Malignant and Noninvasive Skin Tumours in Renal Transplant Recipients by Christopher D. Roche, Joelle S. Dobson, Sion K. Williams, Mara Quante, Joyce Popoola, Jade W. M. Chow

“…Mean age at transplant was 46 years. Mean length of follow-up was 7.2 years and total follow-up was 4926 person-years. 53 (7.5%) patients (39/458 (8.5%) males and 14/251 (5.6%) females) developed ≥1 skin malignancy. …”
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Risk of recurrence and bleeding in patients with cancer‐associated venous thromboembolism treated with rivaroxaban: A nationwide cohort study by Mette Søgaard, Peter Brønnum Nielsen, Flemming Skjøth, Jette Nordstrøm Kjældgaard, Torben Bjerregaard Larsen

“…Major bleeding occurred in 1.9% (5.3 events per 100 person‐years), in particular, in genitourinary cancer (4.5%) and lung cancer (4.2%). …”
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Postoperative Morbidity and Mortality of Perforated Peptic Ulcer: Retrospective Cohort Study of Risk Factors among Black Africans in Côte d’Ivoire by Soro Kountele Gona, Mahassadi Kouamé Alassan, Koffi Gnangoran Marcellin, Kissi Ya Henriette, Coulibaly Adama, Assohoun Toussaint, Ehua Adjoba Manuela, Seu Gagon Sylvain, Afum-Adjei Awuah Anthony, Ehua Somian Francis

“…Follow-up results were the incidence of complications and mortality of 6.4 (95% CI: 4.9–8.0) per 100 person-days and 3.0 (95% CI: 1.9–4.0) per 100 person-days for incidence of mortality. …”
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Une nouvelle forme de renoncement ? by Cristina Figueiredo

“…This withdrawal lasts a long time, from six months to several years. By comparing cases observed in Japan, France and also Tuareg country, the article questions this confinement: can it be compared to a kind of renunciation? …”
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Physician Perceptions on Colonoscopy Quality: Results of a National Survey of Gastroenterologists by Ziad F. Gellad, Corrine I. Voils, Li Lin, Dawn Provenzale

“…Methods. We conducted in-person interviews with 15 gastroenterologists about their perceptions regarding colonoscopy quality. …”
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Alcohol and Suicide: Neurobiological and Clinical Aspects by Leo Sher

“…Alcohol, primarily in the form of ethyl alcohol (ethanol), has occupied an important place in the history of humankind for at least 8,000 years. In most Western societies, at least 90% of people consume alcohol at some time during their lives, and 30% or more of drinkers develop alcohol-related problems. …”
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Comparison of Healthcare Encounters and Drug Persistence in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Receiving Oral Selexipag, Inhaled Iloprost, or Parenteral Treprostinil: A... by Ci Song, Peter Kunovszki, Amélie Beaudet

“…Rates of hospitalization (inpatient admissions), emergency room visits, or outpatient visits per person-year were calculated. Drug persistence was measured as time to discontinuation of index drug. …”
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THE DIETARY PATTERNS AND THE RISK OF BREAST CANCER by L. A. Radkevich, D. A. Radkevich

“…Levels of consumption of food and nutrients (53 species) for each country selected from the FAO database for 1990–2005 and 2003–2005 years. The power structure of countries were represented in the form of a total daily level of consumption (DLC) (g/person/day), and also in the form of blocks of products with common source of origin (g/person/day): animal products, grains, vegetables”, “fruit drinks”, “alcoholic beverages”; “nutrients of animal products” (%): energy, protein, fat; “full of nutrients” (%): carbohydrates, proteins, fats; energy (kcal/person/day), proteins and fats (g/person/day). …”
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Intergenerational spillover effects of antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review and future directions for research by Till Bärnighausen, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Janet Seeley, Jan-Walter De Neve, Harsha Thirumurthy, Henning Schröder, H. Manisha Yapa

“…Background Antiretroviral therapy (ART) may influence individuals who do not receive the intervention but who are connected in some way to the person who does. Relatively little is known, however, about the size and scope of, what we term, spillover effects of ART. …”
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Use of disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs and risk of multiple myeloma in US Veterans with rheumatoid arthritis by Kate Tokareva, Alexander C. Peterson, Aaron Baraff, Sarah P. Chung, Jennifer Barton, Joshua F. Baker, Bryant R. England, Ted R. Mikuls, Nicholas L. Smith, David G. Coffey, Noel S. Weiss, Namrata Singh

