Lyme disease associated neurological and musculoskeletal symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Ganesh Bushi, Ashok Kumar Balaraman, Shilpa Gaidhane, Suhas Ballal, Sanjay Kumar, Mahakshit Bhat, Shilpa Sharma, M Ravi Kumar, Aashna Sinha, Mahalaqua Nazli Khatib, Nishant Rai, Sanjit Sah, Ambanna Yappalparvi, Shailesh Kumar Samal, Doddolla Lingamaiah, Muhammed Shabil

“…Conclusion: The study reveals significant neurological and musculoskeletal complications in Lyme disease patients, emphasizing the importance of early diagnosis, comprehensive treatment, and supportive care. …”
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The prognostic significance of tertiary lymphoid structures in oral squamous cell carcinomas: a systematic review by V. Ribeiro, J-L. Teillaud, J-L. Teillaud, J-L. Teillaud, M-C. Dieu-Nosjean, M-C. Dieu-Nosjean, M-C. Dieu-Nosjean, G. Lescaille, G. Lescaille, G. Lescaille, G. Lescaille, G. Lescaille, J. Rochefort, J. Rochefort, J. Rochefort, J. Rochefort, J. Rochefort

“…OSCC has a low 5-year survival rate due to late-stage diagnosis. Risk factors include alcohol and tobacco use. …”
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Neurological manifestations associated with COVID-19 vaccine by R. Alonso Castillo, J.C. Martínez Castrillo

“…However, it is necessary for health professionals to be familiar with these events, facilitating their early diagnosis and treatment. Large controlled epidemiological studies are necessary to establish a possible causal relationship between vaccination against COVID-19 and neurological adverse events. …”
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Cross-cultural adaptation of the simple Chinese version of the medication adherence reasons scale in patients undergoing adjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer by Lei Xu, Ping Li, Yan Hu, Weijie Xing, Jiajia Qiu, Xiaoju Zhang, Lingying Jia, Feng Jing, Ye Liu, Lili Li, Chunyang Lu

“…Exclusion criteria included psychiatric illness, cognitive impairment, or a diagnosis of another cancer type. The sample size for exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was determined based on a ratio of five to ten participants per scale item to ensure sufficient statistical power. …”
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Knowledge, attitude, and perception of Pakistani populations toward monkeypox: a cross-section study by Humayun Yousaf, Abdul Qadeer, Muhammad Sohail, Maqbool Khan, Muhammad Farooq, Zakir Khan, Dalia Fouad, Yu-Chia Liu, Chien-Chin Chen, Chien-Chin Chen, Chien-Chin Chen, Chien-Chin Chen

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Intensified conditioning containing decitabine versus standard myeloablative conditioning for adult patients with KMT2A-rearranged leukemia: a multicenter retrospective study by Zhongli Hu, Zinan Feng, Shiqi Liu, Hai He, Ying Dong, Zhiping Fan, Yiqing Li, Fen Huang, Na Xu, Can Liu, Yunxin Zeng, Ping Zhu, Ren Lin, Hua Jin, Xiong Zhang, Ruijuan Sun, Qifa Liu, Li Xuan

“…Eligible patients were aged 14 years or older at transplantation, had a diagnosis of KMT2A-r leukemia, and underwent the first allo-HSCT. …”
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Impact of ambient temperatures on Alzheimer's disease and other dementia mortality among elderly patients aged 60 years and older in China by Rui Zhang, Lu Sun, Ai-Nan Jia, Si-Yuan Wu, Yu Wang, Song-Wang Wang, Qing Guo, Yu-Jie Meng, Juan Liang, Wan Huang, Yong-Hong Li, Jing Wu

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Peripheral endothelial dysfunction in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome by Nadja Scherbakov, Marvin Szklarski, Jelka Hartwig, Franziska Sotzny, Sebastian Lorenz, Antje Meyer, Patricia Grabowski, Wolfram Doehner, Carmen Scheibenbogen

“…Methods and results Thirty‐five patients [median age 40 (range 18–70) years, mean body mass index 23.8 ± 4.2 kg/m2, 31% male] with ME/CFS were studied for peripheral endothelial function assessed by peripheral arterial tonometry (EndoPAT2000). Clinical diagnosis of ME/CFS was based on Canadian Criteria. …”
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A qualitative study on general practitioners’ perspectives on late-life depression in Singapore—part II: system- and physician-related factorsResearch in context by Anna Szücs, V Vien Lee, Laurie J. Goldsmith, Alicia H. Ong, Tim J. Hart, Victor W.K. Loh, Monica Lazarus, Choon Kit Leong, Vivien M.E. Lee, Foon Leng Leong, Doris Young, Andrea B. Maier, Jose M. Valderas

