Rates and causes of mortality among children and young people with and without intellectual disabilities in Scotland: a record linkage cohort study of 796 190 school children by Angela Henderson, Sally-Ann Cooper, Deborah Kinnear, Craig Melville, J P Pell, Michael Fleming, Gillian S Smith

“…Objectives To investigate mortality rates and causes in children and young people with intellectual disabilities.Design Retrospective cohort; individual record linkage between Scotland’s annual pupil census and National Records of Scotland death register.Setting General community.Participants Pupils receiving local authority-funded schooling in Scotland, 2008 to 2013, with an Additional Support Need due to intellectual disabilities, compared with other pupils.Main outcome measures Deaths up to 2015: age of death, age-standardised mortality ratios (age-SMRs); causes of death including cause-specific age-SMRs; avoidable deaths as defined by the UK Office of National Statistics.Results 18 278/947 922 (1.9%) pupils had intellectual disabilities. 106 died over 67 342 person-years (crude mortality rate=157/100 000 person-years), compared with 458 controls over 3 672 224 person-years (crude mortality rate=12/100 000 person-years). …”
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Miotonia congênita: relato de sete pacientes Congenital myotonia: report of seven patients by Helga C. A. Azevedo, Lúcia I. Z. Mendonça, Paulo N. B. Salum, Mary S. Carvalho, Sueli K. Nagahashi-Marie, Alzira A. Siqueira-Carvalho, Maria A. Cerqueira, Umbertina C. Reed, José A. Levy

“…The current trend is to group them as ionic channels diseases, together with the periodic paralysis.The authors accompanied the cases of seven patients, six males and one female, with ages ranging from 16 to 48 years (average 27 years) and onset of symptons between 1 and 10 years (average 5 years). …”
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Asthma prescribing trends, inhaler adherence and outcomes: a Real-World Data analysis of a multi-ethnic Asian Asthma population by Ming Ren Toh, Gerald Xuan Zhong Ng, Ishita Goel, Shao Wei Lam, Jun Tian Wu, Chun Fan Lee, Marcus Eng Hock Ong, David Bruce Matchar, Ngiap Chuan Tan, Chian Min Loo, Mariko Siyue Koh

“…To address these gaps, we performed a real-world data analysis of inhaler prescribing pattern and adherence in a multi-ethnic Asian asthma cohort and evaluated the association with asthma outcomes. …”
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Clinical Phenotypes and Age-Related Differences in Presentation, Treatment, and Outcome of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Vietnamese Multicenter Research by Ngoc-Thanh-Van Nguyen, Diep Tuan Tran, Pham Le An, Sy Van Hoang, Hoai-An Nguyen, Hoa Ngoc Chau

“…Mean age was 67.6 (40.9% < 65 years). 62.3% were female. 82.4% were diagnosed within 5 years. …”
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Assessment of land use and land cover changes and their impact on land surface temperature in Greater Accra, Ghana by Dennis Ngminmaale Gyile, Austin Asare, Augustine Prosper Osei-Gyabaah, David Anaafo

“…Thermal patterns were examined using non-parametric analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Spearman’s correlation analysis. …”
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Neuromuscular Fatigue Profile of Prepubertal and Adult Female Handball Players by Anastasia Papavasileiou, Eleni Bassa, Anthi Xenofondos, Panagiotis Meletakos, Konstantinos Noutsos, Dimitrios A. Patikas

“…This study aimed to examine the neuromuscular fatigue and recovery patterns in prepubertal and adult female handball players, focusing on the soleus (SOL) and tibialis anterior (TA) muscles. …”
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High Performance Frequent Subgraph Mining on Transaction Datasets: A Survey and Performance Comparison by Bismita S. Jena, Cynthia Khan, Rajshekhar Sunderraman

“…Frequent subgraph mining is one such area where the task is to find overly recurring patterns/subgraphs. To tackle this problem, many main memory-based methods were proposed, which proved to be inefficient as the data size grew exponentially over time. …”
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The Innovative XClinic Tool: A Pilot Study Validating Its Precision in Measuring Range of Motion in Healthy Individuals by Giovanni Galeoto, Ilaria Ruotolo, Giovanni Sellitto, Emanuele Amadio, Enrica Di Sipio, Raffaele La Russa, Gianpietro Volonnino, Paola Frati

“…XClinic movement sensors are advanced devices designed to analyze movement patterns with high precision. The aim of this study was to validate wearable XClinic sensors for range of motion (ROM) in healthy subjects and obtain normative data. …”
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The Impact of Sensory Processing on Sleep among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review by S Deepak Vignesh Raj, Ganapathy Sankar umaiorubagam, Redkar Simran Sandeep

