Targeted Transition Readiness Workshops for Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effects by Julie Carrier, Tziona Lugasi, Nathalie Labonté, Carole Provost, Andrea Saragosti, Claire Longpré, Bénédicte Koukoui, Émilie Régnier-Trudeau, Serge Sultan, Hallie Coltin, Sébastien Perreault, Marco Bonanno, Leandra Desjardins

“…Although not statistically significant, a clinically relevant post-workshop increase in transition readiness skills was observed for PBTS (d = 0.36) and their caregivers (d = 0.25). …”
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Detection of Urinary Tract Pathology in Some Schistosoma haematobium Infected Nigerian Adults by O. S. Onile, H. O. Awobode, V. S. Oladele, A. M. Agunloye, C. I. Anumudu

“…More bladder pathology was also seen in women than in men, although this was not statistically significant. In conclusion, there is evidence that the development of bladder pathology may be associated with S. haematobium infection.…”
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Psychosocial and Quality of Life Outcomes of Prosthetic Auricular Rehabilitation with CAD/CAM Technology by Chi Keung Tam, Colman Patrick McGrath, Samuel Mun Yin Ho, Edmond Ho Nang Pow, Henry Wai Kuen Luk, Lim Kwong Cheung

“…This preliminary study has confirmed that implant-supported auricular prosthesis could induce improvement in the psychology and QoL with statistically significant differences in the domains of the body image, social interaction, and mood. …”
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Prevalence of Dermatological Presentations of Canine Leishmaniasis in a Nonendemic Area: A Retrospective Study of 100 Dogs by Roberta Perego, Daniela Proverbio, Giada Bagnagatti De Giorgi, Eva Spada

“…In 51% of dogs the lesions were localized mainly on the pinnae, head, and pressure points; in the remaining 49% lesions were generalized. The only statistically significant association was between Retriever breed and animals with only dermatological signs (P=0.0034, OD 5.97, CI 0.996–37.933). …”
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Comparison of Endoscopic Techniques in the Management of Type I Gastric Neuroendocrine Neoplasia: A Systematic Review by Francesco Panzuto, Ludovica Magi, Gianluca Esposito, Maria Rinzivillo, Bruno Annibale

“…ESD was associated with a higher rate of complications than EMR (11.7% vs. 5.4%), but this difference was not statistically significant (p=0.17). The rates of recurrence during follow-up were 18.2% and 11.5% for EMR and ESD, respectively. …”
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In vivo bone regeneration performance of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose hydrogel-based composite bone cements in ovariectomized and ovary-intact rats: a preliminary investigation by Mosharraf Hossain, Tamima Sultana, Ji Eun Moon, Soobin Im, Je Hoon Jeong

“…However, no statistically significant differences were noted among the groups based on new bone formation, demonstrating that the injected composite cements showed similar osteogenesis effects in both OVX and NOVX rats. …”
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Division of the inferior pulmonary ligament during upper lobectomy does not improve postoperative pulmonary function: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies... by Boyang Chen, Weifeng Tang, Junhai Chen, Mingqiang Kang, Jinbiao Xie, Wu Wang, Tianbao Yang, Shijie Huang

“…The present study demonstrated that: (1) IPLD may not improve dead space and lung volume after upper lobectomy. (2) IPLD significantly increased bronchial angle change after upper lobectomy on the left side while showing a tendency to increase bronchial angle change on the right side (3) IPLD did not have a statistically significant effect on postoperative drainage time and also did not reduce postoperative pneumonia. …”
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Mobilization of Stem Cells Using G-CSF for Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Randomized Controlled, Pilot Study by Kameshwar Prasad, Amit Kumar, Jitendra Kumar Sahu, M. V. P. Srivastava, Sujata Mohanty, Rohit Bhatia, Shailesh B. Gaikwad, Achal Srivastava, Vinay Goyal, Manjari Tripathi, Chandrashekar Bal, Nalini Kant Mishra

“…No severe adverse effects were seen in rest of patients receiving G-CSF therapy arm or control arm. No statistically significant difference between intervention and control was observed in any of the scores though a trend of higher improvement of BI score is seen in the intervention group. …”
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Heritabilities of Facial Measurements and Their Latent Factors in Korean Families by Hyun-Jin Kim, Sun-Wha Im, Ganchimeg Jargal, Siwoo Lee, Jae-Hyuk Yi, Jeong-Yeon Park, Joohon Sung, Sung-Il Cho, Jong-Yeol Kim, Jong-Il Kim, Jeong-Sun Seo

“…The heritabilities of 13 facial measurements were statistically significant (p < 0.05) and ranged from 0.25 to 0.61. …”
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Indices of Abdominal Adiposity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness Test Performance in Middle-School Students by Ryan Burns, James C. Hannon, Timothy A. Brusseau, Barry Shultz, Patricia Eisenman

