Interval (CI) 22.8,24.0] vs 2.4/1,000 [95% CI 2.3,2.4] child-years) with no change in disparity over time. …”
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The Swiss Prison Study (SWIPS): Results from a registry-based study of prisoners in Switzerland from 2015 to 2020 by Naser Musli, Patrick Baumgartner, Marc Meier, Sira Thiel, Silvana K. Rampini, Edouard Battegay, Malcolm Kohler, van Rooij Floris, Thomas Kuratle, Luca Nover, Mo Saffarini, Carolin Steinack, Shekhar Saxena, Thomas Gaisl

“…A total of 19,027 (37%) inmates had one or more health conditions, which the authors recorded according to the International Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10), in addition to demographic data (country of origin, sex, age, year of imprisonment), as well as details of any drugs used (type and dosage). …”
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Exposure of students (pupils) and employees of educational institutions in the Leningrad region to natural sources of radiation Part 2: Hygienic assessment of doses and health risk... by A. S. Vasilyev

“…According to the classification established in sanitary rules and norms OSPORB 99/2010, the exposure of students (pupils) and employees of several educational institutions can be classified as “increased” (from 5 to 10 mSv/year) or as “high” (more than 10 mSv/year) depending on methods and approaches to measuring indoor radon concentration. …”
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Relationship between neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and pulmonary arterial hypertension in non-dialytic patients with chronic kidney disease stage 5 by 冯世尧, 任伟

“…Objective To investigate the clinical value of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio(NLR)for pulmonary arterial hypertension(PAH)in non-dialytic patients with chronic kidney disease(CKD) stage 5.Methods A total of 144 non-dialysis patients with CKD stage 5 were divided into two groups:PAH group and non-PAH group according to pulmonary artery systolic pressure.Clinical data were compared between the two groups,Spearman correlation analysis was used to analyze the relationship between pulmonary artery systolic pressure and various factors.Binary classification Logistic regression analysis was applied to analyze the risk factors of PAH.Receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve was adopted to evaluate the predictive value of NLR for PAH.Results There were 64 cases(44.4%)in the PAH group and 80 cases(55.6%)in the non-PAH group.NLR,platelet to lymphocyte ratio,left internal atrial diameter and main pulmonary internal artery diameter in the PAH group were significantly higher than those in the non-PAH group(P<0.05).Lymphocyte count,hemoglobin,serum iron,triglyceride,very low density lipoprotein cholesterol and left ventricular ejection fraction in the PAH group were significantly lower than those in the non-PAH group,with all statistically significant differences(P<0.05).NLR,left atrial diameter and main pulmonary artery diameter were positively correlated with pulmonary artery systolic pressure(P<0.05).Multivariate Logistic analysis showed that,NLR(OR=2.151,95%CI 1.438～3.218,P<0.001),left atrial diameter(OR=1.176,95%CI 1.068～1.294,P<0.05)and main pulmonary artery diameter(OR=1.229,95%CI 1.004～1.504,P<0.05)were independent risk factors for PAH.The results of ROC curve analysis showed that the area under curve of PAH predicted from NLR was 0.711(95% CI 0.626～0.797,P<0.05).When the NLR cutoff value was 3.23,the sensitivity and specificity for predicting the occurrence of PAH in non-dialysis patients with CKD stage 5 were 60.9% and 72.5%,respectively.Conclusions NLR has a good clinical value in predicting the occurrence of PAH in non-dialysis patients with CKD stage 5.Left atrial enlargement and main pulmonary artery enlargement were related to PAH.…”
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Biometric analysis of the dental arches and teeth position in partially edentulous patients by B. M. Mirchuk, Ya. V. Maksymov

“…The patients were divided into 3 groups: Group 1 – 5 persons with defects only of the upper dental arch; Group 2 – 13 patients with defects only of the lower dental arch; Group 3 – 14 patients with defects of both upper and lower dental arch. …”
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Are there gender differences in mental healthcare utilisation preceding deaths of despair? A retrospective cohort study of Norwegian register data (2008–2017) by Kristian Heggebø, Jørn Ljunggren

“…Recipients of social assistance (OR 7.05 (CI 5.95 to 8.34) for men; OR 5.97 (CI 4.33 to 8.25) for women) and disability benefits (OR 2.65 (CI 2.27 to 3.09) for men; OR 3.33 (CI 2.64 to 4.19) for women) had particularly high odds of dying from diseases of despair. …”
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Carbon Dot-Based Nanoparticles: A Promising Therapeutic Approach for Glioblastoma by Wang Y, Wu H, Guo Y, Li F, Zhang H

“…Here, we review the fundamental principles of CDs in the broader field of nanotechnology, their development history, classification, synthesis, and potential for tumor treatment. …”
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Long-Term Outcome of Childhood Asthma: Characterizing COPD-A and COPD-C Subtypes in Adulthood by Savran O, Bønnelykke K, Ulrik CS

“…Osman Savran,1 Klaus Bønnelykke,2,3 Charlotte Suppli Ulrik1,2 1Respiratory Research Unit Hvidovre, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital - Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark; 2Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; 3COPSAC, Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte, Gentofte, DenmarkCorrespondence: Osman Savran, Respiratory Research Unit Hvidovre, Department of Respiratory Medicine Copenhagen University Hospital - Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark, Email osmansavran@ymail.comBackground and Aim: Asthma in early life has been linked to subsequent development of COPD and according to GOLD 2023 COPD may be divided into distinct subtypes. …”
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Clinico-psycological characteristics of schizoaffective disorder remission in the context of pathopersonological transformations in the post-manifestation period (a clinical-etholo... by M. Ye. Khomitskyi

“…The disease duration in the sample ranges from 3 to 35 years, the average was 15.5 ± 6.3 years. …”
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Luci e ombre nella riforma del lavoro sportivo by Giulio Centamore, Tommaso Costantini

“…Then, the article proceeds by addressing the issue of classification between subordination and self-employment. …”
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