The Prevalence of Hypertension and Associated Risk Factors among Secondary School Teachers in Bahir Dar City Administration, Northwest Ethiopia by Destaw Damtie, Ayehu Bereket, Denekew Bitew, Bizuayehu Kerisew

“…Logistic regression analysis had been used to assess independent risk factors for hypertension. p-values of less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant. Results. The overall prevalence of hypertension in the study was 29.28%. …”
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Hip and Trunk Variables in University Students with and without Recurrent Low Back Pain by BJ Lehecka, Jordin Burleson, Paige Diederich, Morgan Salem, Rachel Schoonover, Jason Tejano

“… # Conclusion The findings of this study show statistically significant although clinically non-meaningful differences in hip flexion, extension, and adduction ROM in the rLBP group compared to the control group. …”
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Vaccination status and hepatitis A immunity in children: insights from a large-scale study in Turkey by Metin Yigit, Furkan Kalayci

“…Antibody titers were significantly higher in the fully vaccinated group, with statistically significant differences in seropositivity between this group and the unvaccinated group (p < 0.001). …”
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Lung Cancer Mortality Attributed to Air Pollution in Türkiye in 2019 by Didem Han Yekdeş, Ali Cem Yekdeş, Ülfiye Çelikkalp, Pelin Sarı Serin, Miraç Çağlayan, Galip Ekuklu

“…Lung cancer and COPD mortality data were collected from the official website of the Turkish Statistical Institute by a special request. Mortality rates attributed to PM2.5 were calculated with the WHO AIRQ+ program, and the monthly percent change (MPC) in air pollution level was computed by the JP regression method. …”
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Improving WRF-Chem PM2.5 predictions by combining data assimilation and deep-learning-based bias correction by Xingxing Ma, Hongnian Liu, Zhen Peng

“…Statistically, the accuracy of PM2.5 predictions could be optimized by both DA and BC for the first 24-h period, and WRF-Chem_BC performed better than WRF-Chem_DA in the initial field, especially in the period of 10–24 h, while the best performance was achieved by combining BC and DA. …”
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The adaptation and evaluation of psychometric properties of the Lithuanian versions of the Faux Pas Recognition and Strange Stories tests by A. Jasionis, G. Jasionytė, R. Mameniškienė

“…The intraclass correlation coefficient of the faux pas stories of the Faux Pas Recognition test was 0.996, and that of the Strange Stories test was 0.911. There was a statistically significant weak positive correlation between the Strange Stories test and the faux pas stories ratings (r=0.355, p=0.045), but the control stories of the Faux Pas Recognition test did not statistically significantly correlate with the faux pas stories (r=0.033, p=0.745) and Happé Strange Stories test (r=0.109, p=0.282). …”
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Nursing and Midwifery Students’ Satisfaction with Their Clinical Rotation Experience: The Role of the Clinical Learning Environment by Alhassan Basour Adam, Andrew Adjei Druye, Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme, Wahab Osman, Afizu Alhassan

“…The level of students’ satisfaction with both clinical rotation experience and the clinical learning environment was high (65.6% and 63.5%, respectively). A statistically significant association of the students’ satisfaction with their clinical rotation experience was found. …”
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Intelligent Ensemble Deep Learning System for Blood Glucose Prediction Using Genetic Algorithms by Dae-Yeon Kim, Dong-Sik Choi, Ah Reum Kang, Jiyoung Woo, Yechan Han, Sung Wan Chun, Jaeyun Kim

“…Both the univariate and multivariate models showed a statistically significant difference compared with the baseline at a 5% statistical significance level. …”
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The Impact of Metastatic Bone Cancers on Serum Calcium Levels: A Focused Analysis of Patient Outcomes by Muhammad Khizar Memon, Syed Uzair Mahmood, Sidra Memon, Azhar Rashid, Muhammad Ali Memon, Shahzad Ali Jiskani

“…The corrected calcium level of the patients with breast cancer was statistically lower compared with the prostate cancer patients - 8.3 ± 0.5 mg/dl (p = 0.01) compared with 9.0 ± 0.6 mg/dl. …”
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The long-term effects of cardiometabolic risk factors on mortality and life expectancy: evidence from a health check-up cohort study by Ping-Chen Chung, Tsuey-Hwa Hu, Chih-Hua Chiao, Jing-Shiang Hwang, Ta-Chien Chan

