Prediction of knee joint pain in Tai Chi practitioners: a cross-sectional machine learning approach by Yang Chen, Xiaojie Su, Fei Yao, Yushan Liu, Hua Xing, Yubin Ju, Zhiran Kang, Wuquan Sun, Lijun Yao, Li Gong

“…Dataset 1 was established by whether the participant had knee pain, and dataset 2 by whether the participant’s knee pain affected daily living function. …”
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Impact of cariprazine on body weight and blood pressure among adults with bipolar I disorder, schizophrenia, or major depressive disorder in a real-world setting by Christoph U. Correll, Andrew J. Cutler, François Laliberté, Guillaume Germain, Sean D. MacKnight, Julien Boudreau, Sally W. Wade, Nadia Nabulsi, Huy-Binh Nguyen, Mousam Parikh

“…Conclusion In this real-world analysis, cariprazine was associated with an estimated weight gain of + 0.91 kg/year and had minimal impact on BMI and blood pressure when evaluated up to 12 months.…”
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Experimental Study on Blockage Mechanism and Blockage Locations for Polymer-Flooded Reservoirs in the Henan Oilfield by Yu Li, Meilong Fu, Baofeng Hou, Zhiyuan Zhang, Ruiyi Sun

“…The neural network algorithm was used to reconstruct the resistivity curve of the water layer to eliminate the influence of lithology, shale content, and pore structure on the resistivity. The difference between the reconstructed curve and the measured resistivity curve was used to identify the gas and water, and the ratio of the two was used to calculate the gas saturation, and good results were achieved. …”
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Spatiotemporal evolution of online interest in assisted reproductive technology: a two-decade global analysis through google trends by Ning Zhang, Xingyu Wan, Yuzhou Gao, Yang Yang, Haoyu He, Dongmei Ji

“…In Europe, France (RSV = 76), Italy (RSV = 66), and Spain (RSV = 32) had notable interest in ART. Whereas, in Oceania and Africa, Australia (RSV = 8), New Zealand (RSV = 6), Tunisia (RSV = 16), Algeria (RSV = 16), and Nigeria (RSV = 10) showed lower levels of interest. …”
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Education and Training Needs in the Field of Local Development in the Lower Danube Macro Region by Laurenţiu Tăchiciu, Nicola Yankov, Alina Elena Balalia

“…The authors of the present paper had to avoid overlapping with the work of the other teams. …”
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Unawareness of the disease in patients with schizophrenia: diagnosis and insight-oriented psychotherapy by O. I. Osokina, B. B. Ivnyev, G. G. Putyatin, Ye. M. Denisov, S. G. Ushenin

“…The highest association with the risk of depressive symptoms and self-stigmatization had the following insight components: awareness of the mental illness presence (r= -0.365 and r= -0.525, respectively; p<0.05) and perception by others (r= -0.654 and r= -0,417; p<0.05), awareness of the diagnosis (r= -0.312 and r= -0.45; p<0.05), social consequences of the disease (r= -0.3 and r= -0.621; p<0.05) and their perception by others (r= -0.531 and r= - 0.576; p<0.05). …”
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Criticality of Benzoyl Peroxide and Antibiotic Fixed Combinations in Combating Rising Resistance in Cutibacterium acnes by Ghannoum M, Gamal A, Kadry A, Del Rosso JQ, Stein Gold L, Kircik LH, Harper JC

“…Of 7 acne-associated strains, combining clindamycin and BPO had an additive effect against 4, and no interaction against 3. …”
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Inflammatory factor CCL2 enhances the interaction between monocyte-macrophage cells and liver parenchymal cells to promote liver inflammation and fibrosis in biliary atresia by Xin Li, Shaowen Liu, Tengfei Li, Qianhui Yang, Yuqiang Chen, Yu Meng, Zhiru Wang, Yilin Zhao, Shujian Zhang, Liang Ge, Alimujiang Abudureyimu, Jianghua Zhan

“…The results of MR showed that CCL2 had a causal relationship with BA (odds ratio (OR) = 1.70, confidence interval (CI): 1.19 to 2.43, P = 0.004, P false discovery rate (FDR)  = 0.117). …”
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Diagnostics and Group Therapy in Patients with Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness and Anxiety Disorder: Biomarkers and Neurofunctional Correlates of Underlying Treatment Effe... by Maximilian Maywald, Oliver Pogarell, Agnieszka Chrobok, Susanne Levai, Daniel Keeser, Nadja Tschentscher, Boris-Stephan Rauchmann, Sophia Stöcklein, Birgit Ertl-Wagner, Boris Papazov, Marco Paolini, Susanne Karch

“…PPPD with comorbid anxiety disorder had significantly more fear of physical symptoms than patients without comorbid anxiety disorder. …”
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Assessment of awareness, practices, perceptions, and satisfaction of telepsychiatry among mental healthcare providers in Saudi Arabia by Omar A. Alshaikhi, Lujain A. Aldarsi, Ibrahim Abdullah A. Basfar, Alwaleed Alshehri, Raafat M. Shuqdar, Ramy Mohamed Ghazy, Ramy Mohamed Ghazy, Mahmoud Essam Elrggal

