Background Severe aortic stenosis (AS) is commonly associated with advanced cardiac damage, including right ventricular dysfunction (RVD), pulmonary hypertension (PH) and tricuspid regurgitation (TR), ...

Background Little is known about the association between direct pollen exposure and cognitive performance. The aim of our ...

Introduction Implementing shared decision-making (SDM) in maternity care remains challenging in low-income and middle-income ...

Background: Online gambling and sports betting have recently been legalized and expanded in North America. We aimed to evaluate long-term changes in the frequency of gambling-related helpline contacts ...

Poor sleep quality and lower trait mindfulness serve as key mediators linking neuroticism to diminished happiness. While personality traits are relatively stable, sleep habits and mindfulness skills ...

Discover the importance of homoskedasticity in regression models, where error variance is constant, and explore examples that illustrate this key concept.

Background Patients with heart failure (HF) frequently suffer from undetected declines in cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), which significantly increases their risk of poor outcomes. However, current ...

Introduction The Netherlands implemented a supermarket tobacco sales ban on 1 July 2024. This study aimed to evaluate ...

As the population ages, China will face an ever-increasing burden from CS. Strategies targeting elder population and high-risk groups should be prioritized in the establishment of management related ...

Introduction Previous reviews have investigated the relationship between empathy and burnout. However, these are now out of date, did not capture the effect of the pandemic, did not include healthcare ...

BACKGROUND: Forecasts for the future prevalence of cardiovascular disease and stroke are crucial to guide efforts to improve health outcomes across the life course for women. METHODS: Using historical ...

Background Metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), the most common chronic liver disease globally, may originate early in life. While maternal obesity is linked to offspring ...