Practical Challenges in the Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children by Alina Petronela Bouari-Coblișan, Claudia Felicia Pop, Valentina Sas, Adina Georgiana Borcău, Teodora Irina Bonci, Paraschiva Cherecheș-Panța

“…Rapid antigen tests are helpful for screening due to their high specificity and negative predictive value. Continuous healthcare personnel training and the monitoring of diagnostic techniques remain essential in managing SARS-CoV-2 and other viral infections.…”
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The utility of monitoring end-tidal carbon dioxide in emergency department to predict inhospital mortality of patients presenting with nontraumatic shock: A prospective observation... by R Abhiraj, Meera Ekka, Aravind Sreekumar, Praveen Aggarwal, Nayer Jamshed, Sanjeev Kumar Bhoi, Maroof Ahmed Khan

“…EtCO2 ≥23 mmHg at presentation had a significant predictive value on the risk of in-hospital mortality with an adjusted odd’s ratio of 0.08 (95% CI: 0.02–0.3, P < 0.001). …”
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Predictive Effect of Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index on Immunotherapy in Patients With Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer by Fubin Feng MD, Mengxuan Sun MM, Yan Yao MD, Chundi Gao MD, Jing Zhuang MD, Changgang Sun MD

“…In clinical practice where conventional biomarkers like PD-L1 expression offer limited predictive value, SII emerges as a robust complementary indicator that may enhance immunotherapy strategy development.…”
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Prognostic implications of systemic immune-inflammation index and systemic inflammation response index in hemodialysis patients by Qianqian Zhu, Liang Dai

“…Future studies should explore the underlying mechanisms and validate the predictive value of SII and SIRI for mortality risk among HD patients. …”
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Association between glucose-to-lymphocyte ratio and mortality in patients with heart failure from the MIMIC-IV database: a retrospective cohort study by Gang Wu, Huanya Ke, Zijia Tong, Jie Yang, Juan Yang, Zhengjun Shen

“…This study aims to assess the association between GLR levels and mortality in this population and to evaluate the prognostic predictive value of GLR. This retrospective cohort study utilized data from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV (MIMIC-IV3.0) database, encompassing heart failure patients admitted between 2008 and 2022. …”
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Beyond the ratio of tumor reduction: residual volume after induction chemotherapy emerges as the optimal biomarker in advanced nasopharyngeal cancer by Sixue Dong, Guangsen Pan, Zhen Zhang, Weigang Hu, Ruiping Zhai, Hongmei Ying, Jiazhou Wang

“…Various analyses all suggest Vpost−IC emerged as the most robust biomarker across all endpoints (P < 0.001 ∼ 0.002), followed by ΔVrel and T-category, which were more important than the other features. The predictive value of Vpost−IC surpasses that of ΔVrel especially in the high heterogeneity cohort. …”
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Hard to Swallow: Scaling Relationships Between the Size of Avian Prey and the Overall Size and Maximal Gape of Brown Treesnakes by Shane R. Siers, Juan‐Carlos Mungaray, Martin Kastner, Bruce C. Jayne

“…Thus, for an invasive predator, the brown treesnake (Boiga irregularis), we fed captive snakes dead birds with an extremely large range (17%–447%) of relative prey area (RPA = prey cross‐sectional area/snake gape area) to test the predictive value of RPA for snakes attempting to ingest or successfully ingesting prey. …”
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Clinical value of oral fluid chemokines in chronic periodontitis by V. V. Bazarnyi, Yu. V. Mandra, L. G. Polushina, A. Yu. Maksimova, E. N. Svetlakova

“…To determine the predictive value of the test, ROC analysis was performed.It has been shown that CP is accompanied by increased levels of CXCL1 (5.5-fold), CXCL8 (8.1-fold), CXCL12 (3.5-fold), CCL2 (2.7-fold). …”
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Prognostic value of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in septic patients with liver cirrhosis: a cohort study by Fan Song, Xiao-ling Wu, Bo-hua Wei

“…The link between NLR and mortality was examined through restricted cubic splines (RCS), logistic regression, and Cox regression analyses. The predictive value of NLR for in-hospital all-cause mortality in individuals with liver cirrhosis and sepsis was investigated using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis. …”
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Development and Validation of a Novel PPAR Signaling Pathway-Related Predictive Model to Predict Prognosis in Breast Cancer by Yingkun Xu, Dan Shu, Meiying Shen, Qiulin Wu, Yang Peng, Li Liu, Zhenrong Tang, Shun Gao, Yuan Wang, Shengchun Liu

“…Finally, to gain insight into the predictive value and protein expression of these risk model genes in breast cancer, we used GEO and HPA databases for validation. …”
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SERUM MARKERS OF APOPTOSIS AND CONVENTIONAL RISK FACTORS IN PATIENTS WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND HEALTHY RESIDENTS OF ARKHANGELSK REGION: TRENDS, CAUSES, AND CONSEQUENCES by A. S. Yakovleva, O. A. Mirolyubova, T. V. Supryadkina

