Impact of Body Mass Index on Short-Term Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada by Anne B. Gregory, Kendra K. Lester, Deborah M. Gregory, Laurie K. Twells, William K. Midodzi, Neil J. Pearce

“…We studied 6473 patients identified in the APPROACH-NL database who underwent PCI from May 2006 to December 2013. …”
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Discovery and Characterization of Novel Esterases with Ethyl Carbamate-Hydrolyzing Activity by LIU Qingtao, ZHU Sibao, WANG Tianwen, LI Chuang, QIAN Senhe, ZHANG Wenqing, CHENG Fan, TIAN Shufang

“…In this study, four esterases (ES1, ES5, ES8 and ES9) with relatively high ethyl carbamate (EC)-hydrolyzing activity at both pH 4.5 and 7.0 were identified from the NCBI database, and their soluble expression in recombinant Escherichia coli was achieved. …”
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Precision livestock farming applied to the dairy sector: 50 years of history with a text mining and topic analysis approach by Lucia Trapanese, Giovanna Bifulco, Alfio Calanni Macchio, Francesca Aragona, Sissy Purrone, Giuseppe Campanile, Angela Salzano

“…A comprehensive search on the Scopus® bibliometric database was carried out using various related keywords such as: “precision livestock farming, sensors, machine learning and dairy”. …”
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The All-Cause Mortality and a Screening Tool to Determine High-Risk Patients among Prevalent Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients by Mohamad Adam Bujang, Pei Xuan Kuan, Xun Ting Tiong, Fatin Ellisya Saperi, Mastura Ismail, Feisul Idzwan Mustafa, Abd Muneer Abd Hamid

“…Patients’ particulars were derived from the database between 1st January 2009 and 31st December 2009. …”
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The association between oxidative balance score with constipation and diarrhea in US adults: a cross-sectional analysis of NHANES 2007–2010 by Yaoling Cao, Zhihao Yang, Qinqing Tang

“…Methods Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database spanning from 2007 to 2010, a cross-sectional study including 4,462 participants (2,386 males and 2,076 females) was performed to assess the relationship between the OBS, constipation, and diarrhea, among adult men and women in the US. …”
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Inadequate Lymph Node Yield: An Inadequate Indication for Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Stage II Colon Cancer by Alan Zambeli-Ljepović, MD, MHS, Daniel Hoffman, MD, Katherine E. Barnes, BS, Fernanda Romero-Hernandez, MD, Amir Ashraf Ganjouei, MD, MPH, Mohamed A. Adam, MD, Ankit Sarin, MD, MHA

“…We used the National Cancer Database (NCDB) to identify adults who underwent resection for a single primary T3 or T4 colon cancer between 2006 and 2018. …”
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SLC7A11 is a potential therapeutic target and prognostic biomarker correlated with immune cell infiltration in cervical cancer by Mutangala Muloye Guy, Tingting Bian, Longyun Sun, Yiping Hao, Xinlin Jiao, Wenjing Zhang, Teng Zhang, Baoxia Cui

“…Methods From the TCGA database, we analyzed SLC7A11 expression profiles and validated its promoting role in cervical cancer by in vitro. …”
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Mass resection as a candidate treatment for uterine PEComas of uncertain malignant potential: a case report and literature review by Haijuan Shi, Yan Yin, Shoujun Liang, Chuanzhong Liu, Yibao Huang, Bingfeng Lu, Liying Zhang

“…We identified one case at our hospital, and data for the other 12 cases were extracted from the PubMed database. The 13 patients were aged 9–75 years, with tumour sizes ranging from 1 to 21 cm, and follow-up times ranging from 2 to 71 months. …”
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New biomarkers for diagnosis of bladder cancer: a bibliometric analysis by Roberto Falabella, Valentina De Simone, Felice Crocetto, Francesco Del Giudice, Angelo Porreca, Nazario Foschi, Biagio Barone, Luca Di Gianfrancesco, Valentina Di Pasquale, Vincenzo Francesco Caputo

“…Methods: An electronic search was conducted using Elsevier's Scopus database. From a total of 940 retrieved papers (published between 2019 and 2024), 493 were selected. …”
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Reforming the innovation system to deliver affordable medicines: a conceptual framework of pharmaceutical innovation as a complex adaptive system (forest) and theory of change by Suerie Moon, Adrian Alonso Ruiz, Marcela C. F. Vieira, Kaitlin E. Large, Iulia Slovenski

“…Methods We inductively developed a novel conceptual framework of the PIS as a complex adaptive system (CAS) analogous to a forest. We constructed a database of 140 pharmaceutical innovation initiatives that sought to address global public interest objectives such as fair pricing or missing innovation. …”
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A retrospective analysis of the malaria trend in Yemen over the sixteen-years, from 2006 to 2021 by Wadhah Hassan Edrees, Wadee Abdullah Al-Shehari

