PD-1 抗体联合替莫唑胺治疗晚期黑色素瘤的疗效及安全性分析 by 刘巍, 李婧婧, 丁娅, 李丹丹, 文习之, 祝保艳, 张晓实

“…【结果】33例患者接受的中位疗程数为替莫唑胺6.0（1~12）个周期和PD-1抗体7.0（1~27）个周期，客观有效率（ORR）为24.2%（肢端型ORR为38.5%），疾病控制率（DCR）为60.6%，中位无进展生存期（mPFS）为4.3月（95%CI，1.3~7.3），中位疾病控制时间（mDDC）为7.5月（95%CI，2.3~12.7），中位缓解持续时间（mDOR）为11.1月（95%CI，5.5~16.6），中位总生存（mOS）尚未达到，1年生存率为86.1%。Kaplan-Meier法生存分析和COX多因素分析均显示影响PFS的因素有PD-L1表达和BARFV600E/K基因突变状态。PD-L1表达阳性患者比阴性患者有更长的PFS（<0.05）。…”
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Association of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) and High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (Hs-CRP) with the Risk of New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Diabetes by Liu Y, Liu H, Sun D, Zheng Y, Tse G, Chen K, Qiu J, Wu S, Liu T

“…We employed multivariable Cox regression analysis to evaluate the relationships between eGFR, hs-CRP, and new-onset AF, adjusting for confounders including smoking status, alcohol consumption, blood pressure, fasting blood glucose (FBG), heart rate, lipid levels, body mass index (BMI), and medication usage. …”
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Risk and Prognosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Mexican Americans with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Hatia RI, Hwang LY, Li R, Troisi C, Jalal PK, Amos CI, Gomez HF, Chun YS, Rashid A, Kaseb AO, Scheet PA, Hassan MM

“…Overall survival was examined, and multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression analysis was performed for HCC patients with type 2 DM.Results: The adjusted odds ratio (AOR) for DM was 2.74 (P < 0.01). …”
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Pre-treatment nutrition-related indicators and the prognosis of patients with newly diagnosed epithelial ovarian cancer: an ambispective cohort study by Shirui Wang, Jingyu Zhu, Ningjuan Wu, Nannan Wang, Xiaohe Dang, Minyi Zhao, Juan Zhao, Ding Ma, Xiaofeng Yang

“…Survival curves were created using the Kaplan–Meier method. A Cox proportional hazards model was established to obtain hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).ResultsThe median follow-up duration was 48 months. …”
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Clinical characteristics and prognosis of amyopathic dermatomyositis patients with interstitial lung disease: insights from a retrospective cohort by Yanan Ying, Tingting Wu, Long Wang, Yun Zhang, Yiming Yu, Zaichun Deng, Qunli Ding

“…Survival was shorter among patients with ADM-OP than among control patients (p = 0.002). Cox multivariate analysis revealed that age (p = 0.002), smoking status (p = 0.011), anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (MDA5) antibody (p = 0.017), and white blood cell count (p = 0.004) were independent predictors of shorter survival. …”
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Association between insulin resistance indices and outcomes in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by Weicheng Ni, Ruihao Jiang, Di Xu, Jianhan Zhu, Jing Chen, Yuanzhen Lin, Hao Zhou

“…Both univariable and multivariable Cox proportional hazards models were employed to examine the association between the IR indexes and MACE. …”
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Long-Term Impact of Using Mobile Phones and Playing Computer Games on the Brain Structure and the Risk of Neurodegenerative Diseases: Large Population-Based Study by Yi Xiao, Sirui Zhang, Yuanzheng Ma, Shichan Wang, Chunyu Li, Yan Liang, Huifang Shang

“…In addition, a group of participants underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at follow-up. Cox regression and linear regression were performed. …”
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Outcomes with bridging radiation therapy prior to chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy in patients with aggressive large B-cell lymphomas by Gohar S. Manzar, Chelsea C. Pinnix, Stephanie O. Dudzinski, Kathryn E. Marqueen, Elaine E. Cha, Lewis F. Nasr, Alison K. Yoder, Michael K. Rooney, Paolo Strati, Sairah Ahmed, Chijioke Nze, Ranjit Nair, Luis E. Fayad, Michael Wang, Loretta J. Nastoupil, Jason R. Westin, Christopher R. Flowers, Sattva S. Neelapu, Jillian R. Gunther, Bouthaina S. Dabaja, Susan Y. Wu, Penny Q. Fang

