Breast Cancer Survivors' Perceptions of Their Cardiovascular Care During Treatment With Anthracyclines or Trastuzumab: A Qualitative Analysis by Arnethea L. Sutton, Ashley Turner, America Vijil, Victoria Williams, Paulette Omeaku, Wendy Bottinor, Avirup Guha, Lakeshia Cousin, Susan Hong, Christin Haynes, Sara Gómez‐Trillos

“…Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess breast cancer survivors' perceptions of heart health resources and communication received during active treatment with potentially cardiotoxic therapies and to evaluate whether differences in perceptions are associated with race. Methods This qualitative analysis included semi‐structured interviews with breast cancer survivors who received potentially cardiotoxic treatment(s). …”
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Assessment of the Impact of Investments in Fixed Capital on the Economic Growth of the Northern Regions of the Russian Federation by A. Ts. Dolgunova

“…The economic growth of the northern region is significantly influenced by the degree of concentration of the economy on extraction of minerals. …”
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Analysis of the functional state of the hip joints before total hip replacement in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: Data from a retrospective study by A. O. Dubinin, A. E. Khramov, T. V. Dubinina, E. V. Ilinykh, E. I. Byalik

“…The preoperative total Harris score averaged 38.0±15.4 points and the pain score averaged 15.6±8.4 points. …”
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Clinical Efficacy and Tolerability of Antihypertensive Therapy with Single Pill Combinations of Telmisartan in Patients with Arterial Hypertension in Clinical Practice According to... by F. T. Ageev, M. D. Smirnova

“…To assess the clinical outcomes and tolerability of antihypertensive therapy with single pill combinations (SPC) amlodipine + telmisartan and hydrochlorothiazide + telmisartan in clinical practice.Material and methods. Patients with hypertension of grade 1-3 (n=13647; 57.6% women; age 59.3±11.4 years) who received therapy with SPC amlodipine + telmisartan or hydrochlorothiazide + telmisartan were included in an observational multicenter study. …”
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Spontaneous Associations under Mild Compression of the Hippocampal Area by Olga A. Krotkova, Arina N. Kiseleva, Alesia S. Bichkova, Mariya U. Kaverina

“…Methods. The study consisted of two sessions at rest, each lasting 3 minutes. …”
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Health care supply in patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes and generalized hypermobility spectrum disorder: a German perspective by Jonas Rauterberg, Marie Hock, Nikolaus Kernich, Arim Shukri, Henning Klapproth, Vanessa Löw, Michaela Henning, Iliana Tantcheva-Poór

“…The mean time to diagnosis was 22.0 years (14.5 years for cEDS/clEDS vs. 23.0 years for hEDS/HSD). 24.2% of the participants had a recognized degree of disability of ≥ 50, the average sick leave in the last 3 months was 4.6 days for cEDS/clEDS and 21.3 days for hEDS/HSD. 44.9% of the hEDS/HSD patients reported on having at least four comorbidities compared to 21.1% in the cEDS/clEDS group (p = 0.023). …”
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COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF ANTIHYPERTENSIVE DRUG’S EFFICACY IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY GLAUCOMA AT EARLY AND ADVANCED STAGES by Z. A. Dzhumatayeva

“…To comparatively evaluate the antihypertensive efficacy and tolerability of preservative-free Tafluprost 0,0015% and Latanoprost 0,005% with preservative (0.02% BACH) in patients with initial and advanced stages of POAG. patients and methods. 63 patients (83 eyes) with primary open-angle glaucoma, aged from 56 to 75 years. 21 Men, 42 women. …”
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Top comorbidities in osteoporotic fracture patients in a northeast population in China by Linghua Yang, Ziyu Dong, Baoming Yuan, Jie Lei, Juan Zhang, Xiaohua Zhang, Xinyan Shi, Ann M. Vuong, Shuman Yang

“…The top binary comorbidity combination pattern for community-based fracture patients (30.4%) and non-fracture individuals (29.6%) was hyperlipidemia & hypertension, while for hospital-based (15.7%) and overall (15.1%) fracture patients it was hypertension & type 2 diabetes. The average degree of comorbidity network for overall fracture patients (7.0) was higher than that for non-fracture individuals (5.4). …”
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Surgical treatment of the inferior vena cava (IVC) leiomyosarcoma by V. І. Rusin, S. O. Boiko, V. V. Rusin, F. V. Gorlenko, S. Sh. S. Boiko, O. V. Syma

“…To propose and introduce a diagnostic-treatment algorithm for the inferior vena cava (IVC) leiomyosarcoma into clinical practice. Materials and methods. During last 30 years in Zakarpattya Regional Clinical Hospital Named After Andriy Novak and Zakarpattya Antitumoral Centre were operated 8 patients, suffering the IVC leiomyosarcoma - 7 (87.5%) women and 1 (12.5%) man. …”
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Rinofima: opções cirúrgicas utilizadas no serviço de cirurgia Plástica do hospital Agamenon Magalhães - PE Rhinophyma: surgical options used at the service of plastic surgery of ho... by Thiago Campos Costa, Wood Allen Almeida Firme, Leonardo Maciel Ribeiro de Brito, Maurício Beltrão Gama Vieira, Luiz Alberto de Sousa Leite