“…Many studies on sleep in children with ASD have reported a high incidence of irregular sleep patterns and poor sleep quality. Recent research has highlighted the potential link between Sensory Processing (SP) difficulties and sleep disturbances in children with ASD. …”
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Clinical neuropathology of early‐stage Pick's disease initially diagnosed as depressive disorder: A case report and case series comparison by Araki Kimura, Ito Kawakami, Kenji Ikeda, Akito Nagakura, Kazuhiro Niizato, Kenichi Oshima, Tadafumi Kato, Masato Hasegawa

“…We report a case of PiD with a short disease duration and compare it to a case series to reveal the association between degenerative patterns and clinical manifestations. Case Presentation The patient showed a marked decline in motivation at the age of 54 years. …”
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Optimizing fertilizer application and straw return to fields to minimize nitrogen and phosphorus runoff losses in double-rice cropping systems by Ying Zhang, Jian Zhu, Changjun Li, Hua Peng, Ji Liu, Yue Luo, Min Song, Yanjiao Dai, Kai Deng, Xionghui Ji

“…Unknown of long-term patterns of losses and mechanisms driving runoff N and P in double-rice cropping systems limited the development of effective mitigation strategies. …”
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Frequency anomalies and characteristics of extratropical cyclones during extremely wet, dry, windy, and calm seasons in the extratropics by H. Binder, H. Wernli

“…This study therefore uses 1050 years of present-day (1990–1999) climate simulations of the Community Earth System Model Large Ensemble (CESM-LE) and 71 years (1950–2020) of ERA5 reanalyses to systematically identify extremely wet, dry, windy, and calm seasons in the extratropics during winter and summer and to quantify the role of extratropical cyclones in their occurrence. …”
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Factors affecting survival of adult female white‐tailed deer after coyote establishment in south Carolina by John C. Kilgo, Mark Vukovich, Michael J. Conroy, H. Scott Ray, Charles Ruth

“…Our model‐averaged prediction of annual survival was 0.871 (95% CI = 0.839–0.902) and did not vary among years. The best model describing survival patterns included only month, with survival being lowest during November–December, which coincided with hunting season. …”
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Testing a capacity-load model for hypertension: disentangling early and late growth effects on childhood blood pressure in a prospective birth cohort. by Carlos S Grijalva-Eternod, Debbie A Lawlor, Jonathan C K Wells

“…Both pre- and postnatal growth patterns have been associated with later blood pressure (BP), but in contrasting directions. …”
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What is the relationship between deprivation, modifiable factors and childhood deaths: a cohort study using the English National Child MortalityDatabase by Jennifer J Kurinczuk, Tom Williams, Karen Luyt, Ingrid Wolfe, David Odd, Sylvia Stoianova, Dawn Odd

“…Objectives The aim of this analysis is to identify the patterns of social deprivation and childhood mortality; and identify potential points where public health, social and education interventions, or health policy may be best targeted.Design Decile of deprivation and underlying population distribution was derived using Office for National Statistics data. …”
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Mapping and interpreting spatio-temporal trends in vegetation restoration following mining disturbances in large-scale surface coal mining areas by Yaling Xu, Yaling Xu, Guozhu Yang, Yicong Zhang, Junting Guo, Chengye Zhang

“…This study employs the Detecting Breakpoints and Estimating Segments in Trend (DBEST) to map the historical patterns of vegetation disturbance and subsequent recovery at the Shendong coal base. …”
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Latent classes of anthropometric growth in early childhood using uni- and multivariate approaches in a South African birth cohort. by Noëlle van Biljon, Marilyn T Lake, Liz Goddard, Maresa Botha, Heather J Zar, Francesca Little

“…<h4>Background</h4>Defining growth patterns during childhood is key to identifying future health risk and vulnerable periods for potential interventions. …”
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Prevalence of Vibrio cholerae in an Acute Watery Diarrhea Outbreak in Sulaymaniyah City, Iraq by Hastyar Hamarashid Najmuldeen, Karzan Rafiq Sidiq, Fakher Karim Rahim, Karzan Taha Abubaker, Mazin Frya Faraj, Sima Rahman Qadir, Sina Khalil Ismael, Nozad Hussein Mahmood

“…Antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) was conducted to assess resistance patterns. The outbreak prevalence was 0.015%, with the highest infection rate in August (0.009%). …”
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Characteristics of <i>Mycoplasma pneumoniae</i> Pneumonia in Romanian Children by Alexandru Ioan Ulmeanu, Georgiana-Eugenia Ciuparu, Elena Roxana Matran

“…The cohort’s median age [IQR] was 12.6 [8–15] years, with 11.1% (n = 7) under 6 years old. The radiographic findings revealed a predominance of right lung involvement (52.4%, n = 33, <i>p</i> = 0.03) and a significantly higher prevalence of alveolar infiltrates compared to interstitial patterns (88.9%, n = 56, <i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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Comparative analysis of EEG in patients with schizophrenia receiving various atypical antipsychotics by S. A. Galkin, E. G. Kornetova, S. A. Ivanova

“…We examined 94 patients with schizophrenia aged 33 [28; 40] years with a disease duration of 10 [4; 15] years. …”
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