Meta-analysis: p16INK4α (Cyclin Dependent Kinase Inhibitor 2A) is one of the major causes of nasopharyngeal cancer by Lao Đức Thuận, Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Thảo, Thiều Hồng Huệ, Nguyễn Trung Hiếu, Phạm Thị Thúy Ngọc, Trần Bích Thư, Lê Huyền Ái Thúy

“…Therefore, this article aims to provide further scientific evidence on the enhanced methylation status in the promoter region of CpG islands of NPC patients based on the analysis of the p16INK4α gene using statistical synthesis methods. The research results demonstrated an uneven expression frequency of the p16INK4α gene between the two patient groups and the control group. …”
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Association of tea consumption with all-cause/cardiovascular disease mortality in the chronic kidney disease population: an assessment of participation in the national cohort by Jin Li, Xing-Ling Chen, Xiao-Lu Ou-Yang, Xiao-Jiao Zhang, Yue Li, Shu-Ning Sun, Ling-Jun Wang, Zhong-Qi Yang, Shi-Hao Ni, Lu Lu

“…Consuming up to 4 cups of tea per day was significantly associated with lower all-cause mortality compared with that never drinking tea, among CKD patients at 1–2 stages [Hazard Ratio (HR) = 0.89; 95% Confidence Interval (CI) = 0.79, 0.99; p = 0.04], while the association between tea consumption and CVD mortality didn’t reach statistical significance. Dose-response effect was observed, showing that consuming up to three to five cups of tea per day was associated with mitigated risks of all-cause mortality, particularly in early CKD stages (non-linear p > 0.05). …”
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Studying the Oncolytic Activity of <i>Streptococcus pyogenes</i> Strains Against Hepatoma, Glioma, and Pancreatic Cancer <i>In Vitro</i> and <i>In Vivo</i> by Anna N. Tsapieva, Alexander N. Chernov, Nadezhda V. Duplik, Anastasiya O. Morozova, Tatiana A. Filatenkova, Mariia A. Suvorova, Elena Egidarova, Elvira S. Galimova, Kseniya Bogatireva, Alexander N. Suvorov

“…A syngeneic mouse model of hepatoma and pancreatic cancer was used to evaluate the <i>in vivo</i> oncolytic effect of GAS strains. Statistical analysis was conducted using Student’s <i>t</i>-test and Mann–Whitney U-test with GraphPad Prism software. …”
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Current Application and Meta-analysis of Traditional Chinese Medicine emotional nursing for colorectal cancer patients' psycho-somatic rehabilitation after radical surgery (中医情志护理在... by SUN Lingyun (孙凌云), PENG Rongyan (彭蓉晏), LIU Jiaxi (刘稼玺), YAN Yunzi (闫蕴孜), YANG Yufei (杨宇飞), ZHAO Nan (赵楠)

“…Meta-analysis was conducted through RevMan5. 3 statistical software. Results Totally 13 studies were included, and 1034 patients were enrolled. …”
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Standardised packaging, minimum excise tax, and RYO focussed tax rise implications for UK tobacco pricing. by Rosemary Hiscock, Nicole H Augustin, J Robert Branston, Anna B Gilmore

“…Second, the tax and standardised packaging events were sometimes too close in time to separate their consequences statistically. Third, tobacco prices may also be affected by external factors such as changes in smokers' disposable income or availability of electronic nicotine delivery systems.…”
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Grain Yield Stability Analysis of Lentil Genotypes by AMMI Indices by Payam Pezeshkpour, Reza Amiri, Iraj Karami, Amir Mirzaei

“…Stability analysis was performed using the AMMI multivariate method. Statistical analyses were performed using Metan and GGE packages of multi-environment experiments in R software. …”
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Genetic Analysis of Reciprocal Crosses of Silkworm in New Iranian Lines and Hybrids by Shahla Nematollahian, Seyed Hossein Hosseini Moghaddam, Babak Rabiei, Seyed Ziaeddin Mirhoseini

