Efficacy of an intervention to increase therapeutic adherence in patients with secondary prevention for cardiovascular disease: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Francisco Manuel Lidón-Muñoz, José Antonio Quesada, José Antonio Quesada, José Antonio Quesada, Vicente Francisco Gil-Guillén, Vicente Francisco Gil-Guillén, Vicente Francisco Gil-Guillén, Domingo Orozco-Beltrán, Domingo Orozco-Beltrán, Domingo Orozco-Beltrán

“…Based on a therapeutic adherence rate of 50% in the control group and 80% in the intervention group, with a type I error of 5% (95% confidence interval), a type II error of 20% (80% power), and accounting for a 15% loss to follow-up, the final sample size will be of 45 patients per group. Follow-up will last for 1 year. Following data collection, univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analyses will be performed to isolate confounding factors and assess the intervention’s impact on adherence.DiscussionIf the results obtained in this study are favorable and the intervention is successful in enhancing therapeutic adherence, its applicability would be substantial, representing a feasible intervention for implementation in primary care. …”
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Contact patterns between index patients and their close contacts and assessing risk for COVID-19 transmission during different exposure time windows: a large retrospective observat... by Weibing Wang, Genming Zhao, Hao Pan, Bo Zheng, Chenyan Jiang, Yaxu Zheng, Huanyu Wu, Shenghua Mao, Ye Yao, Xiaohuan Gong, Sheng Lin, Bihong Jin, Dechuan Kong

“…The number of contacts was 4.96 individuals per index case (95% CI 4.86, 5.06). Contacts had a higher risk if they were exposed from 1 day before to 3 days after the onset of symptoms in the index patient, with a maximum at day 0 (adjusted relative risk (aRR)=1.52; 95% CI 1.30, 1.76). …”
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IMPACT-ICU feasibility study: pragmatic mixed-methods randomised controlled trial of a follow-up care intervention for survivors of critical illness and caregivers by Sunita Mathur, John Muscedere, David M Maslove, Miranda Hunt, John Gordon Boyd, Stephanie Sibley, Tracy Boyd, Michelle Tryon, Natasha Arianne Jawa, Michaela Hanley, Robin Westphal, Afolasade Fakolade

“…We define high risk as ICU stay ≥4 days or involving 1+ of mechanical ventilation, tracheostomy, delirium or lack of access to a primary care physician (PCP). 20 ICU survivor-primary caregiver dyads will be enrolled (n=10 dyads per group) and randomised 1:1 to the intervention versus control group. …”
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The relationship between dietary branched-chain and aromatic amino acids with the regulation of leptin and FTO genes in adipose tissue of patients undergoing abdominal surgery by Farshad Teymoori, Hossein Farhadnejad, Mostafa Norouzzadeh, Mitra Kazemi Jahromi, Niloufar Saber, Ebrahim Mokhtari, Golaleh Asghari, Emad Yuzbashian, Parvin Mirmiran, Alireza Khalaj, Maryam Zarkesh, Mehdi Hedayati, Mohammadreza Vafa

“…The mean age of the participants was 39.8 ± 12.7 years, and the mean intake of BCAAs and AAAs was 17.7 ± 0.9 and 9.3 ± 0.3% of protein per day, respectively. In overweight-obese patients(body mass index = 25–34.9 kg/m2), the intake of BCAAs(β:-0.75,95%CI:-1.47,-0.03), valine(β:-0.78,95%CI:-1.51,-0.05), and tyrosine(β:-0.81,95%CI:-1.55,-0.06) was inversely associated with FTO gene expression in subcutaneous fat tissue in adjusted model. …”
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Conduction system pacing using electro-anatomical mapping-guided system vs. fluoroscopy: a systematic review, meta-analysis and economic evaluation by Beatriz León-Salas, Beatriz León-Salas, Beatriz León-Salas, Beatriz León-Salas, Diego Infante-Ventura, Diego Infante-Ventura, Diego Infante-Ventura, Aránzazu Hernández-Yumar, Aránzazu Hernández-Yumar, Aránzazu Hernández-Yumar, Renata Linertová, Renata Linertová, Renata Linertová, Renata Linertová, Estefanía Herrera-Ramos, Estefanía Herrera-Ramos, Estefanía Herrera-Ramos, Estefanía Herrera-Ramos, Alezandra Torres-Castaño, Alezandra Torres-Castaño, Alezandra Torres-Castaño, Alezandra Torres-Castaño, Himar González-Pacheco, Himar González-Pacheco, Himar González-Pacheco, Himar González-Pacheco, Analía Abt-Sacks, Analía Abt-Sacks, Analía Abt-Sacks, Analía Abt-Sacks, Javier García-García, Raúl Quirós-López, Raúl Quirós-López, María M. Trujillo-Martín, María M. Trujillo-Martín, María M. Trujillo-Martín, María M. Trujillo-Martín

