Subcorneal Pustular Dermatosis in Childhood: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Massimiliano Scalvenzi, Franco Palmisano, Maria Carmela Annunziata, Ernesto Mezza, Immacolata Cozzolino, Claudia Costa

“…Subcorneal pustular dermatosis (SCPD, also known as Sneddon-Wilkinson disease) is a rare, benign, chronic, sterile pustular eruption which usually develops in middle-age or elderly women; it is rarely seen in childhood and adolescence. …”
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Effect of breathing exercises with biofeedback on blood pressure in pre-hypertensive women: a randomised controlled trial by Afaf M. Botla, Reham S. Ebrahim, Soheir M. Elkosery, Ahmed M. Darwesh, Dina M.A. Mohamed

“…Conclusions As a result, it is possible to infer that breathing exercises combined with biofeedback were beneficial in lowering BP in middle-aged pre-hypertensive women.…”
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Surviving Emphysematous Gastritis after Hepatectomy by Harry Hok Yee Yu, Simon Tsang, Tan To Cheung, Chung Mau Lo

“…We are reporting a middle-aged Chinese male with hepatitis B virus related hepatocellular carcinoma. …”
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A Case of Right Ventricular Endomyocardial Fibrosis Presenting with Right Ventricular Failure in an Immunocompromised Patient by Ratul Ghosh, Biswajit Majumder, Shibsankar Sarkar, Somnath Maji

“…Endomyocardial fibrosis is a rare disease in India but an important cause of restrictive cardiomyopathy. A middle-aged nondiabetic nonhypertensive male presented to us with features of right heart failure. …”
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Acute Intestinal Obstruction due to Complicated Meckel’s Diverticulum in an Adult: A Case Report by Arundhati Negi, Geofia Shaina Crasta, Bharath Kumar Bhat

“…MD causing intestinal obstruction in a middle-aged population is extremely rare and requires careful attention for diagnosis; it is almost always discovered through surgery.…”
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Distribution, growth, and structure of pine-beech forest stands in the Lviv Roztochchia region by Hryhoriy Krynytskyy, Lubomyr-Olexandr Debryniuk, Valentyna Kovaleva, Mykola Korol, Volodymyr Kramarets, Olga Krynytska, Roman Kuziv, Vasyl Lavnyy, Natalia Lutsiv, Stepan Myklush, Ihor Skolskyy, Volodymyr Yakhnytsky

“…The highest stock is found in middle-aged stands—362 m3∙hа-1. The stock of maturing, mature, and over mature pine-beech stands per hectare is 97.0%, 90.3%, and 93.9% of the middle-aged stock, respectively, while the stock of young stands of classes I, II is 9.4% and 39.5%, respectively. …”
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The association between lipid-related obesity indicators and severe headache or migraine: a nationwide cross sectional study from NHANES 1999 to 2004 by Xu Sun, Jimei Song, Rixun Yan, Jianwei Diao, Yibo Liu, Zhangzhi Zhu, Weichi Lu

“…Abstract Background The connection between lipid-related obesity indices and severe headache or migraine in young and middle-aged people aged 20–60 remains ambiguous, and there are gaps in the discriminative ability of different indicators for severe headaches or migraines. …”
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Gender and age characteristics and atrial fibrillation during long-term telemonitoring of the ECG by V.M. Bogomaz, I.O. Berdnyk, L.I. Lysa

“…In elderly patients, AF was diagnosed statistically significantly more often than in middle-aged patients (18.5 and 3.6 %, respectively, p ˂ 0.001). …”
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Retained Intra-Abdominal Surgical Clamp Complicating Emergency Laparotomy: Incidental Finding on Hysterosalpingogram for Evaluation of Tubal Infertility by Adebiyi Gbadebo Adesiyun, Nkeiruka Ameh, Hajaratu Umar-Sullayman, Solomon Avidime, Rabia’t Aliyu

