Dietary protein intake and PM2.5 on ovarian cancer survival: A prospective cohort study by He-Li Xu, Yi-Fan Wei, Qi Bao, Ya-Li Wang, Xiao-Ying Li, Dong-Hui Huang, Fang-Hua Liu, Yi-Zi Li, Yue-Yang Zhao, Xin-Xin Zhao, Qian Xiao, Song Gao, Ren-Jie Chen, Ling Ouyang, Xia Meng, Xue Qin, Ting-Ting Gong, Qi-Jun Wu

“…Multiplicative interaction was assessed through a cross-product interaction term. Results: During a median follow-up of 37.60 months, 123 deaths were documented. …”
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Predictive factors of fibrotic interstitial lung abnormality on high-resolution computed tomography scans: a prospective observational study by Kazuya Ichikado, Hidenori Ichiyasu, Kazuhiro Iyonaga, Kodai Kawamura, Yuko Yasuda, Keisuke Anan, Hiroko Okabayashi, Kimitaka Akaike, Noritaka Higashi, Takeshi Johkoh, Kiminori Fujimoto, Tetsuo Saito, Jun Morinaga, Minoru Yoshida, Katsuhiko Mitsuzaki, Takuro Sakagami

“…Clinical laboratory evaluations are expressed as medians and interquartile ranges for each evaluation time point, and boxplots were created for graphical representation. …”
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An atmospheric correction method for Himawari-8 imagery based on a multi-layer stacking algorithm by Menghui Wang, Donglin Fan, Hongchang He, You Zeng, Bolin Fu, Tianlong Liang, Xinyue Zhang, Wenhan Hu

“…The correction performances of MSM and comparative algorithms were evaluated using the median absolute error (MedAE) between the predicted and simulated water-leaving reflectance data. …”
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Pharmacokinetic Analysis of an Isoniazid Suspension Among Spanish Children Under 6 Years of Age by Antoni Noguera-Julian, Emma Wilhelmi, Maria Cussó, Rob Aarnoutse, Angela Colbers, Loreto Martorell, Maria Goretti López-Ramos, Joan Vinent, Rosa Farré, Dolors Soy, Sílvia Simó-Nebot, Clàudia Fortuny

“…The acetylator statuses were homozygous fast (<i>n</i> = 3), heterozygous intermediate (<i>n</i> = 18), and homozygous slow (<i>n</i> = 2; unavailable in one patient). The INH median (IQR) C_max and AUC_0–24h values were 6.1 (4.5–8.2) mg/L and 23.0 (11.2–35.4) h∙mg/L; adult targets (>3 mg/L and 11.6–26.3 h∙mg/L) were not achieved in three and six cases, respectively. …”
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Time to recovery of COVID-19 patients and its predictors: a retrospective cohort study in HUCSH, Sidama, Ethiopia by Ali B. Anteneh, Zeytu Gashaw Asfaw

“…Conclusions Recent studies found that about 95% of COVID-19 patients recover within 30 days, with a median of 12 days. Severe cases, elderly, and those with comorbidities may take longer to recover. …”
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Synthesizing Local Capacities, Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Meta-Learning to Optimize Forest Carbon Assessment in Data-Poor Regions by Kamaldeen Mohammed, Daniel Kpienbaareh, Jinfei Wang, David Goldblum, Isaac Luginaah, Esther Lupafya, Laifolo Dakishoni

“…. = 5.45 × 10⁻⁹) exhibiting a significantly higher median AGC. Our results further showed that combining optical and radar remote sensing data substantially improved prediction accuracy compared to single-source remote sensing data. …”
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Association between monocyte-lymphocyte ratio and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in patients with chronic kidney diseases: A data analysis from national health and nutritio... by Wenwu Liu, Shuwei Weng, Chenghui Cao, Yuting Yi, Yue Wu, Daoquan Peng