“…The use of EAM represents an increase of EUR 1397.81 per patient and a net budget impact of EUR 1.63 million.DiscussionEAM is a valuable alternative for patients who should not be exposed to ionizing radiation with similar effectiveness and safety than fluoroscopy. …”
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A bibliometric analysis of the top 100 most cited articles on corticospinal tract regeneration from 2004 to 2024 by Saijilafu, Saijilafu, Ling-Chen Ye, Huanyi Li, Haokun Li, Xinyi Lin, Kehui Hu, Zekai Huang, Chimedragchaa Chimedtseren, Linjun Fang, Saijilahu, Ren-Jie Xu

“…These seminal papers amassed an aggregate of 18,321 citations, with individual citation counts ranging from 83 to 871 and a median of 136 citations per paper. Schwab M. E., stood out as the most prominent contributor, with significant authorship in 9 of the 100 papers. …”
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Attenuation of acute kidney injury in a murine model of neonatal Escherichia coli sepsis by Esther M. Speer, Atilade A. Adedeji, Joyce Lin, Alexandra Khorasanchi, Asma Rasheed, Maya Bhat, Kelly Mackenzie, Randolph Hennigar, Kimberly J. Reidy, Robert P. Woroniecki

“…We hypothesized that addition of PTX to antibiotics may attenuate immune and histological AKI in a murine neonatal sepsis model.MethodsPostnatal (PN) day 1 C57BL/6J mice were injected with E. coli K1 strain at 105 colony forming units per gram weight or saline control. After 1.5 hours, septic pups randomly received saline, gentamicin or cefotaxime, with/without PTX. 5.5h after sepsis initiation, kidneys and blood were harvested for measurements of biomarkers of inflammation and kidney injury. …”
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Harnessing genetic diversity in cotton for enhanced resilience against salt stress by using agro-physiological characters by Muhammad Mubashar Zafar, Aqsa Ijaz, Zunaira Anwar, Muhammad Shahid Iqbal, Saba Zafar, Mishal Subhan, Mahmoud F. Seleiman, Bushra A. Alhammad, Maha Aljabri, Fei Qiao, Abbas Shoukat, Amir Shakeel, Sezai Ercisli, Arfan Ali, Abdul Razzaq, Xuefei Jiang

“…Among all 35 studied accessions; the genotypes CCB-1, CCB-2, CCB-28, CCB-3, CCB-4, Ghauri-1, JSQ-70, and JSQ-71 showed considerably higher performance for plant height, boll per plant, boll weight, lint percentage, seed cotton yield and fiber quality traits under salt stress. …”
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Protocol for the DisCoVeRy trial: multicentre, adaptive, randomised trial of the safety and efficacy of treatments for COVID-19 in hospitalised adults by Florence Ader, Jean-François Timsit, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, François-Xavier Lescure, Laetitia Moinot, Christelle Delmas, Hélène Espérou, Laurent Abel, Benjamin Leveau, Vinca Icard, Toni Alfaiate, Linda Wittkop, Charles Burdet, France Mentré, Marion Schneider, Nathan Peiffer-Smadja, Julien Poissy, Lila Bouadma, Bruno Lina, Florence Morfin-Sherpa, Maude Bouscambert, Alexandre Gaymard, Gilles Peytavin, Jeremie Guedj, Claire Andrejak, Cedric Laouenan, Drifa Belhadi, Axelle Dupont, Basma Basli, Anissa Chair, Samira Laribi, Julie Level, Marie-Capucine Tellier, Aline Dechanet, Dominique Costagliola, Sandrine Couffin-Cadiergues, Juliette Saillard, Claire Fougerou, Carole Cagnot, Soizic Le Mestre, Delphine Lebrasseur-Longuet, Ventzislava Petrov-Sanchez, Alpha Diallo, NoéMie Mercier, Sarah Tubiana, Benjamin Hamze, Ambre Gelley, Marion Noret, Eric D’Ortenzio, Oriane Puechal, Caroline Semaille

