Association between drinking patterns and diabetic kidney disease in United States adults: a cross-sectional study based on data from NHANES 1999–2016 by Xusheng Yang

“…Daily alcohol consumption was associated with an increased risk of DKD, whereas moderate alcohol consumption was associated with a reduced risk. …”
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Hemoglobin A1c to Detect Prediabetes or Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in a Rural Population of Wardha District in India by Shilpa Gaidhane, Ranjit Sah, Quazi Syed Zahiruddin, Nazli Khatib, Shital Telrandhe, Sonali Choudhari, Abhay Gaidhane

“…For 363 participants with moderate- or high-T2DM risk, we evaluated fasting plasma glucose, hemoglobin, and HbA1c. …”
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Burden and Determinants of Anemia in a Rural Population in South India: A Cross-Sectional Study by Matthew Little, Chloe Zivot, Sally Humphries, Warren Dodd, Kirit Patel, Cate Dewey

“…To determine the prevalence and determinants of blood haemoglobin level and mild, moderate, and severe anemia in a sample of adults from rural Tamil Nadu, India. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Outcome of Kidney Transplant Recipients Infected with COVID-19: A Retrospective Observational Study by Manzoor Ahmad Parry, Rayees Yousuf Sheikh, Raja Kaamil Qadri, Muzafar Maqsood Wani, Imtiyaz Wani, Mohammad Ashraf Bhat

“…Acute kidney injury occurred in 13.6%, 60%, and 81.57% of patients with mild, moderate, and severe cases, respectively (P = 0.004). …”
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Influencing factors of pain during ultrasound-guided puncture sclerotherapy for ovarian endometriotic cysts via transabdominal and transvaginal approaches by LI Yuanhua, TIAN Hongju, YANG Qian

“…According to the pain scores at the moments of needle insertion and replacement, the patients were divided into the no/mild pain group (pain score ≤3) and the moderate/severe pain group (pain score ≥4), and the related factors of the incidence of moderate/severe pain were analyzed. …”
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Efficacy of Kolofort in Combined Functional Gastroenterological Pathology: an Open Study by Yu. P. Uspenskiy, O. S. Mirzoev, Yu. A. Fominykh, A. A. Gnutov, S. V. Polyushkin

“…On the same term, the number of patients without depression increased by 21.4%, decreased by 17.9% with moderate depression and by 3.4% - with severe depression (p = 0.003); the number of patients without anxiety increased by 32.0%, decreased by 8.9% with moderate and by 23.1% — with severe anxiety (p < 0.0001); the number of patients with absent somatisation increased by 53.9%, decreased by 37.1% with moderate and by 18.6% — with severe somatisation (p < 0.0001).Conclusion. …”
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Application of Fractal Analysis in Detecting Trabecular Bone Changes in Periapical Radiograph of Patients with Periodontitis by Parisa Soltani, Sajad Sami, Jaber Yaghini, Ehsan Golkar, Francesco Riccitiello, Gianrico Spagnuolo

“…FD values were significantly different between moderate and severe periodontitis and healthy periodontal bone (P<0.05), except for the distal ROI for moderate periodontitis cases (P=0.280). …”
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Isolated Vitamin D Deficiency Is Not Associated with Nonthyroidal Illness Syndrome, but with Thyroid Autoimmunity by Muyesser Sayki Arslan, Oya Topaloglu, Bekir Ucan, Melia Karakose, Basak Karbek, Esra Tutal, Mustafa Caliskan, Zeynep Ginis, Erman Cakal, Mustafa Sahin, Mustafa Ozbek, Tuncay Delibasi

“…Anti-TPO positivity was significantly more common in those with severe and moderate vitamin D deficiency, as compared to those with a normal 25(OH)D level. …”
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Self-management behavior and its influencing factors among adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Colombo, Sri Lanka: A cross-sectional study by Kanchana Warnakula Royal Weerasooriya, Niphawan Samartkit, Khemaradee Masingboon, Pachanok Witheethamasak

“…Results: The study showed a moderate self-management level with a mean of 3.04 ± 0.35. …”
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Analysis of depression status and nursing interventions in 163 patients with liver disease (163例肝病患者抑郁状况调查及护理干预效果分析) by WANG Yundan (望运丹), WANG Weixian (王伟仙), HU Deying (胡德英), LIU Yilan (刘义兰)

“…After implementation of nursing interventions, 3 patients with moderate-to-severe depressive liver disease were identified as been mildly depressed, 4 patients with moderate-to-severe depression and 2 patients with severe depression were identified as been moderately depressed. …”
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Drug interactions in patients with alcohol use disorder: results from a real-world study on an addiction-specific ward by Sebastian Schröder, Christina Massarou, Tabea Pfister, Stefan Bleich, Phileas Johannes Proskynitopoulos, Johannes Heck, Martin Schulze Westhoff, Alexander Glahn

