Loneliness and biomarkers of brain pathology in people with subjective cognitive decline by Mariola Zapater-Fajarí, Isabel Crespo-Sanmiguel, Nira Cedres, Therese Rydberg Sterner, Lina Rydén, Simona Sacuiu, Margda Waern, Anna Zettergren, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Silke Kern, Vanesa Hidalgo, Alicia Salvador, Eric Westman, Ingmar Skoog, Daniel Ferreira

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Performance of routine surveillance diagnostics of external ventricular drain-associated infections in a critical care setting: a retrospective cohort study by Marcus Ståhlberg, Jonas Blixt, Christer Mehle, Viveca Hambäck Hellkvist, Christian G. Giske, Eddie Weitzberg, David W. Nelson

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Is There Any Correlation Between Diffusion‐Weighted Imaging and Histopathologic Findings of Meningioma? A Retrospective Study by Mahrokh Sadat Vaziri, Fahimeh Zeinalkhani, Soroush Alaeddini, Vahid Soleimani, Jayran Zebardast, Peyman Kamali Hakim, Hadise Zeinalkhani, Fahime Azizinik, Sina Delazar

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Predictive value of HBeAg titer dynamics for HBsAg clearance in pediatric chronic hepatitis B by Sukjin Hong, Jun Hyun Hwang, Keumoung Kim, Younghae Do, Naeun Kwak, Hyo Rim Suh, Sujin Choi, Ben Kang, Byung-Ho Choe

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Development and validation of a decision tree model for prediction of insomnia risk among ischemic stroke convalescence patients by Xuefeng Sun, Zilin Wang, Yuqing Song, Deyu Cong, Shu Sun, Xinye Zhang, Ye Zhang, Hongshi Zhang

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Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) after transcatheter aortic valve implantation in aortic stenosis patients: exploring a novel threshold for clinically significant improvement... by Marte Sævik, Marit Helen Andersen, Jan Otto Beitnes, Lars Aaberge, Per Steinar Halvorsen

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Elevated plasma trimethyllysine is associated with incident atrial fibrillation by Mads M Svenningsson, Gard FT Svingen, Per M Ueland, Gerhard Sulo, Espen Ø Bjørnestad, Eva R Pedersen, Indu Dhar, Dennis W. Nilsen, Ottar Nygård

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Association of ultra-processed foods consumption with increased liver steatosis in U.S. adults by Jingru Song, Siqi Chen, Siqi Chen, Kexin Qian, Kexin Qian, Wei Ye

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Long-term exposure to PM1 and liver cancer mortality: Insights into the role of smaller particulate fractions by Ting Gan, Jie Chu, Hilary Bambrick, Xiaolei Guo, Wenbiao Hu

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Predicting pathological response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer with two step feature selection and ensemble learning by Changshun Qian, Shuxin Yang, Yijing Chen, Ran Ge, Fangmin Shi, Chengnan Liu, Hui Wang, You Guo

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Renal hyperfiltration is associated with a reduced incidence of hypertension in individuals younger than 70 by Hee-Jung Ha, Min Kyoung Kang, Jeong Hwa Kim, Youn-Hee Choi, Tae-Jin Song

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Reconstructed global monthly burned area maps from 1901 to 2020 by Z. Guo, W. Li, P. Ciais, S. Sitch, G. R. van der Werf, S. P. K. Bowring, A. Bastos, F. Mouillot, J. He, M. Sun, L. Zhu, X. Du, N. Wang, X. Huang

“…Both the classification and regression models were trained on a satellite-based burned area product (FireCCI51), using explanatory variables related to climate, vegetation and human activities. …”
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Impact of maternal body mass index and gestational weight gain on maternal and neonatal outcomes in twin pregnancies by Julia Schubert, Nina Timmesfeld, Kathrin Noever, Susann Behnam, Angela Vinturache, Birgit Arabin

“…Material and methods Using a cohort of 10 603 twin pregnancies delivered between 2000 and 2015 in the state of Hessen, Germany, the individual and combined impact of maternal body mass index and gestational weight gain on maternal and neonatal outcomes was analyzed using uni‐ and multivariable logistic regression models. The analysis used newly defined population‐based quartiles of gestational weight gain in women carrying twin pregnancies (Q1: <419.4 g/week [low weight gain], Q2–Q3: 419.4–692.3 g/week [optimal weight gain], Q4: >692.3 g/week [high weight gain]) and the World Health Organization body mass index classification. …”
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Vulnerability to fatal drowning among the population in Southern Bangladesh: findings from a cross-sectional household survey by Dan Ryan, Rebecca Ivers, Kris Rogers, Jagnoor Jagnoor, Aminur Rahman, Kamran ul Baset, Tahera Ahmed, Mohammad Jahangir Hossain, A K M Fazlur Rahman