“…More than three-fifths (63.7%) had previous practical experience. Among those with experience, 82.9% reported telepsychiatry practice durations of 3 years or less. …”
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FORMA CZYNNOŚCI PRAWNEJ W PRAWIE PRYWATNYM MIĘDZYNARODOWYM by Jadwiga Pazdan

“…The decisive role should be granted to the place where an event which brought (or should have brought) to the performance of a legal act had happened while the contractual relation has been formed. …”
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Utility Assessment of Isolated Starch and Extract from Thai Yam (<i>Dioscorea hispida</i> Dennst.) for Cosmetic via In Vitro and In Vivo Studies by Suthinee Sangkanu, Jiraporn Khanansuk, Sathianpong Phoopha, Wandee Udomuksorn, Thitiporn Phupan, Jirapa Puntarat, Sucharat Tungsukruthai, Sukanya Dej-adisai

“…The findings demonstrated that starch powder had a restricted size distribution, ranging from 2 to 4 μm, and a smooth surface that was polygonal. …”
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Intravenous Levosimendan versus Milrinone: Coronary Sinus Lactate and PA Catheter Derived Parameters in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension Undergoing Elective Mitral Valve Replac... by Sanjula Virmani, Sukhdev Garg, Indira Malik, Abhas Chandra Dash, Sayyed Ehtesham Hussain Naqvi, Rachna Wadhwa, Harpreet Singh

“…CO increased significantly in both group M and group L, post CPB 10 min after surgery. Patients in group L had a significantly higher CO and CI, compared to group M, P < 0.05. …”
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The Availability and Readability of Multilingual Online Patient Materials for Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease by Rafael Verduzco Guillen, BA, Emma Danielle Grellinger, BS, Ishaan Swarup, MD

“…Resources written in English had an average Flesch Reading Ease score of 60.5, Fry Graph grade level of 9.6, and Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) grade level of 11.4. …”
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Comparative Analysis of the Efficiency, Safety, Predictability of Wavefront-Guided and Conventional FemtoLASIK Procedures in Low to Moderate Myopia by A. V. Doga, I. A. Mushkova, A. N. Karimova, E. V. Kechin, A. G. Guliev, V. G. Lee

“…There were 62 eyes of 62 patients with low to moderate myopia who had undergone FemtoLASIK procedure using an excimer laser ‘Microscan Visum” (Russia) and a femtosecond laser Femto LDV Z6 (Switzerland) in the study. …”
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Prevalence and predictors of poor oral health-related quality of life among the Saudi elderly by Mostafa A. Abolfotouh, Meshal D. Alhayf, Ali S. Al-Shaer, Faisal K. Almutairi, Dhay F. Alotaibi, Norah A. Alhawas, Najla Alrejaye

“…Yet, studies were conducted in a confined area or city with smaller sample sizes, using different OHRQoL measures, and none mentioned the rate of poor OHRQoL. …”
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Understanding the causal effects and heterogeneity between metabolic syndrome and lung function: a nationwide prospective cohort study in China by Jun Wang, Hai-bin Yu, Si-yuan Lei, Huan-rong Ruan, Xiao-chuan Guo, Jian-sheng Li

“…However, the evidence regarding the causal effect of MetS on lung function is limited, and it differs according to multidimensional individual characteristics. …”
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Oxytocin in growth, reproduction, restoration and health by Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg

“…In addition, I started to write books about different aspects of oxytocin.I also wanted to establish a role for oxytocin in the treatment of vaginal atrophy. …”
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DOES BMI/BSA AFFECT STEM CELL MOBILISATION?: SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE by Seda Yılmaz, Ayşe Günay, Salih Cırık, Abdulkadir Baştürk

“…While 46.3% of the patients were mobilised with cyclophosphamide+filgrastim, 41.5% with filgrastim, 4.9% with other chemotherapeutic agents+ filgrastim, 4.9% with filgrastim+plerixafor, 2.4% of the patients had stem cell collection by harvest procedure. On day 1 of stem cell mobilisation, there was no difference between those who collected sufficient CD34 positive stem cells and those who failed in terms of gender, height, weight, BMI, BSA, chronic habits, presence of comorbidities, vitamin D level and number of chemotherapy received. …”
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The Impact of Race, Education, Economic Vulnerability, and Stigma on Viral Load Detectability Among People Living with HIV in Brazil by Brandelli Costa A, Graeff Bins-Ely I, Penzato V, Vaitses Fontanari AM, Alckmin-Carvalho F, Pereira H, Welter Wendt G

“…Data was analyzed with both descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS.Results: Our generalized linear model showed that participants who were non-white, with low education and of lower economic status had a lower likelihood of reporting undetectable viral load (UVL) compared compared to their respective counterparts (white participants, those with higher education, and those of higher economic status). …”
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