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Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis
March 2025
Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China.
Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic inflammatory lung disease with high morbidity and mortality worldwide. Observational studies have shown correlations between common extrapulmonary comorbidities and COPD, but the existence of correlations does not necessarily prove a causal association. Therefore, causal relationships between diseases need to be explored by means of causal inference methods.
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March 2025
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and National Clinical Research Base of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The Affiliated People's Hospital of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, 350004, People's Republic of China.
Background: To further understand the complex relationship between Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and ischemic stroke, this study explores the role of genetic factors in the comorbidity of these two conditions.
Methods: Based on large-scale available Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) for OSA and ischemic stroke, we conducted a multi-level cross-trait analysis. First, we utilized Linkage Disequilibrium Score Regression (LDSC) to analyze the genetic correlation between the two diseases.
Front Public Health
March 2025
Department of Health Systems Management and Health Economics, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
Background: Policy makers and stakeholders may benefit from understanding maternal delivery referral practices as they develop efficient mechanisms to implement appropriate referral linkage. However, the practice of maternal delivery referral is not well known. This study aims to assess the maternal referral practices and associated factors among laboring mothers referred to public hospitals of Bahir Dar City, Northwest, Ethiopia.
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March 2025
College of Public Administration and Law, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China.
Background: This study aims to examine the level of coupled and coordinated development between China's digital economy and older adult care services, analyzing their spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and key influencing factors, with the goal of providing feasible recommendations and scientific bases for the development of the digital economy and older adult care services in China.
Methods: This study uses publicly available panel data from China for the years 2015-2022. It employs the entropy method to measure the weights of various indicators in the digital economy and older adult care services.
Acc Chem Res
March 2025
Frontier Institute of Science and Technology and State Key Laboratory of Multi-phase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 712046, China.
ConspectusFor sustainable development, exploring renewable resources is an urgent priority. Nonfood biomass, one of the largest renewable resources on Earth, primarily comprises three key components: lignin (ca. 15-30%), cellulose (ca.
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