Association between Admission Hyperglycemia and Culprit Lesion Characteristics in Nondiabetic Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction: An Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomograp... by Jinying Zhou, Zhaoxue Sheng, Chen Liu, Peng Zhou, Jiannan Li, Runzhen Chen, Li Song, Hanjun Zhao, Hongbing Yan

“…Methods and Results. We consecutively enrolled 434 patients with AMI, and 277 patients were included in analysis: 65.7% (n=182) non-DM patients and 34.3% (n=95) DM patients. …”
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Longitudinal changes in factors affecting postoperative patient satisfaction after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: an assessment using a patient-reported questionnaire by Soichiro Ogawa, Kei Yaginuma, Yuki Harigane, Shunta Makabe, Hitomi Imai, Satoru Meguro, Ryo Tanji, Akifumi Onagi, Ruriko Honda-Takinami, Kanako Matsuoka, Seiji Hoshi, Junya Hata, Yuichi Sato, Hidenori Akaihata, Masao Kataoka, Motohide Uemura, Yoshiyuki Kojima

“…Methods Of the 612 consecutive patients who underwent RARP, 408 patients were enrolled in this study and divided into a satisfied group and a non-satisfied group at every evaluation timepoint. …”
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ABCD3-I and ABCD2 Scores in a TIA Population with Low Stroke Risk by Fredrik Ildstad, Hanne Ellekjær, Torgeir Wethal, Stian Lydersen, Hild Fjærtoft, Bent Indredavik

“…We performed a prospective, multicenter study in Central Norway from 2012 to 2015, enrolling 577 patients with TIA. In a subset of patients with complete data for both scores (n=305), we calculated the AUC statistics of the ABCD3-I score and compared this with the ABCD2 score. …”
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Effects of royal jelly consumption on clinical outcomes in patients with ischemic stroke: A triple-blind randomized controlled trial by Elham Karimi, Arman Arab, Fariborz Khorvash, Maryam Kazemi, Reza Amani

“…Therefore, we conducted a randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to evaluate the role of RJ supplementation on clinical and biochemical outcomes in patients recovering from ischemic stroke. Out of 64 enrolled patients (45–80 yrs.) with ischemic stroke, 32 were randomized to the RJ group and 32 to the placebo (control) group. …”
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Association of live microbes intake and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular disease, and cancer-related mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease by Debin Chen, Yongju Ye, Yining Li, Erxu Xue, Qijun Zhang, Youlan Chen, Jianhui Zhao

“…This study aims to investigate the association between dietary intake of live microbes and long-term health outcomes among individuals with CKD.Methods Utilizing the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database, Cox regression analysis assessed the association between medium and high categories dietary live microbe intake and health outcomes (all-cause, cardiovascular disease [CVD], and cancer-related mortality) in CKD patients.Results A total of 3,646 CKD patients were enrolled. During the follow-up period, 1,593 all-cause mortality events were recorded, including 478 CVD deaths and 268 cancer deaths. …”
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Association between prenatal exposure to phthalate esters and blood pressure in children aged 3–7 years: A prospective cohort study by Zihao Wang, Yu Zhang, Wenwen Yang, Mengfei Xu, Beini Li, Ping Wu, Zhongqiang Cao, Wei Wu

“…Methods: In our cohort study, 497 pairs of mothers and children (aged 3–7 years) were enrolled at the Wuhan Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital, Wuhan, China, between 2016 and 2017. …”
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Prognostic value of multi-PLD ASL radiomics in acute ischemic stroke by Zhenyu Wang, Yuan Shen, Xianxian Zhang, Qingqing Li, Congsong Dong, Shu Wang, Haihua Sun, Mingzhu Chen, Xiaolu Xu, Pinglei Pan, Pinglei Pan, Zhenyu Dai, Fei Chen, Fei Chen

“…The aim of this study is to develop a machine learning (ML) model that uses multiple post-labeling delay times (multi-PLD) arterial spin labeling (ASL) radiomics features to achieve early and precise prediction of AIS prognosis.MethodsThis study enrolled 102 AIS patients admitted between December 2020 and September 2024. …”
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Pembrolizumab and Pemetrexed for Older Patients With Nonsquamous NSCLC and Programmed Cell Death-Ligand 1 Tumor Proportion Scores of Less Than 50% by Yoshihito Kogure, MD, PhD, Hiroya Hashimoto, PhD, Haruko Daga, MD, PhD, Yasushi Fukuda, MD, Akihiro Bessho, MD, PhD, Tadaaki Yamada, MD, PhD, Yukihiro Toi, MD, Tomoki Kimura, MD, PhD, Hiroshige Yoshioka, MD, PhD, Koichi Azuma, MD, PhD, Naoki Furuya, MD, PhD, Yasutaka Fukui, MD, PhD, Akiko M. Saito, MD, PhD, Nobuyuki Yamamoto, MD, PhD, Hideo Saka, MD, Masashi Kondo, MD, PhD

