The impact of the ursodeoxycholic acid as monotherapy and in the combination with the lactulose on the biochemical blood tests values of the nonalcoholic steatohepatitis patients by I. V. Mayev, Yu. A. Kucheryavyy, S. V. Morozov, M. G. Saidullayeva, M. L. Akhtayeva, N. Yu. Stukova, E. A. Krasnyakova

“…The tendency towards the more expressed impact of the combination of UDCA and lactulose (Ursoliv®) in comparison to the monotherapy by UDCA (Ursosan®) on the biochemical parameters were discovered. However, the statistical credibility was not reached, which, probably, can be explained by the peculiarities of the sampling.Conclusions. …”
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First-year Class Instills Confidence in Nontechnical Skills for Collegiate Success by Anna Levina, Katy Guthrie, Leah Cook, Marvin Pritts

“…However, confidence always improved by every measure from the beginning to the end of the semester, and many of these changes were statistically significant. This class succeeded in building confidence in specific skills and practices necessary for a successful college career and future employment.…”
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Large-scale prospective serum metabolomic profiling reveals candidate predictive biomarkers for suspected preeclampsia patients by Yan Cao, Lanlan Meng, Yifei Wang, Shenglong Zhao, Yuanyuan Zheng, Rui Ran, Jie Du, Hongqiang Wu, Jiaqi Han, Zhengwen Xu, Yifan Lu, Lin Liu, Lu Chen, Jing Wang, Youran Li, Yanhong Zhai, Zhi Sun, Zheng Cao

“…Moreover, a panel of seven predictive biomarkers including 2-methyl-3-hydroxy-5-formylpyridine-4-carboxylate, gamma-glutamyl-leucine, 2-hydroxyvaleric acid, LysoPC(16:1(9Z)/0:0), PC(DiMe(13,5)/MonoMe(13,5)), ADP-D-glycero-beta-D-manno-heptose and phenylalanyl-tryptophan were identified for PE development by performing multiple statistical analysis and LASSO regression analysis. …”
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Social Media Marketing for Small and Medium Enterprise Performance in Uganda: A Structural Equation Model by .Kikawa, Cliff R, Kiconco, Charity, Moses, Agaba, Ntirampeba, Dimas, Ssematimba, Amos, Kalema, Billy M.

“…This study’s objective is to identify the factors that significantly help Ugandan SMEs implement SMM techniques to enhance their commercial performance. Here, statistical models are utilized to analyze how the age and gender of SMEs owners as moderating variables affect the adoption and performance of SMEs in Uganda. …”
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The Effect of Maternal Body Mass Index on in Vitro Fertilization-Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection Treatment: A Prospective Comparative Study by Zeynep Ozturk Inal, Hasan Ali Inal

“…Results: While there were no differences between the groups in terms of age, smoking status, etiology of infertility, thyroid-stimulating hormone, prolactin levels, antral follicle count, and stimulation protocol (p>0.05), there was a significant statistical difference in terms of body mass index, duration of infertility, baseline follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, estradiol (E2), duration of stimulation, total gonadotropin dose required, peak E2 levels, progesterone levels, endometrial thickness on hCG administration, and cycle cancellation rate (p<0.05). …”
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Effect of atrial high-rate episodes (AHREs) on functional status and quality of life (QoL) in heart failure—cardiac resynchronization therapy population by Lamyaa Elsayed Allam, Youssef Abdel Moneim, Hayam Mohammad Eldamanhoury, Sherif Mohammad Aziz Eltoukhy

“…It was found that AHRE was statistically linked to a higher total MLHFQ score (46.76 ± 9.82 in the AHRE group vs. 36.97 ± 7.76 in the non-AHRE group, P 0.032), with higher physical scores in the AHRE group. …”
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Analgesic Efficacy of Transversus Abdominis Plane block vs Local Infiltration of Lignocaine and Bupivacaine in Post-operative Patients by Shabbir Ahmad, Muhammad Kareemullah, Saeed Mahmood, Muhammad Azhar Alam, Qasim Farooq, Muhammad Rashid

“…At 6 hours, 23.63% of patients in the TAP Block group needed additional analgesia, compared to 38.18% in the Wound Infiltration group, though this difference was not statistically significant. However, at 12, 18, and 24 hours, the TAP Block group showed a significantly lower need for rescue analgesia, with p-values of 0.002, and 0.008, respectively. …”
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Delving into biomarkers and predictive modeling for CVD mortality: a 20-year cohort study by Zhen Wu, Abdullahi Mohamud Hilowle, Ying Zhou, Changlin Zhao, Shuo Yang

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Care burden and quality of life among family caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in China: the mediating roles of social support and coping styles by Fang Liu, Rui Zhang, Cui Cui, Hengyu Zhou

“…Whereas positive coping style as a mediator was not statistically significant. Additionally, social support and positive coping style formed a significant serial mediation path. …”
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Confounding Risk Factors in Developing Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus among Children and Adolescents at Sulaimani Chronic Diabetes Health Center by Pary Mohammad Azize, Chia H. Sadiq

