Association between surgery and increased survival in primary central nervous system lymphoma: a retrospective cohort study by Gangping Li, XinJiang Hou, Yuewen Fu, DongJie He, Di Zhang

“…The median survival was 24.0 months for STR, 30.0 months for GTR, and 18.0 months for non-surgical patients (P < 0.001). Multivariate Cox regression analyses showed that the adjusted hazard ratio (HR) for STR was 0.77 (95% CI 0.70–0.85, P < 0.001) for overall survival (OS) and 0.74 (95% CI 0.66–0.83, P < 0.001) for cancer-specific survival (CSS). …”
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Health system costs of providing outpatient care for diabetes in people with TB in the Philippines by T. Yamanaka, M.C. Castro, J.P. Ferrer, J.A. Solon, S.E. Cox, Y.V. Laurence, A. Vassall

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Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Aster incisus through the Inhibition of NF-κB, MAPK, and Akt Pathways in LPS-Stimulated RAW 264.7 Macrophages by Daniel Ngabire, Yeong-Ae Seong, Maheshkumar Prakash Patil, Irvine Niyonizigiye, Yong Bae Seo, Gun-Do Kim

“…Aster incisus also reduced significantly the production of inflammation-related enzymes (iNOS, Cox-2) and cytokines (TNFα, IL-1β, and IL-6) and the gene expression of the proinflammatory cytokines. …”
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Association between lipid accumulation products and mortality outcomes in patients with osteoporosis and osteopenia by Yazhou Liu, Ying Yang, Yuhao Li, Wenbo Ding, Xiaodong Yang

“…Kaplan-Meier survival curves, multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression, and restricted cubic spline plots were used to evaluate the association between LAP and mortality outcomes in patients with OP or osteopenia. …”
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Association between blood–urea–nitrogen-to-albumin ratio and in-hospital mortality in patients diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019: a retrospective cohort study by Ruoqing Zhou, Dianzhu Pan

“…Methods This retrospective observational study enrolled a cohort of 1027 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 between December 2022 and March 2023. Multivariate Cox regression analyses were used to ascertain the independent association between BAR and in-hospital mortality among patients with COVID-19. …”
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Factors predicting early discontinuation of methotrexate as a first-line treatment for rheumatoid arthritis in Italy: Results from the GISEA registry by Andreina Manfredi, Marco Sebastiani, Florenzo Iannone, Elisa Gremese, Alessandra Bortoluzzi, Ennio Favalli, Roberto Gorla, Fausto Salaffi, Enrico Fusaro, Rosario Foti, Luca Cantarini, Roberto Caporali, Alberto Cauli, Stefano Alivernini, Francesco Paolo Cantatore, Antonio Carletto, Fabrizio Conti, Salvatore D'Angelo1, Oscar Epis, Roberta Ramonda, Antonio Marchesoni, Gianfranco Ferraccioli, Giovanni Lapadula

“…Baseline features of disease were evaluated by means of univariate Cox regression, and parameters significantly associated to the outcome were included in multivariate model. …”
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Prevalence and outcomes associated with hypocalcaemia and hypercalcaemia among pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease patients with mineral and bone disorder by Mei Hui Amanda Yong, Jun Jie Benjamin Seng, Ying Lin Cheryl Tan, Jiunn Wong, Priscilla How

“…Outcomes evaluated included all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events. Multivariate Cox regression analysis was done to evaluate the association of hypocalcaemia and/or hypercalcaemia with the clinical outcomes. …”
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Association between alkaline phosphatase levels and mortality in Chinese patients with colorectal cancer with liver metastases: a retrospective cohort study by ZhaoXi Liu, ZiQing Zhang, GuoFang Yu, MingJiang Mo, ChuanYu Xie, DangHan Xu, JieTao Lin, YuChen Zhang, Li Deng, YiChang Luo, YingFeng Huang, Cui Shao

“…ALP level was the primary exposure variable, with demographic, clinical and pathological factors serving as covariates. Multivariate Cox regression analyses were used to evaluate the impact of ALP on mortality over a 4-year follow-up period. …”
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Role of Toll-like receptor 2 during infection of Leptospira spp: A systematic review. by Chamila Kappagoda, Indika Senavirathna, Thilini Agampodi, Suneth Buddhika Agampodi

“…Notably, we observed the secretion/mRNA expression of several cytokines (IL6, IL8, IL-1β, TNFα, IFNγ, IL10, CCL2/MCP-1, CCL10, COX2, CXCL1/KC, CXCL2/MIP2) and immune effectors (hBD2, iNOS, Fibronectin, Oxygen, and Nitrogen reactive species) as key aspects of host TLR2 responses during leptospirosis. …”
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Diagnosis and Prognosis of Neuroendocrine Tumours of the Lung by Means of High Resolution Image Analysis by Uta Jütting, Peter Gais, Karsten Rodenacker, Joachim Böhm, Susanne Koch, Heinz W. Präuer, Heinz Höfler

