A multi-omics strategy to understand PASC through the RECOVER cohorts: a paradigm for a systems biology approach to the study of chronic conditions by Jun Sun, Masanori Aikawa, Hassan Ashktorab, Noam D. Beckmann, Noam D. Beckmann, Michael L. Enger, Joaquin M. Espinosa, Xiaowu Gai, Xiaowu Gai, Benjamin D. Horne, Benjamin D. Horne, Paul Keim, Paul Keim, Paul Keim, Jessica Lasky-Su, Rebecca Letts, Cheryl L. Maier, Meisha Mandal, Lauren Nichols, Nadia R. Roan, Nadia R. Roan, Mark W. Russell, Jacqueline Rutter, George R. Saade, George R. Saade, Kumar Sharma, Kumar Sharma, Stephanie Shiau, Stephen N. Thibodeau, Samuel Yang, Lucio Miele, NIH Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Consortium

“…This approach will minimize lab-to-lab technical variability, maximize sample size for class discovery, and enable the incorporation of as many relevant variables as possible into statistical models. Many of our recommendations have already been considered by the NIH through the peer-review process, resulting in the creation of a systems biology panel that is currently designing the studies we proposed. …”
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The Timing of Infarction Pain in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction after Previous Revascularization by Predrag M. Mitrovic, Branislav Stefanovic, Zorana Vasiljevic, Mina Radovanovic, Nebojsa Radovanovic, Gordana Krljanac, Dubravka Rajic, Predrag Erceg, Vladan Vukcevic, Ivana Nedeljkovic, Miodrag Ostojic

“…The distribution of time of onset within the four intervals was not uniform, and the difference was statistically significant only for patients undergoing beta-blocker therapy at time of onset (p = 0.0013), nonsmokers (p = 0.0283), and patients with non-STEMI (p = 0.0412). …”
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Changes in target setting for major epidemic emergency response in China before and after COVID-19 epidemic: an official documents analysis by Yushu LI, Peiwu SHI, Qunhong SHEN, Chaoyang ZHANG, Zheng CHEN, Chuan PU, Lingzhong XU, Zhi HU, Anning MA, Zhaohui GONG, Tianqiang XU, Panshi WANG, Hua WANG, Chao HAO, Qingyu ZHOU, Chengyue LI, Mo HAO

“…Paired rank sum tests were used to statistically test for differences in indicators before and after the epidemic. …”
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Effect of perioperative methylprednisolone administration on postoperative pleural effusion in older patients with non-small cell lung cancer by Xinyu Hao, Yongxin Guo, Ziyao Xu, Yanping Song, Jingjing Liu, Likai Shi, Qiang Fu, Wenzhu Shi, Jiangbei Cao, Yanhong Liu, Li Tong, Weidong Mi

“…The incidence of postoperative pleural effusion in the methylprednisolone group before and after PSM matching was significantly lower than that in the control group (before PSM: 9.4% vs. 19.2, P < 0.001; after PSM: 9.8% vs. 18.2%, P < 0.001). There was no statistically significant difference in the incidence of postoperative pneumonia between the two groups before and after matching. …”
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Differentiation of <i>Bos grunniens</i> and <i>Bos taurus</i> based on STR locus polymorphism by K. B. Chekirov, Zh. T. Isakova, V. N. Kipen, M. I. Irsaliev, S. B. Mukeeva, K. A. Aitbaev, G. A. Sharshenalieva, S. B. Beyshenalieva, B. U. Kydyralieva

“…Twelve of the loci were from the standard markers panel recommended by ISAG. Statistical analysis was performed using GenAlEx v.6.503, Structure v.2.3.4, PAST v.4.03, and POPHELPER v1.0.10. …”
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Association of outpatient use of renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system blockers on outcomes of acute respiratory illness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cohort study by Molly Moore Jeffery, Lucas Oliveira J e Silva, Fernanda Bellolio, Nathan W Cummins, Timothy M Dempsey, Vesna D Garovic, Andrew Limper

“…The ACEi/ARB cohort saw a larger increase in risk in the COVID-19 influenza season than the other HTN medication cohort for four out of five outcomes, with an additional 1.5 percentage point (pp) increase in risk of an inpatient stay (95% CI 1.2 to 1.9 pp) and of ICU/CCU use (95% CI 0.3 to 2.7 pp) as well as a 0.7 pp (0.1 to 1.2 pp) additional increase in risk of ARD and 0.9 pp (0.4 to 1.3 pp) additional increase in risk of ARDS. There was no statistically significant difference in the absolute risk of death (−0.2 pp, 95% CI −0.4 to 0.1 pp). …”
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Differences in Clinicopathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma between Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism by Yuan Liu, Siyi Guo, Shaowei Sang, Jinbo Liu, Lin Qi, Bin Lv, Xiaoli Zhang

“…Moreover, 36.84% (7/19) of the PTC patients in asymptomatic group showed multifocality, which was much higher than 14.29% (1/7) in the symptomatic group; however, no statistical significance was found (p=0.24). Conclusions. …”
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Meta-analysis of the association between overexpression of RAD51 family genes and prognosis and clinical features in breast cancer by Yong-Cheng Liu, Jun Shen

“…Two independent researchers screened the literature according to predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria and extracted relevant data. Statistical analyses were conducted using the Meta package in R 4.2.2. …”
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Nailfold Capillaroscopy in Early Stages of Mixed Connective Tissue Disease in a Sample of Egyptian Patients by Yasser A Elmotaleb Gazar, Hesham Salah Hamoud, Sherif Mohamed Ismail

