Predictive value of cardiovascular risk factors in the formation of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality: results of a 27-year cohort prospective study by I. V. Dolgalev, A. Yu. Ivanova, R. S. Karpov

“…Each year of life lived increases the death risk by 1,06 times. The most significant risk factor for death from CVD was frequent alcohol consumption (RR 3,01). …”
Get full text

Segmentation Techniques Applied to CNNs for Cervical Cancer Classification by Ana Ortiz-Gonzalez, Raquel Martinez-Espana, Juan Morales-Garcia, Baldomero Imbernon, Jose Martinez-Mas, Mauricio A. Alvarez, Oscar David Romero, Juan Pedro Martinez-Cendan, Andres Bueno-Crespo

“…Cervical cancer continues to be a significant global health issue, ranking as the fourth most prevalent cancer affecting women. Enhancing population screening programs by refining the examination of cervical samples conducted by skilled pathologists offers a compelling alternative for early detection of this disease. …”
Get full text

Disease activity trajectories from childhood to adulthood in the population-based Nordic juvenile idiopathic arthritis cohort by Kristiina Aalto, Anders Fasth, Troels Herlin, Marite Rygg, Ellen Berit Nordal, LILLEMOR BERNTSON, Mia Glerup, Veronika Rypdal, Martin Rypdal, Ellen Arnstad, Charlotte Myrup, Suvi Peltoniemi

“…In our study the PaGA was the most important driver of disease activity into adulthood assessed by cJADAS10. …”
Get full text

Cost-effectiveness analysis of sugemalimab combined with chemotherapy as first-line treatment for advanced gastric cancer by Lian Tang, LongXun Zhu, LongXun Zhu, ShaoQing Zhan, Yong Chen, Pan-Feng Feng, Pan-Feng Feng, Pan-Feng Feng

“…One-way sensitivity analysis indicated that the utility values for the progressive disease (PD) state, progression-free survival (PFS) state, and the cost of sugemalimab had the most substantial impact on the ICER. Probabilistic sensitivity analysis demonstrated stable results, with a 0% probability that the sugemalimab combination regimen was cost-effective.ConclusionUnder the current economic conditions in China, sugemalimab combined with chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for advanced gastric cancer is not cost-effective.…”
Get full text

A Study to Find the Correlation Between Clinical and Ultrasonographic Findings in the Patients Presented with Painful Shoulder Conditions – A Hospital-Based Prospective Study by Shrihari L. Kulkarni, Daniel Ernest, Manjunath Daragad, Santosh Dasar, Harpreet Kour

“…Background: Shoulder pain is the third most common musculoskeletal complaint and may be associated with impairments and marked disabilities. …”
Get full text

Bitter lemon extract mitigates obesity-exacerbated osteoarthritis by suppressing Mmp-13 and restoring redox balance through Nrf2/Ho-1 upregulation by Ayodeji Johnson Ajibare, Olabode Oluwadare Akintoye, Oluwatobiloba Adesewa Oriowo, Abosede Mary Ayoola, Isaac Adeola Oriyomi, Joshua Favour Adedara, Favour Oluwaferanmi Oluwamoroti, Kehinde Olaniyi, Kayode Tajudeen Salami

“…Abstract Background Osteoarthritis, the most common joint disease, affects over 500 million people globally, especially the elderly. …”
Get full text

Study on the Effectiveness of Temporary Vegetation Measures on the Regulation of Runoff, Sediment Yield and Hydraulic Characteristics on the Spoil Heaps by Jian Pu, Jianming Li, Wenlong Wang, Zhigang Wang, Jiale Wang, Ke Wang, Xiao Li, Xiudi Zhu, Wensheng Xu, Jigen Liu

“…Temporary vegetation measures are the most common methods for reducing soil erosion of spoil heaps during construction; however, their regulatory mechanisms on soil and water loss have not been sufficiently studied. …”
Get full text

Fotografía del rodaje de la película Plácido, de Luis García Berlanga (Plana de l'Om, Manresa, 1961) by Col·lecció Francesc Escala Bartrolí

“…jig[1]/ML/73900   Photo from the film shoot of the movie Plácido, by Luis García Berlanga ((Plana de l'Om, Manresa, 1961) Although in the film the name of the town where the story takes place is never named or identified, most of the filming took place in Manresa, except for the final scene, shot in Barcelona. …”
Get full text

Robust Adaptive Fractional-Order PID Controller Design for High-Power DC-DC Dual Active Bridge Converter Enhanced Using Multi-Agent Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Algorithm for... by Seyyed Morteza Ghamari, Daryoush Habibi, Asma Aziz

“…To overcome this issue, Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) algorithm is proposed to identify the most suitable initial gains for each agent, providing faster adaptation and consistent performance during the training process. …”
Get full text

