Old orogen–young topography: lithological contrasts controlling erosion and relief formation in the Bohemian Massif by J. Robl, F. Dremel, K. Stüwe, S. Hergarten, C. von Hagke, D. Fabel

“…</p> <p>We interpret the measured erosion rates and related topographic patterns as the landscape response to slow and large-scale uplift in concert with strong variations in bedrock erodibility between rocks of the Bohemian Massif and the Neogene Molasse Basin. …”
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Diagnosis of Aortic Wall Elastic Properties Disorders and Its Hemodynamics by K. R. Bril, A. A. Pronkin, T. N. Galyan, V. V. Khovrin

“…Monitoring general hemodynamics and blood flow patterns together with an assessment of the aortic wall elasticity will make it possible to identify patients with borderline aortic dilatation. …”
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May bacterial meningitis pave the way for a toxoplasmosis flare-up: a cross-sectional study from Egypt by Rania Y. Shash, Enas A. El Saftawy, Basma Emad Aboulhoda, Mohamed F. Farag, Asmaa Ibrahim, Mansour A. Alghamdi, Nahla Yassin Sahloul

“…The causative organisms of bacterial meningitis, antibiotic resistance patterns, and physiological aspects of CSF among various age groups were all assessed. …”
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Landscape Analysis and Assessment of Ecosystem Stability Based on Land Use and Multitemporal Remote Sensing: A Case Study of the Zhungeer Open-Pit Coal Mining Area by Yinli Bi, Tao Liu, Yanru Pei, Xiao Wang, Xinpeng Du

“…Intensive mining activities in the Zhungeer open-pit coal mining area of China have resulted in drastic changes to land use and landscape patterns, severely affecting the ecological quality and stability of the region. …”
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Insights into the epidemiological analysis of subarachnoid hemorrhage burden and trends in middle-aged and elderly populations: a global perspective from the Global Burden of Disea... by Guiming Chen, Yuzhou Cai, Meng Ju, Xiye Zheng, Peng Bai

“…This study analyzed global epidemiological patterns, temporal trends, and novel associations between health workforce categories and SAH burden among adults aged ≥ 45 years from 1990 to 2021.MethodsWe utilized Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2021 data across 204 countries and territories. …”
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Epidemiological association of the COVID-19 pandemic on Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in children in Tianjin, China: a single-centre retrospective study (2017–2024) by Wei Wang, Lu Wang, Run Guo, Yun Bo, Yingxue Zou, Hualei Cui

“…The study population consisted of children aged 0–18 years, with a male-to-female ratio of 1.22:1.00. …”
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Effectiveness of dolutegravir-based regimens compared to raltegravir-, elvitegravir-, bictegravir, and darunavir-based regimens among older adults with HIV in the Veterans Aging Co... by Lei Yan, Cassidy E. Henegar, Vincent C. Marconi, Kirsha S. Gordon, Charles Hicks, Vani Vannappagari, Amy C. Justice, Mihaela Aslan

“…Abstract Background Real-world data on treatment patterns and clinical outcomes for newer drugs, including integrase strand transfer inhibitors, among older people with human immunodeficiency virus (PWH) are limited. …”
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Global, regional, and national trends in the epidemiology of aortic aneurysms among women of childbearing age, 1990–2021, with predictions through 2036 by Wei Wang, Yong Shi, Xinyao Li, Tianxiang Gu, Enyi Shi

“…Methods Aortic aneurysm mortality and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) data for women of childbearing age (15–49 years) from 1990 to 2021 were extracted from the 2021 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) dataset. …”
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Inequity in the transmission of malaria infection among children and adolescents: a cohort study in rural Guinea by Almamy Amara Toure, Sidikiba Sidibe, Aboubacar Sidiki Magassouba, Abdoul Habib Beavogui, Mamoudou Conde, Abdoulaye Fodé Toure, Tiany Sidibe, Kaba Saran Keita, Alexandre Delamou, Seni Kouanda

