The Military Vocabulary as a Component of Achilles Tatius’s Idiostyle by Inesa Chakal

“…The names of military concepts, objects, phenomena are included in the structure of many artistic figures (epithets, similes, oxymorons, hyperboles, metaphors, paraphrases). …”
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Prevalence, correlates of postpartum depression during the COVID-19 pandemic; and validation of the arabic edinburgh postnatal depression scale among Lebanese women by Christian El Kahwaji, Elie Barakat, Feten Fekih-Romdhane, Camille Akkari, Savio Barakat, Souheil Hallit

“…The scale yielded good composite reliability (ω = 0.97), and appropriate patterns of correlations with anxiety and social support measures, thus attesting for its convergent validity. A total of 239 women (59.5%) had potential postpartum depression. …”
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Integrating the GRACE Score with the Ceramide Risk Score Enhances the Predictive Accuracy of Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome Undergoing Percut... by Xiaofei Wang, Chengzhe Liu, Fu Yu, Zizhuo Zhang, Jiale Wang, Xiaoyu Shi, Tianyou Xu, Qiang Deng, Liping Zhou, Wanyue Sang, Hong Jiang, Lilei Yu

“…MACE was defined as the recurrence of non-fatal acute myocardial infarction, repeat coronary revascularization procedures (PCI or coronary artery bypass grafting, CABG), or death excluding the initial event qualifying the patient for the study. …”
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Predictors of Stent Restenosis in Han and Uygur Patients with Coronary Heart Disease after PCI in the Xinjiang Region by Jiao Wang, Yuchun Yang, Lei Zhang, Pengyi He, Huyati Mu

“…The general clinical data, laboratory indicators, and coronary artery lesions were compared. Results. Age (OR = 1.040, 95% CI: 1.006∼1.075), triglycerides (OR = 1.440, 95% CI: 1.050∼1.973), total cholesterol (OR = 5.256, 95% CI: 2.826∼9.773), and ApoB (OR = 137.540, 95% CI: 11.364∼899.455) were independent risk factors for ISR after PCI in the Han patients, while ApoAI (OR = 0.002, 95% CI: 0.001∼0.011), MCV (OR = 0.824, 95% CI: 0.744∼0.911), MCH (OR = 0.421, 95% CI: 0.324∼0.548), and MCHC (OR = 0.934, 95% CI: 0.903∼0.965) were protective factors of ISR after PCI in Han patients, and the logistic regression equation composed of various factors predicted that the area under the ROC curve of ISR was 0.905. …”
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Utility of Noninvasive Testing Before Invasive Coronary Angiography in the Assessment for Revascularization by Simon Parlow, MD, Richard G. Jung, MD, PhD, Pietro Di Santo, MD, Joanne Joseph, MD, Stephanie Skanes, MD, Omar Abdel-Razek, MD, Graeme Prosperi-Porta, MSc, MD, Pouya Motazedian, MD, Michael Froeschl, MSc, MD, Marino Labinaz, MD, Rebecca Mathew, MD, F. Daniel Ramirez, MSc, MD, Trevor Simard, MD, PhD, Benjamin Hibbert, MD, PhD

“…We considered MPI to be a positive result if it found moderate or severe ischemia in a specific coronary territory and CTA to be a positive result if it identified a stenosis greater than 50% in any major coronary artery. Results: Of the 17,181 individual procedures, 2183 were included. …”
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Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Risk Factors Associated with Postoperative Stress Hyperglycemia in Patients without Diabetes Following Cardiac Surgery by Mengli Zhang, Ziyi Zhang, Ningning Zhu, Lulu Wang, Hui Huang, Yike Wang, Fang Xue

