CT Texture Analysis in Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing CT-Guided Bone Biopsy: Correlations With Histopathology by Silvio Wermelskirchen, Jakob Leonhardi, Anne-Kathrin Höhn, Georg Osterhoff, Nikolas Schopow, Susanne Briest, Timm Denecke, Hans-Jonas Meyer

“…For the Her 2 discrimination, only 3 parameters reached statistical significance, “S(4,-4)SumOfSqs” with a P -value of .01. …”
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B Cell Activation, Differentiation, and Their Potential Molecular Mechanisms in Osteoarthritic Synovial Tissue by Lu P, Li Y, Yang S, Yao H, Tu B, Ning R

“…The proportion of CD38+ B cells also decreased with increasing severity, although this change lacked statistical significance. Immunofluorescence staining of CD19+ and CD86+ cells in mice indicated increased expression with greater OA severity. …”
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Stunting and Its Determinants among Children Aged 6–59 Months in Northern Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Shiferaw Abeway, Bereket Gebremichael, Rajalakshmi Murugan, Masresha Assefa, Yohannes Mehretie Adinew

“…Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression analyses were also carried out to identify predictors of stunting. Statistical significance was declared at p<0.05 and 95% CI. …”
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Factors Influencing the Pregnancy Outcome of Intrauterine Insemination and Follow-Up Treatment by Xuan Huang, Qin Sun, Xu Tang, Meiling Li, Cheng Zhou, Xi Cheng, Bing Yao, Li Chen

“…P <0.05 was considered statistical significance. Results: There were statistically significant differences in female AMH, EMT and duration of OS between the two groups. …”
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Is the treatment of ankle osteoarthritis changing over time in Italy? Analysis of temporal trends for fusion and arthroplasty in a population-based study from 2001 to 2022 on the N... by Adriano Cuccu, Elena Manuela Samaila, Enrico Ciminello, Umberto Alfieri Montrasio, Fabrizio Cortese, Stefania Ceccarelli, Tiziana Falcone, Marina Torre

“…Surgical volumes, trends over time, classes of hospital activity volume, sex and age of patients, and population incidence rates were described. The statistical significance of time series trends was assessed by the Cox–Stuart test with randomness as a null hypothesis. …”
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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Self-Reported Substance Use among Patients with Mental Illness in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Analytical Study by Kilaye Karino, Joel S. Ambikile, Masunga K. Iseselo

“…The study employed bivariate and multiple logistic regression analyses to investigate the association between patient characteristics and self-reported substance use, with statistical significance set at a p value of < 0.05. Results. …”
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Prevalence of neonatal sepsis and associated factors among neonates admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit at Lira Regional Referral Hospital, Northern Uganda. by Brendah Katugume, JohnBaptist Muzungu, Nelson Okello, Eustes Kigongo, Deborah Andrinar Namutebi

“…Logistic regression analysis was used to show associations and the statistical significance was declared at a P value of 0.05 after multivariable analysis.…”
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Harmony in healthcare: recommended infant feeding practices and associated factors among HIV positive mothers in Eastern Ethiopian hospitals by Muluken Yigezu, Natnael Kebede

“…Variables with a p-value < 0.25 in univariable logistic regression analysis were considered for multivariable logistic regression analysis, and statistical significance was determined at a P-value < 0.05 with a 95% confidence interval. …”
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Inflammatory Biomarkers in Cervical Cancer Treated with Chemoradiotherapy by Timur Koca, Nurcihan Gocen Vardar, Rahmi Atıl Aksoy, Aylin Fidan Korcum

“…Multivariate analysis revealed CRP (HR 3.41, 95% CI 1.5 to 7.7, <i>p</i> = 0.003) and ECOG PS (HR 4.78, 95% CI 1.3 to 17.3, <i>p</i> = 0.01) predictive of OS, with PIV approaching statistical significance (HR 2.56, 95% CI 0.8 to 7.6, <i>p</i> = 0.09). …”
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Magnitude of immediate postpartum anaemia and associated factors among mothers at selected public hospitals in North Shoa Zone, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional s... by Genanew Nigusu, Negash Wakgari, Mistiwat Abebe, Meseret Moroda

“…Bivariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed to examine associations between variables. Statistical significance was declared at a p-value of &lt;0.05, and the adjusted odds ratio (AOR) with a 95% CI was used to determine the strength of associations.Setting A facility based at three public hospitals in the North Shoa Zone from 25 August to 26 October 2022.Participants The study was conducted among 341 postpartum mothers.Outcome The primary outcome of the study was the magnitude of immediate postpartum anaemia and factors associated with it.Results The magnitude of immediate postpartum anaemia was 28.4% (95% CI (23.5 to 33.3). …”
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Mechanical Thrombectomy in Medium Vessels Occlusion (MeVOs): An Institutional Experience with M2 Divisions of Middle Cerebral Artery by Bheru Dan Charan, Shailesh B Gaikwad, Savyasachi Jain, Ajay Garg, Leve Joseph Devarajan Sebastian, M V Padma Srivastava, Rohit Bhatia, Awadh Kishore Pandit, Shashank Sarad Kale

“…None of the predictors assessed reached statistical significance.Conclusions: Mechanical thrombectomy demonstrates favourable efficacy and recanalisation rates in cases of M2 MCA division occlusion. …”
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The effect of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) application on airway problems in pediatric patients with subglottic stenosis who undergo balloon dilatation by Zeliha Tuncel, Şenay Göksu, Özlem Deligöz, Kemal Tolga Saracoglu, Abdulatif Albasha, Bushra M. Abdallah, Ayten Saracoglu

