Association of Serum Thyroid Hormone Levels with Androgen and Metabolic Parameters in Chinese Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study by Manman Pan, Jinghua Zhang, Qing Zhang, Fangfang Wang, Fan Qu, Mei Jin

“…Independent variables of PCOS were compared among subgroups in accordance with the classification of TSH, homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), and TTE levels. …”
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Jargon and Readability in Plain Language Summaries of Health Research: Cross-Sectional Observational Study by Iain A Lang, Angela King, Kate Boddy, Ken Stein, Lauren Asare, Jo Day, Kristin Liabo

“…Those with the 20% least jargon in the original application were more than 10 times as likely to have low levels of jargon in the final PLS (incidence rate ratio 13.87, 95% CI 5.17-37.2). …”
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Sublittoral Macrobenthic Communities of Storfjord (Eastern Svalbard) and Factors Influencing Their Distribution and Structure by Lyudmila V. Pavlova, Alexander G. Dvoretsky, Alexander A. Frolov, Olga L. Zimina, Olga Yu. Evseeva, Dinara R. Dikaeva, Zinaida Yu. Rumyantseva, Ninel N. Panteleeva, Evgeniy A. Garbul

“…The <i>Spiochaetopterus typicus</i> community (7824 ind m⁻², 139 g m⁻²) was observed in areas under moderate influence of Atlantic waters, characterized by low sedimentation rates and increased fresh detritus flux.…”
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Evidence of differences in diurnal electrodermal, temperature and heart rate patterns by mental health status in free-living data by Xin Liu, Nicholas B Allen, Ming-Zher Poh, Daniel McDuff, Isaac Galatzer-Levy, Seamus Thomson, Andrew Barakat, Conor Heneghan, Samy Abdel-Ghaffar, Jacob Sunshine, Lindsey Sunden, John B Hernandez, Allen Jiang, Ari Winbush, Benjamin Nelson

“…Most strikingly, differences in EDA between those with high versus low symptoms were most prominent during the early morning. …”
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Emergency physician's diagnosis of stroke subtype: an accuracy study Diagnóstico dos subtipos de acidente vascular cerebral: um estudo de acurácia com médicos de emergência by MARLEIDE DA MOTA GOMES, MONICA FONSECA COSTA, CHARLES ANDRÉ, RAQUEL GOMES, SÉRGIO A.P. NOVIS

“…Unstructured diagnosis proved valid for SAH, with a +LHR= 39.7; and to a smaller degree for CI (-LHR= 0.1). However, it exhibited low sensitivity for the diagnosis of CH. Structured tests (Guy's Hospital and Siriraj Hospital) also failed to confidently diagnose stroke subtypes, especially CH. …”
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ANTIATHEROGENIC AND PLEIOTROPIC ACTIVITY OF VARIOUS DOSES OF ATORVASTATIN IN PATIENTS WITH ISCHEMIC STROKE by M. G. Bubnova, E. G. Semenova, D. M. Aronov, T. T. Batysheva

“…The study included 34 IS patients (mean age 58,0±6,6 years) with serum levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-CH) &gt;2,5 mmol/l, arterial hypertension (AH), and BP levels &lt;160/100 mm Hg. …”
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Slow-paced breathing reduces anxiety and enhances midfrontal alpha asymmetry, buffering responses to aversive visual stimuli by Tatsuya Iwabe, Akari Miyakawa, Soshi Kodama, Susumu Yoshida

“…HRV was evaluated by the root mean square of successive differences (RMSSD) and the low-frequency/high-frequency ratio (LF/HF ratio). …”
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Analysis of Learning Obstacles for Junior High School Students in Understanding SPLDV Concepts by Firda Luthfiatika Jannah, Neneng Aminah, Surya Amami Pramuditya, Cita Dwi Rosita, M. Subali Noto

“…This research was motivated by the low ability of students to understand concepts from the literature on SPLDV. …”
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Vehicle extrication in road traffic crashes: a descriptive analysis of an advanced medical rescue service in South Africa by Naseef Abdullah, Jaydon Rose, Egnall Brown, Heike Geduld

“…Introduction: Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs) represent a significant global health challenge, with a disproportionate burden on low- and middle-income countries. Vehicle extrication is a critical Emergency Medical Service (EMS) intervention enabling early assessment and treatment of entrapped patients but remains understudied in resource-limited settings despite its potential impact on patient outcomes. …”
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Prognostic significance of tumor deposit counts in stage III colorectal cancer based on T/N staging and chemotherapy status: A retrospective cohort study by Chenxiao Zheng, MD, Lingsha Xu, MD, Binbin Ou, MD, Ibrahim Mohamed Bakour Abdourahaman, MD, Xuanqin Chen, MD, Hangjia Xu, MD, Yating Zheng, MD, Yifei Pan, MD

