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Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of the 2023 American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/EULAR classification criteria for antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) in a real‐world cohort of women diagnosed with primary obstetric APS (oAPS) and to assess their ability to identify patients at risk of future pregnancy complications ...
Francesca Ruffilli +10 more
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BACKGROUND: Sickle cell trait is the carrier state for sickle cell disease and occurs in 1 in 13 births in Black and African American families. Individuals with sickle cell trait are permitted to serve in the military.
Angela K. Phillips, PhD, APRN +4 more
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People with systemic autoimmune and rheumatic diseases (SARDs) are at higher risk than the general population of experiencing adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes such as preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, and maternal and/or fetal death.
Mehret Birru Talabi, Sonya Borrero
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A review of various types of male contraception [PDF]
Birth control options for men are limited to only condoms and vasectomies. This review focuses on various types of male contraceptives for adequate fertility control and family planning by mutual understanding of couples (healthy family planning ...
Yeonhee Pyo, Ki Han Kwon
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Exogenous female sex steroid hormones and new-onset asthma in women: a matched case–control study
Background Evidence on the role of exogenous female sex steroid hormones in asthma development in women remains conflicting. We sought to quantify the potential causal role of hormonal contraceptives and menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) in the ...
Guoqiang Zhang +10 more
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ABSTRACT Background Esophagectomy remains a highly invasive procedure associated with substantial postoperative morbidity. Pulmonary complications, anastomotic leakage, and in‐hospital mortality are of particular concern. Perioperative corticosteroids are often administered to attenuate excessive inflammatory responses; however, the clinical impact in ...
Tomohiko Yasuda +4 more
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A longitudinal analysis on the effect of hormone use on allostatic load in perimenopausal women
Background: Allostatic load (AL), a measure of physiologic dysregulation across multiple systems, has been shown to increase as women age and go through menopause. While hormone use has been shown to help with the relief of menopausal symptoms, it is not
Pamela Lamisi Alebna +2 more
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Hormonal contraception and obesity [PDF]
The rising rate of overweight and obesity is a public health crisis in the United States and increasingly around the globe. Rates of contraceptive use are similar among women of all weights, but because contraceptive development studies historically excluded women over 130% of ideal body weight, patients and providers have a gap in understanding of ...
Katharine B. Simmons, Alison B. Edelman
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ABSTRACT Management of cerebral vasculopathy in sickle cell anemia (SCA) includes standard‐care, that is, chronic transfusion (CT) or hydroxyurea, and hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). DREPAGREFFE‐1 (December 2010/June 2013), a French multicenter trial, was the first prospective trial comparing standard‐care to match sibling donor (MSD)‐HCT in ...
Francoise Bernaudin +40 more
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Therapy for Myhre Syndrome: Goals, Misconceptions, and Current Agents
ABSTRACT Myhre Syndrome (MYHRS, MIM #139210) is a rare, multisystem connective tissue disorder caused by recurrent heterozygous gain‐of‐function pathogenic variants in the SMAD4 gene, a key player in TGF‐β signaling and a regulator of extracellular matrix homeostasis.
Alessandro De Falco +2 more
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