“…A sample size of 3100 patients (620 patients per arm) is targeted. This trial has begun on 22 March 2020. …”
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Genetic divergence of hot pepper lines (Capsicum spp.) in hybrid combinations by Šević Biljana, Cvikić Dejan, Slađana Savić, Tupajić Ivan, Ugirnović Milan, Bajagić Marija, Luković Kristina, Stojiljković Jelena

“…High DMC values were recorded for HM5xLHP7 and HM5xLHP5 (10.5% and 9.40%). The number of fruits per plant (11.40-16.80) and the number of chambers (2) were consistent across hybrids, with no statistically significant differences observed. …”
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Urban environment during pregnancy, cognitive abilities, motor function, and externalizing and internalizing symptoms at 2–5 years old in 3 Canadian birth cohorts by Anne-Claire Binter, Dany Doiron, Martine Shareck, Tona Pitt, Sheila W. McDonald, Padmaja Subbarao, Wiliam D. Fraser, Suzanne C. Tough, Jeffrey Brook, Mònica Guxens

“…., −0.81 non-verbal points 95 %CI [-2.10; 0.48] per 1 μg/m3 increase in PM2.5), motor function, or externalizing and internalizing symptoms. …”
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Renewal of wheat cultivars enhances ozone resistance in yield but detrimentally impacts quality: a survey of Chinese wheat by Yinsen Qian, Zheng Zhao, Yifan Cao, Quan Ma, Nanyan Zhu, Lingqi Song, Min Zhu, Min Zhu, Chunyan Li, Chunyan Li, Jinfeng Ding, Jinfeng Ding, Wenshan Guo, Wenshan Guo, Xinkai Zhu, Xinkai Zhu, Xinkai Zhu

“…Overall, the direct effect of 1,000-grain weight on yield was the most significant, followed by the number of grains per spike, whereas the number of spikes contributed least to the yield components. …”
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Trends in stroke-related mortality in atrial fibrillation patients in the United States: Insights from the CDC WONDER database by Muhammad Abdullah Naveed, Sivaram Neppala, Himaja Dutt Chigurupati, Muhammad Omer Rehan, Ahila Ali, Hamza Naveed, Bazil Azeem, Rabia Iqbal, Manahil Mubeen, Mashood Ahmed, Ayman R. Fath, Timir Paul, Bilal Munir

“…Age-adjusted mortality rates (AAMRs) were calculated per 100,000 persons, and trends were assessed using Average Annual Percentage Change (AAPC) and annual percent change (APC). …”
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Clustering patients with COVID-19 according to respiratory support requirements, and its impact on short- and long-term outcome (RECOVID study) by Rosario Menéndez, Raúl Méndez, Ana Latorre, Paula González-Jiménez, Germán Peces-Barba, María Molina-Molina, Pedro Pablo España, Estela García, Angélica Consuegra-Vanegas, Marta María García-Clemente, Carolina Panadero, Juan Marco Figueira-Gonçalves, David De la Rosa-Carrillo, Oriol Sibila, María Dolores Martínez-Pitarch, Nuria Toledo-Pons, Cecilia López-Ramírez, Wanda Almonte-Batista, Abigail Macías-Paredes, Mercedes Villamon, Marisol Domínguez-Álvarez, Eli Nancy Pérez-Rodas, Javier Lázaro, Sarai Quirós, Rosa Cordovilla, Irene Cano-Pumarega, Antoni Torres

