Comparative assessment of fracture risk among osteoporosis and osteopenia patients: a cross-sectional study by Snezana Tomasevic-Todorovic (5782682)

“…</p><h3>Results: </h3><p dir="ltr">Patients with osteoporosis had significantly higher risk of major fracture compared to patients with osteopenia (p<0.01). …”

Direct Oral Anticoagulants Compared to Warfarin in Patients with Intermediate‐ to High‐Risk Pulmonary Embolism: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis by Mohamed Nabil Elshafei (9960500)

“…<h3>Introduction</h3><p dir="ltr">Despite recent advances in clinical therapeutics in patients with venous thromboembolism, uncertainty remains regarding the optimal anticoagulation strategy in patients with intermediate‐ to high‐risk pulmonary embolism. We aimed to evaluate the direct oral anticoagulants’ effectiveness and safety compared to warfarin in patients with intermediate‐ and high‐risk pulmonary embolism.…”

Risk Assessment in Construction Projects: Integrating Five Dimensions of Risk by Nunez, Antuanet Yahaira Saldana

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Drivers obesity and road crash risks in the United States by Junaid Ahmad Bhatti (366799)

“…The prevalence of class I obesity increased from 10% in 1999 to 14% in 2012 (aPR=1.50, 95% confidence intervals [95%CI]=1.42-1.58), class II obesity from 3% to 5% (aPR=2.22, 95%CI=2.05-3.01), and class III obesity from 1% to 2% (aPR=2.65; 95%CI=2.27-3.10). Compared to non-obese controls, obese drivers had significantly higher risks for fatality (1.10≤aOR≤1.47), seat-belt non-use (1.00≤aOR≤1.21), need for extrication (1.01≤aOR≤1.23), and ambulance transport time ≥30min (1.01≤aOR≤1.28). …”

Compared to What? Is BMI Associated with Histopathological Changes in Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Specimens? by Tamer Saafan (14151819)

“…When confounders were taken into account, there appeared no significant associations between the BMI of patients with specific benign or pre-malignant histopathology compared with the BMI of the rest of the patients with abnormal histopathologies and compared to the BMI of patients with normal histopathologies of their gastric specimens. …”

Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Contribute Significantly to College Students’ Daily Caloric Intake in Jordan: Soft Drinks Are Not the Major Contributor by Hiba Bawadi (3436379)

“…A significant positive relationship was found in BMI (p = 0.006) and waist circumference (p = 0.030) for participants consuming calories from SSBs. …”

The significance of the papanicolaou smear diagnosis of low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion cannot exclude high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion by Nasser, Selim M.

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Patients with early onset of type 1 diabetes have significantly higher GG genotype at position 49 of the CTLA4 gene by Zalloua, Pierre

“…The CTLA4 G allele was found to be more frequently present in patients with T1D (32.4%) as compared with its frequency in control individuals (24.5%). …”
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Qatar’s immigrants at higher risk of diabetes by Nature Research (16552612)

“…Those of South Asian descent had a 13-fold increased risk of having elevated glycated haemoglobin levels, and Filipinos a 4.5-fold increase, compared to the native Arab population. …”

Multivariate epidemiologic analysis of type 2 diabetes mellitus risks in the Lebanese population by Ghassibe-Sabbagh, Michella

“…Exercise activity level negatively correlated with the disease (p = 0.002), whereas the prevalence of T2DM (p < 0.0001) and CAD family history (p = 0.006) positively correlated with the affection status. The mean levels of triglycerides and LDL-C were significantly higher in diabetics (1.87; 1.35) compared to individuals with prediabetes (1.63; 1.26) and unaffected controls (1.49; 1.19). …”
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The Preparedness of SMEs for cyber risk in the United Arab Emirates by ALSHEHHI, KHALID MOHAMED

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The public’s risk perception of blood transfusion in Saudi Arabia by Almutairi, Adel F.

“…Results The overall percentage mean score±SD of risk perception was 59.8±16.1. Male participants were significantly more likely to perceive blood transfusion negatively, both in terms of the dread/severity domain (β=−0.23, p=0.003) and their overall risk perception score (β=−0.17, p=0.028). …”
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Prevalence of asthmatic symptoms in Lebanese patients with type 1 diabetes and their unaffected siblings compared to age-matched controls by Taleb, Nadine

“…Only a statistically non-significant trend of higher risk was observed in carriers of HLA-DQB1*0301 and G allele at the 49 (A/G) nucleotide of CTLA-4 gene. …”
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Internet Searches for Medical Symptoms Before Seeking Information on 12-Step Addiction Treatment Programs: A Web-Search Log Analysis by George Nitzburg (18614989)

“…Specifically, symptom queries were first determined to be significantly predictive of subsequent 12-step queries if the probability of querying a medical symptom by those who later sought information about the 12-step program exceeded the probability of that same query being made by a comparison group of all other Bing users in the United States. …”

Comparative analysis of the value for money factors of PPPs between the UAE and the UK by Almarri, Khalid

“…In this study, data was collected from 30 participants in the UAE, and 62 participants residing in the UK. A comparative analysis between the results of both countries revealed a great deal of similarity of the significant impact of the VFM factors on the assessment of PPP. …”
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Assessment of Diabetes and its Risk Factors Knowledge in AUS students by Hannan, Hadia

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Seismic Risk Assessment of Buildings in Dubai, United Arab Emirates by Al Shamsi, Gaith Abdulrahman

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Integrated operational and financial approaches in supply chain risk management by Bandaly, Dia

“…The conceptualization of SCRM is examined with reference to the broader literature on risk management. A SCRM framework is developed based on our taxonomies of risk and risk management approaches. …”
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Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019 by Gregory A. Roth (6302315)

“…GBD, an ongoing multinational collaboration to provide comparable and consistent estimates of population health over time, used all available population-level data sources on incidence, prevalence, case fatality, mortality, and health risks to produce estimates for 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019. …”

Prognostic significance of histopathological response to preoperative chemotherapy in unilateral Wilms' tumor: An analysis of 899 patients treated on the SIOP WT 2001 protocol in t... by Gordan M. Vujanić (14778694)

“…Completely necrotic WTs (CN-WTs) are classified as low-risk tumors. The aim of the study was to evaluate whether a subset of regressive type WTs (RT-WTs) (67%-99% chemotherapy-induced changes [CIC]) showing an exceptionally good response to preoperative chemotherapy had comparably excellent survivals as CN-WTs, and to establish a cut-off point of CIC that could define this subset. …”