Identification of Early Biomarkers of Mortality in COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients: A LASSO-Based Cox and Logistic Approach by Anna Maria Fratta Pasini, Chiara Stranieri, Edoardo Giuseppe Di Leo, Lorenzo Bertolone, Antonino Aparo, Fabiana Busti, Annalisa Castagna, Alice Vianello, Fabio Chesini, Simonetta Friso, Domenico Girelli, Luciano Cominacini

“…Both approaches highlighted LDH as the strongest predictor, with IL-22 and creatinine emerging in the Cox model, while IL-10, eGFR, and creatinine were influential in the logistic model (AUC = 0.744 for Cox, 0.723 for logistic regression). …”
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Low blood levels of selenium, selenoprotein P and GPx3 are associated with accelerated biological aging: results from the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) by Valentin Max Vetter, Kamil Demircan, Jan Homann, Thilo Samson Chillon, Michael Mülleder, Orr Shomroni, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Markus Ralser, Christina M. Lill, Lars Bertram, Lutz Schomburg, Ilja Demuth

“…Compared to the highest quartile, participants in the lowest quartile of SELENOP levels showed an accelerated biological aging rate (DunedinPACE, β = − 0.03, SE = 0.01, 95% CI − 0.051 to − 0.008, p = 0.007, n = 740, fully adjusted model). Similarly, after adjustment for confounders, accelerated biological age was found in participants within the lowest GPx3 quartile compared to participants in the fourth quartile (DunedinPACE, β = − 0.04, SE = 0.01, 95% CI − 0.06 to − 0.02, p = 0.001, n = 674 and GrimAge, β = − 0.98, SE = 0.32, 95% CI − 1.6 to − 0.4, p = 0.002, n = 608). …”
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Association Between ECG Findings and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) Risk Score: A Cross‐Sectional Analysis of a Cohort Study by Pouria Azami, Alireza Mirhosseini, Mohammadjavad Nobakhti, Mehrab Sayadi, Mohammad Keshavarz, Masood Dindari Parizi, Raziye Saeedizade, Mahsa Borjzadeh, Mohammad Javad Zibaeenezhad, Armin Attar

“…Incorporating these ECG markers into clinical assessments may aid in identifying high‐risk individuals, enabling more personalized interventions and refining cardiovascular risk prediction models.…”
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Profiling Language Skills in Minimally Verbal Autism: Findings From Greek-Speaking Preschoolers by Eleni Peristeri, Maria Andreou

“…Standard scores were compared across language systems (receptive, expressive, and organizational) and modalities (phonological, semantic, and morphosyntactic). Linear regression models were also used to evaluate the influence of age and PIQ on the children's language performance. …”
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Leveraging Promotional Strategies to Enhance Hospital Influence on Social Media: Cross-Sectional Study by Xinyun Zhong, Yiyuan Ma, Haiyue Yu

“…Heterogeneity analysis was conducted by incorporating interaction terms between promotional strategies and categorical dummy variables (used to group hospitals based on their characteristics) into the regression model. In addition, robustness checks were implemented to validate the stability of the main findings. …”
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Effectiveness prediction of Evogliptin treatment in type 2 diabetes mellitus in russian-korean population by Anna A. Mosikian, Alina Y. Babenko, Yulia A. Sevastyanova, Roman V. Drai, Evgenij V. Shlyakhto

“…We provide univariate linear regression models for separate subpopulations and a multivariate stepwise regression model for the combined subpopulation. …”
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Dietary sodium intake and all-cause mortality in kidney stone patients: a retrospective cohort study by Shuangning Liu, Yu Dai, Baolei Shi, YanHu Meng, Xiaoke Sun, Yatao Jia

“…Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using multivariate Cox regression models. Subsequently, subgroup analysis, Kaplan–Meier (KM) curves, as well as weighted generalized additive model regression and smooth curve fitting were performed to further evaluate the correlation between dietary sodium intake and all-cause mortality.ResultsOver the 17,901 person-years of observation, a total of 372 deaths were recorded. …”
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Relationship between stress hyperglycemia ratio and the incidence of atrial fibrillation in patients after coronary artery bypass grafting: a retrospective study based on the MIMIC... by Runjia Liu, Jiatong Li, Jing Zeng, Yuxuan Tao, Dong Chen, Haixia Li

“…We employed logistic regression models, restricted cubic splines (RCS), threshold effect analysis, ubgroup analysis, Boruta algorithm, lasso algorithm, and receiver operating characteristics (ROC) to analyze the relationship between SHR and POAF incidence comprehensively. …”
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Association between circulatory immune cell to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratios and testosterone level in adult men: findings from NHANES 2011–2016 by Yangyang Mei, Bo Zhang, Yiming Chen, Renfang Xu, Dong Xue, Qianfeng Zhuang, Xingliang Feng

“…In the fully adjusted models, log-transformed NHR, PHR, MHR, and LHR were all linearly negatively associated with total testosterone levels and linearly positively associated with the risk of TD. …”
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Association between international normalized ratio-to-albumin ratio and mortality in critically ill patients with gastrointestinal bleeding: a retrospective MIMIC-IV database study by Xingyi Yang, Shasha Ying, Lihong Lv, Yishu Ji, Jiaqian Ying, Huyan Ke

“…The discriminatory performance of PTAR was further assessed using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, while restricted cubic splines (RCS) modeled nonlinear associations. Subgroup analyses were performed to examine potential interaction effects, and feature selection was executed via the Boruta algorithm. …”
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High altitude might increase risk of incident frailty in older adults: a nationwide longitudinal survey by Yongfei Dong, Qianqian Wang, Xichao Wang, Can Liu, Ibrar Hussain, Hongmei Ma, Ke Lu, Zaixiang Tang

