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Background/Objectives: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most infiltrative, treatment-resistant, and deadly brain tumor in adults. Given the extremely malignant phenotype of the GBM cells, the high intratumoral heterogeneity, and the limited efficacy ...
Nikolay Kalitin +6 more
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Penalized Regression with Ordinal Predictors [PDF]
Ordered categorial predictors are a common case in regression modeling. In contrast to the case of ordinal response variables, ordinal predictors have been largely neglected in the literature. In this article penalized regression techniques are proposed.
Gertheiss, Jan, Tutz, Gerhard
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ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim +8 more
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The Sudden Cardiac Death Continuum. Message 2
INTRODUCTION. The study of the disease, including sudden cardiac death (SCD), as a consistent pathological process makes it possible to discover its mechanisms of formation, progression, and determine methods of prediction and prevention.AIM OF THE STUDY.
A. Yu. Lazutkina
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Predictors of COVID-19 severity among pregnant patients
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic and has spread around the globe, unsparingly affecting vulnerable populations. Effective prevention measures for pregnant women, who are particularly affected, include early identification of ...
Marcin Januszewski +7 more
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Multidimensional screening for predicting pain problems in adults : a systematic review of screening tools and validation studies [PDF]
Screening tools allowing to predict poor pain outcomes are widely used. Often these screening tools contain psychosocial risk factors. This review (1) identifies multidimensional screening tools that include psychosocial risk factors for the development ...
Abegglen +122 more
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BackgroundReducing the length of hospital stay can significantly lower healthcare costs, minimize the risk of hospital-acquired infections and complications, and improve patient well-being.
Samuel Dessu Sifer +4 more
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A note on between-group PCA [PDF]
In the context of binary classification with continuous predictors, we proove two properties concerning the connections between Partial Least Squares (PLS) dimension reduction and between-group PCA, and between linear discriminant analysis and between ...
Boulesteix, Anne-Laure
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ABSTRACT Background This study investigated how neighborhood‐level social determinants of health (SDOH), including redlining and neurological risk, interact to influence cognitive outcomes in children treated for brain tumors (CTBT). Methods A retrospective chart review of 161 CTBT aged 5–17 was conducted.
Alannah R. Srsich +5 more
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Prognostic differences between persistent HFrEF and HFrecEF following acute myocardial infarction
BackgroundAcute myocardial infarction (AMI) often leads to heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), with some patients showing recovery of left ventricular ejection fraction (HFrecEF) over time.
Jeong Yoon Jang +13 more
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