Background Cancer, a major global health challenge, not only threatens lives but also imposes severe financial burdens, known ...

Background Anticoagulation therapy reduces stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), but it is often underused ...

Background Infants with congenital heart disease (CHD) are clinically vulnerable to cardiac deteriorations and intercurrent ...

Statistics with Stata: Version 12 ... skewed (Shapiro-Wilk p<0.01) and model G was set also using its cubic form. However, again the estimates of p values of cigarette use covariates were similar and ...

All analyses were performed using Stata release SE11 and the study protocol ... and so could not be included in the model. Although inclusion of these variables may improve the performance of the ...

Variables were included in the final model if they were independently related to the outcome ... Research Triangle Park, NC) and STATA release 10.0 (StataCorp LP, 2008). A total of 20 571 subjects (15 ...

Thus, we decided not to perform the linear regression model for quit ratios as the dependent variable. The analyses were performed ... Analyses were performed with Stata V.13.0 and SPSS V.20, ...

11.0 (Stata, College Station, Texas, USA). Frequencies of variables collected on the 56 cases were tabulated for descriptive analysis. Linear regression model was employed to examine the association ...

All analyses were conducted using STATA V.12.1 (Stata Corp ... 20), respectively (p for quadratic trend=0.02) (table 3, model 2), with little change after adjustment for potential intermediate ...

We retained variables added to model C that, in multivariate analysis, were statistically related to cognitive test scores at the 10% (p<0.10) level. Data were analysed using Stata V.11.2 (Stata ...

A proportional hazard model was specified. In addition to the staffing level variable, all models included variables ... Analyses were undertaken using the Stata Statistical Software: Release V.14 ...

In the full multivariate model, baseline test score (p<0.001 ... Statistical analysis was performed using Stata V.14.0. Measures are presented as mean±SD for continuous variables and percentages for ...