Program Adherence and Effectiveness of a Commercial Nutrition Program: The Metabolic Balance Study by Cornelia Meffert, Nikolaus Gerdes

“…After 12 months, nearly two thirds of the samples had achieved >5% reduction of their initial weights. …”
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A Retrospective Claims-Based Study Evaluating Clinical and Economic Burden Among Patients With Moderate to Severe Osteoarthritis Pain in the United States by Patricia B. Schepman, Sheena Thakkar, Rebecca L. Robinson, Craig G. Beck, Deepa Malhotra, Birol Emir, Ryan N. Hansen

“…Eligible patients were aged ≥45 years with ≥12 months pre-index (baseline) and ≥24 months (follow-up) of continuous enrollment; index date was defined as a physician diagnosis of hip or knee OA. …”
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Assessment of Spontaneous Retinal Arterial Pulsations in Acute Central Retinal Vein Occlusions by Nicolas Arej, Vivien Vasseur, Elyse Jabbour, Anthony Manassero, Céline Giraud, Sébastien Bruneau, Yannick Le Mer, Martine Mauget-Faÿsse

“…A 10-second infrared film centered on the optic disc was recorded within a month of the onset of symptoms, and SRAPs were detected in two-thirds of the cases. Patients with SRAP were significantly younger than those without SRAP. …”
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p-Norm Broad Learning for Negative Emotion Classification in Social Networks by Guanghao Chen, Sancheng Peng, Rong Zeng, Zhongwang Hu, Lihong Cao, Yongmei Zhou, Zhouhao Ouyang, Xiangyu Nie

“…Moreover, it can suppress the adverse effects of more outliers and noise in data by flexibly changing the value of p. Thirdly, we conduct extensive experiments on the public datasets, and the experimental results show that our proposed method outperforms the baseline methods on the tested datasets.…”
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Effects of proton pump inhibitors and histamine-2 receptor antagonists on response to fidaxomicin or vancomycin in patients with Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea by Thomas Louie, Karl Weiss, Mark A Miller, Kathleen Mullane, Derrick W Crook, Sherwood L Gorbach

“…Treatment group was the single significant predictor of recurrence; the probability of recurrence after fidaxomicin therapy was half that following vancomycin therapy.Conclusions Acid-suppressing drugs, used by nearly two-thirds of inpatients with CDAD, did not worsen clinical response or recurrence when used concurrently with fidaxomicin or vancomycin. …”
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Do current maternal health staffing and bed occupancy benchmarks work in practice? Results from a simulation model by Giorgia Gon, Carolin Vegvari, Rebecca F Baggaley, Said Mohammed Ali, Salma Abdi Mahmoud, Farhat Jowhar

“…Introduction The WHO has issued the global target of reducing maternal mortality rates by two-thirds of 2010 baseline levels by 2030. In low-income settings, high birth rates and a relative lack of medical resources mean that an efficient use of resources and skilled staff is important in ensuring quality of intrapartum and postpartum care.Methods We use a stochastic, individual-based model to explore whether WHO resourcing benchmarks are sufficient to ensure consistent quality of care. …”
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Creatinine- and Cystatin C-Based Incidence of Chronic Kidney Disease and Acute Kidney Disease in AKI Survivors by Claire Rimes-Stigare, Bo Ravn, Akil Awad, Klara Torlén, Claes-Roland Martling, Matteo Bottai, Johan Mårtensson, Max Bell

“…Acute kidney disease (AKD) describes renal dysfunction 7 to 90 days after AKI and is determined by percentage change in creatinine from baseline. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined as the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) less than 60 ml/min/1.73 m2 persisting for more than 90 days. …”
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