IntroductionObstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a global public health issue. Life’s Crucial 9 (LC9) is recognized as a powerful tool for assessing cardiovascular health.
Ruoyu Gou +5 more
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Association between Life's Crucial 9 and bowel health among US adults: a cross-sectional analysis of NHANES 2005-2010 with external validation. [PDF]
BackgroundAbnormal bowel health, including constipation and diarrhea, is common in the general population. The American Heart Association recently introduced Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) as a framework for assessing cardiovascular health (CVH).
Wang X, Dong J, Lian B, Jiang X.
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Comparing the predictive accuracy of life's essential 8 and life's crucial 9 scores for all-cause mortality in COPD patients among US adults: a prospective cohort study. [PDF]
Background Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) represents an established score for quantifying cardiovascular health (CVH). Life’s Crucial 9 (LC9) is a newly proposed metric that integrates psychological health with LE8.
Qiu S +5 more
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The mediating role of Body Roundness Index in the association between Life's Crucial 9 and infertility: a cross-sectional study using NHANES 2013-2018. [PDF]
BackgroundRecent findings indicate a possible connection among heart health, obesity, and infertility. Yet, the processes through which obesity affects the link between heart health and infertility are still not well-understood.
Wang Y +5 more
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Associations of life's crucial 9 with mortality among older adults with frailty: a prospective cohort study from the NHANES 2007 to 2018. [PDF]
Background Frailty among the elderly represents a considerable public health issue linked to increased vulnerability and adverse outcomes. The Life’s Crucial 9 (LC9) score, which includes mental health assessments alongside traditional cardiovascular ...
Yan S +6 more
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S-crucial and bicrucial permutations with respect to squares [PDF]
A permutation is square-free if it does not contain two consecutive factors of length two or more that are order-isomorphic. A permutation is bicrucial with respect to squares if it is square-free but any extension of it to the right or to the left by ...
Gent, Ian +4 more
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On shortest crucial words avoiding abelian powers [PDF]
Let k ≥ 2 be an integer. An abeliank th power is a word of the form X1 X2 ⋯ Xk where Xi is a permutation of X1 for 2 ≤ i ≤ k. A word W is said to be crucial with respect to abelian kth powers if W avoids abelian kth powers, but W x ends with an abelian ...
Sergey Kitaev +12 more
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Navigating Life's Meaning in the Age of Information Overload
In the wake of societal transformation and technological advancements, an increasingly salient issue emerges: a pervasive sense of life's meaninglessness.
Ruining Jin
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Aggregation procedure based on majority principle for collective identification of firm’s crucial knowledge [PDF]
It is very important to identify, preserve, and transfer knowledge to those who need it within firm. However, the identification of knowledge and especially tacit knowledge is a complex process because knowledge cannot be measured quantitatively. In this
Saad, I. +4 more
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ABSTRACT Background Maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients frequently suffer from frailty, characterized by reduced physical function and poor prognosis. Myokines, such as myonectin, secreted by muscle, are emerging regulators of systemic health. This study investigated the relationship between serum myonectin, adipokines (adiponectin, omentin), and ...
Kenichi Kono +7 more
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