Trends in Antihypertensive Drug Use and Irrational Prescriptions Among Elderly Patients in China (2016–2023): A Nationwide Multi-Center Cross-Sectional Survey Study by Hong D, Chen W, Du S, Ren J, Lv D, Shan W, Lu X, Zhao Q

“…The overall proportion of first-line antihypertensive prescriptions was 97.47% but showed a slight declining trend (APC=− 0.66%, P=0.004). The rates of inappropriate combination medication and overall irrational prescriptions decreased, while the rate of contraindicated medication prescriptions increased (P< 0.001). …”
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Global burden of tuberculosis among adults aged 60 years and older, 1990-2021: Findings from the global burden of disease study 2021 by Junping Liu, Yue Zhou, Juan Guan, Yaping Liu, Weijian Song, Wei Liu, Xinle Yin, Yuqin Liu, Ting Li, Long Jin, Lihan Zhang, Yunkai Li, Lin Wu, Nan Wang, Zhaoyue Liu, Xinru Liu, Yanfu Wang, Qunhong Wu, Libo Liang

“…Results: A decreasing trend in age-standardized incidence rate, age-standardized mortality rate, and disability-adjusted life-years rates for TB and drug-susceptible TB was observed among the elderly population worldwide, whereas an upward trend was noted for MDR-TB and XDR-TB. …”
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Analysis of fibrous material deformation in the roll contact zone by Khurramov Shavkat, Abrorov Akbar, Abdullaev Akhror, Norov Nusiratjon, Baymatov Shakhriddin

“…The analytical description of the shape of contact curves and the thickness of processed material in the technological zone of a two-roll module in a dynamic mode is given, considering the deformation pattern of the processed material. It is determined that one of the factors that most influence the shape of the contact curve is the ratio of the compression rate of the coating deformation to the corresponding material feed rate. …”
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MF-ShipNet: a multi-feature weighted fusion and PCA-SVM model for ship detection in remote sensing images by Jianfeng Li, Yibing Yang, Liutong Yang, Yang Zhao, Qinghua Luo, Chenxu Wang

“…Due to the complex sea background and the different sizes and shapes of ships, the detection of ship targets has the problems of low detection rate, high false detection rate and high missed detection rate. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 control measures on influenza positivity among patients with acute respiratory infections, 2018–2023: an interrupted time series analysis by Wei Chen, Huabin Wang, Xianlin Ten, Miao Fu, Meili Lin, Xiaoping Xu, Yongjun Ma

“…Before the pandemic, influenza primarily showed a winter peak pattern, whereas during the pandemic, the positivity rate declined significantly with no distinct peak. …”
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Effectiveness and Safety of Korean Medicine in Treating Female Infertility: A Prospective Multicenter Observational Study by Jung HJ, Kim DI, Choi SJ, Park JK, Lee JM

“…Among the analyzed participants, the clinical pregnancy rate, ongoing pregnancy rate, and live birth rate were 20.8% (95% CI, 13.9– 30.0%), 70.0% (95% CI, 48.1– 85.5%), and 13.5% (95% CI, 8.1– 21.8%), respectively. …”
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DYNAMICS OF INCIDENCE WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN THE POPULATION OF KUZBASS AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION FOR THE PERIOD 2011-2019 by Андрей Георгиевич Петров, Николай Владимирович Абрамов, Сергей Анатольевич Макаров, Сергей Николаевич Филимонов, Виктор Андреевич Семенихин, Наталья Степановна Черных

“…In 2014, the incidence rate decreased to 129.3 cases per 100 thousand population. …”
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Physical model test on the sealing mechanism and reinforcement effect of flowing water grouting for water-sand mixture inrush in the Cuihongshan iron-polymetallic mine by Baofu WU, Wanghua SUI, Guilei HAN, Longfei LIANG, Xinhai YAO, Jiaxin FENG, Xingshuo XU

“…The Z1 and Z2 stages presente a slow-fast-slow grouting rate pattern, whereas Z3 exhibited slow, uniform diffusion and filling, confirming the necessity of secondary borehole grouting. …”
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How prevalent is the cross-disciplinary career transition? Evidence from a multi-dimensional comparative analysis by Tongyang Zhang, Chao Yu, Dong Zhang, Jian Xu

“…However, studies on the prevalence of career transitions in different disciplinary areas are rare, especially those investigating the patterns of disciplinary changes accompanied by career transitions. …”
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South Africa’s male homicide epidemic: Who is killing men and why do we ignore the victims? by Richard Matzopoulos, Morna Cornell, Brett Bowman, Lorna J. Martin, Rachel Jewkes, Naeema Abrahams

