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  2. Authors: Melissa A. Day, Marcia A. Ciol, M. Elena Mendoza, Jeffrey Borckardt, Dawn M. Ehde, Andrea K. Newman, Joy F. Chan, Sydney A. Drever, Janna L. Friedly, John Burns, Beverly E. Thorn and Mark P. Jensen
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:447
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    The original article was published in BMC Medicine 2024 22:156

  3. Post-COVID-19 Syndrome (PCS) entails a spectrum of symptoms, including fatigue, reduced physical performance, dyspnea, cognitive impairment, and psychological distress. Given the effectiveness of exercise-base...

    Authors: René Garbsch, Hendrik Schäfer, Mona Kotewitsch, Johanna M. Mooren, Melina Waranski, Marc Teschler, Katalin Vereckei, Gereon Böll, Frank C. Mooren and Boris Schmitz
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:446
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  4. Long COVID, also known as post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), is a poorly understood condition with symptoms across a range of biological domains that often have debilitating consequences. Some have recent...

    Authors: Zachary Butzin-Dozier, Yunwen Ji, Sarang Deshpande, Eric Hurwitz, A. Jerrod Anzalone, Jeremy Coyle, Junming Shi, Andrew Mertens, Mark J. van der Laan, John M. Colford Jr, Rena C. Patel and Alan E. Hubbard
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:445
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  5. Premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) is a reproductive disorder characterized by the cessation of ovarian function before the age of 40. Although mitochondrial dysfunction and immune disorders are believed to...

    Authors: Minjun Lu, Wenxin Li, Jiamin Zhou, Junyu Shang, Li Lin, Yueqin Liu and Xiaolan Zhu
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:444
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  6. Up to 17% of cancer survivors have been reported to develop second primary cancers (SPC), which cause significant physical and economic distress and often complicate clinical decision-making. However, understa...

    Authors: Zi-Xuan Rong, Wei Wei, Qin Zeng, Xiao-Ting Cai, Yuan-Yuan Wang, Jian Wang, He-San Luo, Lu-Shan Xiao, Jia-Run Lin, Xue Bai, Yan-Pei Zhang, Duan-Duan Han, Zhong-Yi Dong, Wei Wang, De-Hua Wu and Si-Cong Ma
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:443
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  7. Increased levels of physical activity are associated with a reduction of breast cancer mortality, especially in postmenopausal women with positive hormone receptor status. So far, previous observational case–c...

    Authors: Philipp Zimmer, Tobias Esser, Diana Lueftner, Florian Schuetz, Freerk T. Baumann, Achim Rody, Andreas Schneeweiss, Andreas D. Hartkopf, Thomas Decker, Christoph Uleer, Oliver J. Stoetzer, Frank Foerster, Marcus Schmidt, Christoph Mundhenke, Karen Steindorf, Hans Tesch…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:442
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  8. Delayed diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is common, there is still no effective imaging system to distinguish Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC) patients.

    Authors: Ziman Xiong, Yan Zhang, Peili Wu, Jun Chen, Yaqi Shen, Ihab Kamel, Xianying Zheng, Bing Wu and Zhen Li
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:441
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  9. The majority of men referred with a raised PSA for suspected prostate cancer will receive unnecessary tertiary investigations including MRI and biopsy. Here, we compared different types of biomarkers to refine...

    Authors: Artitaya Lophatananon, Kenneth R. Muir and Vincent J. Gnanapragasam
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:440
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  10. Left ventricular hypertrabeculation (LVHT) is a heterogeneous entity with life-threatening complications and variable prognosis. However, there are limited prediction models available to identify individuals a...

    Authors: Limin Liu, Rui Zeng, Ligang Ding, Simin Cai, Aiyue Chen, Yuchen Dong, Likun Zhou, Mengtong Xu, Yuanwei Xu, Le Li, Zhenhao Zhang, Zhao Hu, Zhuxin Zhang, Yulong Xiong, Zhicheng Hu, Yongqing Li…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:439
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  11. The associations of weight change with all-cause and cause-specific mortality stratified by age remains unclear. We evaluated the age-stratified (< 65 vs ≥ 65 years) associations of weight change with all-caus...

