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Risk Factors and Predictive Models for Sarcopenia in Older Adults

AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
Independent risk factors for sarcopenia identified by Lasso regression and logistic regression in the study were BMI, prealbumin, albumin/globulin ratio (A/G ratio), serum creatinine, and phosphorus. These factors were used to construct a nomogram model and a decision tree model. Both models showed effectiveness in predicting sarcopenia in older adults,
Shiyuan Zhang, Xue Yang, Nina An, Meng Lv, Lanyu Yang, Rui Liu, Song Hu, Weiguo Chen, Wenjing Feng, Yongjun Mao   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Admission Policy Review: Strengthening Indigenous In-Community Training Programs [PDF]

, 2023
Canada’s colonial past significantly impacts prospective Indigenous student postsecondary enrollment. For the past fifty years, postsecondary institutions have focused on assimilation and cultural renewal.
Gayle, Rennais C
core   +1 more source

Cognitive emotion regulation strategies in relation to treatment outcome in a clinical sample of adolescents with personality disorders

Clinical Psychology &Psychotherapy, Volume 29, Issue 6, Page 1897-1904, November/December 2022., 2022
Abstract The aim of this study was to examine cognitive emotion regulation strategies (CERS) of help‐seeking adolescents diagnosed with personality disorders. At pre‐treatment, patients (N = 116) were found to use some maladaptive but also some adaptive CERS more often than adolescents from the general population.
Albert Eduard Boon, Kirsten Hauber
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of psychological wellbeing and academic readiness on early medical student attrition: educators’ perspective

BMC Research Notes
Objectives Medical school attrition is a complex problem, and improvement can only be achieved through the integrated involvement of all stakeholders. Mental health disorders are perceived to be prevalent among medical students in UAE.
Ashraf F. Hefny, Mohi Eldin Magzoub, Nirmin A. Mansour, Sherif A. Fathi, Omran Bakoush   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mindfulness as taught in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: A scoping review

Clinical Psychology &Psychotherapy, Volume 29, Issue 6, Page 1843-1853, November/December 2022., 2022
Abstract This scoping review considers 11 studies that have focussed on the effect of teaching the mindfulness element of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) on clinical outcomes. These articles utilized either mindfulness skills as embedded into the full DBT‐Skills programme or a stand‐alone mindfulness skills module (DBT‐M), as treatment for clinical
Jennifer Eeles, Dawn‐Marie Walker
wiley   +1 more source

Avaliação seriada versus exame vestibular: semelhanças e diferenças entre Coortes no Curso de Medicina da Universidade de Brasília

Revista Brasileira de Educação Médica
O propósito deste estudo retrospectivo foi avaliar o impacto do processo de avaliação seriada, em comparação com exame vestibular, em termos de efeitos no perfil de atributos e de progresso acadêmico de alunos da Universidade de Brasília.
Dejano T. Sobral, Paulo Gonçalves de Oliveira   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mamdani Fuzzy Implementation for New Student Admission Selection

Jurnal Informatika, 2019
In the selection process for New Student Admissions, there are many prospective new students. However, not all candidates accepted at a school. They must be passing through the selection stage by following specific criteria.
Felix Andika Dwiyanto, Mohammad Rizky Kurniawan, Syaichul Fitrian Akbar, Anik Nur Handayani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Statistical Decision Theory Respecting Stochastic Dominance [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
The statistical decision theory pioneered by Wald (1950) has used state-dependent mean loss (risk) to measure the performance of statistical decision functions across potential samples. We think it evident that evaluation of performance should respect stochastic dominance, but we do not see a compelling reason to focus exclusively on mean loss.
arxiv  

Analysis of surgical volume and short‐term outcomes for upper gastrointestinal cancer post‐COVID‐19: Evidence from a nationwide Japanese database

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This study examined changes in surgical volume and short‐term outcomes for upper gastrointestinal cancer in the post‐COVID‐19 period using a nationwide Japanese database. We found that surgical treatments for gastrectomy and esophagectomy continued to be performed safely even after the COVID‐19 pandemic.
Masashi Takeuchi, Hideki Endo, Taizo Hibi, Ryo Seishima, Yusuke Takemura, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Hiromichi Maeda, Akinobu Taketomi, Yoshihiro Kakeji, Yasuyuki Seto, Hideki Ueno, Masaki Mori, Ken Shirabe, Yuko Kitagawa   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical Relevance of Drug–Drug Interactions With Antibiotics as Listed in a National Medication Formulary: Results From Two Large Population‐Based Case‐Control Studies in Patients Aged 65–100 Years Using Linked English Primary Care and Hospital Data

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, Volume 113, Issue 2, Page 423-434, February 2023., 2023
This study evaluated drug–drug interactions (DDIs) between antibiotic and nonantibiotic drugs listed with warnings of severe outcomes in the British National Formulary based on adverse drug reaction (ADR) detectable with routine International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision coding.
Tjeerd Pieter van Staa, Munir Pirmohamed, Anita Sharma, Iain Buchan, Darren M. Ashcroft   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source