Mortality trends of traumatic brain injuries in the adult population of the United States: a CDC WONDER analysis from 1999 to 2020 by Muhammad Hamza Dawood, Yusra Fazli, Sejal Lund, Shurjeel Uddin Qazi, Rija Tahir, Areehah Zafar Masood, Aiman Azam Qureshi, Saleha Safdar, Heraa Zaheer, Muhammad TayyabMuzaffar Chaychi

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Analysis of Root Canal Anatomy of Mandibular Permanent Incisors in Saudi Subpopulation: A Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) Study by Amal Almohaimede, Alanoud Alqahtani, Norah Alhatlani, Nouf Alsaloom, Shafia Alqahtani

“…The number of roots and canals, canal configuration types, symmetry between bilateral incisors, and the effect of gender and age were determined. For data analysis, the chi-square test was applied, and the p value was set at ≤0.05. …”
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Systematic Review on Treating Knee Osteoarthritis with Bushen Zhuangjin Decoction by Suixin HUANG, Jie LIN, Xihai LI

“…RevMan 5.3 was applied for qualitative analysis of the data survey and meta-analysis.Results:A total of five studies were included in this study. …”
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Comparing robot-assisted and conventional surgery in knee replacement: A meta-analysis of surgical-site wound complications and recovery outcomes by Hu Liang, Yangquan Hao, Wenxing Yu

“…Results: Data suggests there was little difference between the two methods except that the operation duration was higher in the robot-assisted group than in the conventional ones. …”
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Nurse Participation in Colonoscopy Observation versus the Colonoscopist Alone for Polyp and Adenoma Detection: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials by Lei Xu, Yu Zhang, Haojun Song, Weihong Wang, Sijie Zhang, Xiaoyun Ding

“…Three RCTs with a total of 1676 patients were included. The pooled data showed a significantly higher ADR in the NP group than colonoscopist alone (CA) (45.7% versus 39.3%; RR 1.16; 95% CI, 1.04–1.30). …”
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Rehabilitation monitoring and assessment: a comparative analysis of feature engineering and machine learning algorithms on the UI-PRMD and KIMORE benchmark datasets by Moamen Zaher, Amr S. Ghoneim, Laila Abdelhamid, Ayman Atia

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Enhancing heart and circulatory well-being through optimized radial artery techniques: a meta-analysis of hemostasis and patient comfort by Yanru Yang, Hongyan Zhu, Guangyao Zai

“…The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale assessed the risk of bias in observational cohort studies.ResultsIn our meta-analysis, we evaluated data from various studies encompassing different air volumes in transradial band devices across several outcomes including bleeding, hematoma, radial artery occlusion (RAO), Visual Analog Scale (VAS) scores, and compression time. …”
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Biomechanical Analysis of the Forces Exerted during Different Occlusion Conditions following Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy Treatment for Mandibular Deficiency by Yuan-Han Chang, Man-Yee Chan, Jui-Ting Hsu, Han-Yu Hsiao, Kuo-Chih Su

“…According to the present analysis, although the data were not directly obtained from clinical practice, the finite element analysis could evaluate the trend of results under different external forces. …”
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Interventions for the management of post-COVID-19 condition (long COVID): protocol for a living systematic review and network meta-analysis by Paul Garner, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Jason W Busse, Dena Zeraatkar, Thomas Agoritsas, Ariel Izcovich, Tari Turner, Lyn Turkstra, Roger S McIntyre, Rachel J Couban, Tyler Pitre, Sarah Kirsh, Tanvir Jassal, Michael Ling, Samantha Chakraborty, Signe A Flottorp

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Therapeutic Decision Making in Hepatocellular Carcinoma According to Age and Child–Pugh Class: A Nationwide Cohort Analysis in South Korea by Sunmin Park, Chai Hong Rim, Young Kul Jung, Won Sup Yoon

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Effect of video-based interventions on emergence delirium in pediatric patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Yue Wang, Lifang Wang, Nan Liang, Kan Wang

