Neurofilament light chain levels in neuronal surface antibody-associated autoimmune encephalitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Qi-Lun Lai, Meng-Ting Cai, Er-Chuang Li, Gao-Li Fang, Chun-Hong Shen, Yong-Feng Xu, Song Qiao, Jia-Jia Wang, Qin-Jie Weng, Yin-Xi Zhang

“…Random-effects meta-analysis was used to pool results across studies. Results Thirteen studies were included in the final systematic review and meta-analysis. …”
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Renoprotective effects of coenzyme Q10 supplementation in patients with chronic kidney disease: a protocol for a systematic review by Hisashi Noma, Takeshi Hasegawa, Hiroki Nishiwaki, Erika Ota, Taihei Suzuki, Yoshitaka Watanabe, Yoshifusa Abe

“…For outcomes measured using continuous scales of measurement, we will adopt standardised mean differences as the effect measures. We will pool the data using the random‐effects model.Ethics and dissemination No human participants will be involved in the study. …”
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The use of the species <i>Triticum petropavlovskyi</i> Udacz. et Migusch. to expand the genetic diversity of spring bread wheat by A. E. Druzhin, S. N. Sibikeev, L. V. Andreeva

“…The introgression of genetic material from this species into the Triticum aestivum L. gene pool will not only expand the genetic diversity of bread wheat with a set of traits valuable for breeders, but also help to analyze the expression of genes from T. petropavlovskyi in a new genetic environment. …”
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Developing and validating an Interdisciplinary Teaching Readiness Scale (ITRS) for pre-service teachers in China. by Xin Wang, Lei Yuan, Shuang Li, Haoyuan Yu, Pan Tuo, Yongxiang Du, Baohui Zhang

“…We utilized literature review and interdisciplinary teaching competence framework to develop the initial item pool for the ITRS. Data were collected from 234 pre-service teachers at S Normal University (Sample A) for item analysis and exploratory factor analysis (EFA), followed by data collection from 543 pre-service teachers in China (Sample B) for confirmatory factor analysis(CFA), convergent validity, discriminant validity, and reliability testing. …”
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Response Rate and Impact on Lipid Profiles of Obeticholic Acid Treatment for Patients with Primary Biliary Cholangitis: A Meta-Analysis by Yuan Gao, Li Li, Bei Li, Yutao Zhan

“…OCA was superior to placebo in PBC patients (RR, 1.48; 95% CI, 1.15–1.90). OCA’s pooled treatment response rate was 65% (95% CI, 56%–74%), corresponding to Paris I criteria. …”
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Safety of Simultaneous Hepatectomy and Splenectomy in the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Complicated with Hypersplenism: A Meta-analysis by Xuefeng Liu, Zhiqiang Chen, Meng Yu, Wei Zhou, Xuting Zhi, Tao Li

“…Thirteen studies, including a total of 1468 patients, comparing the effects of HS with HA were pooled in this meta-analysis. Outcomes including postoperative complications, perioperative mortality, intraoperative blood transfusion, and albumin (ALB) content at postoperation day (POD) 7 did not differ significantly between the two groups. …”
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More than just staffing? Assessing evidence on the complex interplay among nurse staffing, other features of organisational context and resident outcomes in long-term care: a syste... by Matthias Hoben, Megan Kennedy, Katharina Choroschun

“…We will conduct a meta-analysis if pooling is possible. Otherwise, we will synthesise results using thematic analysis and vote counting.Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval is not required as this project does not involve primary data collection. …”
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Risk of long covid in patients with pre-existing chronic respiratory diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Paul Terry, R Eric Heidel, Alexandria Q Wilson, Rajiv Dhand

“…We used random-effects, restricted maximum likelihood models to analyse data pooled from 51 studies, which included 43 analyses of asthma and 30 analyses of COPD. …”
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Swimming and Persons with Mild Persistant Asthma by Mirjana Arandelovic, Ivana Stankovic, Maja Nikolic

“…Engagement of patients with mild persistent asthma in recreational swimming in nonchlorinated pools, combined with regular medical treatment and education, leads to better improvement of their parameters of lung function and also to more significant decrease of their airway hyperresponsiveness compared to patients treated with traditional medicine…”
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Microplastics in water, sediment and salts from traditional salt producing ponds by A. Tahir, P. Taba, M.F. Samawi, S. Werorilangi

“…Interestingly, sampling points at sedimentation/heating pools were found to be the locations with highest occurrence of microplastics in both water and sediment. …”
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ID3RSNet: cross-subject driver drowsiness detection from raw single-channel EEG with an interpretable residual shrinkage network by Xiao Feng, Xiao Feng, Zhongyuan Guo, Zhongyuan Guo, Sam Kwong

“…With the global average pooling (GAP) layer incorporated in the residual shrinkage network structure, we introduce an EEG-based Class Activation Map (ECAM) interpretable method to enable visualization analysis of sample-wise learned patterns to effectively explain the model decision. …”
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Interleukin-17 Gene Polymorphisms Contribute to Cancer Risk by Yu-Ming Niu, Hua Yuan, Yu Zhou

