Association of Sleep Traits, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Leisure Behavior With Female Reproductive Health: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Analysis by Zhang J, Wang T, Yang P, Miao Y, Ge B, Sun J

“…Jiaxin Zhang, Tao Wang, Pusheng Yang, Yaxin Miao, Beilei Ge, Jing Sun Shanghai Key Laboratory of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Shanghai Institute of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Gynecologic Oncology, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Jing Sun, Email sunjing61867@tongji.edu.cn; Beilei Ge, Email antz_ge@163.comPurpose: Living habits affect female endocrine function and fertility, along with aging and other life factors. …”
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Nurse's Knowledge about Modifiable and Non-Modifiable Risk Factors of Heart Failure Patient in Erbil Teaching Hospitals by Yousif Mohammed Younis

“…Part one included socio-demographic characteristics and part two was observational check list which contained 21 items for nurse's knowledge about modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors of heart failure patient. Data was analysis by the statistical package for science service (SPSS version 17) was used for data entering and analysis such as S= significant (<0.05), very highly significant (<0.000) and non-significant (>0.05), Percentage, frequency and Chi-square test were used to interpretation. …”
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Physical activity and network attack tolerance preserve motor function in Parkinson’s disease: A pilot study by Adrian L. Asendorf, Elena Guerra, Verena Dzialas, Magdalena Banwinkler, Hendrik Theis, Niklas Hagemann, Kathrin Möllenhoff, Thilo van Eimeren, Merle C. Hoenig

“…Abstract We tested whether network resilience, quantified by network attack tolerance (NAT), is associated with dopamine terminal (DaT) integrity, motor function and lifestyle factors in Parkinson’s disease (PD). …”
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Association and function analysis of genetic variants and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus in a southern Chinese population by Qiulian Liang, Yan Sun, Ming Li, Ruiqi Li, Lijie Nie, Lin Lin, Xiangyuan Yu

“…The nomogram established with factors such as age, FPG, HbA1c, 1hPG, 2hPG, TG, and rs4134819 showed a good discriminated and calibrated ability with an area under the curve (AUC) = 0.931 and a Hosmer–Lemeshow test p-value &gt; 0.05.ConclusionThe variant rs4134819 can significantly alter the susceptibility of the Chinese population to GDM possibly by regulating the transcription of functional genes. …”
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Assessment of Haemostasis in Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation by Use of Point-of-Care Assays and Routine Coagulation Tests, in Critically Ill Patients; A Prospective Observat... by Thomas Kander, Anna Larsson, Victor Taune, Ulf Schött, Nahreen Tynngård

“…<h4>Background</h4>Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) relates to the consumption of coagulation factors and platelets with bleeding and micro thrombosis events.…”
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Improving neurocognitive functioning in schizophrenia by addition of cognitive remediation therapy to a standard treatment of metacognitive training by Pasquale Caponnetto, Marilena Maglia, Roberta Auditore, Marta Bocchieri, Antonio Caruso, Jennifer DiPiazza, Riccardo Polosa

“…The effects on the scores (between T0 and T1) of the variables treatment and time and of the interaction time X treatment were analyzed: for the total BACS, the main effect of the between-factors variable treatment is statistically significant (F=201.562 P=0.000), as well as the effect of the within-factors variable “time” (F=496.68 P=0.000).The interaction of these two factors is also statistically significant (F=299.594 P=0.000). …”
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Changes in functional outcome after a first-time stroke: Data from a longitudinal study. by Nipaporn Butsing, Nalinrat Thongniran, Jesada Keandoungchun

“…<h4>Background</h4>Strokes are the major cause of disability. Functional recovery following an acute stroke is time-dependent and varies depending on several factors. …”
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Comparative effect of ARNI and ACEI/ARB on left ventricular diastolic function in patients with hypertensive heart disease by YANG Hao, HE Yi, WANG Fangjuan

“…Objective‍　‍To investigate whether there exist differences in the improvement of left ventricular diastolic function between angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitor (ARNI) and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI)/angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) in patients with hypertensive heart disease (HHD). …”
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Pulmonary function and exercise capacity in mild early-onset idiopathic scoliosis: a case‒control study by Lixia Wang, Xin Li, Yuanyuan Song, Juping Liang, Yanbin Zhang, Tongtong Zhang, Xuan Zhou, Qing Du

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the characteristics of pulmonary function and exercise capacity in children with EOIS and to identify influencing factors. …”
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The effect of physical activity on resilience of Chinese children: the chain mediating effect of executive function and emotional regulation by Yifan Xu, Kai Qi, Shuqiao Meng, Xiaoxiao Dong, Shimeng Wang, Dandan Chen, Aiguo Chen

“…Resilience, a positive adaptive trait, serves as a key protective factor in children’s mental health. While studies indicate that physical activity (PA) enhances resilience, its underlying mechanisms remain unclear. …”
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Value of Maternal Renal Function Indicators in Predicting Small for Gestational Age Infants in Patient with Severe Preeclampsia by Mingwei Li, Pan Zhang, Xizhenzi Fan, Wenhui Song, Achou Su, Xue Zhang, Hongmei He, Tianxiao Yu

