Comparative efficacy of different acupuncture therapies on cancer-related insomnia: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Xianming Lin, Liying Chen, Xinyi Shi, Shiting Xu, Zhaoxing Jia, Yaojin Tan

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Assessing the representativeness of large medical data using population stability index by Sheng-Chieh Lu, Wenye Song, Andre Pfob, Chris Gibbons

“…Method We obtained United States cancer statistics from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. We queried the SEER 17-registry research database to obtain cancer count data by age, sex, and cancer site groups from the rate sessions of the SEER*State incidence database for 2000 and 2015 – 2020. …”
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GTPBP2 in-frame deletion in canine model with non-syndromic progressive retinal atrophy by Leonardo Murgiano, Jessica K Niggel, Eylem Emek Akyürek, Roberta Sacchetto, Gustavo D. Aguirre

“…The variant was absent from the online European Variation Archive (EVA) database, the Dog Biomedical Variants Database Consortium, and the Dog10k database. …”
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Fertility-sparing surgery versus radical surgery for micropapillary serous borderline ovarian tumours: a systematic review protocol by Jin Xu, Shan Jiang, Jingyi Wang, Peng Dong, ShiJun Wang, Anqi Zhao

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Burden and risk factors for gallbladder and biliary tract diseases in China from 1990 to 2021 and burden predictions of risk factors for the next 15 years by Shijun Zhao, Yan Zhou, Wangyou Tang, Cheng Zhao, Lang Wang, Xianglin Zhu, Hao Liang, Jie Zhang, Tian Gao, Yinlu Ding

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Sequential Free Flaps in Lower Extremity Reconstruction by Dun-Wei Huang, Floris V. Raasveld, Omar Moussa, Krystle Tuaño, Ian L. Valerio, Kyle R. Eberlin

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Effects of palliative care consultation service on decedents experiencing end-stage heart failure: a 4-year observational study by Pei-Yu Chen, Lian-Shin Lin, Ling-Hui Huang, Szu-Pei Chien, Chin-Yi Chao, Jia-Jyun Wu, Chun-Li Wang, Lung-Chun Lee, Pi-Shan Hsu, Wei-Min Chu

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The association between multimorbidity patterns and physical frailty among middle-aged and older community-dwelling adults: the mediating role of depressive symptoms by Yuhan Geng, Yuhan Geng, Ming Zhou, Ming Zhou, Yangxiaoxue Liu, Tianshu Zhao, Jiali Zhang, Min Xin, Wenxin Wang, Gongzi Zhang, Liping Huang

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Incidence of hand and wrist disorders in primary care: a retrospective cohort study by Patrick Krastman, Evelien IT de Schepper, Patrick JE Bindels, Sita MA Bierma-Zeinstra, Gerald Kraan, Jos Runhaar

“…Design & setting: A retrospective cohort study was undertaken, using a healthcare registration database from Dutch general practice, which contains medical records of more than 200 000 patients, and included approximately 25% of the population of the area of Rotterdam in The Netherlands. …”
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Impact of antipyretics on acute asthma exacerbation during respiratory infection—A nationwide population-based study by Ruei-Sian Chung, Yung-Chieh Huang, Yi-Huei Chen, Lin-Shien Fu, Ching-Heng Lin

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Navigating the Proteomic Landscape of Menopause: A Review by Basant E. Katamesh, Pragyat Futela, Ann Vincent, Bright Thilagar, Mary Whipple, Abdul Rhman Hassan, Mohamed Abuelazm, Sanjeev Nanda, Christopher Anstine, Abhinav Singla

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Use of antibiotics and colorectal cancer risk: a primary care nested case–control study in Belgium by Pavlos Mamouris, Bert Vaes, Marjan Van Den Akker, Johannes Van der Meer, Vahid Nassiri

“…Objectives To examine the association between the use of oral antibiotics and subsequent colorectal cancer risk.Design Matched case–control study.Setting General practice centres participating in the Integrated Computerised Network database in Flanders, Belgium.Participants In total, 1705 cases of colorectal cancer diagnosed between 01 January 2010 and 31 December 2015 were matched to 6749 controls by age, sex, comorbidity and general practice centre.Primary outcome measure The association between the number of prescriptions for oral antibiotics and the incidence of colorectal cancer over a period of 1–10 years, estimated by a conditional logistic regression model.Results A significantly increased risk of colorectal cancer (OR 1.25, 95% CI 1.10 to 1.44) was found in subjects with one or more prescriptions compared with those with none after correction for diabetes mellitus. …”
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Secondary Pharmacotherapeutic Prevention among German Primary Care Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease by Uwe Müller-Bühl, Gunter Laux, Joachim Szecsenyi

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The Association between Helicobacter pylori Infection and Glycated Hemoglobin A in Diabetes: A Meta-Analysis by Jinhu Chen, Yuling Xing, Liying Zhao, Huijuan Ma

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Meta-Analysis of Dietary Curcumin Supplementation in Broiler Chickens: Growth Performance, Antioxidant Status, Intestinal Morphology, and Meat Quality by Pedro Abel Hernández-García, Lorenzo Danilo Granados-Rivera, José Felipe Orzuna-Orzuna, Gabriela Vázquez-Silva, Cesar Díaz-Galván, Pablo Benjamín Razo-Ortíz

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Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu i społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki – w poszukiwaniu analogii by Marcin Żemigała

“…Data for analyzes were obtained from the global bibliographic database Scopus and related to scientific articles from 1937 to 2019. …”
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Simplified Integrity Checking for an Expressive Class of Denial Constraints by Davide Martinenghi

“…In particular, we target a class of integrity constraints, called extended denials, which are more general than tuple-generating dependencies and equality-generating dependencies. …”
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Identification of Three Prognosis-Related Differentially Expressed lncRNAs Driven by Copy Number Variation in Thyroid Cancer by Jinyi Tian, Bin Luo

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Income effect on consumption of sugar in Brazilian families by Haroldo José Torres da Silva, Raphael Delloiagono Bezerra da Silva, Isabela Romanha de Alcantara, Peterson Felipe Arias Santos, Pedro Valentim Marques

“…We examined the patterns of consumption of sugars in general, crystal sugar, refined sugar, organic sugar and demerara sugar, and how these patterns may shift as households move up the income ladder. …”
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Directions for improving the pension indexations mechanism in the context of Russian economy’s transformation by M. L. Dorofeev

“…The proposed directions were classified into four groups: 1) measures of a general economic nature, indirectly affecting the level of pension provision; 2) changing the general parameters of the existing pension system in order to optimize it; 3) the development of a non-governmental pension insurance system to solve the problem of a low replacement rate for high-income groups of pension recipients and 4) a change in the existing mechanism for indexing pensions, which involves more radical changes to fundamentally increase the level of pension provision for Russian pensioners.…”
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