Cohort differences in physical health and disability in the United States and Europe by Gimeno, L, Goisis, A, Dowd, JB, Ploubidis, GB

“…<p><strong> Results</strong></p> Age-adjusted prevalence of doctor-diagnosed chronic disease increased across successive cohorts in all regions. …”

Associations of treatment with hypnotics with suicide and attempted suicide: A nationwide cohort study by Høier, NK, Madsen, T, Spira, AP, Hawton, K, Jennum, P, Nordentoft, M, Erlangsen, A

“…A total of 1774 males and 1212 females died by suicide while in treatment with n-BZD and the adjusted IRRs were 3.4 (95% CI: 3.1–3.7) and 3.6 (95% CI: 3.4–3.9), respectively.…”

Socioeconomic inequalities in risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2 delta and omicron variants in the UK, 2020-22: analysis of the longitudinal COVID-19 Infection Survey by Razieh, C, Shabnam, S, Dambha-Miller, H, Morris, EJA, Yates, T, Chudasama, Y, Zaccardi, F, Gillies, C, Banerjee, A, Pareek, M, Lacey, B, White, M, Khunti, K, Islam, N

“…Multivariable Poisson regression models were fitted to estimate the adjusted incidence rate ratio after adjusting for age, sex, ethnic group, comorbid conditions, urban or rural residence, household size, patient or client facing job, and time (as quarters of the year).…”

Accounting for Rehabilitation Activity Uncertainty in a Pavement Life Cycle Assessment using Probability and Decision Tree Analysis by Mack, James W., Xu, Xin, Gregory, Jeremy, Kirchain, Randolph

“…For this case, this results in the probability-adjusted LCA results being different than the single standard rehabilitation scenario results.…”
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Associations of maternal night shift work during pregnancy with DNA methylation in offspring: a meta-analysis in the PACE consortium by Marques, IF, Domènech-Panicello, C, Geurtsen, ML, Hoang, TT, Richmond, R, Polinski, K, Sirignano, L, Page, CM, Binter, A, Everson, T, Burt, A, Deuschle, M, Gilles, M, Streit, F, Mumford, SL, Magnus, P, Reiss, IKM, Vermeulen, MJ, Witt, SH, Chaves, I, Yeung, E, London, SJ, Guxens, M, Felix, JF

“…Robust linear regression models adjusted for relevant confounders were run in the individual cohorts, and results were meta-analyzed. …”

Controlling of the spindle for ejector based multi-evaporator refrigeration system by Chen, Fang.

“…The primary flow rate can be adjusted using the spindle. This is the reason of introducing the motor driving moving spindle.…”
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Liposomal nanotherapy for treatment of atherosclerosis : passive versus active targeting by Darwitan, Anastasia

“…The novel anti-inflammatory therapy developed in this PhD work could be envisioned for treatment after an acute clinical event or as adjunct therapy for prevention of in-stent restenosis in patients receiving bare metal stents. …”
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Clustering of designers based on building information modeling event logs by Pan, Yue, Zhang, Limao, Skibniewski, Miroslaw J.

“…Our new algorithm node2vec-GMM is proven to better improve clustering quality than other state-of-the-art methods by at least 6.0% Adjusted Rand Index and 13.4% Adjusted Mutual Information. …”
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Quality and outcomes of diabetes care in patients diagnosed with cancer by Griffiths, R

“…Cancer patients were less likely to meet 5/14 quality measures examined, including total cholesterol ≤5 mmol/L (adjusted odds ratio [OR], 0.82; 95% CI, 0.75-0.90) and HbA1c ≤59 mmol/mol (adjusted OR=0.77; 95% CI, 0.70-0.85). …”

The effects of ultra-selective beta1-antagonism on the metabolic and cytokine profile in septic shock patients receiving noradrenaline: a sub-investigation from the STRESS-L Random... by Thomas, JL, McGee, KC, Hossain, A, Perkins, GD, Gordon, AC, Young, D, McAuley, D, Singer, M, Lall, R, Kramaric, T, Lord, JM, Whitehouse, T, Mur, LAJ

“…The individual-level models were adjusted for confounders, such as age, sex, noradrenaline dosage and patient (random effect). …”

Predictors and outcomes of healthcare-associated infections caused by carbapenem-nonsusceptible enterobacterales: a parallel matched case-control study by Hoo, Grace S. R., Cai, Yiying, Quek, Yan Ching, Teo, Jocelyn Q., Choudhury, Saugata, Koh, Tse Hsien, Lim, Tze Peng, Marimuthu, Kalisvar, Ng, Oon Tek, Kwa, Andrea L.

“…Time to discharge remained significantly longer in patients with CnSE-HAI (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.71; 95% CI, 0.51 – 0.98) after adjusting for disease severity, receipt of antibiotics with reported susceptibility and receipt of appropriate source control. …”
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Prognostic significance of pleural fluid microbiological positivity in pleural infection: a bicentric 10-year retrospective observational study by Wong, C, Fan, HC, Rahman, NM, Wong, JCC, Cheng, HS, Chiu, PH, Tong, CW, Miu, FPL, Yam, LYC

“…MPPI was associated with significantly increased risk of mortality (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] 1.46, 95% CI 1.08–1.98). …”

Use of hormone replacement therapy and risk of breast cancer: nested case-control studies using the QResearch and CPRD databases by Vinogradova, Y, Coupland, C, Hippisley-Cox, J

“…Odds ratios for HRT types, adjusted for personal characteristics, smoking status, alcohol consumption, comorbidities, family history, and other prescribed drugs. …”

Predicting
mergers
and
acquisitions
: a study of Tobin's Q. by Chong, Hui Shan., Lim, Jian Liang., Tan, Keng Tiong.

“…The results indicate that the industry-adjusted Q produces a more significant and accurate measure in determining takeovers targets. …”
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A healthy amount of privacy: quantifying privacy concerns in medicine by Cofone, IC

“…I propose a simple method to incorporate these concerns into a standard health impact evaluation, based on quality-adjusted life years and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio. …”

Electronic cigarette use and chest pain in US adults: evidence from the PATH study by Behrooz, Leili, Xie, Wubin, Goghari, Aboli, Robertson, Rosemarie, Bhatnagar, Aruni, Stokes, Andrew, Hamburg, Naomi M.

“…In the multivariable models adjusted for relevant covariates, combustible cigarette users (adjusted odds ratio, AOR=1.77; 95% CI: 1.56–2.01) and dual users (AOR=2.22; 95% CI: 1.61–3.05) had higher odds of reporting ever having chest pain, as well as having chest pain in the past 30 days. …”
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Singapore Shipping Trust. by Goh, Wei Qin., Lee, Suat Cheng., Tan, Li Ping.

“…Results from CAPM show presence of risk-adjusted returns for the equal-weighted shipping trust portfolio in the before-subprime period, indicating the attractiveness of shipping trusts during better economic conditions. …”
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Design of broadband double-ridged antenna by Lo, Wei Chen.

“…Results were monitored and adjusted toward the optimized result. The simulation result was further proved by the fabrication of the antenna. …”
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Synthesis of lead selenide (PbSe) quantum dots for photovoltaic applications by Yang, Shuai

“…By varying the water to surfactant ratio, the particle size of the synthesized PbSe quantum dots could be adjusted while Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDX) analysis showed the elemental composition of Pb and Se remained at close to 1 : 1. …”
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Laboratory and field measurement of dispersion curves using surface wave methods by Tan, Roy Guan Ming.

“…Through the detection of the variation of frequency of the wave source, the depth of penetration of the surface wave can be adjusted, and the dispersion curve can be obtained. …”
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