Oncologic Diseases as a Risk Factor for Cryptogenic Stroke by G. R. Ramazanov, E. A. Kovaleva, N. A. Shamalov

“…The US National Cancer Registry has shown a decrease in mortality in patients with the most common forms of OD (lung, breast and prostate cancer). …”
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Development of a multifactorial prediction model for commute mode choice in 10 983 Finnish public sector employees: a cross-sectional study by Jaana I Halonen, Paula Salo, Jenni Ervasti, Kia Gluschkoff, Jaakko Airaksinen, Anna Makkonen

“…The mean age was 46 (SD 11) years, and 84% were women.Primary outcomes Commute by (1) bike or foot (an active mode) during summer and winter weather and (2) by car (a passive mode) during summer and winter weather.Methods Using logistic Lasso (least-absolute-shrinkage-and-selection-operator) regression, we developed and tested a prediction model for short commutes of 5 km or less to identify the characteristics of employees most likely to commute actively during summer and winter weather and passively during summer and winter weather.Results All models had a good predictive ability with a C-index of 0.82, 0.77, 0.72 and 0.71. …”
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INVESTIGATION OF THE EXPRESSION LEVEL OF miR 142-3P IN OVARIAN CARCINOMA by Yasemin Gider, Xhariqa Jabbarlı, Gamze Uyaroğlu, Demet Akdeniz Ödemiş, Şeref Buğra Tunçer, Büşra Kurt Gültaşlar, Seda Kılıç Erciyas, Özge Şükrüoğlu Erdoğan, Betül Çelik, Hülya Yazıcı

“…Objective: The most common cancers in women are breast, thyroid, colorectal, uterine corpus, lung and ovarian cancer. …”
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Psycho-Socio-Economic Issues Challenging Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis Patients: A Systematic Review. by Beena Elizabeth Thomas, Poonguzhali Shanmugam, Muniyandi Malaisamy, Senthanro Ovung, Chandra Suresh, Ramnath Subbaraman, Srividya Adinarayanan, Karikalan Nagarajan

“…There were few intervention studies which addressed these psychosocial issues most of which were small pilot studies. There is dearth of large scale randomized psychosocial intervention studies that can be scaled up to strengthen management of MDR-TB patients which is crucial for the TB control programme.…”
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Impact of obesity on pulmonary function of preschool children: an impulse oscillometry study by Anuvat Klubdaeng, Kanokporn Udomittipong, Apinya Palamit, Pawinee Charoensittisup, Khunphon Mahoran

“…The waist-to-height ratio was the most robust independent predictor of total and peripheral airway resistance, with increases in R5 (b=1.65, P=0.02) and R5–R20 (b=1.39, P=0.03) and a near-significant correlation with AX (b=12.12, P=0.06). …”
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Endoscopic ultrasound in the pre-therapeutic staging of gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma: the diagnostic value in defining patients eligible for a neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimen by Wilko Staiger, Ulrich Ronellenfitsch, Ralf-Dieter Hofheinz, Philipp Ströbel, Miriam Hahn, Stefan Post, Peter Collet, Georg Kähler, Matthias Schwarzbach

“…Within the last years most experience has been gainedusing endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and it has been considered as a valuable tool for the assessment of locoregionaldisease.Aim: To evaluate the accuracy of endoscopic ultrasound for the preoperative staging of locally advanced gastroesophagealadenocarcinomas with regard to defining patients’ eligibility for neoadjuvant chemotherapy.Material and methods: Between January 2006 and June 2007 consecutive patients (n = 47) who underwent resectionof a gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma and would have been potentially eligible for neoadjuvant chemotherapy wereincluded in this study. …”
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Consumo de bebidas alcohólicas en adolescentes de la Policlínica Manuel Díaz Legrá. Holguín by Marlene Báez García, Martha Compte Riverón, Gisel Bárbara Palacios Rojas, Gelvis Cedeño Macle, Madelaine Cedeño Macle

“…Male sex between 15 and 19 years was the predominant one. The most frequent motivation for the alcohol consumption was that they were pressured on consuming alcohol and presdiposition factors were present . …”
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Complementary and alternative medicine for the treatment of bronchiolitis in infants: A systematic review. by Kok Pim Kua, Shaun Wen Huey Lee

“…<h4>Results</h4>The review identified 11 studies (8 randomized controlled trials and 3 cohort studies) examining four herbal preparations and four supplements used either as adjunctive or alternative therapy for bronchiolitis in 904 infants. Most studies were of moderate quality. Among six studies reporting on length of stay, a significant benefit was found for Chinese herbal medicine compared to ribavirin in one cohort study (n = 66) and vitamin D compared to placebo in one randomized controlled trial (n = 89). …”
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Use of sotrovimab in vaccinated versus unvaccinated COVID‐19 patients in a resource‐limited emergency department during the omicron surge by Rahul V. Nene, Melodie A. Santodomingo, Bruce Balog, Hector Martinez, Elias Murillo, Christian A. Tomaszewski, Andrew LaFree

“…The patient cohort had a median age of 65 years, 78.2% were Hispanic, and obesity (63.5%) was the most common comorbidity. A total of 73.5% of patients were vaccinated against COVID‐19. …”
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Causal associations between epigenetic age and thromboembolism: a bi-directional two-sample Mendelian randomization study by Bowen Jin, Yunyan Li, Dingyang Li, Chi Jing, Qunshan Sheng