“…This cohort study was conducted in Mafèrinyah, Guinea, with participants aged 1–19 years of age. Data were collected through monthly home visits over nine months, capturing malaria infection (via blood smears), sociodemographic factors, and household characteristics. …”
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Integration of Traditional Indonesian Water Games in Freestyle Swimming Training: Effects on Performance, Stroke Mechanics, and Training Engagement Among Youth Athletes by Rezki Rezki, Mimi Yulianti, Zahratul habibah Zahratul habibah, Zhen Li, Md Shahariar Kabir

“…Twenty-four athletes (14 males, 10 females; age 12-16 years; mean experience 3.4 ± 1.1 years) from the Bangkinang City Swimming Association, Riau, Indonesia participated in this study. …”
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Preoperative differentiation of vagal nerve cervical schwannomas from sympathetic chain cervical schwannomas based on diagnosis score and vascular displacement nomogram by XIANG Shiyu, LI Qiao, SHEN Changqing, GU Yajia, WU Bin

“…The age range was 24-78 years, and the mean age was (51.22±12.36) years. …”
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Assessment of Water Resources Carrying Capacity and Analysis of Its Coupling Coordination in the Yangtze River Economic Belt by XIONG Ying, JIANG Yi-xin, CHEN Si-xuan

“…Spatially, the center of water resources carrying capacity shifted southwestward toward areas with relatively lower capacity, which may be related to regional economic development patterns, industrial restructuring, and differences in water use efficiency. …”
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Viral etiology of severe acute respiratory infections in hospitalized patients, Shandong, China. by Chunwang Li, Yujie He, Xiao Pan, Huimin Yin, Yaowen Pei, Shaoxia Song, Lin Sun, Shu Zhang, Julong Wu, Zhong Li, Xianjun Wang, Zengqiang Kou, Lei Zhao, Weijia Xing, Ti Liu

“…<h4>Background</h4>Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) represents a critical global public health challenge, accounting for substantial severe morbidity and hospitalization burdens with distinct geographical patterns in etiological profiles. This study systematically characterizes the epidemiological and clinical phenotypes of SARI patients in Shouguang county, Shandong Province, China.…”
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Resting-State Activity Changes Induced by tDCS in MS Patients and Healthy Controls: A Simultaneous tDCS rs-fMRI Study by Marco Muccio, Giuseppina Pilloni, Lillian Walton Masters, Peidong He, Lauren Krupp, Abhishek Datta, Marom Bikson, Leigh Charvet, Yulin Ge

“…In total, 20 MS patients (age = 48 ± 12 years; 8 males) and 28 healthy controls (HCs; age = 36 ± 15 years; 12 males) were recruited. …”
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Hypertension control during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of the MMM2021 in Russia by O. P. Rotar, A. M. Erina, M. A. Boiarinova, E. V. Moguchaia, E. P. Kolesova, K. M. Tolkunova, A. R. Gorshevaya, K. A. Kovalenko, E. A. Smirnova, Ya. A. Belenikina, I. V. Bikushova, M. A. Kercheva, A. V. Svarovskaya, M. M. Petrova, D. S. Kaskaeva, P. A. Shcherbina, S. Yu. Nikulina, A. A. Chernova, A. V. Levshin, A. O. Shabelsky, E. I. Zheleznyak, E. A. Kartashova, Yu. A. Sharapova, T. M. Chernykh, M. V. Derevyanchenko, V. V. Fedotov, N. Yu. Shaposhnikova, E. R. Makeeva, O. V. Ulitina, M. V. Menzorov, E. M. Dolya, A. A. Tanicheva, A. O. Konradi, E. V. Shlyakhto

“…All participants were over 18 years of age. During the screening, blood pressure (BP) was measured three times using automatic and mechanical BP monitors. …”
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Influential drivers of the cost-effectiveness of respiratory syncytial virus vaccination in European older adults: a multi-country analysis by Xiao Li, Lander Willem, Caroline Klint Johannesen, Arantxa Urchueguía-Fornes, Toni Lehtonen, Richard Osei-Yeboah, Heini Salo, Alejandro Orrico-Sánchez, Javier Díez-Domingo, Mark Jit, for PROMISE investigators, Joke Bilcke, Harish Nair, Philippe Beutels

