Maternal betel quid use during pregnancy and child growth: a cohort study from rural Bangladesh by Mohammad Redwanul Islam, Shaki Aktar, Jesmin Pervin, Syed Moshfiqur Rahman, Monjur Rahman, Anisur Rahman, Eva-Charlotte Ekström

“…Results Growth data were available for 501 children (mean age 4.9 years): 43.3% of them were born to non-users, 35.3% to those using prior to or less-than-daily during the survey, and 21.3% to daily users. No statistically significant associations were observed after adjusting for sex, parity, maternal height and education, and household wealth. …”
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Patterns Of HRCT In Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis At A Tertiary Care Hospital by Sohail Anwar, Arsalan Nawaz, Imran Ahmed Moinuddin, Muhammad Kashif, Asim Mumtaz, Muhammad Ijaz Bhatti

“…There was no statistically significant difference (P <0.05) observed between different patterns of HRCT and positive sputum smear. …”
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Determinants of essential newborn care for institutional births in Bangladesh: Findings from the 2019 MICS Survey by Syeda Sumaiya Efa, Syed Nafi Mahdee, Md Fuad Al Fidah

“…A p-value <0.05 was considered statistically significant (α=0.05). Results: Almost half of the participants were <20 years old (241, 59.7 %), half had secondary level education (205, 50.7 %), and one-third were from the poorest wealth quintile (123, 30.4 %). …”
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Exploring the relationship of body image with self-esteem, anxiety, and depression among female medical undergraduate students: A cross-sectional study from North India by Robin Victor, Rohit Gondwal, Priyaranjan Avinash, Bhumika Dhain, Rachit Singhania

“…All these findings were statistically significant (P < 0.05). On applying multiple regression analysis, body image was found to be significantly associated (P < 0.05) with self-esteem and depression. …”
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A proliferation-inducing ligand (APRIL) level among risk factors of ocular involvement in patients with Behçet’s disease by Rasha M. Ghaleb, Hanan S. Gad, Mohamed I. Abdallah, Zaki M. Zaki, Jehan A. Mahmoud

“…The mean level of serum APRIL levels was markedly elevated in BD patients, particularly those with ocular involvement, compared to both BD patients without ocular involvement and healthy individuals. A statistically significant association was determined between high APRIL concentration and development of uveitis, cataract, and hypopyon. …”
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Age Differences in the Manifestation of Endurance Ability of Boys Karate Athletes by Svitlana Marchenko, Bohdan Fedotov

“…The following research methods were used: study and analysis of scientific and methodological literature, pedagogical observation, testing, pedagogical experiment, and methods of mathematical statistics. Results. Statistically significant differences in the manifestation of local static power endurance of the hand muscles were observed in the groups of 7-8 and 8-9 years old (p = 0.001; p = 0.007). …”
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Urinary electrolyte parameters in sepsis-associated acute kidney injury: A prospective observational study by Rajathadri Hosur Ravikumar, Anjan Trikha, Rashmi Ramachandran, Sudip Kumar Datta, Mrudula Prasanna, Vimi Rewari

“…Furthermore, 2-hour excretion of potassium revealed a statistically significant correlation with 2-hour creatinine clearance (r = 0.62, P < 0.001). …”
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The Anterior Chamber Injection of Moxifloxacin Injection to Prevent Endophthalmitis after Cataract Surgery: A Meta-analysis by Xiao-lei Wang, Xiao-yong Huang, Zhen Wang, Wei Sun

“…The meta-analysis showed that an anterior chamber injection of moxifloxacin can prevent the incidence of endophthalmitis after cataract surgery (OR = 0.29, 95% CI (0.15, 0.56), P=0.0002), and the difference was statistically significant. There were no significant differences between the moxifloxacin injection and nonmoxifloxacin injection groups in regard to UCVA (log MAR) (SMD = −0.13, 95% CI (−0.62, 0.35), P=0.60), BCVA (log MAR) (SMD = −0.27, 95% CI (−1.28, 0.74), P=0.60), IOP (SMD = −0.04, 95% CI (−0.02, 0.01), P=0.22), corneal edema (OR = 1.03, 95% CI (0.23, 4.69), P=0.97), CCT (SMD = −0.01, 95% CI (−0.07, 0.05), P=0.77), or ECD (SMD = 0.00, 95% CI (−0.06, 0.07), P=0.94). …”
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Effect of Dexmedetomidine Added to Lidocaine Cartridge on the Level of Patient Sedation, Cooperation, and Patient and Surgeon Satisfaction during Mandibular Third-Molar Extraction... by Milad Etemadi Sh, Nasser Kaviani, Kimia Salimian, Golnaz Tajmiri

“…As a result, the level of sedation was considered statistically significant between the two groups (Wilcoxon test, P value <0.019). …”
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Effect of Implantable Collamer Lens on Anterior Segment Measurement and Intraocular Lens Power Calculation Based on IOLMaster 700 and Sirius by Xiaoyong Chen, Di Zhang, Ziyuan Liu, Yinan Liu, Hongyuan Cai, Qianru Wu, Yu Zhang

