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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Abdulaiziz Mustafa Kheimi, Jean B Bail, Steven J Parrillo
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assist governments and organizers of mass gathering events in reviewing existing preventive measures for disease outbreaks to inform the adoption of enhanced strategies for risk reduction and impacts on public health. DESIGN: A cross-sectional, quantitative, descriptive study. SETTING: This study was conducted in a mass gathering of Hajj, an annual religious event in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. PARTICIPANTS: A convenience sample of 70 personnel working in government ministries of Saudi Arabia (Ministry of Health, Ministry of Hajj, and Ministry of Interior) and the Saudi Red Crescent Authority involved in health management in Hajj, including policy formulation and implementation...
January 2024: American Journal of Disaster Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anum Ilyas, Nusrat Kharadi, Mudassir Shafique, Tooba Mehreen, Maria Habib, Jaffar Khan, Aftab Akhtar, Fnu Kiran, Farrukh Mehmood
Background The escalating prevalence of obesity worldwide presents unique challenges in critical care management, especially in the context of mechanical ventilation and weaning processes in intensive care units (ICUs). The present study aimed to determine the incidence of weaning failure in obese patients in an ICU. Methods A prospective observational study was carried out to gather data on patients in the ICU of Shifa International Hospital located in Islamabad, Pakistan. The target population consisted of adult patients who were both male and female, ages 18 years and above...
March 2024: Curēus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Aghazadeh Hamed, Rigi Amir, Sangchooli Tahereh, Taheri Parastoo, Nasiraei Amir Hossein, Mohammadi Mohadese
Scabies is considered an external parasite notorious for its high prevalence causing severe and contagious skin lesions in humans and animals worldwide. This study has introduced a medicine to treat dogs infested with scabies (variants of Demodex, Sarcoptes, Psoroptes, Otodectes, etc.). The present study offers a no-side-effect herbal formulation to treat dogs infested with scabies. Unlike oral and injectable medicines, which take the form of an ointment and are topically applied on-site, this medicinal formulation can be easily used without concerns over its side effects or consumption dosages...
October 2023: Archives of Razi Institute
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Filipe Pereira, Leandro Pinto, Filomena Soares, Rosa Vasconcelos, José Machado, Vítor Carvalho
This paper introduces an online dataset focused on detecting hairiness in yarn, including loop and protruding fibers. The dataset is designed for use in assessing artificial intelligence algorithms. The dataset consists of 684 original images. Through augmentation, this number increases to 1644, with 11,037 annotations derived from videos featuring 56.4tex purple cotton yarn. The videos were captured during the winding and unwinding processes of the purple yarn coil. An image acquisition system capable of capturing high-resolution images while the yarn is in motion was used, reaching speeds of up to 4...
June 2024: Data in Brief
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EDITORIAL
Sharief Hendricks, Adrian Rotunno, Leigh Gordon, Janesh Ganda, Phathokuhle Cele Zondi, Wayne Derman, Louis Holtzhausen, Éanna Cian Falvey, Dina Christina Christa Janse van Rensburg
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April 5, 2024: British Journal of Sports Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yujie Hu, Zhongbo Mao, Ying Xu
Surgical site infections (SSIs) following radical mastectomy in breast cancer patients can significantly affect patient recovery and healthcare resources. Identifying and understanding the risk factors for postoperative wound infections (PWIs) are crucial for improving surgical outcomes. This retrospective study was conducted from June 2020 to June 2023, including 23 breast cancer patients who developed PWIs post-radical mastectomy and a control group of 46 patients without such infections. Comprehensive patient data, including variables such as intraoperative blood loss, hospital stay duration, body mass index (BMI), operation time, anaemia, drainage time, diabetes mellitus, cancer stage, white blood cell (WBC) count, serum albumin levels and preoperative neoadjuvant chemotherapy, were meticulously gathered...
April 2024: International Wound Journal
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REVIEW
Cüneyt Çalışkan, Ahmet Doğan Kuday, Tuğba Özcan, Nihal Dağ, Kerem Kınık
INTRODUCTION: Mass gatherings are events where many people come together at a specific location for a specific purpose, such as concerts, sports events, or religious gatherings, within a certain period of time. In mass-gathering studies, many rates and ratios are used to assess the demand for medical resources. Understanding such metrics is crucial for effective planning and intervention efforts. Therefore, this systematic review aims to investigate the usage of rates and ratios reported in mass-gathering studies...
