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Analyzing weight evolution in mice infected by Trypanosoma cruzi

Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences, 2020
Concerning the specificities of a longitudinal study, the trajectories of a subject's mean responses not always present a linear behavior, which calls for tools that take into account the non-linearity of individual trajectories and that describe them ...
Breno Gabriel da Silva, Terezinha Aparecida Guedes, Vanderly Janeiro, Érika Cristina Ferreira, Silvana Marques de Araújo, Larissa Ciupa   +5 more
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Co-occurrence of diabetes, myocardial infarction, stroke, and cancer: quantifying age patterns in the Dutch population using health survey data

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Background The high prevalence of chronic diseases in Western countries implies that the presence of multiple chronic diseases within one person is common.
van de Kassteele Jan, Boshuizen Hendriek C, Engelfriet Peter M, van Baal Pieter H, Schellevis Francois G, Hoogenveen Rudolf T   +5 more
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Association between cumulative duration of deep anesthesia and postoperative acute kidney injury after noncardiac surgeries: a retrospective observational study

Renal Failure, 2023
Background Bispectral index (BIS) is a processed electroencephalography monitoring tool and is widely used in anesthetic depth monitoring. Deep anesthesia exposure may be associated with multiple adverse outcomes.
Wen-Kao Huang, Wan-Yi Lian, Xiao-Yu Zhuo, Song-Yun Kang, Wen-Chi Luo, Yi-Shan Xie, Gui-Yang Xi, Ke-Xuan Liu, Wei-Feng Liu   +8 more
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Genetic dissection of seasonal vegetation index dynamics in maize through aerial based high‐throughput phenotyping

The Plant Genome, 2021
Plant phenotyping under field conditions plays an important role in agricultural research. Efficient and accurate high‐throughput phenotyping strategies enable a better connection between genotype and phenotype.
Jinyu Wang, Xianran Li, Tingting Guo, Matthew J. Dzievit, Xiaoqing Yu, Peng Liu, Kevin P. Price, Jianming Yu   +7 more
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Nonlinear Associations between Blood Cadmium Concentration and Thyroid Hormones According to Smoking Status in Korean Adults: The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES)

Toxics, 2023
Research on the association between blood cadmium (BCd) exposure and thyroid hormone levels in the general population has been inconclusive. Therefore, we examined the associations between BCd and thyroid hormones according to smoking status in Korean ...
Byungmi Kim, Minshik Rhie, Sunhee Park, Hyo-Seon Kim, Jeoung A Kwon   +4 more
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Modelling subject-specific childhood growth using linear mixed-effect models with cubic regression splines

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 2016
Background Childhood growth is a cornerstone of pediatric research. Statistical models need to consider individual trajectories to adequately describe growth outcomes.
Laura M. Grajeda, Andrada Ivanescu, Mayuko Saito, Ciprian Crainiceanu, Devan Jaganath, Robert H. Gilman, Jean E. Crabtree, Dermott Kelleher, Lilia Cabrera, Vitaliano Cama, William Checkley   +10 more
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Association of Total Bilirubin With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in the General Population

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021
Objective: The study aims to investigate the association of total bilirubin with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the general population.Methods: A total of 37,234 adults from the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ...
Ziwei Chen, Jing He, Chu Chen, Qi Lu
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P-splines with an $\ell_{1}$ penalty for repeated measures

Electronic Journal of Statistics, 2018
P-splines are penalized B-splines, in which finite order differences in coefficients are typically penalized with an $\ell_2$ norm. P-splines can be used for semiparametric regression and can include random effects to account for within-subject variability.
Segal, Brian D., Elliott, Michael R., Braun, Thomas, Jiang, Hui   +3 more
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Twenty years of P-splines

SORT, 2015
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Eilers, Paul H.C., Marx, Brian D., Durbán, Maria   +2 more
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Independent effects of the triglyceride-glucose index on all-cause mortality in critically ill patients with coronary heart disease: analysis of the MIMIC-III database

Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2023
Background The triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index is a reliable alternative biomarker of insulin resistance (IR). However, whether the TyG index has prognostic value in critically ill patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) remains unclear.
Rongting Zhang, Shanshan Shi, Weihua Chen, Yani Wang, Xueqin Lin, Yukun Zhao, Lihua Liao, Qian Guo, Xiaoying Zhang, Weiguo Li, Kaijun Zhang, Ying Liao, Yong Fang   +12 more
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