Comparing the Scores of The Functional Movement Screen™ in Individuals with Low Back Pain versus Healthy Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Khalid M. Alkhathami, Bijad Alqahtani

“…# Background The Functional Movement Screen™ (FMS™) is widely used to assess functional movement patterns and illuminate movement dysfunctions that may have a role in injury risk. However, the association between FMS™ scores and LBP remains uncertain…”
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Association of dietary niacin intake with all-cause mortality in chronic kidney disease: A retrospective cohort study of NHANES. by Meijuan Xiang, Jianyun Peng, Zhihong Gui, Ju Jin, Jinling Meng

“…Compared to CKD patients with lower niacin intake ≤19mg, those with niacin intake >33 mg were associated with lower all-cause mortality risk (HR = 0.79, 95%CI: 0.64-0.98). …”
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Analysis of Air Quality Changes and Influencing Factors in Changchun during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 by Hanbo Gao, Ju Wang, Tongnan Li, Chunsheng Fang

“…The results showed that the concentrations of PM2.5, PM10, SO2, NO2, CO were 30.5%–53.8% lower in the Level I period and 49.4%–65.0% lower in the Level II period than in the pre-lockdown period, respectively. …”
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Mediterranean diet improves liver health but does not protect against azoxymethane-induced colon tumorigenesis compared to Western diet in A/J mice by Weimin Guo, Nicholas Crossland, Jimmy W. Crott

“…At the end of the study hepatic Cyp2E1, an enzyme that metabolize AOM, was lower in males than females. Livers from MED diet mice were significantly lighter, had lower histologic Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) scores, and contained less triglycerides than WRN mice. …”
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Kinematics, Kinetics and Muscle Activity Analysis during Single-leg Drop-jump Landing Followed by an Unanticipated Task: Focusing on Differences in Neurocognitive Function by Satoshi Shibata, Masahiro Takemura, Shumpei Miyakawa

“…However, the mechanism by which lower neurocognitive function increases the risk of ACL injury remains unclear…”
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The Concurrent Validity and Reliability of Single Leg Squat Among Physically Active Females with and without Dynamic Knee Valgus by Nazatul Izzati Jamaludin, Farhah Nadhirah Aiman Sahabuddin, Nur Syahmina Rasudin, Shazlin Shaharudin

“…However, 2-D video analysis may not be able to demonstrate the same level of accuracy as three-dimensional (3-D) motion analysis…”
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Band Pull-Apart Exercise: Effects of Movement Direction and Hand Position on Shoulder Muscle Activity by Takumi Fukunaga, Connor Fedge, Timothy Tyler, Michael Mullaney, Brandon Schmitt, Karl Orishimo, Malachy McHugh, Stephen Nicholas

“…Elastic band resistance was chosen to elicit moderate exertion (5/10 on the Borg CR10 scale). The order of the exercises was randomized and three repetitions of each exercise were performed. …”
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Real-world Bleeding Outcomes and Costs Following Vascular Graft Anastomosis Using PROLENE Sutures with HEMO-SEAL Technology in Patients Undergoing Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair by Nadia Y. Sutton, Niels-Derrek Schmitz

“…Fewer sutures per discharge (p<0.0001), lower mean costs of sutures per discharge, higher median costs of sutures per discharge (p=0.0045), and fewer transfusions (0.0019) were also seen in the HEMO-SEAL suture group compared with the standard PROLENE suture group. …”
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A systematic review and meta-analysis assessing adverse event profile and tolerability of nicergoline by Amit Garg, Jun Xu, Mario Fioravanti, Taku Nakashima

“…Frequency of anxiety was significantly lower in nicergoline as compared with placebo (p=0.01). …”
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Femur Length is Correlated with Isometric Quadriceps Strength in Post-Operative Patients by Robert S Dean, Nicholas N DePhillipo, Michael T Kiely, Nicole A Schwery, Jill K Monson, Robert F LaPrade

