Association between life’s essential 8 and bone mineral density among adults aged 20–59 years by Yuyu Cui, Zhening Xu, Zhaoshu Cui, Yuanyuan Guo, Peiwei Wu, Xiaoyan Zhou

“…Subgroup analyses were performed to evaluate differences in the impact of LE8 scores on BMD across age groups, genders, races, socioeconomic statuses, and BMI categories. …”
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Assessing the capture of sociodemographic information in electronic medical records to inform clinical decision making. by Rawan Abulibdeh, Karen Tu, Debra A Butt, Anthony Train, Noah Crampton, Ervin Sejdić

“…There is a growing need to document sociodemographic factors in electronic medical records to produce representative cohorts for medical research and to perform focused research for potentially vulnerable populations. …”
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Association between NFKB1 −94ins/del ATTG Promoter Polymorphism and Cancer Susceptibility: An Updated Meta-Analysis by Xiao Yang, Pengchao Li, Jun Tao, Chao Qin, Qiang Cao, Jinbao Gu, Xiaheng Deng, Jun Wang, Xuzhong Liu, Zijie Wang, Bian Wu, Min Gu, Qiang Lu, Changjun Yin

“…Moreover, the polymorphism can exert race- and cancer-specific effects on cancer risk. …”
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Proximal Sessile Serrated Adenomas Are More Prevalent in Caucasians, and Gastroenterologists Are Better Than Nongastroenterologists at Their Detection by Malav P. Parikh, Sujit Muthukuru, Yash Jobanputra, Kushal Naha, Niyati M. Gupta, Vaibhav Wadhwa, Rocio Lopez, Prashanthi N. Thota, Madhusudhan R. Sanaka

“…Detection rates based on patient gender, race, colonoscopy timing, fellow participation, bowel preparation quality, and specialty of the endoscopist were calculated. t-tests were used to compare detection rates and a multivariate-adjusted analysis was performed. …”
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The Association of Food Security With Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A National Health Interview Survey Analysis by Brittany N. Burton, Alexis Sykes, Cecilia Canales, Andrea J. Ibarra, En Chang, Jonathan Dahan, Adam J. Milam, Tina Yu, Catherine Cha

“…The primary objective was to examine the association between food security with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. We performed a cross‐sectional analysis of 2019–2022 data from the National Health Interview Survey. …”
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Racial disparities in extended venous thromboembolism prophylaxis after hysterectomy. by Wenbo Wu, Sherry Wu, Sim Berlene Mariano, Richard E Burney, Jonathan P Kuriakose

“…The variable of interest was race (Black/African or White American). The primary outcome was administration or absence of eVTEp. …”
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Prognostic Factors and Nomogram for Malignant Brainstem Ependymoma: A Population‐Based Retrospective Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Database Analysis by Xiaoyu Ji, Siyuan Yang, Dejing Cheng, Wenbo Zhao, Xuebo Sun, Fang Su

“…Univariate and multivariable Cox regression analyses were performed to examine factors influencing overall survival (OS). …”
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Chemicals That Disrupt the Endocrine System and Their Effects on Behavior by Yousaf Khan1, Abdul Sattar1, Syed Amin Ullah1, Zia-Ur-Rehman2, Hakimullah3, Madeeha Bibi4, Hina Sarfraz1, Anila Mukhtiar1

“… Endocrine glands are the important glands of humans that perform certain functions and has specific characteristics. …”
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Pediatric Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD): Trends, Mortality, and Socioeconomic Disparities in the U.S., 1998–2020 by Paul Wasuwanich, Joshua M. So, Mustafa Sadek, Chaowapong Jarasvaraparn, Songyos Rajborirug, Ruben E. Quiros-Tejeira, Wikrom Karnsakul

“…Further studies should be performed as more data on this patient population are collected.…”
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Marital Status and Survival in Patients Diagnosed with Melanoma by J. A. Maas, A. J. Monreal, E. L. Diaz, G. Castro, P. Rodriguez de la Vega, M. Varella

“…Married patients were significantly more likely to survive than single patients (Hazard ratio (HR) = 0.65; 99% Confidence Interval (CI): 0.57–0.74; P<0.001) after adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity, geographic location, insurance status, tobacco use, primary site, stage, and histology. …”
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Effect of maternal cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption during pregnancy on birth weight and cardiometabolic risk factors in infants, children and adolescents: a systematic re... by Eunice Bolanle Turawa, Tammy Charlene Hartel, André Oelofse, Juléy Janice Abigail De Smidt

