Prognostics optical coherence tomography biomarker in macular oedema secondary to retinal vein occlusion by Andrea R. Silitonga, Hanna T.H. Silitonga, Rova Virgana, Iwan Sovani, Arief Kartasasmita, Erwin Iskandar, Grimaldi Ihsan, Made Indra

“…Several OCT biomarkers such as disorganisation of the retinal inner layer (DRIL) and disruption of the ellipsoid zone (EZ) and the external limiting membrane (ELM) were identified but did not show significant associations with final BCVA after multivariate analysis. Conclusion: Baseline OCT biomarkers may elucidate the extent of vision loss; however, they may not be reliable in predicting treatment outcomes.…”
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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Overweight and Obesity among Primary School Children Aged 7–17 Years in Urban Mbarara, Uganda by Benedict Twinomugisha, Abdon Marius Birungi

“…Associated factors were determined using bivariate and multivariate analysis. Findings revealed that 54.3% of participants were walking to school compared to 45.7% that were cycling/bicycling and 76.3% playing and doing household chores as opposed to 23.7% that spent their leisure time through reading and watching TV, 74.2% took more than two meals per day, and 79.4% often took vegetables and fruits compared to 20.6% that took them most of the time. …”
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Quality of Life Assessment in Diabetic Patients Using a Validated Tool in a Patient Population Visiting a Tertiary Care Center in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India by Dayanidhi Meher, Sonali Kar, Mona Pathak, Snigdha Singh

“…Univariate and subsequently multivariate analysis was performed to decide the predictors that affected quality of life. …”
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Risk factors for lymphatic leakage following radical cystectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer by Zixuan Xue, Ye Yan, Huiying Chen, Hai Mao, Tianwu Ma, Guoliang Wang, Hongxian Zhang, Lulin Ma, Jianfei Ye, Kai Hong, Fan Zhang, Shudong Zhang

“…Results Patients with lymphatic leakage had significantly higher rates of receiving extended PLND (19.7% vs. 11.4%, p = 0.008), higher total number of dissected lymph nodes (median 11 vs. 8, p < 0.001), longer hospital stays (median 13 vs. 11 days, p < 0.001), higher postoperative hypoalbuminemia rate (56.7% vs. 36.4%, p < 0.001) and higher fever rate (14.2% vs. 8.6%, p = 0.04) compared to the non-leakage group. On multivariate analysis, higher number of dissected lymph nodes (OR 3.278, 95% CI 1.135–9.471, p = 0.028) was found to be a independent risk factor for lymphatic leakage. …”
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The association between neutrophil to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio and gallstones: a cross-sectional study by Yinkang Wang, Xingchen Shang, Yinchao Zhang, Yu Zhang, Wei Shen, Qian Wu, Wenyi Du

“…Data were analyzed using a variety of statistical techniques, such as univariate analysis, multivariate analysis, and subgroup analysis. In addition, a receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was used to determine the predictive power of the index for the risk of gallstone prevalence. …”
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Association of Awake Bruxism with Tooth Wear and Occupational Stress Among Mechanical and Non-Mechanical Workers by Fatima Tu Zahra, Syeda Sameen Zehra Rizvi, Amna Riaz, Amna Nisar, Amna Khan, Naveed Ahmad

“…Using SPSS 26 univariate and Multivariate analysis was done on factory workers involved in heavy machinery presenting with awake bruxism. …”
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Association between transarterial chemoembolization refractoriness and prognosis in Chinese patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: a large retrospective cohort study by Qinxue Sun, Ziliang Wu, Xi Yin, Feng Li, Ri Liu

“…Subgroup analyses were conducted across key clinical and tumor-related characteristics.ResultsKaplan-Meier survival analysis indicated that patients classified as TACE-Refractory exhibited significantly shorter OS compared to those categorized as TACE-Non-Refractory in both the original and matched cohorts (P &lt; 0.001). Furthermore, multivariate analysis identified TACE refractoriness as a significant predictor of poorer OS, yielding an adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of 5.96 (95% CI: 3.39-10.5, P &lt; 0.001). …”
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Predictors for recurrence of chronic osteomyelitis following long bones cavity defect replacement with synthetic materials by Alexander V. Afanasyev, Svetlana A. Bozhkova, Vasily A. Artyukh

“…Differences between the groups were assessed to identify factors that affect the risk of recurrence. Multivariate analysis was performed using the classification tree method ​​to develop a scale for the comprehensive risk assessment of osteomyelitis recurrence (CRAOR). …”
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Seasonal Variation in Vitamin D in Association with Age, Inflammatory Cytokines, Anthropometric Parameters, and Lifestyle Factors in Older Adults by Leticia Elizondo-Montemayor, Elena C. Castillo, Carlos Rodríguez-López, José R. Villarreal-Calderón, Merit Gómez-Carmona, Sofia Tenorio-Martínez, Bianca Nieblas, Gerardo García-Rivas

“…We performed a multivariate analysis considering lifestyle factors, anthropometric, and inflammatory markers according to seasonal variation in Mexican healthy older adults. …”
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Prevalence of malaria and associated factors among febrile children under 15 years at Bududa General Hospital, Eastern Uganda by Benson Okongo, Daisy Asiimwe, Clinton Olong, Enoch Muwanguzi, Robert Wagubi

“…The prevalence rates of low, moderate, and high malaria parasitaemia were 46.8%, 28.0%, and 25.2%, respectively. In the multivariate analysis, the factors associated with malaria infections were older age; 1 to 5 years (p = 0.013), 6 to 10 years (p = 0.000), 11 to 15 years (p = 0.000), secondary education (p = 0.050), and no use of insecticide-treated bed nets (p = 0.002). …”
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Three-Year Outcomes of Patients with Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treated with Aflibercept under the National Health Insurance Program in Taiwan by Kang-Jung Lo, Jin-Yu Chang, Hsin-Yi Chang, Shih-Hwa Chiou, De-Kuang Hwang, Shih-Jen Chen

