Inflammatory Markers and Postoperative New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation: Prognostic Predictions of Neutrophil Percent to Albumin Ratio in Patients with CABG by Faruk Serhatlioglu, Yucel Yilmaz, Oguzhan Baran, Halis Yilmaz, Saban Kelesoglu

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> NPAR, which can be detected by a simple venous blood test, has shown a strong predictive value for PNOAF in patients with CABG.…”
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Predictors of successful microvascular decompression surgery in patients with classical trigeminal neuralgia according to the neuroimaging data by A. F. Alzeeralhouseini, G. I. Moisak, E. A. Filimonova, J. A. Rzaev

“…The investigation of neuroimaging predictors for MVD surgery outcomes in patients with trigeminal neuralgia, received from CISS-sequence imaging and pre-treatment DTI, indicates the importance of estimation of severity of vascular compression in surgical planning and the predictive value of fractional anisotropy values from DTI for preoperative assessments.…”
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Alterations in Peripheral Refraction are Most Significant Just Before the Onset of Myopia: Evidence from Multispectral Refraction Topography by Feijia Xie, Xukai Mao, Mingming Jiang, Jun Li, Jing Zhang

“…Conclusions The rapid changes and longitudinal inequality of RDVs are most significant just before 23 mm of AL, this condition may have important predictive value for the occurrence of myopia. Additionally, defocus of the temporal retina showed the greatest variation in dioptric development, suggesting that nasal visual information may affect refractive outcomes.…”
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Correlation of serum apolipoprotein B with the Framingham Risk Score among a group of Iraqi subjects: a cross-sectional study by Israa Nather Ahmed, Fatimatuzzahra’ Abd Aziz, Raid Dhia Hashim

“…Conclusions These findings suggest that apoB may serve as a reliable biomarker for CAD risk assessment in the Iraqi population, where its predictive value has been underexplored. The identified cutoff value (97.75 mg/dL) highlights its potential role in refining risk stratification beyond traditional lipid markers. …”
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Plasma KL-6 as a Potential Biomarker for Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Preterm Infants by Petya Radulova, Margaritka Boncheva, Gencho Nachev, Boriana Slancheva, Violeta Dimitrova

“…Our aim was to determine the predictive value of plasma KL-6 for the development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in preterm infants. …”
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Classification of patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma who do not develop early CRS/NE toxicity using ZUMA clinical trial data by Davide Bedognetti, David M Barrett, Jorge Andrade, Sabina Adhikary, Mike Mattie, Kelly Speth, Jin Xie, Rhine Shen, Qinghua Song, Jenny J Kim

“…We identified a top model for no early CRS/NE using a set of six pre-lymphodepletion clinicopathologic features: number of lines of prior systemic therapy, age, baseline tumor burden (as measured by sum of the product of the diameters), C-reactive protein, aspartate transaminase, and hemoglobin, which achieves a positive predictive value of 0.71 in the holdout validation cohort. …”
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Prognostic significance of NT-proBNP and sST2 biomarkers in patients with post-myocardial infarction heart failure after a coronavirus infection by N. M. Kalashnikova, D. N. Zaitsev, A. V. Govorin, M. V. Chistyakova, B. T. Balzhitov

“…Modern biomarkers NT-proBNP and sST2 have sufficient predictive value to determine the risk of adverse events in HF.…”
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Risk of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Community-Acquired Pneumonia Patients: Use of an Artificial Neural Network Model by Jipeng Mo, Shihui Ling, Mingxia Yang, Hui Qin

“…Thus, the ANNs model has a good predictive value in predicting and evaluating ARDS in CAP patients, and its performance is better than that of the logistic regression model in predicting the incidence of ARDS patients.…”
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Association between self-worth and health promotion behaviors among older adults living in the community: a cross-sectional study by Fatemeh Zarghami, Roghayeh Sadegi, Parvin Sarbakhsh, Sina Pakmehr, Vahid Pakpour

“…Although the association was statistically significant, the explained variance was low, indicating that self-worth had a limited predictive value for health promotion behaviors in this sample. …”
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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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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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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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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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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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