Importance Obesity and cardiovascular risks have become major public health problems.
However, evidence is limited as to whether population-level lifestyle interventions for obesity …

Zoonotic transmission of lethal henipaviruses (HNVs) from their natural fruit bat reservoirs to
humans has only been reported in Australia and South/Southeast Asia. However, a recent …

Objective To investigate whether patients' mortality differs according to the age and sex of
surgeons. Design Observational study. Setting US acute care hospitals. Participants 100 …

ABSTRACT Introduction The Department of Defense is reforming the military health system
where surgeries are increasingly referred from military treatment facilities (MTFs) with direct …

Background Evidence is limited regarding patient outcomes comparing redo surgical mitral
valve replacement (redo SMVR) vs transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) for failed …

In population pharmacokinetic analyses, missing categorical data are often encountered.
We evaluated several methods of performing covariate analyses with partially missing …

Background Evidence on the comparative outcomes following percutaneous microaxial
ventricular assist devices (pVAD) versus intra‐aortic balloon pump for nonacute myocardial …

We propose a marginal modeling approach to estimate the association between a time‐
dependent covariate and an outcome in longitudinal studies where some study participants …

The main purpose of this article is to investigate a nonlinear structural equation model with
covariates and mixed continuous and ordered categorical outcomes, in the presence of …

Background Although CKD screening programs have been provided in many settings, little
is known as to how we can effectively translate those screening programs into improved …