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

“…Predictive models were built using these biomarkers alongside demographic and clinical variables. …”
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Temporal relationship between hospital admissions for pneumonia and weather conditions in Shanghai, China: a time-series analysis by Yuan Liu, David Rogers, Yue Zhang, Haidong Kan, Weibing Wang, Jianming Xu, Renjie Chen, Xiaofang Ye, Li Peng

“…When the mean temperature ≥OT, no adverse effects from the temperature on pneumonia hospital admissions were found. The magnitude of the effects of temperature varied across gender and age groups. …”
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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

“…Adjusted multiple logistic regression models were performed to observe the effects of different factors and reported as adjusted ORs (AORs) with 95% CIs. …”
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Intra-specific variation in mortality of even-aged Cryptomeria japonica (L. f.) D. Don. forests can be explained using relationships among long-term stand characteristics by Keiko Fukumoto, Tomohiro Nishizono, Fumiaki Kitahara

“…Competition, individual size, and stand density were selected for the best logistic model (area under the curve (AUC) = 0.74, Brier score = 0.042), whereas age and site productivity were not (p > 0.05). …”
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Factores de riesgo que influyen en la recaída de consumo de drogas lícitas e ilícitas en adolescentes atendidos en el Instituto sobre Alcoholismo y Farmacodependencia / Risk Factor... by Tatiana Blanco-Álvarez, Silvia Jiménez-Morales

“…Instrumentos: Entrevista de Recaídas para Usuarios de Conductas Adictivas, Inventario  de Situaciones Precipitantes de Recaídas, Escala de Control Atencional, Inventario de Habilidades de Afrontamiento, Escala de Depresión, Ansiedad y Estrés, Escala Multidimensional de Apoyo Social Recibido, Escala de Dificultades en la Regulación Emocional, y Cuestionario Breve de Confianza Situacional. Muestra: 107 adolescentes que reciben atención ambulatoria en el Centro de Menores del Instituto de Alcoholismo y Farmacodependencia. …”
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Rib suppression-based radiomics for diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome in chest X-rays by Yudong Wang, Zongjin Qu, Zhengjun Dai, Yuhong Li, Yanyan Liu, Wei Wang, Lianxiang Xiao, Yi Zhang

“…A total of 138 CXR images were collected in this study. The data was partitioned into training and validation subsets based on chronological order. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Combined treatment of glibenclamide and CoCl2 decreases MMP9 expression and inhibits growth in highly metastatic breast cancer by Zhe Rong, Li Li, Fei Fei, Lailong Luo, Yang Qu

“…Tumor size was measured to determine the growth curve. All mice were sacrificed on the 18th day after initial inoculation and tumor tissues were collected. …”
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Associations between phenol and paraben exposure and the risk of developing breast cancer in adult women: a cross-sectional study by Yao Xiong, Zhiyu Li, Xiong Xiong, Zixuan Luo, Kaixin Zhong, Jiawei Hu, Shengrong Sun, Chuang Chen

“…Data on urinary bisphenol A (BPA), triclosan (TRS), benzophenone-3 (BP3), methyl paraben (MPB), ethyl paraben (EPB), propyl paraben (PPB), and butyl paraben (BUP) were obtained from the 2005–2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. …”
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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

“…Multivariate logistic regression analyses and restricted cubic spline (RCS) were used to determine the associations between CVAI and MASLD or fibrosis. …”
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Harnessing AI for Enhanced Weather Prediction: A Focus on Rainfall by Hira Farman, Noman Islam, Noman Hasany

“…The stacking model method seemed to be less optimal as the results derived from it were not as satisfactory as the ones achieved by the individual modelsAmong all the algorithms experimented with in this work, the best one was AdaBoost. …”
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Causal associations between socioeconomic status and prostate cancer using two-sample Mendelian randomization study by Zhenxing Wang, Chunyan Wang, Xing Gou, Liang Pei, Xiaoyuan Qiao

“…No causal associations were identified between other SES components and prostate cancer. …”
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Using a Two-Steps Clustering and PCA Analysis for Stratified Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Care: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study by Peiró AM, Barrachina J, Escorial M, Aguado I, Margarit C, Grimby-Ekman A

“…A retrospective study was developed (n = 120) following the stratified analysis.Results: From a principal component analysis, cut-off points were defined to discriminate between the six clusters and three groups of different pain intervention requirements. …”
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Efficacy and safety of camrelizumab combined with chemotherapy as second-line treatment for locally advanced, recurrent, or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by Yinfang Gu, Xiaofang Zou, Junlin Zhu, Guowu Wu

“…Additionally, factors influencing OS in ESCC patients were analyzed. Results A total of 60 patients with locally advanced, recurrent, or metastatic ESCC were included, with 30 receiving camrelizumab combined with chemotherapy and 30 receiving chemotherapy alone as second-line treatment. …”
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Exploration of different quantitative polymerase chain reaction-based genotyping methods to distinguish Apcmin/+ mice from wildtype mice. by Yuting Sun, Tingyu Zhou, Silin Ye, Effie Yin Tung Lau, Yao Zeng, Jessie Qiaoyi Liang

“…In contrast, when the qPCR methods were used, success rates exceeding 99% were achieved with a single test. …”
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A vueltas con el derecho a la vivienda y la normativa actual que lo regula by Carolina del Carmen Castillo Martínez

“…En este trabajo se realiza un recorrido breve por algunas cuestiones que alberga el derecho a la vivienda y la normativa actual que lo regula y se exponen algunas valoraciones críticas que asoman como avance de problemas que, lamentablemente, parece que van a persistir sin solución, en perjuicio de quienes siguen viendo limitada su posibilidad de acceso a la vivienda, en definitiva, de los más vulnerables …”
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Nonlinear relationship between hepatic steatosis index and reversion to normal glucose regulation in Chinese adults with prediabetes by Haiyong Zeng, Fei Yu, Haofei Hu, Yong Han, Ruixue Ye, Changchun Cao

“…Cox proportional hazard models were employed to calculate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) to assess the association between HSI levels and reversion to NGR. …”
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New method for cytological evaluation using direct nipple discharge without aspiration by Jiang Zhu, Han Cong, Xiaotong Zhang, Xiaoya Dong, Song Zhao, Chaolu Hu, Jude Ranchu Maimo, Yawen Wang, Kai Zhang, Jianli Wang, Pengyu Li, Rong Ma

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GGCT participates in the malignant process of hepatocellular cancer cells by regulating the PTEN/PI3K/AKT pathway through binding to EZH2 by Junbo He, Liangzhi Wang, Mengjia Lv, Yiming Yuan

“…Methods GGCT expression in HCC and its effect on patient survival curve in HCC were evaluated utilizing the UALCAN database, along with western blot. …”
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Inverse design of nanophotonic devices enabled by optimization algorithms and deep learning: recent achievements and future prospects by Kim Junhyeong, Kim Jae-Yong, Kim Jungmin, Hyeong Yun, Neseli Berkay, You Jong-Bum, Shim Joonsup, Shin Jonghwa, Park Hyo-Hoon, Kurt Hamza

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Respiratory abnormalities in sarcoidosis: physiopathology and early diagnosis using oscillometry combined with respiratory modeling by Bruno Falcão Oliveira, Caroline Oliveira Ribeiro, Cíntia Moraes de Sá Sousa, Mariana Carneiro Lopes, Agnaldo José Lopes, Pedro Lopes de Melo

“…The diagnostic accuracy analysis showed that total resistance and hysteresivity were the best parameters, reaching an AUC = 0.986 and 0.938 in the SNS and SAS groups, respectively. …”
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