Diagnosis and management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with ischaemic heart disease and acute coronary syndromes - a review of evidence and recommendations by Muhammad Usman Shah, Muhammad Usman Shah, Alun Roebuck, Bala Srinivasan, Joanna Kate Ward, Paul Edward Squires, Claire Elizabeth Hills, Kelvin Lee, Kelvin Lee

“…However, a significant proportion of individuals who meet the criteria for the diagnosis of diabetes remain undiagnosed, representing missed opportunities for early intervention. This may result in a prolonged period of untreated hyperglycaemia, which can result resulting in significant further microvascular and macrovascular complications. …”
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Innovations that helped with accessing and delivering primary care for infants and young children during COVID-19 by Kimberley McFadden, Helen Valkanas, Leslie Rourke, Patricia Li, Imaan Bayoumi

“…While many studies have explored these barriers, it is important to understand how primary care adapted to ensure these crucial early-years appointments were not missed throughout the pandemic. The objective of this study, therefore, was to discover innovative programs or services that were used, and suggestions for programs or services that could have been implemented, to facilitate delivery of, and access to, primary care for young children during the COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020-May 2023). …”
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Denture use and a slower rate of cognitive decline among older adults with partial tooth loss in China: A 10‐year prospective cohort study by Xiang Qi, Zheng Zhu, Yaolin Pei, Bei Wu

“…Results remained consistent across subgroups of dentate participants with various degrees of missing teeth. Conclusions Denture use may help protect against cognitive decline in older adults with partial tooth loss. …”
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Investigation of Information Overload in Electronic Health Records: Protocol for Usability Study by Saif Khairat, Jennifer Morelli, Marcella H Boynton, Thomas Bice, Jeffrey A Gold, Shannon S Carson

“… BackgroundElectronic health records (EHRs) have been associated with information overload, causing providers to miss critical information, make errors, and delay care. …”
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Spatiotemporal air quality prediction using stochastic advection–diffusion model for multimodal data fusion by Byeongseong Choi, Michelle A Hummel

“…Data fusion approaches that integrate data from multiple sources can complement existing observation networks and reveal insights that single-sensor data might miss to better manage pollutant exposure risks. However, data fusion approaches face multiple challenges, including incompatible measurement units, varying data resolutions, and differing levels of uncertainty. …”
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Analytical Accuracy of a Continuous Glucose Monitor in Adult Diabetic KetoacidosisTake-Home Points by Nathan L. Haas, MD, Lynn Ang, MD, Nazanene H. Esfandiari, MD, Ahsan M. Khan, MBBS, James A. Cranford, PhD, Ashley Cohen, MD, Jordan Sell, MD, Mostafa Abdel-Hamid, MD, Kevin E. Romanchik, BSN, RN, Frederick K. Korley, MD, PhD

“…Interpretation: In this study, CGM provided accurate measurements of blood glucose and identified missed opportunities for earlier intervention in adults with DKA. …”
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Solar Energy Forecasting Framework Using Prophet Based Machine Learning Model: An Opportunity to Explore Solar Energy Potential in Muscat Oman by Mazhar Baloch, Mohamed Shaik Honnurvali, Adnan Kabbani, Touqeer Ahmed, Sohaib Tahir Chauhdary, Muhammad Salman Saeed

“…The proposed framework includes a data preprocessing stage, where the missing entries in the acquired data are imputed using the mean value imputation method. …”
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Body Mass Index at Pediatric Leukemia Diagnosis and the Risks of Relapse and Mortality: Findings from a Single Institution and Meta-analysis by Ashleigh M. Saenz, Stacie Stapleton, Raquel G. Hernandez, Greg A. Hale, Neil A. Goldenberg, Skai Schwartz, Ernest K. Amankwah

“…The study included 181 pediatric leukemia patients. Sporadic missing data were multiply imputed, and hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were calculated using Cox proportional hazard. …”
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Ocean warming, icebergs, and productivity in the Gulf of Alaska during the Last Interglacial by Maria Luisa Sánchez Montes, Maria Luisa Sánchez Montes, Erin L. McClymont, Hirofumi Asahi, Joseph Stoner, Christopher M. Moy, Sophie Gleghorn, Jerry M. Lloyd

“…Our sea surface temperature (SST) results show that marine isotope stages (MISs) 4 and 6 are the coldest and freshest glacials and MIS 5 and MIS 1 are the warmest and saltiest interglacials. …”
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Quadriceps and Hamstrings Activation Peaks Earlier as Athletes Repeatedly Hop, but There are Differences Depending on ACL Reconstruction Technique. by Einar Einarsson, Olivia Barbosa, Magnus Kjartan Gislason, Kristin Briem, Argyro Kotsifaki, Rodney Whiteley

