Assessment of the level of use of Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets among Pregnant women a ending Antenatal Clinic in a Tertiary Health facility in Osun State, South-west Niger... by Omowonuola O. Sonibare, Ibrahim S. Bello, Samuel A. Olowookere, Akinjide O. Ogundokun, Niyi O. Makinde

“…Though LLIN has been found to be one of the cheapest and most effective interventions against malaria infection if used consistently and properly, the level of malaria among pregnant women in this region still calls for concern, and the impetus for this study. …”
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Is the Incidence of Concomitant Esotropia with Diplopia in the United States Increasing? by Dae Hee Kim, MD, PhD, Scott R. Lambert, MD

“…Conclusions: The proportion of comitant ET with diplopia in strabismus has increased since 2007 in the United States. The increase was most pronounced in young patients. Female predilection in comitant ET with diplopia was observed, and the change from male to female predominance over time was remarkable among young patients. …”
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Etiologies and Treatment Outcomes of Chronic Cough Diagnosed with a Pathophysiological Diagnostic Procedure: A Single-center Retrospective Observational Cohort Study by Johsuke Hara, Masaki Fujimura, Masahide Yasui, Reiko Takeda, Noriyuki Ohkura, Seiji Yano

“…The remaining nine patients had normal diagnostic findings. The three most common causes of CC were CVA, AC and SBS. Cough disappeared completely in 278 of the 286 patients who completed treatment. …”
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Antiviral Activity of Rambutan Peel Polyphenols Obtained Using Green Extraction Technology and Solvents by Christian Hernández-Hernández, Luis E. Estrada-Gil, Sonia A. Lozano-Sepúlveda, Ana M. Rivas-Estilla, Mayela Govea-Salas, Jesús Morlett-Chávez, Cristóbal N. Aguilar, Juan A. Ascacio-Valdés

“…The results were promising, as a total of 378.48 ± 9.19 mg/g of polyphenols were recovered from this procedure, and the most important molecules (geraniin, corilagin, and ellagic acid) were identified, giving this much more relevance. …”
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Types of testicular tumors in Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Babol, Iran, during 2001‒2021 by Sorena Samimi, Hoda Shirafkan, Hamid Shafi

“…Non-seminoma was mostly reported in 30 people (76.92%) in patients aged 21‒30 years, while seminoma was mostly detected in the age group of 31‒40 years (17 people, 51.52%). …”
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Assessing indigenous knowledge and practices of dairy production, milk quality and traditional dairy foods for sustainable food system by Genet Gebremichael, Habtamu Lemma Didanna, Asrat Ayza

“…The results revealed that the average dairy milk yield was 2.53 l for the native bovine breed, which differed across agroecology. Most of the producers process their milk to get different dairy products like cheese, and butter. …”
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Integrity of Narrow Epithelial Tubes in the C. elegans Excretory System Requires a Transient Luminal Matrix. by Hasreet K Gill, Jennifer D Cohen, Jesus Ayala-Figueroa, Rachel Forman-Rubinsky, Corey Poggioli, Kevin Bickard, Jean M Parry, Pu Pu, David H Hall, Meera V Sundaram

“…Most epithelial cells secrete a glycoprotein-rich apical extracellular matrix that can have diverse but still poorly understood roles in development and physiology. …”
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Prospects for the use of donor blood components in the treatment of COVID-19 patients by E. I. Lazareva, S. V. Pavlenko

“…The dynamics of changes in the parameters of components of donor plasma was studied with an assessment of their correlation relationships between biochemical and immune blood parameters before and after transfusion. The most significant component of donor plasma affecting the inflammatory process in COVID-19 was identified.RESULTS. …”
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Urethral Strictures after Transurethral Surgery: Treatment and Histological Issues by S. V. Kotov, R. I. Guspanov, A. G. Yusufov, M. K. Semenov, E. Kh. Abdulkhalygov, M. M. Iritsyan, I. I. Survillo

“…Bulbous urethra appeared to be the most frequent localisation of urethral strictures (87.5 %). …”
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Clinico-epidemiological and laboratory profiles of scrub typhus in a tertiary care hospital in eastern India: an observational study by Sudeshna Mallik, Boudhayan Bhattacharjee, Swarajdeep Banik, Prantiki Halder, Sonali Das

“…The study included 30 patients aged over 12 years who were admitted to the School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Results: Most of the study population was between 21 and 50 years old, with females constituting 63.3% of cases. …”
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Semitransparent organic photovoltaics with wide geographical adaptability as sustainable smart windows by Jiangsheng Yu, Jihong Pu, Dongsheng Xie, Zhenhai Ai, Yongwen Lang, Menghua Cao, Chunhui Duan, Lin Lu, Gang Li

“…The geographical analysis indicates that the hot summer/warm winter zone is the most suitable for ST-OPV glazing windows, delivering an annual total energy-saving of 1.43 GJ m-2. …”
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Morphological and molecular re-assessment of European and Levantine species of the genus Hortiboletus (Boletaceae) by Alona Yu. Biketova, Tatyana Yu. Svetasheva, Andy F. S. Taylor, Giampaolo Simonini, Matteo Gelardi, Olga V. Morozova, Elias Polemis, José A. Muñoz, László Albert, Salvatore Saitta, Solomon P. Wasser, Eviatar Nevo, Georgios I. Zervakis, Alfredo Vizzini, Bálint Dima

