An Unusual Clinical Presentation of Merkel Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report by Deba P. Sarma, Dawn E. Heagley, Julianne Chalupa, Meredith Cox, James M. Shehan

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Utility of modified endoscopic radial incision and selective cutting combined with short-term stenting for refractory stricture in patients undergoing endoscopic submucosal dissect... by Lu Chen, Xiajiao Tang, Jingjing Jiang, XiaoChun Yin, Yuxin Wang, Mingyue Li, Ruihua Shi

“…The complications of RISC-STS include perforation (4.35%), fever (4.35%), and pain (30.43%). Univariate Cox analysis suggested that resection length >7 cm of scar tissue was a risk factor for refractory dysphagia after RISC-STS. …”
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Inhospital Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Prospective Cohort Study in Lima, Peru by Henry Zelada, Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz, Helard Manrique

“…The outcome was time until event, elapsed from hospital admission to discharge or death, and the exposure was the cause of hospital admission. Cox regression was used to evaluate associations of interest reporting Hazard Ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals. …”
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Incidence and Predictors of Pregnancy among Women on ART in Debre Markos Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: A Five-Year Retrospective Cohort Study by Maru Meseret, Alemayehu Shimeka, Alemayehu Bekele

“…A Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was used to estimate the probabilities of being pregnant. The Cox proportional hazards model was done and results were expressed using hazard ratios with 95% CI. …”
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Survival Analysis of Diabetic Colorectal Cancer Patients on Metformin by Alex Brandon Wong, Ravi Patnaik, Li Ling Chaw, Shir Kiong Lu, Long Chiau Ming, Wen Han Chooi, Ya Chee Lim

“…Kaplan-Meier and multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression models were used to analyze the data, construct survival curves, and adjust for comorbidities. …”
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Investigating Non-steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs as Potential Cancer Adjuncts: A Novel Approach to Cancer Therapy by Sadaf Alam, Leena Anjum, Muhammad Haneef

“…NSAIDs, particularly selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors, have shown potential as anticancer agents. …”
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Impact of severe dysphagia on overall survival after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy by Kazumi Shimamoto, Ryota Matsui, Yorihiro Nishiyama, Kyohei Nishino, Hiromitsu Ban

“…The prognostic factors were identified using multivariate analysis with the Cox proportional hazards model. Values of p < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. …”
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Inflammatory Signalings Involved in Airway and Pulmonary Diseases by I-Ta Lee, Chuen-Mao Yang

“…Moreover, many of the known inflammatory target proteins, such as matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), and cytosolic phospholipase A2 (cPLA2), are associated with airway and lung inflammation in response to various stimuli. …”
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The Determinants of Survival Time of Premature Neonates at Shambu General Hospital by Olani Debelo

“…The survival time of preterm neonates were compared for different categorical covariates. The Cox’s proportional hazard model was fitted. The fitness and statistical assumptions of the model were checked. …”
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Neonatal Tactile Stimulation Downregulates Dendritic Spines in Layer V Pyramidal Neurons of the WAG/Rij Rat Somatosensory Cortex by Gul Ilbay, Aymen Balıkcı, Sibel Köktürk, Melda Yardımoglu Yılmaz, Nurbay Ates, Canan Baydemır, Sibel Balcı

“…To achieve this, a Golgi-Cox method was used. Results. Dendritic spine number in layer V of the SoCx has been detected significantly higher in adult WAG/Rij rats at postnatal day 150 in comparison to nonepileptic adult control Wistar rats (p<0.001). …”
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Elevating Student Voice and Levelling Traditional Power Hierarchies Through Open Textbook Co-Creation: What Do Students Say? by Bianca Masuku, Glenda Cox, Michelle Willmers

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白细胞介素-32在肺腺癌中的表达及临床意义

“…【结果】免疫组化结果显示IL-32在肺腺癌组织中的强阳性率及总阳性率分别为48.3%（29/60）和85%（51/60），IL-32表达水平与患者的临床分期、淋巴结及远处转移正相关（P<0.05），生存分析显示IL-32高表达组与低表达组相比，5年生存率显著降低（P<0.01），Cox 比例风险回归模型显示，IL-32表达状态是影响肺腺癌患者总体生存期的独立危险因素之一（P<0.01）。…”
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Integrated Bioinformatics and Experimental Approaches Identified the Role of NPPA in the Proliferation and the Malignant Behavior of Breast Cancer by Aijun Sun, Xiaonan Sheng, Jinhai Tang, Zhenfeng Yu, Jian Zhang

