Retention in HIV Care Programs and Its Association with Comorbidity Incidence and Viral Load Reduction by Majid Alizadeh, Mohammad Rashidi Evandi, Maryam Jafar Sameri, Elham Senisel Bachari, Mohammad Kogani

“…Data were analyzed using SPSS software, with statistical tests including ANOVA and Pearson’s correlation coefficient. …”
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Serum hepcidin level with iron profile assay might replace bone marrow iron study as a diagnostic tool for evaluation of anemia in elderly without chronic renal disease by Sukdev Manna, Sankha Shubhra Chakrabarti, Rohit Singh, Indrajeet Singh Gambhir

“…All patients were evaluated with history, clinical examination, routine investigations (complete blood count, liver, and kidney function tests), iron profile, and serum hepcidin. …”
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Influence of Chronotype and Theobromine on the 24-h Variation in Peak Expiratory Flow Rate in Healthy Adults by Anika Köhlmoos, Manuela Dittmar

“…Ninety-seven healthy non-smoking females (54 early chronotypes, ET; 43 late chronotypes, LT; 18–35 years) recorded their PEF over 24 hours at 4-h intervals (08:00/12:00/16:00/20:00/24:00/04:00/08:00 h). …”
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Complex Urban Systems: Challenges and Integrated Solutions for the Sustainability and Resilience of Cities by Riccardo Gallotti, Pierluigi Sacco, Manlio De Domenico

“…The digital era, with its unprecedented data availability, is allowing for testing old theories and developing new ones, ultimately challenging relatively partial models. …”
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Bone mineral density in patients with coronary artery disease and sarcopenia by I. I. Grigorieva, T. A. Raskina, M. V. Letaeva, V. I. Ivanov, V. L. Masenko

“…Muscle strength was measured with a wrist dynamometer. Muscle function was examined using the tests of the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB). …”
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Investigating the prevalence and associated factors of elevated liver enzymes and dyslipidemia during pregnancy by Ananya Dutta Mou, Nurshad Ali

“…Data on the prevalence of abnormal liver functions and dyslipidemia during pregnancy in Bangladesh are scarce since these tests are not typically done in routine prenatal screening. …”
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Genotype–Phenotype Correlation in a Couple in Which the Wife Is a Carrier of the Beta-Thalassemia Trait and the Husband Is a Carrier of a Mutation in the ALAS2 Gene: Both Gene Defe... by Domenico Dell’Edera, Carmela Centoducati, Arianna Allegretti, Francesco La Rocca, Brunilde Persia

“…They came to our attention because the lady, pregnant at 12 weeks, underwent screening for chromosomal abnormalities using combined tests in the first trimester of pregnancy. A biochemical screening performed ten years earlier showed that both spouses were healthy carriers of the beta-thalassemia trait. …”
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Design and modeling of a highly compact negative index floral shape metamaterial for flight navigation applications by M. Pallavi, Praveen Kumar, B. R. Shivakumar

“…Hence, the proposed design is tested at various incident angles spanning between to along the azimuth region, at a deviation. …”
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In-Bore MRI-Guided Ureteral Stent Placement During Prostate Cancer Cryoablation—A Case Series by Sydney Whalen, David Woodrum, Scott Thompson, Dan Adamo, Derek Lomas, Lance Mynderse

“…<b>Introduction</b>: Ureteral stents are widely used in the specialty of urology to preserve renal function and provide ureteral patency in cases of urolithiasis, strictures, malignancy, and trauma. …”
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Diagnostics of Fabry disease in arrhythmology practice: a case report by M. A. Dragunova, I. V. Kisteneva, E. N. Pavlyukova, L. P. Nazarenko, S. V. Popov

“…In this clinical case, an asymptomatic FD course up to 46 years of age and mani festation in the form of arrhythmia were observed. …”
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Implementation of Fuzzy Logic Scheme for Assessment of Power Transformer Oil Deterioration Using Imprecise Information by Zuhaib Nishter, Fangzong Wang

“…In this case, a fuzzy logic-based scheme is developed based upon the membership function, a rule-based and defuzzification method that works with imprecision and the implementation of uncertainty in assessing the condition of transformer oils. …”
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A Review of Temporal Self-Perceptions Among Emerging Adults: The Significance of Demographics and a Global Crisis on Psychological and Achievement Benefits by Samantha L. McMichael, Virginia S. Y. Kwan

