Acute Fatty Liver Disease of Pregnancy in the Second Trimester by Faraz Afridi, Michael Feely, Raju Reddy

“…We report a case of a 21-year-old woman with a history of intrauterine fetal demise at 19 weeks’ gestation who developed fulminant liver failure 1 week after the fetal demise. …”
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Combination Treatment with Thread-Embedding Acupuncture and Electroacupuncture for Knee Osteoarthritis Patients with Postoperative Pain: A Randomized Controlled Feasibility Study by Lee YJ, Han CH, Jeon JH, Kim E, Park KH, Kim AR, Kim YI

“…In the TG, significant differences were observed in K-WOMAC total scores at weeks 2, 4, 6, and 8 (week 2: 17.167; p = 0.0083, week 4: 23; p = 0.0018, week 6: 29.833; p = 0.0009, week 8: 30.5; p = 0.0006); however, there were no differences between the two groups. …”
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Effect of Multi-Joint Functional Electrical Stimulation Combined with Conventional Rehabilitation Therapy on Lower Limb Motor Function of Patients with Stroke by LIU Jiapeng, WANG Weining, XU Dongyan, WANG Nianhong, WU Yi

“…Routine rehabilitation treatment included stretching training, muscle strength training, joint mobility training, motor control training and functional mobility training for transfer, 40 minutes a time, once a day, five times a week for four weeks; routine walking training included pelvic control training, knee joint stability training, balance training, up and down stairs training, 20 minutes a time, once a day, five times a week for four weeks. …”
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Parenteral Antibiotics Reduce Bifidobacteria Colonization and Diversity in Neonates by Séamus Hussey, Rebecca Wall, Emma Gruffman, Lisa O'Sullivan, C. Anthony Ryan, Brendan Murphy, Gerald Fitzgerald, Catherine Stanton, R. Paul Ross

“…Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis was used to investigate the composition of Bifidobacterium in stool samples taken at four and eight weeks. Bifidobacteria were detected in all control infants at both four and eight weeks, while only six of nine antibiotic-treated infants had detectable bifidobacteria at four weeks and eight of nine at eight weeks. …”
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Retrobulbar Hemodynamic Effects of Nipradilol in Normal and Normal-Tension Glaucoma Eyes by Mitsushi Fukukita, Masashi Ido, Syunsuke Osawa, Mikio Sasoh, Motoyasu Furuta, Kunio Ito, Masahiko Sugimoto, Yukitaka Uji

“…Ultrasound color Doppler imaging for the posterior vessels was performed before, 2 hr, 1 week (for normal), and at 4 weeks (for NTG). Results. …”
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Utilization of Project Kind-Er (Engagement in Reading) to Strengthen the Foundation of Learning in Kindergarten by Ma. Benilda Ricaplanca, Mart Albert De Guzman, Christian Bautista

“…The curriculum initially presents two letters each week and another two in the subsequent weeks, which may challenge five-year-old pupils in comprehending the abstract nature of the alphabet. …”
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The Effect of the Taro Corm Type and Storage on Morphophysiological Deterioration and Early Growth in the Field by Ridwan Diaguna, Edi Santosa, Candra Budiman

“…The weight and diameter decreased by more than 10–30% after 4 weeks, while the length decreased by more than 10% after 6 weeks, and even the hardness decreased by 50% compared to that at 0 weeks. …”
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Comparisons of Differentiation Potential in Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Wharton’s Jelly, Bone Marrow, and Pancreatic Tissues by Shih-Yi Kao, Jia-Fwu Shyu, Hwai-Shi Wang, Chi-Hung Lin, Cheng-Hsi Su, Tien-Hua Chen, Zen-Chung Weng, Pei-Jiun Tsai

“…BM-IPCs reduced blood glucose levels at first week but gradually increased since week 3. In resected pancreas-IPCs group, blood glucose levels were significantly reduced till two weeks after transplantation and gradually increased since week 4. …”
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Examination of children's body composition and biomotoric features which attended summer football schools by Burak Inan, Onder Dalıoglu

“…The purpose of the study is to examine body composition and biomotoric specifications of subjects who attendedthe football program for 8 weeks, 3 days a week. In the applied study, 50 subjects were chosen occasionally andvoluntarily out of 125 football players. …”
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Differentiating the cognitive development of early-term births in infants and toddlers: a cross-sectional study in China by Jing Hua, Jie Sun, Zhijuan Cao, Xiaotian Dai, Senran Lin, Jialin Guo, Guixiong Gu, Wenchong Du

“…Objectives This study aimed to explore the cognitive development of low-risk children during early childhood for early-term births at 37 and 38 weeks of gestation compared with full term births at 39–41 weeks of gestation.Setting and participants We conducted a cross-sectional study in Shanghai, one of the largest cities in China. …”
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A Prospective Study of Azilsartan Medoxomil in the Treatment of Patients with Essential Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes in Asia by Chaicharn Deerochanawong, Kuan-Cheng Chang, Yu Cho Woo, Wen-Ter Lai, Aurauma Chutinet

“…The incidence of treatment emergent adverse events (TEAEs) was 12.9% before 6 weeks and 16.1% after 6 weeks, and they were mostly mild in severity. …”
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Effects of a Distributed Form of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy for Clinical Application: The Keys Treatment Protocol by Sarah dos Anjos, Mary Bowman, David Morris

