774 Results Found

Background: Despite the implementation of various preventive measures, India continues to experience an alarmingly high under-five mortality rate (U5MR). The most recent nationwide data on U5MRs has provided an opportunity to re-examine the associate...

Background/Objectives: In Korea’s emergency medical system, when an emergency patient arises, patients receive on-site treatment and care during transport at the pre-hospital stage, followed by inpatient treatment upon hospitalization. From the...

This study aims to analyze and explore criminal recidivism with different modeling strategies: one based on an explanation of the phenomenon and another based on a prediction task. We compared three common statistical approaches for modeling recidivi...

This study involved conducting a survival analysis by fitting a Cox proportional hazards model to Korea Labor Panel data to analyze the impact of parental job loss on children’s delayed admission to colleges and universities in South Korea, usi...

Issues related to the duration of university studies have attracted the interest of many researchers from different scientific fields, as far back as the middle of the 20th century. In this study, a Survival Analysis methodology and, more specificall...

The Cox proportional hazards (PH) model is widely used because it models the covariates to the hazard through a log-linear effect. However, exploring flexible effects becomes desirable within the Cox PH framework when only a monotonic relationship be...

Patients with diabetes are at increased risk of cancer development and osteoporosis. Metformin is an effective agent for diabetes management. Epidemiological studies have identified an association between metformin use and cancer prevention. This art...

Within the modern era, corporates are compelled to own an appealing and effective website to survive and thrive within the competitive global digital marketplace. Whilst there are several web metrics to focus on, a key focus area of web analytics is...

Many African nations continue to grapple with persistently high under-five child mortality rates, particularly those situated in the Sub-Saharan region, including South Africa. A multitude of socio-economic factors are identified as key contributors...

The classical Cox model is the most popular procedure for studying right-censored data in survival analysis. However, it is based on the fundamental assumption of proportional hazards (PH). Modified Cox models, stratified and extended, have been wide...

Chronic diseases represented by circulatory diseases have gradually become the main types of diseases affecting the health of our population. Establishing a circulatory system disease prediction model to predict the occurrence of diseases and control...

Background: Revascularization based on the angiosome concept (AC) is a controversial subject because there is currently no clear evidence of its efficacy, due to the heterogeneity of patients (multiple and diverse risk factors and comorbidities, mult...

Children with chronic wet cough and without cystic fibrosis (non-CF) may suffer from chronic suppurative lung disease (CSLD) or bronchiectasis. Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) can be one of the offending microbes in these children. The present study aime...

This study aimed to investigate whether preoperative ultrasonographic (US) features of metastatic lymph nodes (LNs) are associated with tumor recurrence in patients with N1b papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). We enrolled 692 patients (mean age, 41.9...

We develop and evaluate a copula-based multistate model for illness–death processes with dependent transition times. The framework couples Cox proportional hazards models for the marginal transition intensities with Archimedean copulas to captu...

(1) Background: Fidaxomicin has been shown to significantly reduce Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) recurrences rates in randomized, controlled trials. However, national data from the Veterans Affairs has called the real-world applicability o...

(1) Background: Considering recent advances in both cancer and sepsis management, we chose to evaluate the associated factors for occurrence of septic acute kidney injury in cancer patients using a nationwide population-based cohort data. (2) Methods...

The use of hydraulic silicate cements (HSCs) for vital pulp therapy has been found to release calcium and hydroxyl ions promoting pulp tissue healing and mineralized tissue formation. The present study investigated whether HSCs such as mineral trioxi...

Hyperuricemia is a potential risk factor for immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) progression but its sex-specific effects on IgAN progression remain unclear. This study aimed to determine the effect of serum uric acid on IgAN progression and whether...

Studies on the effect of dietary protein intake (DPI) on chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression, along with the potential hazard of protein-energy wasting (PEW), are scarce. We evaluated the association between DPI and kidney function both cross-se...

This paper presents an algorithm for learning local Weibull models, whose operating regions are represented by fuzzy rules. The applicability of the proposed method is demonstrated in estimating the mortality rate of the COVID-19 pandemic. The reprod...

Child mortality is high in Sub-Saharan Africa compared to other regions in the world. In Kenya, the risk of mortality is assumed to vary from county to county due to diversity in socio-economic and even climatic factors. Recently, the country was spl...

Maternal intrapartum fever can lead to various maternal and neonatal complications and is attributed to various etiologies including infectious and non-infectious processes. In this study, we evaluated whether intrapartum fever affects the offspring&...

Background inflammatory status indicators have been reported as prognostic biomarkers of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, since inflammatory interactions with the colon involve various modes of action, the biological mechanism linking inflammation a...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized with aberrant responses in the immune systems and lupus nephritis (LN) is one of the most serious complications of SLE. This study evaluated the clinical significance of different nutritional indice...

