Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Bacterial Uropathogens Isolated from Pediatric Patients at Yekatit 12 Hospital Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Yamirot Merga Duffa, Kumera Terfa Kitila, Dereje Mamuye Gebretsadik, Adane Bitew

“…Frequency distribution tables were used to describe the findings. Logistical regression was also used to estimate crude odds ratio (COR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) of positive responses to the different variables, and P values less than 0.05 were taken as statistically significant. …”
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The burden of acute respiratory infection attributable to fine particulate matter brought by dust storms among children under 5 years of age in low- and middle-income countries by Hong Lu, Mingkun Tong, Ruohan Wang, Ning Kang, Xueqiu Ni, Jianyu Deng, Jiajianghui Li, Pengfei Li, Tianjia Guan, Tong Zhu, Tao Xue

“…We analyzed the linear association between the annual average dust PM2.5 concentration and the odds of U5-ARI with logistic regression and fixed effects after adjusting for multiple covariates. …”
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Type III procollagen peptide level can indicate liver dysfunction associated with volume overload in acute heart failure by Akihiro Shirakabe, Hirotake Okazaki, Masato Matsushita, Yusaku Shibata, Shota Shigihara, Suguru Nishigoori, Tomofumi Sawatani, Nozomi Sasamoto, Kazutaka Kiuchi, Masanori Atsukawa, Norio Itokawa, Taeang Arai, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Kuniya Asai

“…A Kaplan–Meier curve analysis showed that prognoses, including all‐cause mortality and heart failure events within 365 days, were significantly (P < 0.001) worse in the high‐P3P group when compared with the mid‐P3P and low‐P3P groups. A multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that high PVS (Q4, odds ratio [OR]: 4.702, 95% CI: 2.012–20.989, P < 0.001), high fibrosis‐4 index (Q4, OR: 2.627, 95% CI: 1.311–5.261, P = 0.006), and low estimated glomerular filtration rate per 10 mL/min/1.73 m2 decrease (OR: 1.996, 95% CI: 1.718–2.326, P < 0.001) were associated with high P3P values. …”
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Study on the status of liver function abnormalities and its related factors in patients with severe mental disorders in Shanghai community by ZHANG Yixuan, CHEN Chunmei, ZHU Youwei, ZHU Yi, HE Siyuan, LIU Yanli, WANG Na, CAI Jun, XIE Bin, ZHANG Weibo

“…Abnormalities in liver function were determined by abnormalities in either ALT or TBil. Binary logistic regression analysis was used for multivariate analysis of the status of abnormal liver function, and the effects of mental disorder types and medication status on liver function were analyzed, simultaneously.ResultsA total of 7 251 patients with SMD were finally included into this study, and the rate of liver function abnormality was 22.7%, of which 694 cases (9.6%) had ALT abnormality and 1 084 cases (14.9%) had TBil abnormality. …”
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Surgeons are apprehensive to use DCD lungs despite similar post-transplant outcomes: A 20-year UNOS retrospective analysis by J. Sam Meyer, MSc, Oliver K. Jawitz, MD, MHS, Yury Peysakhovich, MD, Dan Aravot, MD, Matthew G. Hartwig, MD, MHS, Yaron D. Barac, MD, PhD

“…Associated characteristics of potential DCD and DBD lung donors were compared, and a multivariable logistic regression model with ≥1 transplanted lung was constructed to evaluate the independent effects of important predictors. …”
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A Predictive Model for Pulmonary Aspergillosis in ICU Patients: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study by Li Y, Ren X, Wang Q, Shen S, Li Y, Qian X, Tang Y, Jia J, Zhang H, Ding J, Song Y, Zhang S, Wang S, Xu Y, Jiang Y, He X, Dai M, Zhong L, Xiong Y, Pan Y, Wang M, Shao H, Cai H, Huang L, Wang H

