Safety outcome trials in four mainline medical journals 30 years apart: a narrative review and the need for the transparency of informed consents by Sinem Nihal Esatoglu, Ayse Ozdede, Yesim Ozguler, Koray Tascilar, Hasan Yazici

“…So did the safety outcome trials with primary outcome measures like death, myocardial infarction, and stroke as well as randomized controlled trials with a pragmatic design. …”
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Residual Dyslipidemia Leads to Unfavorable Outcomes in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Bin Que, Chunmei Wang, Hui Ai, Xinyong Zhang, Mei Wang, Shaoping Nie

“…For the follow-up study, major adverse cardiovascular cerebrovascular events (MACCE; including total death, cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, and revascularization) were documented. …”
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Risk Factors of Mortality from All Asbestos-Related Diseases: A Competing Risk Analysis by Rafael Abós-Herràndiz, Teresa Rodriguez-Blanco, Isabel Garcia-Allas, Isabel-Magdalena Rosell-Murphy, Constança Albertí-Casas, Josep Tarrés, Illona Krier-Günther, Xavier Martinez-Artés, Ramon Orriols, Isidre Grimau-Malet, Jaume Canela-Soler

“…Results. Asbestos-related deaths were observed in 167 (30.7%) patients and 57.5% of these deaths were caused by some type of mesothelioma. …”
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1990–2041 Global burden of Burkitt lymphoma with 20 years forecast: A systematic analysis using the global burden disease of study of 2021 by Chengyun Dou, Yidan Sang, Hongbo Zhu, Chuangjie Cao

“…Over three decades, Burkitt lymphoma-associated deaths rose from 3843 to 6525. The global incidence rate of Burkitt lymphoma increased from 0.127 in 1990 to 0.236 in 2021 per 100,000 population. …”
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Transcriptional activity of repair, apoptosis and cell cycle genes (TP53, MDM2, ATM, BAX, BCL-2, CDKN1A, OGG1, XPC, PADI4, MAPK8, NF-KB1, STAT3, GATA3) in chronically exposed perso... by V. S. Nikiforov, E. A. Blinova, A. I. Kotikova, A. V. Akleyev

“…These data are consistent with current views on the activation of programmed cell death.…”
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Chronic and infectious respiratory mortality and short-term exposures to four types of pollen taxa in older adults in Michigan, 2006-2017 by Peter S. Larson, Allison L. Steiner, Marie S. O’Neill, Alan P. Baptist, Carina J. Gronlund

“…Methods We obtained records for all Michigan deaths from 2006-2017 from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). …”
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Randomised feasibility study of an intestinal adsorbent in acute diarrhoea in The Gambia by Elena Markaryan, Matthew Dodd, Stephen Allen, Carol Howell, Angela Allen, Paul Rahden, Abdoulie Fatty, Momodou Lamin Jobarteh, Abdoulwahab Sallah, Ebrahim Jaiteh, Doreen Umoh, Fanta Bass, Radovan Hnatič

“…Stool frequency was lower in the intervention arm on days 2 (95% CI −0.8 to −1.3 to −0.3) and 3 (95% CI −0.8; −1.3 to −0.3). One serious event (death) occurred in the control arm.Conclusions A randomised, controlled trial is feasible. …”
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Enhancement of Cytomegalovirus-Specific Cytokine Production after Modulation of the Costimulation in Kidney Transplant Patients by Theresa Dornieden, Benjamin Wilde, Johannes Korth, Kai Werner, Peter A. Horn, Oliver Witzke, Monika Lindemann

“…To address this question, lymphocytes of kidney transplant patients were stimulated with CMV-specific antigens and incubated with programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), or B- and T-lymphocyte attenuator (BTLA) antibodies. …”
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A study of association between maternal tetanus toxoid immunization and neonatal mortality in the context of Bangladesh. by Sujan Kumar Naha, Md Efty Islam Arpon, Rifa Tasfia Siddique, Farjana Rahman Ripa, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Md Jamal Uddin

“…The dataset consists of 23,402 cases; among them, 587 cases resulted in infant death. The outcome variable was infant mortality, which was binary. …”
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Exploratory Investigation of Intestinal Structure and Function after Stroke in Mice by Diya Ye, Yuting Hu, Ning Zhu, Weizhong Gu, Gao Long, Enfu Tao, Marong Fang, Mizu Jiang

“…Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide. Patients who have a stroke are susceptible to many gastrointestinal (GI) complications, such as dysphagia, GI bleeding, and fecal incontinence. …”
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Uncoupling Protein 2 Increases Susceptibility to Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Acute Lung Injury in Mice by Qin Wang, Jianchun Wang, Mingdong Hu, Yu Yang, Liang Guo, Jing Xu, Chuanjiang Lei, Yan Jiao, JianCheng Xu