“…Plausible hypothetical RSV vaccine characteristics were derived from two protein subunit vaccines for adults aged ≥60 years. A full incremental analysis was conducted by comparing three RSV vaccination strategies: (1) in adults aged ≥60 years (“60y+”); (2) in adults aged ≥65 years (“65y+”); (3) in adults aged ≥75 years (“75y+”) to “no intervention” and to each other. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE GINGIVAL RECESSION PREVALENCE AMONG DENTAL PATIENTS CONSIDERING ASSOCIATED AGE-RELATED, IATROGENIC AND PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES OF DENTAL STATUS by O.A. Krasnokutskyy, P.A. Hasiuk, M.Y. Goncharuk-Khomyn

“…Formation of study sample was provided by the method of block randomization according to the different age subgroups (18-19 years, 20-29 years, 3039 years, 40-49 years and 50-59 years). …”
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Biomarker profile and disease burden associated with intermittent and long-term oral corticosteroid use in patients with severe asthma prior to biologic initiation in real-life (ST... by Florence Schleich, MD, PhD, Désirée Larenas-Linnemann, MD, FAAAAI, Dist.Intl.FACAAI, Alan Altraja, MD, PhD, Luis Pérez de Llano, MD, PhD, Konstantinos Kostikas, MD, PhD, FERS, Mohsen Sadatsafavi, MD, PhD, Arnaud Bourdin, MD, PhD, Roy Alton Pleasants, PharmD, Mark Hew, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, Wenjia Chen, PhD, Libardo Jiménez-Maldonado, MD, Simon Couillard, MD, MSc, Charlotte Suppli Ulrik, MD, DMSc, Adeeb A. Bulkhi, MD, MS, Ming-Ju Tsai, MD, PhD, George C. Christoff, MD, MPH, PhD, Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos, MD, PhD, FRCP, Paul E. Pfeffer, MRCP(UK), PhD, Dermot Ryan, MD, FRCGP, Celine Bergeron, MD, FRCPC, MSc, Mona S. Al-Ahmad, MD, FRCPC, Delbert R. Dorscheid, MD, PhD, Eileen Wang, MD, MPH, John D. Blakey, PhD, Belinda Cochrane, MBBS (Hons), MD, Matthew J. Peters, MD, PhD, Todor A. Popov, MD, PhD, Carlos A. Torres-Duque, MD, Susanne Hansen, PhD, Francesca Puggioni, MD, Kirsty Fletton, MBChB, Laila Salameh, PhD, Peter G. Middleton, MBBS, BSc(Med), PhD, FRACP, FERS, Paulo Márcio Pitrez, MD, PhD, Chin Kook Rhee, MD, PhD, Eve Denton, MBBS(Hons), MPH, PhD, FRACP, Kenneth R. Chapman, MSc, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FERS, Lauri Lehtimäki, MD, PhD, Ruth B. Murray, PhD, Chau-Chyun Sheu, MD, PhD, David J. Jackson, FRCP, PhD, Riyad Al-Lehebi, MD, FRCPC, Mariko Siyue Koh, MBBS, MRCP (UK), FCCP, Bassam Mahboub, MD, Ledit R.F. Ardusso, MD, Athena Gogali, MD, PhD, Giorgio Walter Canonica, MD, Piotr Kuna, MD, PhD, Martin Sivori, MD, PhD, Renaud Louis, MD, PhD, Shelley Abercromby, BSc(Hons), Giuseppe Guida, MD, PhD, Bernt Bøgvald Aarli, MD, PhD, Aaron Beastall, MSc, Victoria Carter, BSc, Ghislaine Scelo, PhD, John Townend, PhD, Borja G. Cosio, MD, PhD, Pujan H. Patel, MD, Celine Yun Yi Goh, MBBS, Zsuzsanna Csoma, MD, PhD, John W. Upham, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, João A. Fonseca, MD, PhD, Peter G. Gibson, MBBS, FRACP, Christine Jenkins, AM, MD, FRACP, Guy G. Brusselle, MD, PhD, Anne Chèvremont, Andréanne Côté, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Carlos Andrés Celis-Preciado, MD, MSc, Ivan Solarte, MD, MHPE, Celeste M. Porsbjerg, MD, PhD, Asger Sverrild, MD, PhD, Paula Kauppi, MD, PhD, Stelios Loukides, MD, FERS, Michael P. Makris, MD, PhD, Andriana I. Papaioannou, MD, PhD, Enrico Heffler, MD, PhD, Jeffrey Shi Kai Chan, MBChB, MPH, FESC, Hyonsoo Joo, MD, PhD, Liam G. Heaney, MD, Wei-Han Cheng, PhD, Njira Lugogo, MD, Michael E. Wechsler, MD, MMSc, Cláudia Chaves Loureiro, MD, PhD, Bellanid Rodríguez-Cáceres, BSc, Tatsuya Nagano, MD, PhD, Zhixiao Wang, PhD, Hao-Chien Wang, MD, PhD, Jorge Máspero, MD, Fernando Saldarini, MD, Ana María Stok, MD, Anahi Yañez, MD, Philip G. Bardin, PhD, Sinthia Z. Bosnic-Anticevich, PhD, Vidya Navaratnam, BMBS, MSc, PhD, Mohit Bhutani, MD, FRCPC, FCCP, M. Diane Lougheed, MSc, MD, FRCP(C), Lyle Melenka, MD, FRCP, B.MSc, Petros Bakakos, MD, Konstantinos P. Exarchos, MD, PhD, Aggelos A. Ladias, MD, Dóra Lúdvíksdóttir, MD, PhD, Takashi Iwanaga, MD, PhD, Elvia Angelica Contreras Contreras, MD, Sverre Lehmann, MD, PhD, José Alberto Ferreira, MD, Rebecca Gall, MD, Pin-Kuei Fu, MD, PhD, Diahn-Warng Perng, MD, PhD, Flavia Hoyte, MD, Rohit Katial, MD, Unnur S. Björnsdóttir, MD, Camille Taillé, MD, PhD, Christian Taube, MD, Breda Cushen, MD, PhD, Lakmini Bulathsinhala, MPH, Leif Bjermer, MD, PhD, David B. Price, FRCGP