“…The results of the meta-analysis indicated that statistically significant risk factors included age >65 years [odds ratios (OR) (95% CI ) = 3.47 (2.61–4.32)], female gender [OR (95%) = 1.54 (1.34–1.76)], combined heart valve and coronary artery bypass surgery [OR (95%) = 1.82 (1.23–2.70)], ejection fraction <40% [OR (95%) = 1.38 (1.17–1.63)], history of heart surgery [OR (95%) = 1.30 (1.06–1.59)], myocardial infarction [OR (95%) = 1.17 (1.05–1.31)], hyperlipidemia [OR (95%) = 0.76 (0.67–0.86)], hypertension [OR (95%) = 1.12 (1.03–1.22)], anticoagulant medication [OR (95%) = 0.77 (0.65–0.90)], cardiopulmonary bypass time >2 hours [OR (95%) = 20.26 (17.03–23.48)] and history of cardiopulmonary bypass [OR (95%) = 1.24 (1.09–1.41)]. …”
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Transcription factors MhyFIL1 and MhyFIL3 <i>(Monotropa hypopitys)</i> determine the asymmetric development of above-ground lateral organs in plants by A. V. Shchennikova, A. M. Kamionskaya, A. V. Nezhdanova, K. S. Gavrilova, M. A. Filyushin, E. Z. Kochieva, K. G. Skryabin

“…Also, changes in the architecture of the aerial part and the root system of transgenic plants, including aberrant phyllotaxis and arrest of the shoot and root apical meristem development, were noted. …”
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Peripheral Arteriovenous Malformation Embolization Using Squid by Saima Ahmad, Moeez Uddin

“…Between January 2018 and December 2020, twenty patients (7 men and 13 women) with peripheral high-flow arteriovenous malformations who were treated primarily with arterial embolization using squid were retrospectively included. …”
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Model-based fed-batch cultivation of Viola odorata plant cells exhibiting antimalarial and anticancer activity by R. Babu, Manokaran Veeramani, Wallepure Aadinath, Vignesh Muthuvijayan, Shailja Singh, Smita Srivastava

“…Additionally, when administered alongside artesunate (1.8 mg kg−1d−1), the plant extracts (400 mg kg−1d−1) effectively controlled parasite growth in vivo.DiscussionIt is to be noted that a first report on fed-batch cultivation of V. odorata cell suspension culture in lab-scale bioreactors and on the antiplasmodial activity of the V. odorata plant extracts. …”
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Association Between Walking Speed and Urinary Incontinence in the Older Women. Which Patients Should be Referred to Geriatricians? by Volkan Atmis, Basak Guler

“…Two hundred and fifty-eight (66.32%) had hypertension, 122 (31.36%) had diabetes mellitus, 51 (13.11%) had asthma/Chronic obstructive lung disease, 49 (12.59%) had coronary artery disease and 9 (2.31%) had cerebrovascular disease. …”
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Marcadores bioquímicos de aterosclerosis subclínica en pacientes con diabetes mellitus tipo 2 by Caridad Osorio Sosa, Leonar Luis Nápoles Acosta, Alfredo Salvador Vallés Gamboa, Alberto Caballero Laguna

“…Las variables analizadas fueron: edad, sexo, tensión arterial, antecedentes patológicos personales de diabetes mellitus, hábitos tóxicos y riesgo cardiovascular. …”
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Identification of ketamine and norketamine in dried bloodstains on crime-scene surfaces by Risha Jasmine Nathan, Babajide Okeleye, Rabiu Abdullahi, Waliyu Oyebode

“…Drugs have higher stability in DBS relative to liquid blood owing to the arrest of enzymatic reactions in dehydrated samples. …”
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Consumo alimentar segundo o recebimento de orientação nutricional em participantes do Programa Academia da Saúde by Caroline Otoni da Silva, Patrícia Pinheiro de Freitas, Luana Caroline dos Santos, Aline Cristine Souza Lopes

