Advancements in Aeromedical Management of Diabetes: Implications for Aviation Safety by Young Hwan Kwon

“…The study highlights the critical importance of regular health assessments, blood glucose monitoring, and adherence to medical protocols to mitigate risks such as hypoglycemia and cardiovascular complications that could impair flight safety. …”

Deposition of carbon nanotubes in commonly used sample filter media by B.D. Smith, S.B.H. Bach

“…Existing analytical instruments and analytical techniques for evaluating nanoparticle concentrations cannot simultaneously provide morphology, state of agglomeration, surface area, mass, size distribution and chemical composition data critical to making occupational health assessments.  This research utilized scanning electron microscopy and thermogravimetric analysis to assess the morphology and mass of carbon nanotubes collected using various commercial sample filters.  …”
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Development and Validation of a Robust and Straightforward LC-MS Method for Measuring Taurine in Whole Blood and Plasma of Dogs and Reference Intervals Calculation by Tommaso Furlanello, Riccardo Masti, Francesca Maria Bertolini, Valeria Ongaro, Andrea Zoia, Jose Sanchez del Pulgar

“…Due to its robustness and simplicity, this method represents a valuable tool, supporting its routine use in health assessments and enabling more effective monitoring of taurine status in dogs.…”
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Sexual Dysfunction in Chronic Urticaria: A Systematic Review by Sarah E. Park, Elaine Ma, Caitlyn Dagenet, Maria A. Aleshin, Heather M. Holahan, Vivian Y. Shi, Jennifer L. Hsiao

“…Incorporating sexual health assessments into CU trials will allow for valuable insights into efficacy of study medications on this important QoL domain. …”
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Subjective well-being indices in assessing happiness in Russia by Lyudmila S. Skachkova, Olga Ya. Gerasimova, Darya D. Krivosheeva-Medyantseva

“…These metrics are the subjective well-being indices for the Russian population in terms of gender and age, residence (by federal districts), level of education, marital status, presence of children, subjective health assessments, job and pay satisfaction. The methodological framework resides in Edward Diener’s subjective well-being theory. …”
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Accuracy of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire in identifying common mental health disorders in children and adolescents: a cross-sectional analytical study by Maisaa Al-Dhahri, Salim Al-Huseini, Maisa AL-Jamoudi, Sanjay Jaju, Samir Al-Adawi, Hassan Mirza

“…Conclusion The study underscores the importance of understanding the strengths and limitations of SDQ in clinical settings, providing valuable information for mental health assessments in children and adolescents.…”
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IMAGING ANALYSIS OF PERIODONTAL STATUS IN A GROUP OF PATIENTS WITH OSTEOPOROSIS by Stoica George, Roxana Popescu, Andreea Diana Ilinca, Daniela Pomohaci, Balcos Carina, Alexandru Nemtoi, Sirghe Ana, Haba Danisia

“…These findings underline the importance of integrating bone health assessments into periodontal evaluations, emphasizing the role of imaging as a non-invasive screening tool for osteoporosis.…”
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Periodontal Indices as Predictors of Cognitive Decline: Insights from the PerioMind Colombia Cohort by Catalina Arévalo-Caro, Diego López, Jose Antonio Sánchez Milán, Cristina Lorca, María Mulet, Humberto Arboleda, Sergio Losada Amaya, Aida Serra, Xavier Gallart-Palau

“…Upon validation in larger cohorts, the findings reported here could offer dental practitioners and clinicians innovative tools to identify individuals at risk of MCI and age-related dementias through routine oral health assessments, thereby enabling more accessible and highly sought-after early intervention strategies in both developing and developed countries.…”
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Hormone replacement therapy, menopausal age and lifestyle variables are associated with better cognitive performance at follow-up but not cognition over time in older-adult women i... by Tamlyn J. Watermeyer, Tamlyn J. Watermeyer, Sarah Gregory, Sarah Gregory, Emmi Leetham, Chinedu T. Udeh-Momoh, Chinedu T. Udeh-Momoh, Chinedu T. Udeh-Momoh, Chinedu T. Udeh-Momoh, Chinedu T. Udeh-Momoh, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Graciela Muniz-Terrera

“…The study underscores the need for longer follow-up periods, consideration of other female-specific risk factors, and more comprehensive lifestyle and health assessments to clarify the complex interplay between HRT use, reproductive history, lifestyle, comorbidities and cognitive aging in women.…”
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Etodolac Single Dose Metabolic Profile Elucidation: Pharmacokinetics and Adverse Events in Healthy Volunteers by Karen Sánchez-Luquez, Anne Michelli Reis Silveira, Salvador Sánchez-Vinces, Alex Ap. Rosini Silva, Joyce Barreto, Rhubia Bethania Socorro Lemos de Brito, Caroline de Moura Garcia, Ana Lais Vieira, Marcia Ap. Antonio, Patrícia de Oliveira Carvalho

“…Methods: Thirty-seven healthy volunteers, enrolled after rigorous health assessments, received a single dose of etodolac (Flancox^® 500 mg). …”
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Automatic Sleep Staging Method Using EEG Based on STFT and Residual Network by Ran Zhang, Rui Jiang, Haowei Hu, Ying Gao, Wei Xia, Boming Song

