Comparison of bioabsorbable screw versus metallic screw fixation for tibial tubercle fractures in adolescents: a retrospective cohort study by Tian Chen, Yuwei Wen, Danjiang Zhu, Wei Feng, Baojian Song, Qiang Wang

“…Knee joint function was evaluated using the Lysholm and Tegner scores. Statistical analysis was performed to identify differences between the variables of the two groups. …”
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Experience with the use of glucocorticosteroid implants in patients with macular edema associated with sarcoidosis. by V.A. Pavlov, E.V. Kryukov, D.V. Davydov, A.A. Zaytsev, V.E. Kurnosov

“…Group 1 (prospective analysis) included the results of treatment of patients with sarcoidosis with corticosteroid implants (4 eyes, 4 patients). …”
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Seven Immune-Related Genes’ Prognostic Value and Correlation with Treatment Outcome in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Rui Mu, Yuehong Shen, Chuanbin Guo, Xinyun Zhang, Hongyu Yang, Huijun Yang

“…The signature was also evaluated based on clinical variables, predictive nomogram, mutation analysis, infiltrating immune cells, immune-related pathways, and chemotherapeutic efficacy. …”
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WNT3A promotes the cementogenic differentiation of dental pulp stem cells through the FOXO1 signaling pathway by Dongmei Cheng, Yang Bao, Xue Wang, Haidong Xiang, Tianyuan Guo, Yong Du, Zhiyong Zhang, Han Guo

“…Bioinformatics analysis confirmed WNT3A as a pivotal biomarker for DPSC cementogenic differentiation, and WNT3A was highly expressed in the cementogenic differentiation group. …”
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Postural instability and gait disturbance are associated with abnormal stereopsis in Parkinson's disease. by Jungyeun Lee, Sung Hoon Kang, Seong-Beom Koh

“…To analyze the potential risk factors for abnormal stereopsis in PD, we conducted a binary logistic stepwise selection analysis.<h4>Results</h4>Among the total of 240 PD patients, 185 were in the normal stereopsis group and 55 were in the abnormal stereopsis group. …”
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Efficacy Perceived by Patients of Post-infarction Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Strategies by María Gabriela Balarezo García, Carlos Antonio Escobar Suárez, Becker Neto Mullo

“…The study population was made up of 90 patients who participated in post-infarction cardiac rehabilitation programs implemented in the medical facilities of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security in the Sierra region of Ecuador. The technique for data collection was the survey. Friedman and Wilcoxon statistical tests were used for correlation analysis. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Nomogram for Predicting Mortality in Patients with Postoperative Bloodstream Infection in Surgical Intensive Care Unit by Zengli Xiao, Yao Sun, Huiying Zhao, Youzhong An

“…Calibration and decision-curve analysis were established to evaluate the nomogram. …”
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Diagnostic potential of CDK1 and STAT1 in acute kidney injury associated with gastrointestinal cancers: a bioinformatics-based study by Qiuwan Wei, Yiqing Shen, Yiren Tian, Yunzhi Ling

“…IntroductionPatients with gastrointestinal cancers are prone to acute kidney injury (AKI) due to treatment or disease progression, and current diagnostic methods exhibit insufficient sensitivity and specificity. This study aims to evaluate the potential value of CDK1 and STAT1 in the diagnosis of AKI in this patient population.MethodsA retrospective analysis was conducted on adjacent tissue, cancerous and the clinical data tissue from 150 gastrointestinal cancer patients treated at our hospital from May 2022 to May 2023. …”
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Cuproptosis-Related Signature Predicts the Prognosis, Tumor Microenvironment, and Drug Sensitivity of Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Xiangjun Qi, Jiayun Guo, Guoming Chen, Caishan Fang, Leihao Hu, Jing Li, Chi Zhang

“…The mRNA transcriptome profiling data, somatic mutation data, and copy number gene level data of The Cancer Genome Atlas-Liver Hepatocellular Carcinoma project (TCGA-LIHC) were downloaded for subsequent analysis. …”
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New strategies in management of severe alcoholic hepatitis by P. Ye. Tkachenko, I. I. Komkova, M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Lille index was utilized as treatment response criterion. During statistical data analysis Wilcoxon, Manna– Whitney and chi-square criteria were used. …”
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The Change of Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index Independently Predicts Survival of Colorectal Cancer Patients after Curative Resection by Qingqing Chen, Haohao Wu, Xinwei Guo, Ke Gu, Wenjie Wang, Xiaochen Chen, Shengjun Ji, Hui Yang, Jiahao Zhu

