Relationship between Vitamin Intake and Resilience Based on Sex in Middle-Aged and Older Japanese Adults: Results of the Shika Study by Kuniko Sato, Fumihiko Suzuki, Hiromasa Tsujiguchi, Akinori Hara, Takayuki Kannon, Sakae Miyagi, Keita Suzuki, Masaharu Nakamura, Chie Takazawa, Aki Shibata, Hirohito Tsuboi, Yukari Shimizu, Thao Thi Thu Nguyen, Tadashi Konoshita, Yasuki Ono, Koichi Hayashi, Atsushi Tajima, Hiroyuki Nakamura

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Disseminated <i>Mycobacterium genavense</i> Infection Mimicking Sarcoidosis: A Case Report and Review of Literature on Japanese Patients by Ryo Ogata, Takashi Kido, Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Nemoto, Riko Heima, Mami Takao, Ritsuko Miyashita, Mutsumi Ozasa, Takatomo Tokito, Daisuke Okuno, Yuya Ito, Hirokazu Yura, Tomohiro Koga, Kunio Hashimoto, Shinnosuke Takemoto, Takahiro Takazono, Hiroshi Ishimoto, Noriho Sakamoto, Kazumasa Fukuda, Yuka Sasaki, Yasushi Obase, Yuji Ishimatsu, Kazuhiro Yatera, Koichi Izumikawa, Hiroshi Mukae

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The Utilization of Health Checkup Services among People Aged 45 and above in China: a National Cross-sectional Survey Based on CHARLS 2018 by GAO Chuan, LI Qingyin, KE Dandan, ZHOU Yuyu, ZHANG Yuyang, HE Zhong

“…Background Research on the utilization of outpatient and inpatient health services and its influencing factors has been well established, but there are few studies on the utilization of preventive medical services such as health checkup by residents in China. …”
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Vascular Risk Factors and Biomarkers of Endothelial Dysfunction in Chronic Migraine patients- A Cross-sectional Study by Hari Nath Yadav, Sanjay Rao Kordcal, Manju Yadav, Bhawna Mahajan, Ashish Kumar Duggal, Poonam Narang, Meenakshi Thakkar, Debashish Chowdhury

“…The patients were drug-naïve for preventive medications and did not have medication overuse headache. …”
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Compound lidocaine/prilocaine cream combined with tetracaine prevents cough caused by extubation after general anaesthesia: a randomised controlled trial by Erfei Zhang, Xiaoying Zhao, Ting Li, Min Wang, Jie gao, Hailiang Zhang, Ying Li, Lei Zhang, Taiyang Li

“…This may play an important role in preventing medical staff from contracting respiratory infectious diseases. …”
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Polymorphism in Toll-Like Receptors and <i>Helicobacter Pylori</i> Motility in Autoimmune Atrophic Gastritis and Gastric Cancer by Valli De Re, Ombretta Repetto, Mariangela De Zorzi, Mariateresa Casarotto, Massimo Tedeschi, Paolo Giuffrida, Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Raffaella Magris, Gianmaria Miolo, Cinzia Mazzon, Giorgio Zanette, Lara Alessandrini, Vincenzo Canzonieri, Laura Caggiari, Stefania Zanussi, Agostino Steffan, Antonio Di Sabatino, Renato Cannizzaro

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Factors associated with the risk perception of COVID-19 infection and severe illness: A cross-sectional study in Japan by Megumi Adachi, Michio Murakami, Daisuke Yoneoka, Takayuki Kawashima, Masahiro Hashizume, Haruka Sakamoto, Akifumi Eguchi, Cyrus Ghaznavi, Stuart Gilmour, Satoshi Kaneko, Hiroyuki Kunishima, Keiko Maruyama-Sakurai, Yuta Tanoue, Yoshiko Yamamoto, Hiroaki Miyata, Shuhei Nomura

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Hypertrophic pachymeningitis in ANCA-associated vasculitis: a cross-sectional and multi-institutional study in Japan (J-CANVAS) by Yasuhiro Shimojima, Dai Kishida, Takanori Ichikawa, Takashi Kida, Nobuyuki Yajima, Satoshi Omura, Daiki Nakagomi, Yoshiyuki Abe, Masatoshi Kadoya, Naoho Takizawa, Atsushi Nomura, Yuji Kukida, Naoya Kondo, Yasuhiko Yamano, Takuya Yanagida, Koji Endo, Shintaro Hirata, Kiyoshi Matsui, Tohru Takeuchi, Kunihiro Ichinose, Masaru Kato, Ryo Yanai, Yusuke Matsuo, Ryo Nishioka, Ryota Okazaki, Tomoaki Takata, Takafumi Ito, Mayuko Moriyama, Ayuko Takatani, Yoshia Miyawaki, Toshiko Ito-Ihara, Takashi Kawaguchi, Yutaka Kawahito, Yoshiki Sekijima

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Smoking cessation for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease by Wu, A, Lindson, N, Hartmann-Boyce, J, Wahedi, A, Hajizadeh, A, Theodoulou, A, Thomas, ET, Lee, C, Aveyard, P

“…Additional studies that account for confounding, such as use of secondary CVD prevention medication, would strengthen the evidence in this area.…”