“…The overall expression of ECM is assessed with a novel SC3 clustering method, and patients were divided into two clusters with diverse recurrence rate. We established the Cox regression model in breast cancer patients and identified NPPA as an independent prognostic marker. …”
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The homeobox family gene signature predicts the prognosis of osteosarcoma and correlates with immune invasion by Wenda Liu, Kezhou Xia, Xinghan Huang, Zhun Wei, Zicheng Wei, Weichun Guo

“…LASSO regression and multivariate COX regression analyses were employed to create and validate a risk-prognosis model in a validation cohort. …”
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Determining the Joint Effect of Obesity and Diabetes on All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular-Related Mortality following an Ischemic Stroke by Colleen Bauza, Renee’ Martin, Sharon D. Yeatts, Keith Borg, Gayenell Magwood, Anbesaw Selassie, Marvella E. Ford

“…The joint effect of obesity and diabetes on mortality-related events was estimated via Cox proportional hazards regression models. No difference in the hazard of all-cause mortality following an ischemic stroke was observed between obese subjects with diabetes and underweight/normal-weight subjects without diabetes. …”
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Predictive value of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio for long-term adverse outcomes in cirrhosis patients post-transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt by Qian Zhang, Zi Xu, Li Long, Xinhua Luo, Rongpin Wang, Kangshun Zhu

“…We retrospectively analyzed 184 patients treated between January 2016 and December 2021, noting demographic data, lab results, and follow-up outcomes, including liver transplantation or death. Cox regression, adjusted for various factors, showed that NLR is an independent predictor of post-TIPS progression (HR 1.665; 95% CI 1.149–2.414; P = 0.007). …”
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All-Cause Mortality Risk in Australian Women with Impaired Fasting Glucose and Diabetes by Lelia L. F. de Abreu, Kara L. Holloway, Mohammadreza Mohebbi, Muhammad A. Sajjad, Mark A. Kotowicz, Julie A. Pasco

“…Hazard ratios for all-cause mortality in diabetes, IFG, and normoglycaemia were calculated using a Cox proportional hazards model. Results. Women with diabetes were older and had higher measures of adiposity, LDL cholesterol, and triglycerides compared to the IFG and normoglycaemia groups (all p<0.001). …”
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Leptin Enhances Synthesis of Proinflammatory Mediators in Human Osteoarthritic Cartilage—Mediator Role of NO in Leptin-Induced PGE2, IL-6, and IL-8 Production by Katriina Vuolteenaho, Anna Koskinen, Meiju Kukkonen, Riina Nieminen, Unto Päivärinta, Teemu Moilanen, Eeva Moilanen

“…Leptin alone or in combination with IL-1 enhanced the expression of iNOS and COX-2, and production of NO, PGE2, IL-6, and IL-8. …”
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Prodromal Parkinson’s disease and subsequent risk of Parkinson’s disease and mortality by Xiao Chen, Yaqi Li, Yun Shen, Michael A. Schwarzschild, Xiang Gao

“…Incident PD cases were identified via hospital admission, death register, and self-report. Cox regression models were used to compute hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). …”
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The impact of close surgical margins on recurrence in oral squamous cell carcinoma by Joseph Solomon, Ashley Hinther, T. Wayne Matthews, Steven C. Nakoneshny, Rob Hart, Joseph C. Dort, Shamir P. Chandarana

“…Methods Predictors of worsened outcome were identified using Kaplan-Meier analysis and multivariate Cox regression analysis. Results Tumour size [HR:1.70(0.95–3.08)], nodal status [HR:2.15(1.00–4.64)], presence of extracapsular spread (ECS) [HR:6.36(2.41–16.74)] and smoking history [HR:2.87(1.19–6.86)] were associated with worsened RFS. …”
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