“…Biomarker distribution (ie, BEC, fractional exhaled nitric oxide [FeNO], and total Immunoglobulin E [IgE]) were quantified in the year prior to biologic initiation in patients with SA according to OCS prescription pattern. …”
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The association of dietary insulinemic indices with PI3K, PTEN, and Akt gene expressions in visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissues among individuals undergoing abdominal surgery by Hamid Ahmadirad, Farshad Teymoori, Farshad Teymoori, Hossein Farhadnejad, Ghazaleh Shimi, Golaleh Asghari, Emad Yuzbashian, Maryam Zarkesh, Parvin Mirmiran, Parvin Mirmiran, Alireza Khalaj

“…Moreover, the higher insulinemic potential of diet and lifestyle was positively related to a higher expression of the PTEN and Akt genes in VAT.ConclusionOur findings revealed that high insulinemic lifestyles and dietary patterns may be related to the expression of PI3K, PTEN, and Akt in adipose tissues.…”
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Impacts of COVID-19-Induced Human Mobility Changes on Global Wildfire Activity by Liqing Si, Wei Li, Mingyu Wang, Lifu Shu, Feng Chen, Fengjun Zhao, Pengle Cheng, Weike Li

“…Using MODIS data (2010–2022), we analyzed fire patterns during the pandemic (2020–2022) against pre-pandemic baselines. …”
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