“…Results: Forty-nine patients were enrolled in this study between July 2020 and May 2022. …”
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Yorkshire Enhanced Stop Smoking (YESS) study: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effect of adding a personalised smoking cessation intervention to a lung... by Richard D Neal, David Baldwin, Sarah Lewis, John Britton, Rachael L Murray, Qi Wu, Kate Brain, Samantha L Quaife, Matthew EJ Callister, Philip A J Crosbie, Harriet D Quinn-Scoggins, Grace M McCutchan, Alex Ashurst, Suzanne Rogerson, Rebecca Thorley

“…The Yorkshire Enhanced Stop Smoking study will measure the effectiveness of an SC service integrated within the Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial (YLST) and will test the efficacy of a personalised SC intervention, incorporating incidental findings detected on the low-dose CT scan performed as part of YLST.Methods and analysis Unless explicitly declined, all smokers enrolled in YLST will see an SC practitioner at baseline and receive SC support over 4 weeks comprising behavioural support, pharmacotherapy and/or a commercially available e-cigarette. …”
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Prevalence and risk factors associated with prehypertension in Shunde District, southern China by Yuli Huang, Yunzhao Hu, Xiaoyan Cai, Wenke Qiu, Changhua Liu, Dingji Zhu, Jinghai Hua, Yanxian Wu, Dingli Xu

“…Objective To explore the prevalence and combined cardiovascular risk factors of prehypertension in southern China.Design A retrospective study; the logistic regression model was used to find the risk factors of prehypertension.Setting The study was conducted in Shunde District, southern China, using the community-based health check-up information.Participants Participants aged ≥35 years with complete health check-up information data between January 2011 and December 2013 were enrolled and divided into hypertension, prehypertension and optimal blood pressure (BP) groups. …”
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Association between mixed exposure of non-persistent pesticides and liver fibrosis in the general US population: NHANES 2013–2016 by Shuge Shu, Yuan Li, Xiangyu Yu, Xinting Chen, Ummara Abdullah, Yongquan Yu

“…To examine the relationship between mixed non-persistent pesticides exposure and liver fibrosis, and to identify the potential pesticides of significant importance, this study enrolled the representative individuals from the NHANES 2013–2016 survey cycles, in which urinary non-persistent pesticides were measured. …”
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Doctors taking bribes from pharmaceutical companies is common and not substantially reduced by an educational intervention: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial in Pakistan by Afifah Rahman-Shepherd, Johanna Hanefeld, Mishal Khan, Charles Opondo, Sameen Siddiqi, Virginia Wiseman, Iqbal Azam, Wafa Aftab, Sadia Shakoor, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Rumina Hasan, Zafar Mirza, Muhammad Naveed Noor, Sabeen Sharif Khan, Nina van der Mark, Afshan Khurshid Isani, Ahson Q Siddiqi, Faisal Ziauddin, Faiza Bhutto, Natasha Ali, Robyna Irshad Khan, Syed Ahmed Raza Kazmi, Zainab Hasan

“…The primary outcome was the proportion of participants agreeing to accept incentives in exchange for prescribing promoted medicines from data collectors posing as pharmaceutical company representatives, 3 months after the seminars.Results We enrolled 419 of 440 eligible participants. Of 210 participants randomly allocated to the intervention group, 135 (64%) attended the intervention seminar and of 209 participants allocated to the control group, 132 (63%) attended the placebo seminar. …”
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Adherence to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 and vaccine safety in patients with immunoglobulin G4-related disease by Linda Mastromanno, Federico Giardina, Angelica Gattamelata, Serena Colafrancesco, Simona Truglia, Francesca Romana Spinelli, Edoardo Simoncelli, Bruno Lucchino, Fabrizio Conti, Roberta Priori

“…Results. 20 patients and 40 HC were enrolled. In the patient’s cohort, 90% were vaccinated with at least one dose; among them, 9 reported AEs: 44.4% systemic and 22.2% local. …”
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Is There a Nonlinear Relationship between Serum Uric Acid and Lipids in a Hypertensive Population with eGFR ≥30 ml/min/1.73 m2? Findings from the China Hypertension Registry Study... by Yu Yu, Xiao Huang, Minghui Li, Congcong Ding, Lihua Hu, Xiao Zhong, Wei Zhou, Tao Wang, Lingjuan Zhu, Huihui Bao, Xiaoshu Cheng

