Conventional in vitro fertilization enhances preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy outcomes in couples with non-male factor infertility by Xiaolan Li, Qian Li, Yajie Chang, Shujing He, Yanfang Wang, Xiaoyan Liang, Zhiqiang Zhang

“…Matching was based on maternal age (± 2 years), number of oocytes retrieved (± 3), and progressive motile sperm count (± 3 × 106). …”
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Teen Perspectives on Integrating Digital Mental Health Programs for Teens Into Public Libraries (“I Was Always at the Library”): Qualitative Interview Study by Ashley A Knapp, Katherine Cohen, Kaylee P Kruzan, Rachel Kornfield, Miguel Herrera, Aderonke B Pederson, Sydney Lee, Kathryn Macapagal, Chantelle A Roulston, Kaleigh Clarke, Clarisa Wijaya, Robert Simmons, Latonia Jackson, Simrandeep Kour, Sandra Franco, David C Mohr

“…MethodsWe interviewed 16 teens aged 12-18 (mean 15.2, SD 2.0) years who used the library frequently at the time of the interviews. …”
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Comparing the Accuracy of Different Wearable Activity Monitors in Patients With Lung Cancer and Providing Initial Recommendations: Protocol for a Pilot Validation Study by Roberto M Benzo, Rujul Singh, Carolyn J Presley, Macy K Tetrick, Zachary L Chaplow, Chloe M Hery, Jane Yu, Peter Washington, Frank J Penedo, Electra D Paskett, Vipul Lugade, Emma Fortune

“…Validated survey instruments will be administered both before and after WAM data collection to control for potential confounding factors that may influence movement patterns and device accuracy. Laboratory-based validity measures will compare WAM data to video-recorded observations. …”
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Mediating Effects of Systemic Inflammation on the Association Between Body Roundness Index and Periodontitis in US Adults by Hui Zhang, Zhengyun Ren, Xi Peng, Tailin Guo

“…Restricted Cubic Spline (RCS) modelling explored nonlinear patterns. The predictive performance of BRI for periodontitis was compared with traditional anthropometric indices using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves. …”
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The effect of photodynamic therapy on the wound process dynamics in patients with purulent hand diseases by J. L. Chepurnaya, G. G. Melkonyan, N. T. Gul’muradova, A. A. Sorokin

“…The analysis of cytological and morphological patterns also revealed an accelerated switch from the inflammatory stage of the wound process to the reparative one - the reparative processes in the PDT group began earlier by 2 days. …”
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Arthroscopic all-inside ACL reconstruction with anterolateral tendon fixation: a prospective cohort study on restoring rotational stability in high-grade tibial shift by Haoran Gu, Aifang Niu, Jingrui Ji, Miao He, Ying Yang, Junxia Lu, Jianghong Lv, Yongdong Yi, Hui Zhou, Wuping Zhou

“…Early outcomes demonstrate promising functional recovery and objective stability at short-term follow-up, suggesting that this technique may offer biomechanical benefits for managing severe instability patterns. However, long-term studies are needed to confirm the durability of these results.…”
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Research Status and Direction of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Complicated with Coronary Heart Disease: A Bibliometric Analysis from 2005 to 2024 by Bian H, Zhu S, Xing W, Qi L, Xue J, Peng X, Jin Z, Zhao H

“…Visual analyses were performed using VOSviewer, CiteSpace, and Bibliometrix to assess countries, institutions, the centrality of institutional intermediaries, authorship patterns, including co-cited authors and references, and keywords; Excel (version 2021) software was utilized for generating relevant descriptive analysis tables.Results: A total of 2420 publications sourced from WOS were included in this study. …”
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Endoscopic management of large laterally spreading colorectal tumors (LSTs): a comparative study of techniques and outcomes by V. S. Tkachov, O. M. Kiosov, A. V. Klymenko

“…The mean patient age was 64.59 ± 10.89 years. LSTs were granular in 66 % of cases and non-granular in 34 %. …”
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Tobacco smoking and smokeless tobacco use among people living with HIV in Zambia: Findings from a 2023 National NCD/HIV Survey. by Cosmas Zyambo, Paul Somwe, Chomba Mandyata, Mwiche Musukuma, Phoebe Bwembya, Henry Phiri, Malizgani P Chavula, Hikabasa Halwindi, Joseph Zulu, Wilbroad Mutale

“…Tobacco smoking, SLT use, behavioral patterns, and clinical characteristics were assessed. …”
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Benralizumab Outcomes in Patients with Severe Eosinophilic Asthma Treated in Real-Life Settings: Results of the BREEZE Study in 5 Countries From Central Eastern Europe and Baltics by Mihaltan F, Csoma Z, Pauk N, Irás B, Baukienė J, Teodorescu G, Malakauskas K, Staevska M

“…., 1117, Budapest, Hungary, Tel +36 1883 6500, Email Bela.Iras@AstraZeneca.comPurpose: To describe real-world clinical characteristics, treatment patterns and outcomes of severe eosinophilic asthma (SEA) patients initiated on benralizumab after treatment authorization in Central Eastern Europe and Baltic Area.Patients and Methods: BREEZE was a retrospective, medical chart review with a pre-post design conducted in 42 clinical centers from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania and Romania. …”
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Anthropology and demography by Bošković Aleksandar

“…One of them is Patrick Heady′s study of the shift in ritual patterns, which combines elements of some "classical" anthropological topics (Mauss’s theory of gift exchange and Lévi-Strauss′s concept of kinship) with his own field research in the Carnian Alps. …”
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Autonomic support of endurance, strength and speed performance in athletes by S. M. Kanyhina, V. V. Syvolap, M. S. Potapenko

