Distance to Specialist Medical Care and Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Rural Saskatchewan by Catherine M. Spagnuolo, Michael McIsaac, James Dosman, Chandima Karunanayake, Punam Pahwa, William Pickett

“…Follow-up occurred until 2015. 6525 adults from 3731 households constituted our sample. Statistical models used log-binomial regression. Rural adults who reported the largest travel distances (≥250 km) to specialist medical care were 1.17 (95% CI: 1.07, 1.29) times more likely to report OSA symptoms in the absence of a sleep apnea diagnosis than those who reported the smallest (<100 km; referent) distances. …”
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Breeding value of prolific maize varieties with nicking of parental lines by E. B. Khatefov, R. A. Kudaev, R. S. Kushkhova

“…Measurements and records were made on 10 plants and 10 ears in two repetitions. Statistical data processing was performed according to B. …”
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Unintended Pregnancy and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care at Bako Tibe District Public Health Facility, Oromia Region, Ethiopia by Habtamu Bekele, Merga Dheressa, Bezatu Mengistie, Yitagesu Sintayehu, Gelana Fekadu

“…The direction and strength of statistical association were measured by an odds ratio with 95% CI. …”
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Effect of Exogenous Melatonin Administration in Critically Ill Patients on Delirium and Sleep: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Judith Bellapart, Vinesh Appadurai, Melissa Lassig-Smith, Janine Stuart, Christopher Zappala, Rob Boots

“…Sleep studies showed no statistical differences on arousal index or length of sleep. …”
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Effects of Dietary Protein-to-Energy Ratios on Growth, Immune Response, Antioxidative Capacity, Liver and Intestinal Histology, and Growth-Related Gene Expression in Hybrid Yellow... by Sehrish Taj, Quan Han, Xiaoyi Wu, Haoran Yin, Lixia Tian, Huijun Yang, Yongjian Liu, Junwa Huang

“…The expression of target of rapamycin (TOR) and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF1) genes in the liver was considerably influenced by dietary protein-to-energy ratios (P<0.05). Based on the statistical analysis of WG% against the dietary P/E ratio, the optimal P/E ratio for the studied species was estimated to be 92.92 mg/kcal.…”
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The Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites and Their Associated Factors among Diabetes Mellitus Patients at the University of Gondar Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia by Sintayehu Ambachew, Muluneh Assefa, Yalewayker Tegegne, Ayalew Jejaw Zeleke

“…A p value of ≤0.05 was considered as statistically significant. Result. In the current study, the overall prevalence of intestinal parasite infection among diabetics was 45 (19.2%). …”
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Effect of COVID-19 on Severity of Signs and Symptoms of Autoimmune Diseases by Ramand Mohammed Haji, Nabaz Ali Ahmed, Shakhawan Azad Ahmed

“…Furthermore, the data were analysed by SPSS software to produce descriptive statistic measures and to find the difference between dependent categorical variables Sign tests were used but the Chi-square test was used for the categorical independent variables with regarding 0.05 as a significant critical value. …”
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Early dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) administration within 6 h post-coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG): an audit, pilot study, and follow-up analysis by Yen Chuan Chen, Khairul Anuar Abdul Aziz, Mohamed Ezani Md Taib, Alwi Mohamed Yunus, Intan Fariza Gaaffar

“…Mortality rates were lower in the early DAPT group (3.2% vs. 4.6%), although the difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.123). Conclusions Guided by stringent clinical criteria, early DAPT administration within 6 h post-CABG is a feasible and effective strategy for reducing adverse outcomes, such as stroke and dialysis requirements, while maintaining manageable bleeding risks. …”
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Prevalence of neonatal sepsis and associated factors among neonates admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit at Lira Regional Referral Hospital, Northern Uganda. by Brendah Katugume, JohnBaptist Muzungu, Nelson Okello, Eustes Kigongo, Deborah Andrinar Namutebi

“…Logistic regression analysis was used to show associations and the statistical significance was declared at a P value of 0.05 after multivariable analysis.…”
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Association of Plasma Levels of Nitric Oxide Oxidative Metabolites with Acute Stroke in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department of a Low-Middle Income Country by Shahan Waheed, Ayaz Ghouse Kalsekar, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, Nathan S. Bryan, Asad I. Mian

“…Overall, median NOx was 20.8 μM (IQR 13.4-35.3); there was no statistically significant difference between NOx in ischemic versus hemorrhagic stroke (21.2 μM vs. 17.9 μM; p=0.2). …”
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Subthreshold Micropulse Laser (577 nm) Therapy with an Individual Approach for Power Titration in Patients with Chronic Central Serous Chorioretinopathy (Pilot Study) by Taras Kustryn, Oleg Zadorozhnyy, Illia Nasinnyk, Nataliya Pasyechnikova, Andrii Korol