“…Smooth curve fitting (penalized spline method) and threshold saturation effects were used to analyze the nonlinear association between SUA and lipids. …”
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Epicardial Fat Tissue: A Potential Marker for Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction by Waiel Abusnina, Ilan Merdler, Matteo Cellamare, Kalyan R. Chitturi, Abhishek Chaturvedi, Irwin M. Feuerstein, Cheng Zhang, Sevket Tolga Ozturk, Teshome Deksissa, Vaishnavi Sawant, Kassandra Lopez, Lior Lupu, Dan Haberman, Itsik Ben‐Dor, Lowell F. Satler, Ron Waksman, Hayder D. Hashim, Brian C. Case

“…Methods and Results The CMDR (Coronary Microvascular Disease Registry) is a prospective, 2‐center registry that is enrolling patients with angina and nonobstructive coronary artery disease who underwent invasive hemodynamic assessment of the coronary microvasculature. …”
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The moderating role of parent–child interaction in the relationship between maltreatment and psychological well-being among preschool children by Cheng Zhang, Chuican Huang, Chunhui Zhang, Weijia Wu, Zhenning Huang, Xue Xia, Sijia Liu, Chen Wang, Qing Luo, Qing Luo, Lichun Fan, Lichun Fan

“…Between December 2022 and January 2023, 180 kindergartens in the Hainan province—encompassing 4,886 newly enrolled children as participants—were selected. All data were collected using an online platform, on which parents or caregivers reported their children’s history of abuse and completed the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and Chinese Parent–Child Interaction Scale.ResultThe reporting rate of child abuse in Hainan Province was 61.81%. …”
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Impact of a two-way short message service (SMS) to support maternally administered childhood mid-upper arm circumference monitoring and expand malnutrition screening in Kenya: the... by Jennifer A Unger, Barbra A Richardson, Kirkby D Tickell, Mareme M Diakhate, Jeanne L Goodman, Arianna Rubin Means, Keshet Ronen, Carol Levin, Esther M Choo, Catherine Achieng, Mary Masheti, Benson O Singa, Christine J McGrath

“…Caregivers in the MAMMS arm will be given two colour coded and graduated insertion MUAC tapes and be enrolled in a mHealth system that sends weekly short message service (SMS) messages prompting caregivers to measure and report their child’s MUAC by SMS. …”
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Effects of Metformin Added to Insulin in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: An Exploratory Crossover Randomized Trial by Daizhi Yang, Jinhua Yan, Hongrong Deng, Xubin Yang, Sihui Luo, Xueying Zheng, Jing Lv, Wen Liang, Mengjie Hong, Zekai Wu, Bin Yao, Jianping Weng, Wen Xu

“…Seventeen patients with mean±SD age 14.4±2.3 years, body mass index 18.17±1.81 kg/m2, median (IQR) diabetes duration 4.50 (3.58, 6.92) years, and HbA1c 9.0% (8.5%, 9.4%) were enrolled. The between-group difference in HbA1c of 0.28% (95% CI -0.39 to 0.95%) was not significant (P=0.40). …”
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Clinical depression prevalence and associated factors among adolescents with sickle cell anemia in dar es salaam, tanzania: a cross-sectional study by Linda Paul Athman, Agnes Jonathan, Fatima Musa, Honesta John Kipasika, Isihaka Mahawi, Florence Urio, Mwashungi Ally, Ritah Mutagonda, Lulu Chirande, Julie Makani, Emmanuel Balandya

“…Results Among the 326 adolescents enrolled and screened, 49 adolescents (15%) had clinical depression, encompassing those in the moderate, moderately severe, and severe depression categories. …”
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Phase II, single-arm trial of preoperative short-course radiotherapy followed by chemotherapy and camrelizumab in locally advanced rectal cancer by Jun Fan, Jing Wang, Tao Zhang, Xin Li, Lan Zhang, Zheng Wang, Tao Liu, Gang Li, Peng Zhang, Chi Ma, Ming Cai, Gang Wu, Zhenyu Lin, Kailin Cai, Xiu Nie, Junli Liu, Hongli Liu, Weikang Zhang, Jingbo Gao, Chuanqing Wu, Linfang Wang, Zhiguo Hou, Kunyu Yang, Kaixiong Tao

“…Biomarker analysis was performed to identify a potential predictor of pCR to treatment.Results From November 7, 2019 to September 14, 2020, 30 patients were enrolled, and 27 patients received at least one dose of CAPOX plus camrelizumab. …”
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