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Statin use and all-cause and cancer mortality: BioBank Japan cohort

Journal of Epidemiology, 2017
Background: Statins are the first-line agents used to treat patients with high serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, thus reducing the risk of death from arterial sclerotic cardiovascular disease; however, little is known about the effects of
Hiroshi Yokomichi
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Estimating Hazard Function and Survival Analysis of Tuberculosis Patients in Erbil city

Tikrit Journal of Administrative and Economic Sciences, 2021
The study aimed to estimate the effects of prognostic factors on tuberculosis (TB) survival. Two models have been studied (Logistic model and Cox regression models) in survival analysis.
Kurdistan Ibrahim Mawlood, Hogr Muhammed Qader   +1 more
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Private and Collaborative Kaplan-Meier Estimators

Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, 2023
Kaplan-Meier estimators are essential tools in survival analysis, capturing the survival behavior of a cohort. Their accuracy improves with large, diverse datasets, encouraging data holders to collaborate for more precise estimations. However, these datasets often contain sensitive individual information, necessitating stringent data protection ...
Shadi Rahimian, Raouf Kerkouche, Ina Kurth, Mario Fritz   +3 more
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Survival of silver diamine fluoride among patients treated in community dental clinics: a naturalistic study

BMC Oral Health, 2021
Background Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) is a minimally-invasive preventive service used in the U.S. to avert and arrest caries since 2014. No studies document survival outcomes based in real world delivery.
Sarah E. Raskin, Eric P. Tranby, Sharity Ludwig, Ilya Okunev, Julie Frantsve-Hawley, Sean Boynes   +5 more
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One-Year Risk of Stroke after Transient Ischemic Attack or Minor Stroke [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND Previous studies conducted between 1997 and 2003 estimated that the risk of stroke or an acute coronary syndrome was 12 to 20% during the first 3 months after a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or minor stroke.
Albers, Gregory W., Amarenco, Pierre, Bornstein, Natan M., Canhão, Patrícia, Caplan, Louis R., Donnan, Geoffrey A., Ferro, José M., Hennerici, Michael G., Labreuche, Julien, Lavallée, Philippa C., Molina, Carlos, org Steering Committee, T. I. A. r. e. g. i. s. t. r. y., Rothwell, Peter M., Sissani, Leila, Steg, Philippe Gabriel, Toni, Danilo, Touboul, Pierre Jean, Uchiyama, Shinichiro, Vicaut, Éric, Wong, Lawrence K. S., Školoudík, David   +20 more
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Real-world treatment patterns and outcomes among individuals receiving first-line pembrolizumab therapy for recurrent/metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Frontiers in Oncology, 2023
BackgroundPembrolizumab, a PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor, is approved as first-line (1L) treatment for recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (R/M HNSCC) as monotherapy or in combination with platinum and 5-fluorouracil ...
Christopher M. Black, Glenn J. Hanna, Liya Wang, Karthik Ramakrishnan, Daisuke Goto, Vladimir Turzhitsky, Gleicy M. Hair   +6 more
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Modified Weighted Kaplan-Meier Estimator

Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research, 2007
En muchos estudios médicos, la mayoría de los sujetos del estudio no llegan al evento de interés durante el período de estudio. En tales situaciones, el estimador de Kaplan Meier puede estimar las probabilidades de supervivencia para la observación censurada.
Mohammad Shafiq, Syed Jawad Ali Shah, M. Alamgir   +2 more
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Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysis: Practical Insights for Clinicians

Acta Médica Portuguesa
This article aims to provide a guide that will help healthcare professionals and clinical researchers from all fields that deal with Kaplan-Meier curves.
António Pedro Gomes, Bruna Costa, Rita Marques, Vitor Nunes, Constança Coelho   +4 more
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Estimation of the Distribution of Duration of Breastfeeding from Cross-Sectional Data: Some Methodological Issue.

Journal of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, 2021
Background: Duration of breastfeeding is an important health indicator of mother and child. There are various indirect epidemiological methods available to estimate the duration of breastfeeding from cross sectional data.
Anup Kumar, Sachin Kumar, Jai Kishun, Uttam Singh, Pushpraj Pushpraj   +4 more
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Variation in physiological host range in three strains of two species of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria [PDF]

, 2018
Knowledge of the host range of a biocontrol agent (BCA) is fundamental. Host range determines the BCA's economic potential, as well as the possible risk for non-target organisms. Entomopathogenic fungal strains belonging to the genus Beauveria are widely
Besse, Samantha, Costet, Laurent, Issa, Mze Hassani, Merle, Isabelle, Nibouche, Samuel, Robene, Isabelle, Rohrlich, Clara, Verger, Manon, Zuin, Michel   +8 more
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