“…A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted at a special center for Type 1 Diabetes Miletus A questionnaire was developed and administered to a convenience sample of (170 ) mothers or fathers. Descriptive statistics data (frequency, percentage, mean and stander deviation) and also Factorial analysis (principal component analysis) was used in order to identify the effective factors affecting diabetes in children and Adolescents. …”
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Sex-specific prevalence, inequality and associated predictors of hypertension, diabetes, and comorbidity among Bangladeshi adults: results from a nationwide cross-sectional demogra... by Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Raisul Akram, Nausad Ali, Marufa Sultana, Nurnabi Sheikh

“…A p value of &lt;0.05 was adopted as the level of statistical significance.Setting The study was conducted in Bangladesh.Participants A total of 7521 adult participants with availability of biomarkers information were included.Results The mean age of the study participants was 51.4 years (SD ±13.0). …”
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Aerosol Measurements over India: Comparison of MAX-DOAS Measurements with Ground-based (AERONET) and Satellite-based (MODIS) Data by Prithviraj Mali, Mriganka Sekhar Biswas, Steffen Beirle, Thomas Wagner, Shrivardhan Hulswar, Swaleha Inamdar, Anoop S. Mahajan

“…At 477 nm, all three locations had a moderately positive correlation between the MAX-DOAS and MODIS AODs, with statistically significant correlation coefficients of 0.66, 0.61, and 0.60, respectively. …”
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Real World Evaluation of Next-Day Molecular Respiratory Infectious Disease Testing on Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs by French AJ, Fragala MS, Evans AS, Upadhyay P, Goldberg SE, Reddy J

“…This study evaluated healthcare utilization and costs following diagnostic testing for acute oropharyngeal and respiratory tract infections (RTIs).Patients and Methods: Healthcare utilization and costs were evaluated in patients with acute oropharyngeal infections (n=1,172,693), and RTIs (n=4,005,228) who received a syndromic panel-based PCR test with next-day results (HealthTrackRx, Denton, TX), or no test in the IQVIA PharMetrics® Plus adjudicated claims database.Results: Statistically significant differences were observed between patients who received the PCR test compared to those who received no test. …”
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Role of Serum and Ultrasonometric Markers in the Early Diagnosis of Malignant Transformation of Periductal Liver Fibrosis in Patients with <i>Opisthorchis Felineus</i> Infection by A. Е. Kovshirina, O. S. Fedorova, Yu. V. Kovshirina, V. A. Petrov

“…During the analytical stage, the relationship between the structural features of the liver ac- cording to the results of ultrasound examination (presence of opisthorchiasis-associated periductal fibrosis), clinical parameters, parasitological study data (infection intensity), and changes in biochemical, immunological parameters and tumor markers in patients against the background of O. felineus infection was assessed. Statistical analysis was performed using the R programming language (version 3.6.1).Results. …”
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Effectiveness and safety of herbal medicines for induction of labour: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Edward Fottrell, Carina King, Chrispin Mandiwa, Collins Zamawe, Hannah Maria Jennings

“…A random-effects model was used to synthesise effects sizes and heterogeneity was explored through I2 statistic. The risk of bias was assessed using ‘John Hopkins Nursing School Critical Appraisal Tool’ and ‘Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool’.Results A total of 1421 papers were identified through the searches, but only 10 were retained after eligibility and risk of bias assessments. …”
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Predicting Exposure to Dust Particles Using Spirometric Index and Perception Studies among Farmers in Selected Farm Settlements in Ogun State, Nigeria by Funmilola Felicia Oyebanji, Godson Rowland E. E. Ana, Yahaya Mijinyawa, Olusola Olabisi Ogunseye

“…The collected data were evaluated through descriptive and inferential statistics and indicated that the majority of the farmers (51.8%) applied manure, fertilizer and chemical sprays without using personal protective equipment (PPE), although a large percentage of both the farmers (74.9%) and the non-farmers (82.1%) understood that poor air quality could cause respiratory disease. …”
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Risk factors for Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infections: A case-control study by Sibongakonke Mbele, Sandeep D. Vasaikar

“…GraphPad Prism version 8 software was used for statistical analysis. Results: Out of the 226 participants with CRE infection, CRE cases were more likely than controls to be adults (51.9%, odds ratio [OR]: 1.34, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.72–2.55) and of male sex (54.9%, OR: 1.48, 95% CI: 0,87–2,45). …”
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Associations between Chinese Visceral Adiposity Index and the Risk of Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Liver Fibrosis: A Large Cross-sectional Study by Hui Liu, Mingming Deng, Gang Luo, Jie Chen

“…P<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The risk of MASLD was increased at quartiles 2, 3, and 4 compared with quartile 1 of CVAI (OR [95% CI]=3.66 [2.44-5.63], 7.954 [5.31-12.23], and 14.84 [9.80-23.06], respectively), (P<0.001). …”
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Benchmarking LLM chatbots’ oncological knowledge with the Turkish Society of Medical Oncology’s annual board examination questions by Efe Cem Erdat, Engin Eren Kavak

“…Performance was analyzed based on the number of correct answers, with statistical comparisons made using chi-square tests and one-way ANOVA. …”
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Public satisfaction with Healthy China Action Plan implementation: a web-based cross-sectional survey in southwest China by Li Pan, Yi Chen, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Dongyang Liu, Wuzhao Chen, Xinyu Bai

“…All of the effects were statistically significant.Conclusions Understanding the impact of background variables on public satisfaction with Healthy China (Guangxi) Action Plan implementation was crucial, along with considering the sociodemographic traits of participants. …”
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