“…A total of 811 potential drug–drug interactions were identified, of which 3.3% were classified as severe and 96.5% as moderate. Psychoanaleptics (ATC N06) and psycholeptics (ATC N05) were most frequently associated with moderate to severe interactions. …”
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Exploring spatial patterns of environmental noise and perceived sound source dominance in urban areas. by Dimitris MARKOU

“…Firstly, areas with high levels of noise pollution are characterized by high to moderate presence of technological and absence of anthropic and natural sounds. …”
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Determining the diagnostic cut-off on the Chinese version of severity of dependence scale for cannabis by Albert Kar Kin Chung, Cheuk Yin Tse

“…Receiver operating characteristic analysis demonstrated that a C-SDS-C cut-off score of ≥ 3 provided optimal discrimination for moderate to severe CUD among Chinese-speaking individuals using cannabis.ConclusionThe C-SDS-C is a valid and reliable screening instrument to identify cannabis users with moderate-to-severe CUD in the Chinese-speaking population.…”
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Analysis and Research on the Rehabilitation Effect of Physical Exercise on College Students’ Mental Depression Based on Multidimensional Data Mining by Wen Zou

“…The results of this study show that with increasing age, college students have a lower risk of moderate anxiety and mild depression; girls are more prone to mild depression than boys; rural college students are more prone to mild, moderate anxiety; college students with nonmedical backgrounds were more likely to experience moderate anxiety than college students with medical backgrounds. …”
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Impact of severe dysphagia on overall survival after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy by Kazumi Shimamoto, Ryota Matsui, Yorihiro Nishiyama, Kyohei Nishino, Hiromitsu Ban

“…Patients with a Hyodo–Komagane score ≤ 8 were defined as having moderate dysphagia, whereas those with a score ≥ 9 were defined as having severe dysphagia. …”
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Burnout and Professional Development: A Study of Lithuanian Physiotherapists by Laura Žlibinaitė, Hulya Yucel

“…Total CBI score was 54.92 (moderate burnout). The overall prevalence of physiotherapists reporting moderate burnout was 50.4% (n=67). …”
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The results of using micropulse cyclophotocoagulation for the treatment of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma by V.V. Egorov, A.V. Postupaev, N.V. Postupaeva

“…The mild stage of glaucoma was detected in 33 eyes and the moderate stage — in 29 eyes. The level of intraocular pressure (IOP) before surgery ranged from 25 to 38 mm Hg (mean 29.2±2.8 mm Hg). …”
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Modified minimally invasive chevron osteotomy versus traditional incision chevron osteotomy by Run Tang, Jie Yang, Xiao Jun Liang, Yi Li, JunHu Wang, MiaoLuo Jin, Yang Du, Tong Lu, YiXiang Hao

“…Abstract Purpose This study aimed to compare modified minimally invasive chevron osteotomy (MIC group) and traditional incision chevron osteotomy (TIC group) for correction of mild to moderate hallux valgus deformity. Methods This retrospective study enrolled 42 patients (60 feet) with mild to moderate hallux valgus deformities who were treated with modified MIC osteotomy or TIC osteotomy between January 2020 and June 2021. …”
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Re-evaluating large for gestational age: differential effects on perinatal outcomes in term and premature births by Chun-Heng Kuo, Chun-Heng Kuo, Chun-Heng Kuo, Yi-Ling Wu, Chi-Nien Chen, Chi-Nien Chen, Yu-Ru Lo, I-Weng Yen, Kang-Chih Fan, Yi-Yun Tai, Ming-Wei Lin, Chih-Cheng Hsu, Chih-Cheng Hsu, Chih-Cheng Hsu, Chih-Cheng Hsu, Hung-Yuan Li

“…However, most of these risks were not increased in moderate, very, and extremely preterm groups. Conversely, being LGA was associated with lower risks of primary cesarean section (very preterm group), jaundice needing phototherapy (moderate and very preterm groups), respiratory distress (moderate and very preterm groups), NICU admission (moderate and very preterm groups), newborn sepsis (very preterm group), retinopathy of prematurity (late, moderate, and very preterm groups), and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (very preterm group). …”
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Effects of Deficit Irrigation on Growth, Yield, and Quality of Pomegranate (<i>Punica granatum</i>) Grown in Semi-Arid Conditions by Islam F. Hassan, Rahaf Ajaj, Ahmed F. Abd El-Khalek, Shamel M. Alam-Eldein, Maybelle S. Gaballah, Habib ur Rehman Athar, Harlene M. Hatterman-Valenti

“…In general, the most efficient treatment was moderate deficit irrigation as it balanced the yield and quality parameters with less water. …”
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