Association of preoperative blood biomarkers with postoperative major adverse cardiac events and mortality in major orthopaedic surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Lin Lu, Yi Ren, Zhen Hua, Yanxia Sun, Zhenghao Wen, Suzhen Zhou

“…This study aimed to assess the association between preoperative blood biomarkers and postoperative MACEs as well as all-cause mortality in patients undergoing major orthopaedic surgery.Design A systematic review and meta-analysis.Data sources PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews from inception to 20 October 2024 were searched.Eligibility criteria Observational or experimental studies reporting the correlation between preoperative blood biomarkers and postoperative MACEs—categorised as short-term (within 3 months) or long-term (beyond 3 months)—and all-cause mortality in patients undergoing major orthopaedic surgery.Data extraction and synthesis Data from studies reporting OR or HR and its 95% CI were pooled for analysis using random-effects model.Results 21 preoperative blood-based biomarkers from 80 studies with 226 468 patients were analysed. …”
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Designing and Modeling Digital Transformation in the Automotive Industry: Leveraging the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Mohammad Saeed Mozafari Mehr, Mohammad Taghi Taghavifard

“…In the process of theorizing the database, after collecting, analyzing, and interpreting the data, the next step is to present the model, draw conclusions, and summarize the research. …”
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Critical raw material-free multi-principal alloy design for a net-zero future by Swati Singh, Mingwen Bai, Allan Matthews, Saurav Goel, Shrikrishna N. Joshi

“…A robust machine learning (ML) model was developed using a computational database of 3,608 entries, covering unary and binary materials from the Thermo-Calc 2024a software. …”
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miR-149-3p Is a Potential Prognosis Biomarker and Correlated with Immune Infiltrates in Uterine Corpus Endometrial Carcinoma by Xiaoyuan Lu, Li Jing, Sicong Liu, Haihong Wang, Buze Chen

“…The clinical and genomic data and prognostic information on UCEC were obtained for patients from the TCGA database. The Kruskal–Wallis test, Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and logistic regression were used to analyze the relationship between clinical characteristics and miR-149-3p expression. …”
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Associations between age, red cell distribution width and 180-day and 1-year mortality in giant cell arteritis patients: mediation analyses and machine learning in a cohort study by Si Chen, Rui Nie, Xiaoran Shen, Yan Wang, Haixia Luan, Xiaoli Zeng, Yanhua Chen, Hui Yuan

“…Methods Clinical data from GCA patients were extracted from the MIMIC-IV (3.0) database. Logistic and Cox regression analyses, Kaplan–Meier (KM) survival analysis, restricted cubic spline (RCS) analysis, and mediation effect analysis were employed to investigate the association between age, RDW levels, and 180-day and 1-year mortality in GCA patients hospitalized or admitted to the ICU. …”
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Mechanism of abnormal specification of spermatogonial stem cells after Rb1 knockout in mitotic-arrested prospermatogonia by CHEN Xinling, CHEN Xinling, LONG Yixuan, DU Guihua, DU Guihua

“…Methods‍　‍① R language was used to analyze the single-cell RNA sequencing （scRNA-seq） data of prospermatogonia derived from postnatal day 0.5 （P0.5） male mice through the gene expression omnibus （GEO） public database （accession number： GSE124904）. ② Mitoti-arrested prospermatogonia Rb1 conditional knockout （cKO） mice as well as Rb1 cKO mice with Id4-gfp transgene were generated using Vasa-Cre mice crossed with Rb1flox/flox or Id4-gfpTg；Rb1flox/flox mice. …”
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Finding RB/Rpi-blb1/Rpi-sto1-like sequences in conventionally bred potato varieties by O. Y. Antonova, N. S. Klimenko, Z. Z. Evdokimova, L. I. Kostina, T. A. Gavrilenko

“…The sequences of the Rpi-sto1- and BLB1 F/R-amplicons were identical in all the genotypes of group ‘C’ and showed respective 99 % and 100 % similarity to the corresponding fragments of the Rpi-sto1 and Rpi-blb1 genes from the GenBank database. Among the genotypes of group ‘C’ various mt-types were detected, and some of them were male fertile.…”
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An Update of the Appropriate Treatment Strategies in Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer: A Population-Based Study of 735 Patients by Nai-si Huang, Xiao Shi, Bo-wen Lei, Wen-jun Wei, Zhong-wu Lu, Peng-cheng Yu, Yu Wang, Qing-hai Ji, Yu-long Wang