“…A higher rate of fatal drowning was found in rural (38.9/100 000/year) compared with urban areas (29.3/100 000/year). The results of the multivariable logistic regression identified that the factors significantly associated with fatal drowning were being male (OR 1.7, 95% CI 1.2 to 2.3), aged 1–4 years (OR 3.0, 95% CI 1.4 to 6.4) and residing in a household with four or more children (four or more children OR 1.8, 95% CI 1.1 to 2.9; and five or more children OR 2.1, 95% CI 1.2 to 3.7).Conclusion Drowning is a public health problem, especially for children, in the Barisal division of Southern Bangladesh. …”
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Temporal Trends of Maternal Mortality Due to Obstetric Hemorrhage in Chinese Mainland: Evidence from the Population-Based Surveillance Data Between 2000 and 2019 by Yi Mu, Jun Zhu, Yanping Wang, Jiani Zhang, Mingrong Li, Peiran Chen, Yanxia Xie, Juan Liang, Xiaodong Wang, Dandan Shi

“…It peaked in 2001 (22.1 per 100,000 live births, 95% CI: 18.3–26.4) and was lowest in 2019 (1.6 per 100,000 live births, 95% CI: 1.0–2.3). …”
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Number of Retrieval Attempts and the Association of Intravenous Tirofiban with Symptomatic Intracranial Hemorrhage in Patients with Successful Endovascular Therapy: Results of the... by Peng X, Guo C, Yang J, Fan S, Xu X, Ma J, Wang Z, Yang S, Zi W, Huang X, Wang H

“…The primary outcome was sICH, which was defined according to the Heidelberg Bleeding Classification. The association between the number of retrieval attempts and the rate of sICH was investigated using multivariable logistic regression.Results: A total of 866 patients were included in our analysis. …”
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Mortality and risk factors in hospitalised adult patients with tetanus: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Junbin Huang, Wenbin Zhang, Zhenlin Chen, Zhijie Lin, Hantian Hong, Zhishi Cai

“…Six risk factors associated with mortality in these patients were identified, including age ≥40 years (RR=1.89, 95% CI: 1.37 to 2.61), incubation period &lt;7 days (RR=2.10, 95% CI: 1.47 to 3.00), onset period &lt;2 days (RR=2.06, 95% CI: 1.30 to 3.29), Ablett classification ≥III (RR=3.40, 95% CI: 1.91 to 6.05), presence of autonomic dysfunction (RR=4.84, 95% CI: 2.36 to 9.94) and the need for mechanical ventilation (RR=2.46, 95% CI: 1.48 to 4.09).Conclusion The study findings have important implications for clinical practice and public health policy. …”
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Danos mecânicos em sementes de feijão Vigna, causados pelas operações na unidade de beneficiamento Mechanical damages in Vigna bean seeds caused by the operations in the seed proce... by Francisco de A. C. Almeida, Acácio Figueiredo Neto, Rubens F. da Costa, Josivanda P. G. de Gouveia, Maria E. C. de Oliveira

“…Mechanical damages of impacts were statistically analysed, in a completely randomized experimental design in a 2 x 2 x 5 factorial seheme, submitting the means of quatitative factors to regression in variance analysis. Seeds with moisture content of 7.3% of the variety 'Rabo de Tatu' were most susceptible to breakage by impacts caused during the processing and the injuries increased with the number of passages of seeds throngh different stages of processing to which seeds are subjected, showing accumulative character, indicating a direct relation between the number of shocks and their effects.…”
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Metabolic syndrome and the risk of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality: data of 14-year prospective cohort study in Siberia by G I Simonova, S V Mustafina, O D Rymar, L V Scherbacova, T I Nikitenko, M Bobak, S K Malyutina

“…Cardiovascular mortality in subjects with MS was 12,6% — 572 deaths (20,5% in men and 8,9% in women), and it was nearly 30% higher than in those without MS. Multivariable Cox regression revealed that among the components of MS, the elevated BP level even with BP ≥135/80 mm Hg had the major impact on increasing the risk of all-cause mortality (HR=1,7 (1,4; 2,1) in men; HR=2,2 (1,7; 2,8) in women) and increasing the risk of cardiovascular mortality (HR=2,2 (1,5; 3,0) in men and HR=2,8 (1,8; 4.3) in women). …”
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Aspiring to clinical significance: Insights from developing and evaluating a machine learning model to predict emergency department return visit admissions. by Yiye Zhang, Yufang Huang, Anthony Rosen, Lynn G Jiang, Matthew McCarty, Arindam RoyChoudhury, Jin Ho Han, Adam Wright, Jessica S Ancker, Peter Ad Steel

“…Study data were extracted from EHR data in 2019 from three urban EDs. The development and independent validation datasets included 62,154 patients from two EDs and 73,453 patients from one ED, respectively. …”
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