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The purpose of this study was to evaluate evidence on the effectiveness of combined bracing and exercise on adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). From inception to April 28, 2022, PubMed and Web of Science searched for randomized clinical and nonrandomized prospective studies reporting Cobb angle (CA), angle of trunk…

Female physicians have a higher prevalence of infertility compared with the general population. Physician well-being can be significantly impacted by the physical and emotional challenges associated with this, including the high cost of fertility treatments, which are often not covered by health insurance. There are li…

BACKGROUND: School closures as a means of containing the spread of disease have received considerable attention from the public health community. Although they have been implemented during previous pandemics, the epidemiological and economic effects of the closure of individual schools remain unclear. METHODOLOGY: Thi…

BACKGROUND: Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) refers to a chronic deteriorating disease distinguished by degeneration of joint cartilage. Many clinical studies have demonstrated that isokinetic muscle strength training can improve muscle function in patients with KOA. However, although such studies deduce an excellent effect,…

BACKGROUND: The study aims to assess two approaches that apply the empirical completeness method to generate age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration systems. METHODS: We use the empirical completeness method to calculate all-age death registration completeness, which is used with a model l…

Borszcz, FK, de Aguiar, RA, Costa, VP, Denadai, BS, and de Lucas, RD. Agreement between maximal lactate steady state and critical power in different sports: A systematic review and Bayesian's meta-regression. J Strength Cond Res 38(6): e320-e339, 2024-This study aimed to systematically review the literature and perform…

Oncology Global Safety Teams (GSTs) are not universally tasked with the development of the risk section of the products target product profile (TPP). This fact makes little sense since the GST is tasked by the company to identify, analyze, and mitigate a product's risks. The TPP, in essence, establishes boundaries for…

AIM: This study aimed to examine the factors affecting nurses' attitudes towards risks in the work environment. BACKGROUND: Nurses' attitudes towards work environment-associated risks affect both risk management and employee health. METHODS: This descriptive study was conducted with 338 nurses working in a public hos…

This paper compares the desired fertility of rural Indian women in 1987 with their actual fertility in 2007. Seventy-one respondents who stated definite fertility intentions and had fewer children than desired in 1987 were re-interviewed 20 years later, as part of a larger study. The results indicated that these women…

OBJECTIVE: To compare treatment outcomes of open foot wounds with significant soft tissue defects using either negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) or standard wet-to-moist saline-soaked gauze dressings. SUBJECTS: : Forty-seven subjects with open wounds with significant soft tissue defects. DESIGN: A retrospective…

The study's goals were 1) to confirm the previously observed increase in postprandial glucose levels immediately after exercise in people with type 2 diabetes who are being treated with metformin; 2) to determine how long the increased glucose persists; 3) to examine the effect of skipping a dose of metformin before or…

The study's objective was to study the association of perceived discrimination with depression, insomnia and post-traumatic stress in people recovered from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Santa Marta, Colombia. COVID-19 survivors were invited to participate. The authors measured perceived discrimination related to CO…

COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) is associated with psychological distress for patients as well as their partners. Dyadic coping can be negatively impacted by stressors. This study's objective was to compare the dyadic coping of couples in which one partner suffered from COPD with healthy couples of the sam…

OBJECTIVE: The objective was to assess highly confounded patterns in a standardized mortality ratio (SMR) analysis of lung cancer in beryllium worker cohorts. METHODS: We used Cox proportional hazards single- and multi-variate models to assess confounding and the SMR patterns. RESULTS: We confirmed the lack of associ…

OBJECTIVE: Filicide, or parental murder of offspring, constitutes a major portion of lethal violence perpetrated against children worldwide. Despite the global nature of the phenomenon, researchers have focused their studies on the developed industrialized societies with the consequent neglect of small, developing soci…

This longitudinal epidemiologic study examined how levels of psychiatric distress over one year may be influenced by both concurrent levels of alcohol use and by prior drinking levels. The study's data were gathered during the 1981-1982 Eastern Baltimore Mental Health Survey (EBMHS), as part of the 5-site National Inst…

Atherosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory condition, is linked to heart attacks and strokes. It leads to the formation of atherosclerotic plaques within arterial vessels, consequently diminishing blood flow to various organs. Drug-Eluting Balloons represent a non-stent approach, facilitating the uniform and regulated rel…

BACKGROUND: Centenarians escapers are those who reached 100 years of age without the diagnosis of any of the common age-related diseases and exploring their characteristics will inform about successful ageing. No previous study has examined centenarians free of common chronic diseases amongst New Zealand centenari…

The authors describe the major methods and sources of information used in the EMCONET study for researching global, employment-related health inequalities. A systematic review of the literature provides valuable knowledge for research in this area. However, the limited number of studies, the poor quality of methods use…

PURPOSE: Since the McGill consensus conference, numerous reports have proposed the advantages of the 2-implant-retained overdenture over the conventional denture in the restorative management of the edentulous mandible. The purpose of this article was to demonstrate the use of the 2-implant-retained overdenture in the…