“…Patients diagnosed with ATC from 2004 to 2014 were identified from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database and included in our study. Results. A total of 735 ATC patients were identified. …”
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The impact of same‐day and rapid ART initiation under the Universal Health Coverage programme on HIV outcomes in Thailand: a retrospective real‐life cohort study by Sirinya Teeraananchai, David C. Boettiger, Cheewanan Lertpiriyasuwat, Rattaphon Triamwichanon, Patchara Benjarattanaporn, Nittaya Phanuphak

“…Methods PLHIV aged ≥15 years initiating ART between 2014 and 2022 were included from the UHC database. We categorized participants into four groups using the duration from HIV diagnosis to ART initiation: (1) ≤ 7 days (same‐day ART); (2) 8 days to <1 month; (3) 1–3 months; and (4) >3 months. …”
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A longitudinal cohort study on dispensed analgesic and psychotropic medications in older adults before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: the HUNT study by Tanja Louise Ibsen, Ekaterina Zotcheva, Sverre Bergh, Debby Gerritsen, Gill Livingston, Hilde Lurås, Svenn-Erik Mamelund, Anne Marie Mork Rokstad, Bjørn Heine Strand, Richard C. Oude Voshaar, Geir Selbæk

“…Methods A prospective cohort study using baseline data from 10,464 participants (54% females, mean age 76 years [SD 5.8]) from the Norwegian Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT4 70+) linked with the Norwegian Prescription Database. Age- and education-adjusted Poisson regression was applied to examine changes in prescription fills, and multilevel mixed-effects linear regression was used to estimate the mean sum of defined daily dose (DDD) per person per period during the lockdown (March–September 2020) compared to that during the corresponding months (March–September) in 2019, 2021, and 2022. …”
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Visual analysis of research hotspots and trends in traditional Chinese medicine for depression in the 21st century: A bibliometric study based on citespace and VOSviewer by Chengcheng Song, Kelong Chen, Yongxi Jin, Ling Chen, Zuxiu Huang

“…Methods: Literature in this field was searched from January 1, 2000 to April 20, 2024 in the Web of Science Core Collection database, to analyse the current status of the literature and publication trends. …”
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„Wykazy czasopism MNiSW 2017 i 2019”, „ICI Journal Master List 2014–2017” a polskie czasopisma z historii nauki, historii, filozofii nauki oraz naukoznawstwa by Michał Kokowski

“…The following facts were noted: a) the fact that there is a negative correlation between the journal’s rating in the “List of journals MNiSW 2019” and the journal’s ratings in the “ICI Journal Master List 2014–2017” for journals from the history and history of science; b) the fact that the presence of the journal in the DOAJ does not raise the ministerial rating of the journal; c) the fact that the evaluation of the journal in the Scopus database has not significantly affected the increase in the ministerial rating: the rating depends on the discipline and sub-discipline; d) the fact that journals from the ministerial program “Support for scientific journals 2019–2020” (WCN 2019–2020) and ERIH+ received 20 to 70 points; their ministerial ratings depend on discipline and sub-discipline. …”
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Systematic review and quantitative meta-analysis of age-dependent human T-lymphocyte homeostasis by Victoria Kulesh, Victoria Kulesh, Kirill Peskov, Kirill Peskov, Kirill Peskov, Gabriel Helmlinger, Gennady Bocharov, Gennady Bocharov, Gennady Bocharov

“…Age-dependent homeostasis of each T-lymphocyte subpopulation was evaluated via a weighted average calculation within pre-specified age intervals, using a piece-wise equal-effect meta-analysis methodology.ResultsIn total, 124 studies comprising 11722 unique observations from healthy subjects encompassing 20 different T-lymphocyte subpopulations – total CD45+ and CD3+ lymphocytes, as well as specific CD4+ and CD8+ naïve, recent thymic emigrants, activated, effector and various subpopulations of memory T-lymphocytes (total-memory, central-memory, effector-memory, resident-memory) – were systematically collected and included in the final database for a comprehensive analysis. Blood counts of most T-lymphocyte subpopulations demonstrate a decline with age, with a pronounced decrease within the first 10 years of life. …”
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Target Groups for a Short Dexamethasone Course among Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients by Armen Oganesyan, Ruslan Menzulin, Yury Surovoy, Andrei Nikiforchin, Kirill Zykov