“…Restricted cubic spline (RCS) was used to investigate the dose-response relationship between MLR and mortality, the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves is used to compare the efficacy of MLR with different clinical biological indicators in assessing the risk of death.Results During a median follow-up of 10.3 years in CKD population, 1398 (43%) all-cause deaths and 526 (16%) CVD deaths occurred. …”
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Burden of Road Traffic Injuries in Tanzania: One-Year Prospective Study of Consecutive Patients in 13 Multilevel Health Facilities by Hendry R. Sawe, Sveta Milusheva, Kevin Croke, Saahil Karpe, Meyhar Mohammed, Juma A. Mfinanga

“…Among 18,553 trauma patients seen in 13 health facilities, 7,416 (40%) had RTIs. The overall median age was 28 years (IQR 22–38 years), and 79.3% were male. …”
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Antenatal pelvic floor muscle exercise intervention led by midwives in England to reduce postnatal urinary incontinence: APPEAL feasibility and pilot randomised controlled cluster... by Karla Hemming, Jonathan Bishop, Sarah Dean, Jean Hay-Smith, Tim Coleman, Elizabeth Edwards, Christine MacArthur, Debra Bick, Mark Pearson, Rohini Terry, Eivor Oborn, Sara Webb, Eleni Gkini, Victoria Salmon, Ellie Jones, Helena Frawley

“…Midwives reported improvements in PFME confidence/knowledge (median increase of at least 1 point on a 0–4 scale for each of eight questions). …”
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Serum Soluble Interleukin-2 Receptor Does Not Differentiate Complex Regional Pain Syndrome from Other Pain Conditions in a Tertiary Referral Setting by K. D. Bharwani, M. Dirckx, D. L. Stronks, W. A. Dik, F. J. P. M. Huygen

“…Furthermore, we explored the relationship between sIL-2R and CRPS disease severity using the CRPS severity score. Median sIL-2R levels of both the CRPS group (2809.0 pg/ml; Q3-Q1: 3913.0-1589.0) and no CRPS group (3654.0 pg/ml; Q3-Q1: 4429.0-2095.5) were significantly higher than that of the control group (1515.0 pg/ml; Q3-Q1: 1880.0-1150.0): CRPS vs. controls, p<.001; no CRPS vs. controls, p<0.001. …”
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A phenomenological study of knowledge concealment in country water and sewage engineering company by Gholamreza Moghadasi, Hamidreza Rezaei Kelidbari, Mohammad Doostar

“…Haghsetan & Jantifar (2021) investigated the moderating role of professional commitment in studying the impact of perceived organizational policies on knowledge concealment (case study: Tehran's Hemian Fan Sanat Berq Company). The results show that professional commitment moderates the effect of perceived organizational policies on knowledge concealment. …”
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Methodology for the Positive Voices 2022 Survey of People With HIV Accessing Care in England, Wales, and Scotland: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study by Janey Sewell, Carole Kelly, Adamma Aghaizu, Hannah Kitt, Annegret Pelchen-Matthews, Veronique Martin, Amal Farah, Colette Smith, Alison Brown, Clare Humphreys, Alex Sparrowhawk, Valerie Delpech, Alison Rodger, Fiona Lampe, Meaghan Kall

“…Survey respondents represented approximately 1 in 20 people diagnosed with HIV in England, Wales, and Scotland. The median age of participants was 52 years, 3428 of participants were male, 2991 were of White ethnicity, and 1121 were of Black ethnicity. …”
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Treatment Patterns of Long-Acting Somatostatin Analogs for Neuroendocrine Tumors by Callisia N. Clarke, Paul Cockrum, Thomas J.R. Beveridge, Michelle Jerry, Donna McMorrow, Anh Thu Tran, Alexandria T. Phan

“…Compared with octreotide LAR patients, treatment duration was longer for lanreotide patients (median, 41.3 vs 26.8 months; log-rank _p_=.004). Fewer lanreotide patients received rescue treatment with short-acting octreotide (7.9% vs 14.4%; _p_=.011), and a first (6.2% vs 27.3%) and second dose escalation (0.8% vs 5.2%; both _p_<.05). …”
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Nailfold Capillaroscopy in Early Stages of Mixed Connective Tissue Disease in a Sample of Egyptian Patients by Yasser A Elmotaleb Gazar, Hesham Salah Hamoud, Sherif Mohamed Ismail

