Associations between depressive and anxiety symptoms and incident kidney failure in patients with diabetic nephropathy by Chunmei Qin, Yucheng Wu, Yutong Zou, Yuancheng Zhao, Deying Kang, Fang Liu

“…The cox proportional hazard analysis was performed to investigate the risk factors for progression to kidney failure in DN patients. …”
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Kidney and gallbladder stones and the risk of prostate cancer: Results from the EPICAP study. by Melissa Sawaya, Emilie Cordina-Duverger, Pierre-Jean Lamy, Brigitte Trétarre, Florence Menegaux

“…Despite its high morbidity and mortality rates, the etiology of prostate cancer remains relatively unknown, with only non-modifiable established risk factors. Chronic inflammation has emerged as a potential factor in prostate carcinogenesis. …”
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Rectal Application of Ozone to Patients with Diabetes Mellitus by Omar Morejón Barroso, Imandra María García Menéndez, Leticia Varela Castro, Ernesto Julio Bernal Valladares

“…Demographic variables were collected: age and sex; clinics: hemochemical parameters, time of evolution of the disease and nutritional status; as neurovascular complications: diabetic foot, diabetic polyneuropathy and diabetic retinopathy; treatments: hypoglycemic; modifiable risk factors: arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, smoking, alcoholism, physical exercise; calculation of body mass index. …”
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Incidence of prostate adenocarcinoma in transurethral resection of the prostate patients by Yahia Ghazwani, Abdullah Alhaider, Rakan Aldharab, Faisal Aldumiaikhi, Nasser Albogami, Abdulaziz Alathel, Ali Alothman, Raghib Abusaris, Mosaad Alshahwan, Fahad Alhamad, Ziyad Aljaafri, Khalid Alduraibi

“…Objective: This study aims to present the prevalence of incidental prostate cancer (IPCa) based on pathology reports of prostate tissue chips following transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), as well as to assess cancer’s stage, associated risk factors, and treatment modalities upon diagnosis. …”
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Association of red blood cell distribution width–coefficient of variation with cranial ultrasound abnormalities in neonatal hyperbilirubinemia: a retrospective cross-sectional stud... by Hongjuan Wei, Xin Chang, Jin Wang

“…Multivariate logistic regression analysis adjusted for risk factors revealed that a one-percent increase in RDW-CV increased the risk of CUAs by 23.0%. …”
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Impact of individual, household, and area characteristics on health and social care outcomes for people with multimorbidity: Protocol for a multilevel analysis. by Clare MacRae, Stewart W Mercer, Andrew Lawson, Alan Marshall, Jamie Pearce, Eleojo Abubakar, Chunyu Zheng, Marjan van den Akker, Thomas Williams, Olivia Swann, Louisa Pollock, Anna Rawlings, Rich Fry, Ronan A Lyons, Jane Lyons, Amy Mizen, Chris Dibben, Bruce Guthrie

“…<h4>Discussion</h4>Household and area characteristics might act as protective or risk factors for health and care outcomes for people with multimorbidity, in which case results of the analyses can be used to guide clinical and policy responses for effective targeting of limited resources.…”
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Effects of Low-Flux and High-Flux Dialysis Membranes on Erythropoietin Responsiveness in Hemodialysis Patients by Walid A. R. Abdelhamid, Mohamed M. Soliman, Ayman R. A. El-Hameed

“…Erythropoietin resistance index levels did not differ between the two groups upon repeated measures over a 1-year follow-up. Significant risk factors for erythropoietin hyporesponsiveness on multivariate analysis were lower weight (Odds ratio (OR): 0.966; 95% Confidence interval (CI): 0.94–0.992; p=0.011), longer hemodialysis vintage (OR: 1.172; 95% CI: 1.036–1.325; p=0.012), lower hemoglobin levels (OR: 0.531; 95% CI: 0.362–0.779; p=0.001), and higher neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (OR: 2.436; 95% CI: 1.321–4.493; p=0.004). …”
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High-Serum Angiopoietin-Like Protein 3 Levels Associated with Cardiovascular Outcome in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease by Ming-Chun Chen, Bang-Gee Hsu, Chung-Jen Lee, Ji-Hung Wang

“…Multivariable Cox regression analysis demonstrated that ANGPTL3 levels were independently associated with MACEs in patients with CAD (hazard ratio: 1.003; 95% confidence interval: 1.000–1.005; P=0.026) after adjusted for age, gender, and body mass index, classical risk factors, and potential confounders. Conclusions. …”
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Protocol for a scoping review study on the prevalence and public health consequences of non-medical use (NMU) of tramadol in Africa. by Saidou Sabi Boun, Olumuyiwa Omonaiye, Sanni Yaya, Sanni Yaya

“…<h4>Results</h4>Through this study, we aim to map consumers and identify risk factors, health consequences, and prevalence of the NMU of tramadol in African countries.…”
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Characteristics of the Relationship of Kidney Dysfunction with Cardiovascular Disease in High Risk Patients with Diabetes by Attilio Losito, Loretta Pittavini, Ivano Zampi, Elena Zampi