“…Overall, 10 relevant case-control studies involving 4,516 cases and 5,645 controls were included. The pooled ORs with 95% CIs indicated that the IL-17A rs2275913G>A polymorphism was significantly associated with increased cancer risk (for A versus G: OR = 1.28, 95% CI: 1.16–1.41, P<0.001, I2=61.1%; for GA versus GG: OR = 1.12, 95% CI: 1.02–1.23, P = 0.015, I2=27.8%; for AA versus GG: OR = 1.71, 95% CI: 1.38–2.41, P<0.001, I2=69.6%; for GA + AA versus GG: OR = 1.23, 95% CI: 1.13–1.34, P<0.001, I2=6.4%; for AA versus GG + GA: OR = 1.62, 95% CI: 1.27–2.07, P<0.001, I2=81.4%). …”
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Nitrogen Deposition and Leaching from Two Forested Catchments in Southwest China — Preliminary Data and Research Needs by T. Larssen, J. Mulder, Y. Wang, X. Chen, J. Xiao, D. Zhao

“…Increased nitrogen deposition has resulted in increased nitrogen pools and nitrogen leaching in European and North American forest soils. …”
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Prognostic and clinicopathological value of C-reactive protein in patients with bladder cancer: a meta-analysis by Xiangping Feng, Zongxin Zhang, Shuiying Mao

“…The relationship between CRP level and BCa clinicopathological characteristics was investigated by combining the odds ratios (ORs) with 95%CIs.Results Twenty studies with 7276 patients were enrolled in this study. As revealed by pooled data, elevated CRP levels were markedly related to poor overall survival (OS) (HR = 2.02, 95%CI = 1.41–2.90, p < .001), inferior cancer-specific survival (CSS) (HR = 1.46, 95%CI = 1.29–1.66, p < .001), shortened recurrence-free survival (RFS) (HR = 1.25, 95%CI = 1.17–1.33, p < .001) and dismal progression-free survival (PFS) (HR = 2.28, 95%CI = 1.80–2.90, p < .001) in BCa patients. …”
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Depression Following Thrombotic Cardiovascular Events in Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries: Risk of Morbidity and Mortality by Christopher M. Blanchette, Linda Simoni-Wastila, Fadia T. Shaya, Denise Orwig, Jason Noel, Bruce Stuart

“…A cohort of 7,051 community-dwelling elderly beneficiaries who experienced a thrombotic cardiovascular event (TCE) were pooled from the 1997 to 2002 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey and followed for 12 months. …”
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Rhipicephalus simus ticks: new hosts for phleboviruses by Samuel Munalula Munjita, Benjamin Mubemba, John Tembo, Mathew Bates, Sody Munsaka, Ala Tabor

“…During a study in a riverine area in Lusaka Zambia, ten R. simus ticks were incidentally collected from the grass and bushes and subjected to metagenomic next generation sequencing (mNGS) in 2 pools of 5. Analysis detected a diverse microbial profile, including bacteria 82% (32/39), fungi 15.4% (6/39), and viruses 2.6% (1/39). …”
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The Humanistic and Economic Burden Associated with Anxiety and Depression among Adults with Comorbid Diabetes and Hypertension by Kimberly Wallace, Xiaohui Zhao, Ranjita Misra, Usha Sambamoorthi

“…We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study to estimate the humanistic and economic burden associated with depression and anxiety among adults with comorbid diabetes and hypertension. Pooled data from the 2013 and 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey were used to include adults (≥18 years old) who were alive and diagnosed with both diabetes and hypertension during the observation period. …”
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Prognostic value of the controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: a meta-analysis by Jinqiang Zhao, Ying Wu

“…The prognostic value of CONUT for DLBCL was analyzed by determining the pooled hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). …”
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How is maternal employment associated with infant and young child feeding in Bangladesh? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis. by M A Rifat, Plabon Sarkar, Israth Jahan Rimu, Syeda Saima Alam, Tasnu Ara, Tobias Lindström Battle, Manzur Kader, Sanjib Saha

“…Meta-analysis showed the pooled odds ratio of recommended early initiation of breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding, and complementary feeding among employed mothers were 0.79 (95% CI: 0.49, 1.27; p = 0.33), 0.32 (95% CI:0.16, 0.67; p = 0.002), and 1.07 (95% CI: 0.81, 1.42; p = 0.63) compared to their counterparts, respectively.…”
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Advancing Pandemic Preparedness in Healthcare 5.0: A Survey of Federated Learning Applications by Saeed Hamood Alsamhi, Ammar Hawbani, Alexey V. Shvetsov, Santosh Kumar

“…Specifically, FL offers the potential to revolutionize pandemic preparedness within Healthcare 5.0 in several vital ways: it enables collaborative learning from distributed data sources without compromising individual data privacy, facilitates decentralized decision-making by empowering local healthcare institutions to contribute to a collective knowledge pool, and enhances real-time surveillance, enabling early detection of outbreaks and informed responses. …”
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