Protocol for the economic evaluation alongside the PARTICIPATE (PArticipatory Research model for medicaTIon adherenCe In People with diAbetes and hyperTEnsion) multicenter cluster... by Vivek Verma, Denny John, Tanu Anand, Dinesh Kumar, K Sunitha, Tanveer Rehman, Pooja Reddy, Anuja Jha, Harshal Gupta, Avi Kumar Bansal, Smita Mahapatra, Sudhira Kumar Parida, Mamata Jena, A Charles Pon Ruban, Shantaraman Kalyanaraman, Jerin Jose Cherian

“…Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios will be computed by dividing the cost difference between the intervention and comparator by the difference in benefits. …”
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Gut microbiome is associated with radiotherapy response in lung cancer patients with brain metastases by Fei Liang, Yichu Sun, Jing Yang, Ziqiang Shen, Guangfeng Wang, Jiangrui Zhu, Chong Zhou, Youyou Xia, Youyou Xia

“…Logistic regression analyses were performed to evaluate the predictive capacity of clinical and microbial factors for treatment outcomes.ResultsNo significant difference in α-diversity was observed between the groups (P > 0.05), but β-diversity differed significantly (P = 0.036). …”
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Assessment of ambient air quality and health risks from vehicular emissions in urban Ghana: A case study of Winneba by Francis Kwaku Nkansah, Ebenezer Jeremiah Durosimi Belford, Jonathan Nartey Hogarh, Alfred Kwablah Anim

“…In all, levels of the measured pollutants did not differ significantly (p<0.05) between the sampling locations, but exceeded the pollution thresholds established by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). …”
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Stepwise Total Hip Arthroplasty with Lateral and Posterolateral Approaches: Intraoperative Imaging, Fixation Strategy, and Early Functional Outcomes by Roland Fazakas, Laura Ioana Bondar, Csongor Toth, Brigitte Osser, Iosif Ilia, Gabriel Roberto Marconi, Victor Niculescu, Ramona Nicoleta Suciu, Liviu Gavrila-Ardelean, Alexandru Pop

“…Cemented fixation demonstrated slightly better outcomes at both time points; however, intergroup differences remained below the Minimal Clinically Important Difference (MCID) thresholds. …”
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Accuracy and Reliability of Smartphone Versus Mirrorless Camera Images-Assisted Digital Shade Guides: An In Vitro Study by Soo Teng Chew, Suet Yeo Soo, Mohd Zulkifli Kassim, Khai Yin Lim, In Meei Tew

“…The ∆E₀₀ values were also evaluated against perceptibility (PT = 0.8) and acceptability (AT = 1.8) thresholds. Reliability was evaluated using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC), and group differences were analyzed via one-way ANOVA and Bonferroni post hoc tests (α = 0.05). …”
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Factors influencing bone mineral density in hyperparathyroidism phenotypes: a prospective study by Margot Giocondo, Belén Ponte, Sophie de Seigneux, Samira M. Sadowski, Benoît Bédat, Frédéric Triponez, Marco Stefano Demarchi

“…Patients were categorized into three subgroups (normohormonal, hyperparathyroid normocalcemic and hyperparathyroid hypercalcemic) to assess differences in BMD improvement across these groups.ResultsAccording to predefined thresholds, 40.0% of patients experienced a significant BMD gain at the spine, 35.1% at the femur, 23.5% at the left hip, and 8.6% at the radius. …”
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FWFA: Fairness-Weighted Federated Aggregation for Privacy-Aware Decision Intelligence by Rahul Haripriya, Nilay Khare, Manish Pandey, Shrijal Patel, Jaytrilok Choudhary, Dhirendra Pratap Singh, Surendra Solanki, Duansh Sharma

“…Across 20 communication rounds, FWFA achieved a DP of 0.91, an SPD of 0.06, and a DIR of 0.91, outperforming baseline methods WA+FL and SMOTE+FL, while maintaining an accuracy of 0.84. …”
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Dual Attention-Based Global-Local Feature Extraction Network for Unsupervised Change Detection in PolSAR Images by Dazhi Xu, Ming Li, Yan Wu, Peng Zhang, Xinyue Xin

“…Numerical experiments on five real spaceborne PolSAR datasets demonstrate that our DA-GLN is more competitive than other state-of-the-art methods.…”
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Prevalence of lower back pain and its associations with lifestyle behaviors among university students in the West Bank, Palestine: a cross-sectional study by Mohammad Yaser Hasan Awad, Haya Jebreen Mohammed Warasna, Bashar Yaser Hasan Awad, Mohamed E. Shaaban, Tasnim Ibrahim, Iyad Yaser Hasan Awad, Ahmad J. Warasna, Tarek A. Owais, Saif Khaled Abdalhadi Azzam, Mahmoud Tareq Fadel ALAbed, Reem J. Saad

“…Notably, the 1-point PSQI difference fell below the established clinical significance thresholds (MCID=3–5 points).Conclusions LBP is highly prevalent among university students in the West Bank, with notable associations with poor sleep quality, unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, and higher BMI. …”
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Pulmonary hypertension associated with COPD: a phenotype analysis by Mathilde Steger, Matthieu Canuet, Guillaume Martin, Aissam Labani, Jean Charles Schwartz, Irina Enache, Armelle Schuller, Léo Meyer, Ari Chaouat, Romain Kessler, David Montani, Marianne Riou