April 5, 2024: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nadine Khoury, María Ángeles Martínez, Stephanie K Nishi, Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, Dolores Corella, Olga Castañer, J Alfredo Martínez, Ángel M Alonso-Gómez, Julia Wärnberg, Jesús Vioque, Dora Romaguera, José López-Miranda, Ramon Estruch, Francisco J Tinahones, José Manuel Santos-Lozano, Lluís Serra-Majem, Aurora Bueno-Cavanillas, Josep A Tur, Sergio Cinza Sanjurjo, Xavier Pintó, José Juan Gaforio, Pilar Matía-Martín, Josep Vidal, Clotilde Vázquez, Lidia Daimiel, Emilio Ros, Carmen Sayon-Orea, Jose V Sorli, Karla-Alejandra Pérez-Vega, Antonio Garcia-Rios, Francisco Ortiz-Díaz, Enrique Gómez-Gracia, M A Zulet, Alice Chaplin, Rosa Casas, Inmaculada Salcedo-Bellido, Lucas Tojal-Sierra, Maria-Rosa Bernal-Lopez, Zenaida Vazquez-Ruiz, Eva M Asensio, Albert Goday, Patricia J Peña-Orihuela, Antonio J Signes-Pastor, Ana Garcia-Arellano, Montse Fitó, Nancy Babio, Jordi Salas-Salvadó
BACKGROUND: Endocrine disruptors (EDs) have emerged as potential contributors to the development of type-2 diabetes. Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), is one of these EDs linked with chronic diseases and gathered attention due to its widespread in food. OBJECTIVE: To assess at baseline and after 1-year of follow-up associations between estimated dietary intake (DI) of PFOS, and glucose homeostasis parameters and body-mass-index (BMI) in a senior population of 4600 non-diabetic participants from the PREDIMED-plus study...
March 15, 2024: Environment International
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sylvia Kirchengast
BACKGROUND: Changes in lifestyle and dietary habits that hunter-gatherer populations have undergone in recent decades have often led to rising obesity rates with disastrous consequences for their health. OBJECTIVES: The associations between dietary habits and weight status were studied in 238 "Ju/'hoansi" San (93 women and 145 men) aged between 18 and 65 years in northern Namibia in 1987. Weight status was estimated based on the World Health Organization body mass index (BMI) categories, and dietary habits were recorded using food recall methods...
April 4, 2024: American journal of biological anthropology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Md Jubayer Hossain, Manisha Das, Md Wahidul Islam, Muhibullah Shahjahan, Jannatul Ferdous
BACKGROUND: Dengue is a major public health concern in Bangladesh. This study aimed to assess the perceptions and practices of community members in Dhaka regarding community engagement and social participation for dengue prevention. METHODS: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted in Dhaka City from May 2022 to December 2022. The respondents were randomly selected. The association between community participation and prevention practices was tested using the χ 2 test...
April 2024: Health Science Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Francisco Orchard, Charline Clain, William Madie, Jessica S Hayes, Máire A Connolly, Etienne Sevin, Alexis Sentís
INTRODUCTION: PANDEM-Source (PS) is a tool to collect and integrate openly available public health-related data from heterogeneous data sources to support the surveillance of infectious diseases for pandemic management. The tool may also be used for pandemic preparedness by generating surveillance data for training purposes. It was developed as part of the EU-funded Horizon 2020 PANDEM-2 project during the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of close collaboration in a consortium of 19 partners, including six European public health agencies, one hospital, and three first responder organizations...
2024: Frontiers in Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Asad Riaz, Shoaib Asghar, Salman Shahid, Haider Tanvir, Muhammad Hamza Ejaz, Mamuna Akram
BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus (DM) long-term macrovascular and microvascular complications pose significant health risks and increase mortality. In DM patients, metabolic syndrome (MetSy) either precedes or coexists with the condition. Central obesity, poor glycemic control, hypertension, elevated triglycerides (TG), and low high-density lipoproteins (HDL-C) are the components of MetSy. The purpose of this study is to investigate related diabetic microvascular complications in type 1 DM (T1DM) by comparing them with type 2 DM (T2DM), determine potential risk factors, and estimate prevalence based on the diagnosis of MetSy...
March 2024: Curēus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lut Geerts, Lucy T Brink, Hein J Odendaal
OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study was to compare birth weight (BW) distribution and proportion of BWs below or above specified percentiles in low-risk singleton pregnancies in healthy South African (SA) women of mixed ancestry with expected values according to four BW references and to determine the physiological factors affecting BW. METHODS: This was an ancillary study of a prospective multinational cohort study, involving 7060 women recruited between August 2007 and January 2015 in two townships of Cape Town, characterized by low socioeconomic status, and high levels of drinking and smoking...
