Lessons to be learned from real life data based on 98 gout patients using benzbromarone by Ioana Hotea, Matthijs Janssen, Tim L. Jansen

“…Aim: This study aims to analyze the efficacy and safety of benzbromarone as uricosuric, in a real-life clinical setting of a retrospective hospital-based gout cohort. …”
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Quality of Life in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis by Grażyna Franek, Marzena Bieniak, Aleksandra Cieślik

“…The chronic nature of this disease causes deterioration of the physical, mental, emotional and social condition of patients, which significantly reduces their quality of life. Aim. The aim of the study was to determine the quality of life of patients with multiple sclerosis. …”
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[Comment] Long term oncological outcomes for laparoscopic versus open surgery for rectal cancer-a population-based na tionwide noninferiority study by Tang Bin

“…[Aim] The aim of this work was to compare the 5-year overall survival in a national cohort of patients undergoing curative abdominal resection for rectal cancer by laparoscopic (LAP) or open (OPEN) surgery. …”
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Log Odds of Positive Lymph Node- (LODDS-) Based Competing-Risk Nomogram for Predicting Prognosis of Resected Rectal Cancer: A Development and Validation Study by Rui-zhe Zheng, Jiang Xie, Shui-qiang Zhang, Wen Li, Bo Dong, Yin-wei Cong, Zhi-qiang Wang

“…Background and Aims. Cancer-specific survival (CSS) of rectal cancer (RC) is associated with several factors. …”
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Predictors of sepsis in trauma patients: a National Trauma Data Bank analysis by Ralphe Bou Chebl, Joudie Sahar Alwan, Mounay Bakkar, Saadeddine Haidar, Rana Bachir, Mazen El Sayed, Gilbert Abou Dagher

“…Sepsis and infections are common complications contributing to mortality, emphasizing the need to understand factors leading to such complications following trauma.AimThis study aimed to identify risk factors associated with post-trauma sepsis using data from the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB).MethodsUsing the 2017 National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB), this is a retrospective case–control study that looked at pre-hospital and in-hospital patient data. …”
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Long-term water quality assessment and trophic status trends in Dobromierz, Lubachów and Sosnówka drinking water reservoirs in southwestern Poland by Magdalena Szewczyk, Paweł Tomczyk, Mirosław Wiatkowski

“…The statistical analysis showed a high variability of physicochemical parameters of water. …”
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Insights and perceptions: Investigating pregnant women's attitudes, understanding, and factors influencing knowledge regarding medication usage during pregnancy-A cross-sectional s... by Abdullah R Al-Khawlani, Qutaiba A Qasim, Abdulsalam M Halboup, Samar Thiab, Mohammed Zawiah, Fahmi Y Al-Ashwal

“…Univariable and multivariate logistic regressions were employed to examine the relationship between participant variables and their knowledge. A P-value of less than .05 was considered statistically significant.…”
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Kinesiophobia and associated factors among patients with cardiac disease attending cardiac units at hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2024: a multicentre cross-sectional study by Gashaw Jember Belay, Yohannes Girma Legese, Yihalem Belete, Tewodrose Miheret, Fiseha Sefiwu Zinabu, Foad Akmel

“…Bivariate analysis was used to determine potential candidate variables. Finally, an adjusted OR (AOR) with a p value of <0.05 and a 95% CI was considered statistically significant.Result The prevalence of kinesiophobia was 67.4% (95% CI: 62.6% to 72%). …”
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Enhanced hourly temperature prediction using advanced ensemble neural networks for energy system efficiency optimization in hyper-arid regions by Abdennasser Dahmani, Ikram Kouidri, Nadjem Bailek, Lotfi Mouni, Shabana Urooj, Jihad A. Younis, Bilel Zerouali, El-Sayed M El-Kenawy, Celso Augusto Guimarães Santos, Abdel-Nasser Sharkawy

“…This paper presents advanced techniques for air temperature forecasting based on the relationship between meteorological variables and feedforward neural network models aimed at improving prediction accuracy. …”
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Conversion from clinically isolated syndrome to multiple sclerosis: what paraclinical tests findings are the most characteristic? by M. Malciūtė, I. Čelpačenko, R. Stankevičiūtė, R. Balnytė

“…Therefore, there is a pressing need to identify the most characteristic paraclinical test findings to predict CIS conversion to MS. Aim. The aim of this study was to establish the most characteristic paraclinical test findings for the identification of CIS conversion to MS. …”
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Effect of Weight Loss on Symptoms of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome among Women of Reproductive Age by Anita Dileep, Manal Ahmed Faek Samy, Nazneen Hussain, Sham Zain Alabdind

“…Data were analyzed and represented as mean ± standard deviation of continues measures, while the χ2 test, independent Student’s t test, and one-way ANOVA test were performed for comparing numerical variables between different groups of categorical variables. p value was considered significant at <0.05. …”
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The effect of the ketogenic diet on resistance training load management: a repeated-measures clinical trial in trained participants by Salvador Vargas-Molina, Manuel García-Sillero, Diego A. Bonilla, Jorge L. Petro, Jerónimo García-Romero, Javier Benítez-Porres

