Frequency of night eating syndrome and melatonin levels in the urine of adolescents by T. V. Sorokman, L. Yu. Khlunovska

“…Deficit of body weight had 3 (8.8 %) of adolescent boys, 20 (58.8 %) were overweight, 1 (2.9 %) – obese and only 10 (29.4 %) had the average normative values of body weight; among female adolescents, 1 (4.5 %) – body weight deficit and obesity, 10 (45.5 %) – overweight and average normative indicators. …”
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Correlation of Short Chain Fatty Acid (SCFA) Levels with Transient Elastography Values and Controlled Attenuation Parameters in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAF... by Desi Astari, Chyntia Olivia Maurine Jasirwan, Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana, Marcellus Simadibrata, Juferdy Kurniawan, Evy Yunihastuti, Kuntjoro Harimurti, Pringgodigdo Nugroho

“…Results: Subjects were predominantly female (51.5%), with an average age of 49 years, an average CAP value of 296 dB/m, and a median transient elastography value of 6.1 kPa. …”
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LONG-TERM TRENDS OF THE MAIN BLOOD LIPID PARAMETERS IN SIBERIAN POPULATION by Yu. P. Nikitin, S. K. Malyutina, K. V. Makarenkova

“…Trends of blood triglyceride levels are analogous to the changes of the indexes described above: average levels were the lowest in 1995 and the highest — in 2005. …”
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Does Long-Term Sport Practice Facilitate the Development of Idiopathic Bradycardia Requiring Early Pacemaker Implantation During the Course of Life? by Sergei Bondarev, Leonardo Brotto, Francesca Graziano, Alberto Cipriani, Domenico Corrado, Alessandro Zorzi

“…<i>Background</i>: Sinus bradycardia and first-/second-degree atrioventricular (AV) block in athletes are traditionally considered secondary to increased vagal tone and therefore reversible. …”
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Medico-Social Approach to the Development of a Methodology for Assessing the “Quality of Life” after Cataract Phacoemulsification. Part 2 by I. G. Ovechkin, N. I. Ovechkin, A. V. Shakula, A. I. Pavlov, D. F. Pokrovsky

“…The study was performed with the participation of 47 expert ophthalmologists with professional experience from 7 to 35 years (average 19.2 ± 1.4 years), including experience in performing PE from 1 to 24 years (average 11.9 ± 1. 7 years). …”
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The Analysis of Factors Influencing the Occurrence of Depression by Anna Antczak-Komoterska, Monika Polak, Beata Haor, Dorota Kochman, Wiesław Fidecki, Mariusz Wysokiński

“…The aim of the study was to evaluate the factors influencing the occurrence of depression. Material and Methods. The study included 200 people — nurses from treatment and conservative departments. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ANTI-THROMBOTIC ACTIVITY OF PENTOXYFILLIN MICROPARTICLES: BASED ON POLY-DL-LACTIDE-CO-GLYCOLIDE IN COMPARISON WITH PENTOXYFILLIN by T. V. Timchenko, V. E. Pogorelyi, A. V. Voronkov, L. M. Makarova, L. I. Scherbakova, V. A. Kompantsev, A. I. Medvetskyi, A. Y. Platonova

“…The aim of the work was a comparative experimental study of the effect of oral administration of Pentoxifylline microparticles based on PLGA, and “standard” Pentoxifylline, on the ADP-induced platelet aggregation process in rats.Materials and methods. Pentoxifylline substance (100 mg/kg) was used as a reference drug, and PLGA-based Pentoxifylline microparticles with an average dynamic radius of 175.4 nт were used as the object in study. …”
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EXPERIENCE IN APPLICATION OF TOCILIZUMAB AT SYSTEM VARIANT OF JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS IN THE REPUBLIC OF BASHKORTOSTAN by V. А. Malievskii, G. R. Gareeva, А. Т. Shabanova, А. А. Khasanova, E. V. Kalenova, А. Zh. Nuriakhmetova

“…Despite the therapy, the patients still had a high degree of activity of a disease that was the basis for prescription of tocilizumab. …”
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of combination therapy for post-occlusive retinal changes by A.G. Shchuko, S.I. Zhukova, M.V. Akulenko

“…To evaluate the volume of therapeutic measures necessary for the relief of macular edema in patients with Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion (BRVO) depending on the initial macular ischemia. Material and methods. 142 patients with macular edema on the background of BRVO were included in the study. …”
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Tubridge flow diverter for the treatment of dissecting aneurysms in the middle cerebral artery by Yu Duan, Guohui Huang, Jun Shen, Ziwei Xu, Zhuyu Li, Jian Li, Dongwei Dai