“…On the other hand, LPS-induced alveolar epithelial cell death and inflammation were attenuated by genipin. …”
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Mortality and risk of cardiac complications among immediate survivors of accidental electric shock: a Danish nationwide cohort study by Christian Torp-Pedersen, Sam Riahi, Lars Køber, Steen Møller Hansen, Peter Søgaard, Rikke Mortensen, Søren Hjortshøj

“…The 5-year cumulative incidence of death was 0.47% (95% CI 0.29% to 0.65%) for emergency ward patients and 1.04% (95% CI 0.71% to 1.37%) for admitted patients. …”
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Chronic Gastroesophageal Reflux Dysregulates Proteostasis in Esophageal Epithelial CellsSummary by Kodisundaram Paulrasu, Ravindran Caspa Gokulan, Wael El-Rifai, Zhibin Chen, Jianwen Que, Timothy C. Wang, Olivier G. Boutaud, Karoline Briegel, Sergey I. Dikalov, Monica T. Garcia-Buitrago, Alexander I. Zaika

“…Dysregulation of proteostasis induces ferroptotic cell death and is mediated by modification of cellular proteins with reactive isoLGs that can be prevented by isoLG scavengers. …”
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Parametric modeling of under-5 children survival among 30 African countries: Lognormal accelerated failure time gamma shared frailty model. by Bikis Liyew, Kemal Tesfa, Kassaye Demeke Altaye, Abeje Diress Gelaw, Alemu Teshale Bicha, Ayanaw Guade Mamo, Kassaw Chekole Adane

“…This study employed a multivariable lognormal accelerated failure time gamma shared frailty parametric survival regression analysis to identify the predictors of time-to-death among under-five children in these African nations.…”
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Relationship between White Blood Count to Mean Platelet Volume Ratio and Clinical Outcomes and Severity of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coron... by Altekin Refik Emre, Kilinc Ali Yasar, Yanikoglu Atakan, Cicekcibasi Orhan, Kucuk Murathan

“…The follow-up MACEs (p=0.043), cardiac death (p=0.026), and reinfarction (p=0.031) ratio were higher in the high WMR group. …”
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Severe subcutaneous infection with Clostridium septicum in a herd of native Icelandic horses by Charlotta Oddsdóttir, Ólöf G. Sigurðardóttir, Vala Friðriksdóttir, Vilhjálmur Svansson, Birkir Þór Bragason, Sigríður Björnsdóttir

“…The clinical signs included pyrexia, depression, swollen limbs, chest and neck, reluctance to move and dyspnoea, leading to the death or euthanasia of five horses. In addition, one horse was found dead with no previously noted clinical signs. …”
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Excess mortality and associated community risk factors related to hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico by Kristen N Cowan, Diego E Zavala, Erick Suarez, José A Lopez-Rodriguez, Omar Alvarez

“…Methods: Death records were obtained from Puerto Rico’s Department of Health Demographic Registry. …”
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Correlation between hemoglobin, albumin, lymphocyte, and platelet score and short-term mortality in critically ill patients by Chong Zhang, Wenjin Peng, Meng Ning, Weiru Liang, Bin Su, Tingting Guo, Kun Hu, Wei Su, Yi Chen, Yingwu Liu

“…In logistic regression, a low HALP score (HALP score < 3.56) showed higher risk of ICU death (adjusted odds ratio: 1.41, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.25 to 1.59). …”
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Fostering transformative learning and whole patient care among teaching hospital staff through artistic creation: a qualitative study by Kang-Ju Chou, Ying-Yao Cheng, Wen Cheng, Hsueh-Hua Chuang, Chun-Teng Tsai, Hua-Chang Fang

“…The most commonly represented phase focused on connection, while themes related to life and death were less frequent among non-medical participants. …”
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Prognostic Value of Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients by Gongjie Ye, Xiaodan Chen, Yinchao Zhou, Jianqing Zhou, Yongfei Song, Xiaoyong Yang, Lei Yang

“…Based on the 28-days mortality outcome, the patients were further divided into two groups: death and survival. The study incorporated various variables, including cardiovascular risk factors such as body mass index, hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, atherosclerotic burden, and medication history, as well as clinical characteristics such as APACHEⅡscore, central venous-arterial carbon dioxide difference (GAP), homocysteine, creatinine, C-reactive protein, HbAlc, and cardiac index. …”
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