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To evaluate the efficacy and safety of PLC in perimenopausal or postmenopausa...
Abstract Background Hot flashes are the most frequent symptoms of the menopause, with 10–20% of all postmenopausal women reporting nearly intolerable occurrences. Although... -
Association between serum vitamin D levels and the risk of kidney stone: evid...
Abstract Background Many epidemiological studies have conducted to evaluate the association between serum vitamin D levels and the risk of kidney stone. The aim of this study... -
Shapes and scattering properties of large irregular bodies from photometric data
The macroscopic shapes, rotational states, and scattering parameters of atmosphereless bodies can be deduced from photometric measurements of total brightnesses in different... -
Association between component-resolved diagnosis of house dust mite and effic...
Abstract Data regarding clinical relevance of house dust mite (HDM) components over allergen immunotherapy (AIT) for allergic rhinitis (AR) are lacking. 18 adult AR patients... -
Burden of chronic kidney disease on the African continent: a systematic revie...
Abstract Background Accurate contemporary data on the burden of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) on the African continent are lacking. We determined the prevalence of CKD in adult... -
Possible beneficial association between renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system ...
Abstract Background Although immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is associated with an increased risk of renal allograft failure, evidences for its treatment, including... -
Sparse generalized linear model with L 0 approximation f...
Abstract Background Feature selection and prediction are the most important tasks for big data mining. The common strategies for feature selection in big data mining are L 1,... -
Prolonged versus brief balloon inflation during arterial angioplasty for de n...
Abstract Objective Angioplasty is a fundamental treatment for atherosclerotic disease and may be performed as the sole therapy in small vessel disease. However, the ideal... -
Community-onset sepsis and its public health burden: a systematic review
Abstract Background Sepsis is a life-threatening condition and major contributor to public health and economic burden in the industrialised world. The difficulties in accurate... -
Methods for designing interventions to change healthcare professionalsâ beh...
Abstract Background Systematic reviews consistently indicate that interventions to change healthcare professional (HCP) behaviour are haphazardly designed and poorly specified.... -
The paradox of verbal autopsy in cause of death assignment: symptom question ...
Abstract Background We believe that it is important that governments understand the reliability of the mortality data which they have at their disposable to guide policy... -
Gene expression prediction using low-rank matrix completion
Abstract Background An exponential growth of high-throughput biological information and data has occurred in the past decade, supported by technologies, such as microarrays and... -
A Bayesian Partial Identification Approach to Inferring the Prevalence of Acc...
This article describes the use of flexible Bayesian regression models for estimating a partially identified probability function. Our approach permits efficient sensitivity... -
Real-time crustal monitoring system of Japanese Islands based on spatio-tempo...
Abstract To continuously monitor crustal behavior associated with earthquakes, magmatic activities and other environmental effects (e.g., tides and rain precipitation), we have... -
Validation of pre-operative risk scores of contrast-induced acute kidney inju...
Abstract Background Pre-operative risk scores are more valuable than post-procedure risk scores because of lacking effective treatment for contrast-induced acute kidney injury... -
A statistical measure for the skewness of X chromosome inactivation based on ...
Abstract Background X chromosome inactivation (XCI) is an important gene regulation mechanism in females to equalize the expression levels of X chromosome between two sexes.... -
The Objective Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Disease Health in Older Wo...
Abstract Background Limited evidence exists to inform physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior guidelines for older people, especially women. Rigorous evidence on the... -
Causal effect of smoking on DNA methylation in peripheral blood: a twin and f...
Abstract Background Smoking has been reported to be associated with peripheral blood DNA methylation, but the causal aspects of the association have rarely been investigated. We... -
Erratum to: Ozone and childhood respiratory disease in three US cities: evalu...
Erratum to: Ozone and childhood respiratory disease in three US cities: evaluation of effect measure modification by neighborhood socioeconomic status using a Bayesian... -
Estimating the impact post randomization changes in staff behavior in infecti...
Abstract Background Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of behavior-based interventions are particularly vulnerable to post-randomization changes between study arms. We assess...
