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Access and utilization of maternal healthcare in a rural district in the fore...
Abstract Background Poor maternal health delivery in developing countries results in more than half a million maternal deaths during pregnancy, childbirth or within a few weeks... -
External quality assessment (EQA) program for the immunohistochemical detecti...
Abstract Background An External Quality Assessment (EQA) program was developed to investigate the status of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and Ki-67... -
Feasibility study to identify women of childbearing age at risk of pregnancy ...
Abstract Background Worldwide the rate of unplanned pregnancies is more than 40%. Identifying women at risk of pregnancy can help prevent negative outcomes and also reduce... -
Prognostic significance of supradiaphragmatic lymph node metastasis detected ...
Abstract Background Supradiaphragmatic lymph node metastases (SdLNM) are frequently identified using 18F-FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in... -
Plasma sTNFR1 and IL8 for prognostic enrichment in sepsis trials: a prospecti...
Abstract Background Enrichment strategies improve therapeutic targeting and trial efficiency, but enrichment factors for sepsis trials are lacking. We determined whether... -
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy-induced decrease of prognostic nutrition index predi...
Abstract Background The prognostic nutritional index (PNI), which is an easily calculated nutritional index, is significantly associated with patient outcomes in various solid... -
Very low sensitivity of wet mount microscopy compared to PCR against culture ...
Abstract Background Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) causes the Trichomoniasis Syndrome composed of vaginitis in women, urethritis in men and tube infection in both sexes. This... -
TBCRC 002: a phase II, randomized, open-label trial of preoperative letrozole...
Abstract Background In preclinical studies, the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer is associated with... -
Does the transfer of a poor quality embryo with a good quality embryo benefit...
Abstract Background While single embryo transfer (SET) is widely advocated, double embryo transfer (DET) remains preferable in clinical practice to improve IVF success rate,... -
DNA methylation is associated with lung function in never smokers
Abstract Background Active smoking is the main risk factor for COPD. Here, epigenetic mechanisms may play a role, since cigarette smoking is associated with differential DNA... -
Tomm34 is commonly expressed in epithelial ovarian cancer and associates with...
Abstract Background Increased activity of the chaperones Hsp70 and Hsp90 is a common feature of solid tumours. Translocase of the outer mitochondrial membrane 34 (Tomm34) is a... -
The association between daily 500 mg calcium supplementation and lower pregna...
Abstract Background Evidence suggests that daily supplementation of 1500 to 2000 mg of calcium during pregnancy reduces pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH). However, the... -
Calibration: the Achilles heel of predictive analytics
Abstract Background The assessment of calibration performance of risk prediction models based on regression or more flexible machine learning algorithms receives little... -
Endoscopic intraventricular hematoma evacuation surgery versus external ventr...
Abstract Background The application of neuroendoscopy in intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) has attracted more and more attention in recent years. Studies have shown that the use... -
Comparison of the prognostic values of three calculation methods for echocard...
Abstract Purpose Left ventricular (LV) wall thickness can be measured at the posterior wall (PW) and the intraventricular septum (IVS) in a parasternal long axis view by... -
Obstetric violence and its associated factors among postnatal women in a Spec...
Abstract Objective Obstetric violence is an often overlooked obstacle to quality maternal health care service utilization. In the study setting, there was limited evidence on... -
Polygenic risk for coronary heart disease acts through atherosclerosis in typ...
Abstract Background Type 2 diabetes increases the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), yet the mechanisms involved remain poorly described. Polygenic risk scores (PRS) provide... -
A nomogram model to predict death rate among non-small cell lung cancer (NSCL...
Abstract Background This study aimed to establish a novel nomogram prognostic model to predict death probability for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients who received... -
Association between obesity and oligomenorrhea or irregular menstruation in C...
In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) or waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and oligomenorrhea or irregular... -
MTMR2 promotes invasion and metastasis of gastric cancer via inactivating IFN...
Abstract Background The aberrant expression of myotubularin-related protein 2 (MTMR2) has been found in some cancers, but little is known about the roles and clinical relevance....