“…Our goal was to explore the association between serum renal function related indicators in pregnant patients with severe preeclampsia and the occurrence of small for gestational age (SGA) infants, as well as to further identify independent risk factors for SGA based on these indicators. …”
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Importance and added value of functional impairment to predict mortality: a cohort study in Swedish medical inpatients by Gustav Torisson, Elisabet Londos, Lars Stavenow, Lennart Minthon

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Functional outcome predictors and recanalization in cerebral venous thrombosis: A single-center cross-sectional study by Rizwana Shahid, Azra Zafar

“…OBJECTIVES Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is a rare type of stroke. Functional outcome (FOC) in CVT can be affected by different factors, and recanalization is an important determinant. …”
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Mobile screen time, sleep quality, motor coordination, and cognitive functions in newly diagnosed epileptic patients by Kirubanand N, Kavitha S, Vikash Sharma, Sai Sailesh Kumar Goothy, Rohit Singh Chouhan

“…Sleep quality was assessed using insomnia severity index (ISI) questionnaire. 100 pin dexterity test was used to assess the motor coordination. Cognitive functions were assessed using spatial and verbal memory test. …”
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Identification, replication, and functional fine-mapping of expression quantitative trait loci in primary human liver tissue. by Federico Innocenti, Gregory M Cooper, Ian B Stanaway, Eric R Gamazon, Joshua D Smith, Snezana Mirkov, Jacqueline Ramirez, Wanqing Liu, Yvonne S Lin, Cliona Moloney, Shelly Force Aldred, Nathan D Trinklein, Erin Schuetz, Deborah A Nickerson, Ken E Thummel, Mark J Rieder, Allan E Rettie, Mark J Ratain, Nancy J Cox, Christopher D Brown

“…For three genes, significant haplotype-specific in vitro functional differences correlated directly with expression levels, suggesting that many bona fide eQTLs result from functional variants that can be mechanistically isolated in a high-throughput fashion. …”
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Impact of gestational age on child intelligence, attention and executive function at age 5: a cohort study by Erik Lykke Mortensen, Emilie Pi Fogtmann Sejer, Frederik Jager Bruun, Julie Anna Slavensky, Ulrik Schiøler Kesmodel

“…We aimed to assess the impact of gestational age (GA), late preterm birth (34 to &lt;37 weeks GA) and very to moderately preterm birth (&lt;34 weeks GA) on intelligence, attention and executive function in a population of Danish children aged 5 years.Design Population-based prospective cohort study.Setting Denmark 2003–2008.Participants A cohort of 1776 children and their mothers sampled from the Danish National Birth Cohort with information on GA, family and background factors and completed neuropsychological assessment at age 5.Primary outcome measures Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-Revised, Test of Everyday Attention for Children at Five and Behaviour Rating Inventory of Executive Function scores.Results For preterm birth &lt;34 weeks GA (n=8), the mean difference in full-scale intelligence quotient(IQ) was −10.6 points (95% CI −19.4 to −1.8) when compared with the term group ≥37 weeks GA (n=1728), and adjusted for potential confounders. …”
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Effects of plant functional group removal on caterpillars (Gynaephora alpherakii) performance and plant production in an alpine meadow by Rui Cao, Han Chen, Jingran Cai, Chen Hang, Ziyu Zhang, Yingchun Miao, Peng Xie

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Determinants of Functional Capacity and Quality of Life After Implantation of a Durable Left Ventricular Assist Device by Kiran K Mirza, Finn Gustafsson

“…Data are included from 40 studies, resulting in analysis of >700 exercise tests. Mean peak oxygen uptake was 13.4 ml/kg/min (equivalent to 48% of predicted value; 259 days after implantation, range 31–1,017 days) and mean 6-minute walk test distance was 370 m (182 days after implantation, range 43–543 days). …”
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A Two-Way Mendelian Randomization Analysis on the Link between Thyroid Activity Function and Coronary Atherosclerosis by Le-tai Li, Jia-jie Leng, Yu-xiang Luo, Rong-jia Liu, Zhuo-xuan Song, Meng Ye, Zhen-han Li, Zhen-rui Cao, Ying-jiu Jiang, Hong-tao Tie

“…Thyroid hormones show potential as risk factors, aside from the main standard modifiable cardiovascular risk factors (SMuRFs). …”
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Reconstruction of ionospheric VTEC using empirical orthogonal function and its performance during extreme geomagnetic storm by Rajat Acharya, Victor Dey

“…The reconstruction was achieved by linearly combining the appropriately chosen significant bases with corresponding weight factors. The reconstruction accuracy of the algorithm was found to be better than 4 TECU (TECU = 1016 electrons/m2) for more than 99.9 % of the time when tested over the complete year of 2016 with only eight basis vectors. …”
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