Trends in atrial fibrillation and flutter mortality associated with disorders of thyroid gland in the United States from 1999 to 2020 by Shahzaib Ahmed, Shoaib Ahmad, Hamza Ashraf, Eeman Ahmad, Umar Akram, Abbas H. Mallick, Irfan Ullah, Raheel Ahmed, Chadi Alraies, Gregg C. Fonarow

“…Methods Age‐adjusted mortality rates and crude rates per 100,000 population from 1999 to 2020 using the CDC WONDER database. …”
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The effect of COVID-19 vaccination on change in contact and implications for transmission by Carol Y. Liu, Aaron Siegler, Patrick Sullivan, Samuel M. Jenness, Stefan Flasche, Benjamin Lopman, Kristin Nelson

“…Contact rates universally increased across survey rounds among all sociodemographic groups, but unvaccinated individuals had persistently higher contact rates. …”
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Temporal Trends in Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitalizations From 2009-2018 in Alberta: A Retrospective Population-Based Cohort Study by Anita Dahiya, Natasha Wiebe, Tyrone G. Harrison, Matthew T. James, Neesh Pannu

“…Furthermore, there was an overall increase in rates of AKI in patients aged younger than 60 and a decrease in the most elderly of patients in both the crude and adjusted data, suggesting potential changes in practice patterns and patient characteristics. …”
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Optimization complexity and resource minimization of emitter-based photonic graph state generation protocols by Evangelia Takou, Edwin Barnes, Sophia E. Economou

“…Finding ways to minimize the number of entangling gates between emitters and understanding the overall optimization complexity of such protocols is crucial for practical implementations. …”
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Deterioration of Thermal Barrier Coated Turbine Blades by Erosion by Rohan Swar, Awatef Hamed, Dongyun Shin, Nathanial Woggon, Robert Miller

“…The experimental results show that the erosion rates increase with increased impingement angle, impact velocity, and temperature. …”
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National trends in emergency conditions through the Omicron COVID‐19 wave in commercial and Medicare Advantage enrollees by Maria A. Stevens, Edward R. Melnick, Samuel T. Savitz, Molly Moore Jeffery, Bidisha Nath, Alexander T. Janke

“…Similar patterns were seen in Medicare Advantage enrollees. …”
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Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Children in Hangzhou (2022–2023) by Qin-Rui Lai, Xiao-Li Chu, Ying-Ying Chen, Wei Li, Ya-Jun Guo, Shi-Qiang Shang

“…From February 2022 to January 2023, the HRSV positivity rate was 7.06%. In 2023, it increased to 9.26%. The highest positivity rates were in infants aged 0–6 months and children aged 6 months to 1 year. …”
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Mortality atlas of the main causes of death for the elderly population (≥75 years) in Switzerland during 2010–2020 by Taru Singhal, Kaja Widmer, Anton Beloconi, Suzanne Dhaini, Matthias Schwenkglenks, Cordula Blohm, Rolf Weitkunat, Sabina De Geest, Penelope Vounatsou

“…RESULTS: Language regions are associated with mortality rates for many causes of death. In particular, the French-and Italian-speaking regions are associated with a lower burden of mortality due to cardiovascular diseases and diabetes compared to German-speaking Switzerland, but this is offset by increased rates of certain cancers. …”
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Modelling Temperature-dependent Schistosomiasis Dynamics for Single and Co-infections with S. mansoni and S. haematobium. by Zadoki Tabo, Lutz Breuer, Christian Albrecht

“…These temperature-related variations differently impact mortality rates of intermediate snails and snail-to-human transmissibility rates for schistosome species, holding significant health implications. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of interstitial lung diseases and pulmonary sarcoidosis from 2000 to 2021: a systematic analysis of incidence, mortality, and disability-adjus... by Mi Zhou, Yazhe Zhou, Xin Yang, Kaizhuo Zhou, Xin Zhu

