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PURPOSE: To identify female authorship trends in first author and last author positions in Cornea from 2007 to 2019. METHODS: First and last authors of all Clinical Science and Basic Investigation publications in Cornea over 13 years were sorted by sex. Identification of sex was based on the author's institutional pro…

OBJECTIVE: Early recognition and diagnosis of lung cancer can help improve the prognosis of patients. However, early imaging patterns of malignant lung nodules are not fully clear. To understand the early imaging signs of malignant lung cancer nodules, the changes of the lung nodules before diagnosis were dynamically o…

OBJECTIVE: To analyze clinical characteristics, cardiac outcome and response to therapy of an Italian pediatric population affected with acute rheumatic fever (ARF) in the last 15 years. METHODS: 135 patients with ARF (aged 2-14.9 years, mean 8.4+/-2.5 years) diagnosed from 1992 to 2006 at the Pediatric Rheumatology C…

Among the Kipsigis, a population of south-western Kenya who do not use contraception, age at menarche and age at last live birth could be determined for a cohort of post-menopausal women, through reference to clitoridectomy ceremonies that can easily be dated. While a woman's age at last live birth was strongly associa…

The authors conducted a population-based case-control study of 410 women residing in three counties in western Washington State who were aged 18-64 years when diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer in 1988-1994 and 574 controls to assess the effects of pregnancy history and other aspects of reproductive life on risk o…

Reliable data on health care costs in Ireland are essential to support planning and evaluation of services. New unit costs and high-quality utilisation data offer the opportunity to estimate individual-level costs for research and policy.Our main dataset was The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). We used parti…

 The purpose of this study is to assess demographic, clinical, and unique morphological characteristics of distal anterior cerebral artery (DACA) aneurysm. The relation of outcome included Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) using various independent variables, Hunt and Hess clinical grade (H&H), Miller Fischer grade, i…

PURPOSE: This study is to report clinical and radiological results of high-flexion total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using NexGen LPS-flex system at a minimum 5-year follow-up, and to analyze the implant survivorship based on the results. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 80 patients (118 knees) who underwent patellar pre…

BACKGROUND: Mastoiditis used to be the most common complication of acute otitis media. However, once antibiotics became widely available, it was rarely reported. Recently, this complication has become more frequent. OBJECTIVES: To determine the frequency of acute mastoiditis in our center in the last few years and to…

To investigate the long-term prognosis and related factors in children with multiphasic myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD).A bidirectional cohort study was conducted. This study included 41 children with MOGAD who were treated at the Children's Medical Center of Peking University Fi…

BACKGROUND: Hypertension (HTN) is a leading cause of cardiovascular diseases and deaths globally. To respond to the high HTN prevalence (23.5% among adults aged 40-69 years in 2016) in Cambodia, the government (and donors) established innovative interventions to improve access to screening, care, and treatment at…

BACKGROUND: Bacterial meningitis (BM) remains a considerable cause of morbidity. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate BM incidence rate trends in diverse age groups. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study based on the Israeli national registry. Inclusion criteria were acute admissions 2000 to 2019 with primary diagnos…

BACKGROUND: Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is a type 2 inflammatory disease treated with sinus surgery when refractory to medical intervention. However, recurrence postsurgery is common. Dupilumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody, blocks the shared receptor for interleukin 4 (IL-4) and IL-13, key a…

Because the role hormonal and reproductive factors play in the etiology of endometrial cancer is incompletely understood, the authors evaluated the risk of this cancer in relation to age at last delivery. The data were obtained in a hospital-based case-control study of 483 women with endometrial cancer (cases) and 693…

INTRODUCTION: An aging population has resulted in an increasing burden on health care services. We investigated the epidemiology and severity of poisoning in the elderly (≥65 y) population. METHODS: Poisoning admissions to a tertiary toxicology service (1990-2024) were extracted. Elderly patients (≥…

Risk factors for ovarian cancer in young women were investigated using data from a case-control study conducted between 1983 and 1992 in Milan, northern Italy, on 194 women below age 45 with histologically confirmed incident cancers of the ovary and 710 controls admitted to the same network of hospitals for acute non-g…

BACKGROUND: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is one of the most common microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus (DM), but no bibliometric studies pertaining to DN have been published within the last 5 years. OBJECTIVES: Most prior studies have focused on specific problems in the DN field. This study attempts to sort…

OBJECTIVE: Maternal mortality remains a major challenge worldwide. Reliable information concerning ratios and trends is essential for resource mobilization and assessment of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. DESIGN: Assessment of levels and trends in maternal mortality during the last 50 years. SETTI…