Long-term risk factors for developing Barrett’s oesophagus in patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a longitudinal cohort study by John F Dillon, Paul Brennan, James Cotton, James Carberry, Christopher J Byrne

“…At follow-up (n=363), 22 (6.1%) participants developed BO; male sex (aOR 3.18 (95% CI 1.28 to 7.86), p=0.012), pack-years cigarettes smoked (aOR 1.04 (95% CI 1.00 to 1.08), p=0.046) and increased alcohol intake (aOR 1.02 (95% CI 1.00 to 1.04), p=0.013), were associated with increased odds of BO.Conclusion Male sex, pack-years cigarettes smoked, and increasing alcohol intake, were independently associated with increased odds of developing BO over 20-year follow-up. …”
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B ¯ → D ¯ D $$ \overline{B}\to \overline{D}D $$ decays and the extraction of f d /f u at hadron colliders by Jonathan Davies, Martin Jung, Stefan Schacht

“…Importantly, allowing in the same fit for the production fractions of charged and neutral B mesons to be different, we find f d /f u = 0.86 ± 0.05, which is 2.5σ away from unity, which, if confirmed, would have important phenomenological consequences.…”
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Lactate/albumin ratio as a prognostic biomarker for in-hospital mortality in pediatric patients with necrotizing enterocolitis by Ban Li, Yuanzhi Chen, Zhen Yang, Xianglun Sun, Cheng Tian, Jingsi Liu, Lihua Yuan, Kanglin Dai

“…The L/A ratio was a substantial predictor of in-hospital mortality, with an odds ratio (OR) of 5.24 (95% CI: 1.51–18.20, p = 0.01). An L/A cutoff value of 0.56 demonstrated a sensitivity of 0.923 and specificity of 0.486, with an AUC of 0.725 from the ROC curve analysis. …”
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Discordance between 90Y-PET/CT(MR)-estimated activity and dose calibrator measured administered activity: an international study in SIRT patients treated with resin and glass micro... by Thomas Carlier, Silvano Gnesin, Justin K. Mikell, Maurizio Conti, John O. Prior, Niklaus Schaefer, Maria del Sol Pérez Lago, Clément Bailly, Yuni K. Dewaraja, Thiago V. M. Lima

“…In glass microspheres, the mean APET/CT/Acalibrator was 0.84 ± 0.06 for TFBS and 0.90 ± 0.06 for ABS (0.66 ± 0.09 and 0.76 ± 0.07 for (APET/MR/Acalibrator)). …”
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Relationship between dietary intake and growth and development in Chinese pupils by Wen Fang, Ye Fu, Qin Li, Menghan Cheng, Miao Zhang, Yu Lu

“…The multivariate generalized linear regression models adjusted for covariates were used to investigate the association between dietary intake and growth and development of pupils.ResultsThe generalized linear regression model showed that standing long jump of all pupils (β = −6.735, 95% CI: −12.064, −1.406) and body fat rate (β = −2.650, 95% CI: −4.794, −0.507), fat weight (β = −1.283, 95% CI: −2.286, −0.280) and chest circumference (β = −1.456, 95% CI: −2.789, −0.123) of boys were negatively correlated with dietary diversity score. …”
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Model Analyses of Changes in Spring Surface Ozone Concentrations over Shandong Province in the Period of 2014–2017 by Jialin Li, Juzhen Cai, Houfeng Liu, Xiao Han, Yongfu Xu, Xiaofang Cai, Meigen Zhang

“…For example, the percentage of the sites where the changes of O3 concentrations were dominated by the variations of the meteorological conditions increased from 28.6% to 78.6% over the region in May between years. …”
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Residential Density and Illegal Waste Dumping In Cities by Mahamba C, and Ruhiiga TM

“…Finding: The results indicate a concentration of illegal waste dumps in low-income high density residential districts, an adjusted R2=0.186 and, a 2-tailed p-value at alpha 0.05 of 0.006 and 0.040 which are statistically significant. …”
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Predicting the risk of cardiovascular disease in adults exposed to heavy metals: Interpretable machine learning by Meiyue Shen, Yine Zhang, Runqing Zhan, Tingwei Du, Peixuan Shen, Xiaochuan Lu, Shengnan Liu, Rongrong Guo, Xiaoli Shen

“…Among all models, the random forest exhibited the best performance, with an accuracy of 90 %, an area under the curve of 0.85, and an F1 score of 0.86. Urine cadmium (Cd), blood lead (Pb), urine thallium (Tl), and urine tungsten (W) were identified as the most significant predictors of CVD, with importance scores of 0.062, 0.057, 0.051, and 0.050, respectively. …”
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Individual, household, and community-level factors associated with high-risk fertility behaviour among Nigerian women: secondary analysis of the 2018 demographic and health survey... by Michael Ekholuenetale, Chimezie Igwegbe Nzoputam, Amadou Barrow, Amit Arora