“…Temporal trends were evaluated using Joinpoint regression analysis, and the relationship between disease burden and the sociodemographic index (SDI) was explored by stratifying the data into five SDI categories. Age-standardized rates were calculated to adjust for differences in population structure, and data visualization was performed using R software.ResultsBetween 2000 and 2021, the global burden of ILDs and pulmonary sarcoidosis increased, as reflected by rising age-standardized incidence rates (ASIR), mortality rates (ASMR), and disability-adjusted life years rates (ASDR). …”
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Physician referrals of patients with neck and low back pain for physical therapy in outpatient clinics: a cross-sectional study by Amira Daher, Gali Dar

“…We measured the prevalence rates of physicians’ referral patterns for neck and low back pain according to age and sex, as well as therapeutic interventions prescribed by physical therapists. …”
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Australasian Children and Adolescents by A. S. Day, D. A. Lemberg, R. B. Gearry

“…Many reports indicate increasing rates of inflammatory bowel disease, with data also showing changing patterns of this chronic disease in children and adolescents. …”
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Incidence and prevalence of dysthymia among young adults in China, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2046: an age-period-cohort analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Jingxian Wu, Yaping Deng, Kunlu Tong, Zhifang Sun

“…Throughout the study period, dysthymia prevalence rates consistently exceeded incidence rates, with females exhibiting higher rates than males. …”
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Association between weather variables and fascial space infections of the head and neck: a retrospective chart review by Teresa E Fowler, Ryan F Bloomquist, Jeffrey N James

“…The purpose of this study is to understand whether head and neck infection rates correlate with weather patterns in a humid subtropical climate, adding to the current literature derived largely from temperate environments. …”
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Breastfeeding Supports and Services in Rural Hawaii: Perspectives of Community Healthcare Workers by Jeanie L. Flood

“…In the state of Hawaii, breastfeeding initiation rates are higher than the national average but fall below target rates for duration. …”
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Considerations for homology-based DNA repair in mosquitoes: Impact of sequence heterology and donor template source. by Joshua Xin De Ang, Katherine Nevard, Rebekah Ireland, Deepak-Kumar Purusothaman, Sebald A N Verkuijl, Lewis Shackleford, Estela Gonzalez, Michelle A E Anderson, Luke Alphey

“…For Aedes aegypti, the most important arboviral vector, integration rates achieved in Cas9-based knock-ins so far have been rather low, highlighting the need to understand gene conversion patterns and other factors that influence homology-directed repair (HDR) events in this species. …”
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Forecast of myocardial infarction incidence, events and prevalence in England to 2035 using a microsimulation model with endogenous disease outcomes. by Peter Scarborough, Asha Kaur, Linda J Cobiac

“…Age-standardised event rates show a similar pattern, with a non-significant upturn by 2035, larger for men than women. …”
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High nutrient loads amplify carbon cycling across California and New York coastal wetlands but with ambiguous effects on marsh integrity and sustainability. by Elizabeth Burke Watson, Farzana I Rahman, Andrea Woolfolk, Robert Meyer, Nicole Maher, Cathleen Wigand, Andrew B Gray

“…While high nutrient exposure marshes had high rates of decomposition and soil respiration rates, high nutrient exposure was also associated with increased belowground production, and reduced levels of sulfides, which should lead to greater marsh sustainability. …”
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Burden of malignant neoplasm of bone and articular cartilage from 1990 to 2021 and its predictions to 2030 in China compared with world by Cheng Chen, Xu Zheng, Yi Zhang, ZhenDong Li, Bing Li, YunFeng Yang, WeiBin Zhang

“…During this period, the world experienced relatively stable incidence and mortality rates. The incidence and mortality rates of MNBAC increase with age. …”
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Quantifying Aspect‐Dependent Snowpack Response to High‐Elevation Wildfire in the Southern Rocky Mountains by Wyatt Reis, Daniel McGrath, Kelly Elder, Stephanie Kampf, David Rey

“…During the ablation period, burned south melt rates were 71% faster than unburned south melt rates, whereas burned north melt rates were 94% faster than unburned north aspects. …”
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