“…In-hospital mortality and subsequent 1-year mortality were greater for C2 (28.6% and 7.1%) and C1 (11.1%, 8.3%) than for C4 (3.3%, 1.8%) and C3 (0%, 0%).Conclusions The cluster analysis identified four clinical phenotypes requiring distinct types of respiratory support, with great differences present per characteristics and outcomes.…”
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Associations of blood-based biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases with mortality, cardio- and cerebrovascular events in persons with chronic coronary syndrome by Valerie Lohner, Laura Perna, Ben Schöttker, Robert Perneczky, Hermann Brenner, Ute Mons

“…Results: Participants with higher NfL levels had increased rates of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality (Hazard ratio per increase by one standard deviation (95 % confidence interval): all-cause mortality: 1.36 (1.10–1.68); cardiovascular mortality: 1.42 (1.05–1.93)). …”
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Stochastic population models to identify optimal and cost‐effective harvest strategies for feral pig eradication by Peter W. Hamnett, Frédérik Saltré, Brad Page, Myall Tarran, Matt Korcz, Kate Fielder, Lindell Andrews, Corey J. A. Bradshaw

“…We used effort and cost data from a feral pig‐control program on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, over 17 months to derive functional‐response relationships between control effort (in hours per pig) and pig abundance for four control methods: (1) ground‐based shooting, (2) trapping with remote triggers, (3) poison baiting, and (4) thermal‐assisted aerial culling. …”
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Beta-Blockers After PCI for Stable Coronary Artery Disease and Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction by Safi U. Khan, MD, MS, Usman Ali Akbar, MD, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, MD, Kershaw V. Patel, MD, Amna Nadeem, MBBS, Samarth Thakkar, MD, Hassaan B. Arshad, MD, Salim S. Virani, MD, PhD, Khurram Nasir, MD, MPH, Sachin S. Goel, MD, Alpesh R. Shah, MD, William Zoghbi, MD, Neal S. Kleiman, MD

“…Results: Out of 11,681 matched patients per group, beta-blocker therapy was associated with increased all-cause mortality (HR: 1.11 [95% CI: 1.09-1.18]). …”
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Solid and Gaseous Methane in IRAS 23385+6053 as Seen with Open JWST Data by Ruslan Nakibov, Varvara Karteyeva, Igor Petrashkevich, Maksim Ozhiganov, Mikhail Medvedev, Anton Vasyunin

“…We were able to describe the wide feature of solid methane with the following laboratory spectra: CH _4 : CO _2 = 1 : 5 (at $27.{4}_{-10.8}^{+6.0}$ K) and CH _4 : H _2 O = 1 : 10 (at $8.{4}_{-1.7}^{+16.4}$ K) deposited at 6.7 K and warmed up at a rate of 0.5 K per minute. The derived column densities are ${N}_{{\,\rm{CH}\,}_{4}}$ (CO _2 ) = $2.9{7}_{-0.57}^{+0.37}\times 1{0}^{17}$ cm ^−2 and ${N}_{{\,\rm{CH}\,}_{4}}$ (H _2 O) = $1.0{2}_{-0.27}^{+0.46}\times 1{0}^{17}$ cm ^−2 . …”
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A Retrospective, Single-Center Assessment of Changes in Pain, Agitation, and Delirium Management Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Rachel L. Winner, PharmD, BCCCP, Lydia R. Ware, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, Kevin M. Dube, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, Mary P. Kovacevic, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, Kenneth E. Lupi, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, Paul M. Szumita, PharmD, FCCM, FASHP, BCCCP, BCPS, Jeremy R. DeGrado, PharmD, BCCCP

“…The median number of Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale assessments per 24-hour period was greater in the pre-group (13 vs. 12 assessments; p = 0.02) within the first 48 hours of MV. …”
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Diagnosis and management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with ischaemic heart disease and acute coronary syndromes - a review of evidence and recommendations by Muhammad Usman Shah, Muhammad Usman Shah, Alun Roebuck, Bala Srinivasan, Joanna Kate Ward, Paul Edward Squires, Claire Elizabeth Hills, Kelvin Lee, Kelvin Lee

“…In the United Kingdom UK alone, around 120 amputations, 770 CVA, 590 heart attacks, and more than 2300 presentations with heart failure per week are attributed to diabetes DM. with One 1 in six 6 hospital beds and around 10% of the healthcare budget may be being spent on managing diabetes DM or its complications. …”
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