A customised fetal growth and birthweight standard for Qatar: a population-based cohort study حسب Thomas Farrell (3933833)

"…<h3>Objectives</h3><p dir="ltr">Customized birthweight centiles have improved the detection of small for gestational age (SGA) and large for gestational age (LGA) babies compared to existing population standards. …"

Impact of Stapedectomy on Tinnitus Severity and Hearing Outcomes in Patients With Otosclerosis: A Systematic Review حسب Noora Al Hail (23073583)

"…<h3 dir="ltr">Introduction</h3><p dir="ltr">Otosclerosis is a progressive, autosomal dominant hereditary disease of temporal bone causing tinnitus, and conductive hearing loss. …"

Exosome nanovesicles as potential biomarkers and immune checkpoint signaling modulators in lung cancer microenvironment: recent advances and emerging concepts حسب Naushad Ahmad Khan (6406973)

"…This review highlights the role of TEXs as key contributors to the advancement of lung cancer and their clinical significance in lung immune-oncology, including their possible use as biomarkers for monitoring disease progression and prognosis, as well as emerging shreds of evidence regarding the possibility of using exosomes as targets to improve lung cancer therapy.…"

Clinical Phenotyping and Multimodal Treatment of Men With Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome From the Middle East and North Africa: Determining Treatment Outcomes and... حسب Ahmad Majzoub (14058045)

"…Therapeutic response does not appear to related to age or ethnicity. Clinical improvement is also not predicted by initial extent and severity of the disease, whether relating to NIH-CPSI or the number of positive UPOINT phenotypes, neither to the number of therapies involved in the multimodal treatment strategy.…"

Epigenetics meets proteomics in an epigenome-wide association study with circulating blood plasma protein traits حسب Shaza B. Zaghlool (10836602)

"…We identify 98 CpG-protein associations (pQTMs) at a stringent Bonferroni level of significance. Overlapping associations with transcriptomics, metabolomics, and clinical endpoints suggest implication of processes related to chronic low-grade inflammation, including a network involving methylation of <i>NLRC5</i>, a regulator of the inflammasome, and associated pQTMs implicating key proteins of the immune system, such as CD48, CD163, CXCL10, CXCL11, LAG3, FCGR3B, and B2M. …"

Rising blood pressure in Bangladesh حسب Nature Research (16552612)

"…They found that nearly a quarter of the study population had hypertension, affecting relatively more men than women. People aged 66 to 74 were found to be significantly more at-risk than those in other age groups. …"

The Role of the Lebanese Mediterranean Diet on Gut Health, Anxiety, and Depression حسب AbdulGhani, Dana

"…The gut microbiome plays an important role in host health and disease. A bacterial imbalance of the gut has been linked to several mental illnesses including anxiety and depression too. …"
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Internet Searches for Medical Symptoms Before Seeking Information on 12-Step Addiction Treatment Programs: A Web-Search Log Analysis حسب George Nitzburg (18614989)

"…Second, we examined symptom queries preceding queries on the 12-step program at time lags of 0-7 days, 7-14 days, and 14-30 days, where the probability of asking about a medical symptom was greater in the 30-day time window preceding 12-step program information-seeking as compared to all previous times that the symptom was queried.…"

Inappropriate Medication Use in Elderly Lebanese Outpatients حسب Saab, Yolande B.

"…Background Inappropriate use of medications has become an international cause for concern in geriatric patients, who are at high risk of drug-related morbidity. This study is the first attempt to determine the prevalence of inappropriate drug use in elderly Lebanese outpatients, using community pharmacy data, and to identify factors that predict potentially inappropriate drug intake in this population. …"
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Functional Characterization of Novel <i>MC4R </i>Variants Identified in Two Unrelated Patients with Morbid Obesity in Qatar حسب Idris Mohammed (751020)

"…A targeted gene panel consisting of 52 obesity-related genes was used to screen for variants associated with obesity. …"

Eradication of hepatitis C virus infection in kidney transplant recipients using direct‐acting antiviral therapy: Qatar experience حسب Mohamad M. Alkadi (14778640)

"…There was no statistically significant difference in the glomerular filtration rate before, during, and after treatment. …"

The Prevalence and Genetic Spectrum of Familial Hypercholesterolemia in Qatar Based on Whole Genome Sequencing of 14,000 Subjects حسب Ilhame Diboun (3522413)

"…In Qatar, the prevalence of FH has not been determined and the disease, as in many countries, is largely underdiagnosed. …"

Optimal management, prevalence, and clinical behavior of saddle pulmonary embolism: A systematic review and meta-analysis حسب Fateen Ata (12217764)

"…Female sex (61.5 % vs. 41.3 %, p = 0.019), hypoxemia (90 % vs. 59.2 %, p < 0.001), massive PE features (89.7 % vs. 30.1 %, p < 0.001), associated chronic kidney disease (CKD) (10.3 % vs. 1.4 %, p = 0.002), and the need for mechanical ventilation (28.2 % vs. 13.1 %, p = 0.02) were significantly associated with increased mortality. …"

A Comprehensive Method of Ion Exchange Resins Regeneration and Its Optimization for Water Treatment حسب Al-Asheh, Sameer

"…The strong acidic cation polymeric exchanger resin is commercially called MERCK 104765 cation exchanger IV with capacity greater than 3.2 mmol/ml, while the strong basic anion polymeric exchanger resin is commercially called MERCK 104767 anion exchanger III with capacities greater than 1.0 mmol/ml. …"
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Hedgehog Signaling Inhibition by Smoothened Antagonist BMS-833923 Reduces Osteoblast Differentiation and Ectopic Bone Formation of Human Skeletal (Mesenchymal) Stem Cells حسب Nihal AlMuraikhi (6002234)

"…BMS-833923, a SMO antagonist/Hedgehog inhibitor, exhibited significant inhibitory effects on osteoblast differentiation of hMSCs reflected by decreased ALP activity, in vitro mineralization, and downregulation of osteoblast-related gene expression. …"

Temporal self-attention for risk prediction from electronic health records using non-stationary kernel approximation حسب Rawan AlSaad (14159019)

"…However, in practice, a patient’s visits are irregularly spaced over a relatively long period of time, and disease progression patterns exhibit non-stationarity. …"

Urban Geometry: The Effect of Height Diversity and Buildings Configuration on Thermal Performance and Cooling Load at Urban Scale. A Case Study in Dubai / UAE حسب SHAREEF, SUNDUS LUAY

"…The variation along the short direction of the urban block has a greater positive effect and the saving in cooling energy consumption reaches 4.6 %. …"
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An assessment of the level of concern among hospital-based health-care workers regarding MERS outbreaks in Saudi Arabia حسب Abolfotouh, Mostafa A.

"…Concerns regarding the disease, its severity and governmental efforts to contain it, as well as disease outcomes were assessed using 31 concern statements in five distinct domains. …"
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A cross‐sectional study of the impact of COVID‐19 pandemic on the physical activity of Jordanian population حسب Sajeda Awadi (17863862)

"…Moreover, 282 (25.6%) respondents started doing some form of exercise during the pandemic. Those significantly were less than 18‐year‐old, male gender, were single, were non‐smokers, and had a diploma or bachelor's degree in a health‐related major. …"

Indwelling pleural catheters in hepatic hydrothorax حسب Diab, Khalil

"…There were statistically significant decreases in both BMI and serum albumin levels following IPC placement. …"
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