A comprehensive analysis of erectile dysfunction prevalence and the impact of prostate conditions on ED among US adults: evidence from NHANES 2001-2004 by Yuhao Zhang, Nan Zang, Yingyue Xiang, Fanlu Lin, Xue Liu, Jing Zhang, Jing Zhang

“…Prostatitis showed no significant relationship with ED in any subgroup.ConclusionThe study established BPH and PCa as significant risk factors for ED, with no substantial link detected between prostatitis and ED. …”
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Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease and risk of nephrolithiasis: a sizeable cross-sectional study by Shengqi Zheng, Tianchi Hua, Guicao Yin, Wei Zhang, Xiaoxiang Wang, Lezhong Qi, Xiayong Jing, Qibing Fan, Xiaoping Yu, Yifan Li

“…Further subgroup analysis revealed that in male patients with MAFLD, the risk of nephrolithiasis increased progressively with increasing severity of liver steatosis. …”
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Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Placement for Portal Hypertension: Meta-Analysis of Safety and Efficacy of 8 mm vs. 10 mm Stents by Jiangtao Liu, Eric Paul Wehrenberg-Klee, Emily D. Bethea, Raul N. Uppot, Kei Yamada, Suvranu Ganguli

“…The combined risk of HE in the variceal bleeding subgroup was statistically lower (HR: 0.52, CI: 0.34-0.80) with an 8 mm stent compared with a 10 mm stent. …”
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Triglyceride lowering in patients with different severities of hypertriglyceridaemia-associated acute pancreatitis: secondary analysis of a multicentre, prospective cohort study by Xiaoling Li, Lin Gao, Xiang Luo, Wenjian Mao, Lu Ke, Xiaoyan Lai, Lingyan Fu, Yaolu Liu

“…The association between target-reaching and the primary outcome was modelled. Furthermore, subgroup analyses were conducted based on the disease severity of HTG-AP patients at enrolment.Results Overall, 413 patients were included for analysis, of whom 192 (46.5%) reached the target on day 3. …”
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Accuracy of artificial intelligence algorithms in predicting acute respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Yaxin Xiong, Yuan Gao, Yucheng Qi, Yingfei Zhi, Jia Xu, Kuo Wang, Qiuyue Yang, Changsong Wang, Mingyan Zhao, Xianglin Meng

“…In an additional subgroup analysis, we evaluated the predictive performance of the AI models trained using different predictors. …”
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The Homomorphisms and Operations of Rough Groups by Fei Li, Zhenliang Zhang

“…Based on the light relation between a normal subgroup and a complete congruence relation of a group, we consider the homomorphism problem of rough groups and rough quotient groups and investigate their operational properties. …”
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Character induction in p-groups by Teresa L. Santa Coloma

“…Then χ is monomial; that is, χ=λG, where λ is a linear character of some subgroup of G. We are interested in locating subgroups of G which induce the character χ.…”
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The association between urinary lead concentration and the likelihood of kidney stones in US adults: a population-based study by Dan Liang, Chang Liu, Mei Yang

“…In addition, we also performed subgroup analysis and interaction tests. A total of 8325 subjects were included, and the prevalence of kidney stones was 9.90%. …”
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Body mass index and risk of knee osteoarthritis: systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies by Huaqing Zheng, Changhong Chen

“…Studies were independently reviewed by two investigators. Subgroup analysis was performed. Heterogeneity and publication bias were assessed. …”
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Serum alpha-1 acid glycoprotein and gallstone risk in US adult women: a cross-sectional analysis of the NHANES by Xiaocheng Li, Peiling He

“…Weighted logistic regression, subgroup analyses, smoothed curve analysis, and multiple imputation were used to examine the relationship between AGP and gallstone risk.ResultsThis cross-sectional analysis included 1,903 adult women in the U.S. aged 20–49. …”
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Dose-response relationship between Life's Essential 8 score and COPD risk: the NHANES cohort study 2007–2018 by Qian Huang, Quan Yuan, Wenqiang Li, Xiaoyu He, Qian He, Zhiping Deng

