Monitoring respiratory function with telemedicine devices in asthmatic children by Katalin Kapus, Katalin Kapus, Ferenc Rárosi, Zoltán Novák, Ferenc Peták, József Tolnai

“…When expressed as percentage predicted values, similar trends were observed, with FVC% showing the strongest correlation.ConclusionThe difference in peak flow indices measured at home and lung function labs in asthmatic children highlights the importance of patient education, and the reliabilities indicate the need for frequent assessments. …”
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Prospective validation of an artificial intelligence assessment in a cohort of applicants seeking financial compensation for asbestosis (PROSBEST) by Illaa Smesseim, Kevin B. W. Groot Lipman, Stefano Trebeschi, Martijn M. Stuiver, Renaud Tissier, Jacobus A. Burgers, Cornedine J. de Gooijer

“…Secondary objectives included evaluating specificity, accuracy, predictive values, area under the curve of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC-AUC), area under the precision-recall curve (PR-AUC), and interobserver variability. …”
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Construction and validation of a prognostic prediction model for osteosarcoma in children based on the SEER database by ZHANG Lei, LI Yuwan, WU Yindan, XU Zhi, SHAO Jinfu

“…The calibration curve showed that the predicted values were highly consistent with the observed values. …”
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External validation of precisebreast, a digital prognostic test for predicting breast cancer recurrence, in an early-stage cohort from the Netherlands by Pieter J. Westenend, Claudia Meurs, Gerardo Fernandez, Marcel Prastawa, Abishek Sainath Madduri, Aaron Feliz, Juan Carlos Mejias, Alexander Shtabsky, Xiaozhu Zhang, Brandon Veremis, Rebecca DeAngel, Michael J. Donovan

“…Model performance was assessed by AUC/C-index, hazard ratios, sensitivity, specificity, and negative and positive predictive values (NPV and PPV, respectively). Results PDxBR showed prognostic accuracy in this external cohort (AUC/C-index 0.71, 95% CI: 0.66–0.75). …”
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Optimization of Fermentation Conditions for the Production of 2,3,5-Trimethylpyrazine by Recombinant <i>Bacillus licheniformis</i> by Xun Liu, Hongyi Gu, Handong Wang, Zhen Tang, Shuanglian Chen, Han Li, Wenli Quan

“…Under these conditions, the TMP yield reached 44.52 ± 0.21 mg/L, which was around 0.005 mg/L different from the predicted value (45.515 mg/L), and increased by 29.17 mg/L compared with the initial condition. …”
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Econometric assessment of the effect of Small and medium enterprises on economic development (The ase of Azerbaijan) by S. Orujov, E. Alakbarov, J. Maharramov

“…After filtering out the variation (noise) in SME growth variable in current period which is not associated with its own lagged values we hope that there will not be any signal left in the predicted values of SME growth variable which can be affected by current period GDP contemporaneously. …”
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Clinical characteristics and prognosis of primary small cell carcinoma of the breast: a propensity score-matched, population-based study by Lei Yin, Ai-Hong Yin, Chen-Chen Pu

“…The calibration curve in the ROC analysis indicated that the predicted value was consistent with the actual observation value. …”
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Simple, Effective and Validated. VTE CASE Risk Assessment Score for Venous Thromboembolism in Metastatic Germ Cell Tumour Patients Before First‐Line Chemotherapy by Wojciech Michalski, Anna Macios, Grażyna Poniatowska, Inga Zastawna, Tomasz Demkow, Paweł Wiechno

“…Positive and negative predictive values were 30.8% and 96.5%, respectively. Conclusions Our VTE risk score is a handy tool for GCT patients before first‐line CTH for metastatic disease. …”
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Factors affecting survival of foals with pneumonia in a referral hospital by Heini Sofia Rossi, Heli Katariina Hyytiäinen, Jouni Juho Tapio Junnila, Minna Marjaana Rajamäki, Anna Kristina Mykkänen

“…In ROC analysis, optimal cut-off value for RR was ≥ 55/min with sensitivity 75.0% and specificity 76.3%. Based on predictive values, RR < 55/min on D1 favoured survival. …”
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Quantification of respiratory parameters in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy Quantificação de parâmetros respiratórios em pacientes com epilepsia do lobo temporal by Fulvio Alexandre Scorza, Ana Maria Fonseca Abreu, Marly de Albuquerque, Julio B Cota Pacheco, Renato Breviglieri, Josemir Wanderley Sander, Antônio Carlos da Silva, Esper Abrão Cavalheiro, Ricardo Mario Arida

“…Measurements of Vital Capacity (VC), Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), Forced Expiratory Volume in the first second (FEV1) and ratios of FEV1 to FVC (FEV1/FVC) were obtained, and these values were analyzed as percentages of predicted values. None of the patients had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and no significant alterations in respiratory function tests were found among these patients. …”
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Study of the diagnostic and prognostic value of parameters of cytokine profile, oxidative stress and cytogenetic abnormalities in patients with tick-borne infections by E. N. Ilyinskikh, O. V. Voronkova, K. V. Samoylov, A. V. Semenova, R. R. Hasanova, Yu. I. Bulankov, V. N. Nekrasov, E. I. Petrova, G. N. Kolganova

