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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lyndsay DeGroot, Noelle Pavlovic, Nancy Perrin, Nisha A Gilotra, Hailey Miller, Quin E Denfeld, Colleen K McIlvennan, Sydney M Dy, Patricia M Davidson, Sarah L Szanton, Martha Abshire Saylor
BACKGROUND: People with heart failure, particularly those who are physically frail, experience complex needs that can be addressed by palliative care (PC). However, we have a limited understanding of how the intersection of unmet PC needs and physical frailty contributes to health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and risk for hospitalization or mortality. OBJECTIVE: In this study, we sought to examine the association of unmet PC needs and physical frailty with clinical outcomes (baseline HRQOL and hospitalizations or mortality at 6 months)...
April 17, 2024: Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mi Zhang, Kairong Du, Yun Lu, Wei Wu, Huan Yan, Qiaoli Jiang, Liang Liu, Xiaobo Feng
Pregabalin is the first-line treatment for neuropathic pain. Cases of cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions caused by pregabalin generally occur within 2 weeks of initiating medication. We report a rare case of a delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity reaction caused by pregabalin, which was confirmed by a drug provocation test. A 72-year-old man with severe herpes zoster neuralgia developed maculopapular drug eruption covering 80% to 90% of his total body surface area after 40 days of combined multidrug analgesia...
April 2024: Journal of International Medical Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Min Ji Kim, Jeong Hun Yang, Min Jung Koh, Youngdoe Kim, Bolam Lee, Yong Min Ahn
This study aimed to identify underlying demographic and clinical characteristics among individuals who had previously attempted suicide, utilizing the comprehensive Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) database. Data of patients aged 18 and above who had attempted suicide between January 1 and December 31, 2014, recorded in HIRA, were extracted. The index date was identified when a suicide attempt was made within the year 2014. The medical history of the three years before the index date and seven years of follow-up data after the index date were analyzed...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Phinda G Khumalo, Mariko Carey, Lisa Mackenzie, Rob Sanson-Fisher
BACKGROUND: Over recent years, cervical cancer incidence and related mortality have steadily increased in Eswatini. Low cervical cancer screening uptake partly explains the situation. Cervical cancer screening-related knowledge is positively associated with screening uptake. Little is known about women's cervical cancer screening-related knowledge in Eswatini. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess cervical cancer screening knowledge and associated factors among Eswatini women eligible for screening...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mustafa K Çelen, Buket Ertürk Şengel, Şafak Kaya, Neşe Demirtürk, Alpay Azap, Hüsnü Pullukçu, Esma Eroğlu, Figen Yıldırım, Hüseyin Ş Barut, Esra Zerdali, Ayşe Sağmak Tartar, Ayşe Ö Mete, Ahmet M Şahin, Bedia Mutay Suntur, Nagehan D Sarı, Emel Yılmaz, Aslıhan Candevir, Funda Şimşek, Dilara İnan, Sıla Akhan, Ali Asan, Özgür Günal, Onur Ural, Mehmet Parlak, Mehmet Çabalak, Selçuk Nazik, Kenan Hızel, Sami Kınıklı, Zehra Beştepe Dursun, Ayşe Batırel, Çiğdem Mermutluoğlu
INTRODUCTION: The aim of this national, multicenter, cross-sectional, retrospective chart review study was to determine the proportion of patients in Turkey who received hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment after receiving positive anti-HCV results during HCV screening. METHODOLOGY: Data related to patients' demographics, laboratory results, time interval from obtaining a positive anti-HCV result to treatment initiation, specialty of the physician requesting anti-HCV screening, and type of hospital were analyzed...