“…Results: Of the sixty patients studied, 49 (81.7%) patients were females and 11 were males with a mean age of 31 years with a median of 29.5 and range 16–52 years. Three of the twenty patients diagnosed with systemic sclerosis had arthritis. …”
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Clinical evaluation of a multiplex droplet digital PCR for diagnosing suspected bloodstream infections: a prospective study by Yaqin Peng, Ruijie Xie, Yifeng Luo, Yifeng Luo, Yifeng Luo, Penghao Guo, Zhongwen Wu, Yili Chen, Pingjuan Liu, Jiankai Deng, Bin Huang, Kang Liao

“…The DNA loads of these microorganisms ranged from 30.0 to 3.2×105 copies/mL (median level: 158.0 copies/mL), 72.7% (104/143) of which were below 1,000 copies/mL. …”
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Clinical Characteristics of 31 Patients with Chest Pain Variant Asthma by Mao W, Gao Y, Sun W, Li J, Wang J, Wang Z, Zhang L, Huang K

“…Main features of chest pain manifested as dull pain and mild pain with unfixed location, and several patients were presented with distending pain, pinprick pain, chest pain related to breathing, chest pain position-related and chest pain like angina pectoris. The median duration of their chest pain was four months, and 77.4% of the patients did not find any trigger. …”
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<i>Bridelia ferruginea</i> Tea Consumption Improves Antioxidant Status in Individuals Living with Type 2 Diabetes by Collins Afriyie Appiah, Jennifer Ngounda, Mavis Boakye-Yiadom, Felix Charles Mills-Robertson, Mariette Nel, Rabia Johnson, Corinna Walsh

“…Results: The comparator group had significantly better glycaemic control [median HbA1c—7.7% (IQR 6.7–9.4)] than the Bridelia group [9.2% (7.6–11.4)], <i>p</i> = 0.001. …”
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Long-term safety of tofacitinib up to 9.5 years: a comprehensive integrated analysis of the rheumatoid arthritis clinical development programme by Peter Nash, Yoshiya Tanaka, Kevin L Winthrop, Eun Bong Lee, Xavier Mariette, Jeffrey R Curtis, Kenneth Kwok, Connie Chen, Pinaki Biswas, Lisy Wang, Christina Charles-Schoeman, Ann Madsen, Stanley B Cohen, Andrea Shapiro, Jürgen Wollenhaupt

“…Incidence rates (IRs; patients with events/100 patient-years [PY]; 95% CIs) of first-time occurrences were obtained for adverse events (AEs) of interest.Results 7061 patients received tofacitinib (total exposure: 22 875 PY; median [range] exposure: 3.1 [0 to 9.6] years). IRs (95% CI) for serious AEs, serious infections, herpes zoster (all), opportunistic infections (excluding tuberculosis [TB]) and TB were 9.0 (8.6 to 9.4), 2.5 (2.3 to 2.7), 3.6 (3.4 to 3.9), 0.4 (0.3 to 0.5) and 0.2 (0.1 to 0.2), respectively. …”
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Electrocardiographic Frontal QRS-T Angle Is Independently Associated with the Presence of Celiac Disease and Disease Duration by Betül Ayça Yamak, İbrahim Ethem Güven, Mustafa Candemir

“…In addition, the relationship of these ECG parameters with disease duration was also analyzed. <b>Results:</b> The median disease duration was 38.5 (16 to 96) months in the CD group. …”
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Decreased risk of cardiovascular disease mortality associated with occasional positive screens following cancer screenings by Yuting Ji, Yu Zhang, Hongyuan Duan, Xiaomin Liu, Yunmeng Zhang, Zhuowei Feng, Jingjing Li, Zeyu Fan, Ya Liu, Yacong Zhang, Lei Yang, Zhangyan Lyu, Fangfang Song, Fengju Song, Hua Li, Yubei Huang

“…Exploratory analyses were also conducted to investigate whether positive screens were linked to the potential adoption of a healthier lifestyle. After a median follow-up of 19 years, significantly decreased risk of CVD mortality was observed for individuals with occasional positive screening (≤ 2 positive screens) [adjusted hazard ratio (HR, 95%CIs): 0.931 (0.897–0.968), P < 0.001] compared to the control arm. …”
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