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Anemia and mortality in acute coronary syndromes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Clinically and statistically significant increases in mortality were observed as early as at 30 days post-ACS and persisted at 1 year and anemia in patients with ACS is independently associated with a significantly increased risk of early and late mortality.
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This article is published in American Heart Journal.The article was published on 2013-02-01. It has received 132 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Anemia & Relative risk.

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Association between anemia and hematological indices with mortality among cardiac intensive care unit patients.

TL;DR: Elevated RDW on admission was independently associated with higher hospital mortality in CICU patients, and the importance of hematologic abnormalities for mortality risk stratification in C ICU populations is emphasized.
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Evaluation of hypercoagulability with rotational thromboelastometry in children with iron deficiency anemia

TL;DR: The ROTEM results suggest that although the platelet count and coagulation tests were within normal ranges in IDA, the tendency to coagulate may have been increased.
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Baseline anemia in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention after an acute coronary syndrome-A paradox of high bleeding risk, high ischemic risk, and complex coronary disease.

TL;DR: At 12-months, mortality and stent thrombosis were more likely to occur in anemic patients, with the number of residual vessels associated with adverse survival regardless of anemia status, and incomplete revascularization was associated with worse survivalRegardless of anemic status.
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Infertility: a marker of future health risk in women?

TL;DR: A better understanding of the role of fertility status in health at various stages of life may provide unique opportunities for surveillance and risk reduction.
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Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology - A proposal for reporting

TL;DR: A checklist contains specifications for reporting of meta-analyses of observational studies in epidemiology, including background, search strategy, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion should improve the usefulness ofMeta-an analyses for authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and decision makers.

The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for Assessing the Quality of Nonrandomised Studies in Meta-Analyses

TL;DR: The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) as discussed by the authors was developed to assess the quality of nonrandomised studies with its design, content and ease of use directed to the task of incorporating the quality assessments in the interpretation of meta-analytic results.
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Trim and fill: A simple funnel-plot-based method of testing and adjusting for publication bias in meta-analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a rank-based data augmentation technique is proposed for estimating the number of missing studies that might exist in a meta-analysis and the effect that these studies might have had on its outcome.
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