“…In this research, to identify the hybrid pairs with the least differences, the traits of 72 reciprocal hybrids (36 mating pairs) were tested by statistical methods. These results will be used for the final selection of commercial hybrids. …”
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Combined Age with Mean Decrease Rates of Total Bilirubin and MELD Score as a Novel and Simple Clinical Predictor on 90-Day Transplant-Free Mortality in Adult Patients with Acute Li... by Di Jin, Kai Kang, Bing-zhu Yan, Jian-nan Zhang, Jun-bo Zheng, Zhi-hui Wang, Di Wu, Yu-jia Tang, Xin-tong Wang, Qi-qi Lai, Yang Cao, Hong-liang Wang, Yang Gao

“…In clinical practice, different patients underwent different times of PE, and thus, mean decrease rates of total bilirubin and MELD score and mean increase rate of prothrombin activity were obtained for further statistical analysis. Results. A total of 73 adult patients with ALF undergoing 204 PE were included in our retrospective study, and their transplant-free mortality at discharge and 90 days was 6.85% (5/73) and 31.51% (23/73), respectively. …”
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Determination of the physicochemical and microbiological quality of buffalo milk in the south of lake Maracaibo by Luis Álvarez, Alexis Zambrano, Datty Rosales-Zambrano

“…A completely randomized experimental design was carried out, where the parameters evaluated were the mean (x̄), the standard deviation (S), coefficient of variation (CV), Tukey’s post hoc tests using the statistical program Minitab 15 V. 2021. The analyses physicochemical tests were performed on buffalo milk, where the parameters of acidity, fat, solid non-fat (SNG), lactose, protein, and cryoscopy were evaluated in the milk. …”
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Evaluating the Impact of Simulated Patients on Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes of Laypeople Following a Basic First Aid Course: Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

“…Hypothesis: The null hypothesis of this research is that the use of simulated patients during basic first aid training does not result in a statistically significant change in knowledge, skills and self-efficacy concerning the first aid topics for which a simulated patient is used. …”
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A Meta-analysis of Sanyrene in preventing radiation dermatitis of head and neck tumor (赛肤润预防头颈部肿瘤放射性皮炎的Meta分析) by ZHENG Ya (郑雅), ZENG Guqing (曾谷清), PENG Lingying (彭玲英), NI Xiaoyan (倪晓燕), WANG Aoyi (王傲一), PAN Rongjia (潘荣佳), NIAN Fang (年芳)

“…Meta analysis results showed that the total incidence of radioactive dermatitis in the intervention group was statistically significant compared with the control group ［OR=0. 24, 95%CI(0. 15, 0. 37), P<0. 05］. …”
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Response of Agronomic Characteristics and Yield of Garlic Plant (Allium sativum L.) to Different Levels of Planting Density and Nutrition by Hadi khavari, Masoud Rafiee

“…The results also demonstrated that the main effects of density and nutrition, as well as their interaction, positively and statistically significantly influenced garlic weight and economic yield at the p ≤ 0.001 level. …”
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Selection of Superior Sugar Beet Genotypes using the Analysis of Quantitative and Qualitative Traits by Mahdi Hassani, Ali Saremirad, Hamed Mansouri

“…The corrected trait averages were then employed for subsequent statistical analyses. Results: The results obtained from the variance analysis of various evaluated traits, such as white sugar yield, root yield, sugar content, sodium, potassium, and alpha-amino nitrogen, revealed that the adjusted block effect non-significantly influenced all the studied traits. …”
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Urban monitoring, evaluation and application of COVID-19 listed vaccine effectiveness: a health code blockchain study by Tao Wang, Hongyan Li, Chaoqun Li, Zheheng Li

“…This study uses this system and statistical simulation to analyse three urban application scenarios, namely evaluating the vaccination rate (VR) and determining the optimal vaccination strategy, evaluating herd immunity and monitoring the VE on variant.Main outcome measures The primary outcomes first establish an urban COVID-19 listed VE monitoring, evaluation and application system by using the health code blockchain, combined with the dynamic monitoring model of VE, the evaluation index system of VE and the monitoring and evaluation system of personal privacy information use, and then three measures are analysed in urban simulation: one is to take the index reflecting urban population mobility as the weight to calculate the comprehensive VR, the second is to calculate the comprehensive basic reproduction number (R) in the presence of asymptomatic persons, the third is to compare the difference between the observed effectiveness and the true effectiveness of listed vaccines under virus variation.Results Combining this system and simulation, this study finds: (1) The comprehensive VR, which is weighted to reflect urban population mobility, is more accurate than the simple VR which does not take into account urban population mobility. …”
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Practice and effective analysis of continuous quality improvement in nosocomial infection prevention and control (医院感染防控持续质量改进及效果) by XU Xu (徐旭), REN Guqun (任顾群), SU Yuqiang (苏玉强), XU Yuanle (许远乐), WANG Yuena (王岳娜)