“…The mean number of injections was 4.63 ± 1.91 in the first year, 2.13 ± 2.2 in the second year, and 1.42 ± 1.79 in the third year. Multivariate analysis showed that final VA was significantly associated with VA at year 1, the presence of retinal pigment epithelial detachment at year 1, and receiving more than four injections in the first year. …”
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Sustained Intraocular Pressure Rise after the Treat and Extend Regimen at 3 Years: Aflibercept versus Ranibizumab by Alper Bilgic, Laurent Kodjikian, Jay Chhablani, Anand Sudhalkar, Megha Trivedi, Viraj Vasavada, Vaishali Vasavada, Shail Vasavada, Samaresh Srivastava, Deepak Bhojwani, Aditya Sudhalkar

“…The relative risk, chi-square test (with and without Yates’ correction), and univariate and multivariate analysis were used wherever appropriate. Statistical significance was set at P<0.05. …”
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Identification and Quality Evaluation of Raw and Processed Asarum Species Using Microscopy, DNA Barcoding, and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry by Guangzhe Yao, Wenjuan Ma, Xuhua Huang, Qi Jia, Jiayuan Shen, Yanxu Chang, Huizi Ouyang, Jun He

“…A gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method for simultaneous determination of 10 compounds was established to evaluate the contents of raw and processed Asarum herbs. Multivariate analysis was then applied to compare different batches of herbs based on the GC-MS data. …”
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Clinicopathological Features, Treatment Strategy, and Prognosis of Primary Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma of the Duodenum: A SEER Database Analysis by Guoliang Zheng, Yue Wang, Yan Zhao, Zhichao Zheng

“…Age, gender, Ann Arbor staging, and histological type were regarded as independent prognostic factor for the DSS by multivariate analysis (all P<0.05). Patients with <65 years, female, stage I, and FL were found to be significantly associated with good DSS. …”
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Incidence and Risk Factors of Diabetic Foot Ulcer: A Population-Based Diabetic Foot Cohort (ADFC Study)—Two-Year Follow-Up Study by Leila Yazdanpanah, Hajieh Shahbazian, Iraj Nazari, Hamid Reza Arti, Fatemeh Ahmadi, Seyed Ehsan Mohammadianinejad, Bahman Cheraghian, Saeed Hesam

“…Then variables with P value < 0.2 were tested with a multivariate analysis, using backward-elimination multiple logistic regression. …”
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Factors Influencing the Demoralisation Syndrome of Post‐Operative Patients With Breast Cancer: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Yuxin Huang, Panpan Zhuang, Aixuan Guan, Xiu Rong Ren, Lichun Xu

“…Socioeconomic factors such as age, residence, income, tumour staging, post‐operative time, hospital purpose and disease recurrence were associated with demoralisation. Multivariate analysis revealed that income, cancer stage, recurrence, quality of recovery index (QRI) and BIS were independent influencing factors for demoralisation syndrome after breast cancer surgery. …”
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Immunohistochemical Coexpression of Epithelial Cell Adhesion Molecule and Alpha-Fetoprotein in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Leonardo do Prado Lima, Carla Jorge Machado, João Bernardo Sancio Rocha Rodrigues, Leonardo de Souza Vasconcellos, Eduardo Paulino Junior, Paula Vieira Teixeira Vidigal, Vivian Resende

“…A diameter of ≤ 5 cm was associated with EPCAM+, while angiolymphatic invasion was associated with APF+. In a multivariate analysis, only tumors of ≤ 5 cm were significantly associated with EpCAM+ (OR = 8.7; 95%CI, 1.27-100.0; p = 0.022). …”
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Multifocality and Detectability of Prostate Cancer with 3-Tesla Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Correlation with Radical Prostatectomy Mapping Histopathology by Serdar Karadağ, Deniz Noyan Özlü, Ahmet Hacıislamoğlu, Ömer Yıldız, Halil Fırat Baytekin, Mithat Ekşi, Hakan Polat, Alper Bitkin, Ali İhsan Taşçı

“…According to the multivariate analysis, only tumor size and Gleason Score (GS) were independent predictors regarding the ability of mpMRI to detect tumor foci within the prostate (p<0.0001). …”
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Polymorphisms of Vitamin D Signaling Pathway Genes and Calcium-Sensing Receptor Gene in respect to Survival of Hemodialysis Patients: A Prospective Observational Study by Alicja E. Grzegorzewska, Monika K. Świderska, Adrianna Mostowska, Wojciech Warchoł, Paweł P. Jagodziński

“…Bearers of the minor allele in GC rs2298849 demonstrated higher infection/neoplasm mortality than major allele homozygotes also in multivariate analysis (HR 2.116, 95% CI 1.096–4.087, P=0.026). …”
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Impact of a Novel Oblique-Tip Papillotome for Biliary Cannulation during ERCP: A Nonrandomized Coarsened Exact Matching Study by Hiroo Imazu, Shiaw-Hooi Ho, Shoryoku Hino, Khean-Lee Goh, Mitsuhiko Moriyama, Kazuki Sumiyama, Hisao Tajiri

“…However, it was significantly lower in the OT-WGC group than in the OT-CGC group. Multivariate analysis revealed that the OT-papillotome was independently associated with less frequent rescue cannulation and a higher successful biliary cannulation rate. …”
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