The association between migraine and Parkinson’s disease: a nationwide cohort study in Korea by Woo-Seok Ha, Jaeho Kim, Hee Won Hwang, Sue Hyun Lee, Ji In Kim, Jin Yong Hong, Sang Hyun Park, Kyung Do Han, Min Seok Baek

“…CONCLUSIONS Patients with migraine were more likely to develop PD than individuals without migraine. …”
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In-hospital mortality trends after surgery for traumatic thoracolumbar injury: A national inpatient sample database study by Michael McCurdy, Rajkishen Narayanan, Omar Tarawneh, Yunsoo Lee, Matthew Sherman, Teeto Ezeonu, Michael Carter, Jose A. Canseco, Alan S. Hilibrand, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Christopher K. Kepler, Gregory D. Schroeder

“…Results: Patients in 2017 were on average older (51.0 vs. 48.5, P = 0.004), had more admitting diagnoses (15.5 vs. 10.7, p < 0.001), were less likely to be White (75.8% vs. 81.2%, p = 0.006), were from a ZIP code with a higher median income quartile (Quartile 1: 31.4% vs. 28.6%, p = 0.011), and were more likely to have Medicare as a primary payer (22.9% vs. 30.1%, p < 0.001). …”
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Early onset multivalvular disease caused by a missense variant in lamin A/C by Alexandre Janin, Nathalie Gaudreault, Victoria Saavedra Armero, Zhonglin Li, Ran Xu, Dominique K. Boudreau, Lily Frenette, Julien Ternacle, Danielle Tardif, Sébastien Thériault, Philippe Pibarot, Patrick Mathieu, Christian Steinberg, Yohan Bossé

“…Summary: Lamins A/C, coded by LMNA gene, are crucial for nuclear architecture preservation. …”
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Generalised anxiety disorder and its determinants amongst patients with diabetes in primary healthcare clinics: a cross-sectional study in Kuwait City, 2024 by Sana Mubarak Alali, Doaa Khalifa Hussein Abdalla, Aisha Alsaqabi, Hessa Al-Kandari, Ozayr Mahomed

“…Data were collected through self-or interviewer-administered surveys, cleaned and coded in Microsoft Excel, and analysed using STATA version 18. …”
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Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Identify Undiagnosed Patients with Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency by Bruce Pyenson, Maggie Alston, Jeffrey Gomberg, Feng Han, Nikhil Khandelwal, Motoharu Dei, Monica Son, Jaime Vora

“… # Objectives To develop a machine learning model that identifies patients in a commercial medical claims database who likely have EPI but are undiagnosed. # Methods A machine learning algorithm was developed in Scikit-learn, a Python module. …”
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A Systematic Review of Interventions to Change Staff Care Practices in Order to Improve Resident Outcomes in Nursing Homes. by Lee-Fay Low, Jennifer Fletcher, Belinda Goodenough, Yun-Hee Jeon, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Margaret MacAndrew, Elizabeth Beattie

“…Studies targeting specific care tasks (e.g. oral care, physical restraints) were more likely to produce positive outcomes than those requiring global practice changes (e.g. care philosophy). …”
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An evaluation of the ambulatory diagnosis and treatment of seborrheic dermatitis in PWH in a regional healthcare system by David Perez, Seble G. Kassaye, Carly Herbert, Deniz Ozisik, Aniket Kini, Adam Visconti

“…Non-dermatologists appear significantly less likely to provide optimal initial management which may affect quality of life given potential for delayed treatment in settings with limited specialists. …”
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Comorbidity patterns and implications for disease control: a network analysis of medical records from Shanghai, China by Yifei Shen, Wenqi Tian, Na Li, Yuhong Niu

“…Male patients were more likely to have comorbidities related to cardiovascular and sleep problems, while women were more likely to have comorbidities related to thyroid disease, inflammatory conditions, and hyperuricemia. …”
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Adherence to outpatient care among individuals with pre‐existing psychiatric disorders following the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake: A retrospective study by Yusuke Nitta, Reiko Hashimoto, Yoshihito Shimizu, Yuri Nakai, Hisao Nakai