“…In the training cohort, potential influencing factors were identified through univariate analysis, clinical practice, and existing literature, and a risk prediction model was constructed using multivariate logistic regression analysis. The performance of this model was then assessed and validated in the validation cohort.Results: Out of 1737 patients initially included in the study, 898 were ultimately analyzed, of which 100 (11%) were diagnosed with IPA. …”
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Associations of sedentary time, sleep duration and physical exercise with multimorbidity among older adults in Shanghai, China: a cross-sectional study based on national physical f... by Kai Li, Jingjing Wang, Yuqin Rao, Fanhui Zheng, Ying Chen, Bo Zhai, Jintao Hong, Dao Wang, Chen Wang, Bao Liu

“…Methods In a cross-sectional sample of older adults (aged 60–79) from the Fifth National Physical Fitness Surveillance in Shanghai, latent class analysis (LCA) was used to identify multimorbidity patterns among 9 chronic diseases. Multinomial logistic regression was performed to analyze the associations between sedentary time, sleep duration, physical exercise, and the different multimorbidity patterns. …”
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Analysis of the current situation and risk factors of frailty in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes (老年2型糖尿病患者衰弱现状及影响因素分析) by LI Li (李莉), YING Yanping (应燕萍)

“…方法 通过采用方便抽样法, 选择广西医科大学第一附属医院内分泌科收治的120名老年患者作为研究对象, 收集社会人口学资料、生活方式、疾病相关资料等数据, 并使用Fried衰弱量表对患者的衰弱状况进行评估, 并将其分为衰弱组和非衰弱组, 采用微型营养评定简表、简版老年抑郁量表调查患者的营养状况、抑郁情况。采用单因素、多因素Logistic回归分析探究老年2型糖尿病患者衰弱的影响因素。结果 老年2型糖尿病患者衰弱的发生率为22. 50% (27/120)。…”
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Treatment failure and drug resistance among the newly reported HIV-infected patients in Taizhou City from 2020 to 2022 by LI Yan, WU Xuanhe, SHI Lu, LI Guixia, WANG Shanling, WANG Yating, CHEN Tailin, WANG Tingting, XIE Yali, SHEN Weiwei, LIN Haijiang, CHEN Xiaoxiao, HE Na

“…ObjectiveTo analyze the failure of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and drug resistance characteristics among the newly reported HIV-infected patients in Taizhou City from 2020 to 2022.MethodsBlood samples, sociodemographic characteristics and ART information of the newly reported HIV-infected patients who received ART for ≥6 months in Taizhou City from 2020 to 2022 were collected for the detection of recent infections and HIV-1 genotypic drug resistance. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the influencing factors of treatment failure. …”
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Cutin formation in tomato is controlled by a multipartite module of synergistic and antagonistic transcription factors by Yuan Shi, Changhao Deng, Xiangyin Lu, Yan Wang, Yaowen Pan, Deding Su, Wang Lu, Yuxiang Lin, Rui Li, Junnan Han, Yanwei Hao, Yi Chen, Ghassen Abid, Julien Pirrello, Mondher Bouzayen, Yudong Liu, Zhengguo Li, Baowen Huang

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Association of extreme high temperature weather with non-accidental deaths among residents of Yichang city: a time-stratified case-crossover analysis by Xiaoyan MING, Yang HAN, Zhongcheng YANG, Zaoxia WANG, Shuguang XIE, Chuangang FAN

“…A time-stratified case-crossover design with a conditional logistic regression model was used to analyze the effects of nine extreme high temperature events on the risk of non-accidental death among Yichang residents. …”
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Association between dietary patterns and glycemic control in type II diabetes mellitus patients by Ye Qiang, Xingchen Lu, Yuchao Zhang

