Publications by authors named "E L Stein"

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  • The study investigates the effectiveness of immunoadsorption (IA) treatment on post-COVID myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients, focusing on those with elevated β2 adrenergic autoantibodies.
  • Patients underwent five IA sessions and showed significant improvement in physical functioning, fatigue, and other symptoms over six months, with 70% responding positively to the treatment.
  • The findings suggest that IA could be a beneficial therapy for alleviating symptoms in post-COVID ME/CFS patients, indicating a possible link between autoimmunity and the condition.
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  • The study investigates CP symmetry violation in the decay of D^{+} particles into K^{-}K^{+}π^{+} using data from proton-proton collisions at a high energy of 13 TeV.
  • A unique model-independent method was employed to analyze the phase-space distributions of D^{+} and D^{-} particles, correcting for any instrumental biases using D_{s}^{+} decays.
  • The findings indicate no significant evidence of CP violation, with a p value of 8.1%, and measure specific CP asymmetry observables, marking this study as the most sensitive search of its kind in multibody decays.
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Background: Case-based peer review of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is used by many hospitals for quality improvement and to make decisions regarding physician competency. However, there are no studies testing the reliability or validity of peer review for PCI performance evaluation.

Methods: We recruited interventional cardiologists from 12 Veterans Affairs Health System facilities throughout the United States to provide PCI cases for review.

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Despite progress in smoking reduction in the past several decades, cigarette smoking remains a significant public health concern world-wide, with many smokers attempting but ultimately failing to maintain abstinence. However, little is known about how decision-making evolves in quitting smokers. Based on preregistered hypotheses and analysis plan ( https://osf.

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