Third molar infections and their impact on systemic health- an awareness study among women degree college students of Udupi City, Karnataka, India by Ananya Prabhu, Ramprasad Vasthare, Prajna P. Nayak, Gargi Gandhi, Shreyosi Banik, Bidisha Sarmah

“…Descriptive statistics, ANOVA, independent T-test and chi-square tests were used to interpret the data. …”
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The association between cognitive frailty and the risk of fall occurrence in older adults: a meta-analysis of cohort studies by Jian Liu, Jian Liu, Jian Liu, Yu Wu, Yu Wu, Yu Wu, Zongke Long, Simeng Zhang, Shicai Wu, Shicai Wu, Shicai Wu

“…Subgroup analyses showed that cognitive frailty in older adults increased the risk of fall occurrence using different cognitive frailty assessment tools, study participants from the community, different regions, and different sample sizes.ConclusionThe results of this study suggest that cognitive frailty in older adults is an independent risk factor for the occurrence of falls, and it is recommended that caregivers strengthen the assessment of cognitive aspects of older adults admitted to the hospital.…”
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Effectiveness, Safety, and Costs of Thromboprophylaxis with Enoxaparin or Unfractionated Heparin Among Medical Inpatients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or Heart Failur... by Alpesh N. Amin, Alex Kartashov, Wilson Ngai, Kevin Steele, Ning Rosenthal

“…Multivariable regression models assessed independent associations between exposures and outcomes. …”
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Transcriptomic signatures of severe acute mountain sickness during rapid ascent to 4,300 m by Ruoting Yang, Aarti Gautam, Rasha Hammamieh, Robert C. Roach, Beth A. Beidleman

“…This study aimed to investigate differential gene regulation and biological pathways to diagnose AMS from high-altitude (HA; 4,300 m) blood samples and predict AMS-susceptible (AMS+) and AMS-resistant (AMS─) individuals from sea-level (SL; 50 m) blood samples.MethodsTwo independent cohorts were used to ensure the robustness of the findings. …”
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists’ Experience on Relevance of Sleep and Sleep Disorders in Training and Clinical Practice: A Survey Study from Italy by Chiara Baglioni, Andrea Galbiati, Debora Meneo, Greta Cavadini, Francesca Gelfo, Francesco Mancini, Carlo Buonanno

“…As insomnia is prevalent, an independent mental disorder, and a predictor for mental and somatic comorbid conditions, these findings underscore an urgency to enlarge and strengthen CBT professionals’ training on sleep psychophysiology, sleep clinical psychology, insomnia, behavioral sleep problems, and their treatment.…”
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Lipid Metabolism-Related Gene Signature Predicts Prognosis and Indicates Immune Microenvironment Infiltration in Advanced Gastric Cancer by Lijian He, Qiange Ye, Yanmei Zhu, Wenqi Zhong, Guifang Xu, Lei Wang, Zhangding Wang, Xiaoping Zou

“…Subgroup analysis showed that the risk model was an independent predictor of prognosis in AGC. Furthermore, our results indicated that most chemotherapeutic agents are more effective for AGC patients in the low-risk group than in the high-risk group, and risk scores for AGC are strongly correlated with drug sensitivity. …”
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Whole-Genome Sequencing and Comparative Genome Analysis Provided Insight into the Predatory Features and Genetic Diversity of Two Bdellovibrio Species Isolated from Soil by Omotayo Opemipo Oyedara, Aldo Segura-Cabrera, Xianwu Guo, Temidayo Oluyomi Elufisan, Rafael Alejandro Cantú González, Mario A. Rodríguez Pérez

“…SKB1291214, 174 bp sequence was inserted at the host interaction (hit) locus region usually attributed to prey attachment, invasion, and development of host independent Bdellovibrio phenotypes. Also, a gene equivalent to Bd0108 in B. bacteriovorus HD100 was not conserved in Bdellovibrio sp. …”
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The Impact of Zinc Supplementation on the Course of Infections by Justyna Woźniak, Ewelina Kopczyńska, Piotr Kulej, Wiktor Biesiada, Justyna Weronika Kmieć, Anna-Mariia Chernysh, Aleksandra Dusińska, Jakub Waszczyński, Kamila Fuczyło, Karolina Stankevič

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Physicians’ and nurses‘ knowledge and attitudes in management of sepsis: An Italian study by Gabriella Nucera, Anna Esposito, Naomi Tagliani, Chiara Jane Baticos, Pietro Marino

“…However, with regard to this latter point, T Student test for sample independent confirmed a significant difference in the average percentages of correct answers between recently (~ 6 months) trained (74 ± 3.4%) nurses (n = 33) and physicians (n = 19) and not recently (> 1 years) or never trained (34.8 ± 7.4%) nurses (n = 99) and physicians (n = 30) (t(10) = 11.72, P = < 0.001). …”
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Long noncoding RNAs predict the survival of patients with colorectal cancer as revealed by constructing an endogenous RNA network using bioinformation analysis by Hui Zhang, Zhuo Wang, Jianzhong Wu, Rong Ma, Jifeng Feng

