Prevalence and treatment of mental disorders in Lebanon: a national epidemiological survey حسب Nasser, Soumana

"…Nearly half of respondents had a history of exposure to war-related traumatic events. Significantly elevated odds ratios (OR) of mood, anxiety, and impulse-control disorders were associated with two (OR 2·0–3·6) or more (2·2–9·1) war-related traumatic events, resulting in substantially higher proportions of moderate and severe 12-month mental disorders in respondents exposed to multiple war-related traumata (16·8–20·4%) compared with other respondents (3·3–3·5%). …"
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The Monkeypox Outbreak and Implications for Dental Practice حسب Lakshman Samaranayake (19139075)

"…</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p dir="ltr">MPX appears to be a significant travel-related disease. <u>Dental care</u> workers should note that premonitory signs of the disease usually appear on the <u>oral mucosa</u> as macules and ulcers prior to the characteristic <u>skin lesions</u>. …"

Effects of the addition of a high energy density fuel, adamantane to diesel on its cetane number, sooting propensity, and soot nanostructural properties حسب Al Zaabi, Alanood

"…The addition of up to 6.75 wt% of adamantane in diesel significantly increased the smoke point of diesel from 18 to 29 mm (and threshold sooting index decreased by 44%), indicating a drastic drop in fuel sooting tendency. …"
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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.…"

Prevalence and treatment of mental disorders in Lebanon حسب Nasser, Soumana C.

"…Nearly half of respondents had a history of exposure to war-related traumatic events. Significantly elevated odds ratios (OR) of mood, anxiety, and impulse-control disorders were associated with two (OR 2·0–3·6) or more (2·2–9·1) war-related traumatic events, resulting in substantially higher proportions of moderate and severe 12-month mental disorders in respondents exposed to multiple war-related traumata (16·8–20·4%) compared with other respondents (3·3–3·5%). …"
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Clinical correlates of white-matter abnormalities on head magnetic resonance imaging حسب Dimassi, Hani

"…The children with white-matter abnormalities and decreased tone had significantly less signal intensity abnormality than the other study groups. …"
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T‐cell responses and therapies against SARS‐CoV‐2 infection حسب Salman M. Toor (8854751)

"…Some studies suggest that COVID-19 could be an immune-related disease, and failure of effective immune responses in initial stages of viral infection could contribute to systemic inflammation and tissue damage, leading to worse disease outcomes. …"

Immune Checkpoints in Circulating and Tumor-Infiltrating CD4+ T Cell Subsets in Colorectal Cancer Patients حسب Salman M. Toor (8854751)

"…We also investigated correlations between the levels of different CD4⁺ T cell subsets and the clinicopathologic features including disease stage and tumor budding. We found a significant increase in the levels of CD4⁺FoxP3⁺Helios⁺ T cells, which represent potentially highly immunosuppressive Tregs, in the CRC TME. …"

Impact of AREDS in a developing country 5 years after publication of the study حسب Fahed, Daoud C.

"…Purpose The Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) is the only large-scale study to demonstrate a reduction in the risk of progression to end-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD) when vitamin supplementation was given to patients with advanced forms of the disease. …"
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Effectiveness of Positron Emission Tomography for Predicting Chemotherapy Response in Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases حسب Glazer, Evan

"…We hypothesized that PET uptake levels were artificially decreased after chemotherapy. That is, lesions that appeared to be nonmalignant were actually viable malignant lesions.…"
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High-sensitive detection and quantitation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) from capillary/fingerstick and venepuncture whole-blood using fluorescence-based rapid lateral flow i... حسب Samar Shurbaji (9938696)

"…A subgroup analysis of abnormal TSH samples revealed a strong and significant correlation between the reference, Finecare™ whole-blood (r = 0.692; p = 0.0015), and fingerstick test Finecare™ (r = 0.66; p = 0.0025). …"

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. …"

Efficacy and safety of aldafermin in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials حسب Mohamed Mahmoud Marey (18560902)

"…<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is an advanced subtype of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). NASH prevalence is increasing exponentially and carries a high risk for disease progression, cirrhosis, and liver-related mortality. …"

Associations between Bone Mineral Density and WOMAC Scores in Healthy Individuals: Insights from the Qatar Biobank حسب Al-Hamdani, Mohammed

"…The Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) is used to assess the severity of symptoms related to pain, stiffness, and function in diseased hip and knee joints. …"
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Masked phenomenon: renal and cardiovascular complications; review and updates حسب Elmukhtar Habas (14777677)

"…The masked phenomenon (MP) (MHTN and MUHTN) increases susceptibility to end-organ damage (a two-fold greater risk for cardiovascular events and kidney dysfunction). …"

Expression of microRNA in follicular fluid in women with and without PCOS حسب Alexandra E. Butler (6189536)

"…Ingenuity pathway assessment revealed that 12 of the significantly altered miRNA related to reproductive pathways, 12 miRNA related to the inflammatory disease pathway and 6 were implicated in benign pelvic disease. …"