“…Results The incidence of incision infection, skin infection, urinary system infection and respiratory system infection in the observation group were significantly lower than those in the control group, and the difference between the groups was statistically significant (P < 0. 05). In 2020, the scores of hospital infection knowledge mastery among medical and nursing staffs in our hospital, such as safety protection, aseptic operation and occupational exposure, were significantly lower than those in 2021, with a significant difference (P < 0. 01). …”
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A study on the status quo and influencing factors of ICU nurses’ knowledge, attitude and practice towards physical restraints in general hospitals in Guangxi (广西壮族自治区ICU护士实施身体约束知信行... by MA Qiang (马强), LI Gaoye (李高叶), LIAO Tingting (廖婷婷), YU Qin (玉琴), HUANG Xiaobo (黄晓波), WEI Xiu (韦秀), XIE Haijuan (谢海娟)

“…Results The total score and scores of knowledge dimension, attitude dimension, and behavior dimension were (135. 08±18. 07), (68. 70±9. 49), (20. 73±4. 82), (45. 66±8. 95), respectively, indicating a low-to-medium level awareness of physical restraints among ICU nurses in general hospitals in Guangxi. There were statistically significant differences in the level of knowledge, attitude and practice of ICU nurses with different hospital levels, ICU working years, and ICU specialist qualifications (P＜0. 05). …”
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Pathways Through Which Green Exposure Type Influences Cardiovascular Diseases Mortality in Shanghai, China by Jianzhong HUANG, Yanting XU, Lan WANG, Zhouqian HE

“…Notably, direct associations between PM2.5 levels, extreme heat days, heat waves, and CVDs mortality are not statistically significant. Specifically, visibility of street greenery and vegetation coverage were shown to reduce CVDs mortality by promoting higher levels of physical activity among residents. …”
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A meta-analysis of program for the reduction of physical restraint use in intensive care units in China (国内ICU患者缩减身体约束行动实施效果的Meta分析) by CHEN Zetao (陈泽涛), LI Xiaobing (李晓彬), SHI Yu (石宇), ZHANG Yanfei (张雁飞), YANG Wencai (杨文才), SHAN Miaohang (单妙航)

“…Two researchers independently screened literature, extracted data, assessed the risk of bias, and performed statistical analysis using RevMan 5. 4 software. Results A total of 13 articles were included, covering 3209 ICU patients. …”
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AlphaFold-based AI docking reveals AMPK/SIRT1-TFEB pathway modulation by traditional Chinese medicine in metabolic-associated fatty liver disease by Lulu Zhang, Yi Zheng, Mingyan Shao, Aiping Chen, Meiyi Liu, Wenlong Sun, Tianxing Li, Yini Fang, Yang Dong, Shipeng Zhao, Hui Luo, Juan Feng, Qi Wang, Lingru Li, Yanfei Zheng

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Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine decoction cupping combined with wet compress therapy in the treatment of hemiplegia caused by stroke (中药水罐联合溻渍法治疗中风偏瘫临床疗效观察)... by YANG Juhang (杨俊行), HU Zhe (胡哲), SU Rong (苏容), WANG Xin (王欣), ZHAO Ning (赵宁)

“…In comparison between groups, the FMA and MBI scores of patients in group C after treatment were significantly higher than those in groups A and B (t=-3. 871, P＜0. 001; t=-5. 646, P＜0. 001; t=-3. 661, P＜0. 001; t=-2. 131, P=0. 036), while the recovery of muscle strength on the affected side of group C was not statistically different from that in groups A and B (P>0. 05). …”
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