Publications by authors named "G McDowell"

Objectives: To evaluate the roles of oxidative balance score (OBS) in staging and mortality risk of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome (CKM).

Methods: Data of this study were from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2018. We performed cross-sectional analyses using multinomial logistic regression to investigate the relationship between OBS and CKM staging.

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Despite its many advantages, haemodialysis (HD) has been shown to be associated with significant cardiovascular events, especially in patients commencing HD. Currently, there is no specific method to risk-stratify incident HD patients. Blood-based biomarkers provide insight into myocardial injury and stress.

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Motivation: Missing values are prevalent in high-throughput measurements due to various experimental or analytical reasons. Imputation, the process of replacing missing values in a dataset with estimated values, plays an important role in multivariate and machine learning analyses. The three missingness patterns, including missing completely at random, missing at random, and missing not at random, describe unique dependencies between the missing and observed data.

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