Burden and inequalities of chronic kidney disease attributable to diet globally, regionally and temporally, 1990–2021 by Nana Wei, Miao Yang, Pingping Zheng, Jian Xu

“…However, significant regional variations were observed in these rates, with Central Sub-Saharan Africa experiencing the highest and Eastern Europe the lowest. …”
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The administration sequences of immune checkpoint inhibitors and chemotherapy cause discrete efficacy when treating non-small cell lung cancer: a retrospective study by Bicheng Zhang, Yuxiao Song, Qian Min, Weiting Cheng, Jun Wang, Yang Fu, Jiaxin Yin

“…Additionally, the objective response rates (ORRs) for the three groups were 55.82% (72/129), 58.21% (39/67), and 68.92% (51/74), respectively. …”
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Ecological impact and metabolic food waste of overweight and obese adults in Northern European and Mediterranean countries by Donato Angelino, Elisabetta Toti, Marina Ramal-Sanchez, Veronica D’Antonio, Chiara Bravo-Trippetta, Mauro Serafini

“…Data were analyzed for the total population and standardized per 100,000 citizens.ResultsThe results showed that NEC had the highest rates of obesity, while MC recorded slightly higher rates of individuals classified as overweight. …”
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Еpidemiological aspects of ixodid tick-borne borrelioses in Kemerovo region by О. M. Drozdova, A. R. Efimova, Т. Е. Bondarenko, М. A. Shmakova

“…To study the epidemiological patterns of Lyme disease in the Kemerovo Region. Materials and Methods. …”
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Acetylation suppresses breast cancer progression by sustaining CLYBL stability by Xinyue Deng, Chenglong Ma, Xingyu Chen, Ming Yi, Qianhua Cao, Ruocen Liao, Xingyu Lei, Longchang Bai, Bin Zhao, Yingnan Wang, Zhuoyang Shen, Liujing Wu, Chenfang Dong, Zhijun Dai

“…Citrate lyase beta like (CLYBL) is expressed at low levels in breast cancer tissues and is associated with low patient survival rates. In this study, we explored the regulatory mechanisms of CLYBL and its acetylation in breast cancer. …”
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Exploring the Role of Allergenic Components in Children with House Dust Mite-Induced Allergic Diseases by Xu Q, Shang Y, Li X, Ran S, Lu M, Cheng L

“…Der p 2 and Der f 2 had higher positive rates in respiratory allergies than in AD alone. …”
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HCAP: Hybrid cyber attack prediction model for securing healthcare applications. by Mohanad Faeq Ali, Mohammed Shakir Mohmood, Ban Salman Shukur, Rex Bacarra, Jamil Abedalrahim Jamil Alsayaydeh, Masrullizam Mat Ibrahim, Safarudin Gazali Herawan

“…The extracted features are fed into the lion-optimization technique to fine-tune the hyperparameters of the recurrent neural networks, enhancing the model's ability to efficiently predict cybersecurity threats with a maximum recognition rate in IoMT environments. The recurrent networks, specifically Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), process data from healthcare devices, identifying abnormal patterns that indicate potential cyberattacks over time. …”
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Experimental investigation on the mechanism of the effect of flow velocity on Cyclotella meneghiniana by Jianwei Zhang, Hongdong Ma, Gangfu Song, Yitong Ding, Sitong Guo

“…The findings revealed that under different flow rates, C. meneghiniana exhibited a critical flow rate threshold at 0.4 m s−1, demonstrating an overall trend characterized by ‘when the flow velocity is relatively low, an increase in flow velocity will promote the growth of C. meneghiniana. …”
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Enhanced risk of multiple sentinel lymph node basins in truncal and head and neck melanoma by Harmeet K Bhullar, Lipi Shukla, Ramin Shayan, Frank Bruschino-Raiola

“…Patients with drainage to MLNB also demonstrate a higher rate of positive SeNBx than those with SLNB drainage. …”
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Sex disparities in premature adult mortality in Estonia 1995–2016: a national register-based study by Hajo Zeeb, Kaja Rahu, Mati Rahu