    Authors: Qing-Mei Huang, Dong Shen, Jian Gao, Huan Chen, Jia-Hao Xie, Hao-Yu Yan, Bin Wu, Zhi-Hao Li, Gang Liu and Chen Mao
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:438
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  12. A voluntary National Healthy Food and Drink Policy (the Policy) was introduced in public hospitals in New Zealand in 2016. This study assessed the changes in implementation of the Policy and its impact on prov...

    Authors: Sally Mackay, Magda Rosin, Bruce Kidd, Sarah Gerritsen, Stephanie Shen, Yannan Jiang, Lisa Te Morenga and Cliona Ni Mhurchu
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:437
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  13. A blood-based diagnostic test is a promising strategy for colorectal cancer (CRC). The MethyDT test (IColohunter), which detects methylation levels of NTMT1 and MAP3K14-AS1, exhibited potential in discriminating ...

    Authors: Zhijie Wang, Zixuan He, Rong Lin, Zhijie Feng, Xiuling Li, Xiangyu Sui, Lun Gu, Tian Xia, Dihan Zhou, Bali Zhao, Yanqing Li, Zhaoshen Li and Yu Bai
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:436
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  14. Health-related stigma and its internalization among individuals with chronic health conditions contribute to impaired mental and physical health and quality of life. Research on health-related stigma has been ...

    Authors: Rebecca L. Pearl, Yulin Li, Laurie C. Groshon, Marian Hernandez, Danielle Saunders, Miriam Sheynblyum, Kimberly A. Driscoll, Joel M. Gelfand, Preeti Manavalan, Marjorie Montanez-Wiscovich, Deidre B. Pereira, Rebecca M. Puhl, Thomas A. Wadden, Lori B. Waxenberg, Sarah C. Westen and Xiang-Yang Lou
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:435
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  17. Parturition is an inflammation process. Exaggerated inflammatory reactions in infection lead to preterm birth. Although nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) has been recognized as a classical transcription factor me...

    Authors: Wen-Jia Lei, Fan Zhang, Meng-Die Li, Fan Pan, Li-Jun Ling, Jiang-Wen Lu, Leslie Myatt, Kang Sun and Wang-Sheng Wang
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:432
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  18. Individuals who have experienced severe traumatic events are estimated to have a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) prevalence rate ranging from 10 to 50%, while those not affected by trauma exposure are of...

    Authors: Minlan Yuan, Lun Li, Hongru Zhu, Bo Zheng, Su Lui and Wei Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:431
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  19. Several surgical options for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) are available, but current guidelines do not recommend which one should be prioritized. Although previous network meta-analyses (NMAs) hav...

    Authors: Lingxiao Chen, Bin Guan, David B. Anderson, Paulo H. Ferreira, Ralph Stanford, Paula R. Beckenkamp, James M. Van Gelder, Munkh-erdene Bayartai, Maja R. Radojčić, Jeremy C. T. Fairbank, Shiqing Feng, Hengxing Zhou and Manuela L. Ferreira
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:430
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  20. Telomere length (TL), mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNAcn), and DNA methylation age (DNAmAge) are common aging biomarkers. However, research on the associations between these three markers at birth and subs...

    Authors: Zhenxian Jia, Feng Qiu, Yujie He, Huan Chen, Chenhui Yang, Hongxiu Liu, Tongzhang Zheng, Shunqing Xu, Shiqiong Wang and Yuanyuan Li
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:429
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  21. Lazertinib is a potent, irreversible, third-generation epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) with significant efficacy in patients with EGFR T790M-mutated non-small cell lung can...