“…We aimed to evaluate the effect of a 6-week RT program on load control-related variables in trained subjects following a KD intervention.Methods Fourteen resistance-trained individuals (3F, 11 M; 30.1 [6.2] years; 174.2 [7.6] cm; 75.7 [10.8] kg; BMI 24.8 [2.1] kg·m−2) completed this single-arm repeated-measures clinical trial. …”
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The relationship between clinical subtypes, prognosis, and treatment in ICU patients with acute cholangitis using unsupervised machine learning methods by Yuanhui Sheng, Shan Xu, Shu Zhang, Dan Zhang

“…K-means clustering was applied to 24 routinely available clinical variables from the first 24 h of ICU admission to identify clinical subtypes. …”
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Application of CUSUM analysis in assessing learning curves in robot-assisted sacrocolpopexy performed by experienced gynecologist by Kena Park, Ji Young Kwon, Eun-Hee Yoo, Seon Hwa Lee, Jeong Min Song, Seung Yeon Pyeon

“…One-way analysis of variance was employed to compare continuous variables. Categorical variables were expressed as percentages and analyzed using the chi-square test. …”
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An 11-Year Retrospective Research Study of the Predictive Factors of Peri-Implantitis and Implant Failure: Analytic-Multicentric Study of 1279 Implants in Peru by Frank Mayta-Tovalino, Yens Mendoza-Martiarena, Percy Romero-Tapia, María Álvarez-Paucar, Luis Gálvez-Calla, Juan Calderón-Sánchez, Rodolfo Bolaños-Cardenas, Antonio Diaz-Sarabia

“…When establishing the best multivariate logistic regression model, it was found that the variables that remained stable in relation to their statistically significant value and more stable confidence intervals were age, osteoporosis, bisphosphonates, history of periodontitis, bone quality, bone graft, connection, number of implants, GBR (guided bone regeneration), and follow-up. …”
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Prevalence of polypharmacy in patients with a diagnosis of liver cirrhosis treated in the Gastroenterology service of the La Raza National Medical Center by Martín Rivera-Huizar, Javier I. Carrillo-Rojas, Francisca Martinez-Silva

“…Materials and Patients: In a descriptive, observational, retrospective study with the aim of evaluating men and women with a diagnosis of liver cirrhosis in follow-up by the gastroenterology service of the Hospital de Especialidades del CMN la Raza in the year 2023.The prevalence of polypharmacy will be evaluated, taking as the definition established by the World Health Organization as the consumption of 5 or more drugs.Drug interactions will be recorded and evaluated using the Lexicomp-online formulary tool, classifying them as X (said drug should be avoided), D (consider modification of therapy), C (requires therapy monitoring), B (no action required) A (no known interaction).For qualitative variables, descriptive statistics will be used through measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion. …”
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Oral Health Status in the Iranian Elderly: The Role of Nutrition Status and Health Literacy by Shahab Papi, Manijeh Izadi, Leila Behboodi, Zahra Taheri-Kharameh, Fatemeh Hosseini, Mahdi Yousefi, Zeynab Karimi

“…So, people with malnutrition, mildly malnourished, and severely malnourished had lower oral health scores than healthy individuals with the control of the other variables. The R2 value in this study was 0.59. Conclusion: According to the study results and the relationship between malnutrition and oral health, it is necessary to conduct studies on the factors affecting malnutrition in the elderly by intervening on the factors affecting malnutrition, changing the oral health status of the elderly, and improving their quality of life.…”
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The Impact of Climate Change on the Sustainability of PGI Legume Cultivation: A Case Study from Spain by Betty Carlini, Javier Velázquez, Derya Gülçin, Víctor Rincón, Cristina Lucini, Kerim Çiçek

“…Six spatial GLMMs were developed, incorporating variables such as extreme temperatures, precipitation, and the drought duration. …”
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Stability prediction of circular sliding failure soil slopes based on a genetic algorithm optimization of random forest algorithm by Shengming Hu, Yongfei Lu, Xuanchi Liu, Cheng Huang, Zhou Wang, Lei Huang, Weihang Zhang, Xiaoyang Li

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Effect of environmental conditions on seed yield and metabolomic profile of camelina (Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz) through on farm multilocation trials by Clarissa Clemente, Alessandro Rossi, Luciana G. Angelini, Rocio G. Villalba, Diego A. Moreno, Francisco A. Tomás-Barberán, Silvia Tavarini

“…Mediterranean farmers are searching for low input and alternative crops for cropping systems diversification and for promoting innovative value chains. Since there are still limited studies on camelina to be introduced under real on-farm conditions, a multilocation trial was conducted in four different sites of inland areas of Tuscany (central Italy) with the aim of evaluating camelina productive potential and seed quality, thus defining a complete metabolomic profile. …”
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