Complex Transfemoral Access During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Narrative Review of Management, Complexity Scores, and Alternative Access by Ioannis Skalidis, Neila Sayah, Thierry Unterseeh, Thomas Hovasse, Francesca Sanguineti, Philippe Garot, Youcef Lounes, Antoinette Neylon, Mariama Akodad

“…IVL uses pulsatile sonic waves to fragment arterial calcifications, enhancing vessel compliance and facilitating safe device delivery. …”
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Proglacial lake development and outburst flood hazard at Fjallsjökull glacier, southeast Iceland by G. H. Wells, G. H. Wells, Þ. Sæmundsson, Þ. Sæmundsson, F. Pálsson, G. Aðalgeirsdóttir, E. Magnússon, R. L. Hermanns, R. L. Hermanns, S. Guðmundsson

“…Three zones on the valley walls above Fjallsjökull have high topographic potential of sourcing rock falls or avalanches that could enter Fjallsárlón and generate displacement waves that could exit the lake as GLOFs, impacting visitors and infrastructure at this popular tourism site. …”
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Characteristics of Seashore Saline Soils in Guangdong Province and Improvement Strategies by Peizhi XU, Wenju DAI, Xu HUANG, Bishan LIN, Zhaobing ZENG, Qiao ZHANG, Kaizhi XIE

“…Seashore saline soil is a kind of soil formed after the sediments flowing into the sea with surface runoff or shallow sea sediments lifted up by wind and waves, flocculated and deposited in the intertidal zone under the action of tides and ocean currents, and finally exposed to the sea surface as the result of continuously silting up. …”
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Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Employment on the Elderly Mental Health in China by Wang H, Ge Q

“…This study aimed to investigate the impact of employment on the mental health of elderly persons in China, leveraging middle-range theory to understand the nuanced social significance of employment as a status passage.Methods: This paper selected older adults aged 60 to 75 years from three waves (2015, 2018, and 2020) of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) survey data as the analytical cohort. …”
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Prolonged heat stress in Brassica napus during flowering negatively impacts yield and alters glucosinolate and sugars metabolism by Mariam Kourani, Maria Anastasiadi, John P. Hammond, Fady Mohareb

“…The global transcriptome profiling, integrated with the metabolic analysis in the study, shed the light on key genes and metabolic pathways impacted and responded to abiotic stresses exhibited as a result of exposure to heat waves during flowering. DEGs and metabolites identified through this study could serve as important biomarkers for breeding programs to select cultivars with stronger resistance to heat. …”
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Anti-centromere antibody positivity with coexisting idiopathic portal hypertension and primary biliary cholangitis progressing to limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis: a case repor... by Yuya Ando, Suguru Mabuchi, Norikazu Mataki, Satoshi Nakayama, Arata Honda, Mari Kamiya, Shinsuke Yasuda, Hiroaki Takeo, Shigeaki Aono, Masayoshi Hashimoto, Kenichi Harada, Naoya Murashima

“…Abstract Background Anti-centromere antibodies are autoantibodies that selectively bind to the centromere region of chromosomes. …”
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Factors Affecting the Ideals of Childbearing among Young People within Iranian Ethnic Groups by Zahra Ghorbani, Mohamad Aghasi

“…Materials & Methods This study employed secondary analysis of data from the second wave of the National Survey of Youth Attitudes toward Marriage and Family Formation, which was conducted in 2019 by using questionnaires and face-to-face interviews. …”
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Associations between arterial stiffening and brain structure, perfusion, and cognition in the Whitehall II Imaging Sub-study: A retrospective cohort study. by Sana Suri, Scott T Chiesa, Enikő Zsoldos, Clare E Mackay, Nicola Filippini, Ludovica Griffanti, Abda Mahmood, Archana Singh-Manoux, Martin J Shipley, Eric J Brunner, Mika Kivimäki, John E Deanfield, Klaus P Ebmeier

“…Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) was measured in 2007-2009 (Phase 9) and at a 4-year follow-up in 2012-2013 (Phase 11). …”
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Electroacupuncture for the treatment of ischemic stroke: A preclinical meta-analysis and systematic review by Guohui Yang, Chong Guan, Meixi Liu, Yi Lin, Ying Xing, Yashuo Feng, Haozheng Li, Yi Wu, Nianhong Wang, Lu Luo

“…Subgroup analyses indicated that electroacupuncture was most effective in the transient middle cerebral artery occlusion model (P < 0.01) and in post-middle cerebral artery occlusion intervention (P < 0.01). Dispersive waves were found to outperform continuous waves with respect to neuroprotection and anti-inflammatory effects (P < 0.01), while scalp acupoints demonstrated greater efficacy than body acupoints (P < 0.01). …”
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Promising methods of prenatal diagnostics based on passive sensors and machine learning by A. A. Ivshin, V. M. Vorobyova, N. A. Malyshev

“…Current methods of fetal monitoring based on using active ultrasound waves have a number of limitations: insufficiently high diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, lack of prognostic significance and impossible long-term use. …”
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AN INDIVIDUALIZED RISK ASSESSMENT OF SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH IN DILATION CARDIOMYOPATHY PATIENTS by T. G. Vaykhanskaya, L. N. Sivitskaya, T. V. Kurushko, N. G. Danilenko, O. P. Melnikova, A. V. Frolov

