Association between red cell distribution width—albumin ratio and all-cause mortality in intensive care unit patients with heart failure by Ni Li, Junling Li, Kai Wang

“…Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and multivariate adjusted Cox regression models were employed to assess the association between RAR levels and mortality outcomes within 1 year. …”
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A scoping review on peer-led interventions to improve youth mental health in low- and middle-income countries by Dana Chow, Dunstan J. Matungwa, Elizabeth R. Blackwood, Paul Pronyk, Dorothy Dow

“…Our findings suggest that peer-led models are a valuable intervention strategy that policymakers can leverage in current and future efforts to address youth mental health in LMICs. …”
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Child Night Blindness and Bitot’s Spots Are Public Health Problems in Lay Armachiho District, Central Gondar Zone, Northwest Ethiopia, 2019: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study... by Ajebew Bantihun, Kedir Abdela Gonete, Azeb Atnafu Getie, Asmamaw Atnafu

“…Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression models were used to identify associated factors. Results. …”
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Death and disappearance: Measuring racial disparities in mortality and life expectancy among people in state prisons, United States 2000-2014. by Bryan L Sykes, Ernest K Chavez, Justin D Strong

“…Ordinary least squares regression models with state and year fixed-effects are included to examine state-level factors that may explain differences in prisoner mortality rates between 2000 and 2014. …”
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Are breast cancer patients with low distress at diagnosis at risk of psychological symptoms later in their disease trajectory? Considerations for when to screen for distress by Rikke Langballe, Birgitte Mertz, Niels Kroman, Thomas Maltesen, Susanne Rosthøj, Pernille Envold Bidstrup

“…We used latent class mixed models to identify sub-groups of patients with similar development in distress, anxiety, depression, breast cancer-specific health-related quality of life, self-efficacy, and fear of recurrence over time. …”
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Epidemiology of Lumbar Puncture and the Validity of Meningeal Signs in Predicting Meningitis in Children: A Cross-sectional Study by Mehjabin, Shiji Joseph, Arun Ravi, Kalyani Pillai

“…Introduction: Predictive models have been developed to estimate the likelihood of bacterial meningitis in patients with clinical features suggestive of Central Nervous System (CNS) involvement. …”
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Antihypertensive strategies for the prevention of secondary stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis by ChunQi Wang, Ling Feng, ShuangYan Tu, Dan Wei, Rui Wang, ZhiQiang Deng, YiPing Luo

“…Risk ratios (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using random or fixed-effect models in Stata 15.0. Results The analysis included 19 RCTs encompassing 72,048 patients. …”
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Association of Serum Gamma-Glutamyltransferase with In-hospital Heart Failure in Patients with ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary I... by An-Cheng Hou, Jian-Tong Hou, Wei-Ning Zhou, Yan-Jin Wei, Zhi-Hong Ou, Cun-Fei Liu

“…Univariate and multivariate logistic regression models were used to evaluate the association between GGT and the risk of in-hospital HF in STEMI patients. …”
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Mitigating the mistreatment of childbearing women: evaluation of respectful maternity care intervention in Ethiopian hospitals by Samson Gebremedhin, Anteneh Asefa, Alison Morgan, Michelle Kermode, Hema Magge, Ephrem Tekle, Sintayehu Abebe

“…Multilevel mixed-effects Poisson modelling was used to assess the change in mistreatment score from pre-intervention to post-intervention periods.Results The number of mistreatment components experienced by women was reduced by 18% when the post-intervention group was compared with the pre-intervention group (adjusted regression coefficient (Aβ)=0.82, 95% CI 0.74 to 0.91). …”
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Activated Growth Factor From Platelets as Treatment for Diabetic Retinopathy Through Antioxidant-Oxidative Stress Pathway by Amin R, Hidayat R, Maritska Z, Putri TW

“…In vivo, diabetic retinopathy rat models were induced by streptozotocin injection and were evaluated by retinal funduscopy.Results: The mean diameter of the retinal artery was significantly reduced when activated growth factor with transforming growth factor-β concentration of 10 ng/mL or 100 ng/mL was administered (p< 0.05). …”
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Field Investigation of Wave Attenuation in a Mangrove Forest Dominated by <i>Avicennia marina</i> (Forsk.) Viern. by Xing Wei, Wenyuan Mo, Lanlan Xiong, Xin Hu, Hao Cheng

“…These findings can accumulate quantitative information for studying the influence of mangrove vegetation on wave attenuation characteristics and provide necessary basic data for modeling studies to investigate the processes contributing to the attenuation capacity of mangroves.…”
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Understanding the local-level variations in seasonality of human respiratory syncytial virus infection: a systematic analysis by Sheng Ye, Shuyu Deng, Yumeng Miao, David Torres-Fernandez, Quique Bassat, Xin Wang, You Li