    Authors: Ji-Youn Han, Myung-Ju Ahn, Ki Hyeong Lee, Yun-Gyoo Lee, Dong-Wan Kim, Young Joo Min, Sang-We Kim, Eun Kyung Cho, Joo-Hang Kim, Gyeong-Won Lee, Sung Sook Lee, Na Mi Lee, Hyun Woo Jang, Heewon Han, Hyejoo Park, Jieon Lee…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:428
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  22. Very few studies to date investigated the prospective association of changes in exposure to the food environment with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. We aim to explore if time-varying exposure to the food e...

    Authors: Maria Gabriela M. Pinho, Yvonne Koop, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Jeroen Lakerveld, Mariana Simões, Roel Vermeulen, Alfred J. Wagtendonk, Ilonca Vaartjes and Joline W. J. Beulens
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:427
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  23. S100β is a biomarker of astroglial damage, the level of which is significantly increased following brain injury. However, the characteristics of S100β and its association with prognosis in patients with acute ...

    Authors: Yang Qu, Hang Jin, Reziya Abuduxukuer, Shuang Qi, Xiang-Kun Si, Peng Zhang, Ke-Jia Zhang, Si-Ji Wang, Xiang-Yu Zheng, Yu Zhang, Jian-Hua Gao, Xian-Kun Zhang, Xiao-Dong Liu, Chun-Ying Li, Guang-Cai Li, Junmin Wang…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:304
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  24. Accelerated biological aging has been verified to be a critical risk factor for a number of age-related diseases, but its role in dementia remained unclear. Whether it modified the effects of genetic factors w...

    Authors: Zirong Ye, Haoxiang Lang, Zishan Xie, Siyu Duan, Bihao Peng, Xiaochun Chen, Ya Fang and Jiawei Xin
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:425
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  25. The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) is commonly used in clinical settings to assess the severity of alcohol-related problems, with the effectiveness of alcohol reduction interventions varying...

    Authors: Shohei Dobashi, Kyoko Kawaida, Go Saito, Yukiko Owaki and Hisashi Yoshimoto
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:424
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  27. Breast cancer (BC) is a complex disease with profound genomic aberrations. However, the underlying molecular disparity influenced by age and ethnicity remains elusive.

    Authors: Ji Yoon Lee, Ji Won Lee, Min Sung Chung, Jong Gwon Choi, Sung Hoon Sim, Hyo Jeong Kim, Jeong Eun Kim, Kyoung Eun Lee, Yeon Hee Park, Myoung Joo Kang, Mi Sun Ahn, Yee Soo Chae, Ji Hyun Park, Jee Hyun Kim, Gun Min Kim, Jae Ho Byun…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:422
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  28. Cell and gene therapy products (CGTPs) often receive accelerated approvals, lacking comprehensive long-term safety and efficacy data, which can raise significant safety concerns. This research aims to study th...

    Authors: Yuxin Cai, Lijuan Sui, Jingjing Wang, Weilin Qian, Yeheng Peng, Luyao Gong, Weijia Wu and Yuan Gao
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:421
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  29. Protein biomarkers may contribute to the identification of vulnerable subgroups for premature mortality. This study aimed to investigate the association of plasma proteins with all-cause and cause-specific mor...

    Authors: Hong Luo, Agnese Petrera, Stefanie M. Hauck, Wolfgang Rathmann, Christian Herder, Christian Gieger, Annika Hoyer, Annette Peters and Barbara Thorand
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:420
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  30. Adults living with human immunodeficiency virus (ALWHIV) receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) exhibit higher pneumococcal carriage prevalence than adults without HIV (HIV-). To assess factors influencing hig...

    Authors: Joseph Phiri, Lusako Sibale, Lukerensia Mlongoti, Ndaona Mitole, Alice Kusakala, Mercy Khwiya, Thokozani Kayembe, Edwin Lisimba, Prosperina Kapwata, Ken Malisita, Chrispin Chaguza, Daniela M. Ferreira, Deus Thindwa and Kondwani Jambo
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:419
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  31. Metformin is a hypoglycaemic medication that has been proposed to treat or prevent preeclampsia. Combining national birth data from Scotland and Sweden, we investigated whether metformin used during pregnancy ...

