Medicine - Table of Contents

August 28, 2025

Thermography analysis as a tool for assessing thermal asymmetries and temperature changes after therapy in patients with stroke: a pilot study

Luis Augusto Silva Zendron, Marta Gómez Mateos, Beatriz María Bermejo Gil, Andrea Calleja Caballero, Vanesa Santos Rodríguez, Fátima Pérez-Robledo, Ana María Martín Nogueras

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19843 PubMed 40895052

August 28, 2025

The effect of peer support on HbA1c levels in middle-aged and elderly patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Jiankun Luo, Jiyuan Shu, Weiqing Pan, Duanqin Guan, Congmin Liang, Dongyan Zheng, Kailun Huang, Yixi Lai, Bing Meng, Renjian Lu, Ziwei Cai, Lifei Xing, Jialong Chen, He Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19803 PubMed 40895070

August 28, 2025

The effect of cumulative ecological risk on migrant children’s Internet game addiction: a moderated mediation model

Zhengzheng Lin, Ying Zha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19787 PubMed 40895055

August 28, 2025

Socioeconomic status and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus among pregnant women in Zunyi, China

Yan Xie, Jing Jiang, Jing Yang, Shiyi Gao, Rong Zeng, Yijun Liu, LingLu Wang, Pei Xu, Kunming Tian, Shimin Xiong, Xingyan Liu, Xubo Shen, Hong Pan, YuanZhong Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19782 PubMed 40895064

August 28, 2025

MultNAT HIV-1 Viral Load Assay: a simple, rapid and sensitive cross-primer amplification assay for detecting the HIV-1 virus in the field

Lili Huang, Zhongbao Zuo, Lanlan Hu, Jing Wu, Qingting Bu, Yueping Li, Xiuhui Li, Yanqiong Zhou, Aifang Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19753 PubMed 40895045

August 27, 2025

A retrospective analysis of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in pneumonectomy for locally advanced central non–small cell lung cancer

Yuchen Wang, Zhihang Dang, Pu Jiang, Zhifeng Li, Jin Yang, Kun Gao, Xiaona Chen, Jifang Yao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20007 PubMed 40895065

August 27, 2025

Sex differences in association football: a scoping review

Wangyang Xu, Diyan Zhang, Xinbi Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19976 PubMed 40895063

August 27, 2025

Association of dietary inflammatory index with serum asprosin and omentin levels in women with prediabetes

Gizem Taban, Nursel Çalık Başaran, Aylin Ayaz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19957 PubMed 40895044

August 27, 2025

The role of N6-methyladenosine (m⁶A) RNA methylation modification in kidney diseases: from mechanism to therapeutic potential

Shaowen Guo, Wenjun Wang, Gaopan Lv, Yun Ling, Meifeng Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19940 PubMed 40895041

August 27, 2025

Exploration of prognostic genes associated with lymphangiogenesis in breast cancer based on transcriptomics and experimental verification

Chen Liu, Tuo Zhang, Fushen Luo, Xiaofeng Yang, Yadong Li, Tonghui Yi, Shuang Wu, Yanbing Wang, Yueping Zhu, Kun Zhao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19890 PubMed 40895068

August 26, 2025

Role of pyroptosis in pregnancy-related diseases

Wanlu Li, Rui Zheng, Chaoqun Shi, Deqing Chen, Yixin Sun, Bo Hu, Guangtao Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19922 PubMed 40895056

August 26, 2025

Exploration of gray matter alterations and cognitive function impairment in adolescents with first-episode non-suicidal self-injury and the associations with self-injury characteristics

Rui Yu, Kaike Liao, Yuwei Chen, Xinyue Chen, Shiji Peng, Xianfu Li, Nian Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19914 PubMed 40895072

August 26, 2025

Longitudinal changes in estimated glomerular filtration rates in chronic hepatitis B patients treated with Tenofovir Alafenamide vs Entecavir

Xuan Li, Qiang Wu, Fang Huang, Changxiang Lai, Fengjuan Chen, Juan Meng, Fang Wang, Hui Zeng, Lina Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19901 PubMed 40895048

