Time to recovery from diabetic ketoacidosis and its predictors among children with type 1 diabetes at selected governmental hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; A five-year retrospe... by Shimeles Tefera Mamo, Tigistu Gebreyohannis Gebretensaye, Feven Mulugeta, Gemechu Gelan Bekele

“…The data were checked for completeness and entered into Stata version 16 for analysis. Variables with p -value < 0.05 in the multivariate Cox proportional hazards model were considered significant predictors of the time to recovery from diabetic ketoacidosis. …”
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Prevalence and associated factors of reading spectacle coverage among adults aged 35 years and above living in Debre Berhan Town, North Shewa, Ethiopia, 2023 by Matiyas Mamo Bekele, Melkamu Temeselew Tegegn, Nebiyat Feleke Adimassu, Abel Sinshaw Assem, Tarekegn CheklieZeleke, Abebizuhan Zigale Bayabil, Getenet Shumet Birhan, Abebech Fikade Shumye

“…A binary logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the factors associated with reading spectacle coverage. Variables with a p-value of less than 0.05 in the multivariable binary logistic regression were deemed statistically significant.ResultsA total of 780 participants took part in the study, resulting in a response rate of 96.53%. …”
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Nexus between environmental sustainability, energy intensity and food security: evidence from emerging economies by Md. Mahadi Hasan, A.T.M. Adnan

“…Therefore, this study aims to provide more precise and consistent estimates of per capita CO2 emissions by considering the interplay of food security and energy intensity within the context of emerging economies. …”
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A force‐measuring device combined with ultrasound‐based elastography for assessment of the uterine cervix by Christine Rohr Thomsen, Maria Strandbo Schmidt Jensen, Anne Katrine Leonhard, Tanja Østerlund Mortensen, Pinar Bor, Puk Sandager, Mogens Hinge, Niels Uldbjerg

“…Elastography measured the changes in mean gray value (intensity) during manual compressions. Region of interest was set within the anterior cervical lip. …”
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Enhancing Heart Disease Diagnosis Using ECG Signal Reconstruction and Deep Transfer Learning Classification with Optional SVM Integration by Mostafa Ahmad, Ali Ahmed, Hasan Hashim, Mohammed Farsi, Nader Mahmoud

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> Accurate and efficient diagnosis of heart disease through electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis remains a critical challenge in clinical practice due to noise interference, morphological variability, and the complexity of overlapping cardiac signals. …”
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Greenfield investments projects in manufacturing and electricity: A network analysis. by Gilson Geraldino Silva, José Maria Ferreira Jardim da Silveira, Henrique Reichert

“…The World Bank, Unctad, the Economist Intelligence Unit and more than 100 governments around the world as well as major corporations use the data as the primary source of intelligence on Greenfield investment trends. Our variables are investment projects intentions value and country origin by year. …”
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Quantifying Mechanical Properties of the Patellar and Achilles Tendons Using Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography: A Pilot Study by William A. Berrigan, Kevin Cipriano, Kirk A. Easley, Ken Mautner

“…This study aims to provide preliminary baseline SWE values for these tendons in a healthy cohort. (2) <b>Methods</b>: In this cross-sectional study, healthy volunteers aged 18–65, with no history of lower extremity injury, were assessed using a Samsung RS85 Prestige ultrasound system with a 14L-2 MHz transducer. …”
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Assessment of Topical Steroid-damaged/ Dependent Face Severity Score and its Impact on Quality of Life: A Cross-sectional Study by Vishakha Goel, Deepika Agarwal, Suganita, Sonal Sachan, Vandana Yadav, Ankur Talwar

“…Fischer’s-exact test was used to compare quantitative variables. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used for more than two variables. …”
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Assessing socioeconomic status through dental and associated tissue characteristics: A cross-sectional study for human identification [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Srikant Natarajan, Shwetha Yellapurkar, Amita Juanita Lewis, CEENA DENNY, Nandita KP, Jasmine Jophy

“…The associations between SES and dental health indicators were analyzed using chi-square tests for categorical variables and t-tests for continuous variables. Results Dental caries is more common in lower SES groups, attributed to factors like poor nutrition and hygiene. …”
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C-Reactive Protein Levels in the Brugada Syndrome by Aimé Bonny, Joelci Tonet, Manlio F. Márquez, Antonio De Sisti, Abdou Temfemo, Caroline Himbert, Fatima Gueffaf, Fabrice Larrazet, Ivo Ditah, Robert Frank, Françoise Hidden-Lucet, Guy Fontaine