“…Despite lacking statistical significance, the CPAP group had reduced odds of developing bronchospasm, tracheal secretion, need for intensive care, and tracheostomy, but higher odds of requiring intubation when compared to the controls. …”
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Prognostic Value of Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients by Gongjie Ye, Xiaodan Chen, Yinchao Zhou, Jianqing Zhou, Yongfei Song, Xiaoyong Yang, Lei Yang

“…CD34+/CD133+/KDR+ cells retained statistical significance in Cox regression models even after controlling for clinical variables (HR: 6.258 × 10−10 and P=0.001). …”
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Differences in Clinicopathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma between Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism by Yuan Liu, Siyi Guo, Shaowei Sang, Jinbo Liu, Lin Qi, Bin Lv, Xiaoli Zhang

“…Moreover, 36.84% (7/19) of the PTC patients in asymptomatic group showed multifocality, which was much higher than 14.29% (1/7) in the symptomatic group; however, no statistical significance was found (p=0.24). Conclusions. The concomitant PTC in asymptomatic PHPT patients showed a higher rate of microscopic extrathyroidal invasion when compared to symptomatic PHPT patients. …”
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Knowledge regarding human monkeypox among a sample of undergraduate and post-graduate students from selected tertiary institutions in Bangladesh: An online-based cross-sectional st... by Md Hasan Al Banna, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Trisha Mallick, Nahidur Rahman, Mst Sadia Sultana, Humayra Alam Mouly, Najim Z Alshahrani, Nargees Akter, Tareq Mahmud, Susmita Hossain, Anannya Sheikh, Ashish Biswas, Sumaia Sahrin, Md Nazmul Hassan, Md Shafiqul Islam Khan

“…Students who received information about mpox during their education were more knowledgeable compared to those who had not, with statistical significance occurring at 10th (β = 3.711), 25th (β = 6.656), 50th (β = 5.75), 75th (β = 3.404) and 90th (β = 2.592) quantiles.…”
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Antenatal depression among pregnant women in Ethiopia: An umbrella review. by Mesfin Abebe, Yordanos Sisay Asgedom, Amanuel Yosef Gebrekidan, Tsion Mulat Tebeje

“…Pooled effect sizes were calculated based on the pooled prevalence of antenatal depression and odds ratios for associated factors, with a 95% confidence interval indicating statistical significance.<h4>Results</h4>This umbrella review encompassed 50 primary studies from five systematic reviews and meta-analyses, involving a total of 25,233 pregnant women. …”
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Heliox Improves Carbon Dioxide Removal during Lung Protective Mechanical Ventilation by Charlotte J. Beurskens, Daniel Brevoord, Wim K. Lagrand, Walter M. van den Bergh, Margreeth B. Vroom, Benedikt Preckel, Janneke Horn, Nicole P. Juffermans

“…Statistics was by Bonferroni post-hoc correction with statistical significance set at P<0.017. Results. During heliox ventilation, respiratory rate decreased (25±4 versus 23±5 breaths min−1, P=0.010). …”
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Using apparent diffusion coefficient maps and radiomics to predict pathological grade in upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma by Rile Nai, Kexin Wang, Shuai Ma, Zuqiang Xi, Yaofeng Zhang, Xiaodong Zhang, Xiaoying Wang

“…Compared with the mean ADC values, the ADC-based radiomics model, which incorporates features such as log-sigma-1-0-mm-3D_glcm_ClusterProminence and wavelet-LLL_firstorder_10Percentile, obtained a significantly greater AUC in the training set (AUC: 1.000, 95% CI: 1.000–1.000, p < 0.001), and a trend towards statistical significance in the test set (AUC: 0.786, 95% CI: 0.651–0.921, p = 0.071). …”
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Peripheral lncRNA NEAT-1, miR374b-5p, and IL6 panel to guide in COVID-19 patients' diagnosis and prognosis. by Marwa A Ali, Olfat G Shaker, Eman M Ezzat, El Shaimaa Gomaa Ali, Mahmoud I Aboelor, Mona I Ahmed, Essam A Hassan, Doaa Y Ali, Heba Mostafa Ahmed, Abeer A Khalefa, Rasha A Hussein, Ahmed Fathy Elkhateeb, Esam Ali Mohamed

“…<h4>Results</h4>Our results showed statistical significance with lower levels of (NEAT-1) [ median (range) = 0.08 (0.001-0.602)], and (miR374b-5p) [ median (range) = 0.14 (.01-7.16)] while higher IL-6 levels [ median (range) = 41.3 (7.2-654) pg/ml] when compared to controls with p-value <0.001. …”
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Office BP measurement using conical cuffs in children and adolescents with obesity by Kleo Evripidou, Julio Alvarez-Pitti, Ana De Blas-Zapata, Athanasia Chainoglou, Ioannis Goulas, Karel Herberigs, Gilad Hamdani, Stella Stabouli

“…There was no statistical significance in BP levels measured by cylindrical compared to conical cuffs (mean difference cylindrical-conical cuff was −0.22[Formula: see text]6.55 mmHg for SBP, −0.02[Formula: see text]0.81 for SBP z-score, −0.70[Formula: see text]4.95 mmHg for DBP, and −0.06[Formula: see text]0.44 for DBP z-score). …”
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