Associations and contribution of childhood diseases to fever risk among children less than five years in Uganda by Betty B Nambuusi, Julius Ssempiira, Fredrick E Makumbi, Simon Kasasa, Penelope Vounatsou

“…The health system should be reinforced to treat diarrhoea and ARI.…”
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Radical nephrectomy with inferior vena caval thrombectomy for level I to IV tumor thrombus: long-term single-center experience by Pavel Navratil, Jiri Chalupnik, Miroslav Louda, Petr Habal, Pavel Zacek, Milos Brodak, Jaroslav Pacovsky

“…Data including demographics, clinical characteristics, tumor specifics, surgical details, complications, and survival rates were meticulously reviewed. …”
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Efficacy of topical mesenchymal stem cell exosome in Sjögren’s syndrome-related dry eye: a randomized clinical trial by Azam Habibi, Amir Khosravi, Masoud Soleimani, Mahmood Nejabat, Mahintaj Dara, Negar Azarpira

“…The differences of ocular examination results between day 0 and month 3 were analyzed using a paired Student’s t test. Measurement data that were not normally distributed are represented by the median (interquartile range), and comparisons were performed using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. …”
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Entomological assessment of hessian fabric transfluthrin vapour emanators as a means to protect against outdoor-biting Aedes after providing them to households for routine use in P... by Chicoye Supreme, Obrillant Damus, Joseph Frederick, Jean-Frantz Lemoine, Christian Raccurt, Justin McBeath, Nosrat Mirzai, Sheila B Ogoma, Vincent Corbel, Daniel Impoinvil, Gerry F Killeen, Cyrille Czeher

“…Laboratory experiments assessed resistance of local Aedes aegypti to transfluthrin and deltamethrin, and the irritancy and repellency of the transfluthrin-treated fabric used in the field.<h4>Results</h4>Across all three entomological field assessments, little evidence of protection against wild Ae. aegypti was observed, regardless of weather conditions, transfluthrin formulation or emanator placement: A generalized linear mixed model fitted to the pooled data from all three assessment rounds (921 females caught over 5129 hours) estimated a relative landing rate [95% Confidence interval] of 0.87 [0.73, 1.04] for users of treated versus untreated emanators (P = 0.1241). …”
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Antibacterial phenolic compounds from the flowering plants of Asia and the Pacific: coming to the light by Mazdida Sulaiman, Layane Ebehairy, Veeranoot Nissapatorn, Mohammed Rahmatullah, Jhonnel Villegas, Helina Jean Dupa, Ricksterlie C. Verzosa, Karma G. Dolma, Muhamad Shabaz, Scholastica Lanting, Nor Azizun Rusdi, Nor Hayati Abdullah, Mohammed Khaled Bin Break, Teng Jin Khoo, Wei Wang, Christophe Wiart

“…Context The emergence of pan-resistant bacteria requires the development of new antibiotics and antibiotic potentiators.Objective This review identifies antibacterial phenolic compounds that have been identified in Asian and Pacific Angiosperms from 1945 to 2023 and analyzes their strengths and spectra of activity, distributions, molecular masses, solubilities, modes of action, structures-activities, as well as their synergistic effects with antibiotics, toxicities, and clinical potential.Methods All data in this review was compiled from Google Scholar, PubMed, Science Direct, Web of Science, and library search; other sources were excluded. …”
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Against Futility Judgments for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness by William Choi

“…If healthcare resources ought to be distributed to maximize health utility for the highest number of patients, futility judgments for prolonged disorders of consciousness patients are justified. …”
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Association between visceral adiposity index and sleep disorders among the U.S. adults: a cross-sectional study by Chunhua Liu, Linan Qiu, Tingting Wang, Zegen Ye, Simin Wu, Di Li, Huajian Lin, Yue Jin

“…BackgroundThe visceral adiposity index (VAI) reliably measures body fat distribution and related dysfunctions. However, its association with sleep disorders among US adults remains unclear.MethodsThis study analyzed cross-sectional data from the 2005 to 2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) for adults aged 18 and older. …”
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Meniscal centralization significantly improve clinical outcomes and reduce meniscal extrusion with minimal complications: A systematic review by Alessandro Carrozzo, Francesco Bosco, Leandro Ramazzini, Fortunato Giustra, Virginia Masoni, Marcello Capella, Michele Malavolta, Jae‐Sung An, Hideyuki Koga

“…Meniscal centralization techniques aim to reposition the meniscus, addressing extrusion and restoring load distribution. This systematic review aims to evaluate meniscal centralization's clinical and radiological outcomes, hypothesizing its efficacy in treating symptomatic meniscal extrusion with minimal complications. …”
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Assessment of water handling practices in households and related health impacts: a case study in Deyniile District, Mogadishu, Somalia by Mohamed Hassan Mohamed, Hardeep Rai Sharma, Predrag Ilić, Yahye Elmi, Abdikarim Abdi Adam