“…Inflammation in the Brugada syndrome (BrS) and its clinical implication have been little studied. Aims. To assess the level of inflammation in BrS patients. …”
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Unmet maternal health information needs and mass media exposure for maternal health among women in the Gedeo zone, South Ethiopia by Getanew Aschalew Tesfa, Addisu Getnet, Binyam Tariku Seboka

“…An adjusted odds ratio (AOR) with a 95% confidence interval (CI) was used to show the strength of the association between the dependent and independent variables. A p-value less than 0.05 was used to declare statistical significance.ResultsOf the total study participants, 72.5% (95% CI: 69.34–75.37) had high unmet maternal health information needs. …”
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A comparative study of the efficacy of topical negative pressure moist dressings and conventional moist dressings in chronic wounds by Surajit Bhattacharya, J Ravikrishnan, B S Satish Rao, H. Divakar Shenoy, S R Shetty, Leo Menezes

“…The variables were compared using Unpaired Student′s t test. …”
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Dental caries and actual utilization of dental services among primary school children in Egypt: a cross-sectional study by Mariam Osman Mohamed, Basman Elsayed Hamza, Rabaa Mahmoud Aboubakr, Nasr Mohamed Attia

“…Being in private schools significantly reduced dental caries in both types of dentitions (DMFT: Regression Coefficient (B) =-0.160, P-value (P) = 0.032), (deft: B=-0.459, P = 0.007). …”
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Efficacy of Long-Term Use of Azithromycin in the Management of Cystic Fibrosis in Pediatric Patients with or Without <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i>: A Systematic Review and Meta-Ana... by Hassan Al-shehri, Dana Albassam

“…We conducted the meta-analysis by pooling the mean difference (MD) and comparing the continuous variables and odds ratio (OR) for dichotomous variables at 95% confidence intervals (CI), at a <i>p</i>-value of 0.05. …”
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Risk prediction of stroke-associated pneumonia in acute ischemic stroke with atrial fibrillation using machine learning models by Tai Su, Peng Zhang, Peng Zhang, Bingyin Zhang, Zihao Liu, Zexing Xie, Xiaomei Li, Jixiang Ma, Tao Xin

“…In this study, SAP was identified in 10.16% of cases. The variables screened by univariate analysis and LASSO regression, variables such as coronary artery disease, hypertension, and dysphagia, identified by univariate and LASSO regression analyses (p &lt; 0.05), were included in the LR, RF, and SVM. …”
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Predictors of Preterm Birth among Mothers Who Gave Birth in Silte Zone Public Hospitals, Southern Ethiopia by Jida Ali Hassen, Mengistu Nunemo Handiso, Bitiya Wossen Admassu

“…Finally, variables with p value ≤ 0.05 were considered as potential determinants of a preterm birth and reported in the form of adjusted odds ratio with 95% confidence interval. …”
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Predicting the risk of lean non-alcoholic fatty liver disease based on interpretable machine models in a Chinese T2DM population by Shixue Bao, Qiankai Jin, Tieqiao Wang, Yushan Mao, Guoqing Huang

“…The random forest model demonstrated superior performance compared to alternative machine learning (ML) algorithms, achieving an AUC of 0.739 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.676–0.802) in the training set, and it also exhibited the best predictive value in the internal validation set with an AUC of 0.789 (95% CI: 0.722–0.856). …”
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Effect of obesity on postoperative complications in ulcerative colitis: A systematic review and meta‐analysis by L. M. Tóth, H. Székely, A. Rancz, Á. Zolcsák, M. D. Sárközi, S. Ábrahám, L. Földvári‐Nagy, B. Erőss, P. Hegyi, P. Miheller

“…We used mean difference (MD) for continuous variables and calculated odds ratio (OR) with a 95% confidence interval (CI) for dichotomous variables. …”
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Intelligent predictive risk assessment and management of sarcopenia in chronic disease patients using machine learning and a web-based tool by Ke Rong, Gu li jiang Yi ke ran, Changgui Zhou, Xinglin Yi

“…After excluding records with missing values, a total of 2891 adults with chronic conditions were enrolled. …”
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Spatial distribution and determinants of improved shared sanitation facilities among households in Ethiopia: Using 2019 mini-Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey. by Baye Tsegaye Amlak, Daniel Gashaneh Belay

“…To explore the distribution and determine the factors associated with shared toilet facilities in Ethiopia, both spatial and mixed-effect analyses were utilized. A p-value of less than 0.05 was used to display the relationships between the dependent and independent variables, employing adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals.…”
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