March 31, 2024: Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zemenu Yohannes Kassa, Vanessa Scarf, Sabera Turkmani, Deborah Fox
BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to pose a global public health threat. The pandemic overstretched already weak health systems in low- and low-middle-income countries, including Ethiopia. There is a paucity of studies on the impact of COVID-19 on antenatal care access, uptake, and provision in Ethiopia. This study examines the impact of COVID-19 on antenatal care provision in the Sidama region, Ethiopia. METHODS: A concurrent mixed-methods study was conducted between 14 February and 10 May 2022 at 15 public hospitals in the Sidama region...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar, Muhammad Wajahat Anjum, Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja, Muhammad Shoaib
The paper presents an innovative computational framework for predictive solutions for simulating the spread of malaria. The structure incorporates sophisticated computing methods to improve the reliability of predicting malaria outbreaks. The study strives to provide a strong and effective tool for forecasting the propagation of malaria via the use of an AI-based recurrent neural network (RNN). The model is classified into two groups, consisting of humans and mosquitoes. To develop the model, the traditional Ross-Macdonald model is expanded upon, allowing for a more comprehensive analysis of the intricate dynamics at play...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Abdeta Muktar Ahmed, Mohamed Abdilahi Ahmed, Mohammed Hassen Ahmed
BACKGROUND: About 287,000 mothers lost their lives due to pregnancy and delivery in 2020 worldwide. Birth preparedness and complication readiness (BPCR) is an approach used to utilize the timely use of skilled maternal and neonatal services. Preparing mothers for childbirth and against its dangers has great importance in reducing maternal mortality. Little is known about BPCR and influencing factors in Hargeisa town, Somaliland. OBJECTIVE: To assess the level of BPCR and its associated factors among recently delivered women in Hargeisa...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ana Cristina Maia-Fernandes, Ana Martins-Jesus, Nísia Borralho-Martins, Tomás Pais-de-Azevedo, Ramiro Magno, Isabel Duarte, Raquel P Andrade
During vertebrate embryo development, the body is progressively segmented along the anterior-posterior (A-P) axis early in development. The rate of somite formation is controlled by the somitogenesis embryo clock (EC), which was first described as gene expression oscillations of hairy1 (hes4) in the presomitic mesoderm of chick embryos with 15-20 somites. Here, the EC displays the same periodicity as somite formation, 90 min, whereas the posterior-most somites (44-52) only arise every 150 minutes, matched by a corresponding slower pace of the EC...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Laura D Zambrano, Margaret M Newhams, Regina M Simeone, Amanda B Payne, Michael Wu, Amber O Orzel-Lockwood, Natasha B Halasa, Jemima M Calixte, Pia S Pannaraj, Kanokporn Mongkolrattanothai, Julie A Boom, Leila C Sahni, Satoshi Kamidani, Kathleen Chiotos, Melissa A Cameron, Aline B Maddux, Katherine Irby, Jennifer E Schuster, Elizabeth H Mack, Austin Biggs, Bria M Coates, Kelly N Michelson, Katherine E Bline, Ryan A Nofziger, Hillary Crandall, Charlotte V Hobbs, Shira J Gertz, Sabrina M Heidemann, Tamara T Bradford, Tracie C Walker, Stephanie P Schwartz, Mary Allen Staat, Samina S Bhumbra, Janet R Hume, Michele Kong, Melissa S Stockwell, Thomas J Connors, Melissa L Cullimore, Heidi R Flori, Emily R Levy, Natalie Z Cvijanovich, Matt S Zinter, Mia Maamari, Cindy Bowens, Danielle M Zerr, Judith A Guzman-Cottrill, Ivan Gonzalez, Angela P Campbell, Adrienne G Randolph
Pediatric COVID-19 vaccination is effective in preventing COVID-19-related hospitalization, but duration of protection of the original monovalent vaccine during SARS-CoV-2 Omicron predominance merits evaluation, particularly given low coverage with updated COVID-19 vaccines. During December 19, 2021-October 29, 2023, the Overcoming COVID-19 Network evaluated vaccine effectiveness (VE) of ≥2 original monovalent COVID-19 mRNA vaccine doses against COVID-19-related hospitalization and critical illness among U...
April 18, 2024: MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Qian Zhou, Yuanyuan Zhang, Wei Yao, Sijie Liang, Hui Feng, Huaping Pan
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of combining proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) with threshold inspiratory muscle training (TIMT), compared with TIMT alone, on respiratory function in neurocritical patients who experienced a weaning failure. Forty-seven participants (mostly after a stroke), were randomly divided into the experimental group (n = 24) and the control group (n = 23). The control group received usual care and TIMT, whereas the experimental group, in addition, underwent four 90-s periods of manual PNF...
April 19, 2024: International Journal of Rehabilitation Research. Revue Internationale de Recherches de Réadaptation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gulali Aktas
In various diseases characterized by inflammation, the C-reactive protein to albumin ratio (CAR) serves as a marker of inflammation. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is frequently complicated by diabetic neuropathy (DN) and timely diagnosis is crucial for treatment and potential reversal of this complication. Since both DN and T2DM are associated with chronic, low-grade inflammation, our study aimed to evaluate CAR levels in type 2 diabetic subjects with DN and compare them to those in subjects without DN. Patients presenting to our institutional outpatient clinics were divided into two groups based on the presence of DN...
April 17, 2024: Biomol Biomed
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sheila Daniela Dicker-Oren, Marc Gelkopf, Talya Greene
Daily-life stressors and food cravings are dynamic and vary within and across persons. Some evidence suggests interpersonal stressors increase appetite. However, little is known about the association of food craving with different types of stressors at the momentary level in the general population. We aimed to explore the momentary relationships between daily-life stressful events and food craving in a non-clinical community sample, and to compare the associations with food craving when the most stressful event was perceived as interpersonal versus non-interpersonal...