“…Those patients also exhibited a statistically significant positive correlation of 0.520 (P = 0.019) between hemorrhage score and the number of tender joints. …”
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Prevalence of Self-Medication Practice and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women Who Attended Antenatal Care at Public Hospitals of North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia by Abrham Demis, Birhanetensay Masresha Altaye, Mulugeta Emiru, Mitiku Tefera

“…Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression was done to identify associated factors, and P values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant. Results. The prevalence of self-medication practice among pregnant women was 65.38%. …”
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ATRIBUT PENATAAN RUANG-DALAM PADA CO-WORKING SPACE BERDASARKAN PILIHAN KONSUMEN by Ulfaizah Ulfa Sahril Nurfadhillah, Diananta Pramitasari

“…The research data were obtained using a questionnaire containing Likert items  which were then statistically descriptively analyzed.  There were 201 respondents who live in Yogyakarta that were involved in the research who had several times used coffee & coworking  spaces for working, both for business and non-business in the past 6 months. …”
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The role of ultrasound combined with water bath in the establishment of animal models of rat urethral stricture by Xiaojian Ye, Xianjing Lin, Yehui Chen, Rongquan Xu, Jiawei Zhou

“…Ultrasonographic characteristics were scored for all surgical group rats, and an intergroup analysis was conducted between the surgical group and the control group rats. Statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS 22.0 software. …”
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Experimental Investigations of Offshore Sand Production Monitoring Based on the Analysis of Vibration in Response to Weak Shocks by Yichen Li, Gang Liu, Zongwen Jia, Min Qin, Gang Wang, Yinan Hu, Jialin He, Kai Wang

“…The characteristic frequency band of sand impacting the pipe wall is 30-50 kHz. A statistical method is used to establish the response law of the noise signal of the fluid. …”
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The Effects on Knee Swelling, Range of Motion and Pain using a Commercially Available Hot/Cold Contrast Device in a Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Setting by Kevin E Wilk, Robert E Mangine, James Tersakjs, Kimberly Hasselford

“…Knee extension improved from 2.72 degrees of hyperextension to 3.44 degrees, both of which were statistically significant(p\<.001). # Conclusion Contrast therapy utilizing the Hyperice X device demonstrated effectiveness in affecting pain reduction, swelling, and knee ROM. …”
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Knowledge regarding human monkeypox among a sample of undergraduate and post-graduate students from selected tertiary institutions in Bangladesh: An online-based cross-sectional st... by Md Hasan Al Banna, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Trisha Mallick, Nahidur Rahman, Mst Sadia Sultana, Humayra Alam Mouly, Najim Z Alshahrani, Nargees Akter, Tareq Mahmud, Susmita Hossain, Anannya Sheikh, Ashish Biswas, Sumaia Sahrin, Md Nazmul Hassan, Md Shafiqul Islam Khan

“…Students who received information about mpox during their education were more knowledgeable compared to those who had not, with statistical significance occurring at 10th (β = 3.711), 25th (β = 6.656), 50th (β = 5.75), 75th (β = 3.404) and 90th (β = 2.592) quantiles.…”
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Effects of dribbling restrictions in small-sided games on aerobic and anaerobic fitness in youth basketball players by Mingbang Li, Liang Tan, Hong Wu, Jianwei Wu

“…Aerobic capacity was assessed using the Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test Level 1 (YYIRT), while the 30-second Wingate Test measured peak power output (PPO) and average power output (APO) at baseline and post-intervention. Statistical analysis was conducted using a mixed ANOVA to examine the interactions between time and group.ResultsComparisons of YYIRT between groups at post-intervention revealed that limitedD performed significantly better than both freeD (p = 0.035; d = 1.038) and the control group (p &lt; 0.001; d = 2.050), while freeD also showed significantly better performance (p = 0.021; d = 0.082) than the control group. …”
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SUCCESSFUL REGISTRATION OF DOMESTIC BIOANALOGUE OF BEVACIZUMAB – NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR EFFECTIVE TREA TMENT OF PATIENTS WITH NON-SQUAMOUS CELL NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER by S. V. Orlov, S. N. Fogt, M. S. Shustova

“…During the study period the incidence of adverse events, including severe adverse events (grade 3–4 according to CTCAE) related with the investigational drugs, did not have statistically significant differences in both study arms.The drug "Avegra®" in direct comparison to "Avastin®" demonstrated equal efficacy, similar safety and immunogenicity profile, equal pharmacokinetic characteristics. …”
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Assessment of Impact of Meteorology and Precursor in Long-term Trends of PM and Ozone in a Tropical City by Christian Mark G. Salvador, Angeles D. Alindajao, Karen B. Burdeos, Mark Anthony M. Lavapiez, Jhon Robin Yee, Angel T. Bautista, Preciosa Corazon B. Pabroa, Rey Y. Capangpangan

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Factors Associated with Maternal Near Miss among Women Admitted in West Arsi Zone Public Hospitals, Ethiopia: Unmatched Case-Control Study by Fikadu Nugusu Dessalegn, Feleke Hailemichael Astawesegn, Nana Chea Hankalo

“…The odds of maternal near miss were statistically significantly associated with women’s lack of formal education [AOR=2.24, 95% CI: (1.17, 4.31)]. …”
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Viability of pollen in sweet cherry (<i>Cerasus avium</i>) varieties of different ecogeographic origin in the Northwestern region of Russia by S. Yu. Orlova, A. V. Pavlov, V. G. Verzhuk

“…Pollen viability results were statistically processed using StatSoft Statistica 13.0 and Microsoft Excel.Results. …”
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