The Utility of Perirenal Fat in Determining the Risk of Onset and Progression of Diabetic Kidney Disease by Hongtu Hu, Wei Liang, Zongwei Zhang, Zikang Liu, Fan Chu, Yan Bao, Jialu Ran, Guohua Ding

“…Based on the cutoff value from the ROC diagnostic test in the cross-sectional study, patients were divided into two groups: higher PFT (H-PFT) and lower PFT (L-PFT). Kaplan–Meier survival curve analysis showed that H-PFT was associated with a higher incidence of albuminuria than L-PFT (log-rank test, χ2 = 4.522, P = 0.033). …”
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Time to recovery from visceral leishmaniasis and its predictors of mature visceral leishmaniasis patients admitted at Metema Hospital, Metema, Ethiopia by Habitamu Wudu, Chekol Alemu

“…Data were entered and analyzed using Epi-data, STATA version 14.2, and R 3.4.0 statistical software. The Kaplan–Meier survival curve and log-rank tests were used to compare the survival time. …”
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Male Gender Is Associated with Lymph Node Metastasis but Not with Recurrence in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma by Jiang Zhu, Rui Huang, Ping Yu, Haoyu Ren, Xinliang Su

“…Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted to assess the impact of gender on LNM. Kaplan–Meier curves were used to estimate recurrence-free survival (RFS). …”
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Association between lactate dehydrogenase levels and all-cause mortality in ICU patients with heart failure: a retrospective analysis of the MIMIC-IV database by Panxu Guo, Hongfu Ding, Xiaowan Li, Danying Xie, Ke Wang, Wanmin Su, XiaoJuan Yang, Fang Nie, Peixi Wang

“…We utilized the restricted cubic spline (RCS) method, Kaplan-Meier (K-M) survival curves, and Cox regression analysis to assess the association between lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) levels and all-cause mortality in HF patients. …”
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Associations Between Frailty and Risk of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Patients with Prediabetes: A Population-Based Study by Zhao C, Wang K

“…A frailty index calculated using a 49-item deficit accumulation model > 0.21 was used to indicate the presence of frailty. Kaplan-Meier curves and weighted Cox proportional hazards regression were used to assess the association between frailty and mortality.Results: The weighted prevalence of frailty was 28.21% in this cohort of 7845 prediabetic participants with a mean age of 62.89 years. …”
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Clinical trial participation, clinical care, and patient outcomes by practice setting: a real-world database analysis of patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia or Mantle Cell L... by Debora S. Bruno, Manoj Khanal, Xiaohong Li, Maricer P. Escalon, Katherine Winfree, Lisa M. Hess

“…Overall survival (OS) was analyzed using Kaplan Meier method, censoring patients without events at last observation in the database. …”
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联合介入治疗中晚期原发性肝癌远期疗效及影响因素分析

“…利用SPSS17.0版统计软件,单因素分析采用Kaplan-Meier方法及Log-rank检验,多因素分析采用Cox逐步回归方法。【结果】本组患者中位生存时间为21.5个月,1、2、3、5年累积生存率分别为72.3%、44.7%、31.5%、13.1%。…”
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The Effects of Trabeculectomy on Pseudoexfoliation Glaucoma and Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma by Fan Li, Guangxian Tang, Hengli Zhang, Xiaowei Yan, Lihua Ma, Yulei Geng

“…Cumulative probabilities of success were compared using the Kaplan–Meier survival analysis. Results. For the 3 criteria, there were no statistically significant differences in complete and qualified success rates between the two groups at 3 and 6 months after trabeculectomy (P>0.05). …”
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Treatment Options for Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer After Failure of Previous Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and Chemotherapy: Meta-Analysis of Five Randomized Controlled Trial... by Andrea Messori, Andrea Ossato, Lorenzo Gasperoni, Luna Del Bono, Alessandro Inno, Vera Damuzzo

“…Our analysis used an artificial intelligence software program that reconstructs individual patient data from Kaplan–Meier curves. Hazard ratio (HR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) was the main parameter. …”
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Prognostic Factors and a Predictive Nomogram of Cancer-Specific Survival of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Patients with Pelvic Exenteration Treatment by Ting Wang, Xin Fu, Lei Zhang, Shuna Liu, Ziqi Tao, Fang Wang

“…The predictive power of the constructed nomogram was assessed by the time-dependent receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Kaplan–Meier (KM) curve stratified by patients’ nomoscore was also plotted to assess the risk stratification of the established nomogram. …”
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Exploring Antibacterial Activity of Fish Protein Hydrolysate In Vitro Against Vibrio Strains and Disease Resistance to V. harveyi in Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) by Yuliang Wei, Lu Wang, Yanlu Li, Qiang Ma, Mengqing Liang, Houguo Xu

