OBESITY AS A RISK FACTOR FOR PULMONARY EMBOLISM by O. Ya. Vasiltseva, I. N. Vorozhtsova, R. S. Karpov

“…The aim of the study. Based on the data of the Register of new cases of hospital pulmonary embolism (PE) in hospitals in Tomsk (2003–2012), to explore the contribution of obesity to the development of venous thromboembolism.Material and Methods. …”
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Surgical Treatment and Complications of Pectus Excavatum in Childhood, Adolescence and Adulthood: A Literature Review on the Nuss Technique by Alicija Šavareikaitė, Paulius Valatka

“…This study aims to analyze and summarize large-scale healthcare data on characteristics of complications in patients undergoing surgical correction for chest deformities, treated with the Nuss technique. …”
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Risk of Foot-and-Mouth Disease spread due to sole occupancy authorities and linked cattle holdings. by Richard J Orton, Paul R Bessell, Colin P D Birch, Anthony O'Hare, Rowland R Kao

“…Our results highlight the need for further investigations into whether CTS Chains are transmission chains, and also investigations into intra-SOA movements and livestock distributions due to the lack of current data.…”
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First-day intracranial pressure correlates with ICU mortality in subarachnoid hemorrhage patients: an analysis of the MIMIC-IV database by Zhao Hao, Zhang Ziqian, Cao Hang, Xin Qu, Ning Wang

“…BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to explore the optimal intracranial pressure (ICP) distribution of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) patients on the first day in the intensive care unit (ICU) using data mining methods.MethodsContinuous ICP monitoring records of 176 SAH patients on the first ICU Day were collected from the MIMIC-IV database, comprising individuals treated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, MA) ICU between 2008 and 2019. …”
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The ionophore resistance genes narA and narB are geographically widespread and linked to resistance to medically important antibiotics by Asalia Ibrahim, Jason Au, Alex Wong

“…We investigated the global distribution and AMR linkage of narA and narB using publicly available data. …”
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A regional program evaluation of the Stanford Chronic Pain Self-Management Program in Eastern Ontario, Canada by E. Hum, S. Karunananthan, A. Adil, I. Moroz, R. Davidson, C. Liddy

“…Background Health care providers often struggle to treat patients with chronic pain. One potential solution is to facilitate access to programs and tools that develop patients’ skills and confidence in managing their own care.Aims This study aimed to describe the uptake of the Chronic Pain Self-Management Program (CPSMP) in Eastern Ontario and evaluate the effectiveness of the program in the acquisition of knowledge, confidence, and skills required to manage chronic pain, as measured by the Patient Activation Measure (PAM).Methods Using data routinely collected through the CPSMP between December 2017 and May 2023, we conducted a descriptive analysis of the number of participants each year, their gender, and their age distributions. …”
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FSCN1 is a Potential Therapeutic Target for Atherosclerosis Revealed by Single-Cell and Bulk RNA Sequencing by Zhang L, Jiang H, Li L, Sun Z, Qian Y, Wang Z

“…Using integrated single-cell and bulk RNA sequencing data of atherosclerosis, we aimed to investigate the cell phenotype, intercellular communication, and potential therapeutic target in AS.Methods: Single-cell sequencing data from aortic arch of Apoeko mice in normal diet (ND) and high fat diet (HFD) groups (obtained from GSE206239) were analyzed by Seurat, singleR, ReactomeGSA, and cellchat package. scRNA-seq dataset GSE159677 from the carotid artery of the patients with carotid endarterectomy were used to validate the distribution of fascin actin-bundling protein 1 (FSCN1) in cell populations. …”
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Assessing baby leaf kale (Brassica oleracea) waste production mitigation in the transition to sustainable packaging with the application of silicon through an integrative model of... by Francesco S. Giordano, Andrew Reynolds, Catherine M. Burgess, Lorraine Foley, Jesus M. Frias

“…The model utilizes experimental data obtained from simulated retail and distribution storage conditions to assess the probability of the product to be found out of technical specification and becoming waste. …”
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Comparison of Socal Score and Hasford Score Against the Response of Imatinib Mesylate Therapy in Patients with Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia in dr. Saiful Anwar Hospital Malang by Somarnam, Budi Darmawan Machsoos, Djoko Heri Hermanto

“…Calculation of Socal and Hasford scores was carried out based on patient data when first receiving Imatinib. To see the difference in distribution between the two scores, a marginal homogeneity statistic was used. …”
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Investigation of the <i>ABCB1</i> Gene Polymorphism and Food Effects on the Avatrombopag Pharmacokinetics in Chinese Individuals: A Population Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Analy... by Xin Liu, Lulu Chen, Gehang Ju, Chao Li, Bijue Liu, Yunzhou Fei, Xintong Wang, Yang Gao, Qingfeng He, Xiao Zhu, Dongsheng Ouyang

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Implementing Neurosurgery and Cesium-131 Brachytherapy in Veterinary Medicine: A Veterinary Case Study with a Review of Clinical Usage of Cesium-131 for Brain Tumors in Human Patie... by Isabelle F. Vanhaezebrouck, R. Timothy Bentley, Alex Georgiades, Susan Arnold, Joshua A. Young, Nathan Claus, Laura Danaher, Joshua B. Klutzke, Matthew L. Scarpelli