“…This work lays a foundation for further exploration of automated systems in sleep medicine, contributing to more accurate and accessible sleep health assessments.…”
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Degree of Functionality and Perception of Health-Related Quality of Life in People with Moderate Stroke: Differences between Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Typology by Iratxe Unibaso-Markaida, Ioseba Iraurgi, Nuria Ortiz-Marqués, Silvia Martínez-Rodríguez

“…Both groups made significant progress in their health assessments and functionality after eight weeks, and no significant differences were found between them at that time. …”
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Drivers of innovation value: simulation for new drug pricing evaluation based on system dynamics modelling by Qian Xing, Wendi Cheng, Wei Wang, Chunlin Jin, Haiyin Wang

“…ObjectivesPaying for the innovative value of drugs is an important means of mitigating healthcare system duplication and enhancing patient health. Assessing and exploiting the factors influencing innovation premium to forecast trends and shortcomings within the pharmaceutical innovation ecosystem.MethodsUtilizing system dynamics, this research constructs a decision evaluation system for new drug pricing in Japan. …”
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Multi task opinion enhanced hybrid BERT model for mental health analysis by Md. Mithun Hossain, Md. Shakil Hossain, M. F. Mridha, Mejdl Safran, Sultan Alfarhood

“…This combination helps our model to identify and categorize user status and attitudes from the text more accurately, which leads to more accurate mental health assessments. When we compared the performance of Opinion-BERT to some baseline models, including BERT, RoBERTa, and DistilBERT, we found that it performed much better. …”
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Cardiovascular risk profiling among South Asian adults in Hong Kong: a latent class analysis by Gary Ka-Ki Chung, Woohyung Lee, Danna Camille Vargas, Bulbul Sharma, Kai Sing Sun, Heidi Hung, Lee Sha Tong, Tsz Lui Tang, Hasiba Munir, Chi Yui Wong, Soniya Pun, Man Hin Chio, Eliza Lai-Yi Wong, Dong Dong, Eng-Kiong Yeoh

“…Methods Between June 2022 and December 2023, 1181 South Asian adults were recruited through territory-wide outreach health assessments on lifestyle, psychological distress, obesity, clinical cardiovascular conditions, and sociodemographic factors. …”
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The maternal and newborn health eCohort to track longitudinal care quality: study protocol and survey development by Catherine Arsenault, Katherine Wright, Tefera Taddele, Ashenif Tadele, Anagaw Derseh Mebratie, Firew Tiruneh Tiyare, Rose J. Kosgei, Jacinta Nzinga, Bethany Holt, Irene Mugenya, Emma Clarke-Deelder, Adiam Nega, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Sailesh Mohan, Nompumelelo Gloria Mfeka-Nkabinde, Londiwe Mthethwa, Damen Haile Mariam, Gebeyaw Molla, Theodros Getachew, Prashant Jarhyan, Monica Chaudhry, Munir Kassa, Margaret E. Kruk

“…User-reported information will be complemented with data from physical health assessments at baseline and endline, extraction from MNH cards, and a brief facility survey. …”
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Spatial-temporal baseline study of nutrients and trace elements characterization of a large tropical transition system in West Africa by Celso Paulo, João A. Carreiras, Susanne Tanner, Carmen Van-Dúnem dos Santos, Vanessa F. Fonseca, Bernardo Duarte

“…The current results provide key baseline information in a data-poor environment, serving as a stepping stone for future ecological health assessments and conservation efforts of this large transitional system.…”
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Towards personalized cardiometabolic risk prediction: A fusion of exposome and AI by Zeinab Shahbazi, Slawomir Nowaczyk

“…However, integrating diverse exposome factors into predictive models for personalized health assessments remains a challenge due to the complexity and variability of environmental exposures and lifestyle factors. …”
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Prevention and management of anaemia in pregnancy: Community perceptions and facility readiness in Ghana and Uganda. by Tara Tancred, Vincent Mubangizi, Emmanuel Nene Dei, Syliva Natukunda, Daniel Nana Yaw Abankwah, Phoebe Ellis, Imelda Bates, Bernard Natukunda, Lucy Asamoah Akuoko

“…Here we present a mixed-methods situational analysis of facility readiness and community understanding of anaemia in Ghana and Uganda. Quantitative health assessments (adapted from service availability and readiness assessments) and qualitative key informant interviews (KIIs) with district-level stakeholders, in-depth interviews (IDIs) with maternity staff, and focus group discussions (FGDs) with community members were held in 2021. …”
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Particulate Pollution in Korhogo and Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire) during the Dry Season by Sylvain Gnamien, Véronique Yoboué, Cathy Liousse, Money Ossohou, Sékou Keita, Julien Bahino, Silué Siélé, Lamine Diaby

“…Abstract Particulate pollution in West African cities seriously impacts public human health. Assessing the levels of pollution to which populations are exposed is problematic, as to date very few countries in Africa have an air quality monitoring network in place. …”
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