“…# BACKGROUND Few existing studies have examined the relationship between lower extremity bone length and quadriceps strength…”
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Reliability of the Expanded Cutting Alignment Scoring Tool (E-CAST) to Assess Trunk and Limb Alignment During a 45-Degree Side-Step Cut by Lauren S. Butler, Alexa R. Martinez, Dai Sugimoto, Charles W. Wyatt, Eryn K. Milian, Sophia Ulman, Ashley Erdman, Alex Loewen, Kristin Hayden, Amie DeVerna, Kirsten Tulchin-Francis, PRiSM Injury Prevention Research Interest Group

“… # Results The cumulative intra-rater reliability was good (ICC=0.78, 95% CI 0.59-0.96) and the cumulative inter-rater reliability was moderate (ICC=0.71, 95% CI 0.50-0.91). …”
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Clinicopathological characteristics and long-term prognosis of triple-negative breast cancer patients with HER2-Low expression: a retrospective propensity score-matched cohort stud... by Xin Liu, Kaihua Zhao, Ziyan Zhang, Meiyan Liu, Hongwu Chu, Xiao Zou

“…Results HER2-low TNBC patients had lower histological grade, lower Ki-67 expression levels, and a higher prevalence of hypertension compared to HER2-zero TNBC patients. …”
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Single-Leg Vertical Hop Test Detects Greater Limb Asymmetries Than Horizontal Hop Tests After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in NCAA Division 1 Collegiate Athletes by Michael J Zarro, Matthew G Stitzlein, Jason S Lee, Robert W Rowland, Vicki L Gray, Jeffrey B Taylor, Sean J Meredith, Jonathan D Packer, Christa M Nelson

“… # Conclusions Individuals after ACLR had lower LSI on the SLVH than on horizontal hop tests and weak to moderate correlations between the tests suggest SLVH detects performance deficits not identified by the horizontal hop tests…”
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No closure of the linea alba cervicalis reduces complications in endoscopic thyroidectomy by Tiantian Jiang, Yuanhao Su, Yongke Wu, Cheng Li, Tingkai Sun, Yunhao Li, Yuanyuan Ji, Zhidong Wang

“…The improvement group showed a lower incidence of neck edema (3/71,4.2% vs. 10/71,14.1%) and a lower score on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) 5 days after the operation (3 ± 1.2 vs. 4 ± 1.3) between the two groups (P < 0.05), and there is no significant difference in the overall incidence of postoperative complications between the two groups (P>0.05). …”
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Political Interference and Social Service Delivery in Kanaba Sub-County Kisoro District. by Tumushime, Bosco

“…It was also indicated that high bureaucratic discretion shifts the balance of power away from politicians, political leadership deficiencies, emergency of local governing class without ideological commitment, no explicit formulation of any value, power struggle, ideology in political space and consolidation were the consequences of political interferences to service delivery. …”
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Intervertebral Disc Degeneration in Long-Term Postoperative Patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: MRI Evaluation 34-51 Years after Surgery and its Changes during Middle an... by Tsutomu Akazawa, Toshiaki Kotani, Tsuyoshi Sakuma, Yasushi Iijima, Yoshiaki Torii, Jun Ueno, Atsuhiro Yoshida, Ken Tomochika, Sumihisa Orita, Yawara Eguchi, Kazuhide Inage, Yasuhiro Shiga, Junichi Nakamura, Yusuke Matsuura, Takane Suzuki, Hisateru Niki, Seiji Ohtori, Shohei Minami

“…Comparison between patients with the lower instrumented vertebra (LIV) at L4 or lower and L3 or higher revealed significantly higher disc scores and 100% prevalence of DD in the L4 or lower group. …”
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Evaluation of the WRF-CMAQ Model Performances on Air Quality in China with the Impacts of the Observation Nudging on Meteorology by Jiali Li, Shaocai Yu, Xue Chen, Yibo Zhang, Mengying Li, Zhen Li, Zhe Song, Weiping Liu, Pengfei Li, Min Xie, Jia Xing

“…The results of regional O3 over China revealed that the Nudging case reproduced the spatial patterns of observed mean O3 concentrations in the 367 cities very well with the NMB value of 0.97%, much lower than –5.67% in the base case. …”
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