“…RESULTS: The average patient age was 50.1 years, with 72.72% male and 17.28% female. …”
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Tibiofemoral Joint Contact Force Estimation Based on OpenSim Musculoskeletal Modeling by WANG Xiaoling, JIAN Jiawei, XIE Qiurong, LIAN Zhanghui, GUO Chunming, GUO Jiemei, LI Yurong

“…ObjectiveA full-body musculoskeletal model is developed based on OpenSim, which has a knee joint structure with double contact points and three degrees of freedom, and to estimate the knee joint load, so as to provide the reliable basis for precise diagnosis of the patients with knee osteoarthritis and formulation of customized rehabilitation plan in clinic.MethodAuthorized public data set from Stanford university, published by the Shiley Center for Orthopaedic Research & Education at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California, was used to collect four subjects who had been undergone the total knee arthroplasty and implanted the pressure testing equipment. …”
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Influence of the distortion type on the image quality assessment when reducing its sizes by D. G. Asatryan, M. E. Harutyunyan, Y. I. Golub, V. V. Starovoitov

“…Each image of the base was reduced by 2, 4 and 8 times by the two most common methods and compared with the original image-original. …”
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CLINICAL AND IMMUNOLOGICAL STATUS OF PATIENTS WITH GENERALIZED PARODONDITIS ASSOCIATIED WITH CHRONIC HEPATITIS B VIRUS (HBV) INFECTION by V.I. Fesenko, S.V. Shvets

“…The purpose of the study is to research clinical and immunological parameters in patients with generalized parodontitis, amid chronic HBV infection. Materials and methods of research. An in-depth analysis of 98 studies of patients with generalized parodontitis( GP) associated with chronic HBV infection (CHBV). …”
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COVID-19 Course in Vaccinated Patients by Yu. P. Linets, S. V. Artyukhov, A. N. Kazantsev, T. Y. Zaitseva, L. V. Roshkovskaya, S. V. Sokolova, A. Y. Chikin, G. K. Yenova, S. B. Kondakov

“…To conduct a retrospective analysis of treatment outcomes for COVID-19 in unvaccinated and vaccinated patients.Material and methods. The present retrospective single-center study included 209 patients who were vaccinated in history and hospitalized at the City Aleksandrovskaya Hospital for infection with COVID-19 in the period from April 5, 2020 to July 9, 2021. …”
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Reference charts for the six-minute walk test in healthy school-aged children from the city of Zaragoza, Spain by Ana Villamañán Montero, Carlos Martín de Vicente, Juan Pablo García Íñiguez, Feliciano Ramos Fuentes

“…The aim of the study was to develop reference equations with normal values for the test in healthy children aged 6–12 years in our paediatric reference population. Patients and methods: The six-minute walk test was carried out in a sample of 236 healthy children, analyzing pre- and post-test variables, and we developed reference equations selecting variables that turned out to be significant (P < .05). …”
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Comparative pharmacokinetic study of dosage forms with morpholinium 2-[5-(pyridin-4-yl)-1,2,4-triazol-3-ylthio] acetate by I. V. Bushueva, V. V. Gladyshev, О. I. Panasenko, E. G. Knish

“…Aim of this work is to study the kinetics of absorption of morpholinium 2-[5-(pyridin-4-yl)-1,2,4-triazol-3-ylthio] acetate developed formulations. MATERIALS AND METHODS Pharmacokinetic studies of oral and rectal dosage forms of morpholinium 2-[5-(pyridin-4-yl)-1,2,4-triazol-3-ylthio] acetate was performed on Chinchilla rabbits weighing an average of 2.5 kg, divided into three groups. …”
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Health Facilities’ Readiness to Manage Hypertension and Diabetes Cases at Primary Health Facilities in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement, Yumbe District, Uganda by Vuchiri Ray Isadru, Rose Clarke Nanyonga, John Bosco Alege

“…This study sought to determine the readiness of HFs in managing hypertension (HTN) and diabetes cases at primary health facilities in the Bidibidi refugee settlement, Yumbe district, Uganda. Methods. The study used facility-based, cross-sectional design and quantitative approach to assess readiness for the management of HTN and diabetes. …”
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PARAMETERS OF KAMCHATKA SEISMICITY IN 2008 by Vadim A. Saltykov, Nadezhda M. Kravchenko

“…Parameters under study are total released seismic energy, seismic activity A10, slope of recurrence graph γ, parameters of RTL, ΔS and Z-function methods, and clustering of earthquakes. Estimations of seismicity are obtained for a region bordered by latitude 50.5–56.5N, longitude 156E–167E, with depths to 300 km. …”
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Geochemical characterization and protolith restoration of Permo-Triassic graphite-bearing schists at Band-e-Cherk district, Kuh-e-Dom metamorphic zone by Majid Ghasemi Siani, Hamed Ebrahimi Fard, Amirhosein Heidari Bafruie, Behrouz Karimi Shahraki, Shahriar mahmoudi

“…Twenty-six samples of graphite-bearing schists were analyzed for major elements by XRF and trace elements by ICP-MS method at Zarazma Mineral Processing Research Center and Iranian Mineral Processing Research Center (IMPRC). …”
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Research on Soybean Seedling Stage Recognition Based on Swin Transformer by Kai Ma, Jinkai Qiu, Ye Kang, Liqiang Qi, Wei Zhang, Song Wang, Xiuying Xu

“…The field environment and shooting equipment directly affect the quality of the captured images, and in order to test the anti-interference ability of different models, the Gaussian blur method was used to blur the images of the test set to different degrees. …”
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