“…With an original software “Intecard 7”, with the data of 7-minute ECG-12 registration, we evaluated markers of electrical instability of myocardium — microvoltage alternans of T-waves (mATW), turbulence of cardiac rhythm (TCR), intervals QT and JT dispersion, acceleration and deceleration of cardiac rhythm. …”
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Developing an indicator for community-level age-friendly communities: the Japan gerontological evaluation study by Satoko Fujihara, Taiji Noguchi, Kazushige Ide, Seungwon Jeong, Katsunori Kondo, Toshiyuki Ojima

“…Methods A repeated cross-sectional design used data from the 2016 and 2019 waves of the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES) covering 61 school districts in 16 municipalities (45,162 individuals aged 65 and older in 2016 and 39,313 in 2019). …”
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The Manitoba Personalized Lifestyle Research (TMPLR) study protocol: a multicentre bidirectional observational cohort study with administrative health record linkage investigating... by Navdeep Tangri, Dylan Mackay, Rebecca C Mollard, Matthew Granger, Sharon Bruce, Heather Blewett, Jared Carlberg, Todd Duhamel, Peter Eck, Patrick Faucher, Naomi C Hamm, Ehsan Khafipour, Diana McMillan, Semone Myrie, Amir Ravandi, Meghan Azad, Peter JH Jones

“…Blood pressure, pulse wave velocity, and augmentation index will be measured on two consecutive days. …”
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Ayahuasca-inspired DMT/HAR formulation reduces brain differentiation between self and other faces by Dila Suay, Helena D. Aicher, Micheal Kometer, Michael J. Mueller, Luzia Caflisch, Alexandra Hempe, Camilla P. Steinhart, Claudius Elsner, Ilhui A. Wicki, Jovin Müller, Daniel Meling, Dario A. Dornbierer, Milan Scheidegger, Davide Bottari

“…Crucially, DMT/HAR reduced the neural differentiation between self and other faces occurring within the P300 wave compared to Harmine alone, and Placebo. Familiar face processing remained stable across conditions, suggesting that socially meaningful representations were preserved despite psychedelic-induced perceptions shifts. …”
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The Factors Influencing the Incidence, Persistence, and Severity of Symptoms After SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Chinese Adults: A Case–Control Study by Weixiao Wang, Runjie Qi, Siyue Jia, Zhihang Peng, Hongxing Pan, Ming Xu, Yuanbao Liu, Xiaoqiang Liu, Qing Wang, Li Zhang, Jihai Tang, Hao Yang, Pengfei Jin, Simin Li, Jingxin Li

“…For each confirmed case, a matched control was selected through simple random sampling, matched on sex, age (±5 years), and province of residence. …”
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Evaluating electrical stability in left bundle branch area pacing for bradycardia patients at follow-up by Sem Briongos-Figuero, MD, PhD, Álvaro Estévez Paniagua, MD, PhD, Manuel Tapia Martínez, MD, Silvia Jiménez Loeches, MD, Ana Sánchez Hernández, MD, Delia Heredero Palomo, RN, Elena Sánchez López, RN, Arantxa Luna Cabadas, RN, Roberto Muñoz-Aguilera, MD, PhD

“…V6-R wave peak time (RWPT), V1-RWTP, and QRS duration were compared. …”
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Depression and its influencing factors among older adults with chronic pain in China: an empirical analysis based on CHARLS data by Guojun Wang, Shiwei Huang, Ning Sun, Wenjin Gui, Yongjun Wang

“…This study explores the related factors of depression in older adults with chronic pain in China and provide evidence and reference for the formulation of intervention policies and measures.MethodsUsing the data of the fifth wave of national survey conducted by the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2020, a total of 10,581 older adults with chronic pain were selected as research objects, and their depression status was measured by the Depression Scale (CES-D). …”
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Seroprevalence of IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among the general population and healthcare workers in India, June-July 2021: A population-based cross-sectional study. by Manoj V Murhekar, Tarun Bhatnagar, Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj, V Saravanakumar, Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, Sriram Selvaraju, Kiran Rade, C P Girish Kumar, R Sabarinathan, Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S Muhammad Salim Khan, M Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav, Balram Bhargava, ICMR serosurveillance group

“…India experienced a severe second wave of COVID-19 during March-June 2021. We conducted a fourth nationwide serosurvey to estimate prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the general population aged ≥6 years and healthcare workers (HCWs).…”
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Synthesis, antimicrobial and antifungal activity of 3-(2-bromophenyl)-5-(alkylthio)-4-phenyl-4H-1,2,4-triazoles by A. A. Safonov, O. I. Panasenko

“…To select a molecule that could become a promising pharmacological agent, chemists use already-known heterocyclic bases by adding pharmacologically active groups. …”
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Identifying lifelong factors that impact brain health and functional outcomes in adults with childhood-onset type 1 diabetes: the cognition and longitudinal assessments of risk fac... by Velandai K Srikanth, Eva L Feldman, Chris Moran, Lili Zhao, Amy Brown, Richard Beare, Elisabeth A Northam, Emily J Koubek, Stacey A Sakowski, Taya Collyer, Chris L. Adamson, Fergus J. Cameron

“…Data from this study and previous waves will be used to (Aim 1) explore cross-sectional and longitudinal impacts of T1D on brain health over 30 years. …”
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