“…Stepwise linear discriminant analysis to differentiate the classes and Cox regression analysis for the survival time analysis were applied. …”
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泛素特异性蛋白酶44在肝细胞癌中的表达及预后价值 by 王随境, 赖杰怡, 张丽红, 李孜孜, 张新科, 陈杰伟

“…结果在161例HCC患者中，98例（60.9%）高表达USP44蛋白，Pearson′s卡方检验结果显示USP44在HCC中的表达水平与临床分期（<italic>χ²</italic>=14.44，<italic>P</italic>＜0.001）、肿瘤单灶及多灶性（<italic>χ²</italic>=8.04，<italic>P </italic>=0.005）显著相关；Kaplan-Meier分析结果显示，低表达组患者平均生存时间59.6个月，显著低于高表达组患者的平均生存时间185.0个月（Log-rank <italic>χ²</italic>=20.77，<italic>P</italic>＜0.001）；多因素Cox比例风险模型揭示USP44是HCC患者的独立预后危险因素。结论USP44蛋白高表达的HCC患者具有良好的生存期，检测其蛋白表达可作为筛选预后良好的肝细胞癌患者的一种手段。…”
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Renal Complication and Glycemic Control in Korean Veterans with Type 2 Diabetes: A 10-Year Retrospective Cohort Study by Ye An Kim, Young Lee, Je Hyun Seo

“…Participants were divided into six groups according to their baseline or dynamic HbA1c levels. Extended Cox models were used to calculate adjusted hazard ratios for the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) associated with specific HbA1c ranges. …”
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Is Helicobacter pylori eradication required for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug-associated erosions and ulcers? by A. Ye. Karateyev, Ye. V. Moroz, Anastasia V. Tsurgan, N. V. Gontarenko

“…Anyway, H. pylori eradication does not eliminate necessity of other methods for NSAID gastropathy prophylaxis: application of COX-2 selective inhibitors and PPI preventive prescription.…”
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A Novel Insight into Paraptosis-Related Classification and Signature in Lower-Grade Gliomas by Xi-Feng Qian, Jia-Hao Zhang, Yue-Xue Mai, Xin Yin, Yu-Bin Zheng, Zi-Yuan Yu, Guo-Dong Zhu, Xu-Guang Guo

“…Through least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression analysis and multivariate Cox regression analysis, 10-paraptosis-related gene (PRG) signatures (CDK4, TNK2, DSTYK, CDKN3, CCR4, CASP9, HSPA5, RGR, LPAR1, and PDCD6IP) were identified to separate LGG patients into high- and low-risk subgroups successfully. …”
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Common protocol for validation of the QCOVID algorithm across the four UK nations by Ronan A Lyons, Aziz Sheikh, Vahe Nafilyan, Frank Kee, Carol Coupland, Julia Hippisley-Cox, Chris Robertson, Ben Humberstone, Jane Lyons, Christopher R Cardwell, Steven Kerr

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The Sequence of Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthase 2 Gene in Women with Cervicitis by Maha A. Ahlial, Nazar Sh. Mohammed, Maysara S. Khalaf

“…The current study aims to determine the CA125, CA 19.9, and, CA 15.3 markers level and their relationship with the COX-2 gene. Venous blood samples were obtained from 100 women with cervicitis whose ages ranged from 18 to 60 years, and 100 healthy women as a control group. …”
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Neighborhood Material Deprivation Is Associated with Childhood Asthma Development: Analysis of Prospective Administrative Data by Elinor Simons, Sharon D. Dell, Rahim Moineddin, Teresa To

“…We measured the risk of incident asthma using Cox proportional hazards models and the associations between ongoing asthma visits and deprivation by year of life with generalized linear mixed models. …”
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The role of MRO as an M2 macrophage-associated gene in non-small cell lung cancer: insights into immune infiltration, prognostic significance, and therapeutic implications by Yue Gu, Miaosen Zheng, Jing Xie

“…Differential gene expression and correlation studies examined MRO’s association with M2 macrophages. Univariate Cox regression and Kaplan–Meier analyses assessed prognostic significance. …”
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Operative versus Nonoperative Treatment in Patients with Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Recommended for Surgery by Hui Wang, Di Yang, Yan Lv, Jing Lin, Haibin Wang

“…NSCLC patients with stages III and IV, recommended for operation, were identified in the US National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database (SEER).We used propensity score matching (PSM) and multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression to ensure the robustness of our findings. …”
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Expressions and Clinical Significance of Met and YAP in Gastric Cancer Tissue Microarray by Jinxia Li, Xinyun Zhang, Ying Liu, Jinyong Zhou, Li Shen, Guangxin Yue

“…Survival analysis was conducted using the Kaplan-Meier method, while multivariate survival analysis was performed using the Cox proportional hazard model. Bioinformatics analysis was carried out by downloading chip data from TCGA. …”
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