Features of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) in diabetic patients with resistant hypertension by M. A. Manukyan, A. Y. Falkovskaya, V. F. Mordovin, T. R. Ryabova, I. V. Zyubanova, A. M. Gusakova, T. E. Suslova

“…All patients underwent baseline office and 24-hour BP measurement, echocardiography with assess diastolic function, lab tests (basal glycemia, HbA1c, creatinine, aldosterone, TNF-alpha, hsCRP, brain naturetic peptide, metalloproteinases of types 2, 9 (MMP-2, MMP-9) and tissue inhibitor of MMP type 1 (TIMP-1)). …”
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Clinical presentation and outcome of Graves disease in pediatric patients with and without type 1 diabetes: a retrospective cohort study by Yi-Hsin Wu, Yi-Hsin Wu, Lu-Ting Wang, Yann-Jinn Lee, Yann-Jinn Lee, Yann-Jinn Lee, Yann-Jinn Lee, Yann-Jinn Lee, Chi-Yu Huang, Yu-En Kao, Chao-Hsu Lin, Chao-Hsu Lin, Bi-Wen Cheng, Fu-Sung Lo, Fu-Sung Lo, Wei-Hsin Ting, Wei-Hsin Ting

“…Clinical manifestations, demographic data, thyroid function test results, methimazole dosage and outcome data were collected and compared with those pediatric GD patients without T1D.ResultsOf the 651 pediatric patients with T1D, 15 (2.3%) developed GD either with or after their T1D diagnosis. …”
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Biomarkers and subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in patients with type 2 diabetes without clinical manifestations of cardiovascular diseases by T. G. Utina, D. U. Akasheva, D. V. Korsunsky, O. N. Dzhioeva, O. M. Drapkina

“…Data from 120 patients of both sexes aged 45-75 years (57,11±7,9 years) were analyzed. They were divided into three following groups: 1st — with T2D (n=47), 2nd — with prediabetes (n=20), 3rd — control (n=53). …”
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The Effect of Hydraulic Partitioning on Prediction the Rate of Bed Load Transport in Gravel-bed Rivers using Support Vector Machine by Kiyoumars Roushangar, Mohammad Hosseini, Saman Shahnazi

“…Prediction ability of bed load transport is variable due to complexities that governs fluvial sediment transport in different flow conditions. In recent years, intelligent methods have been introduced as a reliable alternative of classic formulas and have been widely used to predict sediment transport rate in rivers. …”
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Performance of the National Tuberculosis Control Program in the post conflict Liberia. by Kassaye Tekie Desta, T E Masango, Zerish Zethu Nkosi

“…For the quantitative part of the study, a questionnaire, laboratory performance and eleven years TB programme data (2003-2013) were used. For the performance of tuberculosis laboratory testing, all the 107 functional tuberculosis microscopy centers in Liberia were included. …”
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The use of and satisfaction with health and care services for children and adolescents with a history of maltreatment by Kaia Kjørstad, Mari Hysing, Anders Dovran, Gertrud Sofie Hafstad, Børge Sivertsen

“…Methods: Pearson Chi-squared tests and one-way ANOVAs were used to analyze contact with services, satisfaction with each service, and service coordination within the past year. …”
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Cross-cultural adaptation of the Concept of Pain Inventory for South African children by Talita Odendaal, Ina Diener, Rentia A. Maart, Dawn V. Ernstzen

“…Background: Childhood pain can affect a child’s functioning and participation. The 14-item Concept of Pain Inventory (COPI) in English, assesses a child’s understanding of pain. …”
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Fatal Brucellosis Infection in a Liver Transplant Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Daniela Piedrahita, Alvaro Jose Martinez-Valencia, Olga Lucia Agudelo Rojas, Eric Tafur, Fernanto Rosso

“…We report a case of a 66-year-old man, an urban merchant, who had received a liver transplant 11 years ago. …”
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Health Literacy Status and Its Related Factors in the Elderlies in Dorood, Iran by Sahar Sabooteh, Hossein Shahnazi, Firoozeh Mostafavi

“…To collect information, the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA) was used as self-report. …”
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Schizophrenia and Nicotine - A Bittersweet Psychiatric Story by Satrajit Ghosal, Ankit Halder, Sarthak Keshri, Navna Panchami Ravindran, Akhil Joshi

“…Then, an independent sample t-test was used to compare the scores on various cognitive domains between the two groups. …”
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Language comprehension and verbal memory in elderly people by Paunović Verica M., Vuković Mile G.

