Is the very low carbohydrate diet safe for individuals with chronic kidney disease? by Brooke S. Colledge, Emma C. Schofield, Benjamin J. Clarke, Gordana Popovic, Mohandas Vattekad, Penelope E. Figtree

“…However, its effect on renal function in patients with comorbid moderate to severe chronic kidney disease (CKD) is currently unclear. …”
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Recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency by Paulo Henrique Ramos Feitosa, Maria Vera Cruz de Oliveira Castellano, Claudia Henrique da Costa, Amanda da Rocha Oliveira Cardoso, Luiz Fernando Ferreira Pereira, Frederico Leon Arrabal Fernandes, Fábio Marcelo Costa, Manuela Brisot Felisbino, Alina Faria França de Oliveira, Jose R Jardim, Marc Miravitlles

“…The most common deficiency is in the Z variant, and it is estimated that more than 3 million people worldwide have combinations of alleles associated with severe AATD. …”
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Multiple breath washout in primary ciliary dyskinesia: a systematic review of the literature by Andreas M. Matthaiou, Alexandra Demetropoulou, Panayiotis Kouis, Konstantinos Douros, Panayiotis Yiallouros, Pinelopi Anagnostopoulou

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Accuracy Maximization Analysis for Sensory-Perceptual Tasks: Computational Improvements, Filter Robustness, and Coding Advantages for Scaled Additive Noise. by Johannes Burge, Priyank Jaini

“…Given a training set of proximal stimuli (e.g. retinal images), a response noise model, and a cost function, AMA returns the filters (i.e. receptive fields) that extract the most useful stimulus features for estimating a user-specified latent variable from those stimuli. …”
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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in the Assessment of Atrial Cardiomyopathy and Pulmonary Vein Isolation Planning for Atrial Fibrillation by Nicola Pegoraro, Serena Chiarello, Riccardo Bisi, Giuseppe Muscogiuri, Matteo Bertini, Aldo Carnevale, Melchiore Giganti, Alberto Cossu

“…Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most frequently observed type of arrhythmia among adults, and its absolute prevalence is steadily rising in close association with the aging of the population, with its prevalence varying from 2% in the general population to 10–12% among the elderly. The relatively new concepts of ‘atrial cardiomyopathy’ and “AF-related atrial cardiomyopathy”, along with the growing body of knowledge regarding remodeling, function, and tissue characterization, highlight the need for novel approaches to the diagnostic process as well as in the therapeutic guidance and monitoring of atrial arrhythmias. …”
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Testing infrared camera surveys and distance analyses to estimate feral horse abundance in a known population by Kathryn A. Schoenecker, Paul F. Doherty Jr., Jacob S. Hourt, John P. Romero

“…After truncation of our data, the most supported detection function was a uniform function with a detection probability equal to 1.0 out to 255 m. …”
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Uncovering Social States in Healthy and Clinical Populations Using Digital Phenotyping and Hidden Markov Models: Observational Study by Imogen E Leaning, Andrea Costanzo, Raj Jagesar, Lianne M Reus, Pieter Jelle Visser, Martien J H Kas, Christian F Beckmann, Henricus G Ruhé, Andre F Marquand

“…We primarily reported results from a 2-state HMM but also verified results in HMMs with more hidden states and trained on the whole participant dataset. …”
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Microbial metabolism in laboratory reared marine snow as revealed by a multi-omics approach by Lei Hou, Zihao Zhao, Barbara Steger-Mähnert, Nianzhi Jiao, Gerhard J. Herndl, Yao Zhang

“…The changes in microbial metabolic processes were more pronounced in the metaproteome than in the metagenome in response to marine snow. …”
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Algorithms for the treatment of patients with chronic cerebral ischemia of stages I and II with use of Picamilon: results of an open clinical comparative study by Andrei B. Danilov, Natalia N. Shindryaeva, Irina V. Borodulina, Timothy D. Lunegov

