Influencing Factors and Implementation Pathways of Adherence Behavior in Intelligent Personalized Exercise Prescription: Qualitative Study by Xuejie Xu, Guoli Zhang, Yuxin Xia, Hui Xie, Zenghui Ding, Hongyu Wang, Zuchang Ma, Ting Sun

“…MethodsWe used purposive sampling to conduct individual, face-to-face semistructured interviews based on the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) with 12 middle-aged and older community residents who had been following personalized exercise regimens for 8 months. …”
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Exposure to volatile organic compounds and chronic respiratory disease mortality, a case-cohort study by Mahdi Nalini, Hossein Poustchi, Deepak Bhandari, Benjamin C. Blount, Brandon M. Kenwood, Cindy M. Chang, Amy Gross, Christopher Ellison, Masoud Khoshnia, Akram Pourshams, Mitchell H. Gail, Barry I. Graubard, Sanford M Dawsey, Farin Kamangar, Paolo Boffetta, Paul Brennan, Christian C. Abnet, Reza Malekzadeh, Neal D. Freedman, Arash Etemadi

“…Subcohort participants (n = 610) were randomly selected from all eligible cohort participants in each stratum, and sampling fractions were calculated. Baseline urine samples were used to measure 20 VOCs using ultra high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. …”
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Pulmonary aspergilloma in immunocompromised patients in a Respiratory Care Unit by Alejandro Hernández-Solís, Pablo Álvarez-Maldonado, Javier Araiza-Santibáñez, Kevin Cruz-Muñoz, Raúl Cícero-Sabido, Andrea Quintana Martínez

“… Introduction: Pulmonary aspergilloma is commonly associated with comorbidities that cause immunodeficiency such as diabetes mellitus, tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and/or a pre-existing parenchymal lung disease such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Predisposing factors can further increase the risk of acquiring this mycosis. …”
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Emergency Department Presentations of Chronic Kidney Disease in a Tertiary Hospital of Nepal: A Cross-sectional study by Ram Prasad Neupane, Ramesh Kumar Maharjan, Bipsana Shrestha, Bibek Poudel, Rasmila Dandekhya, Tirtha Man Shrestha, Shasank Chitrakar, Anga Raj Dulal, Arju Malla, Amisha Silwal, Sagun Karki, Manju Pokhrel, Shubham Kumar Thakur, Abhinandan Panthee, Sagar Kumar Jha, Anish Sah, Bishnu Bhujel

“…Several other complications like arrhythmia, nephropathy, hypoglycemia, obstructive uropathy, pericardial effusion, urinary tract infection,  effusion, pneumonia were observed in 50 (6.73%) of the CKD patients. …”
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Toward the Patient Participation Pathway: A Mixed Methods Study of Patients With Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases by Paloma Casado Durández, Eleuterio A. Sánchez‐Romero, Alicia Negrón Fraga, Concepción Rey Benayas, Claudia Ruiz‐Huerta García de Viedma, Davinia Medina Ferrer, Ildefonso González Solana, Maria Caballero Nahúm, Mercedes Vinuesa Sebastián, Rosa María de laSalazar Guerra, Nina Cadeau‐Comte, Laura Jiménez‐Ortega, Juan Nicolás Cuenca‐Zaldívar

“…ABSTRACT Introduction Chronic diseases such as breast cancer, colon cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), stroke, diabetes, depression, and myocardial infarction remain leading causes of death worldwide, contributing significantly to premature mortality. …”
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Motivations and experiences of patients with respiratory disease and their caregivers in a multinational trial of mirtazapine for severe breathlessness: a qualitative study (BETTER... by Adejoke O. Oluyase, Luca Ghirotto, Harry Watson, Massimo Costantini, Sabrina Bajwah, Charles Normand, Silvia Tanzi, Jeremias Bazata, Karen Ryan, Elena Turola, Irene J. Higginson, Matthew Maddocks, On behalf of the BETTER-B consortium

“…Methods Qualitative study nested within a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised trial (BETTER-B: BETter TreatmEnts for Refractory Breathlessness). Purposive sampling ensured diversity in age and gender. Framework analysis was applied. …”
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Comprehensive bioinformatics analysis identifies metabolic and immune-related diagnostic biomarkers shared between diabetes and COPD using multi-omics and machine learning by Qianqian Liang, Yide Wang, Zheng Li, Zheng Li, Zheng Li, Zheng Li

“…BackgroundDiabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are prominent global health challenges, each imposing significant burdens on affected individuals, healthcare systems, and society. …”
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Metabolomic studies in pulmonology by R. R. Furina

“…A solid-phase microextraction method used to pre-prepare a sample is also covered. The results of laboratory tests for biomarkers for lung cancer, acute respiratory distress syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, chronic infections, and pulmonary tuberculosis are presented. …”
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Enhancing survival predictions in lung cancer with cystic airspaces: a multimodal approach combining clinical and radiomic features by Liang Yin, Jing Wang, Pingyou Fu, Lu Xing, Yuan Liu, Zongchang Li, Jie Gan

“…Clinical and imaging characteristics were analyzed using the independent samples t-test, Mann-Whitney U test, and χ2 test. …”
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Cohort profile: role of lipoproteins in cardiovascular disease—the LipidCardio study by Ulf Landmesser, David M Leistner, Maximilian König, Samita Joshi, David Sinning, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Ilja Demuth

