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Biological control of lettuce drop and host plant colonization by rhizospheric and endophytic streptomycetes

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016
Lettuce drop, caused by the soil borne pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, is one of the most common and serious diseases of lettuce worldwide. Increased concerns about the side effects of chemical pesticides have resulted in greater interest in ...
Xiaoyulong eChen, Cristina ePizzatti, Maria eBonaldi, Marco eSaracchi, Armin eErlacher, Andrea eKunova, Gabriele eBerg, Paolo eCortesi   +7 more
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Survival analysis: Part I — analysis of time-to-event [PDF]

Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2018
Length of time is a variable often encountered during data analysis. Survival analysis provides simple, intuitive results concerning time-to-event for events of interest, which are not confined to death.
Junyong In, Dong Kyu Lee
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Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and mortality in the United States general population

Scientific Reports, 2021
The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in peripheral blood reflects the balance between systemic inflammation and immunity and is emerging as a prognostic biomarker in many diseases, but its predictive role for mortality in the general population has ...
Minkyo Song, B. Graubard, C. Rabkin, E. Engels   +3 more
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High-Expression of Cytoplasmic Poly (A) Binding Protein 1 (PABPC1) as a Prognostic Biomarker for Early-Stage Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Cancer 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, Zhang T, Zhang D, He K, Chen Y, Sun X, Long W   +6 more
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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

Indian 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, Shabir Ahmad Dar, Mir Waseem, Mir Nadeem   +3 more
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Early initiation of antiretroviral therapy and associated reduction in mortality, morbidity and defaulting in a nurse-managed, community cohort in Lesotho. [PDF]

, 2010
INTRODUCTION: The latest WHO guidelines recommend initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) at CD4 cell counts less than 350 cells/μl. However, donors and national governments are reluctant to support implementation owing to uncertainty regarding ...
Badri, Brinkhof, Callaghan, Charurat, Clumeck, Cohen, Cole, Coviello, Emery, Eric Goemaere, Ford, Fox, Guillaume Jouquet, Hammer, Harries, Helen Bygrave, Hirnshall, Holmes, Katharina Kranzer, Katherine Hilderbrand, Laura Triviño, Lipontso Makakole, Mermin, Munderi, Nathalie Vlahakis, Nathan Ford, Severe   +26 more
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Risks after Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Taiwanese Women: A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study

Biomedicines, 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, Ming-Chang Lee, Yi-Ting Tsai, Mei-Chun Lu, Su-Chen Yu, I-Ju Tsai, I-Te Lee, Yuan-Horng Yan   +7 more
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Liraglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes [PDF]

, 2016
Background The cardiovascular effect of liraglutide, a glucagon-like peptide 1 analogue, when added to standard care in patients with type 2 diabetes, remains unknown. Methods In this double-blind trial, we randomly assigned patients with type 2 diabetes
Bergenstal, RM, Brown-Frandsen, K, Buse, JB, Daniels, GH, Kristensen, P, LEADER Steering Committee on behalf of the LEADER Trial Investigators, Mann, JF, Marso, SP, Nauck, MA, Nissen, SE, Pocock, S, Poulter, NR, Ravn, LS, Steinberg, WM, Stockner, M, Zinman, B   +15 more
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On Defense of the Hazard Ratio

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

Indian 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, Shilpi H Narnaware, Dhananjay V Raje, Moumita Chakraborty   +3 more
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