“…Comparative analyses against historical external beam therapy data may offer insights applicable to the human neuro-radiation community. …”
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CHARGE CARRIERS STATES IN A MODEL OF CuO SUPERCONDUCTIVE CERAMICS by Jovan Šetrajčić, Siniša Vučenović

“…The translational symmetry of the distribution of atoms (ions) of the charge carriers (electrons or holes) system is broken by sputtering (doping) due to the existence of two boundary surfaces. …”
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Exploring Health Literacy Among Parents of Children Who Attended the Pediatric Rehabilitation Clinics in Qatar: A Convergent Parallel Research Design by Jessie Johnson PhD, RN, Fadi Khraim PhD, RN, Carolyn Wolsey RN, EdD, MN, Rami A. Elshatarat PhD, RN, Lisa Thornton MD, FAAP, FAAPMR, Dina Schnurman RN, MSN/MBA, Mohammed AlDalaykeh PhD, RN, Amal Al-Farsi PT, MScHCM, PGDipPE

“…Background Parents of children treated in rehabilitation settings are required to have heightened health literacy (HL) skills due to the complexity of healthcare provision among this patient population. …”
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Estimating the burden of scrub typhus: A systematic review. by Ana Bonell, Yoel Lubell, Paul N Newton, John A Crump, Daniel H Paris

“…Unfortunately, the quality and quantity of the available data on scrub typhus epidemiology is currently too limited for any economical, mathematical modeling or mapping approaches.…”
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Apparent Bicarbonate Space in Children by Horacio A. Repetto, Roberto Penna

“…Since we have not found clinical studies in children, we shall report our experience in a group of patients with metabolic acidosis treated with bicarbonate infusion in whom apparent bicarbonate space was measured and compared with data in adults from the literature. …”
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Clinical features and direct medical cost of splenic injury in China: a cross-sectional study by Yan Liu, Yubo Ma, Qiu Zhang, Yong Chen, Ji-Hong Zhou, Yong Qi

“…Patients’ information from 2000 to 2013 were identified. Demographic data, treatment, clinical data and DMC were collected. …”
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Classification of cervical cancer using Dense CapsNet with Seg-UNet and denoising autoencoders by Hui Yang, Walid Aydi, Nisreen Innab, Mohamed E. Ghoneim, Massimiliano Ferrara

“…Additionally, the deep learning methods used in the existing works perform poorly on a multiclass classification when the data distribution is skewed, which is common in the cervical cancer dataset. …”
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Azole resistance in Aspergillus isolates from animals or their direct environment (2013–2023): a systematic review by Lucía Dieste-Pérez, Manon M. C. Holstege, Judith E. de Jong, Annet E. Heuvelink

“…In conclusion, zoo animals and wildlife, horses, and poultry represent a more significant concern regarding the prevalence of A. fumigatus and A. flavus NWT isolates than other animal categories. Insufficient data prevented conclusions about the situation specifically in Europe, and therefore, more systematic and comparable data are required.…”
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Clinical study on the relationship between TCM wind-dampness syndromes and renal pathological activity in lupus nephritis by WANG Yue, LU Ying

“…Objective Through the measurement and analysis of the clinical activity and renal pathological data,in combination with Wind-dampness syndromes,to approach the relationship between them.Methods According to the standards of TCM,divide 81 LN patients into 2 groups:Wind-dampness syndromes group and non-Wind-dampness syndromes group.Clinical data,renal pathology were collected.Analyze the correlation between Wind-dampness and these parameters.Results The Wind-dampness syndromes group had significantly higher number of patients with Ⅳ type LN(52.17%vs 22.85%,P<0.05),and it also had higher renal disease activity index(AI) than the nonWind-dampness syndromes(P<0.05).And it had more patients whose AI >10 than the non-Winddampness syndromes group.In particular,it was more obvious to find neutrophil infiltration,cellular crescent,tubular epithelial cell necrosis in Wind-dampness group.But we didn’t find difference in distribution of immunofluorescence of kidney disease management and chronic index(CI).The Winddampness syndromes group had much higer SLEDAI score(15.16 ± 5.43 vs 9.15 ± 4.69,P<0.05),and lower eGFR level(80.79 ± 36.38 vs 102.66 ± 39.89,P<0.05) than the non-Wind-dampness sydromes group.The Wind-dampness sydromes group had much more number of patients who had low complement,high level of urinary protein and white blood cells in urine than the non-Wind-dampness sydromes group.The level of AI was positively correlated with the level of 24-hour urine protein,urine red blood cells integral,and SLEDAI score,urine red blood cells integral and negatively correlated with the level of eGFR Conclusions The Wind-dampness syndromes in LN is closely related with the activities of nephritis disease activity index.The patients with Wind-dampness syndromes are much likely to have clinical activities,which means the Wind-dampness syndromes may be the basic material of the acute immune and inflammatory lesions in lupus nephritis.It is suggested that we should pay more attention to treat the Wind-dampness syndromes.…”
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Accounting for extent of non-compliance when estimating treatment effects on an ordinal outcome in randomized clinical trials by Junxian Zhu, Jialiang Li, A. Mark Richards, Mark Y. Chan, Bee-Choo Tai

“…We provide the identification and asymptotic distribution of the proposed method. We compare the proposed method (IPW_Dnew) with intention-to-treat (ITT), per protocol (PP), instrumental variable (IV), and IPW method via a simulation study and real-life data from the JOBS II intervention trial and the IMMACULATE trial. …”
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