“…The average age was 52.4 years (age range 20–76), with 5 patients (20%) experiencing subarachnoid hemorrhage. …”
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Factors predicting rehabilitation outcome in patients after unilateral transtibial amputation due to peripheral vascular disease by Majstorović Biljana, Pešta Mladen

“…Average duration of rehabilitation was 27.69 ± 7.39 days in men and 33.9 ± 6.89 days in women (p < 0.01). …”
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Exploring Knowledge, Awareness, and Prevailing Misconceptions Surrounding Osteoporosis Prevention among Community Health Workers by Jamil Ahmed, Shafqat Huma, Saima Qurban, Noor Noor Lodhi, Faheem Mahmood, Umer Saeed

“…The study found that most participants had average knowledge regarding osteoporosis prevention and held false beliefs about it. …”
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Structural–functional coupling abnormalities in temporal lobe epilepsy by Xiaoting Huang, Yangsa Du, Danni Guo, Fangfang Xie, Chunyao Zhou

“…In the fifth cluster with the highest degree of coupling in HCs, the average SC–FC coupling index of individuals with TLE was notably less than that of HCs, manifesting that brain regions with high coupling may be more delicate and prone to pathological disruption.…”
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Linkage between Neighborhood Social Cohesion and BMI of South Asians in the Masala Study by Gagandeep Gill, Nicola Lancki, Manjit Randhawa, Semran K. Mann, Adam Arechiga, Robin D. Smith, Samuel Soret, Alka M. Kanaya, Namratha Kandula

“…Participants were 54% male, with an average age of 55 years, 88% had at least a bachelor’s degree, and the average BMI was 26.0 kg/m2. …”
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A new classification for dislocated and displaced proximal humeral fractures by Sadaki Mitsuzawa, Hisataka Takeuchi, Kenta Ijiri, Yuya Furusho, Shinnosuke Yamashita, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Satoshi Ota, Eijiro Onishi, Tadashi Yasuda

“…The average interobserver agreements for the Neer, AO/OTA, and Mitsuzawa classifications were 0.49 (moderate), 0.56 (moderate), and 0.73 (substantial), respectively. …”
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Bronchial granulocytes in the development of epithelial destruction and oxidative lipid modification in patients with bronchial asthma with cold and osmotic airway hyperresponsiven... by A. B. Pirogov, A. G. Prikhodko, Ju. M. Perelman

“…The cellular composition and the degree of cellular destruction in induced sputum (IS) were measured. …”
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Vascular wall remodeling in women with hypertension: relationship with heart rate variability and blood pressure by E. A. Koval, I. N. Zubko

“…Aim.To assess the relationship between structural changes of the common carotid arteries wall in healthy women and women with hypertension, depending on heart rate variability and circadian blood pressure (BP). Materials and methods.We examined 90 female (to avoid sex difference) patients with AH I - II degree without any additional risk factors (disease duration 2 - 16 yrs), average age 47,5 ± 7,2 yrs. 36 apparently healthy women (the average age 43,3 ± 8,1 yrs) have formed the control group. …”
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THE DEPENDENCE OF THE GUM EFFICIENCY FROM THE FLOOR IN THE NORMAL TYPE OF CHEWING by K. Toncheva, D. Korol, D. Kindiy, R. Kozak, I. Skubiy

“…The goal of the authors was to determine the degree of relationship between gender and chewing efficiency by the method of chewing test by the author's methodology and set of data for comparison during researches in future. …”
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Characteristics of hand injuries caused by corn-husker equipment: a new type of agricultural injury by Chao-Jian Pang, Xiao-Yan Huo, Yuan Liu, Zong-You Yang, Lu Liu, Xiao-Bo Fan, Shang-Wen Xu

“…The Hand Injury Severity Scoring System (HISS) was applied to identify the degree of hand injury. Depending on the type of damage, different surgical methods were used, including debridement and suturing, amputation, fracture fixation, negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT), skin flap and skin graft procedures, replantation, and tendon repair. …”
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Preliminary study of potato varieties and hybrids laboratory resistance to <i>Phytophthora infestans</i> Mont. de Bary in the Primorsky Territory by N. V. Matsishina, A. S. Didora, O. A. Sobko, I. V. Kim, D. I. Volkov

“…Therefore, its objective assessment is obtained when testing varieties in regions that are stably favorable for the development of pathogens (Sakhalin Island and central Mexico), or in standard laboratory conditions using climatic chambers and molecular genetic methods. The aim of this work was a laboratory assessment of the potato varieties and hybrids resistance to late blight.Methods. …”
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