Febuxostat Improves Uric Acid Levels and Renal Function in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Hyperuricemia: A Meta-Analysis by Yanqun Zheng, Jia Sun

“…Herein, we aimed to demonstrate the role of febuxostat on uric acid levels and renal function in patients with chronic kidney disease and hyperuricemia. Methods. Eight databases included were searched for clinical randomized controlled trials. …”
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Essentials of a Robust Deep Learning System for Diabetic Retinopathy Screening: A Systematic Literature Review by Aan Chu, David Squirrell, Andelka M. Phillips, Ehsan Vaghefi

“…Searching five electronic databases (Embase, MEDLINE, Scopus, PubMed, and the Cochrane Library) returned 747 unique records on 20 December 2019. …”
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Molecular Analyses of Aspirated Cystic Fluid for the Differential Diagnosis of Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Xiaorong Guo, Xianbao Zhan, Zhaoshen Li

“…Methods. Six electronic databases were searched for articles on molecular tests for the diagnosis of pancreatic cysts. …”
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Prevalence of fatigue and perceived fatigability in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ting Hu, Feiling Wang, Qiuchen Duan, Xueyang Zhao, Fen Yang

“…The objective of this review is to systematically evaluate the prevalence of fatigue and perceived fatigability in older adults with PRISMA 2020. Four databases—PubMed, Embase, Web of Science (WoS), and Cochrane Library—were systematically searched as of December 27, 2023. …”
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A systematic and comprehensive review on low power wide area network: characteristics, architecture, applications and research challenges by Ass Diane, Ousmane Diallo, El Hadji Malick Ndoye

“…This paper reviews the main aspects of LPWANs and their technologies based on an exhaustive search in several online scientific databases, such as Springer, IEEE Xplore, the ACM digital library, and Google Scholar. …”
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No Apparent Workup for most new Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules in US Commercially-Insured Patients by Bruce S. Pyenson, Carol M. Bazell, Michael J. Bellanich, Melissa A. Caplen, Javier J. Zulueta

“…**Methods:** The primary source for this retrospective observational study was the MarketScan® 2013-2016 databases, which include information on 28 to 47 million insured lives. …”
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Bioinformatic Analysis of PTTG Family and Prognosis and Immune Cell Infiltration in Gastric Cancer by Xiao Li, Yanghao Tai, Shuying Liu, Yating Gao, Kaining Zhang, Jierong Yin, Huijuan Zhang, Xia Wang, Xiaofei Li, Dongfeng Zhang

“…We retrieved multiple databases to understand the possible activity of PTTGs and their expression in gastric cancer, as well as their relationship with clinical data, overall survival rate, first progression, and survival rate after progression. …”
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Brain Metastases Research 1990–2010: Pattern of Citation and Systematic Review of Highly Cited Articles by Carsten Nieder, Anca L. Grosu, Minesh P. Mehta

“…High and continuously increasing research activity related to different aspects of prevention, prediction, diagnosis and treatment of brain metastases has been performed between 1990 and 2010. One of the major databases contains 2695 scientific articles that were published during this time period. …”
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Nutritional and lifestyle intervention strategies for metabolic syndrome in Southeast Asia: A scoping review of recent evidence. by Sze Mun Thor, Jun Wern Yau, Amutha Ramadas

“…Cochrane, Embase, Ovid MEDLINE, PubMed, and Scopus databases were systematically searched to yield peer-reviewed articles published between 2010-2020. …”
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Effect of chitosan/inorganic nanomaterial scaffolds on bone regeneration and related influencing factors in animal models: A systematic review by Anjie Guo, Yi Zheng, Yu Zhong, Shuixue Mo, Shanbao Fang

“…A total of four electronic databases were searched without publication date or language restrictions up to April 2022. …”
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Information security of the region: Approaches to consideration and economic essence by Liubov Kovalska, Volodymyr Topalov, Roman Topalov