“…Conclusion Patients in areas with higher seismic intensity were more likely to miss appointments, probably because of factors such as infrastructure damage and personal losses. …”
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Does acute pancreatitis herald pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma? A multicenter electronic health research network study by Ritu R. Singh, Alison P. Klein, Neil R. Sharma, Eileen M. O'Reilly

“…Patients with a recent AP are more likely to undergo surgical resection of PDAC and a trend toward diagnosis at an earlier stage compared to patients with PDAC and without AP. …”
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Defining a High-Quality Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome cohort in UK Biobank [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Gemma L. Samms, Chris P. Ponting

“…For the same UKB participant, ME/CFS status defined by ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision) code G93.3 (Post-viral fatigue syndrome) was most likely to be supported by another data type (72%); ME/CFS status defined by Pain Questionnaire responses is least likely to be supported (43%), in part due to data missingness. …”
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Prevalence of Internet addiction among university students and its impact on general health by Laila Hisham Abdulaziz Alheet, Mira Ali Naeem Harb, Lana H. I. Khaled, Ahmad Saif Bin Sulaiman, Mohammed Hussein Ali M. Baqer Al Attar

“…Medical students were 2.26 times more likely to report distress than nonmedical students (95% confidence interval: 1.20–4.24). …”
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A Potential Dynamical Origin of the Galactic Disk Warp: The Gaia–Sausage–Enceladus Major Merger by Mingji Deng, Cuihua Du, Yanbin Yang, Jiwei Liao, Dashuang Ye

“…Recent studies indicate that the GSE, the significant merger of our Galaxy, was likely a gas-rich merger and the large amount of gas introduced could have created a profound impact on the Galactic morphology. …”
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Destructive Discourse in the Modern Conditionsof Belarusian-Russian Bilingualism by Anton A. Lavitski

“…The study presents the findings of a study of Belarusian destructive discourse in the comparative aspect of the language code used (the Belarusian and Russian languages). …”
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¿Qué empezamos con? by Caroline Amodeo Williams, Anthony Brandy

“…Our results showed that de, ‘from’ was the preposition most likely to be accepted in PS, with para, ‘for’ being the least acceptable. …”
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Effect of Victim Gender on Evaluations of Sexual Crime Victims and Perpetrators: Evidence from Japan by Tomoya Mukai

“…Additionally, women were more likely to exhibit egocentric reactions, such as expressing more anger toward the perpetrators than the victims, than men. …”
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Examining the availability/findability of stimuli employed in social media and body image research. by David Smailes, Arnela Aleksandra, Megan Coakley, Susan Mair, Joe Ventress

“…We also found no evidence that the sharing of images used as task stimuli had increased over time. We discuss likely reasons for this reticence to share task stimuli in this field, the impact this has on reproducibility, replicability, and research waste, and ways in which this issue can be addressed. …”
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Virus Satellites Drive Viral Evolution and Ecology. by Belén Frígols, Nuria Quiles-Puchalt, Ignacio Mir-Sanchis, Jorge Donderis, Santiago F Elena, Angus Buckling, Richard P Novick, Alberto Marina, José R Penadés

“…In summary, our results suggest that helper and satellite viruses undergo rapid coevolution, which is likely to play a key role in the evolution and ecology of the viruses as well as their prokaryotic hosts.…”
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Auditory cortical detection and discrimination correlates with communicative significance. by Robert C Liu, Christoph E Schreiner

“…The timing and magnitude of information that cortical responses convey (at a 2-ms resolution) for pup call detection and discrimination was significantly improved in mothers compared to naïve females, most likely because of changes in call frequency encoding. …”
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Gender, number and person: a three-way interaction by Berg Thomas

“…According to the principle of informativity, more useful information is more likely to be coded than less useful information. This principle underlies Greenberg’s Universals 37 and 45, which state that a larger number of (sex-based) gender contrasts are on average found in singular than in non-singular forms. …”
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