The effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on sleep quality in patients with more than mild depressive mood: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Yu’ang Liu, Silang Huang, Xinxin Zhang, Huangying Liao, Weiguo Liu, Zhi Zhang, Xianhui Qu, Ziwen Wang

“…A meta-analysis was performed using RevMan 5.4 and Stata 17.0 software.ResultsA total of 11 studies, which involved 548 patients, were included. …”
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Industry of employment and occupational class in relation to cardiovascular health by race/ethnicity, sex/gender, age and income among adults in the USA: a cross-sectional study by Symielle A Gaston, Chandra L Jackson, Jamie A Murkey, Dana M Alhasan, W Braxton Jackson

“…Adjusting for sociodemographic, clinical factors, and health behaviour confounders, we used Poisson regression with robust variance to estimate prevalence ratios (PRs) and 95% CIs of mICVH overall and by race/ethnicity and performed Wald tests for interaction.Results Latinx (53%) and NH-Black (37%) adults were more likely than NH-White adults (29%) to report labourer positions and had the lowest prevalence of mICVH (5.2% (Latinx) and 3.9% (NH-Black)). …”
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Rehabilitation Impact of Vivifrail Exercise Program Type C on the Cognitive Function of Pre-Frail Elderly People in the Community by Sri Soenarti, Dwi Indriani Lestari, Muhammad Barlian Nugroho, Harien Lestari, Tita Hariyanti

“…A path analysis was performed using simple linear regression. The subjects' average ages were 72.2 years in the control group and 67.47 years in the exercise group. …”
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The first application of flush probe arrays on HL-3 tokamak by Z.H. Huang, L.W. Yan, K.Y. Yi, Na Wu, W.J. Chen, W.C. Wang, Yu He, J. Chen, J. Cheng, W. Zhao, J.M. Gao, L. Nie, Z.B. Shi, X.Q. Ji, W.L. Zhong

“…Moreover, the discharge monitoring and mode conversion between the triple and single probes could be freely performed via a remote-control workstation. The first application results indicate that the target probe arrays can measure highly temporal plasma parameters, including electron temperature and density, particle and heat fluxes in H-mode discharges on HL-3 tokamak. …”
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Influence of High-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Neurobehavioral and Electrophysiology in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness by Jian-Min Chen, Qing-Fa Chen, Zhi-Yong Wang, Yang-Jia Chen, Nan-Nan Zhang, Jian-Wen Xu, Jun Ni

“…The outcome measures of performed pre- and postintervention included the latencies of the N20 and N20-P25 amplitudes of SEP, brainstem auditory-evoked potential (BAEP) grade, JFK Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) score, and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score; any adverse events were recorded at any time during the intervention. …”
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Vaginal colonization, vertical transmission rate, antimicrobial susceptibility profile, and associated factors of potential neonatal pathogens among pregnant women at public health... by Getnet Shimeles, Getnet Shimeles, Alemu Gedefie, Hilina Motbainor, Chalachew Genet, Chalachew Genet

“…The antimicrobial susceptibility was performed on isolates using the Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion technique. …”
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Emotional pictures in the brain and their interaction with the task: A fine-grained fMRI coordinate-based meta-analysis study by Serafino Paolo Mansueto, Zaira Romeo, Alessandro Angrilli, Chiara Spironelli

“…We analyzed a total of 152 experiments (106 focusing on the negative vs. neutral contrast; 46 reporting positive vs. neutral contrasts). We additionally performed conjunction and contrast analyses. Results confirmed outcomes of past meta-analyses on the involvement of a number of cortical and subcortical paralimbic and limbic regions during unpleasant picture processing, but the increase of the pubblications on this topic in last years, together with a more fine-grained analysis, allowed us to find also the involvement of additional areas, such as the right middle frontal gyrus, left inferior frontal gyrus (BA 9), posterior cingulate, and left inferior parietal lobule. …”
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An approach to boost adherence to self-data reporting in mHealth applications for users without specific health conditions by Maria Aguiar, Ander Cejudo, Gorka Epelde, Deisy Chaves, Maria Trujillo, Garazi Artola, Unai Ayala, Roberto Bilbao, Itziar Tueros

“…With a first group of users, we perform a comparative analysis in terms of adherence and system usability scale of two versions of the app, both including the most common categories of behavior change techniques but the second version having added gamification features. …”
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Pharmacogenomics predictors of aromatic antiepileptic drugs-induced SCARs in the Iraqi patients by Ali Fadhel Ahmed, Dzul Azri Mohamed Noor, Majeed Arsheed Sabbah, Nur Fadhlina Musa, Nur Aizati Athirah Daud

“…Saad Al-Wattari Hospital for Neurological Sciences and Baghdad Hospital - Medical City. HLA genotyping was performed using PCR-SSO method from peripheral blood samples. …”
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Interleukin IL1a and IL6 gene polymorphism: search for association with APOE genotype and clinical course of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease by G. Pšemeneckienė, K. Petrikonis, D. Rastenytė

“…Genotyping of IL1A -889C>T (rs1800587) and IL6 -174G>C (rs1800795, Intron type) was performed using real-time PCR (RT-PCR). Results. The distribution of IL1A -889C>T genotypes did not differ between APOE ε4 carriers (APOE4+: C/C – 52.9%, C/T – 41.2%, T/T – 5.9%) and APOE negative AD patients (APOE4-: C/C – 55.6%, C/T – 37.0%, T/T – 7.4%; p=0.887). …”
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Web-based interventions for fear of cancer recurrence: A scoping review with a focus on suggestions for the development and evaluation of future interventions. by Solveiga Zibaite, Sheela Tripathee, Helen Moffat, Beatrix Elsberger, Sara Maclennan