    Authors: Hannah Gordon, Noor Salim, Stephen Tong, Susan Walker, Manarangi De Silva, Catherine Cluver, Parinaz Mehdipour, Richard Hiscock, Lauren Sutherland, Ann Doust, Lina Bergman, Anna-Karin Wikström, Anthea Lindquist, Susanne Hesselman and Roxanne Hastie
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:418
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  32. The hearing health sector is an example of a health sector that is experiencing a period of rapid innovation driven by digital technologies. These innovations will impact the types of interventions and service...

    Authors: Isabelle Boisvert, Samantha Cruz Rivera, Jennifer Smith-Merry, Barbara Molony-Oates, Emily Kecman and Sarah E. Hughes
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:417
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  33. A third of children born in England have at least one parent born outside the United Kingdom (UK), yet family migration history is infrequently studied as a social determinant of child health. We describe rate...

    Authors: Kate M. Lewis, Rachel Burns, Mario Cortina-Borja, Anja Heilmann, Alison Macfarlane, Selina Nath, Sarah M. Salway, Sonia Saxena, Nazmy Villarroel-Williams, Russell Viner and Pia Hardelid
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:416
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  35. The benefits of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) are well established for hospital care but less so for primary care. Our primary objective was to assess the effect of two multifaceted interventions ba...

    Authors: Veronique Orcel, Leon Banh, Sylvie Bastuji-Garin, Vincent Renard, Emmanuelle Boutin, Amel Gouja, Philippe Caillet, Elena Paillaud, Etienne Audureau and Emilie Ferrat
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:414
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  36. The use of digital health technologies to measure outcomes in clinical trials opens new opportunities as well as methodological challenges. Digital outcome measures may provide more sensitive and higher-freque...

    Authors: Mia S. Tackney, James R. Carpenter and Sofía S. Villar
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:413
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  37. Action on smoking, obesity, excess alcohol, and physical inactivity in primary care is effective and cost-effective, but implementation is low. The aim was to examine the effectiveness of strategies to increas...

    Authors: Laura Heath, Richard Stevens, Brian D. Nicholson, Joseph Wherton, Min Gao, Caitriona Callan, Simona Haasova and Paul Aveyard
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:412
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  38. Evidence suggests that insulin resistance (IR) is an autonomous risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Nevertheless, the association between estimated glucose disposal rate (eGDR), a novel indicator of ...

    Authors: Juan Peng, Yan Zhang, Yiqun Zhu, Weilin Chen, Li Chen, Fangyu Ma, Bin Yi and Zhijun Huang
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:411
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  39. Conflicting results comparing bivalirudin versus heparin anticoagulation in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), in part...

    Authors: Jia Liao, Miaohan Qiu, Xiaojian Feng, Kui Chen, Dingbao Zhang, Yuncheng Zou, Xiaohui Zheng, Gang Zhao, Nailiang Tian, Zeqi Zheng, Xiaoping Peng, Qing Yang, Zhenyang Liang, Yi Li, Yaling Han and Gregg W. Stone
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:410
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  40. Authors: Sean W. D. Carter, Erin L. Fee, Haruo Usuda, Gokce Oguz, Adaikalavan Ramasamy, Zubair Amin, Biswas Agnihotri, Qin Wei, Liu Xiawen, Tsukasa Takahashi, Yuki Takahashi, Hideyuki Ikeda, Yusaku Kumagai, Yuya Saito, Masatoshi Saito, Citra Mattar…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:409
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    The original article was published in BMC Medicine 2024 22:338

  41. Although electronic alerts are being increasingly implemented in patients with acute kidney injury (AKI), their effect remains unclear. Therefore, we conducted this meta-analysis aiming at investigating their ...