“…Specifically, this targeted review sought to highlight research exploring the longitudinal processes in these relationships (e.g., changes in temporal self-perceptions over time and the relationship between temporal self-perceptions and longitudinal outcomes) and testing how these relationships function amidst a large-scale challenge (i.e., the COVID-19 pandemic). …”
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Predictors of a prolonged course of community-acquired pneumonia by V. V. Syvolap, L. O. Kurilets, A. O. Yarosh, M. S. Potapenko

“…All patients have been examined on the first day of hospitalization by general clinical and X-ray examination, laboratory tests, immunogram, ADP-induced platelet aggregation, the study of respiratory function, transthoracic echocardiography; glomerular filtration rate was calculated by Cockcroft-Gault formula. …”
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Impact of Diagnosis of Urologic Cancer on Male Sexuality and Patients’ Perceptions of Health Professional's Approach by Rodrigo Barros, Angelo Maurílio Fosse Jr, Alex Schul, Gabriel Mangas, Caio Henrique da Silva Teixeira, Tiago Ninis, João Paulo Martins Carvalho, Luciano A. Favorito

“…Analysis was conducted in RStudio using chi-square tests. Results: A cohort of 211 patients were included in this study, with an age range of 22 to 85 years (mean = 65.4). …”
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Conceptual and theoretical foundations of personalised learning by E. F. Zeer, O. V. Krezhevskikh

“…During the testing of the structural and functional model of personalised education, 178 students (1st–5th year students) were involved in the educational programme “Preschool Education” of full-time and part-time forms of education at Shadrinsk State Pedagogical University. …”
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Psychological Impact of a “Health-at-Every-Size” Intervention on Weight-Preoccupied Overweight/Obese Women by Marie-Pierre Gagnon-Girouard, Catherine Bégin, Véronique Provencher, Angelo Tremblay, Lyne Mongeau, Sonia Boivin, Simone Lemieux

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Low-dose fenfluramine as an effective treatment option for ‘atypical’ Dravet syndrome by Akihiro Iguchi, Tokito Yamaguchi, Tomona Yabe, Mitsuhiro Miyashita, Satoshi Mizutani, Hideyuki Otani, Rie Miyata, Katsumi Imai

“…Despite the difficulty in diagnosing DS because of the negative genetic testing results, we started our patient on fenfluramine (FFA). …”
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542 The association between cell-free DNA and lung transplant survival by Rohan Meda, Yi-Ping Fu, Hyesik Kong, Moon Kyoo Jang, Temesgen Andargie, Woojin Park, Jae Lee, Ilker Tunc, Gerald J Berry, Charles C Marboe, Pali D Shah, Steven D Nathan, Michael B Keller, Sean Agbor-Enoh

“…As part of routine posttransplant clinical care, all patients underwent pulmonary function testing (PFT), surveillance bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), transbronchial biopsy (TBBx), and donor-specific antibody testing (DSA). …”
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Connectivity guided intermittent theta burst stimulation versus repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in moderately severe treatment resistant depression by Richard Morriss, Lucy Webster, Luke Ingram, Mohamed Abdelghani, Adriana Anton, Shaun Barber, Peter Bates, Paul Briley, Clement Boutry, Cassandra Brookes, Edward Cox, Beth Hall, Marilyn James, Matthew Keane, Micheal Kurkar, Sudheer Lankappa, Peter Liddle, Hamish McAllister-Williams, Hyerin Oh, Alexander O’Neill-Kerr, Jehill Parikh, Stefan Pszczolkowski, Ana Suazo Di Paola, Louise Thomson, Yvette Walters, Dorothee Auer

“…To explore the mechanism of action of transcranial magnetic stimulation through effective and functional connectivity, and gamma-aminobutyric acid and glutamate+glutamine in the prefrontal cortex, subgenual anterior cingulate cortex and right anterior insula. …”
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Association of Left Atrial Dysfunction with Pulmonary Hemodynamics and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis by Kazutoshi Hirose, MD, Koki Nakanishi, MD, Masao Daimon, MD, Hikari Seki, MD, Yuriko Yoshida, MD, Megumi Hirokawa, MD, Tomoko Nakao, MD, Koichi Kimura, MD, Shun Minatsuki, MD, Masaru Hatano, MD, Hiroyuki Morita, MD, Marco R. Di Tullio, MD, Shunichi Homma, MD, Makoto Kurano, MD, Norihiko Takeda, MD

“…During a median follow-up of 3.2 years, patients with LA dysfunction displayed worse event-free survival than their counterparts (log-rank P = 0.036). …”
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