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Acceptance Factors and Psychological Investigation of Clinical Trials in Cancer Patients by Jiangjie Sun, Jingyi Fang, Chenchen Zhang, Nannan Jia, Weiming Zhao, Jinjian Gao, Yingying Huang, Jiqing Hao, Liping Zhang

“…Results. There were no statistical differences in age, gender, education level, marital status, place of residence, monthly income, medical payment method, and treatment time (P>0.05). …”
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Effects of Programmatic Assessment in Clinical Reasoning Courses in General Practice by ZHAI Jiayi, LU Yuan, SHI Jianjun, YU Dehua

“…Results The final course scores for the core and case modules were statistically significant for both groups (P&lt;0.05), but the first course scores were not (P&gt;0.05). …”
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In-home work environment for home care workers in Northern Sweden before and during the Covid-19 pandemic by Fredrik Norström, Karin Bölenius, Klas-Göran Sahlén, Magnus Zingmark, Anita Pettersson-Strömbäck

“…Results Daily problems with the in-home work environment were common before the pandemic, and they increased statistically significantly during the pandemic for, among other things, non-ergonomic beds (29% vs. 37%), impractical bathrooms (40% vs. 50%), indoor smoking (24% vs. 31%), and pets (19% vs. 25%). …”
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The Quality of Functional Movements and the Back Squat in Amateur and Professional Bodybuilders by VERONIKA ILJINAITĖ, LAIMONAS ŠIUPŠINSKAS, KRISTINA BERŠKIENĖ

“…Professional athletes scored better on the BSA than amateurs (p\<0.001). A statistically significant, positive moderate correlation was revealed between the FMS&trade; total score and the squat total score (r=0.68; p=0.005)…”
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An Analysis of Spatial Distribution of Urban Services with Focus on Social Justice and Emphasis on Citizens\' Satisfaction (Case Study: District 11 of Mashhad) by ahmad asadi, roghayeh kalateh meymari

“…The analysis of the distribution pattern of urban services in the District 11 of Mashhad using J statistics shows that the distribution of urban services in the study area has a high concentration of cluster patterns. …”
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A comprehensive numerical study exploring the significance of thermally reactive bioconvection in Falkner-Skan flow of Williamson nanomaterials influenced by activation energy and... by M. Israr Ur Rehman, Haibo Chen, Aamir Hamid, Wu Qian, Refka Ghodhbani, Mohamed Hussien

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Prealbumin/CRP Based Prognostic Score, a New Tool for Predicting Metastasis in Patients with Inoperable Gastric Cancer by Ali Esfahani, Nima Makhdami, Elnaz Faramarzi, Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi, Alireza Ostadrahimi, Mousa Ghayour Nahand, Zohreh Ghoreishi

“…Results. 71 patients with gastric cancer were recruited in the study. 87% of patients had malnutrition. There was a statistical difference between those with metastatic (n=43) and those with nonmetastatic (n=28) gastric cancer according to levels of prealbumin and CRP; however they were not different regarding patient generated subjective global assessment (PG-SGA) and GPS. …”
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How do age and sex influence pain threshold and tolerance among Santal tribal people living in West Bengal, India? by Arpita Santra, Subrata Kumar Roy, Monali Goswami, Diptendu Chatterjee

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The Effect of Detethering Surgery on the Bladder Function and Psychology of Children with Primary Tethered Cord Syndrome by Shuai Yang, Zhaokai Zhou, Xingchen Liu, Zhan Wang, Yanping Zhang, He Zhang, Lei Lv, Yibo Wen, Qingwei Wang, Wei Jia, Jinhua Hu, Jian Guo Wen

“…Results: A total of 66 children fulfilled the criteria, with a mean age at surgery of 89.5 ± 13.7 months. There were statistically significant differences in bladder detrusor sphincter synergy and urodynamic score and no statistically significant difference in the remaining urodynamic parameters and psychological-behavioral items before and after DS. …”
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Analysis and study of Future atmospheric hazards in Sistan region by Neamatallah Safarzaei, Alireza Entezari, Mokhtar Karami, Gholamali Khammar

“…In this study, to simulate minimum and maximum temperature data used from model data CanESM2 under three scenarios (RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP8.5) with SDSM statistical scrolling and to simulate rainfall data from the Hadcm3 model under scenarios (A1B, A2, B1) with statistical scrolling LARS-WG. …”
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