“…Examining the autonomic support of muscular activity in athletes enables an assessment of the ANS impact on achieving a high-level of sports performance at different ages, an identification of interaction patterns between the ANS divisions in the process of short-term and long-term adaptation to muscular load, identifying the features of the cardiovascular system autonomic regulation in athletes training different physical performance Aim. …”
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Locally adapted guidelines: a scoping review by Dawid Pieper, Alexander Pachanov, Carolin Bahns, Robert Prill, Christian Kopkow, Eni Shehu, Adaptation Working Group-Guidelines International Network, Kyung-Eun Anna Choi

“…One barrier to CPG implementation is inconsistency between recommendations and existing practice patterns. This can include patients, personnel, structure, availability of resources, cultural and ethical values. …”
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A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Single-Center, Crossover Study to Evaluate the Effects of Pre-Meal Whey Protein Microgel on Post-Prandial Glucometabolic and Amino Acid Response i... by Ian J Neeland, Luiz H de Gregório, Roberto Zagury, Bo Ahrén, Joel Neutel, Christian Darimont, John Corthesy, Yohan Grzywinski, Emilie Perrin, Maximilian von Eynatten, Odd Erik Johansen

“…Postprandial plasma BCAA patterns were characterized by a rapid increase and larger iAUC_0–2h (all <i>p</i> < 0.001) after WPM. …”
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Large-scale epidemiology of opisthorchiasis in 21 provinces in Thailand based on diagnosis by fecal egg examination and urine antigen assay and analysis of risk factors for infecti... by Kulthida Y Kopolrat, Chanika Worasith, Phattharaphon Wongphutorn, Anchalee Techasen, Chatanun Eamudomkarn, Jiraporn Sithithaworn, Watcharin Loilome, Nisana Namwat, Attapol Titapun, Chaiwat Tawarungruang, Bandit Thinkhamrop, Samarn Futrakul, Simon D Taylor-Robinson, Melissa R Haswell, Narong Khuntikeo, Thomas Crellen, Paiboon Sithithaworn

“…Similar aggregate distribution patterns of fecal egg counts (EPG) and urine antigen concentrations suggest that the urine assay has potential for quantitative diagnostic evaluations. …”
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A first large study of whole-exome sequencing (WES) in 489 patients with suspected rare genetic disorders at a tertiary centre in Malaysia by Lip Hen Moey, Go Hun Seo, Boon Eu Cheah, Wee Teik Keng, Hane Lee, Gaik Siew Ch’ng

“…Twenty one patients were diagnosed with a copy-number-variant (CNV). The inheritance patterns of the diagnosed disorders were 64 % autosomal dominant (171/268), 24 % autosomal recessive (65/268) and 12 % X-linked (32/268). 82 % (401/489) of the patients opted to receive secondary finding results, of which 5.5 % (22/401, 95 % CI: 3.6 %-8.2 %) had P/LP variants in genes associated with cardiovascular disorders (64 %, 14/22) or cancer (27 %, 6/22). …”
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Association of biological aging acceleration transitions and burdens with incident cardiovascular disease: longitudinal insights from a national cohort study by Xin Zhang, Yu Yan, Yuxin Liu, Zixin Wang, Yuchen Jiang, Shuo Zhang, Tongda Xu, Ke Wang, Chu Zheng, Ping Zeng

“…Results Compared to individuals maintaining stable non-accelerated aging patterns, those transitioning to accelerated aging status showed a 29.8% (4.2–61.8%) increased CVD risk, while participants with sustained accelerated aging demonstrated a more pronounced 65.5% (35.9–101.5%) risk elevation. …”
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Implementing large language model and retrieval augmented generation to extract geographic locations of illicit transnational kidney trade by Zifu Wang, Meng-Hao Li, Patrick Baxter, Olzhas Zhorayev, Jiaxin Wei, Valerie Kovacs, Qiuhan Zhao, Chaowei Yang, Naoru Koizumi

“…Additionally, the Llama3.3-70B model with chain-of-thought prompt tuning strategies extracted location-based roles with an accuracy of 86.30% for sellers, 88.89% for buyers, 93.33% for brokers, and 95.93% for surgeries, supporting these observed patterns. We observed in the final database that the kidney trade networks change and evolve dynamically where the primary role played by each country (as a host of either sellers, buyers or surgeries) change over time. …”
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Bioelectrical impedance vector analysis in older adults: reference standards from a cross-sectional study by Francesco Campa, Giuseppe Annunziata, Luigi Barrea, Alessandro Sampieri, Chiara Ceolin, Chiara Ceolin, Marina De Rui, Francesco Sguaizer, Cristian Petri, Fabrizio Spataro, Gabriele Mascherini, Margherita Micheletti Cremasco, Giuseppe Sergi, Tatiana Moro, Antonio Paoli

“…The aim of this study was: (i) to develop new references specific to the older adult population; (ii) to evaluate vector patterns based on age and appendicular lean soft mass (ALMS); (iii) to compare the new references with others already existing in the literature.MethodsThe present study included 835 older adults [472 women (mean age 73.9 ± 7.4 years, BMI 27.2 ± 5.4 kg/m2) and 363 men (mean age 73.1 ± 7.2 years, BMI 27.0 ± 4.4 kg/m2)]. …”
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Renal prognostic value of serum monoclonal immunoglobulin in cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis by Lei Ma, Yuanyuan Xia, Yun Fan, Dan Zhou, Xinchen Yao, Yongzhong Zhong, Fan Yang, Feng Xu, Shaoshan Liang, Yujie Wang, Xiaodong Zhu, Dacheng Chen, Rong Tan, Zhengyun Zhu, Dandan Liang, Caihong Zeng

“…The most common histological pattern of Cryo-GN was membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN), and the MIg group had significantly higher scores of the severity of intracapillary cryo-Plugs than the MIg+HBV/HCV group and the MIg/HBV/HCV negative group. …”
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