“…Using the three datasets from Japan, Spain and Scotland, we applied linear regression models with clustered standard errors to explore the association of geographical, meteorological, and socio-demographic factors with the season onset and offset, respectively. …”
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Association of Hematological and Biochemical Parameters with Serological Markers of Acute Dengue Infection during the 2022 Dengue Outbreak in Nepal by Bibek Raj Bhattarai, Abhishek Mishra, Suraj Aryal, Mandira Chhusyabaga, Rajshree Bhujel

“…Platelets consistently demonstrated a higher area under the curve with increased sensitivity and specificity throughout all models, while aspartate aminotransferase (AUC = 0.811) and glucose (AUC = 0.712) demonstrated better results when single IgM positivity was observed. …”
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Energy-Accuracy Trade-Offs for Resistive In-Memory Computing Architectures by Saion K. Roy, Naresh R. Shanbhag

“…We further analyze the fundamental limits on the SNDR of magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM-), resistive random access memory (ReRAM-), and ferroelectric field effect transistor (FeFET)-based IMCs employing parameter variation and noise models that were validated against measured results from a recent MRAM-based IMC prototype in a 22 nm process. …”
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Outcomes of coronary artery aneurysms: insights from the Coronary Artery Ectasia and Aneurysm Registry (CAESAR) by Alessandro Candreva, Jessica Huwiler, Diego Gallo, Victor Schweiger, Thomas Gilhofer, Roberta Leone, Michael Würdinger, Maurizio Lodi Rizzini, Claudio Chiastra, Julia Stehli, Jonathan Michel, Alexander Gotschy, Barbara E. Stähli, Frank Ruschitzka, Umberto Morbiducci, Christian Templin

“…Time-dependent event risks for the CAE and CAA groups were assessed using Cox regression models and Kaplan-Meier curves. RESULTS: CAEs (n = 161, 57.3%) often had a multi-district distribution (45.8%), while CAAs (78, 27.8%) exhibited a single-vessel pattern (80%). …”
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The relationship between non-HDL-C/HDL-C ratio and bone mineral density: an NHANES study by Shuo Qi, Biao Peng, Zhanwang Xu, Daodi Qiu, Guoqing Tan

“…This study aims to determine the potential association between NHHR and lumbar BMD, increase awareness of the impact of lipid levels on bone health.MethodsBy utilizing data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2011 to 2018, we conducted univariate and generalized linear models (GLMs) analysis, stratified analysis, threshold effect analysis, smooth curve fitting and stratified analysis to investigate the association between NHHR and BMD. …”
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Intensive Blood Pressure Control and Diabetes Mellitus Incidence for Patients with Impaired Fasting Glucose: A Secondary Analysis of SPRINT by Beiru Lin, Xiaochuan Liu, Sichen Yao, Zhigang Pan

“…Cox proportional hazards models were used to compare the cumulative incidence of outcomes between the two BP control groups. …”
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Characteristics of nursing homes and early preventive measures associated with risk of infection from COVID-19 in Lazio region, Italy: a retrospective case–control study by Leonardo Palombi, Alessio Abbondanzieri, Stefano Orlando, Tuba Mazhari, Gennaro Cerone, Fausto Ciccacci, Giuseppe Liotta, Sandro Mancinelli, Maria Cristina Marazzi

“…In binary logistic regression models, facilities with more than 15 beds were five times more likely to experience an outbreak than facilities with less than 15 beds OR=5.60 (CI 1.61 to 25.12; p value 0.002); admitting new residents to facilities was associated with a substantially higher risk of an outbreak: 6.46 (CI 1.58 to 27.58, p value 0.004). …”
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De l’observation des écroulements aux solutions opérationnelles : près de deux décennies d’études sur les risques cryo-gravitaires dans le massif du Mont-Blanc by Florence Magnin, Ludovic Ravanel, Matan Ben-Asher, Josué Bock, Maëva Cathala, Pierre-Allain Duvillard, Pierrick Jean, Jean-Yves Josnin, Suvrat Kaushik, André Revil, Philip Deline

“…Pour améliorer cette compréhension, les recherches actuellement menées dans le MMB se concentrent sur les processus d’infiltration et de circulation de l’eau dans les parois à permafrost en combinant des approches de modélisation numérique avancées avec des études de terrain ad hoc. Le couplage de modèles thermiques et hydrogéologiques, et leur combinaison avec des méthodes géoélectriques pourraient permettre d’évaluer la distribution et la quantité d’eau ou de glace interstitielle, une information cruciale pour les applications géotechniques. …”
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Risk factors associated with human Mpox infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Jianhong Wu, Jude Dzevela Kong, James Orbinski, Chigozie Louisa Jane Ugwu, Ali Asgary, Woldegebriel Assefa Woldegerima

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