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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
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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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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
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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
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Epidemiological Analysis of COVID-19 Cases in Native Amazonian Communities from Peru
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
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On Defense of the Hazard Ratio
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
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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?
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
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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
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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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