“…Chi-square (χ2) tests compared categorical variables. Kaplan–Meier assessed CSS and DFS. Cox regression model evaluated prognostic factors on CSS and DFS. …”
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Deterministic and Stochastic Analysis of Fractional-Order Legendre Filter with Uncertain Parameters by Mohammed A. Hassan, Andrew Amgad, Osama H. Galal

“…The current work presents a deterministic design plan for an optimal fractional-order Legendre low-pass filter along with a stochastic investigation of its parametric uncertainty. …”
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Predicting survival in bladder cancer with a novel apoptotic gene-related prognostic model by Ding-ming Song, Kun Feng, Wen-fei Luo, Dong-shan Lv, Li-po Zhou, Yi-bo He, Yanyang Jin

“…The model can predict patient response to immunotherapy treatment as established through the model’s score which was linked to different types of immune cell infiltration and identified significant differences in the signal pathways between high-risk and low-risk groups. Nomogram variables, prompted from ARGM and clinical parameters, also generate a high predictive value for patient survival. …”
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Evaluating Medical Entity Recognition in Health Care: Entity Model Quantitative Study by Shengyu Liu, Anran Wang, Xiaolei Xiu, Ming Zhong, Sizhu Wu

“…Gemma, fine-tuned using the low-rank adaptation technique, achieved the highest accuracy on the BioCreative V CDR dataset with an AVG_MICRO score of 0.9962 but exhibited variability across the other datasets (AVG_MICRO scores of 0.9088 on the Revised JNLPBA and 0.8029 on AnatEM), indicating a need for further optimization. …”
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Efficacy of Adding Sitagliptin to Ongoing Metformin on Metabolic Profile, Triglyceride-Glucose Index, Vitamin D3, and Liver Tests in Patients Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Nonalcoho... by Habib Yaribeygi, PhD, Majid Ramezani, MD, Niki Katsiki, PhD, MD, Majid Mirmohammadkhani, PhD, Narges Sadat Tabaei, Msc

“…Certain metabolic parameters, that is, fasting blood sugar (FBS), glycosylated hemoglobin, triglycerides (TGs), total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, vitamin D3 (vitD3), alkaline phosphatase, alanine aminotransferase (SGPT), and aspartate aminotransferase, were measured at baseline and after 12 weeks. …”
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Investigating Whether AI Will Replace Human Physicians and Understanding the Interplay of the Source of Consultation, Health-Related Stigma, and Explanations of Diagnoses on Patien... by Weiqi Guo, Yang Chen

“…MethodsA 3 (consultation source: AI vs human-involved AI vs human) × 2 (health-related stigma: low vs high) × 2 (diagnosis explanation: without vs with explanation) factorial experiment was conducted with 249 participants. …”
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Incidence, bacteriological profile and predictors of surgical site infections following limb amputation at Bugando medical centre and Sekou toure referral regional hospital, Mwanza... by Haitham Hamudu, Helmut Nyawale, Vitus Silago, Mariam M. Mirambo, Phillipo L. Chalya, Stephen E. Mshana

“…Odds of SSIs were increased in patients with low age, smoking, high ASA score, prolonged surgery and who received blood transfusion. …”
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Sensitivity of the Baroreceptors and the State of the Autonomic Nervous System in Patients with Chronic Impairment of Consciousness Due to Severe Brain Damage by V. N. Dorogovtsev, D. S. Yankevich, A. L. Parfenov, A. E. Skvortsov, A. V. Kotelnikova

“…Changes in the power of low-frequency (LFS) and highfrequency spectrum (HFS) of heart rate variability and baroreceptors sensibility (BRS) were analyzed. …”
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The role of cyclooxygenase-1 and cyclooxygenase-2 in lipopolysaccharide and interleukin-1 stimulated enterocyte prostanoid formation by W. E. Longo, L. J. Damore, J. E. Mazuski, G. S. Smith, N. Panesar, D. L. Kaminski

“…Prostaglandin D2 production appeared to be variably produced by cyclooxygenase-1 or cyclooxygenase-2, depending on the stimulus.…”
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Measles outbreak investigation in Buah health district, Grand Kru County, Liberia, February-April 2020 by Francis Bobway, Faith Tina Whesseh, Chukwuma David Umeokonkwo, Obafemi Joseph Babalola, Jimmy Lawubah, Himiede Wede Seysay, Lily Sanvee-Blebo, Boye Nuyelleh, Maame Amo-Addae

“…The attack rate was high, but the case fatality rate was low. The majority of the cases were not vaccinated against measles. …”
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Leveraging Landsat and Google Earth Engine for long-term chlorophyll-a monitoring: A case study of Lake Balaton's water quality by Huan Li, Boglárka Somogyi, Xiaona Chen, Zengliang Luo, Katalin Blix, Sirui Wu, Zheng Duan, Viktor R. Tóth

“…With the longest global environmental record and a preferable spatial resolution, the satellite constellation Landsat is used for retrieving Chl-a in this study. However, the common low-frequent in-situ samplings and ∼ 16-day revisit of Landsat have limited both the quality and applicability of Landsat to Chl-a retrieval. …”
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