“…Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on secondary malaria data from the database from the Ministry of Public Health and Population in Yemen. …”
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Exercise training and chronic kidney disease: characterization and bibliometrics of citation classics of clinical intervention trials by Fan Zhang, Shan Liu, Yan Bai, Liuyan Huang, Yifei Zhong, Yi Li

“…This study analyzes citation classics on clinical intervention trials on exercise training and CKD to describe the research landscape and hotspots through bibliometric analysis.Methods To identify clinical trials of exercise training interventions for CKD with more than 100 citations from the Web of Science Core Collection database. Extracted bibliometric information, participant information, and study characteristics of the included articles. …”
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Laparoscopic and Open Distal Pancreatectomy—An Initial Single-Institution Experience with a Propensity Score Matching Analysis by Irena Plahuta, Žan Šarenac, Medeja Golob, Špela Turk, Bojan Ilijevec, Tomislav Magdalenić, Stojan Potrč, Arpad Ivanecz

“…A retrospective analysis of a prospectively maintained database of 400 pancreatectomies was performed. The laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy group (LDP) was compared to the open distal pancreatectomy group (ODP). …”
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Microbial-based natural products as potential inhibitors targeting DNA gyrase B of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: an in silico study by Tilal Elsaman, Magdi Awadalla Mohamed, Malik Suliman Mohamed, Eyman Mohamed Eltayib, Abualgasim Elgaili Abdalla

“…Consequently, targeting this enzyme is of particular interest in developing new drugs for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis, including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).MethodsIn the present study, multiple computational tools were adopted to screen a microbial-based natural products database (NPAtlas) for potential inhibitors of the ATPase activity of MBT DNA gyrase.Results and discussionTwelve hits were initially identified as the top candidates based on their docking scores (ranging from −9.491 to −10.77 kcal/mol) and binding free energies (−60.37 to −73.21 kcal/mol). …”
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The myometrial transcriptome changes in mares with endometrosis by Ewa Monika Drzewiecka, Tomasz Molcan, Agnieszka Sadowska, Katarzyna Piotrowska-Tomala, Magda Słyszewska, Graça Ferreira Dias, Dariusz Jan Skarżyński, Anna Szóstek-Mioduchowska

“…Myometrial RNA was isolated and subjected to RNA-seq analysis to identify differentially expressed transcriptionally active regions (deTARs) and their contribution to signaling pathways (KEGG database) and biological processes (GO terms). In results, 665, 491 and 499 deTARs were found in the myometrium of mares with endometrium IIA vs I, IIB vs I and III vs I, respectively. 200 common deTARs in the myometrium across all stages of endometrosis (IIA, IIB, and III) vs I were identified. …”
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Multimorbidity in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and Its Associations With Adverse Cardiovascular Events and Healthcare Costs: A Real-World Evidence Study by Dingwei Dai, Joaquim Fernandes, Xiaowu Sun, Laura Lupton, Vaughn W. Payne, Alexandra Berk

“…**Methods:** This is a retrospective observational cohort study using Aetna claims database. Patients with ASCVD were identified during the study period (1/1/2018–10/31/2021). …”
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Graft survival and mortality outcomes after kidney transplant in patients with lupus nephritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Weizhong Jiang, Yunfen Xu, Qichun Yin

“…Literature search was conducted in PubMed, EMBASE and Scopus database for randomized controlled trials (RCTs), cohort, and case-control studies. …”
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Machine learning potential predictor of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis by Chenchun Ding, Quan Liao, Renjie Zuo, Shichao Zhang, Zhenzhen Guo, Junjie He, Ziwei Ye, Weibin Chen, Sunkui Ke

“…Identifying relevant biomarkers for effective early-stage risk prediction is therefore of critical importance.MethodsIn this study, we obtained gene expression profiles and corresponding clinical data of IPF patients from the GEO database. GO enrichment and KEGG pathway analyses were performed using R software. …”
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Personal Identification Using Embedded Raspberry Pi-Based Face Recognition Systems by Sebastian Pecolt, Andrzej Błażejewski, Tomasz Królikowski, Igor Maciejewski, Kacper Gierula, Sebastian Glowinski

“…It is shown that the system’s accuracy and scalability can be enhanced through testing with larger databases, hardware upgrades like higher-resolution cameras, and advanced deep learning algorithms to address challenges such as extreme facial angles. …”
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Primary tumor resection might improve outcomes in metastatic thoracic esophageal cancer by Jiayan Wu, Haosheng Zheng, Gengfeng Wang, Fei Qin, Yuzhen Zheng, Junguo Chen, Zui Liu, Bozhu Jian, Xianyu Qin, Hongying Liao

“…Data of patients with TECDM was collected from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database(SEER) from 2010 to 2020. A 1:1 propensity-score matching(PSM) analysis was employed to minimize heterogeneity between the groups. …”
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