Forecasting of Covid-19 cases based on prediction using artificial neural network curve fitting technique by S.K. Tamang, P.D. Singh, B. Datta

“…The present work employs artificial neural network-based curve fitting techniques in prediction and forecasting of the Covid-19 number of rising cases and death cases in India, USA, France, and UK, considering the progressive trends of China and South Korea. …”
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Perceived stress across population segments characterized by differing stressor profiles-A latent class analysis. by Finn Breinholt Larsen, Mathias Lasgaard, Morten Vejs Willert, Jes Bak Sørensen

“…<h4>Results</h4>Seven classes were identified: Class 1 was labeled Low Stressor Burden (64% of the population) and the remaining six classes, which had different stressor combinations, were labeled: 2) Burdened by Financial, Work, and Housing Stressors (10%); 3) Burdened by Disease and Death among Close Relatives (9%); 4) Burdened by Poor Social Support and Strained Relationships (8%); 5) Burdened by Own Disease (6%); 6) Complex Stressor Burden Involving Financial, Work, and Housing Stressors (2%); and 7) Complex Stressor Burden Involving Own Disease and Disease and Death among Close Relatives (2%). …”
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Modelling the Impact of Hygiene and Treatment on the Dynamics of Childhood Diarrhea in Nairobi County, Kenya by Veronicah Nyokabi Njenga, Cyrus Gitonga Ngari, Winifred Mutuku Nduku, Livingstone Serwadda Luboobi

“…From the sensitivity analysis of the effective reproduction number, it was observed that the sensitivity indices of the effective contact rate, the fraction of children joining the infected classes and modification parameters, are positive, while the indices of the rate of being born five years ago, hygiene compliance, natural death rate, rate of gaining symptoms, death rates due to diarrhea, treatment rates for infected children, recovery rates for treated children, and discharge rate are negative. …”
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The weight-adjusted-waist index predicts all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in hypertension by Yu Zheng, Zixing Nie, Yifan Zhang, Tao Sun

“…Using WWI as a tertile categorical variable, individuals in the highest tertile had a 33% higher risk of all-cause death (HR = 1.33, 95% CI = 1.14, 1.56) and a 65% higher risk of CVD death (HR = 1.65, 95% CI = 1.19, 2.27) than individuals in the lowest tertile. …”
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Impact of underlying diseases and complications on COVID-19 mortality in South Korea: analysis of national health insurance service data by Kyunghee Lee, Jieun Hwang

“…All complications were associated with death, with kidney-related complications conferring a 4.84-fold higher mortality risk (95% CI 3.62–6.48). …”
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Individual and Obstetric Risk Factors of Preeclampsia among Singleton Pregnancy in Hospitals of Southern Ethiopia by Kassahun Fikadu Tessema, Feleke Gebremeskel, Firdawek Getahun, Nega Chufamo, Direslgne Misker

“…Preeclampsia is the second most common problem that causes maternal morbidity and complication in low-income countries. In contrast to death due to other direct causes, preeclampsia-related death is appeared to be connected with multiple factors; yet, factors have paucity and are limited. …”
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PD-L1 Expression and CD8+ T Cell Infiltration Predict a Favorable Prognosis in Advanced Gastric Cancer by Yangyang Wang, Chunchao Zhu, Wei Song, Jun Li, Gang Zhao, Hui Cao

“…Advanced gastric cancer (AGC) has high morbidity and mortality in East Asia, and it is urgent to explore new treatments to improve patient prognosis. Programmed death-1 (PD-1)/programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitors have exhibited remarkable activity in clinical trials and were approved by the FDA for clinical therapy in several types of tumors. …”
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Electroacupuncture-Regulated miR-34a-3p/PDCD6 Axis Promotes Post-Spinal Cord Injury Recovery in Both In Vitro and In Vivo Settings by Lili Ma, Lizhong Ma, Yu Yang, Ting Chen, Limin Wang, Qilong Deng

“…PDCD6 (programmed cell death 6) is an established proapoptotic regulator which is responsible for motoneuronal death. …”
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An Overview of the Intrinsic Role of Citrullination in Autoimmune Disorders by Mohammed Alghamdi, Doaa Alasmari, Amjad Assiri, Ehab Mattar, Abdullah A. Aljaddawi, Sana G. Alattas, Elrashdy M. Redwan

“…Citrullination is a normal reaction during cell death. Apoptosis is normally accompanied with a clearance process via scavenger cells. …”
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A Pathophysiological Insight into Sepsis and Its Correlation with Postmortem Diagnosis by C. Pomara, I. Riezzo, S. Bello, D. De Carlo, M. Neri, E. Turillazzi

“…Sepsis is among the leading causes of death worldwide and is the focus of a great deal of attention from policymakers and caregivers. …”
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Anomalous Origin of a Right Coronary Artery from Pulmonary Artery by Muhammad Shabbir Rawala, S. Tahira Shah Naqvi, Kinaan Farhan, Muhammad Yasin, Syed Bilal Rizvi