“…Muslim women had 20% (aOR = 1.20; 95% CI 1.06–1.36) increase in the odds of HRFB, when compared with the Christian women. …”
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Longitudinal maternal glycemia during pregnancy and placental epigenetic age acceleration by Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold, Prabhavi Wijesiriwardhana, Richard J. Biedrzycki, Cuilin Zhang, Katherine L. Grantz, Jagteshwar Grewal, Fasil Tekola-Ayele

“…Results Among Black women, high glucose, HbA1c, and insulin cumulative exposure levels were associated with lower PAA compared to low cumulative exposure levels (β = − 0.75 weeks, 95% CI = − 1.41 to − 0.08); β = − 0.86, 95% CI = − 1.51 to − 0.21; and β = − 0.76, 95% CI = − 1.49 to − 0.03, respectively). …”
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Predictors of survival rates among breast cancer patients in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis 2024 by Chalie Mulugeta, Tadele Emagneneh, Getinet Kumie, Assefa Sisay, Nigusie Abebaw, Mulat Ayele, Abebaw Alamrew

“…We found that significant predictors of decreased survival rate among breast cancer patients were age (aHR 1.05, 95% CI 1.02–1.08), illiteracy (aHR 7.34, 95% CI 4.38–10.3), married (aHR 1.21, 95% CI 1.03–1.40), rural residence (aHR 1.71, 95% CI 1.06–2.36), two or more lymph node involvement (aHR 3.57, 95% CI 1.02–6.13), histological grade two or more (aHR 1.44, 95% CI 1.12–2.77), overweight (aHR 0.56, 95% CI 0.24–0.87), and having comorbidity (aHR 1.86, 95% CI 1.04–2.68). …”
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Mpox clade I outbreak: how should Asia prepare and respond? by Poh Lian Lim, Wilnard Yeong Tze Tan, Shawn Vasoo

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An association between average daily sleep duration and gallstones in US adults by Yong Fang, Qiuyuan Xu, Jia Xu, HaiHua Wang

“…Our results revealed a statistically significant inverse association (OR = 0.92; 95% CI: 0.86, 0.99; p = 0.0236). This association was consistent across various demographic and health-related subgroups. …”
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A study to correlate the association of Gender, Age, Physiology (GAP) index and radiological patterns in interstitial lung disease by Aditya Shashi Bhushan, B L Shashibhushan, K Ashwin

“…Hypertension (31.2%) and diabetes mellitus (28.6%) were the most common comorbidities observed. …”
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Cluster analysis of post-COVID-19 physical and mental health outcomes 3–6 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection: results of the French Prospective ALCOVID Cohort Study by Philippe Halfon, Laurent Chiche, Hervé Pegliasco, Stanislas Rebaudet, Thomas Escoda, Hervé Faralli, Frédéric Cohen

“…Four PCC clusters were recognised: (1) paucisymptomatic PCC (n=82, 39%); (2) physical sequelae PCC (n=39, 18.6%), (3) pre-existing pulmonary comorbidities PCC (n=29, 13.8%); and (4) functional somatic and/or mental symptoms PCC (n=60, 28.6%). …”
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Continuity and volume of bone cement and anti osteoporosis treatment were guarantee of good clinical outcomes for percutaneous vertebroplasty: a multicenter study by Zhen Cheng, Guangzong Ren, Ziyi Li, Xianda Gao, Di Zhang, Guiyue Chen

“…Results There were statistically significant differences between two groups in volume of bone cement (p = 0.012), standardized treatment for osteoporosis (p = 0.004) and bone cement continuity (p = 0.006). The associated factors with good clinical outcomes after PVP were continuous bone cement (OR = 2.237, 95% CI = 1.191–4.201, p = 0.012), standardized treatment for osteoporosis (OR = 2.105, 95% CI = 1.089–4.068, p = 0.027) and volume of bone cement > 5.5 ml (OR = 1.271, 95% CI = 1.023–1.579, p = 0.030). …”
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The Relationship of Body Composition and Sleep Quality with VO2max in Adolescent Athletes at Sidoarjo Sports High School and Sewon 1 High School by Fathirani Mutiara, Rahadyana Muslichah, Mirza Hapsari Sakti Titis Penggalih

“…Results: There was a significant negative relationship between the percentage of fat mass and VO2max in both combined subjects (r=-0.669, p-value<0.001), male (r=-0.295, p-value=0.026), and female (r=-0.486, p-value<0.001). There was a significant positive relationship between the percentage of muscle mass and VO2max both with combined subjects (r=0.628, p-value<0.001) and women (r=0.492, p-value<0.001). …”
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