“…There were 77 incident cases of MM over 192,000 person-years of follow-up. The age-adjusted incidence rate (IR) of MM among b/tsDMARD-naïve patients was 0.37 (95% CI 0.28–0.49) per 1000 person-years and 0.42 among current or former b/tsDMARD users (95% CI 0.25–0.65). …”
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A Novel an All-Optical Refractive Index Biosensor Based-on Glass Cylinder Cavity Resonance for Detection of Malaria-Infected Red Blood Cells by Gregory T. MacLennan

“…The interaction of light with matter and samples of Maxwell's functional equations, and to obtain the output results in the software, the finite difference time domain method in two-dimensional is used. The overall dimensions of the proposed biosensor are very small and 57µm2, which reduces the time delay and increases the speed.…”
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Perceived effects of the hidden curriculum of return to entrepreneurship with the mediation of goal orientation by Ahmad KarimiDashtaki, Mohammadbagher Akbarpour Zangalani

“…In other words, goal orientation expresses a coherent pattern of a person's beliefs, which causes a person to approach situations in different ways, engage in activities in that field, and finally provide an answer (Ames, 1992). …”
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Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotic Use in Patients with Schizophrenia and Criminal Justice System Encounters by Madhav P. Bhatta, Saroj Bista, Antoine C. El Khoury, Eric G. Hutzell, Neeta Tandon, Douglas Smith

“…**Results:** Overall, the risk ratio (RR) of having an encounter with the criminal justice system was significantly lower for patients treated with LAI antipsychotics 1 year after initiation of treatment compared with a similar time period prior to initiation (RR \[95% confidence interval (CI)\]: 0.74 \[0.59–0.93\]; *P*<0.01) and 2 years (0.74 \[0.62–0.88\]; *P*<0.0001). …”
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Features of social intelligence of cadets trained in institutions of higher education with specific learning conditions by S. V. Kharchenko

“…The author of the article has analyzed the peculiarities of the abilities of social intelligence of cadets of institutions of higher education with specific learning conditions in different years (time interval between studies – 15 years) and at different courses. …”
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Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course by Skylar Grayson, Molly N. Simon, Sanlyn Buxner, Matthew Wenger, Chris Impey

“…Interestingly, the increase in younger and more full-time student participants has continued even with the return of in-person learning. …”
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Intensive Blood Pressure Control and Diabetes Mellitus Incidence for Patients with Impaired Fasting Glucose: A Secondary Analysis of SPRINT by Beiru Lin, Xiaochuan Liu, Sichen Yao, Zhigang Pan

“…A total of 3310 participants were included in our primary outcome analysis (median age 67 years, 29% female). There were 293 participants who developed T2D among the intensive BP control group and 256 participants who developed T2D among the standard BP control group, resulting in 56.87 (50.36–63.39) versus 49.33 (43.29–55.37) events per 1000 person-years of treatment (HR 1.18 [95% CI, 1.00–1.40], P=0.052). …”
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Child mortality in England after national lockdowns for COVID-19: An analysis of childhood deaths, 2019-2023. by David Odd, Sylvia Stoianova, Tom Williams, Peter Fleming, Karen Luyt

“…Study population size and the underlying population profile was derived from 2021 Office of National Statistics census data Mortality for each analysis year was calculated per 1,000,000 person years. Poisson regression was used to test for an overall trend across the time period and tested if trends differed between April 2019 to March 2021 (Period 1)) and April 2021 to March 2023 (Period 2: after lockdown restrictions). …”
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Studying the Role of C-Reactive Protein in Patients with Sleeve Gastrectomy in Baghdad by Mohammed Abbas Fadil, Raya Ezat Maroof, Moayed Abbas Fadil

“…A total of thirty blood samples were collected from patients with obesity and the result was compared with healthy person throughout the time from November 2019 to September 2020. …”
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Investigating Factors Affecting Location by Meta-Analysis by vahide nori, Afson Mahdavi, Fatemeh Mohammad Niae Qaraee

“…Among the 18 studies conducted during the years 2006-2019, in the field of attachment to the place were selected. …”
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Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in a paediatric cohort in Kuwait by Mohammad Alghounaim, Saadoun Bin-Hasan, Fatemah Alhaddad, Ali Abdulkareem, Danah Alsharrah, Abdullah Alkandari, Mona Al-Ahmad, Hashem Al Hashemi

“…Also, incidence-sensitivity analysis was performed to evaluate 60-day and 90-day PCR repositivity intervals.Results Thirty paediatric patients with COVID-19 had SARS-CoV-2 reinfection at an incidence of 1.02 (95% CI 0.71 to 1.45) infection per 100 000 person-days and a median time to reinfection of 83 (IQR 62–128.75) days. …”
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