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Diversity of the physician workforce: Specialty choice decisions during medical school.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundDespite efforts to increase the overall diversity of the medical student body, some medical specialties have a less diverse applicant pool based on both gender and race than would be expected based on medical graduate demographics.ObjectivesTo ...
John Burkhardt, Stephen DesJardins, Larry Gruppen   +2 more
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Predictors of final specialty choice by internal medicine residents [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2006
Sociodemographic factors and personality attributes predict career decisions in medical students. Determinants of internal medicine residents' specialty choices have received little attention.To identify factors that predict the clinical practice of residents following their training.Prospective cohort study.Two hundred and four categorical residents ...
Andrew K, Diehl, Vineeta, Kumar, Ann, Gateley, Jane L, Appleby, Mary E, O'Keefe   +4 more
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Internal Orthopedics: A New Perspective in Medicine

Journal of Orthopedic and Spine Trauma, 2023
Background: Today, advances in medical sciences and the development of numerous specialties and subspecialties have led to the overlap of treatment in practicing medicine.
Mahdi Mazandarani, Narges Lashkarbolouk, Mohammad Hossein Nabian   +2 more
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SIRT6 enhances oxidative phosphorylation in breast cancer and promotes mammary tumorigenesis in mice

Cancer & Metabolism, 2021
Background Sirtuin 6 (SIRT6) is a NAD+-dependent deacetylase with key roles in cell metabolism. High SIRT6 expression is associated with adverse prognosis in breast cancer (BC) patients.
Pamela Becherini, Irene Caffa, Francesco Piacente, Patrizia Damonte, Valerio G. Vellone, Mario Passalacqua, Andrea Benzi, Tommaso Bonfiglio, Daniele Reverberi, Amr Khalifa, Moustafa Ghanem, Ana Guijarro, Luca Tagliafico, Marzia Sucameli, Angelica Persia, Fiammetta Monacelli, Michele Cea, Santina Bruzzone, Silvia Ravera, Alessio Nencioni   +19 more
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Electrical and myocardial remodeling in primary aldosteronism

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2014
Objective and design: primary aldosteronism (PA) represents the most common cause of secondary hypertension. An higher risk of cardiovascular events has been reported in patients with PA than otherwise similar patients with essential hypertension (EH ...
Mario eCurione, Luigi ePetramala, Claudio eSaporiti, Marisa eVerrenti, Erika eBaiocco, Stephanie eSalvatore, Laura eZinnamosca, Gino eIannucci, Susanna eSciomer, Claudio eLetizia   +9 more
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Anti-D4GDI antibodies activate platelets in vitro: a possible link with thrombocytopenia in primary antiphospholipid syndrome

Arthritis Research & Therapy, 2019
Background Thrombocytopenia is a manifestation associated with primary antiphospholipid syndrome (PAPS), and many studies have stressed the leading role played by platelets in the pathogenesis of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS).
C. Barbati, L. Stefanini, T. Colasanti, E. Cipriano, A. Celia, G. Gabriele, M. Vomero, F. Ceccarelli, F. R. Spinelli, A. Finucci, M. Speziali, G. Orso, D. P. E. Margiotta, F. Conti, F. Violi, A. Afeltra, G. Valesini, C. Alessandri   +17 more
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B lymphocyte stimulator modulates number and function of endothelial progenitor cells in systemic lupus erythematosus

Arthritis Research & Therapy, 2019
Background Circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) are biologic markers of endothelial function. In patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the numerical reduction and functional impairment of EPCs contribute to the endothelial ...
Francesca Romana Spinelli, Cristiana Barbati, Fulvia Cecarelli, Francesca Morello, Tania Colasanti, Marta Vomero, Laura Massaro, Valeria Orefice, Cristiano Alessandri, Guido Valesini, Fabrizio Conti   +10 more
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Accuracy of the novel Peguero Lo‐Presti criterion for electrocardiographic detection of left ventricular hypertrophy in a black African population

The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 2021
The diagnostic accuracy of the electrocardiogram for left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is limited. Recently, Peguero and collaborators proposed a novel voltage criterion for its detection with reportedly higher accuracy than the commonly used Cornell ...
Ulrich Flore Nyaga, Jerôme Boombhi, Alain Menanga, Morike Mokube, Carine Sandrine Ndomo Mevoula, Samuel Kingue, Jean Jacques Noubiap   +6 more
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Cyclic fasting bolsters cholesterol biosynthesis inhibitors’ anticancer activity

Nature Communications, 2023
Identifying oncological applications for drugs that are already approved for other medical indications is considered a possible solution for the increasing costs of cancer treatment.
Amr Khalifa, Ana Guijarro, Silvia Ravera, Nadia Bertola, Maria Pia Adorni, Bianca Papotti, Lizzia Raffaghello, Roberto Benelli, Pamela Becherini, Asmaa Namatalla, Daniela Verzola, Daniele Reverberi, Fiammetta Monacelli, Michele Cea, Livia Pisciotta, Franco Bernini, Irene Caffa, Alessio Nencioni   +17 more
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Median arcuate ligament syndrome, a rare case of chronic abdominal pain

Italian Journal of Medicine, 2018
The median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS) is a rare disease characterized by abdominal pain caused by the external compression of the celiac artery by the median arcuate ligament.
Fania Puccia, Roberto Citarrella, Filippo Alessandro Montalto, Luigi Mirarchi, Antonino Terranova, Antonietta Serruto, Roberto Citarrella, Giuseppe Lo Re, Maurizio Soresi   +8 more
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