“…A retrospective cohort study was conducted using a prospectively collected single-center ICU database (April 1–October 1, 2020). Adult COVID-19 patients were assigned to dexamethasone (12 mg × 3 days) and usual care groups. …”
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The predictive value of the serum creatinine-to-albumin ratio (sCAR) and lactate dehydrogenase-to-albumin ratio (LAR) in sepsis-related persistent severe acute kidney injury by Xiaoxiao Luo, Dongyang Liu, Cuicui Li, Jia Liao, Wuyang Lv, Yuchen Wang, Ruxue Diao, Yingyu Jin

“…Methods We acquired training set data from the MIMIC-IV database and validation set data from the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University. …”
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MAZ-mediated tumor progression and immune evasion in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer: Targeting tumor microenvironment and PCLAF+ subtype-specific therapy by Gaofeng Ni, Yuwei Sun, Hongling Jia, Zhikai Xiahou, Yumeng Li, Fu Zhao, Hongyan Zang

“…Methods: The study utilized single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data sourced from the Gene Expression Omnibus database and The Cancer Genome Atlas to analyze HR+BC and identify key cellular characteristics. …”
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Single-Cell Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Different Immune Signatures in HPV- and HPV + Driven Human Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Simin Li, Yang Wang, Rui Sun, Debora Franceschi, Hongying Pan, Chenxuan Wei, Anthony Chukwunonso Ogbuehi, Bernd Lethaus, Vuk Savkovic, Sebastian Gaus, Rüdiger Zimmerer, Dirk Ziebolz, Gerhard Schmalz, Xiao Jiang

“…Data were downloaded from GEO database (GSE139324), including 131224 cells from 18 HP- HNSCC patients and 8 HPV+ HNSCC patients. …”
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Characteristics and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest among students under school supervision in Japan: a descriptive epidemiological study (2008–2021) by Kosuke Kiyohara, Mamoru Ayusawa, Masahiko Nitta, Takeichiro Sudo, Taku Iwami, Ken Nakata, Yuri Kitamura, Tetsuhisa Kitamura

“…Methods: OHCA data from 2008–2021 were obtained from the SPIRITS study, which provides a nationwide database of OHCAs occurring under school supervision across Japan. …”
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Increased glenoid baseplate retroversion improves internal rotation following reverse shoulder arthroplasty by Lisa A. Galasso, MD, Bryce N. Clinger, MD, Brian C. Werner, MD, Patrick J. Denard, MD, Albert Lin, Anthony Romeo, Anup Shah, Asheesh Bedi, Benjamin W. Sears, Bradford Parsons, Brandon Erickson, Bruce Miller, Christopher O. Grady, Daniel Davis, David Lutton, Dirk Petre, Evan Lederman, Justin Griffin, John Tokish, Jorn Steinbeck, Julia Lee, Kevin Farmer, Mathew Provencher, Michael Bercik, Michael Kissenberth, Patric Raiss, Peter Habermeyer, Philipp Moroder, Robert Creighton, G. Russell Huffman, Samuel Harmsen, Sven Lichtenberg, Tim Lenters, Matthew Tyrrell Burrus, Tyler Brolin

“…Methods: A retrospective review was performed on a prospectively maintained multicenter database of patients who underwent primary reverse shoulder arthroplasty using a 135° humeral prosthesis and lateralized glenoid with minimum 2-year clinical follow-up. …”
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Exploring the potential association between serum selenium and hypertension in obese adult males in the United States by Bei Li, Haiyan Ma, Ying Yu, Jieli Chen, Shengnan He, Lan Yang

“…In this study, we examined the correlation between serum selenium concentrations and hypertension in 2,585 male participants with a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30 kg/m2 aged between 20 and 80 years from the 2011–2018 NHANES database. The associations between serum selenium levels and hypertension were evaluated through weighted generalized linear regression analyses. …”
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