“…Descriptive statistics was applied to analyze the frequency and percentage distributions of the variables using SPSS version 20.0. …”
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Immune checkpoint inhibitors and the pediatric rheumatologist: a pediatric needs assessment by John Storwick, Carrie Ye, Shahin Jamal, Nancy Maltez, Mercedes Chan

“…Responses were collected from June 2024 to September 2024. We collected data on practitioner demographics, knowledge of ICIs and Rh-irAEs, confidence in managing Rh-irAEs, and preferred educational resources. …”
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Genomic insights into the plasmidome of non-tuberculous mycobacteria by Margo Diricks, Florian P. Maurer, Viola Dreyer, Ivan Barilar, Christian Utpatel, Matthias Merker, Nils Wetzstein, Stefan Niemann

“…Methods We used publicly available complete genome sequence data of 328 NTM isolates belonging to 125 species to study gene content, genomic diversity, and clusters of 196 annotated NTM plasmids. …”
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Portulaca oleracea (purslane) aqueous extract reduced the adverse metabolic outcomes and favored liraglutide activities in streptozotocin-induced cardiometabolic disorders of male... by Adewumi O. Oyabambi, Blessing B. Aindero, Adeoba M. Awolola, Aisha Y. Adebayo, Ifeoluwa B. Iluromi, Kehinde S. Olorunniyi

“…Twenty-five male Wistar rats weighing between 120 and 150 g were randomly distributed into five groups and treated respectively as; Control (CTR): normal chow + vehicle (normal saline; orally), EPO; 400 mg/kg orally, STZ; 60 mg/kg intraperitoneally + vehicle, (STZ; 60 mg/kg + EPO; 400 mg/kg orally), STZ+ EPO+ Liraglutide (LG); 0.2 mg/kg subcutaneously. …”
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Clinicoepidemiological Profile of Children with Allergic Rhinitis: A Cross-sectional Study by Poornima Modi, Vijay Ganesh, Leena Singhal

“…Due to the nonavailability of data regarding the severity and perenniality of symptoms, the distribution of symptoms of nasal block vs rhinorrhea according to different age-groups, and the association with comorbid conditions, the treatment guidelines are rather nonspecific and do not take into account the case-based approach to treatment, which is therefore left to the discretion of the treating physician. …”
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Сombat wounds microflora in modern warfare by V. P. Kovalchuk, N. S. Fomina, V. M. Kondratiuk, О. О. Fomin, Y. V. Lazarenko, K. V. Gumenyuk

“…Results from bacteriological studies of 151 wounded individuals treated in the same hospitals during the period from 2017 to 2020 were used for comparative analysis. …”
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Intravenous injection of BMSCs modulate tsRNA expression and ameliorate lung remodeling in COPD mice by Ting Jin, Xianyang Liu, Guoan Li, Shenghua Sun, Lihua Xie

“…Statistical analysis was performed using GraphPad Prism 9.0. Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation (SD). …”
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Clinicopathological analysis of eyelid malignancies - A review of 85 cases by Satish M. Kale, Surendra B. Patil, Nishant Khare, Mahantesh Math, Arvind Jain, Sumeet Jaiswal

“…Eyelid malignancies are of varied histological types and the western and Asian data have considerable variations in case distribution and presentation. …”
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Phenotypic changes in immune cells induced by granulocyte and monocyte adsorptive apheresis in patients with severe COVID‐19: An ex vivo study by Ryo Hisamune, Kazuma Yamakawa, Katsuhide Kayano, Noritaka Ushio, Takeshi Wada, Kohei Taniguchi, Akira Takasu

“…To analyze mass cytometry data with a self‐organizing map, hierarchical clustering was used to determine the appropriate number of metaclusters from t‐distributed stochastic neighbor embedding. …”
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Correlation between Mean Platelet Volume, Fibrinogen and D-dimer with NIHSS Score by Putra Fajar Nasution, Rr Sinta Irina, Bastian Lubis

“…The method used in this research is the Pearson correlation test where data was normally distributed. All statistical tests with a p value < 0.05 were considered significant. …”
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Chinese dental students’ knowledge, attitudes, and practice regarding traumatic dental injuries in immature permanent teeth by Jingjing Yu, Chang Liu, Jian Yu

“…The obtained data was statistically analyzed via the Chi-square (χ2) test (p < 0.05) using SPSS. …”
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Clinical characteristics and prognosis of non-metastatic multiple gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a population-based study by Liang Chen, Ye Lu, Jiawei Qian, Jie Qiu, Chuanfu Wu, Zhenguo Qiao, Yimin Ma, Feng Yu

“…Multiple imputation (MI) was utilized to address missing data, while propensity score matching (PSM) was conducted to mitigate selection bias. …”
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