“…Elderly respondents aged 76 to 85 years were significantly worse on the TT compared to those aged 66 to 75 years (U = 79.50) and the control group (U = 50.50). …”
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Unmasking Pulmonary Parenchymal Changes in Psoriasis Patients: A Radiological Perspective by Müfide Arzu Özkarafakılı, Mustafa İlteriş Bardakçı, Onur Sivaz, İlknur Kıvanç Altunay

“…<i>Materials and Methods</i>: We examined pulmonary function tests, laboratory data, and SF-36 questionnaires from 270 consecutive psoriasis patients who underwent high-resolution computed tomography scans. …”
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Short-term effects of brief stair climbing interruptions on postprandial hyperglycemia during prolonged sitting: a randomized cross-over trial by Eswaran Thirunavukkarasu, Manaswi Reddy Aerva, Baskaran Chandrasekaran, G. Arun Maiya, Chythra R. Rao

“…Blood glucose was measured using capillary finger prick method while attention function was measured using computer-based cognitive tests at baseline, end of 1st hour and 2nd hour. …”
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Pulmonary Ossification Syndrome in a Patient with Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension by Noreen Amirali Rajwani, Lakshmi Puttagunta, James Barrie, Meena Kalluri

“…Commonly under-recognized and challenging to diagnose, clinical, radiographic and functional tests are often necessary. Given the increasing prevalence of chronic lung disease in the aging population, it is likely the pulmonary ossification will be encountered in clinics more often. …”
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Corelation between somatic complaints, personality traits and positivity by Petrović Vesna, Žuljević Dragan, Knežević Zorica

“…The aim of our study was to investigate the role of somatic complaints in moderating the relation-ship between personality traits operationalized in Cybernetic Battery of Conative Tests (KON-6) model and positivity. Methods. The sample consisted of 512 students, 23.83 years old in average, 56.3% were female, 23% reported the presence of somatic complaints. …”
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A multi-cohort study of polymorphisms in the GH/IGF axis and physical capability: the HALCyon programme. by Tamuno Alfred, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Rachel Cooper, Rebecca Hardy, Cyrus Cooper, Ian J Deary, Tom R Gaunt, David Gunnell, Sarah E Harris, Meena Kumari, Richard M Martin, Avan Aihie Sayer, John M Starr, Diana Kuh, Ian N M Day, HALCyon study team

“…<h4>Background</h4>Low muscle mass and function have been associated with poorer indicators of physical capability in older people, which are in-turn associated with increased mortality rates. …”
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Life Cycle Risk Assessment of Urban Rail Equipment Based on Reliability Analysis by WANG Junzhe, ZHU Lin, LIU Zhigang, TAO Yijun, HUANG Yuanchun

“…［Result & Conclusion］ Taking the vehicle bogie wheelset axle box assembly as a case study, according to the vehicle specialized maintenance content and cycle requirements, the daily operation stages are categorized into four periods: stable operation, early failure, late failure, and replacement; the failure interval time is tested for fitting, and the three-parameter Weibull distribution is selected to represent its reliability characteristic function; each phase is mapped and assigned values through the reliability characteristic function. …”
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Occurrence and severity of non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia (NOMI) after cardiovascular surgery correlate with preoperatively assessed FGF-23 levels. by Jonas Stroeder, Matthias Klingele, Hagen Bomberg, Stefan Wagenpfeil, Arno Buecker, Hans-Joachim Schaefers, Marcus Katoh, Peter Minko

“…These data were correlated to following preoperative parameters of kidney function: cystatin C, creatinine, FGF-23 and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and outcome data (death, acute renal failure) using linear and logistic regressions, as well as nonparametric tests.…”
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Sap flow simulation of Cunninghamia lanceolata in degraded red soil region based on back propagation neural network by Tu Jie, Liu Qijing, Wei Jun, Hu Liang

“…Therefore, quantitative research on tree water consumption characteristics by transpiration has become a hot issue in the field of tree physiological ecology in recent years.Taking the C. lanceolata plantation in degraded red soil of Jiangxi Province as the research object, the log-sigmoid type function (tansig) of MATLAB toolbox was selected as the transmission function for the role of neurons. …”
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Phenotypic characterization of a female patient with retinitis pigmentosa caused by a homozygous X-linked RPGRORF15 mutation by Marlene Saßmannshausen, Elisa A. Mahler, Sandrine H. Künzel, Constanze L. Kochs, Frank G. Holz, David Rosenkranz, Hanno J. Bolz, Philipp Herrmann

“…Observations: Multimodal retinal imaging including wide field fundus photography, fundus autofluoresence (FAF), high-resolution spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) imaging, functional testing comprising visual fields and electroretinogram as well as genetic testing were performed in two consanguine cases of RP.A 44-year-old female patient was referred for evaluation and counseling for potential treatment options presenting with night blindness and visual field defects since early childhood. …”
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