“…Survival probability in the FPH group increased after challenging to V. harveyi based on the Kaplan–Meier analysis. Results of intestinal microbiota showed the relative abundance of Vibrio in the SM group was the highest, followed by the FPH and control groups. …”
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Hemodialysis Adequacy and Its Impact on Long-Term Patient Survival in Demographically, Socially, and Culturally Homogeneous Patients by Reza Hekmat

“…To compare the survival rate of the two patient groups, Kaplan–Meir survival analysis test was used. Results. …”
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Tumor necrosis serves as an important pathological characteristic of stage I–II colon cancer by Shuhui Dong, Jin Xu, Mingshan Li, Guangyi Xiong, Ruilin Wang

“…Demographic analysis revealed a significant association of tumor necrosis with larger tumor size and a marginal association with vascular invasion. Kaplan–Meier survival curves demonstrated that tumor necrosis was associated with worse OS (log-rank P = 0.003) and PFS (log-rank P = 0.002). …”
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Highly Expressing SCARA5 Promotes Proliferation and Migration of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Kawuli Jumai, Tangjuan Zhang, Bingzhang Qiao, Julaiti Ainiwaer, Haiping Zhang, Zhichao Hou, Idris Awut, Madinyat Niyaz, Liwei Zhang, Ilyar Sheyhidin

“…The effects of these target genes on ESCC malignant biological behavior were performed in vivo and in vitro. The Kaplan-Meier (K-M) survival analysis and Cox regression were used to analyze the prognostic significance of target genes in ESCC patients. …”
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Effects of Obstructive Sleep Apnea on Cardiac Function and Clinical Outcomes in Chinese Patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction by Baoxin Liu, Rong Guo, Shunping Zhou, Shuanshuan Xie, Ke Wang, Yawei Xu

“…The echocardiographic results showed that the myocardium of STEMI patients with OSA appeared to be more hypertrophic and with a poorer cardiac function compared with non-OSA STEMI patients. A Kaplan-Meier survival analysis revealed significantly higher cumulative incidence of MACE and cardiac mortality in the OSA group compared with that in the non-OSA group during a mean follow-up of 24 months. …”
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Evaluating the weight-adjusted waist index as a predictive tool for sarcopenia and mortality risk by Qingzheng Shen, Tianjing Zhou, Xiaodong Chen, Hafiz Muhammad Umar, Xinxin Yang, Xian Shen

“…Multivariable logistic regression, ROC analysis, Kaplan–Meier curves, and Cox regression were used to assess the association between WWI and sarcopenia and mortality. …”
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Bioinformatic Analysis Reveals Central Role for Tumor-Infiltrating Immune Cells in Uveal Melanoma Progression by Mieszko Lachota, Anton Lennikov, Karl-Johan Malmberg, Radoslaw Zagozdzon

“…Based on the created signature score, we divided the patients into low- and high-risk groups. Kaplan-Meier, Cox, and ROC analyses demonstrated superior performance of our risk score compared to either clinical or pathologic characteristics of both cohorts. …”
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Survival Outcomes of a Large Cohort of Acral Melanoma Patients Treated at a South African Referral Hospital by Bianca Tod, Tonya Esterhuizen, Willem Visser, Maritha Kotze, Anne Bowcock, Johann Schneider, Henriette Burger

“…Survival outcomes were analyzed using Kaplan–Meier survival curves. Survival probabilities were compared between subgroups using log-rank tests. …”
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LncRNA HOTAIR: A Novel Biomarker for the Diagnosis of Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis and Prediction of the Onset of Cerebral Ischemic Events by Pengcheng Feng, Chenguang Tong, Yuan Li, Li Liu

“…Predictive value of serum HOTAIR levels for the occurrence of CIE was assessed by Kaplan–Meier curves and Cox regression. Results Serum HOTAIR was markedly lower in ACAS patients than in controls (P < 0.001). …”
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Blood leukocyte-based clusters in patients with traumatic brain injury by Ruoran Wang, Jianguo Xu, Min He

“…The correlation between identified clusters and mortality was tested by univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses. The Kaplan–Meier method was used to verify the survival difference between identified TBI clusters.ResultsA total of 172 (cluster 1), 791 (cluster 2), and 636 (cluster 3) TBI patients were divided into three clusters with the following percentages, 10.8%, 49.5%, and 39.8%, respectively. …”
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