“…Survival was modeled using Kaplan-Meier or Cox regression models for events distributed over time, or binary logistic regression for disease response. …”
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Heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction: retrospective study of ejection fraction trajectory risk by Robert J.H. Miller, Majid Nabipoor, Erik Youngson, Gynter Kotrri, Nowell M. Fine, Jonathan G. Howlett, Ian D. Paterson, Justin Ezekowitz, Finlay A. McAlister

“…Associations with time to first event were assessed with multivariable Cox analyses adjusted for age, co‐morbidities, and medications. …”
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Second-line treatment patterns and outcomes in advanced HCC after progression on atezolizumab/bevacizumab by Meng Wu, Claudia A.M. Fulgenzi, Antonio D’Alessio, Alessio Cortellini, Ciro Celsa, Giulia F. Manfredi, Bernardo Stefanini, Y. Linda Wu, Yi-Hsiang Huang, Anwaar Saeed, Angelo Pirozzi, Tiziana Pressiani, Lorenza Rimassa, Martin Schoenlein, Kornelius Schulze, Johann von Felden, Yehia Mohamed, Ahmed O. Kaseb, Arndt Vogel, Natascha Roehlen, Marianna Silletta, Naoshi Nishida, Masatoshi Kudo, Caterina Vivaldi, Lorenz Balcar, Bernhard Scheiner, Matthias Pinter, Amit G. Singal, Joshua Glover, Susanna Ulahannan, Fredrich Foerster, Arndt Weinmann, Peter R. Galle, Neehar D. Parikh, Wei-Fan Hsu, Alessandro Parisi, Hong Jae Chon, David J. Pinato, Celina Ang

“…Median PPS of the whole cohort (mPPS) was 6.0 months (95% CI 5.2-7.2). On multivariate Cox regression analysis, absence of portal vein tumor thrombus, ECOG <2, and continued active treatment were predictors of better PPS. mPPS was significantly longer for patients who continued active treatment vs. …”
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Syncopes and clinical outcome in heart failure: results from prospective clinical study data in Germany by Djawid Hashemi, Moritz Blum, Meinhard Mende, Stefan Störk, Christiane E. Angermann, Sabine Pankuweit, Elvis Tahirovic, Rolf Wachter, Burkert Pieske, Frank Edelmann, Hans‐Dirk Düngen, the German Competence Network for Heart Failure

“…These constellations of the risk factors explained the effect of HoS in a multivariable Cox regression models. Conclusions In a large cohort of patients with HF, HoS was found to be a clinically and easily accessible predictor of both overall and hospitalization‐free survival in patients with HFrEF and should thus routinely be assessed.…”
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Temporal trends in characteristics and outcome of heart failure patients with and without significant coronary artery disease by Entela Bollano, Björn Redfors, Araz Rawshani, Dimitrios Venetsanos, Sebastian Völz, Oskar Angerås, Charlotta Ljungman, Joakim Alfredsson, Tomas Jernberg, Truls Råmunddal, Petur Petursson, J. Gustav Smith, Oscar Braun, Henrik Hagström, Ole Fröbert, David Erlinge, Elmir Omerovic

“…Long‐term survival was estimated with multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression adjusted for differences in patient characteristics. …”
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Pharmacogenetic and pharmacokinetic factors for dexmedetomidine-associated hemodynamic instability in pediatric patients by Yanping Guan, Bilian Li, Yiyu Zhang, Hao Luo, Xueding Wang, Xue Bai, Zhuoling Zheng, Yaying Huang, Wei Wei, Min Huang, Xingrong Song, Guoping Zhong

“…LASSO regression was used to identify significant factors, and a Cox’s proportional hazards model-derived nomogram for hemodynamic instability was developed.ResultsHemodynamic instability was observed in 52 out of 270 patients (209 events), resulting in a cumulative incidence of 16.30% at 90 min, as estimated by Kaplan–Meier estimation, and it was associated with a median time to event of 35 min. …”
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Association between major depressive disorder or depressive symptoms and the risk of vascular complications among patients with type 2 diabetes, and the mediating role of metabolic... by Guochen Li, Yongfu Yu, Chunqing Lin, Shichen Zheng, Hong Tu, Wanghong Xu