“…Abstract Background Thromboembolism is one of the most prevalent cardiovascular conditions affecting the elder population. …”
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Screening of exotic banana accessions for their resistance to fusarium wilt race 1 and tropical race 4 in India by R. Thangavelu, M. Loganathan, S. Backiyarani, M. S. Saraswathi, S. Uma, E. Edwinraj, P. Durai, B. Nithya, Nicolas Roux, R. Selvarajan

“…Abstract Fusarium wilt, caused by the soil-borne pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc), is one of the most destructive diseases affecting global banana production. …”
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Economic planning-operation of virtual power plants including solar-biomass resources and hydrogen storage in the active distribution network based on distribution system operator... by Chengfu Sun, Chengyu Zhang

“…RPO also managed to obtain the most optimal point with a higher convergence speed than other solvers, and the standard deviation of its final answer is about 0.97%.…”
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HPV vaccination improves immune response in children with respiratory papillomatosis by Miguel A. Prieto-Islas, Esmeralda Godoy-Dahbura, Diana C. Villalpando-Sánchez, Cristina Cortés-Benavides, Eduardo Hernández-Cuellar, Denisse Castro-Eguiluz, Hiram Alvarez-Neri, Oscar Medina-Contreras

“…The cause of this disease is the low-risk Human Papillomavirus (HPV), where subtypes 6 and 11 are the most frequent. The only proven effective treatment is surgical resection of the lesions, and although there are adjunctive treatments to try to reduce the recurrence of neoplasms, it has not been proven that there is an effective alternative that achieves this effect. …”
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Assessing ethical practices among community pharmacists in Nigeria: prevalence, drivers, challenges, and implications—a mixed methods study by Olanrewaju Olamide Popoola, Olanrewaju Olamide Popoola, Igbagboyemi Adebowale Adebisi, Igbagboyemi Adebowale Adebisi, Adebowale Sylvester Adeyemi, Damilola Samson Adepitan, Damilola Samson Adepitan, Opeyemi Fortunate Oladeru, Opeyemi Fortunate Oladeru

“…This study assessed ethical practices and identified drivers of unethical practices among community pharmacists in Nigeria.MethodsA convergent-parallel mixed method study design was employed, collecting quantitative and qualitative data, which were analyzed using SPSS and inductive content analysis.ResultsMost pharmacists maintained patients’ confidentiality (93.2%), and disclosed side effects of medicines to patients (80.3%). …”
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HCN1 and HCN2 in Rat DRG neurons: levels in nociceptors and non-nociceptors, NT3-dependence and influence of CFA-induced skin inflammation on HCN2 and NT3 expression. by Cristian Acosta, Simon McMullan, Laiche Djouhri, Linlin Gao, Roger Watkins, Carol Berry, Katherine Dempsey, Sally N Lawson

“…We therefore examined immunostaining of the most abundant isoforms in DRGs, HCN1 and HCN2 in these neuron subtypes. …”
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Optimized Amino Acid-Enhanced Medium for Efficient L-Asparaginase II Production in <i>E. coli</i>: From Shake Flask to Bioreactor by Nicolás Lefin, Javiera Miranda, Iris Munhoz Costa, Alejandro Pedroso Reynaldo, Gisele Monteiro, Mauricio Zamorano, Adalberto Pessoa, Jorge G. Farias

“…Five amino acids were evaluated at a shake flask scale using the design of experiments, with arginine and aspartate showing the most positive effects. Under optimized conditions (14.5 mM arginine, 12.7 mM aspartate, and 0 mM cysteine), the activity model reached 12,513 U L⁻¹, experimentally validated at 10,089 U L⁻¹. …”
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Comprehensive assessment of elite forms of black currant of the Ural selection for suitability to mechanized harvesting by E. М. Chebotok

“…The diameter of the base of the bush for most variety samples was 20.. 30 cm. The number of bent branches in all forms was less than 5 %, the diameter of the branches 8...15 mm. …”
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Exploring primary and secondary healthcare physicians’ perceptions on pursuing population medicine as a main career: Implications for health policy and academia by Khaldoon Al-Roomi, Salman Alzayani, Amer Almarabheh, Ali M. Hamdi, Abdelhalim Deifalla

“…Results Completed questionnaires were received from 190 physicians, of whom 24.7% and 63.2% were in primary and secondary healthcare, respectively. While most of the physicians did not consider specializing in population medicine upon their undergraduate graduation (81%), those who ended specializing in primary healthcare (53.2%) were significantly more likely than their counterparts in secondary healthcare (17.5%) to consider pursuing a career in population medicine if they were to get the opportunity now (p<0.001). …”
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Comprehensive Assessment of Alfalfa Aluminum Stress Resistance Using Growth and Physiological Trait Analysis by Nannan Tang, Xiangming Zeng, Jizhi Wei, Zhou Li, Xuechun Zhao, Jihui Chen, Xinyao Gu, Chao Chen, Rui Dong

“…The results revealed that Al stress markedly inhibited root growth and biomass accumulation in alfalfa, thereby triggering increased malondialdehyde (MDA) content in roots across most cultivars, the scope of increase is 0.19–183.07%. …”
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Chronic Oral D-Galactose Induces Oxidative Stress but Not Overt Organ Dysfunction in Male Wistar Rats by Jelena Martinovic, Ivana Gusevac Stojanovic, Sladjan Nesic, Ana Todorovic, Katarina Bobic, Sanja Stankovic, Dunja Drakulic

“…Consistent with its primary role in galactose metabolism, the liver exhibited the most pronounced oxidative damage. However, despite the increased oxidative stress, only minor histopathological changes were observed, while organ function remained largely unaffected. …”
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