“…In the univariate analysis, smoking, pathological stages III-IV, high-middle degree of differentiation, lymphatic invasion, vascular invasion, and the high-ΔSII group were associated with poor OS. …”
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Estimating the global cost of vision impairment and its major causes: protocol for a systematic review by Nathan Congdon, Thomas Butt, Peng Tee Khaw, Andrew Bastawrous, Tasanee Braithwaite, Rupert R A Bourne, Matthew J Burton, Serge Resnikoff, Jacqueline Ramke, Kevin Frick, Hugh Taylor, Iris Gordon, Ana Patricia Marques, John Cairns, Justine H Zhang, Hannah B Faal, Iain Jones, Marty Jovic, Allyala Nandakumar

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Effectiveness of nurse-led volunteer support and technology-driven pain assessment in improving the outcomes of hospitalised older adults: protocol for a cluster randomised control... by Max K Bulsara, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Rosemary Saunders, Kate Crookes, Mustafa Atee, Caroline Bulsara, Beverley Ewens, Olivia Gallagher, Renee M Graham, Karen Gullick, Sue Haydon, Kim-Huong Nguyen, Bev O'Connell, Karla Seaman, Jeff Hughes, Seng Giap Marcus Ang, Debra Scaini

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Grounding and improving assessment in higher education: a way of promoting quality education by Isabel Fialho, Marília Cid, Marcelo Coppi

“…The questionnaire was applied before the beginning of the course (pre-test) and after its completion (post-test). Data were analyzed using statistical procedures that consisted of frequency analysis and non-parametric analysis, using the Mann–Whitney and Wilcoxon tests. …”
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Low transthyretin is associated with the poor prognosis of colorectal cancer by Zhe Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Chenhao Hu, Chenhao Hu, Chenhao Hu, Feiyu Shi, Feiyu Shi, Feiyu Shi, Lei Zhang, Lei Zhang, Lei Zhang, Ya Wang, Ya Wang, Yujie Zhang, Yujie Zhang, Yujie Zhang, Xiaojiang Zhang, Xiaojiang Zhang, Xiaojiang Zhang, Junjun She, Junjun She, Junjun She

“…Cox proportional hazard regression analysis was conducted to evaluate the correlation between the TTR and the cumulative incidence of cancer-specific survival (CSS). …”
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Correlation Between Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced CT Imaging Signs and Differentiation Grade and Microvascular Invasion of Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Liu Y, Zhou Y, Liao C, Li H, Zhang X, Gong H, Pu H

“…Additionally, the diagnostic performance of various indicators were evaluated using ROC analysis.Results: Among the qualitative data, significant differences (P< 0.05) were observed between the MVI-positive and MVI-negative groups in 5 items such as peritumoral enhancement. …”
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Early Macular Angiography among Patients with Glaucoma, Ocular Hypertension, and Normal Subjects by Shih-Chun Chao, Shang-Jung Yang, Hung-Chi Chen, Chi-Chin Sun, Chin-Hsin Liu, Chia-Yi Lee

“…Medical records were reviewed, and the patients who received OCTA examinations were divided into the OAG, NTG, OHT, and normal groups. The ophthalmic data including best-corrected visual acuity, spherical equivalent, intraocular pressure, central corneal thickness, central foveal thickness, visual field deviation, retinal nerve fiber layers thickness, and ganglion cell complex thickness were obtained from medical documents. …”
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Effects of tongue tamers and customized bonded spurs as an early treatment of anterior open bite: a randomized clinical study by Safa B. Alawy, Shaimaa S. EL-Desouky, Ibrahim A. Kabbash, Shimaa M. Hadwa

“…Overjet decreased in all groups, with the greatest reduction observed in group-I(-2.58 ± 1.02 and -2.47 ± 0.80 in model and cephalometric respectively) and was significantly different from group-II using pairwise analysis. …”
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Construction of a poor prognosis prediction and visualization system for intracranial aneurysm endovascular intervention treatment based on an improved machine learning model by Chunyu Lei, Anhui Fu, Bin Li, Shengfu Zhou, Jun Liu, Yu Cao, Bo Zhou

“…These variables were consistent with the results of logistic multivariate analysis.ConclusionsThe application of improved machine learning models for the analysis of patient clinical data can effectively predict the risk of poor prognosis following endovascular intervention for intracranial aneurysms at an early stage. …”
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Actors influencing cancer-related fatigue and the construction of a risk prediction model in lung cancer patients by Mei-Ning Zhang, Yi-Chen Zhou, Zhu Zeng, Cun-Liang Zeng, Bo-Tao Hou, Gui-Rong Wu, Qiao Jiao, Dai-Yuan Ma

“…A CRF risk prediction model was then established, with its predictive performance and calibration evaluated using ROC curves.FindingsThe results of multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that gender, age, education level, living status, daily exercise, clinical stage, course of disease, treatment mode, chronic disease, BMI, hemoglobin, serum albumin, blood glucose, potassium concentration, magnesium concentration, PSQI score and HAD score were the influencing factors of CRF in lung cancer patients (P&lt;0.05). …”
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