“…The clinical presentation can vary from coronary ischemia to heart failure or sudden death. Therefore, surgical correction is recommended even in asymptomatic patients. …”
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Machine learning-random forest model was used to construct gene signature associated with cuproptosis to predict the prognosis of gastric cancer by Xiaolong Liu, Pengxian Tao, He Su, Yulan Li

“…Abstract Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most common tumors; one of the reasons for its poor prognosis is that GC cells can resist normal cell death process and therefore develop distant metastasis. …”
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RETRACTED: Environmental Impact of Pharmaceutical Pollutants: Synergistic Toxicity of Ivermectin and Cypermethrin by Davide Di Paola, Carmelo Iaria, Fabio Marino, Enrico Gugliandolo, Cristian Piras, Rosalia Crupi, Salvatore Cuzzocrea, Nunziacarla Spanò, Domenico Britti, Alessio Filippo Peritore

“…In conclusion, our study suggests that IVM and CYP show a synergistic effect at common, ineffective concentrations, promoting malformation and cell death in fish development.…”
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A case of asymptomatic ST segment changes in cyclist with two myocardial bridges by Stefano Giraudi, Barbara Severgnini, Paolo Valli, Anna Teresa Pandiscia, Lucrezia Marchetti, Silvana Scarpini

“…Nevertheless, some reports show that myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction or sudden death could be caused by myocardial bridging. In addition, intramyocardial bridging is a recognised cause of sudden death in athletes. …”
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Cumulative Incidence of Revision for a Balanced Knee System at a Mean 8-Year Follow-Up: A Retrospective Review of 500 Consecutive Total Knee Arthroplasties by Michael H. Bourne, Tony L. Miller, E. Marc Mariani

“…A competing risk analysis was performed to evaluate the cumulative incidence of revision while accounting for the competing risk of death. In the model, failure was defined as revision of any BKS component. …”
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Exploring the attitudes of solid organ transplant recipients towards COVID-19 shielding communications and the language of ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’: a qualitative study in... by Jason Ali, Dominic Summers, Abbie E Greig, Kirsten L Rennie

“…These communications were perceived as implying that death was probable, or even inevitable, should they leave their home or fail to follow the official advice. …”
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Contrast-Induced Acute Renal Injury and Related Pathological Alterations In Vivo by Yanfei Li, Dafa Shi, Haoran Zhang, Xiang Yao, Ke Ren

“…The definitive mechanisms of CI-AKI include contrast medium (CM) nephrotoxicity and CM disturbances in renal blood flow, but how the immune system responds to CM has rarely been mentioned in previous studies, and different cell death pathways have not been clearly distinguished. …”
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Spacetime modeling of mortality by infectious and parasitic diseases in Brazil: a 20-year ecological and population-based study by Lucas Almeida Andrade, Carlos Dornels Freire de Souza, Wandklebson Silva da Paz, Danilo de Gois Souza, José Augusto Passos Góes, Emerson Lucas Silva Camargo, Álvaro Francisco Lopes de Sousa, Liliane Moretti Carneiro, Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes, Karina Machado Araújo, Allan Dantas dos Santos, Márcio Bezerra-Santos

“…Results: Between 2000 and 2019, there were 2,155,513 deaths related to IPDs in Brazil. The leading causes of death included acute respiratory infections ( n  = 1,130,069; 52.49%), septicemia ( n  = 289,817; 13.46%), human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( n  = 232,892; 10.82%), tuberculosis ( n  = 104,121; 4.84%), and neglected tropical diseases such as Chagas disease ( n  = 94,788; 4.40%) and schistosomiasis ( n  = 10,272; 0.48%). …”
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Clothianidin and Thiacloprid Mixture Administration Induces Degenerative Damage in the Dentate Gyrus and Alteration in Short-Term Memory in Rats by Alejandra Mora-Gutiérrez, Jorge Guevara, Carmen Rubio, Minerva Calvillo-Velasco, Daniela Silva-Adaya, Socorro Retana-Márquez, Blanca Espinosa, Carmen Martínez-Valenzuela, Moisés Rubio-Osornio

“…Our results indicate that the administration of three doses of decreasing amounts of LD50 (5/10, 4/10, and 3/10 LD50) resulted in 100% death in all cases. Ten administration times of 2/10 LD50 of the mixture caused only 20% of death cases after twenty-seven days, which was determined as a subchronic administration scheme. …”
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Association of direct oral anticoagulant-proton pump inhibitor cotherapy with adverse outcomes: protocol for a population-based cohort study by Lehana Thabane, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Michael Paterson, Laura Targownik, Mei Wang, Anne Holbrook, Deborah Siegal

“…The primary outcome is a composite of clinically relevant bleeding, thrombotic events or all-cause death. A minimum of 520 patients in total with at least one of the components of the composite outcome are needed. …”
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