“…However, in the media world, it is a source of sumptuous and captivating headline on the newspaper and to the legal profession, an attractive case to prosecute. A middle age teacher presented with secondary infertility. …”
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Ossifying Fibroma of Mandible - A Case Report by Gargi Jadaun, A. Bhagwandas Rai, Saeeda Kharodia, Viral Gadhiya

“…Introduction: Ossifying fibromas are rare, non-aggressive benign tumours of the bone, commonly involving the posterior mandible in middle-aged individuals with a female predilection. …”
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TEACHERS’ AGE IN RUSSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? by Victoria F. Pugach

“…The paper concludes that professional stability of middle-aged teachers is low, leading to polarization and thinning of the middle layer in teacher age structure, and this is the main problem.…”
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A Rare Case of Intermittent Claudication Associated with Impaired Arterial Vasodilation by J. J. Posthuma, K. D. Reesink, M. Schütten, C. Ghossein, M. E. Spaanderman, H. ten Cate, G. Schep

“…Although intermittent claudication is common in the elderly, it rarely occurs in the young and middle-aged individuals. Here, we report a case of exercise-related claudication in a 41-year-old woman, in the absence of overt vascular pathology. …”
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Los exiliados económicos. La nueva emigración española a Argentina (2008-2015) by Rodríguez-Fariñas, J., Romero-Valiente, J.-M., Hidalgo-Capitán, A.-L.

“…Findings include that these migrants are mostly young and middle-aged workers, highly qualified and with work experience. …”
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Application of Fibrin Glue in the Treatment of Rectal Fistula by Sergey A. Frolov, Alexandr M. Kuzminov, Dmitry V. Vyshegorodtsev, Vyacheslav Yu. Korolik, Sharof T. Minbaev, Ilya S. Bogormistrov, Evgeny V. Kim

“…Patients with rectal fistulas are frequently represented by the able-bodied middle-aged population group. The disease is extremely rarely observed in children and elderly people. …”
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Undilatable Stent Neoatherosclerosis Treated with Ad Hoc Rotational Atherectomy by Michael Koutouzis, Maria Agelaki, Christos Maniotis, Ioannis Tsiafoutis, Vasileios Patris, Mihalis Argyriou

“…A middle age woman with known ischemic heart disease and old stents in proximal left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) was admitted to Coronary Care Unit with acute coronary syndrome. …”
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First Report of the Stapled Mesh Stoma Reinforcement Technique in a Urologic Context by Dwayne Tun Soong Chang, Isaac Andrew Thyer, John Oliver Larkin, Marina Helen Wallace, Dickon Hayne

“…The procedure was performed on a middle-aged female with recurrent parastomal hernia of her ileal conduit. …”
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Targeting Chondrocyte Hypertrophy as Strategies for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis by Da-Long Dong, Guang-Zhen Jin

“…Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common joint disease characterized by pain and functional impairment, which severely impacts the quality of life of middle-aged and elderly individuals. During normal bone development, chondrocyte hypertrophy is a natural physiological process. …”
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Protocol for the quantitative detection of mtDNA in the supernatants of activated human naive CD8+ T cells by Linlin Li, Jun Jin

“…We also apply this approach to predict the occurrence of lung adenocarcinoma in middle-aged populations.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Jin et al.1 : Publisher’s note: Undertaking any experimental protocol requires adherence to local institutional guidelines for laboratory safety and ethics.…”
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Comparing Welfare Regime Changes: Living Standards and the Unequal Life Chances of Different Birth Cohorts by Louis Chauvel

“…These scarring effects can affect specific birth cohorts in countries where the welfare regime provides the context for increasing polarisation between middle-aged insiders and young outsiders. This is characterised by a lack of resilience to early career difficulties faced by cohorts of young adults.…”
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Writing Against Culture with Online Poker by Jukka Jouhki

“…When the NHL strike (2004–2005) in North America created an  cute need for television re-scheduling, poker tournaments filled the empty programming slots. A stale game of middle-aged men turned into an exciting, familiar hobby with a global reach. …”
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