“…The author's vision of information security of the region as a state of protection of information resources of regional business entities (information databases) from threats and environmental hazards for the implementation of national interests in the information sphere at the regional level and ensuring the information sovereignty of the country as a whole is presented…”
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An Integrated Review of Psychological Stress in Parkinson’s Disease: Biological Mechanisms and Symptom and Health Outcomes by Kim Wieczorek Austin, Suzanne Weil Ameringer, Leslie Jameleh Cloud

“…A search of the electronic databases PubMed/Medline and CINAHL from 1980 to the present using the key words Parkinson’s disease and stress, psychological stress, mental stress, and chronic stress resulted in 11 articles that met inclusion criteria. …”
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Inertial Flywheel Resistance Training in Tendinopathy Rehabilitation: A Scoping Review by Ian Burton, Aisling McCormack

“… # Methods This scoping review was reported in accordance with the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). Databases searched included MEDLINE, CINAHL, AMED, EMBase, SPORTDiscus, Cochrane library (Controlled trials, Systematic reviews), and five trial registries. …”
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Сurrent state of clinical significance of early kidney injury markers by D. N. Khotko, A. I. Khotko, A. I. Tarasenko, A. O. Efimova

“…Bibliographic, informational and semantic source search methods in Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus and Embase databases were used. Analysis of a legalistic and systematic sources was carried out.Proteinuria, serum creatinine and glomerular filtration rate are now accepted as the main diagnostic markers of renal lesions. …”
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Examining allergy related diseases in Africa: A scoping review protocol. by Max Yang Lu, Nadia Shobnam, Alicia A Livinski, Sarini Saksena, Dylan Salters, Michelle Biete, Ian A Myles

“…The Joanna Briggs Institute's scoping review methods will be followed, and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Review (PRISMA-ScR) was used for writing the protocol. Four databases (Embase, Global Health, PubMed, African Journals Online) will be searched for literature published from 2003 to 2023 in any language. …”
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Hotel employees: A systematic literature review by Sérgio Borralha, Saul Neves de Jesus, Patrícia Pinto, João Viseu

“…This review was conducted through the databases Web of Knowledge, Web of Science (Social Sciences Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Medline), and Science Direct. …”
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Uncertainty Analysis of Method-Based Operating Event Groups Ranking by Zdenko Šimić, Benoit Zerger, Reni Banov

“…An analysis was performed on the set of the two databases from the 20 years of nuclear power plants in France and Germany. …”
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Privacy preservation in data intensive environment by Jyotir Moy Chatterjee, Raghvendra Kumar, Prasant Kumar Pattnaik, Vijender Kumar Solanki, Noor Zaman

“…After that we have used two methods K-anonymity and fuzzy system for providing the privacy on medical databases in data intensive enviroments. The results affirm that the proposed method has better performance than those of the related works with respect to factors such as highly sensitive data preservation with k-anonymity.…”
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Neuromuscular Taping in Diabetes Mellitus: A Narrative Review of Current Understanding and Potential Therapeutic Applications by Abhishek Sharma, Nidhi Sharma, Aksh Chahal

“…Materials and Methods: A comprehensive literature search was conducted to identify relevant studies investigating the use of neuromuscular taping in individuals with DM. Key databases were explored using Boolean operators (AND, OR, etc.), and articles were selected based on predefined inclusion criteria. …”
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The impact of environmental factors on the immunopathogenesis of osteoporosis: A systematic review by Prabowo Nurhasan Agung, Soetrisno, Nurwati Ida, Ardyanto Tonang Dwi, Poncorini Eti, Nurudhin Arief, Dirgahayu Paramasari

“…We identified studies investigating the relationship between air pollution, heavy metal exposure, and chemical exposure with immune activity in osteoporosis through searches in PubMed databases. The review's findings indicate that exposure to environmental pollutants triggers systemic inflammation and oxidative stress, contributing to an imbalance between bone formation and resorption. …”
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