“…Methods: Main dietary patterns were identified using the sparse principal components analysis (SPCA). Logistic regression analysis was applied to investigate the association between each dietary pattern and the risk of hyperglycemia with odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). …”
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Investigate of preoperative hope level and analysis of influencing factors in elderly patients with femoral neck fracture (老年股骨颈骨折患者术前希望水平及影响因素分析)... by ZHANG Caixia (张彩侠), LI A Min (李阿敏), PAN Rusheng (潘如胜), LI Ling (李玲), CHE Xia (车侠)

“…方法 采用方便抽样法, 选取2020年1月—2021年12月医院骨科收治符合条件的年龄≥65岁206例老年股骨颈骨折术前的患者为研究对象, 采用一般资料调查表、Herth希望量表(HHI)、一般自我效能感量表(GSES)进行问卷调查, 采用非条件Logistic回归分析找出患者术前希望水平的影响因素。结果 206例老年股骨颈骨折患者术前HHI量表总分(31. 73±9. 68)分; 各维度得分情况为: 对现实和未来的积极态度(9. 14±1. 10)分、采取积极的行动(11. 69±5. 36)分、与他人保持亲密的关系(10. 89±3. 22)分; 其中高希望水平63(30. 58%)例, 中等希望水平131(63. 59%)例, 低希望水平12(5. 83%)例。…”
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Comparative analysis of C-Reactive protein levels among Non-comorbid, Comorbid, and Multimorbid Hospitalized COVID-19 patients by Maria Shoukat, Haseeb Khan, Moona Nazish, Abdur Rehman, Sheharyar Raashid, Saad Ahmed, Wajid Munir, Abdulwahed Fahad Alrefaei, Massab Umair, Muhammad Osama Bin Abid, Nasim Akhtar, Wajid Zaman, Malik Badshah

“…The Cox regression analysis showed that there is a considerable association of CRP level with the expected length of hospitalization, each 1-unit increase in CRP levels was associated with a 0.6% increase in extended stay risk (hazard ratio = 1.006, 95% CI: 1.004–1.008, p < 0.001). Furthermore, the logistic regression analysis performed on CRP levels that was monitored on the first day of hospitalization, revealed that there was a 2.7% increase in mortality odds with each unit increase in CRP (odds ratio = 1.027, 95% CI: 1.022–1.033, p < 0.001), which suggest CRP as a potential mortality predictor. …”
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Prevalence and determinants of home delivery among pregnant women in Somaliland: Insights from SLDHS 2020 data by Hodo Abdikarim, Abdisalam Hassan Muse, Mukhtar Abdi Hassan, Yahye Hassan Muse

“…Design: A cross-sectional study design was employed, utilizing data from a nationally representative sample of 3250 women in Somaliland. A multivariate logistic regression analysis was conducted to examine the factors influencing the likelihood of home delivery. …”
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Development of a clinical decision support tool for Primary care Management of lower Urinary tract Symptoms in men: the PriMUS study by Adrian Edwards, Ridhi Agarwal, Janine Bates, Alison Bray, Sarah Milosevic, Emma Thomas-Jones, Michael Drinnan, Marcus Drake, Peter Michell, Bethan Pell, Haroon Ahmed, Natalie Joseph-Williams, Kerenza Hood, Yemisi Takwoingi, Chris Harding

“…Statistical analysis Three separate logistic regression models generated with index test variables to predict the presence of bladder outlet obstruction, detrusor overactivity, detrusor underactivity conditions in men with lower urinary tract symptoms. …”
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Protecting the Autonomy of Patients with Severe Mental Illness Through Psychiatric Advance Directive Peer-Facilitation by Nicholas Karasik

“…Still, only one can be effectively addressed by peer-support specialists: resource implications to providers and administrators.[14] In one study, 71 percent of administrators and 52 percent of clinicians believed that a shortage of time would prevent adequate facilitation of PAD completion among those with SMI.[15] Logistical difficulties, such as incorporation into routine documentation and making them easily accessible, were mentioned by 25 percent of respondents in another study.[16] Professionals should take clinical burdens seriously since they can impact care and patient outcomes. …”
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