Venous thromboembolism incidence and risk factors associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors among patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer by Chi Nguyen, Alok A Khorana, John Barron, Jennell Palaia, Lisa Rosenblatt, Radhika Pisupati, Ning Huang, Kerrin Gallagher, T Christopher Bond

“…After controlling for baseline patient characteristics, the risk of VTE was 26% lower for ICI-based regimens than for chemo-based regimens (HR 0.74, p=0.03). …”
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Morphological and Functional Outcomes after Intravitreal Dexamethasone Injection for Macular Edema in Patients with Central Vein Occlusion at 48-Week Follow-Up by Cristina Nicula, Dorin Nicula, Anca Rednik, Adriana Bulboaca, Ovidiu Crișan

“…The mean BCVA (logMar) improved from 0.420.42 ± 0.23 logMar at baseline to 0.21 ± 0.23 logMar at 48 weeks in the BRVO group and from 0.72 ± 0.16 logMar at baseline to 0.31 ± 0.23 logMar at 48 weeks in the CRVO group. …”
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Intravitreal Therapy for Diabetic Macular Edema: An Update by Claudio Furino, Francesco Boscia, Michele Reibaldi, Giovanni Alessio

“…According to the currently available scientific evidence, the choice of one anti-VEGF over another critically depends on the baseline best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA). While aflibercept may be the drug of choice in low baseline BCVA, the three anti-VEGFs (bevacizumab, ranibizumab, and aflibercept) provided similar functional outcomes when the baseline BCVA was higher. …”
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Perivascular space imaging during therapy for medulloblastoma. by Ruitian Song, John O Glass, Shengjie Wu, Yimei Li, Giles W Robinson, Amar Gajjar, Thomas E Merchant, Wilburn E Reddick

“…We examined 778 scans from 241 MB patients at baseline (0M), after 12 weeks (about 3 months) of radiotherapy and rest (3M), after chemotherapy completion (12M), and a follow-up (FollowUp) at 18- or 21-months post-baseline. …”
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The Effect of Aromatherapy with Lavender Oil on the Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Fibromyalgia by Gulsah Yasa Ozturk, Ibrahim Bashan

“…The Short-Form (SF)-36 Quality of Life Scale was administered to the patients at baseline and after four weeks of lavender oil treatment to determine whether there was any change in their quality of life. …”
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Evaluating the Treatment of Diabetic Macular Edema with Aflibercept Based on a Regional Network of Ophthalmologic Care Givers by Haidar Khalil, Siegfried Mariacher, Rupert Strauss, Dominika Podkowinski, Klemens Waser, Matthias Bolz

“…BCVA improved significantly by 5.8 letters between baseline and the final visit from 70.4 letters at baseline (p=0.004). …”
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Impact and Outcomes of Pretreatment Total Serum Testosterone on Localized Prostate Cancer Patients by Brittni M. Usera, Polly Creveling, Jonathan D. Tward

“…Men diagnosed with clinical NCCN-risk stratified very-low, low, intermediate, high, and/or very-high risk prostate cancer who had a baseline total serum testosterone level≥100 ng/dl measured within the 100 days preceding the first definitive therapy were identified from our prospectively gathered institutional database. …”
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Air Pollution Variation During COVID-19 Pandemic Using Satellite and On-site Measurement Data in Six Provinces in Iran by Maryam Zare Shahne, Amirhossein Noori, Mehdi Alizade Attar

“…In the present study, the temporal variation of Sentinel-5P TROPOMI-derived air pollutants (NO2 and SO2,) and MODIS-derived AOD were examined by using satellite missions in six air pollution’ hotspots provinces, including Isfahan, Tabriz, Mashhad, Tehran, Ahvaz, and Guilan in Iran for contemporaneous time periods before (as a baseline period), and during the epidemic, including the first wave lockdown period of the COVID-19 outbreak, from the 22nd of February, 2019, to the 22nd of February, 2021. …”
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Thresholds of Abnormality Perception in Facial Esthetics among Laypersons and Dental Professionals: Profile Esthetics by Raed H. Alrbata, Ayham Kh. Alfaqih, Mohammad R. Almhaidat, Ahmad M. Al-Tarawneh