“…Furthermore, the five‐lncRNA model could be an independent prognostic model in colorectal cancer. We computed for the risk function and constructed a risk score based on the five lncRNAs. …”
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Determination of Probiotics Prescription Indications in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Materials of the Expert Council and Literature Review) by V. T. Ivashkin, I. V. Maev, O. P. Alekseeva, S. A. Alekseenko, N. V. Korochanskaya, E. A. Poluektova, V. I. Simanenkov, A. S. Trukhmanov, I. B. Khlynov, V. V. Tsukanov, O. S. Shifrin, T. L. Lapina, R. V. Maslennikov, A. I. Ulyanin

“…The novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) is an independent risk factor for both exacerbation and onset of IBS, which predispose to increase IBS incidence. …”
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Correlation between OSAHS and Early Peripheral Atherosclerosis Indices in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in China: A Cross-Sectional Inpatient Study by Xin Zhao, Xiaofeng Yu, Sixu Xin, Wei Zhang, Xiaomei Zhang, Linong Ji

“…Conclusion. OSAHS is an independent risk factor of LEAD in patients with T2DM, and with the increase of AHI, the ABI and PWV have changed, which provides a new clinical basis for the prevention and the treatment of early atherosclerosis in patients with T2DM and OSAHS.…”
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Risk Factors of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria in Lower Respiratory Tract Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Gang Chen, Kailiang Xu, Fangyuan Sun, Yuxia Sun, Ziyuan Kong, Bangjiang Fang

“…Literature screening, data abstraction, and quality assessment of the eligible studies were performed independently by two researchers. Results. A total of 3,607 articles were retrieved, of which 21 articles representing 20 cohort studies published in English were included after title/abstract and full-text screening. …”
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Attitudes towards and use of dental dams by final-year dental students in Chongqing, China: a cross-sectional study by Jing Yang, Haofeng Jiang, Lu Shen, Yuhan Zhang

“…A total of 92.1% of CQMU respondents and 95.1% of CQTGMC respondents expressed their willingness to use DDs after independent practice in the future.Conclusions Although final-year students have a clear awareness of the advantages of DDs and are very enthusiastic about future DD use, the current DD utilisation rate is low. …”
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Therapeutic alliance during trauma focused treatment in adolescent and young adult patients with PTSD by Anne Grass, Rita Rosner, Angelina Ciner, Babette Renneberg, Regina Steil

“…Studies with larger samples sizes and additional independent ratings of alliance are needed to further examine the alliance-outcome link. …”
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Predictive Value of Fasting Blood Glucose for Microvascular Obstruction in Nondiabetic Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction after Primary Percutaneous Coronary... by Han Wu, Ran Li, Kun Wang, Dan Mu, Jian-Zhou Chen, Xuan Wei, Xue Bao, Zhong-Hai Wei, Jun Xie, Biao Xu

“…After adjustment for other parameters, FBG, peak TnT, LVEF, and LVEDV remained independent predictors for MVO. Conclusion. FBG was independently associated with MVO in nondiabetic STEMI patients.…”
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Translation and Cultural Adaptation of the ISTH-Bleeding Assessment Tool to European Portuguese by Diana Carneiro-Leão, Sofia Teixeira, Rita Queirós Pereira, Teresa Mota, Manuela Lopes, Susana Nobre-Fernandes, Fernando Araújo

“…The process involved three English to European Portuguese independent forward translations and a back translation. …”
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Prediction of stunting and its socioeconomic determinants among adolescent girls in Ethiopia using machine learning algorithms. by Alemu Birara Zemariam, Biruk Beletew Abate, Addis Wondmagegn Alamaw, Eyob Shitie Lake, Gizachew Yilak, Mulat Ayele, Befkad Derese Tilahun, Habtamu Setegn Ngusie

“…Association rule mining using an Apriori algorithm was employed to generate the best rule for the association between the independent feature and the targeted feature using R software.…”
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Risk Factors for Rebleeding after Emergency Endoscopic Treatment of Dieulafoy Lesion by Yongkang Lai, Jianfang Rong, Zhenhua Zhu, Wangdi Liao, Bimin Li, Yin Zhu, Youxiang Chen, Xu Shu

“…In the multivariable analysis, pure injection endoscopic treatment, white blood cells (>10 × 109/L), and prothrombin time >12 seconds were the independent risk factors for rebleeding. Conclusion. …”
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Implant Stability Changes for Nonsubmerged and Submerged Protocols for a Single Implant Mandibular Overdenture Using Ball Attachment by Ahmed Salah, Karim Foda, Mohamed Farouk Abdalla, Marwa Abdel Aal, Amr Naguib, Nouran Abdel Nabi

“…The Mann–Whitney U test was used for comparison between study groups for independent samples. Two-sided p values less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. …”
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