The attitudes of medical students towards rare diseases: A cross-sectional study by Medić Branislava, Divac Nevena, Stopić Bojan, Savić-Vujović Katarina, Glišić Andreja, Cerovac Nataša, Stojanović Radan, Srebro Dragana, Prostran Milica

“…Our participants agreed that the most important problems are the following: high drug prices, difficult access to drugs and lack of public information. …”
Get full text

Functional Analysis of Mouse G6pc1 Mutations Using a Novel In Situ Assay for Glucose-6-Phosphatase Activity and the Effect of Mutations in Conserved Human G6PC1/G6PC2 Amino Acids o... by Kayla A Boortz, Kristen E Syring, Lynley D Pound, Yingda Wang, James K Oeser, Richard M O'Brien

“…Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in G6PC2 are the most important common determinants of variations in FBG in humans. …”
Get full text

A low-complexity, energy-efficient data securing model for wireless sensor network based on linearly complex voice encryption mechanism of GSM technology by M Saud Khan, Noor M Khan, Ahmad Khan, Farhan Aadil, M Tahir, M Sardaraz

“…It is due to the XoR operation used in the proposed scheme which is considered as the most inexpensive process with respect to time and space complexity. …”
Get full text

Effects of Free-Range Systems on Muscle Fiber Characteristics and Welfare Indicators in Geese by Guoyao Wang, Jianzhou Chen, Yujiao Guo, Kaiqi Weng, Yu Zhang, Yang Zhang, Guohong Chen, Qi Xu, Yang Chen

“…Recently, free-range poultry production has increased with notable benefits for animal welfare and meat quality traits. Geese, the third-most productive poultry species, have not been studied extensively. …”
Get full text

Genetic diversity of the Russian sunflower breeding lines revealed by microsatellite loci analysis by S. Z. Guchetl, A. V. Golovatskaya, S. A. Ramazanova, A. A. Voloshko

“…Molecular variation analysis revealed that most of the total variance (91 %) was due to differences between lines within each collection and 3 % to differences between collections. …”
Get full text

Multimodal Emotion Recognition Based on Facial Expressions, Speech, and EEG by Jiahui Pan, Weijie Fang, Zhihang Zhang, Bingzhi Chen, Zheng Zhang, Shuihua Wang

“…<italic>Method:</italic> In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based multimodal emotion recognition (MER) called Deep-Emotion, which can adaptively integrate the most discriminating features from facial expressions, speech, and electroencephalogram (EEG) to improve the performance of the MER. …”
Get full text

TREATMENT FOR ACUTE/SUBACUTE MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN, BY USING AN ALGORITHM FOR STEPWISE CHOICE OF ANALGESIC DRUGS AND FOR MONITORING THEIR EFFICACY: PRELIMINARY DATA OF THE ANALGESIC... by N. V. Gontarenko, A. V. Tsurgan, A. E. Karateev

“…The application of the treatment algorithm based on a pathogenetic approach ensures effective and relatively safe relief of MSP in most patients.…”
Get full text

Developing user-friendly ambulatory referrals: a quality improvement study in GI referral services at a large academic safety net hospital system by Aaron Gerard Issac, Wendy Du, Alix Youngblood, Wilhelmina Prinssen, Kelly Carroll, Robert Geller, Palak Patel, Bhavin Adhyaru, Jason Brown

“…Abstract Background In the United States, more than a third of patients are referred to specialists each year; however, most of these referrals do not lead to completed appointments. …”
Get full text

Results of surgical therapy of functioning pituitary adenomas by Vlastimil Novak, Lumir Hrabalek, Jan Schovanek, Zdenek Frysak, Racheal Temitope Ijisesan Perryova, Daniel Pohlodek

“…Microadenoma was diagnosed in 58.6% of patients and macroadenoma in 41.4% of patients. The most common hypersecretory syndrome was excessive production of growth hormone (56.9%), followed by excessive production of adrenocorticotropic hormone (24.1%) and prolactin (12.1%). …”
Get full text

Comparison of Parametric Indices of Anthropometric and Biomechanical Characteristics of Female Basketball Players, Volleyball Players and Handball Players by Ali Fatahi, Behshad Panjehzadeh, Zahrah Koreli‌

“…Conclusion: The height is the leading standard index between different female handball, volleyball, and basketball players. Most of the anthropometric characteristics are various, related to the type of sport. …”
Get full text

An FPGA Prototype for Parkinson&#x2019;s Disease Detection Using Machine Learning on Voice Signal by Mujeev Khan, Abdul Moiz, Gani Nawaz Khan, Mohd Wajid, Mohammed Usman, Jabir Ali

“…Among the evaluated approaches, the ANOVA algorithm yields the most optimal feature set, with the top 10 features enabling the Quadratic SVM to achieve a classification accuracy of 98.86%. …”
Get full text