April 4, 2024: International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Victoria K S Fischer, Markus A Rothschild, Beat P Kneubuehl, Thomas Kamphausen
Gunshot wound analysis is an important part of medicolegal practice, in both autopsies and examinations of living persons. Well-established and studied simulants exist that exhibit both physical and biomechanical properties of soft-tissues and bones. Current research literature on ballistic wounds focuses on the biomechanical properties of skin simulants. In our extensive experimental study, we tested numerous synthetic and natural materials, regarding their macromorphological bullet impact characteristics, and compared these data with those from real bullet injuries gathered from medicolegal practice...
April 3, 2024: International Journal of Legal Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shazia Rehman, Abdullah Addas, Md Anisur Rahman, Muhammad Ali Shahiman, Zexuan Li
Research has indicated a negative impact of physical activity on academic burnout among students, however, there is a paucity of evidence about the underlying mechanism of this association in Pakistani students. The present research seeks to investigate the relationship between physical activity and academic burnout by investigating the potential mediating effects of adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) and body mass index (BMI). A sample of 596 students using a cross-sectional survey design was gathered from two public universities (Riphah International University and Mohammed Ali Jinnah University) in Rawalpindi, Pakistan from June to July 2022...
April 2, 2024: Scientific Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jack F Bennett, David J Cottrell
INTRODUCTION: Music festivals have become an increasingly popular form of mass-gathering event, drawing an increasing number of attendees across the world each year. While festivals exist to provide guests with an enjoyable experience, there have been instances of serious illness, injury, and in some cases death. Large crowds, prolonged exposure to loud music, and high rates of drug and alcohol consumption can pose a dangerous environment for guests as well as those looking after them...
April 2, 2024: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yasmina Rodríguez, Airam Rodríguez, Willem M G M van Loon, João M Pereira, João Frias, Emily M Duncan, Sofia Garcia, Laura Herrera, Cristina Marqués, Verónica Neves, Cristopher Domínguez-Hernández, Javier Hernández-Borges, Beneharo Rodríguez, Christopher K Pham
The potential of using organisms as bioindicators of marine litter has been an area of general interest in multiple scientific and monitoring programs across the globe. Procellariiformes seabirds are particularly vulnerable to plastic contamination, which makes them a research focus group. This study investigated plastic ingestion in deceased fledglings and adults Cory's shearwaters (Calonectris borealis) collected over eight years (2015 to 2022) at two Atlantic archipelagos: the Azores and the Canaries. Necropsies were carried out in a total of 1,238 individuals showing a high prevalence of plastic ingestion (90%), with approximately 80% of items recovered from the gizzard...
March 24, 2024: Environment International
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yvette H Tran, Justin Blackburn, Joshua R Vest
RATIONALE/PURPOSE: 1.Mass gathering events have resumed with the availability of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. However, the pandemic is ongoing and such events potentially contribute to upsurges in COVID-19 cases. There is mounting evidence that public health mitigation strategies such as mask requirements, capacity restrictions, and physical distancing reduce transmission risk. However, evidence suggests imperfect compliance with these strategies. This study aimed to quantify spectators' masking behaviors and identify correlates of mask-wearing during a major sporting event...
2024: Manag Sport Leis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nivash V, Sakthivadivel D, A Alaswad, Vigneshwaran V S
This research work deals with the examination of the techno-economic, exergy, and energy analyses of biomass gasification of the invasive weed Parthenium hysterophorus (PHP) using Steam - Carbon dioxide (CO2 ) as a gasifying agent with the support of simulation modeling for sustainable energy conversion process. The aim of this work is to simulate the gasification process through consideration of the impacts of various operating factors on gasification. This study attains the gradual increase in hydrogen (H2 ) concentration from 51% to 63% along with the rise in carbon monoxide (CO) from 14...
March 30, 2024: Heliyon
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mauro Nascimben, Hugo Abreu, Marcello Manfredi, Giuseppe Cappellano, Annalisa Chiocchetti, Lia Rimondini
Proteomic analysis of extracellular vesicles presents several challenges due to the unique nature of these small membrane-bound structures. Alternative analyses could reveal outcomes hidden from standard statistics to explore and develop potential new biological hypotheses that may have been overlooked during the initial evaluation of the data. An analysis sequence focusing on deviating protein expressions from donors' primary cells was performed, leveraging machine-learning techniques to analyze small datasets, and it has been applied to evaluate extracellular vesicles' protein content gathered from mesenchymal stem cells cultured on bioactive glass discs doped or not with metal ions...
March 21, 2024: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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