“…Results. There were statistically significant moderate correlations between the %BF estimations, WHtR, and cardiorespiratory fitness test scores in both genders . …”
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Factors Affecting Ultrasonographic Fetal Weight Estimation Accuracy in Low Birth Weight Newborns by Nevin Tuten, Onur Guralp, Koray Gok, Abdullah Tuten, Altay Gezer

“…The multiple linear regression analysis showed that gestational age at birth, birth weight, examination during labor, and duration between examination to delivery were statistically significant for the accurate estimation(p=0.001) Conclusions: Accurate estimation rates were lower in the term compared to the preterm delivery group, and in the SGA group compared to the AGA group. …”
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Alzheimer’s disease may develop from changes in the immune system, cell cycle, and protein processing following alterations in ribosome function by Akiko Yamakawa, Mutsumi Suganuma, Risa Mitsumori, Shumpei Niida, Kouichi Ozaki, Daichi Shigemizu

“…A total of 883 and 1169 statistically significant differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified between CN and MCI (CN-MCI) and between MCI and AD (MCI-AD), respectively. …”
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Psychological Therapies in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials by Osama Altayar, Varun Sharma, Larry J. Prokop, Amit Sood, Mohammad Hassan Murad

“…Psychological therapies were associated with improvement in IBS symptoms severity scales (SMD −0.618; 95% CI: −0.853 to −0.383), IBS-Quality of Life (SMD 0.604; 95% CI: 0.440 to 0.768), and abdominal pain (SMD −0.282; 95% CI: −0.562 to −0.001). No statistically significant effect was observed on diarrhea or constipation. …”
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Effect of tele-nutrition education on weight loss, energy intake, and fat adequacy among obese adults in Banyumas, Central Java, Indonesia by Jati Prasetyo Teguh, Nur Khoiriani Izzati, Aulia Wicaksari Sifa, Ratna Ramadhan Gumintang

“…The intervention group also experienced a significant reduction in fat adequacy (-47.5±82.5; p<0.05) but in the control group, the decrease in fat was not statistically significant (p>0.05). In conclusion, tele-nutrition education had significant benefits on changes in weight loss, levels of energy, and fat adequacy among the intervention group compared to the control group.…”
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Vitamin D Level of Children with Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit by Semra Çetinkaya, Şenay Savaş Erdeve, Erhan Ozel, Mutlu Uysal Yazici, Emine Gulsah Torun

“…Duration of diabetic ketoacidosis, length of pediatric intensive care unit stay, and hospitalization stay were longer in patients with low vitamin D levels but were not statistically significant. Conclusions: This study is the first study evaluating the association between vitamin D and diabetic ketoacidosis in Turkey. …”
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Comparison of the Effect of Two Purification Methods on the Immunogenicity of Recombinant Outer Membrane Protein H of Pasteurella multocida Serovar A:1 by Arunee Thanasarasakulpong, Pichayanut Poolperm, Weerapongse Tangjitjaroen, Thanya Varinrak, Takuo Sawada, Dirk Pfeiffer, Nattawooti Sthitmatee

“…The average number of adhesions to CEF cells was statistically significantly lower in sera from chickens immunized with rOmpH or native OmpH purified using electroelution than in those of the three other treatment groups. …”
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Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence: Computer-aided Detection of Colorectal Polyps by Yuya Hiratsuka, Takashi Hisabe, Kensei Ohtsu, Tatsuhisa Yasaka, Kazuhiro Takeda, Masaki Miyaoka, Yoichiro Ono, Takao Kanemitsu, Kentaro Imamura, Teruyuki Takeda, Satoshi Nimura, Kenshi Yao

“…Therefore, the AMR in the CADe group was statistically significantly lower than that in the non-CADe group (P=0.009). …”
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Comparable results for the Femoral Neck System and three-screw fixation in femoral neck fracture treatment by Jukka Honkanen, MD, Nora Forsbacka, MD, Ida Strengell, MD, Inari Laaksonen, MD, PhD, Keijo Mäkelä, MD, PhD, Mari Koivisto, MSc, Ville Huovinen, MD, Elina Ekman, MD, PhD

“…In comparison with fixation with cannulated screws, there was no statistically significant difference in the probability of later conversion to arthroplasty between the groups. …”
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Investigation of Homocysteine-Pathway-Related Variants in Essential Hypertension by Javed Y. Fowdar, Marta V. Lason, Attila L. Szvetko, Rodney A. Lea, Lyn R. Griffiths

“…None of the four polymorphisms was significantly associated with EH and although we found a moderate synergistic interaction between MTHFR A1298C and MTRR A66G, the association of the interaction model with EH was not statistically significant (P=0.2367). Our findings therefore suggest no individual or interactive association between four prominent Hcy pathway markers and EH.…”
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Refraction and Ocular Biometry of Preschool Children in Shanghai, China by Luoli Zhang, Xiangui He, Xiaomei Qu, Xiaofang You, Bingjie Wang, Huijing Shi, Hui Tan, Haidong Zou, Jianfeng Zhu

“…There was a statistically significant association between lower cylindrical diopters and higher spherical diopters (Spearman’s correlation: −0.21, P<0.001). …”
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