Objective: We opted to investigate whether fetal growth restriction (FGR) in dichorionic–diamniotic twins is a risk factor for long-term cardiovascular morbidity in offspring. Study design: A population-based retrospective cohort study, compari...

The aim of this study was to evaluate perinatal outcome and long-term offspring gastrointestinal morbidity of women with celiac disease. Perinatal outcomes, as well as long-term gastrointestinal morbidity of offspring of mothers with and without celi...

Background and Objectives: The aim was to evaluate the association of inflammatory biomarkers with resectability and overall survival in hilar cholangiocarcinoma. Materials and Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study over 72 consecutive su...

The potential association between appendectomy and non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) infection has not been elucidated. We hypothesized that appendectomy may be associated with gut vulnerability to NTS. The data were retrospectively collected from the T...

Objective: The aim of this study is to assess the risk factors for incident functional disability among long-term evacuees of Iitate village after Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear disaster (GEJE). We also investigated the effectiveness of exer...

Background: The association between loop diuretics and acute kidney injury (AKI) remains unclear. Methods: The population studied was selected from the Epidemiology of AKI in Chinese Hospitalized patients (EACH) study. Exposure to loop diuretics was...

Background: Studies on the association between solute, nutrition and fluid intakes and mortality and later kidney function in critically ill acute kidney injury (AKI) patients receiving continuous veno-venous hemodialysis (CVVHD) are scarce. Methods:...

Background. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) factors, especially maximum tumor diameter (MTD), tumor multifocality, portal vein thrombosis (PVT), and serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), influence survival. Aim. To examine patterns of tumor factors in large...

The Proportional Hazards Model (PHM) under a Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) policy is used by asset-intensive industries to predict failure rate, reliability function, and maintenance decisions based on vital covariates data. Cox’s partial l...

Background: Evidence linking dietary fiber intake with cancer risk and mortality is equivocal. Objective: We investigated the relationship between dietary fiber intake and all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortalities in US adults &...

Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the main cause of death in the population with diabetes mellitus. This study purposed to determine clinical laboratory markers that might be correlated with the risk of CVD in individuals with type 2 diab...

Purpose: This investigation aimed to examine the relationship among activities of daily living (ADL), nutritional status and 90-day hospital readmission in elderly heart failure (HF) patients. Methods: Participants were selected from 634 HF patients...

PURPOSE: To investigate the effects of pre-existing sleep disorders on the survival outcomes of women receiving standard treatments for breast invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC). METHODS: We recruited patients from the Taiwan Cancer Registry Database wh...

We opted to investigate whether a critical threshold exists for long-term pediatric neurological morbidity, and cerebral palsy (CP), in preterm delivery, via a population-based cohort analysis. Four study groups were classified according to their ges...

Gonorrhea is a major global public health problem with emergence of multiple drug-resistant strains with no effective vaccine. This retrospective cohort study aimed to estimate the effectiveness of the New Zealand meningococcal B vaccine against gono...

Background and Aim: Previous studies reported that serum myostatin is associated with sarcopenia. We aimed to elucidate the association between serum myostatin levels and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development in patients with alcoholic liver cir...

Background: Few studies have compared the risk of reoperation by timing in breast reconstruction surgery after mastectomy. We evaluated the first and total number of reoperations by reconstruction timing in women with breast cancer undergoing primary...

Background and Objective. To identify the survival and standardized mortality ratio with respect to gender, age, and treatment method of patients treated for femoral neck fractures. Material and Methods. A retrospective review of medical records of...

Colorectal carcinoma (CRC) is rising exponentially in Asia, representing 11% of cancer worldwide. This study analysed the influence of CRC on patients’ life expectancy (survival and prognosis factors) via clinicopathology data and comorbidity s...

We aimed to investigate the risk factors of early double-J ureteral stent (DJUS) dysfunction rates and the long-term patency of DJUSs inserted via a percutaneous approach in patients with benign uretero-ileal anastomosis stricture (UIAS) who had unde...

Background and Objectives: Malignant neoplasms are common causes of acute pleuropericardial effusion. Pleuropericarditis denotes poor patient prognosis, is associated with shortened average survival time, and represents a surgical emergency. Material...

Base excess (BE) and lactate concentration may predict mortality in critically ill patients. However, the predictive values of alactic BE (aBE; the sum of BE and lactate), or a combination of BE and lactate are unknown. The study aimed to investigate...

Prediction of survival probabilities based on models developed by other countries has shown inconsistent findings among Malaysian patients. This study aimed to develop predictive models for survival among women with breast cancer in Malaysia. A retro...

Patients who undergo splenectomy are at a high risk of infection. We aimed to investigate the rate of pneumonia in patients who underwent splenectomy, specifically comparing those who had splenectomy due to spleen injury and those who had it for othe...

Accumulating evidence has shown a significant correlation between periodontal diseases and systemic diseases. In this study, we investigated the association between the frequency of tooth scaling and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Here, a group o...