“…GPs paid particular attention to communicating with patients tactfully during initial assessments and diagnosis, although some GPs chose to be upfront with patients with whom they had already established rapport. …”
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The Relationship Between Serum miRNAs and Surgical Prognostic Factors in Gastric Cancers by Çağrı Büyükkasap, Engin Küçükdiler, Mahir Nasirov, Niyazi Samet Yılmaz, Hasan Dağlı, İlke Önen, Furkan Aydoğdu, Aydın Yavuz, Hüseyin Göbüt, Asiye Uğraş Dikmen, Kürşat Dikmen, Hasan Bostancı, Özlem Gülbahar, Abdulkadir Bedirli

“…Objective: There is a continued need for biomarkers for patients with gastric cancer that can aid in diagnosis, treatment follow-up, and relapse detection. …”
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Optimizing the management of psoriasis in patients with skin of color: A Canadian Delphi consensusCapsule Summary by Geeta Yadav, MD, Yvette Miller-Monthrope, MD, Jaggi Rao, MD, David N. Adam, MD, Rachel N. Asiniwasis, MD, Parbeer Grewal, MD, Christina Han, MD, Marissa Joseph, MD, Richard G. Langley, MD, Charles W. Lynde, MD, Andrei Metelitsa, MD, Loukia Mitsos, MD, PhD, Boluwaji Ogunyemi, MD, Kerri S. Purdy, MD, Maxwell Sauder, MD, Jensen Yeung, MD

“…Results: The exercise resulted in 11 consensus statements on SOC terminology, as well as 5 primary and 4 secondary statements on clinical presentation and differential diagnosis, and treatment guidelines based on evidence and expert opinion. …”
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Appearance-related distress impacts psychological symptoms in Chinese patients with cleft lip by Yichun Yang, Renjie Yang, Jiaying Wang, Zhuojun Xie, Yuan Zong, Weiyao Xia, Meijun Du, Shiming Zhang, Jiayi Yin, Jiali Chen, Bing Shi, Caixia Gong, Hanyao Huang

“…After adjustment for demographic variables, the DAS-59 scores were also positively associated with GAD-7 and PHQ-9 scores in patients with CL.ConclusionMore significant appearance-related distress was observed in Chinese patients with CL compared to the control group, but it did not exhibit a correlation with the patients’ diagnosis (unilateral or bilateral), sex, age, or other demographic characteristics. …”
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Relationship of Serum Levels of IL-17, IL-18, TNF-α, and Lung Function Parameters in Patients with COPD, Asthma-COPD Overlap, and Bronchial Asthma by Nailya Kubysheva, Marina Boldina, Tatyana Eliseeva, Svetlana Soodaeva, Igor Klimanov, Anastasia Khaletskaya, Venera Bayrasheva, Valery Solovyev, Luis Alfonso Villa-Vargas, Marco Antonio Ramírez-Salinas, Moisés Salinas-Rosales, Dmitry Yu. Ovsyannikov, Ildar Batyrshin

“…Determination of markers of systemic inflammation is one of the important directions in the study of pathogenesis and improvement of diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma-COPD overlap (ACO), and bronchial asthma (BA). …”
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Quality of care delivery in patients with acute heart failure: insights from the international REPORT-HF registryResearch in context by Wan Ting Tay, Tiew-Hwa Katherine Teng, Wouter Ouwerkerk, Christiane E. Angermann, Kenneth Dickstein, John G.F. Cleland, Ulf Dahlstrom, Georg Ertl, Mahmoud Hassanein, Sergio V. Perrone, Mathieu Ghadanfar, Anja Schweizer, Achim Obergfell, Sean P. Collins, Gerasimos Filippatos, Carolyn S.P. Lam, Jasper Tromp

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Diagnostic pathways for breast cancer in 10 International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) jurisdictions: an international comparative cohort study based on questionnaire and... by David Weller, Usha Menon, Alina Zalounina Falborg, Henry Jensen, Andriana Barisic, Anne Kari Knudsen, David H Brewster, Victoria Cairnduff, Eva Grunfeld, Elizabeth Harland, Mats Lambe, Rebecca-Jane Law, Yulan Lin, Martin Malmberg, Donna Turner, Richard D Neal, Victoria White, Samantha Harrison, Peter Vedsted, Una MacLeod, Conan Donnelly, Anna Gavin, Jon Emery, Oliver Bucher, Jatinderpal Kalsi, Chantelle Anandan, Evangelia Ourania Fourkala, Therese Kearney, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot, Sigrun Saur Almberg, Breann Hawryluk, Jacqueline Kelly, Jackie Boylan, Jan Willem Coebergh, David Brewster, Stefan Bergström, Victoria Hammersley, Rebecca Bergin, Alina Zalounina Falborg, Andriana Barisi, Kerry Moore, Maria Rejmyr Davis