“…Methods: The authors conducted a systematic search across multiple databases, including Embase, MEDLINE, and Cochrane Library, to identify all randomized controlled trials comparing video-based interventions with control treatments in pediatric emergence delirium. Data were aggregated and analyzed using Review Manager 5.4 to evaluate the effectiveness of video-based interventions. …”
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Intraurban socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy: a population-based cross-sectional analysis in the city of Córdoba, Argentina (2015–2018) by Ana V Diez Roux, Usama Bilal, D Alex Quistberg, Kari A Moore, Harrison Quick, Santiago Rodríguez López, Natalia Tumas, Binod Acharya, Gabriel E Acevedo

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Sudden cardiac death after acute myocarditis with arrhythmic presentation: hunting for risk predictors − a systematic review and meta-analysis by Massimo Imazio, Valentino Collini, Maria Lucia Narducci, Federico Ballacci, Federica Giordano

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Ultra-processed food consumption and the risk of incident chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies by Bingjie Xiao, Jinxian Huang, Linyi Chen, Yujie Lin, Jianghong Luo, Huifen Chen, Lizhe Fu, Fang Tang, Wenwei Ouyang, Yifan Wu

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Intratumoral pan-ErbB targeted CAR-T for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: interim analysis of the T4 immunotherapy study by Fiona Reid, Sophie Papa, John Maher, Jean-Pierre Jeannon, James Spicer, Victoria Gibson, Selvam Thavaraj, Michael Metoudi, Christopher Fisher, Nicholas Beckley-Hoelscher, Andrew Hope, Maria Elstad, Antonella Adami, Richard Beatson, Molly Sarah George, Daniela Achkova, Evangelia Williams, Sefina Arif, Abdel Douri, Marc Delord, Mike Lyne, Dharshene Shivapatham, Sakina Gooljar, Arindam Mitra, Linda Gomm, Cienne Morton, Rhonda Henley-Smith, Alice Santambrogio, Cynthia Andoniadou, Sarah Allen, Gary J R Cook, Ana C Parente-Pereira, David M Davies, Farzin Farzaneh, Anna Schurich, Teresa Guerrero-Urbano

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Machine learning analysis of cervical balance in early-onset scoliosis post-growing rod surgery: a case-control study by Bo Han, Junrui Jonathan Hai, Aixing Pan, Yingjie Wang, Yong Hai

“…CL, T1 slope, and C2-7 SVA increased significantly in the final follow-up compared with the pre-operative data. (P < 0.05). The CL and T1 slope increased more significantly in the group of patients who had proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) compared with the patients without PJK (P < 0.05). …”
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The association between pretransplant malignancy and post-transplant survival and cancer recurrence in bilateral lung transplantation: An analysis of 23,291 recipients by Wongi Woo, MD, Hye Sung Kim, MD, Ankit Bharat, MBBS, Young Kwang Chae, MD, PhD, MBA

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Transvaginal ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of endometrioma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies* by Fleur Serge Kanti, Rose Gorak Savard, Frédéric Bergeron, Hervé Tchala Vignon Zomahoun, Antoine Netter, Sarah Maheux-Lacroix

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Impact of measles vaccination strategies on vaccination rates in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Andrew Hayen, Kiddus Yitbarek, Mirkuzie Woldie, Firew Tekle Bobo, Jane Frawley, Abela Mahimbo, Meru Sheel

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Machine Learning–Based Risk Factor Analysis and Prediction Model Construction for the Occurrence of Chronic Heart Failure: Health Ecologic Study by Qian Xu, Xue Cai, Ruicong Yu, Yueyue Zheng, Guanjie Chen, Hui Sun, Tianyun Gao, Cuirong Xu, Jing Sun

“…ResultsRF-selected features (21 in total) had an average root mean square error of 0.30, outperforming principal component analysis. Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique and Edited Nearest Neighbors showed better accuracy in data balancing. …”
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