April 18, 2024: Stress and Health: Journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Walter H Dzik, Kristen Ruby, Patricia A R Brunker, Julia Collins, Hyun-Il Paik, Robert Makar
OBJECTIVES: To present a new method for displaying blood utilization data based on analysis of decision time intervals (DTIs). METHODS: Retrospective study of patients treated in a medical intensive care unit (ICU), surgical ICU, or postcardiac surgery ICU at an academic hospital between January 2018 and June 2023. Each patient's episode of care was divided into a series of DTIs. Transfusions during each time interval were recorded. RESULTS: In total, 16,562 patients received 6980 units of plasma and 21,034 units of red blood cells during 111,557 time intervals of care...
April 18, 2024: American Journal of Clinical Pathology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jessica M Powers, Sarah F Maloney, Eva Sharma, Laura R Stroud
OBJECTIVE: Co-use of tobacco and cannabis may be prevalent in pregnancy, potentially leading to additional adverse health outcomes. Utilizing a national sample of women followed prospectively before, during, and after pregnancy, this study tested whether prepregnancy co-use of tobacco and cannabis (vs. tobacco-only use and cannabis-only use) was associated with greater likelihood of continuing to use tobacco and/or cannabis during pregnancy and postpartum. METHOD: Data were drawn from Waves 1-5 (2013-2019) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study...
April 18, 2024: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ludovico Muzii, Giulia Galati, Ilenia La Barbiera, Antonella Linari, Oriana Capri, Daniela Pietrangeli, Edgardo Somigliana
PURPOSE: Failure to collect oocytes at the time of oocyte pick-up is an unfavorable outcome of in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles. In these cases, prompt intrauterine insemination (IUI) could be an option (rescue IUI), but this possibility has been poorly studied. METHODS: Rescue IUI is routinely offered in our unit in women failing to retrieve oocytes, provided that they have at least one patent tube, normal male semen analysis, and the total number of developed follicles is ≤ 3...
April 18, 2024: Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
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Audêncio Victor, Italo Wesley Oliveira Aguiar, Renzo Flores-Ortiz, Manuel Mahoche, Ana Raquel Manuel Gotine, Ila Falcão, Melsequisete Daniel Vasco, Andrêa Ferreira, Sancho Pedro Xavier, Mark Omenka, José Leopoldo Ferreira Antunes, Patrícia H Rondo
INTRODUCTION: Low birth weight (LBW) is a global issue prevalent in low-income countries. Economic assessments of interventions to reduce this burden are crucial to guide health policies. However, there is a relative scarcity of research that illustrates the magnitude of LBW by country and region to support the design of public policies. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to analyze the temporal trend of fetal growth in newborns in Brazil between 2010 and 2020. METHODS: A time series study was conducted using data from the Live Births Information System (SINASC), which is managed by the Department of Information and Informatics of the Unified Health System (DATASUS) of the Brazilian Ministry of Health...
April 18, 2024: J Prev (2022)
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Seok-Chan Park, Da-Eun Jeong, Sun-Woo Han, Joon-Seok Chae, Joo-Yong Lee, Hyun-Sook Kim, Bumseok Kim, Jun-Gu Kang
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is a life-threatening viral zoonosis. The causative agent of this disease is the Dabie bandavirus, which is usually known as the SFTS virus (SFTSV). Although the role of vertebrates in SFTSV transmission to humans remains uncertain, some reports have suggested that dogs could potentially transmit SFTSV to humans. Consequently, preventive measures against SFTSV in dogs are urgently needed. In the present study, dogs were immunized three times at two-week intervals with formaldehyde-inactivated SFTSV with two types of adjuvants...
April 18, 2024: Journal of Microbiology / the Microbiological Society of Korea
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
V A Kashchenko, Z N Dzhemilova, A A Zavrazhnov, V A Ratnikov, A A Bogatikov, V V Petrova, O B Guschina
OBJECTIVE: To assess the possibilities of fluorescent detection system in qualitative and quantitative assessment of bowel perfusion in colorectal resections. MATERIAL AND METHODS: From May to August 2023, a single-center pilot cross-sectional unblinded study with inclusion of 18 patients with colon cancer (of left-sided - 12, of right-sided - 6, mean age - 72.9 years, m/w - 61/39%) was conducted. All patients underwent laparoscopic colorectal resections with extracorporeal stage of bowel transection...
2024: Khirurgiia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Brent Hiramoto, Thomas R McCarty, Nayna A Lodhia, Andrew Jenkins, Ahmed Elnaiem, Mayssan Muftah, Ryan Flanagan, Walter W Chan
INTRODUCTION: Divergent recommendations for periprocedural management of GLP-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) medications rely on limited evidence. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to provide quantitative measures of gastric emptying relevant to mechanisms of weight loss and to periprocedural management of GLP-1 RA. We hypothesized that the magnitude of gastric emptying delay would be low and of limited clinical significance to procedural sedation risks. METHODS: A protocolized search identified studies on GLP-1 RA that quantified gastric emptying measures...
April 18, 2024: American Journal of Gastroenterology
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