“…Coronary angiography provided evidence of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) in 69.9% of participants. …”
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Lifestyle and comorbid conditions as risk factors for community-acquired pneumonia in outpatient adults (NEUMO-ES-RISK project) by Irene Rivero-Calle, Miriam Cebey-López, Jacobo Pardo-Seco, José Yuste, Esther Redondo, Diego A Vargas, Enrique Mascarós, Jose Luis Díaz-Maroto, Manuel Linares-Rufo, Isabel Jimeno, Angel Gil, Jesus Molina, Daniel Ocaña, Federico Martinón-Torres, F Martinón-Torres, D Vargas, E Mascarós, E Redondo, J Molina, JL Díaz Maroto, M Linares, A Gil, D Ocaña, I Rivero-Calle

“…Age-matched and sex-matched controls were selected by incidence density sampling (ratio 2:1). Associations are presented as percentages and OR. …”
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Interplay of lung microbiome and epigenetics in former smokers: A machine learning and fuzzy logic approach on COPD progression by Hamidreza Taherkhani, Azadeh Kavianfar, Hossein Lanjanian, Nazanin Hosseinkhan, Mahdieh Salimi, Sajjad Nematzadeh, Mohammad Mehdi Naghizadeh, Sadegh Azimzadeh, Ali Masoudi-Nejad

“…We observed a decrease in Veillonella abundance during Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (AECOPD) compared to stable clinical periods and a decrease in Veillonellaceae abundance in sputum samples after AECOPD triggered by rhinovirus infection. …”
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Investigating the impact of multidimensional sleep traits on cardiovascular diseases and the mediating role of depression by Hao Zhao, Xiaojie Wang, Wanxin Wang, Lan Guo, CiYong Lu, Roger S McIntyre, Xiuwen Li, Kayla M Teopiz

“…However, the causal relationships among various sleep traits remain contentious, and whether MDD mediates the impact of specific sleep traits on CVDs is unclear.Methods We performed two-sample Mendelian randomisation analyses to explore whether insomnia, sleep time, daytime napping, daytime sleepiness, chronotype, snoring or obstructive sleep apnoea were causally associated with the risk of five CVDs, including coronary artery disease (CAD), myocardial infarction (MI), heart failure (HF), atrial fibrillation and stroke. …”
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Chronic disease burden and its associated risk factors among migrant workers in Saudi Arabia by Juliann Saquib, Anwar Umar, Idris Sula, Abdulrahman Almazrou, Yousuf Hafez Abdul Halim, Muhammad Candragupta Jihwaprani, Ahmed Assef Mousa, Ahmed Emad Ali, Momen Hassan Darwish, Mohammed Najmi Alhaimi, Ayman Alshoaibi, Ayman Mohammed Yakout, Mohammed Abdallah Shawat, Nazmus Saquib

“…We aimed to assess the prevalence of chronic conditions (i.e., asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, eczema, heart disease, hypertension, obesity, and peptic ulcers) and evaluate the associations between the chronic conditions and other factors (i.e., age, sex, occupation, nationality, and lifestyle) in a sample of migrant workers. …”
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Associations of NT-proBNP and hepcidin levels with clinical and laboratory parameters in patients with heart failure with various severity of left ventricular systolic dysfunction by V. I. Podzolkov, N. A. Dragomiretskaya, S. K. Stolbova, I. S. Rusinov

“…Relationships of hepcidin and NT-proBNP levels with following clinical parameters were found: body mass index, presence of obstructive airway diseases, cardiac arrhythmias, as well as low cardiac output syndrome, cardiorenal syndrome and anemia.…”
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The Mounier-Kuhn syndrome by Milić Rade, Plavec Goran, Stojisavljević Marko, Tomić Ilija, Šarac Sanja

“…Clinical presentation is similar to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or bronchiectasis. Computed tomography is gold standard for diagnosis. …”
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Mapping EQ-5D-5L Score From SGRQ in Patients with Asthma and/or COPD in NOVELTY by Jackson D, Quinton A, Zhang F, Müllerová H, Janson C, Sadatsafavi M

“…We fitted six longitudinal linear mixed models to the development sample (baseline and Year 1 data), with EQ-5D-5L as the response variable. …”
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Colonic transendoscopic enteral tubing is revolutionizing intestinal therapeutics, diagnosis, and microbiome research by Zheyu Wang, Xia Wu, Yaxue Wang, Quan Wen, Bota Cui, Faming Zhang

“…These limitations persisted until the invention of colonic transendoscopic enteral tubing (TET) in 2014, which realized repeated fecal microbiota transplantation, medication administration, and decompression drainage for the treatment of colon perforation and intestinal obstruction, as well as in situ dynamic sampling. These breakthroughs have not gone unnoticed, gaining global attention and recommendations from guidelines and consensuses. …”
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Pengaruh Kualitas Pelayanan dan Promosi Media Sosial Instagram terhadap Minat Beli pada Algonz Mart by Jessica Amanda Wohon

“…Aloysius Gonzaga Surabaya. The sampling technique uses non-probability sampling with purposive sampling method. …”
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Association of Respiratory Morbidities with Particulate Air Pollution in Delhi, India- A Prospective Study by Nandini Sharma, Pragya Sharma, M. P. George, Anil K. Singh, Ekta Arora

“…Materials and Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted in five sampled hospitals in Delhi. A pre-designed, pre-tested, semi-structured questionnaire was filled out for each patient with data from hospital records. …”
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