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This study demonstrates that an AI-equipped digital stethoscope achieves higher sensitivity than blinded human reviewers in detecting audible heart murmurs in emergency department patients, although both methods struggle with inaudible structural heart disease.
This causal analysis of two intensive care databases reveals that deep sedation during the first 48 hours of mechanical ventilation is significantly associated with increased 28-day mortality in adult patients with sepsis compared to light sedation.
This case report highlights a 24-year-old man who sustained a high-voltage electrical injury to the left upper extremity, demonstrating that relatively localized external burns can mask profound internal muscle damage and severe rhabdomyolysis, thereby underscoring the critical need for serial laboratory monitoring and multidisciplinary management even when initial hemodynamic and renal parameters appear normal.
This hospital-based matched case-control study conducted in Central India identified low socioeconomic status, early reproductive milestones, high parity, poor genital hygiene, and tobacco chewing as significant predictors of cervical cancer, highlighting the need for targeted socioeconomic and health education interventions to reduce the disease burden.
This retrospective study of 353 adult patients at a Jeddah tertiary care center reveals that nearly half of urine cultures were positive for pathogens while significant portions were contaminated or unnecessarily ordered in asymptomatic patients, highlighting the urgent need for improved sample collection and stricter diagnostic criteria to curb antibiotic misuse and resistance.
Using Bayesian hierarchical modeling on SEER registry data, this study reveals distinct age-dependent treatment efficacy patterns for colorectal cancer, demonstrating that surgery alone is optimal for patients under 50, neoadjuvant radiotherapy for those aged 51–65, and standard adjuvant radiotherapy for patients over 65.
Using 2023 nationally representative data, this study reveals that while running/jogging is the only physical activity type independently associated with reduced mental distress among U.S. college students, psychosocial factors such as stress, loneliness, and depression history are far more dominant predictors of mental health outcomes than exercise behavior.
This multiyear cross-sectional study of over 140,000 Peruvian children under five reveals that while biomass cooking fuel exposure is generally associated with increased anemia risk, high altitude (≥2,500 masl) significantly modifies this relationship, acting as an antagonistic factor that weakens or reverses the association.
This systematic review argues that effective pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response require integrating One Health and Planetary Health frameworks to address critical gaps in environmental drivers, surveillance, and governance, while highlighting a severe global financing shortfall and the need for a shift from sector-specific to holistic, multispecies prevention paradigms.
This study found that while automatically processed panoramic images generally offer superior overall image quality, the first pre-processed individual layer provides clearer visualization of specific anatomical structures, suggesting that selective evaluation of raw layers can enhance diagnostic interpretation.