“… # Conclusion Repeated hop testing revealed quadriceps and hamstring activation differences within ACLR athletes, and compared to healthy controls, that would be missed with single hop tests. # Level of evidence 3…”
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Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Painful Temporomandibular Disorder in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos by Anne E. Sanders, Jianwen Cai, Martha L. Daviglus, Olga Garcia-Bedoya, Gary D. Slade

“…Participants: 13,870 participants with non-missing data. Results: In analysis adjusted for covariates, each standard deviation increase in dietary intake of C20:4n-6, AA was associated with 12% higher odds of TMD (OR=1.12, CL:1.01, 1.24). …”
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Snacking Behaviour and Its Determinants among College-Going Students in Coastal South India by Prasanna Mithra, Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan, Rekha Thapar, Nithin Kumar, Sharana Hegde, Anjali Mangaldas Kamat, Vaman Kulkarni, Ramesh Holla, B. B. Darshan, Kanchan Tanuj, Vasudev Guddattu, Avinash Kumar

“…Breakfast was the most commonly skipped meal (26.2%); of those missing the breakfast regularly, 123 (71.9%) had poor snacking behaviour. …”
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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

“…A considerable percentage of missed lesions are clinically significant.…”
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Methods of Additive Manufacturing for Dental Co-Cr Alloys: Systematic Review by Evan Hussain Alwan, Sabiha Mahdi Kanaan

“…A cutting-edge technique called additive manufacturing uses a layer-by-layer approach to material build-up to produce things directly from digital models. It is missing a tool, a manufacturing process that produces fully thick metallic components quickly and with good precision. …”
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‘They went for the test together but came back separately’: a constructivist grounded theory perspective on male engagement in antenatal HIV testing in Bamenda, Cameroon by Lily Haritu Foglabenchi, Nancy Manigha Nyahkeh, Heidi Stöckl, Tanya Marchant

“…Despite this, men especially the male partners of pregnant women have been consistently missing in the HIV prevention cascade. The factors accounting for sub-optimal levels in male engagement intersect but reasons for this are poorly understood. …”
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Elicitation of Health-related Quality-of-life Concepts Associated with Overactive Bladder: A Qualitative Study by Natalia Hawken, Zalmai Hakimi, Samuel Aballéa, Jameel Nazir, Isaac A. O. Odeyemi, Mondher Toumi

“…The conceptual framework emerging from this study supports the utilization of existing disease-specific HRQoL instruments, but identifies that work-related effects, which are relevant for OAB patients, are missing from currently available measures.…”
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Methodological considerations for estimating indirect costs in children and adolescents with chronic conditions: a scoping review by Anne Kitschen, Lulseged M. Asegu, Dirk Sauerland

“…Indirect costs related to caregivers’ lost workdays or children’s and adolescents’ missed education are likely to be high. However, there are no guidelines for measuring and valuing indirect costs in this population. …”
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Medium- to long-term health condition of patients post-COVID-19, exercise intolerance and potential mechanisms: A narrative review and perspective by Fabian Schwendinger, Denis Infanger, Debbie J Maurer, Thomas Radtke, Justin Carrard, Julia M Kröpfl, Aglaia Emmenegger, Henner Hanssen, Christoph Hauser, Udo Schwehr, Hans H Hirsch, Julijana Ivanisevic, Karoline Leuzinger, Aurélien E Martinez, Marc Maurer, Thomas Sigrist, Lukas Streese, Roland von Känel, Timo Hinrichs, Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss

“…Conclusion: Research combining all the above methods in the search for underlying mechanisms of post-COVID-19 symptoms is mostly missing. Moreover, studies with longer follow-ups (i.e. ⩾18 months) and well-matched control groups are lacking. …”
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Association of uric acid with the decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate in middle-aged and elderly populations: evidence based on the China Health and Retirement Longitud... by Ying Liang, Ming Lei, Liu Lin, Peijia Liu, Sini Cui, Kaiyuan Hu, Xinning Shao

“…We aimed to investigate the association between serum UA with the decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in middle-aged and elderly populations in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS).Design Longitudinal cohort study.Setting This was a second analysis of a public dataset (CHARLS).Participants In this study, 4538 middle-aged and elderly individuals were screened after removing individuals younger than 45 years old, with kidney disease, malignant tumour and missing values.Outcome measures Blood tests were performed both in 2011 and 2015. …”
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An Interactive Clustering-Based Visualization Tool for Air Quality Data Analysis by Mahsa Ashouri, Frederick Kin Hing Phoa, Chun-Houh Chen, Galit Shmueli

“…Our tool allows stakeholders to visualize important characteristics of PM2.5 time series, including temporal patterns and missing values, and cluster series by attribute groupings. …”
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