CONCLUSION: The intensive smoking cessation intervention significantly increased smoking abstinence rates, reduced cigarette consumption, and improved blood pressure control among hypertensive patients in community settings. →

CONCLUSIONS: Simulation-based online ultrasound training provides comparable theoretical and practical outcomes to traditional on-site instruction, supporting its use as a scalable and accessible educational alternative. →

Prescription of prosthetic ankle-foot devices is constrained by imprecise clinical guidelines and inconsistent scientific evidence, hindering optimal device selection for individuals with lower limb loss. This multisite, prospective, randomized crossover study aimed to identify patient-reported, performance-based, and biomechanical parameters sensitive to ankle-foot device type, providing a foundation for more objective and individualized prescription practices. Ninety-one… →

CONCLUSION: The FIT test screening rate in the enhanced communication group was not statistically different from the original communication group. Using evidence-based behavioral economics principles in mailed FIT communications did not markedly improve the rate of CRC screening, but mailed FIT remains a key, cost-effective tool for reaching unscreened individuals. →

CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates that complementary data-driven methods, specifically PCA and LCA, can effectively map the heterogeneous landscape of TCM syndromes in patients with comorbid T2DM and MetS. The analysis validates core constructs, including Phlegm and Blood Stasis, and links deficiency syndromes to severe fatigue and poor sleep. Future TCM syndrome research may benefit from… →

CONCLUSION: Recurrence risk is the primary driver of surgical preference in PTC patients, followed by cosmetic outcomes. Additionally, postoperative cosmetic concerns varied across different demographic groups. These findings highlight the need for surgeons to consider patient-specific values during preoperative consultations to enhance shared decision-making. →

CONCLUSIONS: A daily MVM supplement, compared with placebo, does not significantly reduce COVID-19 incidence among older adults but shows a promising signal lowering the odds of symptomatic COVID-19 illness. The Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT02422745. →