“…Based on routine data collected through forensic and police investigations, we found that male homicide rates were higher than female homicide rates across all ages, and were up to 8.4 times higher among youths and young adults. …”
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Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of human rhinovirus in hospitalized children and adolescents with acute respiratory infections: a longitudinal study in Shenzhen, China (2... by Jiao Liu, Wei Wang, Ke Cao, Zhenmin Ren, Xiaoying Fu, Yunsheng Chen, WenJian Wang, Yuejie Zheng, Yanmin Bao, Xiaojuan Luo, Jiehua Chen

“…Co-infections occurred in 32.00% of HRV cases and were associated with higher rates of pneumonia and severe pneumonia (P < 0.001). …”
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Trends and projections of gallbladder and biliary tract cancer in China: a comprehensive analysis from 1990 to 2030 based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Zhouwei Zhan, Bijuan Chen, Wenhao Teng, Rui Huang, Hanchen Zheng, Sijing Zhou, Jingjie Xu, Jiami Yu, Hui Lin, Xiaojie Wang, Zengqing Guo, Xiaoyan Lin

“…From 1990 to 2021, China experienced increasing trends in incidence and prevalence, while age-standardized mortality rates (ASMR) declined. Compared to global trends, China's ASIR rose while global rates declined. …”
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The prophylaxis and treatmen to finfectious complications caused by nosoco-mialflora after kidney transplantation from living related donor by E. P. Volynchik, L. V. Bolshakov, E. M. Balakirev, N. S. Bogomolova

“…This resulted in reduced rate of infectious complications.…”
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Cancer Genetics in the Arab World by Waleed S. Al Amri PhD, Muna Al Jabri PhD, Aisha Al Abri MS, Thomas A. Hughes PhD

“…Cancer remains a major global health burden, with incidence rates rising globally. The Arab world, which is often regarded as an underrepresented population in literature, shows distinct patterns in cancer incidences, genetics, and outcomes in comparison with Western populations. …”
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Glucose‐Induced Developmental Dynamics: Understanding Male Prevalence in Early Mouse Embryo Stages by Fikri Ardhani, Asako Okamoto, Masayuki Shimada

“…Conclusions Glucose availability accelerated embryonic development and created sex‐specific patterns of developmental timing, with male embryos exhibiting faster progression rates, which might be associated with differential X‐linked PDHA1 metabolic gene expression during early mouse embryogenesis.…”
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Lifestyle factors associated with being overweight and obesity in children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study in Zhejiang, China by Xiaoting Pan, Chaoyi Jiang, Wenqing Wang, Jianfeng Lin

“…Additionally, the rates among adolescents and children in urban areas were greater than those in rural areas (25.8% vs. 20.5%, p = 0.003). …”
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Synergistic effect of ammonium and potassium on carrot growth, physio-biochemical mechanisms, and water use efficiency under varying irrigation regimes by Ayman M. S. Elshamly, Ahmed D. S. Abaza, Abd El-Zaher M. A. Mustafa, Humaira Rizwana, Javed Iqbal, Shabir Ahmad, Rashid Iqbal, Nazim S. Gruda

“…Carrot plants were treated with two rates of soil ammonium nitrate (200 and 250 kg N ha− 1), foliar potassium humate (200 and 400 g 100 L− 1), and four combinations of these treatments. …”
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Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa T3SS virulence genes and correlation between virulence and drug resistance and molecular epidemiology studies by Jianhua Tang, Jianhua Tang, Jiekun Pu, Linbo Zhao, Xuli Zhan, Qianqian Pang, Xiangyan Meng, Rui Feng, Haojun Fan

“…The highest detection rate of T3SS virulence genes was for exoT (100%), followed by exoS, exoY (88.9%), and exoU (11.1%). …”
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Trends in Colistin Resistance and Multidrug-Resistant Phenotypes Among Gram-Negative Bacilli: A Retrospective Analysis by Madalina Alexandra Vlad, Maria Dan, Andreea Nicoleta Catana, Sebastian Dumitriu, Cristina Gabriela Tuchilus

“…Resistance in <i>Pseudomonas</i> spp. remained below 1%, while <i>Acinetobacter</i> spp. showed a resistance rate of 5.43%. Several distinct resistance phenotypes were identified among <i>Klebsiella</i> spp., <i>Pseudomonas</i> spp., and <i>Acinetobacter</i> spp. strains, reflecting both endemic and sporadic circulation patterns. …”
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Translation of the UK Pediatric Influenza Vaccination Programme in Primary Schools to 13 European Countries Using a Dynamic Transmission Model by Laetitia Gerlier, Judith Hackett, Richard Lawson, Sofia Dos Santos Mendes, Martin Eichner

“…# Objectives To simulate the impact of a pediatric influenza vaccination programme using quadrivalent live attenuated influenza vaccine (QLAIV) in Europe by applying coverage rates achieved in the United Kingdom during the 2014–2015 season and to compare the model outcomes to the UK results…”
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