“…A maioria dos participantes era de mulheres (88,5%), com até 9 anos de estudo (63,8%), e com hipertensão arterial (53,4%) e excesso de peso (62,7%). A maior contribuição energética da dieta derivou dos alimentos in natura/minimamente processados (56,6%), seguidos dos ultraprocessados (27,7%). …”
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Status of cerebrovascular autoregulation relates to outcome in severe paediatric head injury: STARSHIP, a prospective multicentre validation studyResearch in context by Shruti Agrawal, Claudia Smith, Stefan Y. Bogli, Michal M. Placek, Manuel Cabeleira, Deborah White, Esther Daubney, Adam Young, Erta Beqiri, Riaz Kayani, Diarmuid O'Donnell, Nazima Pathan, Suzanna Watson, Anna Maw, Matthew Ganrett, Hari Krishan Kanthimathianathan, Harish Bangalore, Santosh Sundararajan, Gayathri Subramanian, Dusan Raffaj, Avishay Sarfatti, Simona Lampareillo, Anton Mayer, Oliver Ross, Marek Czosnyka, Peter J. Hutchinson, Peter Smielewski, Carly Tooke, Caroline Payne, Holly Belfield, Amisha Mistry, Collette Spencer, Claire Jennings, Lara Bunni, Laura Anderson, Emily Morgan, Melanie James, Rebecca Beckley, Tahnima Khatun, Hafiza Khatun, Olivia Nugent, Richard Aldridge, Ruth Morgan, Julie Morcombe, Martin Quinton, Catherine Postlethwaite, Jenny Pond, Jessica Cutler, Caitlin Oxford

“…The main objective was to validate and identify optimal thresholds of PRx associated with outcome (as assessed with Glasgow outcome scale extended for Pediatrics at 12 months) in children (<16 years) requiring invasive arterial blood pressure and intracranial pressure monitoring for TBI and establish a comprehensive research database. …”
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Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials: Efficacy and Safety of Colchicine for Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease by Elie Akl, Nazanin Sahami, Christopher Labos, Jacques Genest, Ali Zgheib, Nicolo Piazza, Sanjit Jolly

“…We performed a meta-analysis to assess its safety and efficacy in secondary prevention in patients with established coronary artery disease (CAD). Methods. We searched Ovid Healthstar, MEDLINE, and Embase (inception to May 2022) for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating the cardiovascular effects of colchicine compared with placebo or usual care in patients with CAD. …”
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Association between joint exposure to ambient air pollutants and carotid plaque: The mediating role of cardiometabolic risk factors by Yunfei Li, Ze Han, Xiaoyu Zhao, Yueruijing Liu, Zhiyuan Wu, Jinqi Wang, Xia Li, Xiuhua Guo, Lixin Tao

“…Joint exposure to air pollution was positively and linearly associated with the occurrence of carotid plaque, with low-density cholesterol (LDL-C) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) mediating 2.24 % and 4.28 % of the association, respectively. …”
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Rapid Classification and Treatment Algorithm of Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Acute Coronary Syndromes: The SAVE ACS Classification by Vasileios Panoulas, Charles Ilsley

“…Based on these predictors, we created the SAVE (SBP, Arterial blood gas, and left Ventricular Ejection fraction) ACS classification, which showed good discrimination for 30-day AUC 0.814 (0.782 to 0.845) and long-term mortality plog−rank<0.001. …”
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Derivation of a simple risk calculator for predicting clinical worsening in patients with pulmonary hypertension due to interstitial lung disease by K. El-Kersh, R. Bag, N. Bhatt, C. King, A. Waxman, F. Rischard, H. Kim, D. Cella, E. Shen, SD Nathan

“…Baseline data from patients who were randomized to the placebo arm (n=163) and thus untreated with any approved pulmonary artery vasodilators were used to derive a risk calculator. …”
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Estimación sustentable del riesgo cardiovascular con las tablas predictivas de Gaziano sin laboratorio by José Betancourt Bethencourt, Gerardo Brunet Bernal, Moura Revueltas Agüero

“…<br /><strong>Método:</strong> se entrevistaron durante el mes de noviembre del año 2021 a 72 trabajadores de la salud vinculados a la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Camagüey, además se les midió la presión arterial, el peso y la talla y se les preguntó en encuesta: la edad, si eran diabéticos y si fumaban. …”
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Classification and functional repair and reconstruction of lip and perilabial defects following oncosurgery by CHEN Weiliang

“…The Estlander flap, foldable supraclavicular fasciocutaneous island flap, or foldable facial-submental artery island flap can be used to repair the through-and-through labial commissure and cheek defects. …”
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