Biological age model using explainable automated CT-based cardiometabolic biomarkers for phenotypic prediction of longevity by Perry J. Pickhardt, Michael W. Kattan, Matthew H. Lee, B. Dustin Pooler, Ayis Pyrros, Daniel Liu, Ryan Zea, Ronald M. Summers, John W. Garrett

“…Age- and sex-corrected survival hazard ratio for the highest-vs-lowest risk quartile was 8.73 (95% CI,8.14-9.36) for the CT biological age model, and increased to 24.79 after excluding cancer diagnoses within 5 years of CT. …”
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Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 virus in saliva using a guanidium based transport medium suitable for RT-PCR diagnostic assays. by Sukalyani Banik, Kaheerman Saibire, Shraddha Suryavanshi, Glenn Johns, Soumitesh Chakravorty, Robert Kwiatkowski, David Alland, Padmapriya P Banada

“…<h4>Background</h4>Upper respiratory samples used to test for SARS-CoV-2 virus may be infectious and present a hazard during transport and testing. A buffer with the ability to inactivate SARS-CoV-2 at the time of sample collection could simplify and expand testing for COVID-19 to non-conventional settings.…”
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Uptake, safety and effectiveness of inactivated influenza vaccine in inflammatory bowel disease: a UK-wide study by Abhishek Abhishek, Christian D Mallen, Georgina Nakafero, Matthew J Grainge, Tim Card, Jonathan S Nguyen Van-Tam

“…To investigate vaccine effectiveness, we calculated the propensity score (PS) for vaccination and conducted Cox proportional hazard regression with inverse-probability treatment weighting on PS. …”
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Association between blood–urea–nitrogen-to-albumin ratio and in-hospital mortality in patients diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019: a retrospective cohort study by Ruoqing Zhou, Dianzhu Pan

“…Subsequent to adjustment for confounding variables, patients in the highest BAR tertile exhibited an elevated risk for in-hospital mortality relative to those in the lowest tertile (hazard ratio [HR] 2.44 [95% confidence interval CI 1.24–4.79]) when BAR was treated as a categorical variable. …”
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GWAS of CRP response to statins further supports the role of APOE in statin response: A GIST consortium study by Emma F. Magavern, Harshal Deshmukh, Geraldine Asselin, Elizabeth Theusch, Stella Trompet, Xiaohui Li, Raymond Noordam, Y.-D. Ida Chen, Teresa E. Seeman, Kent D. Taylor, Wendy S. Post, Jean-Claude Tardif, Dirk S. Paul, Emelia J. Benjamin, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Jerome I. Rotter, Ronald M. Krauss, J.Wouter Jukema, Paul M. Ridker, Patricia B. Munroe, Mark J. Caulfield, Daniel I. Chasman, Marie-Pierre Dubé, Graham A. Hitman, Helen R. Warren

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Digital mental health treatment implementation playbook: successful practices from implementation experiences in American healthcare organizations by David C. Mohr, David C. Mohr, Alexandra L. Silverman, Alexandra L. Silverman, Soo Jeong Youn, Soo Jeong Youn, Soo Jeong Youn, Patricia Areán, Andrew Bertagnolli, Jenna Carl, Tarolyn Carlton, Neha Chaudhary, David Cooper, Shelly DeVito, Stephanie Eaneff, Megan Flom, Valerie L. Forman-Hoffman, Leanna Fortunato, Karen Franchino, Andrea K. Graham, Heidi Greenberger, Jessica Hauflaire, Benjamin Kaveladze, Rachel Kornfield, Kaylee P. Kruzan, Eric Kuhn, Eric Kuhn, Carolyn MacIver, Frederick Muench, Regina Misch, Adrian Ortega, Lisa Palko, Derek Richards, Derek Richards, Louisa Salhi, Jonathan Schremp, Eva Szigethy, Eva Szigethy, Nathan Tatro, Bethany A. Teachman, Bethany A. Teachman, Trina Histon

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Dynamic Challenges of Active Tuberculosis: Prevalence and Risk Factors of Co-Infection in Clinical and Microbiological Characteristics at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah... by Mokhtar JA, Attallah DM, Jiman-Fatani AA, Al-Rabia MW, Alqarni MA, Saleh BH, Amboon MM, Altorki TA, Alkuwaity KK, Abujamel T, Kaki R, Albarakati TN, Daghistani H, Ismail MA, Alharbi O, Abu ITM, Alfadil A, Ibrahem K, Mufrrih M, Sait AM

“…Patients undergoing hemodialysis, and those with respiratory comorbidities, cancer, diabetes, and smoking were found to have a higher mortality hazard, indicating these as significant risk factors for TB.Conclusion: This study highlights TB’s prevalence and drug resistance at KAUH, emphasizing high-risk groups, including males and young adults. …”
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Base editing HbS to HbG-Makassar improves hemoglobin function supporting its use in sickle cell disease by Zachary Kostamo, Manuel A. Ortega, Chavonna Xu, Patricia R. Feliciano, Elizabeth Budak, Daisy Lam, Valerie Winton, Rebecca Jenkins, Archita Venugopal, Margaret Zhang, John Jamieson, Brent Coisman, Kennedy Goldsborough, Britney Hernandez, Celeste K. Kanne, Erica N. Evans, Jordan Zgodny, Yankai Zhang, Jawa Darazim, Ashwin Patel, Michael A. Pendergast, John Manis, Adam J. Hartigan, Giuseppe Ciaramella, Seung-Joo Lee, S. Haihua Chu, Vivien A. Sheehan