“…Extremely high mortality rate ratios were observed for cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract and for lung cancer. …”
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Evolution of adult respiratory syncytial virus detection: impact of testing strategy changes and pandemic-related measures at a Swiss regional hospital, 2016–2023 by Annika Bonin, Robert Escher, Neal Breakey

“…Of the hospitalised patients, 14 (9%) required intensive care, with an in-hospital mortality rate of 6%. Major comorbidities in inpatients included cardiac disease (54%), pulmonary disease (49%) and anaemia (43%). …”
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A systematic review of Gram-negative bacterial prevalence and antibiotic resistance in pediatric sepsis: Insights from pediatric intensive care units by Ghada Haidar Ali, Mohammed Abdullah Albariqi, Ahmed Hassan Alhazmi, Abdulrahman Hassan Alasmari, Saeed Mari Nasser

“…Gram-negative bacteria (GNB) have emerged as significant pathogens in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs), contributing to high rates of antimicrobial resistance and complicating treatment outcomes. …”
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Multi-Timescale Fault Interactions and Earthquakes: A Review by Mian Liu

“…Consequently, attention has been focused on the rate of strain accumulation on individual faults to infer their stress evolution, which, together with earthquake history, forms the basis for earthquake forecasting. …”
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Fault Gouge Permeability Under Confined Conditions: An Investigation for CO₂ Storage Applications by Aigerim Sekerbayeva, Ali Mortazavi, Randy D. Hazlett, Bahman Bohloli

“…This investigation provides an in-depth experimental analysis of the prepared artificial fault gouge material on permeability characteristics as a function of the confining pressures and injection flow rate pertinent to both CO₂ storage and subsurface fluid flow that addresses an ultimate challenge in CO₂ storage. …”
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DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT by Ruslan M. Kliuchnyk, Elvina M. Lymonova

“…For instance, Africa is the region with the highest total fertility rate. Examples of countries with very high population growth are Niger, Uganda and Mali. …”
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Effects of Indoor Air Quality on Human Physiological Impact: A Review by Tong Nie, Guofu Zhang, Yinan Sun, Wenhao Wang, Tianai Wang, Haoyan Duan

“…Through an analysis of cardiovascular biomarkers (heart rate variability, blood pressure), respiratory parameters, and neurological indicators (electroencephalogram patterns), we identify the mechanisms linking air quality degradation to impaired physiological functioning. …”
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Type-specific human papillomavirus biological features: validated model-based estimates. by Iacopo Baussano, K Miriam Elfström, Fulvio Lazzarato, Anna Gillio-Tos, Laura De Marco, Francesca Carozzi, Francesca Carozzi, Annarosa Del Mistro, Joakim Dillner, Silvia Franceschi, Guglielmo Ronco

“…We devised a mathematical model to estimate the probability of infection transmission, the rate of clearance, and the patterns of immune response following the clearance of infection of 13 hrHPV types. …”
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Investigation of DNMT-mediated DNA methylation and its role in adipogenesis and breast cancer by Sandeep Mallya, Sharath Mohan Bhat, Sachin Naie, Sumati Kulkarni, Manjunath B Joshi, Shama Prasada Kabekkodu

“…Specifically, ME3 and STAT1 showed distinct associations with survival outcomes, where high ME3 expression correlated with significantly better survival rates, whereas low STAT1 expression was associated with improved prognosis. …”
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The association between smartphone use and myopia progression in children: a prospective cohort study by Jing Li

“…Abstract Background The increasing myopia of children has sparked speculations on whether the use of smartphones can accelerate this rate. This study aims to identify possible predictors for myopic progression in children with smartphones over a period of two years. …”
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Impairment of neuronal activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex occurs early in parkinsonism by Noah Hjelle, Biswaranjan Mohanty, Tanner Hubbard, Matthew D. Johnson, Jing Wang, Luke A. Johnson, Jerrold L. Vitek

“…BackgroundParkinson’s disease (PD) is often characterized by altered rates and patterns of neuronal activity in the sensorimotor regions of the basal ganglia thalamocortical network. …”
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