“…In the current debate on how to distinguish PH-COPD phenotypes, it might be of interest to include quantitative thresholds for emphysema in future diagnostic and management algorithms.…”
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Post-treatment changes in bowel and urinary function in prostate cancer patients treated with moderate or ultra-hypofractionation: A prospective cohort study by W.D. Heemsbergen, F. Sinzabakira, K.C. de Vries, M. Franckena, M.E.M.C. Christianen, F.E. Froklage, H. Westerveld, L. Incrocci

“…Patients completed the EPIC urinary and bowel domains and the EQ-5D-5L (general HRQoL) at baseline and 6 months post-treatment. Thresholds for minimal clinically important differences (MCID) were defined at 8 %. …”
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Parent–Child Agreement on Fatigue in Pediatric Otolaryngology Patients by Amy E. Ensing, Amy L. Zhang, Rebecca Z. Lin, Emma K. Landes, Henok Getahun, Judith E. C. Lieu

“…Only the median child–parent score differences for general domain score in the SDB group (12.5; 95% CI 2.08 to 22.9), and total score (7.41; 95% CI −0.69 to 25.7) and general domain score (11.5; 95% CI 2.08 to 27.1) in the developmental delay group met clinical significance thresholds. …”
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“VisualFields Easy”: an iPad Application as a Simple Tool for Detecting Visual Field Defects by Angelane S. Santos, MD, Evelyn S. Morabe, MD

“…Each subject was tested using the standard automated Humphrey Field Analyzer (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Germany) with the 30-2 Swedish Interactive Thresholding Algorithm (SITA) and the “VisualFields Easy” application (background = 10 cd/m2 ; size V target; 16-dB stimulus) loaded in an iPad 2 ver. 8.3. …”
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Comparative analysis of differentially expressed genes in breast cancer across Asian and European populations: insights into molecular pathways and biomarkers by Prabhu Meganathan, Sharvari Sawant, Shreshta Reddy

“…Methods: This study analyzed gene expression datasets from the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), including GSE15852 (Malaysia), GSE29044 (Saudi Arabia), GSE89116 (India), GSE61304 (Singapore), GSE29431 (Spain), GSE21422 (Germany), and GSE42568 (Ireland). …”
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Is Age-adjusted Sagittal Parameter Important for Patients Receiving Short Anterior and Oblique Anterolateral Lumbar Surgery? by Kuan-Kai Tung, Wei-Cheng Tseng, Yun-Che Wu, Kun-Hui Chen, Chien-Chou Pan, Cheng-Min Shih, Cheng-Hung Lee

“…Conclusions: Both ALIF and OLIF could achieve satisfactory clinical results targeting age-adjusted thresholds for patients with symptomatic degenerative lumbar disorders, including SVA, PT, and PI-LL. …”
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Value of a BRAFV600E and lymphocyte subset-based nomogram for discriminating benign lesions from papillary thyroid carcinoma in C-TIRADS 3 and higher nodules by Wenran Zhang, Simei Zeng, Jiaqing Dou, Chenfan Yu

“…This study established and validated a nomogram model to quantitatively predict the malignant risk of papillary thyroid carcinoma in thyroid nodules classified as C-TIRADS category 3 or higher, providing a reference for precise diagnosis and treatment of these moderately or highly suspicious nodules.MethodsThis retrospective study analyzed 210 patients with thyroid nodules (C-TIRADS ≥3), stratified by fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) results into benign and PTC groups. …”
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Exploring the link between BMI and physical fitness in Sichuan’s ethnic minority primary school students: insights from quantile regression analysis by Jingtao Wu, Yanhong Shao, Jun Hu, Xinjuan Zhao

“…This study aims to delineate the association between BMI and physical fitness among primary school students in Sichuan’s ethnic minority regions, offering insights to inform health policy tailored to these communities. Methods Utilizing a randomized cluster sampling approach, the study was conducted across ethnic minority regions in Sichuan Province from September to October 2023, encompassing a cohort of 10,800 students from Grade 3 to Grade 6. …”
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The prognostic impact of net ultrafiltration intensity in critically ill patients receiving continuous renal replacement therapy: a multivariable and propensity-matched analysis by Lu Jin, Peiyun Li, Youli Tang, Wanhong Yin, Fang Wang, Ling Zhang

“…However, future studies are needed to better define optimal UFnet thresholds in multicenter ICU cohorts.…”
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Low-moderate alcohol use effects on glycemic control of patients presenting in the ED by Dominick DeMasi, Laura Harrison, Fredrick A. Davis, Adam Berman, Sandeep Kapoor, Nancy Kwon

“…These findings suggest the need for substance use interventions at lower AUDIT-C thresholds and further considerations to mitigate future risk in this population.…”
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Combined predictive value of uric acid and serum lipid for stroke events in non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients by Yuqi Tang, Baiqing Song, Tesfaldet H. Hidru, Yiheng Yang, Fei Liu, Jiatian Li, Chenglin Li, Yuhang Wen, Zhongzheng Yang, Ying Chen, Xiaolei Yang, Yunlong Xia

“…We analyzed SUA concentration and lipid profile, along with relevant clinical data, to assess their impact on the occurrence of ischemic stroke (IS) in NAF patients. Due to gender differences in TG (1.39 mmol/L vs. 1.28 mmol/L for males, P = 0.031;1.57 mmol/L vs. 1.28 mmol/L for females, P = 0.001) and SUA levels (424 µmol/L vs. 397 µmol/L for males, P = 0.008; 361 µmol/L vs. 328 µmol/L for females, P = 0.004), we determined the thresholds for SUA (400 µmol/L in males and 330 µmol/L in females) and TG (1.28 mmol/L in males and 1.29 mmol/L in females) that predict stroke events in NAF patients by restricted cubic spline curves. …”
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