“…Hortiboletus (the former Xerocomus rubellus species complex) is one of the most taxonomically critical and difficult genera for species identification in the family Boletaceae. …”
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EXPERIENCE OF USING THE NON­SELECTIVE ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST MACITENTAN IN PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION by M. A. Simakova, N. S. Goncharova, E. V. Karelkina, O. M. Moiseeva

“…The group that received PAH specific monotherapy consisted of 47% (n=71) of patients among which phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor (PDE­5i) sildenafil was undoubtedly the most prescribed drug — 74% (n=53). The group that received combined PAH specific therapy consisted of 66 (44%) patients: 48 patients received various two­component therapy, 18 patients — threecomponent therapy with endothelin receptor antagonist in combination with PDE­5i and prostanoids. 11 patients with PAH were included in SERAPHIN study of which 9 patients had been already receiving generic PDE­5i therapy. …”
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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of polio vaccination among mothers attending vaccination sites in Gaza during the conflict by Abdel Hamid El Bilbeisi, Abdel Hamid El Bilbeisi, Amany El Afifi, Samer Abuzerr, Isra Kanan Alwahedy, Saja Kanan Alwahedy

“…However, no significant relationship was observed between socio-demographic factors and practice scores.ConclusionMost mothers demonstrated good knowledge and positive attitudes towards polio vaccination, although only about two-thirds reported good vaccination practices. …”
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Revisiting the modified Retail Food Environment Index (mRFEI): examining food access inequities over a decade in the United States by Weixuan Lyu, Xiang Chen, Congcong Miao, Qinyun Lin, Xukun Xiang, Gaofei Zhang, Ran Xu

“…The mRFEI gap between the most (bottom 10%) and the least (top 10%) vulnerable tracts (based on overall SVI) decreases by 2.176 (95% CI [1.638, 2.714]) over time. …”
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Disrespectful care towards mothers giving birth at selected hospital in Kigali/Rwanda by Alice Muhayimana, Irene Josephine Kearns, Aimable Nkurunziza, Olive Tengera, Claudine Muteteli, Vedaste Bagweneza, Pacifique Umubyeyi, Aline Uwase

“…Participants experienced disrespect and abuse between one and eight times. The most prevalent forms of disrespect and abuse experienced were; abandonment (n = 77), undignified care (n = 76), and lack of information on received care (n = 65). …”
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ParallelED—A novel screening and referral intervention using emergency department wait times to identify and address unmet social needs by John Purakal, Gene Moon, Grace Lee, Matthew Yuan, Haripriya Dukkipati, James J. Zheng, Amitesh Verma, Susan Spratt, Janet Prvu Bettger

“…Persons identifying as female or non‐Hispanic Black were disproportionately represented at a higher rate among those who screened positive for at least one social need, with food and housing insecurity emerging as the most common referral categories. Conclusion Our results demonstrate patients’ willingness to be screened in the ED WR and a high identification of HRSN. …”
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Age- and sex-dependent changes in sympathetic activity of the left ventricular apex assessed by 18F-DOPA PET imaging. by Irene A Burger, Christine Lohmann, Michael Messerli, Susan Bengs, Anton Becker, Monika Maredziak, Valerie Treyer, Achi Haider, Moritz Schwyzer, Dominik C Benz, Ken Kudura, Michael Fiechter, Andreas A Giannopoulos, Tobias A Fuchs, Christoph Gräni, Aju P Pazhenkottil, Oliver Gaemperli, Ronny R Buechel, Philipp A Kaufmann, Catherine Gebhard

“…This sex-difference was most pronounced in the apical region of the left ventricle (LV, 1.30±0.24 in women vs. 1.13±0.25 in men, p<0.001) and in individuals >55 years of age (1.39±0.25 in women vs. 1.09±0.24 in men, p<0.001). …”
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HOME protocol for a national online survey of people who inject drugs by Winston E. Luhur, Cristina L. Chin, Jazmine M. Li, Grey Marsh, Dan Coello, Aaron Fox, Honoria Guarino, Denis Nash, Viraj V. Patel, Czarina N. Behrends

“…Abstract Most surveys of people who inject drugs (PWID) fail to represent the full population of PWID, because usual recruitment methods do not achieve geographic and sociodemographic diversity. …”
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Coronary cross-sectional area stenosis severity determined using coronary CT highly correlated with coronary functional flow reserve: a pilot study by Takuto Koumoto, Shozo Kusachi, Takumi Tomiya, Takuya Akagi, Hiroshi Kawamura, Satoshi Hirohata, Hirosuke Yamaji, Takashi Murakami, Shigeshi Kamikawa, Masaaki Murakami

“…Percentage cross-sectional area stenosis was calculated as 100 × (A−B)/A, where A is the cross-sectional area at non-stenotic pre-stenotic segment and B is the cross-sectional area of the most severe stenotic lesion. AUC indicated that percentage cross-sectional area stenosis effectively discriminated between FFR-positive and FFR-negative cases, yielding a sensitivity of 0.882 and specificity of 0.933 at a cutoff of 50% area reduction, with an AUC of 0.976. …”
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