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Baseline Vitamin D as a predictor of mortality among hospitalized patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in an endemically Vitamin D-deficient area in North India

open access: yesIndian Journal of Respiratory Care, 2020
Background: Conflicting data suggest that Vitamin D reduces the risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and COPD exacerbations. Scant data are available regarding the Vitamin D status in patients with COPD in India where Vitamin D
Mohammad Ramzan Bhat   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

High-Expression of Cytoplasmic Poly (A) Binding Protein 1 (PABPC1) as a Prognostic Biomarker for Early-Stage Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

open access: yesCancer Management and Research, 2021
Jiangtao Pu,1 Tao Zhang,1 Dengguo Zhang,1 Kaiming He,1 Yonghong Chen,2 Xingwang Sun,3 Wenbo Long3 1Thoracic Surgery Department of the First Affiliated Hospital, Southwest Medical University, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China; 2Laboratory of Affiliated ...
Pu J   +6 more
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Risks after Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Taiwanese Women: A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study

open access: yesBiomedicines, 2023
Objective: An increasing trend in the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has been reported in Taiwan. GDM has been linked to various adverse maternal outcomes over a long period, including cardiovascular disease (CVD) and chronic kidney ...
Shih-Ting Tseng   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Internal limiting membrane peel: Does it change the success rate of primary vitrectomy without belt buckle in rhegmatogenous retinal detachments?

open access: yesIndian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2019
Purpose: To compare the anatomic success of pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) after internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling at macular area and macular plus peripapillary area versus no peeling in rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (RRD).
Prashant K Bawankule   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiological Analysis of COVID-19 Cases in Native Amazonian Communities from Peru

open access: yesEpidemiologia, 2021
Despite early control measures, SARS-CoV-2 reached all regions of Peru during the first wave of the pandemic, including native communities of the Peruvian Amazon. Here, we aimed to describe the epidemiological situation of COVID-19 in the Amazonas region
Cecilia Pajuelo-Reyes   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

On Defense of the Hazard Ratio

open access: yes, 2023
In this short communication, we describe the recent debate on whether the hazard function should be used for causal inference in time-to-event studies and consider three different potential outcomes frameworks (by Rubin, Robins, and Pearl, respectively) as well as use the single-world intervention graph to show mathematically that the hazard function ...
Ying, Andrew, Xu, Ronghui
openaire   +2 more sources

Risk Associations between Air Pollution Exposure and Cardiovascular Diseases: A Residential Retrospective Cohort Study

open access: yesAtmosphere
The population of the Venafro Valley (Southern Italy) faces various type of air pollution problems (industrial facilities, traffic, and biomass combustion).
Elisa Bustaffa   +5 more
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What Should We Consider Carefully When Performing Survival Analysis?

open access: yesClinical Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, 2019
The survival data and the survival analysis are the data and analysis methods used to study the probability of survival. The survival data consist of a period from the juncture of a start event to the juncture of the end event (occurrence event).
Sang Gyu Kwak, Eun Jin Choi
doaj   +1 more source

Risks of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Offspring of Parents with Bipolar Disorder: A Birth Cohort Study

open access: yesTaiwanese Journal of Psychiatry
Objectives: In this study, we intended to assess the risks of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) in children of parents with bipolar disorder (BD) with a nationwide birth cohort, and to compare them with matched controls from the general community ...
Jhen-Wu Lai   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prognostic role of baseline hemoglobin level for long-term mortality in newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis: a cohort study

open access: yesFrontiers in Nutrition
BackgroundPatients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) face an increased mortality risk compared to the general population. While anemia commonly occurs in patients with RA and is associated with disease activity in established diseases, the prognostic value ...
I-Wen Chen   +8 more
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