“…The image that showed the first statistical difference compared to the baseline was considered as a threshold of abnormality. …”
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Impact of a cardio‐oncology unit on prevention of cardiovascular events in cancer patients by Alessandra Cuomo, Valentina Mercurio, Gilda Varricchi, Maria Rosaria Galdiero, Francesca Wanda Rossi, Antonio Carannante, Grazia Arpino, Luigi Formisano, Roberto Bianco, Chiara Carlomagno, Carmine De Angelis, Mario Giuliano, Elide Matano, Marco Picardi, Domenico Salvatore, Ferdinando De Vita, Erika Martinelli, Carminia Maria Della Corte, Floriana Morgillo, Michele Orditura, Stefania Napolitano, Teresa Troiani, Carlo G. Tocchetti

“…Conclusions Patients who start oncological protocols without an accurate baseline cardiovascular evaluation are at major risk of developing cardiac complications due to antineoplastic treatments.…”
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Retrospective analysis of disease characteristics and treatment patterns among patients with esophageal cancer across 14 surgically represented centers by Zhihao Lu, Mingfei Geng, Yongtao Han, Jianzhong Cao, Jun Wang, Tianshu Liu, Xianglin Yuan, Xue Meng, Yanqiao Zhang, Rong Zhao, Lixin Wan, Enxiao Li, Wenran Wang, Zhijie Li, Danfeng Shi, Jing Qian, Si Shi, Fengshi Dong, Lin Shen

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Algorithm Selection for Allocating Pods Within Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems: A Hyper-Heuristic Approach by Maria Torcoroma Benavides-Robles, Jorge M. Cruz-Duarte, Jose Carlos Ortiz-Bayliss, Ivan Amaya

“…First, sequence-based hyper-heuristics outperformed low-level heuristics in 22% of the models we tested. …”
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Oculomotor Plant Mathematical Model in Kalman Filter Form With Peak Velocity-Based Neural Pulse for Continuous Gaze Prediction by Dmytro Katrychuk, Dillon J. Lohr, Oleg V. Komogortsev

“…We additionally extend the prior work by evaluating the proposed model on the largest to date pool of 322 subjects against the naive zero displacement baseline and a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network.…”
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Association between Glucose Levels and Intraocular Pressure: Pre- and Postprandial Analysis in Diabetic and Nondiabetic Patients by Luis Guilherme Milesi Pimentel, Carolina P. B. Gracitelli, Leticia Sant’Ana Cardoso da Silva, Aline Katia Siqueira Souza, Tiago Santos Prata

“…Baseline glucose levels were higher in diabetic patients (P<0.001). …”
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Clinical application of hempseed or flaxseed oil-based lyotropic liquid crystals: Evaluation of their impact on skin barrier function by Vitek Mercedes, Matjaž Mirjam Gosenca

“…Herein, eight novel lyotropic liquid crystals (LCCs) were investigated for the first time in a double-blind, interventional, before-after, single-group trial with healthy adult subjects and a twice-daily application regimen. …”
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Dance Evaluation Based on Movement and Neural Network by Yan Lei, Xin Li, Yi Jiao Chen

“…The experimental data is obtained from dance videos on the Internet, and the experimental results are analyzed from five aspects: loss function value, comparison of different baselines, evaluation of sequence generation effect, user research, and quality evaluation of real-life dance videos. …”
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Pandemic mitigation: Bringing it home by Tom Reichert

“…Essential personnel are the first scheduled to receive preventive and therapeutic pharmaceuticals, followed by high risk groups, the largest of which are the elderly. …”
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Nonsyndromic Generalized Radiculomegaly of Permanent Dentition: A Rare Case Report by Mohammed Alhussain, Naif Almosa, Hourya Alnofaie

“…Since OFCD syndrome was first identified in 1996, only a few cases of nonsyndromic/nonfamilial radiculomegaly have been reported. …”
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Intraocular Pressure Changes After Rhinoplasty: A Before‐and‐After Cross‐Sectional Study by Ali Goljanian Tabrizi, Matin Ghazizadeh, Atiyeh Zahedi

“…IOP measurements were taken three times per eye at baseline, during surgery, on the first postoperative day, after nasal pin removal on the seventh postoperative day, and on the thirtieth postoperative day using a Goldmann tonometer. …”
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Subjective social status and trajectories of frailty: findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing by Patrick Präg, Lindsay Richards, Asri Maharani

“…Using longitudinal data, the goal of this study was, first, to identify latent trajectories of frailty over time, and second, to investigate the relationship between subjective social status and frailty trajectory.Methods Data were drawn from the 2002–2019 surveys of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, involving 9484 individuals aged 50+ years at baseline. …”
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