“…The difference between preoperative and postoperative anterior chamber depth (ACD), lens thickness (LT), and keratometry on the steep axis (K2) measured by IOLMaster 700 was statistically significant (p < 0.001). In 11 of 85 eyes, IOLMaster misjudged the anterior surface of the ICL as that of the lens, leading to an error in ACD and LT. …”
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Examining the association between maternal prenatal psychiatric disorders and behavioural problems among offspring in early childhood: population-based study by Amy Braddon, Rosa Alati, Kim S. Betts

“…Children exposed to maternal anxiety disorders prenatally had the greatest odds for behavioural problems (adjusted odds ratio 1.98; 95% CI 1.43–2.69). A statistically significant interaction was found between child biological gender and prenatal hospital admissions for substance use disorders, for emotional subdomains, aggression and hyperactivity/inattention. …”
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Two faces of the same coin non alcoholic fatty liver disease; with and without diabetes: Comparative clinico pathological analysis: A cross sectional observational study by Syed Mushfiq, Ghulam Nabi Yatoo, Bilal Ahmad Mir, Zubaida Rasool

“…The histological grade of steatosis and fibrosis as depicted by the mean NAS score (5.7 ± 1.2 vs 4.63 ± 0.8) was higher in diabetic NAFLD vs non-diabetic NAFLD; however, only the fibrosis stage was statistically significant between the groups (P < 0.001). Conclusion: Despite the small no of cases, we should conclude that there is a bidirectional relationship between NAFLD and DM where the progression of one increases the rate of progression of other. …”
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Strengthening the success rate of suprapubic aspiration in infants by integrating point-of-care ultrasonography guidance: A parallel-randomized clinical trial. by Sadroddin Mahdipour, Seyedeh Nastaran Seyed Saadat, Hamidreza Badeli, Afagh Hassanzadeh Rad

“…<h4>Results</h4>Results showed that the POCUS-SPA had the highest success rate in urine sampling, and a statistically significant relation was noted among the three groups (P = 0.0001). …”
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Prevalence of asthma and related symptoms among schoolchildren in Dezful city, Southwestern Iran by Mohammad Nejadhosseini, Abdolhussein Shakurnia, Abdolkarim Sheikhi, Farhad Abolnezhadian

“…The chi-square test was used to determine the relationship between variables, which were expressed as percentages, with a p‐value <0.05 considered statistically significant. Results: The overall prevalence of asthma was 4.7% (CI=3.98 - 5.54), significantly higher among 13-14-year-olds compared to the 6-7-year-old age group (6.4% vs. 3.1%, p<0.001) and in males versus females (6.9% vs. 2.5%, p<0.001). …”
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The Limited Impact of Running Performance on Football Success in the Turkish Super League by Spyridon Plakias, Sotiris Tasoulis, Angelos E. Kyranoudis, Christos Kokkotis, Serafeim Moustakidis

“…The results of the two-way ANCOVAs indicate that running performance metrics, specifically the distances covered at different intensities, even in cases where statistically significant differences are observed, have small practical significance (partial eta squared ≤ 0.03 in all cases). …”
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Social and Travel Lockdown Impact Considering Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) on Air Quality in Megacities of India: Present Benefits, Future Challenges and Way Forward by Suresh Jain, Tanya Sharma

“…The results highlighted a statistically significant decline in all the pollutants in all the megacities except for ozone. …”
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Intraoperative dynamics of interleukin-6 levels during planned coronary stenting with different approaches to analgesic sedation by D.О. Dziuba

“…When comparing operational indicators with the results that were obtained after stenting, in all groups, IL-6 indicators were lower than preoperative ones. The statistically significant difference between the studied index before surgery and 10 min after stent implantation was in the groups 2 and 3, in contrast to that in patients of the group 1: the level of IL-6 decreased to 30 % in group 2 (p = 0.005) and in group 3 (p = 0.001). …”
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Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotic Use in Patients with Schizophrenia and Criminal Justice System Encounters by Madhav P. Bhatta, Saroj Bista, Antoine C. El Khoury, Eric G. Hutzell, Neeta Tandon, Douglas Smith

“…**Results:** Overall, the risk ratio (RR) of having an encounter with the criminal justice system was significantly lower for patients treated with LAI antipsychotics 1 year after initiation of treatment compared with a similar time period prior to initiation (RR \[95% confidence interval (CI)\]: 0.74 \[0.59–0.93\]; *P*<0.01) and 2 years (0.74 \[0.62–0.88\]; *P*<0.0001). Statistically significant reductions in criminal justice system encounters after treatment than before treatment were observed in the once-monthly paliperidone palmitate (PP1M) cohort. …”
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Haralick Texture Analysis for Differentiating Suspicious Prostate Lesions from Normal Tissue in Low-Field MRI by Dang Bich Thuy Le, Ram Narayanan, Meredith Sadinski, Aleksandar Nacev, Yuling Yan, Srirama S. Venkataraman

“…The results demonstrated statistically significant differences in texture features between cancerous and non-suspicious regions. …”
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Comparative efficacy of programmed death ligand 1 inhibition and chemotherapy in advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer with combined positive score – a meta-analysis... by Zakari Shaibu, Fumeng Yang, Liu Ting, Lily Dzidula, Amina Elmi Yusuf, Zhi-hong Chen, Wei Zhu

“…Our analysis revealed no statistically significant difference in CPS values between PD-L1 inhibitors and chemotherapy groups (≥ 1 : 1.03 [95% CI: 0.86–1.24], ≤ 1 : 0.92 [95% CI: 0.77–1.11]). …”
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