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Overexpression of SNTG2, TRAF3IP2, and ITGA6 transcripts is associated with osteoporotic vertebral fracture in elderly women from community

Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 2020
Background Vertebral fractures (VFs) are the most common clinical manifestation of osteoporosis associated with high morbimortality. A personal/familiar history of fractures increases the risk of fractures.
Levi H. Jales Neto, Zofia Wicik, Georgea H. F. Torres, Liliam Takayama, Valéria F. Caparbo, Neuza H. M. Lopes, Alexandre C. Pereira, Rosa M. R. Pereira   +7 more
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Carotid intima-media thickness is an independent predictor of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular morbidity in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 and chronic kidney disease

Renal Failure, 2019
Background: Intima-Media-Thickness of the carotid artery wall (cIMT) is a strong predictor of cardiovascular (CV) disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the significance of cIMT as an independent prognostic factor for CV morbidity and ...
Athanasios Roumeliotis, Stefanos Roumeliotis, Stylianos Panagoutsos, Marios Theodoridis, Christos Argyriou, Anna Tavridou, George S. Georgiadis   +6 more
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What Are the Important Predictors of Postoperative Functional Recovery in Patients With Cervical OPLL? Results of a Multivariate Analysis

Global Spine Journal, 2019
Study Design: A retrospective cohort study. Objective: The objective of this study was to identify important predictors of poor functional recovery in patients undergoing surgery for cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL ...
Hiroaki Nakashima MD, PhD, Tokumi Kanemura MD, PhD, Shunsuke Kanbara MD, Kotaro Satake MD, PhD, Keigo Ito MD, PhD, Naoki Ishiguro MD, PhD, Fumihiko Kato MD, Shiro Imagama MD, PhD   +7 more
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The Relationship Between Perceived Coaches’ Leadership Behaviors and Athletes’ Burnout in Isfahan City [PDF]

Archives in Sport Management and Leadership
This study examined the relationship between athletes’ perceptions of coaches’ leadership behaviors and sports burnout in the city of Isfahan. The statistical population included all professional and semi-professional male and female athletes across both
Farahnaz Shams, Shahram Aroufzad, Mehdi Yazdani   +2 more
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Who Knows Best What the Next Year Will Hold for You? The Validity of Direct and Personality‐based Predictions of Future Life Experiences Across Different Perceivers

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract This study explored the validity of person judgements by targets and their acquaintances (‘informants’) in longitudinally predicting a broad range of psychologically meaningful life experiences. Judgements were gathered from four sources (targets, N = 189; and three types of informants, N = 1352), and their relative predictive validity was ...
Nele M. Wessels, Johannes Zimmermann, Daniel Leising, Jan‐Erik Lönnqvist   +3 more
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Frailty in hemodialysis and prediction of poor short-term outcome: mortality, hospitalization and visits to hospital emergency services

Renal Failure, 2019
Background: Frailty is an aging-associated state of increased vulnerability, which raises the risk of adverse outcomes. Chronic kidney disease is associated with higher prevalence of frailty.
Cesar Garcia-Canton, Ana Rodenas, Celia Lopez-Aperador, Yaiza Rivero, Gloria Anton, Tania Monzon, Noa Diaz, Nicanor Vega, Juan F. Loro, Angelo Santana, Noemi Esparza   +10 more
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Outcomes Following Ankle Fracture Fixation With or Without Ankle Arthroscopy

Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics, 2020
Background: Ankle fractures are one of the most common orthopedic injuries, and although most patients have a satisfactory outcome following operative fixation, there are patients that have persistent pain despite anatomic reduction.
Kenneth S. Smith MD, Katherine Drexelius BS, Shanthan Challa BS, Daniel K. Moon MBA, MD, Joshua A. Metzl MD, Kenneth J. Hunt MD   +5 more
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Endovascular and open repair for blunt aortic injury, treated in one clinical institution in Brazil: a case series

Clinics, 2011
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this retrospective study is to analyze and compare the results of conventional surgical repair and endovascular treatment of blunt aortic injury over the past 8 years.
Igor Rafael Sincos, Ricardo Aun, Sergio Quilici Belczak, Luciano Dias Nascimento, Boulanger Mioto Netto, Ivan Casella, Erasmo Simao da Silva, Pedro Puech-Leão   +7 more
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Searching the Internet for Infertility Information: A Survey of Patient Needs and Preferences

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2019
BackgroundGiven the complexity of infertility diagnoses and treatments and the convenience of the internet for finding health-related information, people undergoing infertility treatments often use Web-based resources to obtain infertility information ...
Brochu, Felicia, Robins, Stephanie, Miner, Skye A, Grunberg, Paul H, Chan, Peter, Lo, Kirk, Holzer, Hananel E G, Mahutte, Neal, Ouhilal, Sophia, Tulandi, Togas, Zelkowitz, Phyllis   +10 more
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Porcine kidney xenotransplantation: From primate models to clinical reality

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
In the face of a critical shortage of human donor kidneys for end‐stage renal disease patients, porcine kidney xenotransplantation has emerged as a viable solution. This field has navigated major hurdles, including immune rejection, physiological incompatibilities, potential biomechanical differences and the risk of cross‐species infection. To overcome
Zihang Guo, Ling Zhang, Shoulong Deng, Chuan Qin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source