“…A meta-analysis will be performed to estimate pooled effect sizes if there are sufficient good-quality studies available. …”
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Association between drinking patterns and diabetic kidney disease in United States adults: a cross-sectional study based on data from NHANES 1999–2016 by Xusheng Yang

“…Subgroup analyses were performed to assess the effects of modification by age, sex, race, BMI.Results Drinking patterns and DKD were analyzed among 26,473 US adults (mean age, 46.6 years; 53.7% male). …”
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Liras into Lyres: Talking Across Difference in the Works of Edith Nesbit by Melissa Jenkins

“…The primary claim that emerges from the analysis is that linguistic and conversational errors, within the conversations between children about travel, fuel a brand of radical cross-cultural sympathy, and that this sympathy challenges adult perceptions about race and nation. I agree that any account of a child’s agency can be overstated, even within Nesbit’s works. …”
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Epidemiological Study of Uveal Melanoma from US Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (2010–2015) by Yufeng Xu, Lixia Lou, Yijie Wang, Qi Miao, Kai Jin, Menglu Chen, Juan Ye

“…Females had significantly lower incidence (4.076 per million, IRR, 0.768, 95% CI, 0.710–0.832) with noticeable differences among age, race, origin, and laterality in sex-stratified analyses as well. …”
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Correlation between ellipsoid zone thickness and the presence of subretinal drusenoid deposits in age-related macular degeneration by Richard B Rosen, Roland Theodore Smith, Gerardo Ledesma-Gil, Oscar Otero-Marquez, Yuehong Tong, Katy Tai, Gareth M C Lema, Raymond Matthew Bellis, Yang Fei, Brandon Le

“…Differences in EZ thicknesses across all subjects and between groups were not significantly different based on gender, race or age.Conclusion Subjects with SDDs (±drusen) had thinner EZs than those with drusen only, and the inferior EZ was least affected. …”
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Longitudinal maternal glycemia during pregnancy and placental epigenetic age acceleration by Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold, Prabhavi Wijesiriwardhana, Richard J. Biedrzycki, Cuilin Zhang, Katherine L. Grantz, Jagteshwar Grewal, Fasil Tekola-Ayele

“…Models were applied in the full cohort and stratified by race/ethnicity. Further, sensitivity analyses were performed after excluding women with GDM or preeclampsia. …”
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Search for signals of positive selection of circadian rhythm genes <i>PER1</i>, <i>PER2</i>, <i>PER3</i> in different human populations by A. I. Mishina, S. Y. Bakoev, A. Y. Oorzhak, A. A. Keskinov, Sh. Sh. Kabieva, A. V. Korobeinikova, V. S. Yudin, M. M. Bobrova, D. A. Shestakov, V. V. Makarov, L. V. Getmantseva

“…The comparative analysis performed identified points subject to selection pressure. …”
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Predictors of plasma HDL-C concentrations in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study by James M. Shikany, John R. Bassler, Jared P. Reis, Pamela J. Schreiner, David T. Redden, John T. Wilkins, Cora E. Lewis

“…During exams, participants completed various questionnaires, anthropometric measurements, and blood collection. We performed multiple linear regression of HDL-C at each CARDIA exam in a cross-sectional analysis, and linear mixed-effects regression to assess the longitudinal change of HDL-C across exams, treating time as a linear predictor, separately in women and men. …”
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Assessing the Efficacy of Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics in Controlling Bacterial Contamination in the In Vitro Micropropagation of Ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosc) by Selam Tewelde, Subban Patharajan, Zenebe Teka, Desta Berhe Sbhatu

“…But, the availability of clean and healthy planting materials has become a problem due to wilt disease, caused by Ralstonia solanacearum Biovar 3 Race 4. This problem obliged growers to seek for tens of millions of vigorous and disease-free planting materials very quickly via in vitro micropropagation of shoot tip explants. …”
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Genome-resolved year-round dynamics reveal a broad range of giant virus microdiversity by Yue Fang, Lingjie Meng, Jun Xia, Yasuhiro Gotoh, Tetsuya Hayashi, Keizo Nagasaki, Hisashi Endo, Yusuke Okazaki, Hiroyuki Ogata

“…However, the relationship between the ecological dynamics of giant viruses and underlying genetic structures of viral populations remains unresolved. In this study, we performed deep metagenomic sequencing of seawater samples collected across a time-series from a coastal area in Japan. …”
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