“…During treatment, statistically significant cognitive improvement on the MoCA scale (p=0.022 and p0.0001) was observed in groups of patients with different stages of CCI, increasing in the delayed period: more than 80% of patients in the general sample reached the normal level when assessed in the long-term period. …”
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Chronic Kidney Disease and Hepatitis C virus. by Clara C. Sánchez-Rodríguez, Oscar G. Galindo-Contreras, Ana M. Mendoza-Martínez, Héctor R. Sánchez-Nuncio, Jorge H. Luna-Domínguez

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Diagnostics of Professional Attitudes of Modern Adolescent Students by A.D. Andreeva, A.G. Lisichkina, L.A. Begunova

“…Kondakov questionnaire "Professional attitudes of adolescents", developed more than 35 years ago. The relevance of the research is determined by the task of creating psychodiagnostic tools appropriate to the modern conditions of growing up and self-determination of youth. …”
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Recurrent Infections in Allergic Pediatric Patients: An Immune System Problem? A Narrative Review by César Galván, Rafael Durán, Cristian Matos, Cristiana Indolfi, Angela Klain

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Effectiveness of duloxetine on severity of pain and quality of life in chronic low back pain in patients who had posterior spinal fixation by Arezoo Samadi, Razieh Salehian, Danial Kiani, Atefeh Ghanbari Jolfaei

“…However, the subscales of ‘physical function’ and ‘general health’ were significantly different only in the duloxetine group between pre and post-intervention. …”
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Development of a method for assessing the depth of penetration of ethosomes with methylene blue into the skin during application and photodynamic exposure by A. G. Loginova, I. S. Nikitenko, G. V. Tikhonovsky, A. S. Skobeltsin, A. V. Voitova, V. B. Loschenov

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Insight into the effects of Omega-3 fatty acids on gut microbiota: impact of a balanced tissue Omega-6/Omega-3 ratio by Bo Zou, Dan Zhao, Shuang Zhou, Jing X. Kang, Jing X. Kang, Bin Wang, Bin Wang

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A COMBINATION OF CHEEK FLAP, CARTILAGE INSERTION, AND FAT TRANSFER ON POST-TRAUMA LOWER EYELID ECTROPION RECONSTRUCTION by Ulfa Elfiah, Dicky Primadika Aprinova

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Predictors of the Severity and Duration of Treatment of Sepsis-Associated Delirium by N. A. Rezepov, Yu. V. Skripkin, O. N. Ulitkina, O. A. Grebenchikov, V. V. Likhvantsev

“…At present, the causes of these disorders are adequately explained by the theory of neuroinflammation that takes into account the pathogenic influence of the systemic inflammatory reaction and related endothelial dysfunction on the central nervous system function.The purpose of the study was to evaluate the relevance of the severity of the systemic inflammatory response, the intensity of oxidative stress and the severity of patient's general state to prediction of the duration of delirium and therapy outcomes in patients with sepsis-associated delirium.Materials and methods. …”
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Course of Sexual Dysfunction in Different Domains among Hypertensive Patients: A Longitudinal Study in a Tier 2 City in India by Ankit Halder, Navna Panchami Ravindran, Devavrat Harshe, Sneha Harshe, Gurudas Harshe, Avinanda Biswas, Dhakshana Pushpanathan, Abhishek Shewale, Sucharita Patra, Aditya Nair

“…The study aimed to chronicle the course of dysfunction in different domains of male and female sexual function in patients of essential hypertension and correlate the findings with different patient characteristics. …”
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The Specific Features of the Course of Critical Conditions in Miners by V. V. Moroz, Yu. A. Churlyaev, S. L. Kan

“…The peculiarities of the critical conditions caused by severe traumatic injuries in miners are the early development and high frequency of complications, the more severe course and late recovery of the body's lost functions, unlike the victims unexposed to occupational hazards. …”
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OUTSOURCING OF ACCOUNTING SERVICES IN DIGITAL AGE by Adrian ISIP

“…In general, larger companies do not outsource routine tasks, since they need accounting information for making decisions more often than smaller enterprises, that outsource accounting primarily to fulfil their legal obligations. …”
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