“…The levels of sFasL were inversely associated with the number of MS components and also demonstrated predictive value for the assessment of the 6–8-month risk of recurrent angina in young MI patients.…”
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Association between cardiometabolic phenotypes with atherogenic index of plasma: a cross-sectional study from the Azar cohort population by Shirin Soheilifard, Elnaz Faramarzi, Reza Mahdavi

“…This study explores the relationship between cardiometabolic phenotypes and AIP to improve understanding of their combined predictive value for CVD risk. Methods This cross-sectional study analyzed data from 9,515 participants aged 35–55 in the Azar Cohort Study. …”
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Correlation of peripheral blood ZO⁃1 and IL⁃38 levels with lung injury degree in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome by HE Yanxia，XUE Bing，WU Wenjie，CHEN Xing

“…The correlations of ZO⁃1 and IL⁃38 levels with the degree of lung injury and their predictive value for the survival prognosis of ARDS were analyzed. …”
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The impact of 3-tesla breast MRI on the choice of the surgical plan in patients with multiple ipsilateral breast cancer by Bustan Mohamed Anwer, AlaaEldine AbdelHamid Mostafa, Eman ElBakoury, M. A. Elhussini, Hebatallah H. M. Hassan

“…DCE-MRI showed a higher correlation coefficient (r = 0.97, p < 0.001) compared to SM (r = 0.58, p = 0.001), higher sensitivity, positive predictive value, and accuracy (96.3%, 92.8%, 91%) compared to SM (74%, 90.9%, 73.5%) in assessing MIBC. …”
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Association Between Microcalcification Patterns in Mammography and Breast Tumors in Comparison to Histopathological Examinations by Iqbal Hussain Rizuana, Ming Hui Leong, Geok Chin Tan, Zaleha Md. Isa

“…Results</b>: Our study showed that features with a high positive predictive value (PPV) of breast malignancy were heterogeneous (75%), fine linear/branching pleomorphic microcalcifications (66.7%), linear (100%), and segmental distributions (57.1%). …”
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Exploring the role of autistic traits in treatment-resistant and clozapine-resistant schizophrenia: a comparative study by Ahmet Selim Başaran, Nur Nihal Türkel, Buket Koparal, Aslı Kuruoğlu

“…Multinomial logistic regression models were used to determine the predictive value of autistic traits for TRS and CRS.ResultsStatistically significant differences were identified between the groups in PAUSS (p&lt;0.001) and AQ (p&lt;0.001) scores, indicating variations in autistic traits. …”
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Prediction of Grade 4 radiation-induced lymphopenia during chemoradiation therapy for lung cancer patients: Insights from two past trials by Serena Monti, Giuseppe Palma, Ting Xu, Radhe Mohan, Zhongxing Liao, Laura Cella

“…The relative volume of healthy lungs receiving at least 5 Gy (V5Gy) and baseline ALC were selected as predictors in an NTCP model, with good discriminative performances (cross validated ROC-AUC: 0.68). The predictive value of V5Gy was confirmed in the RTOG0917-cohort (ROC-AUC: 0.67), although its validation was limited with suboptimal calibration, potentially due to discrepancies between cohorts. …”
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The Ankle-brachial Index as a Predictor of Multivess el Coronary Disease in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Peripheral Arterial Disease by Tessa Negrín Valdés, Ailed Elena Rodríguez Jiménez, Raikel Fardales Rodríguez, Luis Alberto Castellanos Gallo, José Carlos Meneses Jiménez, Magda Alina López Callejas

“…The two-predictor variables were: NSTEACS and ABI≤0.9, which showed a high positive predictive value in the prognosis of multivessel coronary artery disease.…”
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SmartSense-D: A safety, feasibility, and acceptability pilot study of digital phenotyping in young people with major depressive disorder by Andres Camargo, Scott D Tagliaferri, Simon D’Alfonso, Tianyi Zhang, Zamantha Munoz, Pemma Davies, Mario Alvarez-Jimenez, Niels van Berkel, Vassilis Kostakos, Lianne Schmaal

“…This study assessed the safety, feasibility, acceptability, and potential predictive value of passive and active sensing in young people with major depressive disorder (MDD). …”
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What we can and cannot see from the surveillance for drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa-Findings from the evaluation of a surveillance system for multidrug-resistant P. aerugino... by Shogo Otake, Takuya Yamagishi, Takayuki Shiomoto, Manami Nakashita, Hitomi Kurosu, Chiaki Ikenoue, Hirofumi Kato, Munehisa Fukusumi, Tomoe Shimada, Takuri Takahashi, Motoi Suzuki, Teruo Kirikae, Yoshichika Arakawa, Kandai Nozu, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Motoyuki Sugai

“…False reporting and underreporting of MDRP infections were common, resulting in a positive predictive value of 0.45 and a sensitivity of 0.65 for the reports of MDRP infections to the surveillance system. …”
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