Prevalence of Postoperative Infection after Tooth Extraction: A Retrospective Study by Elaine Kueh Yue Yi, Annabelle Lai Siew Ying, Mandakini Mohan, Rohit Kunnath Menon

“…A binary logistic regression analysis was performed to assess the odds ratio of a patient having a postoperative infection or not, comparing it with each variable. …”
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Investigating causal relationships between plasma proteins and lung adenocarcinoma: result from proteomics and Mendelian randomization study by Ruoya Lv, Jiabin Chen, Xiaoyu Wu, Kequn Chai, Jiadong Yan, Sheng Wang

“…The MR study revealed that IL20RB (odds ratio (OR) = 1.600, 95% Confidence Interval (CI) [1.098, 2.331], P = 0.014) and SAA2 (OR = 1.048, 95%CI [1.012, 1.081], P = 0.017) were highly related to LUAD. …”
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New Keratoconus Risk Factors: A Cross-Sectional Case—Control Study by Eloi Debourdeau, Gabriel Planells, Chloe Chamard, David Touboul, Max Villain, Pascal Demoly, Fanny Babeau, Pierre Fournie, Vincent Daien

“…Multivariate analysis revealed significant associations of keratoconus with family history (odds ratio [OR] = 22.2, p<0.001), rubbing eyes (OR = 10.9, p<0.001), allergy (any kind) (OR = 3.80, p<0.001), smoking exposure (OR = 2.08, p=0.017), and dry eyes (OR = 1.77, p=0.045f). …”
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Relationship between serum lipids and depression: A cross sectional survey among adults in Haryana, India by Rubina Mulchandani, Tanica Lyngdoh, Ria Nangia, Sukriti Singh, Sandeep Grover, JS Thakur

“…The association of total cholesterol (odds ratio [OR] 0.99, P = 0.84), LDL-cholesterol (OR = 1.00, P = 0.19), HDL-cholesterol (OR = 0.99, P = .76), and triglycerides (OR 1.00, P = .12) with depressive symptoms was not significant. …”
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NCK2 Is Significantly Associated with Opiates Addiction in African-Origin Men by Zhifa Liu, Xiaobo Guo, Yuan Jiang, Heping Zhang

“…By employing both SNP- and gene-based methods of analysis, we identified a strong (odds ratio = 13.87) and significant (P value = 1.33E−11) association of an SNP in the NCK2 gene on chromosome 2 with opiates addiction in African-origin men. …”
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The Effect of Exposure to Noise and Vibration and Ergonomic Factors on Sleep Quality and Musculoskeletal Disorders in Bus Drivers in Iran by Somayeh Rahimimoghadam, Narges Khanjani, Mahdi Jalali, Fatemeh Khorashadizadeh, Ayda Shahmohammadi

“…The results of this study showed as drivers’ age increased, the chance of having good SQual decreased (odds ratio [OR]: 0.9, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.81–0.99). …”
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Markers of Sleep Disordered Breathing and Diabetes Mellitus in a Multiethnic Sample of US Adults: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2005–2008) by Charumathi Sabanayagam, Srinivas Teppala, Anoop Shankar

“…Compared to those without any sleep disturbance, the multivariable odds ratio (OR) (95% confidence interval (CI)) of diabetes among those with ≥3 sleep disturbances was 2.04 (1.46–2.87). …”
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GSTP1, GSTM1 and GSTT1 genetic polymorphisms and total serum GST concentration in stable male COPD by Žuntar Irena, Petlevski Roberta, Dodig Slavica, Popović-Grle Sanja

“…COPD showed a statistical difference (p < 0.05). The odds ratio of CC/CT+TT (wild type GSTP1 exon 6 vs. joint heterozygous and mutant homozygous GSTP1 exon 6) was 10.000 and statistically different (p = 0.002). …”
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The Association of Prepregnancy Body Mass Index with Pregnancy Outcomes in Chinese Women by Jing Zhang, Wensheng An, Li Lin

“…Logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the association between prepregnancy BMI and pregnancy outcomes, and odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (95% CI) was calculated. …”
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Anemia prevention measures in female students in the Islamic Boarding School of Al-Junaidiyah Biru, Indonesia by Nur Shadiqah Hamid, Ansariadi, Ridwan Amiruddin, Nur N. Noor, Agus B. Birawida, Stang

“…Multivariate analysis showed that knowledge [P = 0.001; odds ratio (OR) 4.57; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.90–10.99] and attitude (P = 0.000; OR 12.30; 95% CI: 5.24–28.86) were the most influential factors. …”
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Association Analysis of Reactive Oxygen Species-Hypertension Genes Discovered by Literature Mining by Ji Eun Lim, Kyung-Won Hong, Hyun-Seok Jin, Bermseok Oh