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A cycle of invisibilisation: a qualitative study of Brazilian health system factors shaping access to long COVID care by Emma-Louise Aveling, Margareth Crisóstomo Portela, Letícia Soares, Bárbara Caldas, Brenda Sabaine, Flora Cornish

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Usos de la cianamida de hidrógeno y alternativos en kiwi (Actinidia sp.) y su potencial aplicación en Argentina by Maria David, A.K. YOMMI, V. QUILLEHAUQUY, E.E. Sánchez

“…Actinidia deliciosa (kiwi verde) “Hayward”, la variedad más cultivada tanto en Argentina como en el mundo, necesita acumular entre 950 y 1150 horas de frío. …”
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Accounting for racial bias and social determinants of health in a model of hypertension control by Yang Hu, Nicholas Cordella, Rebecca G. Mishuris, Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

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Discovery of the bacterial HslV protease activators as lead molecules with novel mode of action by Aurangzeb Sana, Aurongzeb Muhammad, Shamim Shahbaz, Rashid Yasmeen, Khan Khalid Mohammed, Aziz Tariq, Alharbi Metab, Alasmari Abdullah F.

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Beyond the storms: Exploring predictors of posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth among survivors of hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico by Marie-Claire Meadows, Noelle Serino, Dahianira M. Camacho-Monclova, Kaumudi Joshipura, Sarah R. Lowe

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Análisis de la disponibilidad de agua útil del suelo en plantaciones de kiwi (Actinidia deliciosa A. Chev) del sudeste bonaerense by M. A. DAVID, H.D. LIGIER, E.E. SÁNCHEZ

“…El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar la disponibilidad de agua útil de 14 campos cultivados con kiwi “Hayward”, localizados en Sierra de los Padres, Mar del Plata, Batán, Miramar y Mar del Sur, y relacionarlas con el tipo de suelo, como un aporte para mejorar el riego de este frutal en la región. …”
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African Childhood “Reawakened”: Using Cultural Studies Theory in Understanding the Use of Symbolism in Camara Laye’s The African Child. by Johnson, Ocan, Lillian, Tindyebwa

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Hubble Space Telescope Observations within the Sphere of Influence of the Powerful Supermassive Black Hole in PKS 0745-191 by Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Hyunseop Choi, Minghao Guo, Annabelle Richard-Laferrière, Carter Rhea, Marine Prunier, Helen Russell, Andy Fabian, Jonelle L. Walsh, Marie-Joëlle Gingras, Brian McNamara, Steve Allen, André-Nicolas Chené, Alastair Edge, Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais, Michael McDonald, Priyamvada Natarajan, Jeremy Sanders, James F. Steiner, Benjamin Vigneron, Anja von der Linden

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Association of early versus late care seeking for sport-related concussion in adolescent athletes in Canada: a historical cohort study by Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Carolina Cancelliere, Cameron Marshall, Darrin Germann, Mohsen Kazemi, David Youngwoo Oh

“…The association was expressed using hazard rate ratios (HRR) with 95% CIs.Results A total of 4696 patient records (mean age of 14.71 (±1.69 SD); 57.7% male) were eligible. …”
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Use of Minimal Residual Disease Status to Reduce Uncertainty in Estimating Long-term Survival Outcomes for Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma Patients by Naomi van Hest, Peter Morten, Keith Stubbs, Nicola Trevor

“…In the response-based PSM, survival was dependent on MRD status at the time of the response assessment via a landmark analysis. Cox-proportional hazard ratios from external sources and CASSIOPEIA informed the relationship for OS between MRD-positive and MRD-negative, and between patients receiving BTd and daratumumab plus BTd, respectively. …”
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Impact of corticosteroids on the efficacy of first-line pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer by Amytis Roboubi, Eric Wasielewski, Soraya Bordier, Amélie Turlotte, Geoffrey Pavaut, Arnaud Scherpereel, Alexis Cortot, Clément Gauvain

“…In multivariate analysis, SC therapy at a 10 mg/day threshold was not associated with PFS (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.25, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.77–2.03, p  = 0.35). …”
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Gender and melanoma subtype‐based prognostic implications of MUC16 and TTN co‐occurrent mutations in melanoma: A retrospective multi‐study analysis by Nilesh Kodali, Simona Alomary, Abhijit Bhattaru, Ahmed Eldaboush, Robert A. Schwartz, Shari R. Lipner

“…Univariate Cox regression and Student's t‐tests were used to analyze hazard ratios and total mutation count comparisons, respectively. …”
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