“…Six months after 577 nm SML therapy, there was a statistically significant increase in the mean BCVA with the maximum correction to 0.45 ± 0.15 (p=0.001). …”
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Hygienic complementary feeding practice and its associated factors among mothers having children aged 6–23 months in Antsokia Gemza district, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional survey by Eyob Ketema Bogale, Tefera Chane, Getachew Tadegew

“…Independent variables with a 95% CI and p values &lt;0.05 in multivariable logistic regression were considered statistically significant.Result The magnitude of good parental hygienic practice during complementary feeding of their children aged 6–23 months was 45.3%, with a 95% CI (40.2%–50%). …”
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Semen Parameters Can be Used as a Credible Marker with Doppler Ultrasonography in the Diagnosis of Subclinical Varicocele Cases by Tulay Irez, Bahar Sarikaya, Mine Erguven, Emre Salabas

“…Student-t Test was used for statistical analysis. p<0.05 was considered significant. …”
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Perianal Paget’s Disease: The 17-Year-Experience of a Single Institution in Taiwan by Yu-Chen Wang, Anna Fen-Yau Li, Shung-Haur Yang, Hsiu-Hsun Ma, Wen-Yih Liang

“…The immunophenotypes were not statistical significantly related to synchronous CRC (P=0.402, 0.650, 0.127, and 0.068 for CK7, CK20, CDX2, and GCDFP-15, respectively). …”
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The influence of COVID-19 pandemic on secondary prevention in non-COVID patients with cardioembolic stroke by Lučić-Prokin Aleksandra L., Bogdanović Milan M., Pustahija Tatjana L., Stamenković Marija S.

“…Complications were registered in 20 (8%) patients. Although not statistically significant, the highest proportion of systemic and neurological complications occurred in patients using dabigatran (25%) Recurrent stroke was registered in 20% of patients using apixaban, while 15% patients using rivaroxaban had systemic bleeding (15%). …”
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Agreement Between Provider-Completed and Patient-Completed Preoperative Frailty Screening Using the Clinical Risk Analysis Index: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study by Mehraneh Khalighi, Amy C Thomas, Karl J Brown, Katherine C Ritchey

“…There was a moderate but statistically significant correlation between provider-completed and patient-completed RAI-C assessments (r=0.62; 95% CI 0.25-0.83; P=.003). …”
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Img2Vocab: Explore Words Tied to Your Life With LLMs and Social Media Images by Kanta Yamaoka, Ko Watanabe, Koichi Kise, Andreas Dengel, Shoya Ishimaru

“…From learners&#x2019; recall task accuracy, we found that having a context grounded with a learner&#x2019;s social image allowed them to find difficult words to quickly learn than having context generated by someone&#x2019;s image, or text only modality&#x2014;although this finding is statistically insignificant. The Zipf frequency comparisons revealed that generally having image-based context allowed learners to extract difficult vocabulary than having text-only context. …”
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Increase in nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium of liquid fertilizer from fish canning waste and kepok banana peel (Musa paradisiaca L.) by Rieny Sulistijowati, Dwi Angriani Habie, Wila Rumina Nento, Elanemay Ivonne Peleh

“…The data analysis results stated that the treatment levels of P0, P1, P2, and P3 had a significant effect on the quality of liquid organic fertilizer and were statistically significantly different on the levels of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium of liquid organic fertilizer products. …”
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Feasibility of screening for cognitive impairment among older persons and referral by community health workers in Wakiso district, Uganda by Racheal Alinaitwe, Seggane Musisi, David Mukunya, Yvette Wibabara, Byamah B Mutamba, Noeline Nakasujja

“…Psychiatric clinical officers (PCOs) administered the AD8 to the older persons after assessment by the CHWs who then referred them for appropriate clinical care. We conducted Kappa statistic for agreement between the CHWs and PCOs and compared raw scores of the CHWs to Experts scores using Bland Altman and pair plots and corresponding analyses. …”
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Jackknife versus Lithotomy Position for Hemorrhoidectomy Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Sina Ghasemi, Behzad Imani, Alireza Jafarkhani, Ashkan Karimi, Ali Yamini

“…Also, based on the chi-square test, there was a statistically significant relationship between the surgical position and the surgeon's satisfaction with the angle of view, so a better field of view was reported in the jackknife position (exact p-value = 0.001). …”
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