“…Logistics regression analysis and subgroup analysis were used to explore the relationship between cardiovascular health (CVH) and COPD based on the LE8 score. …”
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A New Combination Formula for Treatment of Fungal Keratitis: An Experimental Study by Hala Mohamed El-Mofty, Mohamad Amr Salah Eddin Abdelhakim, Mohamed Farid El-Miligi, Mohamed A. El-Nabarawi, Islam Ahmed Hamed Khalil

“…The right eye for one subgroup received ketoconazole as control 1 while the other subgroup received placebo as control 2. …”
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Higher Levels of High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Is Positively Associated with the Incidence of Hyperuricemia in Chinese Population: A Report from the China Health and Retireme... by Hui-Xu Dai, Zhi-Ying Zhao, Yang Xia, Qi-Jun Wu, Yu-Hong Zhao

“…Furthermore, we conducted subgroup analyses to explore this association according to age, sex, and body mass index. …”
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Prognostic value of albumin-bilirubin grade in lung cancer: a meta-analysis by Jiao Jiang, Hongjuan Li, Lin Chen, Xiaoming Qiu

“…Hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were combined and subgroup analysis based on the type of lung cancer [non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) vs. small cell lung cancer (SCLC)] and treatment [surgery vs. immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) vs. chemotherapy] was conducted. …”
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Association of oxidative balance scores with cardiovascular and all cause mortality in patients with asthma by Wei Zhao, Yiyuan Sun, Bohui Zhu

“…Rigor was maintained through the implementation of subgroup and sensitivity analyses to authenticate the findings. …”
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Association between cardiometabolic index and hypertension among US adults from NHANES 1999–2020 by Tuo Guo, Yang Zhou, Guifang Yang, Lijuan Sheng, Xiangping Chai

“…Using multivariable logistic regression, we explored the association between CMI and hypertension, employing Restricted Cubic Spline analysis to assess non-linear relationships and two-piecewise linear regression to identify threshold effects. Subgroup analyses confirmed the consistency of our findings across various demographic and clinical characteristics. …”
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The added role of Doppler ultrasound evaluation of sickle cell disease vasculopathy as a state of arterial stiffness and decreased nitric oxide bioavailability by Marwa Mohammed Mohammed Onsy, Sonia Ali El-Saiedi, Douaa Mohammed Mohammed Elsheshtawy, Marwa Abd-Elhady Abd-Elsamad

“…Diastolic shear stress and elastic modulus showed no significant difference between sickle and control group (p 0.071, p 0.083). Regarding sickle subgroups, carotid intima-media thickness was higher and cross-sectional compliance and distensability were lower in subgroup II than subgroup I (p < 0.001, p < 0.018, p < 0.035), respectively. …”
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Research progress on the relationship between fine motor skills and academic ability in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Yucen Li, Xin Wu, Danni Ye, Jinye Zuo, Liu Liu

“…All meta-analysis results are significant, and there is a medium correlation between fine motor skills and reading ability, a larger correlation is observed with mathematical ability. In the subgroup analysis of each fine motor skill component and academic ability, except for the fine motor coordination, which shows only a small correlation with reading ability, the variables in the other subgroups all exhibit a medium degree of correlation. …”
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Evaluation of Serum Vascular Adhesion Protein-1 as a Potential Biomarker in Thyroid Cancer by Zhigang Hu, Pengxin Zhao, Kaili Zhang, Leilei Zang, Haiying Liao, Weiyuan Ma

“…The patients were further divided into subgroup 1 (69 cases with benign thyroid nodules) and subgroup 2 (57 cases with thyroid cancer). …”
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Muscle quality index is correlated with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional population-based study by Mengye Zhang, Hao Lin, Xue Xu

“…To explore the correlation between MQI, IR and T2DM, multivariate logistic regression, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, subgroup analysis, and restricted cubic spline regression were employed. …”
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