August 26, 2025

A closer look at severe acute kidney injury: risk factors and outcomes in PD-1/PD-L1 antibody treatment from a retrospective study

Yuemeng Wu, Lingfan Luo, Xin Sun, Xiaolan Ye, Yan Ren, Wei Zhang, Shuangshan Bu, Yiwen Li, Bin Zhu, Lina Shao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19886 PubMed 40895060

August 26, 2025

Intraocular pressure responses during maximal and submaximal handgrip strength tasks in primary open-angle glaucoma patients and healthy individuals

Cristina González-Hernández, Maria Dolores Morenas-Aguilar, Beatriz Redondo, Danica Janicijevic, María José López-Gómez, Jesus Vera, Amador García-Ramos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19845 PubMed 40895067

August 26, 2025

Exploring telerehabilitation awareness, application, and future outlook in sports rehabilitation among physiotherapy students: a web-based survey

Vinodhkumar Ramalingam, Jeevarathinam Thirumalai, Ling Shing Wong, Rajkumar Krishnan Vasanthi, Vinosh Kumar Purushothaman, Prathap Suganthirababu, Buvanesh Annadurai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19829 PubMed 40895053

August 25, 2025

Impact of fructooligosaccharides on gut microbiota composition and metabolite production: implications for childhood obesity

CanFeng Mo, Shan Zhou, Zhi Du, Xiangxin Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19894 PubMed 40895066

August 25, 2025

Internal and marginal fit of digitally fabricated all-ceramic crowns with auxiliary retentive features on short clinical abutments: a micro-CT study

Saeed M. Alqahtani, Saurabh Chaturvedi, Mohamed Khaled Addas, Nasser M. Alqahtani, Mohammad A. Zarbah, Mohammed Hussain Dafer Al Wadei, Feras Ali Alsaeed, Yasir Saad AlJaadan, Ali Abdullah Ali Alqahtani, Mohammed Abdullah Al Mansooi, Mudita Chaturvedi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19813 PubMed 40895059

August 22, 2025

Significance of the inflammatory-immune-nutritional (IINS) score on postoperative survival and recurrence in breast cancer patients: a retrospective study

Yuan Wang, Wenxin Gao, Shan Wang, Jiajia Zhang, Jiaru Zhuang, Yibo Wu, Xiaoyan Huang, Jing He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19950 PubMed 40860681

August 22, 2025

Analysis of novel therapeutic targets and construction of a prognostic model for hepatocellular carcinoma

Pengyuan Lei, Wenfeng Li, Dafei Xie, Hua Guan, Xin Huang, Bo Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19899 PubMed 40860678

August 22, 2025

Feeding challenges in early infancy: the role of reflexes, muscle tone, and developmental milestones

Wiktoria Kowalska, Maria Tuczyńska, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Oskar Komisarek, Ewa Mojs, Mirosław Andrusiewicz, Tomasz Szczapa, Włodzimierz Samborski, Dorota Sikorska, Ewa Baum, Roksana Malak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19777 PubMed 40860665

August 22, 2025

Kinetics of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and hematological parameters in hospitalized pre-vaccination COVID-19 patients in Peru

Salyoc Tapia-Rojas, Alexis Germán Murillo Carrasco, Maria J. Pons, Manuel Ugarte-Gil, Ana Mayanga-Herrera

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19771 PubMed 40860652

August 21, 2025

Early radiological adjacent segment changes following L4/5 fusion: a retrospective comparative study of oblique lateral interbody fusion and minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion

Lantao Liu, Chicheng Ma, Lianghai Jiang, Longwei Chen, Xinpeng Zhou, Dechun Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19918 PubMed 40860655

August 21, 2025

The relationship between disease activity and quality of life in rheumatoid arthritis patients: a network analysis

Ruo-Wei Ma, Lin Zhu, Ming-Hui Zhang, Cui-E Li, Yu-Xuan Zhang, Bin-Bin Feng, Guo-Cui Wu