Machine learning for predicting severe dengue in Puerto Rico by Zachary J. Madewell, Dania M. Rodriguez, Maile B. Thayer, Vanessa Rivera-Amill, Gabriela Paz-Bailey, Laura E. Adams, Joshua M. Wong

“…Feature importance analysis identified hemoconcentration (≥ 20% increase during illness or ≥ 20% above baseline for age and sex), leukopenia (white blood cell count < 4000/mm3), and timing of presentation at 4–6 days post-symptom onset as key predictors. …”
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Clinicodemographic profile and predictors of poor outcome in hospitalised COVID-19 patients: a single-centre, retrospective cohort study from India by Prashant K Singh, Lokesh Tiwari, Alok Ranjan, Prakriti Gupta, Prabhat Kumar Singh, Yogesh Kumar, Yankappa N, Amrita Banerjee, C M Singh

“…Mortality rates increased with age. Death was more common among males (OR 1.51, 95% CI 1.25 to 1.81). …”
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Metformin Increases Protein Phosphatase 2A Activity in Primary Human Skeletal Muscle Cells Derived from Lean Healthy Participants by Aktham Mestareehi, Xiangmin Zhang, Berhane Seyoum, Zaher Msallaty, Abdullah Mallisho, Kyle Jon Burghardt, Anjaneyulu Kowluru, Zhengping Yi

“…Eight lean insulin-sensitive nondiabetic participants (4 females and 4 males; age: 21.0±1.0 years; BMI: 22.0±0.7 kg/m2; 2-hour OGTT: 97.0±6.0 mg/dl; HbA1c: 5.3±0.1%; fasting plasma glucose: 87.0±2.0 mg/dl; M value; 11.0±1.0 mg/kgBW/min). …”
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Zoltán Kodálys Harmonielehre – ein Rekonstruktionsversuch by Anna Dalos

“…Der Beitrag spart die Harmonik in Kodálys Kompositionen bewusst aus, da dies einen eigenständigen Aufsatz erfordern würde. In 1907, at the age of 25, Zoltán Kodály began teaching music theory and composition at the Budapest Academy of Music. …”
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Profiles of innovative behavior and associated predictors among clinical nurses: a multicenter study using latent profile analysis by Husheng Li, Yue Qiao, Tianxiang Wan, Chun Hua Shao, Fule Wen, Xiaoxin Liu

“…Results Among the respondents, individuals aged 25 to 35 accounted for 55.9%, and females comprised 94.6%. …”
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Analysis of the accuracy of disease prediction in pediatric ward patients based on the modified early warning score for children: A randomized controlled trialWhat is already known... by Kang Lin, Xiaojun Weng, Bing Du, Ting Tian, Xiaoxiang Quan

“…Background: Due to their young age and limited ability to communicate, pediatric patients in internal medicine wards are at risk of nursing assessment errors, which can lead to adverse events and disputes. …”
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Rate of Suture Material Absorption Does Not Impact Short Term Outcome of Tubularized Incised Plate Repair of Distal Penile Hypospadias in Children: A Randomized Controlled Study by Mohamed Abdelwahab, Mohamed Salah, Waseem Aboul Ela, Ahmed Salem, Amr Amin Ragab, Ahmed Mahmoud Shouman, Mohamed Abdelghany

“…Results: The mean ± SD age at the time of surgery for groups (A) and (B) was 46.95 ± 28.07 and 39.33± 21.63 months respectively (p = 0.353). …”
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An early lung cancer diagnosis model for non-smokers incorporating ct imaging analysis and circulating genetically abnormal cells (CACs) by Ran Ni, Yongjie Huang, Lei Wang, Hongjie Chen, Guorui Zhang, Yali Yu, Yinglan Kuang, Yuyan Tang, Xing Lu, Hong Liu

“…Furthermore, our results indicated that the model built using random forest (RF) method, which integrates clinical characteristics (age, extra-thoracic cancer history, gender), radiological characteristics of pulmonary nodules (nodule diameter, nodule count, upper lobe location, malignant sign at the nodule edge, subsolid status), the artificial intelligence analysis of LDCT data, and liquid biopsy achieved the best diagnostic performance in the independent external non-smokers validation cohort (sensitivity 92%, specificity 97%, area under the curve [AUC] = 0.99). …”
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Comparison of Functioning, Quality of Life, and Cognition between Lithium and Sodium Valproate Combination Therapy and Sodium Valproate Monotherapy in Euthymic Bipolar Patients: A... by M Ashwini, R Jhamuna, V Jaikumar

“…Results: The mean±Standard Deviation (SD) age of onset in group 1 was 26.73±5.77 years and in group 2 was 27.03±6.49 years. …”
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Causes and determinants of infant mortality using verbal autopsy and social autopsy methods in a rural population of Odisha: a community-based matched case-control study by Amit Kumar Satapathy, Arvind Kumar Singh, Priyamadhaba Behera, Debkumar Pal, Abhisek Mishra

“…We selected an equal number of alive infants matched with cases in a 1:1 ratio with regard to age, gender and residential address.Outcome measures We conducted the verbal autopsy using the Sample Registration System verbal autopsy tool, where the cause of death ascertainment was done by two independently trained physicians followed by adjudication by one senior trained physician in case of conflicts. …”
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Entre espaces domestiques et « espaces domestiqués » : « L’autonomisation intime » des étudiantes en Turquie by Tuğba Gökduman