“…Methods: Ten adults with chronic stroke (>6 months) participated in an 8-week intervention. The protocol included 22 supervised training sessions (1.5 h each): 4 days/week for 4 weeks, 2 days/week for weeks 5–6, and 1 day/week for weeks 7–8. …”
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Establishing rabbit critical-size bone defects to evaluate the bone-regeneration potential of porous calcium phosphate ceramics by Wei Lei, Yan Wu, Yan Wu, Hao Yuan, Ping He, Jingqi Wu, Jingrong Chen, Yuxiao Liu, Hongmei Zhang, Joost D. de Bruijn, Xuerong Xiang, Ping Ji, Huipin Yuan, Huipin Yuan, Mingzheng Li

“…Furthermore, the bone area within the available space of BCP implants increased significantly from 19.3% ± 7.3% at 12 weeks to 37.7% ± 8.5% at 24 weeks (p = 0.0063), accompanied by significant BCP resorption (14.8% at 12 weeks and 30.2% at 24 weeks). …”
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Virtual reality head-mounted display game for intermittent exotropia in a randomized controlled trial by Hee Kyung Yang, Dong Hyun Kim, Je Hyun Kim, Taeg Keun Whangbo, Jeong-Min Hwang

“…Outcome measures were assessed after 4 weeks, and re-evaluated after a washout period of 4 weeks. …”
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Habitual alcohol consumption associated with reduced semen quality and changes in reproductive hormones; a cross-sectional study among 1221 young Danish men by Anders Juul, Niels Jørgensen, Niels E Skakkebæk, Shanna H Swan, Tina Kold Jensen, Mads Gottschau, Jens Otto Broby Madsen, Anne-Maria Andersson, Tina Harmer Lassen, Lærke Priskorn

“…This association was observed in men reporting at least 5 units in a typical week but was most pronounced for men with a typical intake of more than 25 units/week. …”
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Efficacy and safety of the Russian protease inhibitor narlaprevir at treatment-naive and earlier treated noncirrhotic patients with the 1st genotype chronic hepatitis C (PIONEER st... by M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin, O. O. Znoyko, Ye. A. Klimova, D. T. Abdurakhmanov, I. G. Bakulin, P. O. Bogomolov, E. Z. Burnevich, M. Yu. Galushko, N. I. Geyvandova, K. V. Zhdanov, Ye. V. Esaulenko, S. N. Kizhlo, D. Yu. Konstantinov, N. I. Mironova, V. G. Morozov, Ye. A. Strebkova, I. G. Nikitin, M. F. Osipenko, V. D. Pasechnikov, O. I. Sagalova, I. M. Khayertynova, V. P. Chulanov, A. A. Yakovlev, I. A. Vasyutin, Ye. P. Tarkhova, E. N. Krasavina, M. Yu. Samsonov

“…Comparison group received pegIFN/ RBV for 48 weeks, for the first 12 weeks in combination to placebo. …”
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Gestational - age - specific reference intervals for blood pressure in normal pregnancy in a Southern Chinese population by Yuguo Deng, Lanfang Liang, Ying Gao, Guilian Liao, Qiaozhu Chen, Zijian Huang, Jinying Yang

“…Additionally, the ascending tendency of SBP after 16 weeks of gestation was interrupted by two fluctuations that occurred at 24 weeks and 30 weeks of gestation. …”
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Deanxit Combined with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Treating 31 Cases of Post-stroke Depression by Dujuan GE, Liyu WU, Sanfeng SUN, Lei SHANG, Qingjuan YANG, Xiaoru YANG, Qingxi ZHAO

“…After treatment of one week, two weeks, four weeks and eight weeks, the NIHSS score in the two groups was respectively decreased, and MBI score was respectively increased compared with that before treatment; the NIHSS score in the treatment group was lower than that of the control group, the MBI score was higher than that of the control group, and the difference was significant after treatment of one week, four weeks and eight weeks (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05, <italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01). …”
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Analysis of the body composition of rats with experimental diabetes mellitus type 1 and its correction by Yu. M. Kolesnyk, M. I. Isachenko

“…Diabetes mellitus was modeled by the injection of streptozotocin. On the 6th week the rats were divided into 3 subgroups: DM1-1 – without correction, DM1-2 – correction with L-arginine and DM1-3 – correction with N-acetyl-L-cysteine for 2 weeks. …”
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Safety and efficacy of switching from adalimumab to sarilumab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in the ongoing MONARCH open-label extension by Gerd R Burmester, Mark C Genovese, Vibeke Strand, Gregory St John, Andrea Rubbert-Roth, Howard Amital, Tatiana Raskina, Antonio Gómez-Centeno, Claudia Pena-Rossi, Leon Gervitz, Karthinathan Thangavelu, Susan Boklage

“…Objective Evaluate open-label sarilumab monotherapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis switching from adalimumab monotherapy in MONARCH (NCT02332590); assess long-term safety and efficacy in patients continuing sarilumab during open-label extension (OLE).Methods During the 48-week OLE, patients received sarilumab 200 mg subcutaneously once every 2 weeks. …”
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