“…Competing mortality and the presence of other major risk factors in diabetes may be responsible for this difference.…”
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Using tree-based models to identify factors contributing to trait negative affect in adults by Catalina Cañizares, Yvonne Gómez-Maquet, Eugenio Ferro, Carlos Arturo Torres, Diana María Agudelo, Gabriel Odom

“…Beta regression and regression tree analyses were conducted to identify the principal risk factors and their interactions. The regression tree model was trained with 5-fold cross-validation on 75% of the sample, with 25% of observations held for testing. …”
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Epidemiological characterization of primary open-angle glaucoma by Leonor Rosario Díaz Alfonso, Bárbara Nuria Suárez Rodríguez, Mariela Julia Curbelo, Yusdenia Soto Serrano, Armando Rafael Milanés Armengol

“…In most patients this can be prevented if the risk factors leading to the disease are detected in time. …”
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Congenital Heart Disease Diagnosed Prenatally in Cienfuegos. 10 Year Study by Nancy González Vales, Rossana Isabel Jiménez Arias, María Antonia Ocaña, Nicolás Ramón Cruz Pérez, Julio César Martínez Santana, Jan Oneil González Ramos

“…The variables analyzed were: association of maternal age with the appearance of heart disease, gestational age at diagnosis, year of prenatal diagnosis and its relationship with the evolution of pregnancy, pathological history, risk factors, types of congenital heart disease and its relationship with the pregnancy continuity, results of pathological anatomy of the fetuses, relationship between the diagnosis of congenital heart diseases and the results of pathological anatomy with the pregnancy continuity, behavior of the prenatal diagnosis and the possible annual increase in the mortality rate. …”
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Prediction of white matter hyperintensities evolution one-year post-stroke from a single-point brain MRI and stroke lesions information by Muhammad Febrian Rachmadi, Maria del C. Valdés-Hernández, Stephen Makin, Joanna Wardlaw, Henrik Skibbe

“…However, this task is difficult mainly due to the myriad of vascular risk factors and comorbidities that influence it, and the low specificity and sensitivity of the image intensities and textures alone for predicting WMH evolution. …”
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Assessment of the risk of rapid progression of chronic kidney disease by L.D. Denova, D.D. Ivanov

“…Patients were divided into 3 groups: group 1 (n = 46) — individuals with stage 1–3 CKD who had a CCI ≤ 2, group 2 (n = 45) — patients with stage 1–3 CKD who had CCI ≥ 3, and group 3 (n = 32) — people without CKD risk factors and wi­thout symptoms of kidney damage. …”
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Predictors of hospitalization, death and incomplete/non-recovery from SARS-CoV-2 in an ambulatory global population by Sarah L. Pett

“…Kaplan-Meier estimates of percentage of those hospitalized or died were derived. Risk factors for hospitalization, death, and failure to recover were identified using Cox and logistic models respectively. …”
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Identification and analysis of individuals who deviate from their genetically-predicted phenotype. by Gareth Hawkes, Loic Yengo, Sailaja Vedantam, Eirini Marouli, Robin N Beaumont, GIANT Consortium, Jessica Tyrrell, Michael N Weedon, Joel Hirschhorn, Timothy M Frayling, Andrew R Wood

“…We classified 156 (0.12%) individuals as misaligned to their genetically predicted LDL-C and show that these individuals were enriched for both clinically actionable cardiovascular risk factors and rare genetic variants in genes previously shown to be involved in metabolic processes. …”
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Prevalence of Osteoporosis in Women Over 50 Years of Age: Preventive and Therapeutic Management Skills by Enrique Rodríguez Reyes, Carlos Alberto Valverde González, Walter Alberto Vayas Valdiviezo

“…It is important to educate the population, prevent and detect the disease early and combat risk factors. <br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to analyze the prevalence and evaluate the level of knowledge about osteoporosis in women over 50 years of age and the ability to apply this knowledge in the prevention and treatment of this pathological entity.…”
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Effective and safe surgery for keratinocyte skin cancer in the elderly over 80 years of age: a single-institution retrospective study of 345 patients over one year by Luca D. Fontana, Clara Richter, Ramon Lang, Christian Greis, Jürg Hafner

“…The use of novel oral anticoagulants, lower extremity location, surgical specimen size >2 cm2, and flap repair were found to be independent risk factors associated with a statistically higher incidence of complications.Conclusions This study demonstrated that dermatologic surgery adapted to the geriatric population is relatively safe and effective, even for larger KC of several centimeters in diameter.…”
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Studies of clinical symptoms of panleukopenia in cats in the Donetsk People’s Republic by I. V. Berdyukova, P. A. Rudenko

“…It is concluded that the violation of quarantine rules and insufficient vaccination coverage in cats are risk factors for the disease outbreak occurrence precipitating the multiple recurrent outbreaks of the disease.…”
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