“…These women, most of them being heterosexual and aged between 20-25, were mainly issued from middle-class families from different towns and villages in Turkey. …”
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General immunologic reactivity of patients with COVID-19 and its relation to gene polymorphism, severity of clinical course of the disease and combination with comorbidities by M.O. Sokolenko, L.P. Sydorchuk, L.S. Sokolenko, A.A. Sokolenko

“…Among the patients there were 51.97% (106) women and 48.03% (98) men. The average age of patients was 55.93±8.75 years. The polymorphism of the NOS3 (rs2070744), FGB (rs1800790) and TMPRSS2 (rs12329760) genes was determined by real-time polymerase chain reaction (qualitative determination). …”
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Complex Study of Settlements Dating from the Paleolithic to Medieval Period in the Ural Mountains on the Border of Europe and Asia by Valentina Prikhodko, Nikita Savelev, Vyacheslav Kotov, Sergey Nikolaev, Evgeny Ruslanov, Mikhail Rumyantsev, Elena Manakhova

“…Soil, geochemical, microbiological, and archeological studies were conducted at eight settlements dating from the Paleolithic to Late Medieval and Modern Ages near the southern Trans-Urals Mountains, Russia. …”
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Personalized genotype markers of the atopic disorders phenotypes in children by V.O. Dytiatkovskyi

“…We recruited 101 patients into the main and 105 into control groups aged from 3 to 18 years old. Patients of the main group suffered from atopic eczema (58 children) and atopic eczema + allergic rhinitis/allergic rhino-conjunctivitis (43 children). …”
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Molecular, Cytogenetic, and Hematological Analysis of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patients and Discovery of Two Novel Translocations by Muhammad Asif, Abrar Hussain, Abdul Wali, Nazeer Ahmed, Irfan Ali, Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Amir, Muhammad Shafiq, Mahmood Rasool

“…In this study, 72 (54.96%) were males and 59 (45.03%) were females with a median age of 38.5 years. CBC values in the diagnosis process showed that 75 patients had high values of WBC being >100×103/μl, while 71 (58.01) patients exhibited reduced values of hemoglobin, i.e., <10.00 mg/dl, and high values of PLTs>100 were observed in 40 (30.53%) patients. …”
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Evaluation of Non-Invasive Hemoglobin Monitoring in Perioperative Patients: A Retrospective Study of the Rad-67^TM (Masimo) by Philipp Helmer, Andreas Steinisch, Sebastian Hottenrott, Tobias Schlesinger, Michael Sammeth, Patrick Meybohm, Peter Kranke

“…Potential confounders, e.g., patient age, skin temperature, sex, perfusion index (PI), and atrial fibrillation, were also analyzed. …”
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Can ChatGPT4-vision identify radiologic progression of multiple sclerosis on brain MRI? by Brendan S. Kelly, Sophie Duignan, Prateek Mathur, Henry Dillon, Edward H. Lee, Kristen W. Yeom, Pearse A. Keane, Aonghus Lawlor, Ronan P. Killeen

“…We included 170 patients with MS (50 males, 120 females), aged 21–74 years (mean 42.3), imaged at a single institution from 2019 to 2021, each with 2–5 MRI studies (496 in total). …”
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Work-related burnout and its associated factors among kindergarten teachers: a multi-center cross-sectional study in Ethiopia by Anmut Endalkachew Bezie, Girum Tareke Zewude, Amensisa Hailu Tesfaye, Amensisa Hailu Tesfaye, Asmare Asrat Yirdaw, Alebachew Bitew Abie, Giziew Abere

“…Variables found significant in the bivariable analysis were then exported into a multivariable logistic regression model to identify statistically significant variables at a p value &lt; 0.05 and a 95% confidence interval.ResultsThe response rate was 95% (401/422). 97.5% of the participants were female, and the participants’ mean (standard deviation) age was 28.5 years (SD ± 5.8). In the past 6 months, the total prevalence of WRB was 39.7% [95% CI (34.8, 44.6)]. …”
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Eating difficulties among Nigerian community-dwelling stroke survivors: prevalence, correlates, and association with quality of life by Adekola B. Ademoyegun, Adebukola G. Ibitoye, Wasiu A. Rasaq, Oluwafunmilayo A. Adeniyi, David O. Fabuluje, Israel A. Ojo, Taofeek O. Awotidebe, Chidozie E. Mbada

“…Methods A cross-sectional study on 233 (Mean age: 59.6 ± 10.9 years; 52.8% female) Nigerian community-dwelling stroke survivors attending rehabilitation at three public hospitals was conducted. …”
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Smartphone-Based Intervention Targeting Norms and Risk Perception Among University Students with Unhealthy Alcohol Use: Secondary Mediation Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Tria... by Joseph Studer, John A Cunningham, Elodie Schmutz, Jacques Gaume, Angéline Adam, Jean-Bernard Daeppen, Nicolas Bertholet

“…MethodsA total of 1770 students from 4 higher education institutions in Switzerland (mean age 22.35, SD 3.07 years) who screened positive for unhealthy alcohol use were randomized to receive access to a smartphone app or to the no-intervention control condition. …”
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