“…The parameters showed from average to excellent predictive ability as well as high positive and negative predictive values.Conclusion. In patients with tick-borne encephalitis, we detected correlations between the pyrexia levels and the biomarkers of inflammation, oxidative stress, and cytogenetic damage as well as it were found some differences in these parameters from the group of borreliosis patients, which probably had prognostic significance.…”
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Study on the extraction, antioxidant and prebiotic activity of the polysaccharides from the fruits of Phyllanthus emblica L. by Haotian Huang, Haotian Huang, Xiaobo Zhou, Mengge Sun, Mengge Sun, Jiajie Chen, Jiajie Chen, Tao Tan, Dongsheng Yang

“…These conditions achieved an extraction yield of 8.09%, aligning with the predicted value. The UMSE method showed higher extraction efficiency and sugar content compared to traditional water extraction, with a reduction in impurities. …”
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Tumor marker elevations in chronic kidney disease: a retrospective study by Liuxia You, Zhongying Xu, Qiaoling Liu, Guoming Jin, Changting Wang

“…ProGRP and HE4 have high predictive values for early renal insufficiency with area under the curve of 0.736 and 0.931, respectively (p < 0.05). …”
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Effectiveness, Utility, and Economic Analysis of Three-drug Treatment vs Two-drug Treatment in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients by Aamir A Syed, Subhranshu Panda, Aleemuddin NM

“…Results: Results signified the enhanced potency of three-drug treatment vs two-drug treatment as proven by the improvement in average difference from initial values in (1) FEV1% predicted value of 4.36 [95% confidence interval (CI) (2.9–5.82)], (2) SGRQ scores of −6.76 [95% CI (−2.14 to −11.38)], SGRQ responder ratio of 13.25 (3.72–47.24), CAT scores of −5.15 [95% CI (−9.87 to −0.43)] and ICER of 3522 [95% CI (14682 to −7638)]. …”
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Blinded Validation of Breath Biomarkers of Lung Cancer, a Potential Ancillary to Chest CT Screening. by Michael Phillips, Thomas L Bauer, Renee N Cataneo, Cassie Lebauer, Mayur Mundada, Harvey I Pass, Naren Ramakrishna, William N Rom, Eric Vallières

“…In a projected outcome model, breath biomarkers increased the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values of chest CT for lung cancer when the tests were combined in series or parallel.…”
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Combination of PSA density and MLR improves the diagnostic accuracy of prostate cancer by Feng Guo, Aerken Maolake, Zecheng Ni, Xun Li, Bide Liu, Zetian Tang, Zhenfeng Shi, Jiuzhi Li

“…The area under the curve (AUC) increased when PSAD was combined with MLR in patients with PSA 4–10 ng/mL and patients with PSA 10–22 ng/mL, and the positive predictive values were 81.81% and 90.91%, respectively (P = 0.0008 and P = 0.0002). …”
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Appraisal of Noise Level Dissemination Surrounding Mining and Industrial Areas of Keonjhar, Odisha: a Comprehensive Approach Using Noise Mapping by Satish Krishna LOKHANDE, Satyajeet A. DHAWALE, Samir S. PATHAK, Rakesh GAUTAM, Mohindra C. JAIN, Ghanshyam L. BODHE

“…A correlation between observed and software predicted values gives $R^2$ of 0.605 for $L_d$, 0.217 for $L_n$, and 0.524 for $L_dn$. …”
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Evaluation of pulmonary function tests and vitamin D level in pre and postmenopausal women by Saima Zareen, Faraz Ahmed Bokhari, Sibgha Zulfiqar

“…Mean serum vitamin D level was 42.91±16.94ng/ml in group 1, and 27.42±6.70ng/ml in group 2 (p = 0.001). The percentage predicted value of age for forced expiratory volume in 1 second, forced vital capacity, and the ratio between the two in group 1 were 82.95±2.75%, 83.10±2.65% and 0.998±0.003% respectively. …”
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Correlations of soluble TRAILR4, white blood cell count, and 25-hydroxyvitamin D with acute upper respiratory infection in children by Wu Lianfang, Chen Zhengjie, Hu Jiakai

“…Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were plotted to analyze the predictive values of serum sTRAILR4 and 25(OH)D levels and WBC count for AU-RI. …”
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D-dimer serves as predictor of plastic bronchitis or necrotizing pneumonia in children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia by Yanke Yue, Tiantian Lian, Lei Kang, Shuai Liu, Wenjin Geng, Meixian Xu

“…Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis showed that the best cutoff point for D-dimer in predicting PB or NP is 2.44 (mg/L) (AUC = 0.85, 95% CI: 0.76–0.95, sensitivity: 92.31%, specificity: 75.53%, P &lt; 0.001*).ConclusionsThis study found that the elevated DD level (≥2.44 mg/L) has a predicting value for the progression of children with MPP to the composite outcome of PB or NP. …”
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