“…Targeted awareness interventions could also facilitate more timely diagnosis of breast cancer.…”
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Comparative Analysis of CXCR5 Circulating DNA Methylation Levels in Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases by Yiming Shi, Yingying Qin, Yunshen Li, Ping Jiang, Kai Wei, Jianan Zhao, Yu Shan, Yixin Zheng, Fuyu Zhao, Mi Zhou, Li Li, Yu Shen, Xinliang Lv, Yuejuan Zheng, Shicheng Guo, Qin Ding, Cen Chang, Dongyi He

“…Conclusion Differential circulating CXCR5 methylation levels were observed in autoimmune rheumatic diseases, which correlated with inflammatory mediators in RA and may serve as potential biomarkers for RA diagnosis.…”
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Development of an innovative intravaginal model of probiotic inoculation in dairy ovine flocks: positive effects on the vaginal microbiota, vaginitis and fertility by M. Toquet, J. Gomis, E. Jiménez-Trigos, E. Bataller, M. Barba, A. Sánchez, P. González-Torres, Á. Gómez-Martín

“…Genera belonging to Lactobacillales, including some genera previously reported to be beneficial for pregnancy, significantly increased at the time of pregnancy diagnosis but significantly decreased at T1. The results of this study suggest that the use of probiotics via intravaginal inoculation as a strategy to positively modulate the microbiota and vaginal inflammation, derived from the use of intravaginal sponges, is also associated with improved fertility. …”
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Epidemiology of chronic and acute pancreatitis in India (EPICAP-India): protocol for a multicentre study by Sanjeev Kumar, Saransh Jain, Vineet Ahuja, Rakesh Kumar, Anand Krishnan, Pankaj Bhardwaj, Shalimar, Nitya Wadhwa, Ashish Agarwal, Deepak Gunjan, Sudipta Dhar Chowdhury, Anoop Saraya, Saurabh Kedia, Govind K Makharia, Pramod Kumar Garg, Ritvik Amarchand, Deepti Dabar, Rajib Sarkar, Gopal Krishna Dhali, Anmol Gupta, Shivendra Singh, Divya Pillai, Vineeta Baloni, Subhra Samujjwal Basu, Bikash Choudhury, Soumi Das, Pradeep Deshmukh, Krishnadas Devadas, Nitika Monga, Sumit Rungta, Brij Sharma, Chintha Sujatha

“…The screened positive participants will be reviewed by a gastroenterologist to confirm the diagnosis of CP based on radiological imaging. For each case, four controls will be selected and data on risk factors for CP (tobacco, alcohol, family history, metabolic causes) and blood for genetic markers will be collected. …”
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Expert consensus on orthodontic treatment of protrusive facial deformities by Jie Pan, Yun Lu, Anqi Liu, Xuedong Wang, Yu Wang, Shiqiang Gong, Bing Fang, Hong He, Yuxing Bai, Lin Wang, Zuolin Jin, Weiran Li, Lili Chen, Min Hu, Jinlin Song, Yang Cao, Jun Wang, Jin Fang, Jiejun Shi, Yuxia Hou, Xudong Wang, Jing Mao, Chenchen Zhou, Yan Liu, Yuehua Liu

“…To further optimize the correction of protrusive facial deformities, this consensus proposes that the morphological mechanisms and diagnosis of protrusive facial deformities should be analyzed and judged from multiple dimensions and factors to accurately formulate treatment plans. …”
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Differential Role of NKG2A/HLA-E Interaction in the Outcomes of Bladder Cancer Patients Treated with <i>M. bovis</i> BCG or Other Therapies by Inmaculada Ruiz-Lorente, Lourdes Gimeno, Alicia López-Abad, Pedro López Cubillana, Tomás Fernández Aparicio, Lucas Jesús Asensio Egea, Juan Moreno Avilés, Gloria Doñate Iñiguez, Pablo Luis Guzmán Martínez-Valls, Gerardo Server, Belén Ferri, José Antonio Campillo, María Victoria Martínez-Sánchez, Alfredo Minguela

“…<b>Methods</b>: We evaluated killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) and HLA-I genotyping and the expression of NK cell receptors in circulating T and NK lymphocytes at diagnosis in 325 consecutive BC patients (151 treated with BCG and 174 treated with other therapies), as well as in 648 patients with other cancers and 973 healthy donors as controls. …”
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