“…Cox proportional hazard regression and linear mixed model were used to analyze the association of altitude with frailty. …”
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Interplay between C-reactive protein responses and antibiotic prescribing in people with suspected infection by Qingze Gu, Kevin Yuan, Jia Wei, Chang Ho Yoon, Anders Skyrud Danielsen, Augustine Luk, David W. Eyre, A. Sarah Walker

“…Linear mixed models evaluated CRP trajectories post-prescribing, and logistic regression associations between early CRP changes (days 1–4) and 5–30-day mortality. …”
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Unplanned pregnancy and perinatal depression: secondary exploratory analyses from a racially and ethnically diverse, low-income sample of birthing people in the United States by Katherine A. Czech, Jaime Hamil, Bayley J. Taple, Jody D. Ciolino, Ann Kan, Allison M. Letkiewicz, Alicia Diebold, S. Darius Tandon

“…Results While bivariate regression revealed a significant association between unplanned pregnancy and prenatal depressive symptoms (β = 0.88, 95% CI [0.27, 1.49], p = 0.005), unplanned pregnancy was not significantly associated with prenatal or postpartum depression in adjusted models in the full sample. …”
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When inequity impacts clinical care: an analysis of length of stay and reimbursement rates for medical stabilization for anorexia nervosa based on insurance coverage by Lance R. Nelson, Kelly N. Horn, Amanda N. Burnside, Katrina T. Obleada, Ariela J.E. Kaiser, Lauren E. Swift, Rebecca Arteaga, Courtney L. Franceschi, Sarah Cohen, Francesca Y. Montalto, Gregg J. Montalto

“…We then looked at hospital charges and reimbursement rates by payor type, using two-sided t-tests. Results Multiple regression models demonstrated that patients with public insurance tended to have a longer length of stay, despite similar degrees of medical instability. …”
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Association of the body roundness index with new-onset cardiovascular disease in middle-aged and older adults with and without diabetes: evidence from the China Health and Retireme... by Youli Kong, Qian Luo, Qing Zhang, Quan Wei

“…The Kaplan-Meier survival analysis further revealed that the group characterized by non-diabetes mellitus (Non-DM) had the lowest cumulative incidence of CVD compared with the diabetes mellitus (DM) group. Multivariate Cox regression revealed that in the fully adjusted model (Model 3) (HR = 1.122, 95% CI = 1.080 to 1.167), BRI was associated with the risk of CVD in the Non-DM group during the three-wave follow-up. …”
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Association between vitamin B2 intake and female infertility: a cross-sectional study by Zitong Zhao, Zenghui Mao, Min Liu, Ying Liang, Xiaowen Liu, Pan Yang, Zan Liu

“…The results indicated that, within a fully adjusted model, a higher intake of vitamin B2 was associated with a lower prevalence of female infertility (OR [95% CI]: 0.81 [(0.69, 0.96)]), and the highest quartile of vitamin B2 intake (Q4) offered greater protection against infertility compared to the lowest quartile (Q1) (OR [95% CI]: 0.58 [0.38, 0.89]). …”
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Five Weeks of Whole-body Vibration in Prehabilitation for Knee Function Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Single-blinded Randomized Controlled Trial by Jihong Qiu, Michael Tim-Yun Ong, Chi-Yin Choi, Mingde Cao, Violet Man-Chi Ko, Xin He, Sai-Chuen Fu, Daniel T.P. Fong, Patrick Shu-Hang Yung

“…Knee function was assessed by the International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) Score at baseline, preoperatively, and 4 months postoperatively. The linear mixed effect models and multiple linear regression were used for the statistical analyses. …”
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Association of maternal lipid levels with birth weight and cord blood insulin: a Bayesian network analysis by Naveed Sattar, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Jinhua Lu, Xiu Qiu, Huimin Xia, Jingya Wang, Malcolm James Price, Kar Keung Cheng, Yashu Kuang, Songying Shen, Jianrong He, Marta Pittavino, G.Neil Thomas

“…After random selection, data from 1522 mother–child pairs were used in this study.Exposures and outcome measures Additive Bayesian network analysis was used to investigate the interdependency of lipid profiles with other metabolic risk factors (prepregnancy body mass index (BMI), fasting glucose and early gestational weight gain) in association with birth weight and CBI, along with multivariable linear regression models.Results In multivariable linear regressions, maternal triglyceride was associated with increased birth weight (adjusted β=67.46, 95% CI 41.85 to 93.06 g per mmol/L) and CBI (adjusted β=0.89, 95% CI 0.06 to 1.72 μU/mL per mmol/L increase), while high-density lipoprotein cholesterol was associated with decreased birth weight (adjusted β=−45.29, 95% CI −85.49 to −5.09 g per mmol/L). …”
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Effects of temperature and nutrition stress on Anopheles stephensi, an Indian urban malaria vector by Chaitali Ghosh, Naveen Kumar, Soumya Mogaveerthi, Sanjay Lamba, Chethan Kumar Ramanjini, Soumya Gopal Joshi, Priyanka Chandran, Sampath Kumar, Sunita Swain

“…Furthermore, the predictive linear model suggested faster adaptation of LT than HT and NT lines. …”
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An improved deep CNN-based freshwater fish classification with cascaded bio-inspired networks by Asadullah Shaikh, Wahidur Rahman, Kaniz Roksana, Tarequl Islam, Mohammad Motiur Rahman, Hani Alshahrani, Adel Sulaiman, Mana Saleh Al Reshan

“…Particularly, the present approach achieves the highest accuracy of 98.71% through the utilization of the ML mechanism Logistic Regression with Resnet50, SVC, and CSO models.…”
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