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Associations between 47 anthropometric markers derived from a body scanner and relative fat-free mass in a population-based study
BackgroundLow relative fat free mass (FFM) is associated with a greater risk of chronic diseases and mortality. Unfortunately, FFM is currently not...
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Relative bradycardia in patients with moderate-to-severe COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study
Coronavirus-related disease (COVID-19) can result in relative bradycardia; however, there are no reports on relative bradycardia in patients with...
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Prospective associations between changes in physical activity and sedentary time and subsequent lean muscle mass in older English adults: the EPIC-Norfolk cohort study
BackgroundThe longitudinal associations between physical behaviours and lean muscle mass indices need to be better understood to aid healthy ageing...
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Long-term relative survival in uveal melanoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis
BackgroundA large proportion of patients with uveal melanoma develop metastases and succumb to their disease. Reports on the size of this proportion...
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Inequalities in early initiation of breastfeeding in Bangladesh: an estimation of relative and absolute measures of inequality
BackgroundEvidence suggested that inequalities based on education, wealth status, place of residence, and geographical regions significantly...
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Reducing echocardiographic examination time through routine use of fully automated software: a comparative study of measurement and report creation time
BackgroundManual interpretation of echocardiographic data is time-consuming and operator-dependent. With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI),...
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Short-Term Complications of Relative Femoral Neck Lengthening Combined with Extra-Articular Osteotomies of the Proximal Femur
PurposeRelative femoral neck lengthening (RNL) is a newer technique to correct coxa breva and coxa vara to relieve a femoro-acetabular im**ement...
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Relative fat mass and prediction of incident atrial fibrillation, heart failure and coronary artery disease in the general population
BackgroundRelative fat mass (RFM) is an emerging marker of obesity that estimates body fat percentage using a sex-specific formula containing height...
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Gel express: a novel frugal method quantifies gene relative expression in conventional RT-PCR
BackgroundReal-time PCR system is a valuable scientific mainstream needed for quantifying specific gene expression. Nevertheless, compared with...
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Two-step spatiotemporal anomaly detection corrected for lag reporting time with application to real-time dengue surveillance in Thailand
BackgroundDengue infection ranges from asymptomatic to severe and life-threatening, with no specific treatment available. Vector control is crucial...
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Real-time quantification of bowel perfusion using Laparoscopic Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging (LSCI) in a porcine model
Background/purposeReal-time quantification of tissue perfusion can improve intraoperative surgical decision making. Here we demonstrate the utility...
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US adult smokers’ perceived relative risk on ENDS and its effects on their transitions between cigarettes and ENDS
BackgroundPerceived risk reduction motivates smokers to switch to electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). This research examines US smokers’...
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Infant Intensive Care Unit: Is it Time to Change?
ObjectivesTo assess the effect of the Infant intensive care unit (InICU), a specialized unit for critically ill infants established in 2016 in...
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COVID-19 Outbreak Related to PM10, PM2.5, Air Temperature and Relative Humidity in Ahvaz, Iran
In this study, we assessed several points related to the incidence of COVID-19 between March 2020 and March 2021 in the Petroleum Hospital of Ahvaz...
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Differences in the position of endometriosis-associated and non-associated ovarian cancer relative to the uterus
BackgroundPreoperative assessment of the histological type of ovarian cancer is essential to determine the appropriate treatment strategy. Tumor...
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Deciphering a shared transcriptomic regulation and the relative contribution of each regulator type through endometrial gene expression signatures
BackgorundWhile various endometrial biomarkers have been characterized at the transcriptomic and functional level, there is generally a poor overlap...
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Healthy aging index and its link with relative education between individual and neighborhood: a population-based, cohort study
ObjectivesThere is increasing recognition of the importance of neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) for establishing an age-friendly society....
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Integrated analysis of diverse cancer types reveals a breast cancer-specific serum miRNA biomarker through relative expression orderings analysis
PurposeSerum microRNA (miRNA) holds great potential as a non-invasive biomarker for diagnosing breast cancer (BrC). However, most diagnostic models...
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Controlling time-varying confounding in difference-in-differences studies using the time-varying treatments framework
This article clarifies how the biostatistical literature on time-varying treatments (TVT) can provide tools for dealing with time-varying confounding...
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The effect of atropine 0.01% eyedrops on relative peripheral refraction in myopic children
BackgroundRelative peripheral refraction (RPR) is a significant factor that participates in myopic development. Here, we evaluated the effects of...