“…The most significant SNP was rs2889611 within MAPK8 (p = 2.70 × 10-5; odds ratio, 0.82; confidence interval, 0.75 to 0.90). …”
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Self-reported Occupational-related Contact Dermatitis: Prevalence and Risk Factors among Health-care Workers in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-sectional Study by Rahaf I. Alshareef, Abeer R. Alkahtani, Areej R. Alkahtani, Norah A. Albdaya, Mohammed S Aldossary

“…Among health-care professionals, OCD was common in doctors; 81 out of 321 reported having the condition. The crude odds ratio for personal and family history of allergy were 3.88 (95% confidence interval (CI): 2.62–5.82), and 2.63 (95% CI: 1.75–4.00), respectively, suggesting that participants with these comorbidities had a higher chance of developing OCD than patients without them did. …”
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Vitamin D as a predictor of negative outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients: An observational study by Volodymyr Bogomaz, Sofiia Shatylo

“…Low vitamin D level was associated with an increased risk of respiratory support need OR \[Odds ratio\] 2.925 \[95% CI, 1.0839 to 7.8931\]. However, after adjustment for age, gender, and common comorbidities, it did not remain significant. …”
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Prevalence and Associated Metabolic Factors of Gallstone Disease in the Elderly Agricultural and Fishing Population of Taiwan by Hsi-Che Shen, Yi-Chun Hu, Yu-Fen Chen, Tao-Hsin Tung

“…Multiple logistic regression analysis also revealed that obesity (odds ratio OR=1.26, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.09–1.44) and metabolic factors (one or 2 versus none, OR=1.48, 95% CI: 1.08–1.76) were significantly associated with GSD in women but not in men. …”
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内皮型一氧化氮合酶基因G894T多态性与原发性高血压 关系的Meta分析

“…【方法】 通过文献检索全面收集中国人群eNOS基因G894T多态性与原发性高血压关系的病例-对照研究,剔除不符合要求的文献,应用Meta分析软件包(RevMan 4.2)对入选文献进行异质性检验并根据检验结果进行数据合并,计算合并优势比(odds ratio, OR),并评估发表偏倚的影响。【结果】 共11篇文献符合条件纳入研究,包括2 123例原发性高血压患者和2 097例对照者,各研究之间存在异质性,故采用随机效应模型进行数据合并,结果显示eNOS多态性基因型(GT+TT)与GG的OR值为1.48,95% CI为1.13 ～ 1.94(P = 0.004)。…”
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Impact of Ramadan fasting on serum levels of major endocrinology hormonal and biochemical parameters in healthy non-athlete adults: A systematic review and meta-analyses. by Mohammad Poursalehian, Shahrzad Mohseni, Zhaleh Shadman, Mohammadreza Mohajeri-Tehrani, Rasha Atlasi, Mohsen Khoshniat Nikoo, Mostafa Qorbani, Bagher Larijani

“…The pooled effect measure was expressed as odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) using the random-effects model.…”
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Consistency between the geographic distributions of overweight and obesity among children and adults in China by Yudan Liu, Hui Fan

“…Compared with adults from low-epidemic areas, those from middle- and high-epidemic areas had a higher odds of having overweight or obesity (odds ratio [95% confidence interval]: 1.518 [1.362, 1.692] and 2.190 [1.972, 2.433], respectively). …”
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The association between non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (NHHR) and sarcopenia: A cross-sectional study by Xiudeng Yang, Zheng Zhong

“…Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that sarcopenia was independently linked to NHHR [odds ratio (OR): 1.394, P = 0.007]. A linear relationship was identified between NHHR and sarcopenia risk (Pnon-linear = 0.108). …”
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Lung Cancer Risk and Genetic Polymorphisms in DNA Repair Pathways: A Meta-Analysis by Chikako Kiyohara, Koichi Takayama, Yoichi Nakanishi

“…We found xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group A (XPA) G23A (odds ratio (OR) =0.76, 95% confidence interval (CI) =0.61–0.94), 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase 1 (OGG1) Ser326Cys (OR=1.22, 95% CI=1.02–1.45), and excision repair cross-complementing group 2 (ERCC2) Lys751Gln (OR=1.27, 95% CI=1.10–1.46) polymorphisms were associated with lung cancer risk. …”
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Obesity-related indices are associated with self-reported infertility in women: findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey by Hong Zhang, Minmin Yu, Li Li, Chen Chen, Qinyuan He

“…Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed WHtR (odds ratio [OR] = 1.27, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.14–1.42), BRI (OR = 1.09, 95% CI: 1.05–1.14), CoI (OR = 1.36, 95% CI: 1.18–1.56), ABSI (OR = 1.22, 95% CI: 1.12–1.33), and BMI (OR = 1.03, 95% CI: 1.02–1.05) were significantly associated with female infertility. …”
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