    Authors: Zhangning Fu, Xiuzhen Hao, Yangfan Lv, Quan Hong, Zhe Feng and Chao Liu
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:408
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  42. Kidney transplantation is the optimal renal replacement therapy for children with end-stage renal disease; however, delayed graft function (DGF), a common post-operative complication, may negatively impact the...

    Authors: Xiao-You Liu, Run-Tao Feng, Wen-Xiang Feng, Wei-Wei Jiang, Jian-An Chen, Guang-Li Zhong, Chao-Wei Chen, Zi-Jian Li, Jia-Dong Zeng, Ding Liu, Song Zhou, Jian-Min Hu, Guo-Rong Liao, Jun Liao, Ze-Feng Guo, Yu-Zhu Li…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:407
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  43. Physical symptoms and aversion induced by opioid withdrawal strongly affect the management of opioid addiction. YTH N6-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA binding protein 1 (YTHDF1), an m6A-binding protein, from the periaq...

    Authors: Chaopeng Ou, Kun Zhang, Yanyu Mu, Zhenzhen Huang, Xile Li, Wan Huang, Yan Wang, Weian Zeng and Handong Ouyang
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:406
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  45. Preterm birth is a major cause of infant mortality and morbidity and accounts for 7–8% of births in the UK. It is more common in women from socially deprived areas and from minority ethnic groups, but the reas...

    Authors: G. Kayode, A. Howell, C. Burden, R. Margelyte, V. Cheng, M. Viner, J. Sandall, J. Carter, L. Brigante, C. Winter, F. Carroll, B. Thilaganathan, D. Anumba, A. Judge and E. Lenguerrand
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:371
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  46. Including structural determinants (e.g. criminalisation, stigma, inequitable gender norms) in dynamic HIV transmission models is important to help quantify their population-level impacts and guide implementati...

    Authors: James Stannah, Jorge Luis Flores Anato, Michael Pickles, Joseph Larmarange, Kate M. Mitchell, Adelina Artenie, Kostyantyn Dumchev, Serge Niangoran, Lucy Platt, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Aditya Singh, Jack Stone, Peter Vickerman, Andrew Phillips, Leigh Johnson, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:404
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  47. Intrusive memories of psychologically traumatic events bring distress both sub-clinically and clinically. This parallel-group, two-arm randomised controlled trial evaluated the effect of a brief behavioural in...

    Authors: Marie Kanstrup, Laura Singh, Elisabeth Johanna Leehr, Katarina E. Göransson, Sara Ahmed Pihlgren, Lalitha Iyadurai, Oili Dahl, Ann-Charlotte Falk, Veronica Lindström, Nermin Hadziosmanovic, Katja Gabrysch, Michelle L. Moulds and Emily A. Holmes
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:403
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  48. The Medium and Long-Term Plan for the Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Diseases (2017–2025) in China has highlighted the importance of reducing fat, sodium, and sugar in foods. However, front-of-pack labeli...

    Authors: Feiyan Wu, Yulong Qin, Dan Hou, Sasa Xie, Guanchao Zhang, Dexing Zhang and Min Yang
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:402
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  49. We concurrently developed a prospective study to assess clinical outcomes among patients receiving 9-month bedaquiline (BDQ)-containing regimens, aiming to provide valuable data on the use of this short-course...

    Authors: Yanhua Song, Wei Shu, Yi Pei, Juan Du, Guihui Wu, Hua Wang, Fengling Mi, Fangchao Liu, Liping Ma, Li Xie, Zhongshun Kong, Xiaoguang Wu, Rongmei Liu, Hongmei Chen, Hua Li, Qiping Ge…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:401
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  50. The liver effects of concentrated vs. more evenly distributed moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) patterns remain unclear. We aimed to examine the association of accelerometer-measured MVPA and diffe...

    Authors: Mengyi Liu, Ziliang Ye, Yuanyuan Zhang, Panpan He, Chun Zhou, Sisi Yang, Yanjun Zhang, Xiaoqin Gan and Xianhui Qin
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:398
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