Protective effect of hydroxychloroquine on infections in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: an observational study using the LUNA registry by Chiharu Hidekawa, Ryusuke Yoshimi, Ryusuke Yoshimi, Yusuke Saigusa, Jun Tamura, Noriko Kojitani, Naoki Suzuki, Natsuki Sakurai, Yuji Yoshioka, Yumiko Sugiyama-Kawahara, Yosuke Kunishita, Daiga Kishimoto, Kana Higashitani, Yuichiro Sato, Takaaki Komiya, Hideto Nagai, Naoki Hamada, Ayaka Maeda, Naomi Tsuchida, Lisa Hirahara, Yutaro Soejima, Kaoru Takase-Minegishi, Yohei Kirino, Nobuyuki Yajima, Ken-ei Sada, Yoshia Miyawaki, Kunihiro Ichinose, Shigeru Ohno, Hiroshi Kajiyama, Shuzo Sato, Yasuhiro Shimojima, Michio Fujiwara, Hideaki Nakajima

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Mortality risk factors in primary Sjögren syndrome: a real-world, retrospective, cohort studyResearch in context by Pilar Brito-Zerón, Alejandra Flores-Chávez, Ildiko Fanny Horváth, Astrid Rasmussen, Xiaomei Li, Peter Olsson, Arjan Vissink, Roberta Priori, Berkan Armagan, Gabriela Hernandez-Molina, Sonja Praprotnik, Luca Quartuccio, Nevsun Inanç, Burcugül Özkızıltaş, Elena Bartoloni, Agata Sebastian, Vasco C. Romão, Roser Solans, Sandra G. Pasoto, Maureen Rischmueller, Carlos Galisteo, Yasunori Suzuki, Virginia Fernandes Moça Trevisani, Cecilia Fugmann, Andrés González-García, Francesco Carubbi, Ciprian Jurcut, Toshimasa Shimizu, Soledad Retamozo, Fabiola Atzeni, Benedikt Hofauer, Sheila Melchor-Díaz, Tamer Gheita, Miguel López-Dupla, Eva Fonseca-Aizpuru, Roberto Giacomelli, Marcos Vázquez, Sandra Consani, Miriam Akasbi, Hideki Nakamura, Antónia Szántó, A. Darise Farris, Li Wang, Thomas Mandl, Angelica Gattamelata, Levent Kilic, Katja Perdan Pirkmajer, Kerem Abacar, Abdurrahman Tufan, Salvatore de Vita, Hendrika Bootsma, Manuel Ramos-Casals, S. Arends, E. Treppo, S. Longhino, V. Manfrè, M. Rizzo, C. Baldini, S. Bombardieri, M. Bandeira, M. Silvéiro-António, R. Seror, X. Mariette, G. Nordmark, D. Danda, P. Wiland, R. Gerli, S.K. Kwok, S.H. Park, M. Kvarnstrom, M. Wahren-Herlenius, S. Downie-Doyle, D. Sene, D. Isenberg, V. Valim, V. Devauchelle-Pensec, A. Saraux, J. Morel, C. Morcillo, P.E. Díaz Cuiza, B.E. Herrera, L. González-de-Paz, A. Sisó-Almirall

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Protecting Confidentiality in the Digital Ecosystem of Humanitarian Aid by Cara Lewis

“…Misinformation and data leakage can lead to microtargeting, defamation, provider endangerment, and other harms preventing medical service. The European Data Protection Supervisor details how the personal information collected by organizations, such as medical, can be stolen or misconstrued to affect microtargeting, placing individuals in the direct path of echo chambers, digital tracking, and manipulation.[7] The International Broadcasting Trust released a report in 2018 detailing the extent to which misinformation was impacting the humanitarian aid groups it broadcasts to.[8] For example, the report shared that rumors spread by right-wing political groups in 2017 falsely circulated that humanitarian groups in the Mediterranean were collaborating with child trafficking rings.[9] After causing defamation, the right-wing group sent a boat to block and detain the humanitarian group’s search and rescue boat. …”
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The implications of competing risks and direct treatment disutility in cardiovascular disease and osteoporotic fracture: risk prediction and cost effectiveness analysis by Bruce Guthrie, Gabriel Rogers, Shona Livingstone, Daniel R Morales, Peter Donnan, Sarah Davis, Ji Hee Youn, Rob Hainsworth, Alexander Thompson, Katherine Payne

“…Even small levels of DTD can be enough to outweigh relatively small lifetime benefits of primary prevention medication, but, to our knowledge, DTD impact has not been systematically estimated previously. …”
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Adjunctive Medication Management and Contingency Management to enhance adherence to acamprosate for alcohol dependence: the ADAM trial RCT by Kim Donoghue, Sadie Boniface, Eileen Brobbin, Sarah Byford, Rachel Coleman, Simon Coulton, Edward Day, Ranjita Dhital, Anum Farid, Laura Hermann, Amy Jordan, Andreas Kimergård, Maria-Leoni Koutsou, Anne Lingford-Hughes, John Marsden, Joanne Neale, Aimee O’Neill, Thomas Phillips, James Shearer, Julia Sinclair, Joanna Smith, John Strang, John Weinman, Cate Whittlesea, Kideshini Widyaratna, Colin Drummond

“…A secondary analysis explored cost-effectiveness in terms of the primary clinical outcome which was adherence to relapse prevention medication. The primary economic perspective was the NHS and personal social services (NHS/PSS) perspective preferred by NICE. …”
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