“…Major depressive disorder (MDD) was ascertained according to the hospital admission records and self-report of doctor-diagnosed conditions, while the presence of depressive symptoms was assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire-2. Cox proportional hazards models were performed to estimate the hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of MDD and depressive symptoms with the risks of incident heart failure (HF); total and individual atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) including coronary artery disease (CAD), ischemic stroke (IS), and peripheral artery disease (PAD); total and individual microvascular complications of diabetic kidney disease (DKD), diabetic retinopathy (DR), and diabetic neuropathy (DN). …”
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Lower incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma with tenofovir alafenamide in chronic hepatitis B: Evidence from a large-scale cohort by Hye-Jin Yoo, Jae-Young Kim, Jeong-Ju Yoo, Hye Won Lee, Sang Gyune Kim, Young Seok Kim

“…In patients without cirrhosis, the TAF group had a lower HCC incidence compared with the TDF group (IRR 1.19, p = 0.030) but not the ETV group (IRR 0.85, p = 0.066). Cox regression analysis showed that the TAF group had a significantly lower HCC incidence compared with the TDF (hazard ratio 1.335, p <0.001) and ETV groups (hazard ratio 1.162, p = 0.011), after adjusting for age, gender, and cirrhosis status. …”
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Associations between milk infrared-predicted plasma biomarkers of stress resilience and fertility in dairy cattle: Insights for enhancing breeding programs and herd management by Alessio Cecchinato, Hugo Toledo-Alvarado, Lucio Flavio Macedo Mota, Vittoria Bisutti, Erminio Trevisi, Riccardo Negrini, Sara Pegolo, Stefano Schiavon, Luigi Gallo, Giovanni Bittante, Diana Giannuzzi

“…The interval fertility traits were fitted as the hazard of either receiving the first service after calving at time t for iCF or becoming pregnant after calving at time t for DO in a Cox proportional-hazards model. Statistical analyses were performed including in the model the number of lactations, year of calving, and herd as fixed effects. …”
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Special issue: Proceedings of the 15th ISIC - The Information Behaviour Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, August 26-29, 2024

“…Hands, Katarina Švab, Tanja Merčun Using progress logs to research the information behaviour of higher education students in prison Isabel Virgo Savolainen’s everyday information practices: concept and development Xinyue Wang Digital stress among Chinese adolescents: a focus group study Zhang Wen, Chen Yifan, Cao Gaohui Creating, using, and sharing embodied information in the ultrarunning community on Instagram Laura Williams, Andrew Cox, Andrea Jimenez Isolated, individualised, and immobilised: information behaviour in the context of academic casualisation Rebekah Willson, Owen Stewart-Robertson, Heidi Julien, Lisa M. …”
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Recent advances in systemic therapy for advanced biliary tract cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis using reconstructed RCT survival data by Zhihao Li, Daniel Aliseda, Owen Jones, Luckshi Rajendran, Christian Magyar, Robert Grant, Grainne M. O’Kane, Anna Saborowski, Gonzalo Sapisochin, Arndt Vogel

“…We conducted a one-stage meta-analysis using reconstructed survival data, Cox-based models, and restricted mean survival time (RMST). …”
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Kidney Function and Incident Stroke and Dementia Using an Updated Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Equation Without Race: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis by Samuel R. Moen, Jeffrey R. Misialek, Timothy M. Hughes, Craig W. Johnson, Mark J. Sarnak, Sarah N. Forrester, W.T. Longstreth, Jr., Mercedes R. Carnethon, James S. Pankow, Sanaz Sedaghat

“…Outcome: Incident stroke and dementia. Analytical Approach: Cox proportional regression adjusting for demographic, lifestyle, and clinical variables was performed to estimate associations between different eGFR measures and risk of incident stroke and dementia. …”
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Impact of remnant cholesterol on short-term and long-term prognosis in patients with prediabetes or diabetes undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting: a large-scale cohort study by Zhongchen Li, Chunyu Yu, Heng Zhang, Runze Chen, Yan Zhao, Zhe Zheng

“…Remnant-C was analyzed as both a categorical and continuous variable. Logistic regression, Cox regression, and restricted cubic spline analyses were performed with multivariate adjustments. …”
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