“…Fourth, while web-based interventions do not involve the costs of transportation, traveling time, space, equipment, cleaning, and other expenses, further cost utility analyses should be performed. Finally, future studies should assess how intervention accessibility, adherence, and effectiveness can be improved across different intervention designs, varying from intensive synchronous individual therapist-assisted web-based programme to blended designs combining the advantages of face-to-face and internet-based elements, to entirely self-managed programmes.…”
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Contagious acquisition of antimicrobial resistance is critical for explaining emergence in western Canadian feedlots—insights from an agent-based modelling tool by Dana Ramsay, Wade McDonald, Michelle Thompson, Nathan Erickson, Sheryl Gow, Nathaniel D. Osgood, Cheryl Waldner

“…This study compared the relative performances of these model configurations with respect to reproducing empirical AMR data.ResultsAcross all antimicrobial classes of interest, model configurations which included the potential for contagious acquisition of AMR offered stronger fits to the empirical data. …”
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The effect of cigarette smoking and heated tobacco products on different denture materials; an in vitro study by Sara F. El Shafei, Ayman H. Amin, Eman G. Abdelghaffar, Sara Moataz, Fatma Makkeyah, Mohamed Shamel, Mahmoud Al Ankily

“…A custom-made smoking device was used to perform the experiment. Six hundred cigarettes/heets representing 30 days of medium smoking behavior (20 cigarettes/day) were used. …”
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Genetic variation in patent foramen ovale: a case-control genome-wide association study by Bosi Dong, Yajiao Li, Fandi Ai, Jia Geng, Ting Tang, Wan Peng, Yusha Tang, Hui Wang, Zixuan Tian, Fengxiao Bu, Lei Chen

“…We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to identify common genetic variants associated with PFO.MethodsWe performed a whole genome sequencing in a discovery cohort of 3,227 unrelated Chinese participants screened for PFO via contrast transthoracic echocardiography (cTTE). …”
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SURGICAL TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH RESECTABLE NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER by K. I. Kolbanov, A. Kh. Trakhtenberg, O. V. Pikin, V. A. Glushko, A. B. Ryabov

“…In 42.7% of patients metastases in the lymph nodes were absent in 28.1% revealed bronchopulmonary defeat and root nodes (N1), while 28.9% - mediastinal (N2). Radical surgery performed 92.8% of patients. Postoperative complications were diagnosed in 22.2%. …”
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Longitudinal Changes of Sensorimotor Resting-State Functional Connectivity Differentiate between Patients with Thalamic Infarction and Pontine Infarction by Peipei Wang, Zhenxiang Zang, Miao Zhang, Yanxiang Cao, Zhilian Zhao, Yi Shan, Qingfeng Ma, Jie Lu

“…The voxel-wise connectivity analyses between the reference time course of each ROI (the contralateral dorsal lateral putamen (dl-putamen), pons, ventral anterior (VA), and ventral lateral (VL) nuclei of the thalamus) and the time course of each voxel in the sensorimotor area were performed for all five measurements. One-way ANOVA was used to identify between-group differences in functional connectivity (FC) at baseline stage (<7 days after stroke onset), with infarction volume included as a nuisance variable. …”
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Augmentation index as a predictor of right ventricular dysfunction in coronary artery disease: a cross-sectional study by Arash Rahimi, Babak Geraiely, Hamed Vahidi, Mohammadreza Eftekhari, Ramyar Rahimi Darehbagh, Somayeh Mohammadi, Golrokh Ghaffari, Meysam Khoshavi

“…Comprehensive echocardiography was performed to assess RV function using conventional and speckle-tracking derived parameters. …”
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Impact of the Nail Length (Short PFNA2 and Long PFNA2) in Surgical Treatment of Intertrochanteric Femur Fractures: A Randomised Clinical Study by Kuljit Kumar, Harpreet Kaur

“…Statistical analysis was performed using IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Statistics {version 29.0.1.0 (171)}. …”
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Polymorphism of Dehydrocholesterol Reductase (DHCR7) Gene and its Effects on Metabolic Components of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Women: A Cross-sectional Study from Tertiary Care... by Susmita Banerjee, Shuvankar Mukherjee, Anindya Dasgupta, Palash Kusum Ghosh

“…Anthropometric, metabolic, and endocrine tests were performed on both the control (n=50) and PCOS groups (case group, n=78). …”
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<i>KRAS</i>, <i>NRAS</i>, and <i>BRAF</i> Hot-Spot Mutations in Relation to Sidedness of Primary Colorectal Cancer: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Omer Abdelgadir, Yong-Fang Kuo, Anthony O. Okorodudu, M. Firoze Khan, Yu-Wei Cheng, Jianli Dong

“…This study examined the association between specific <i>KRAS</i>, <i>NRAS</i>, and <i>BRAF</i> hot-spot mutations and primary CRC sidedness. <b>Methods:</b> We performed a retrospective cohort analysis of 722 patients diagnosed with primary CRC and tested for <i>KRAS</i>, <i>NRAS</i>, and <i>BRAF</i> hot-spot mutations at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) from January 2016 through July 2023. …”
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