Let’s not Miss the Opportunity to Improve Rare Disease Reporting Through ICD-11 Implementation by Miroslav ZVOLSKÝ, Šárka DAŇKOVÁ, Marie VIKDAL, Carine ALSOKHN, Robert JAKOB, Milan BLAHA

“… The identification of rare diseases in health data is crucial for their epidemiological definition. Beyond the existing terminology system ORPHAcodes, we describe the possibilities of the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases. …”
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Counseling: alternative to increase self-responsibility and self-efficacy before COVID-19 by Laura Magda López Angulo, Anais Marta Valladares González

“…This work aims at proposing a methodology for Counseling Services to people in epidemiological surveillance and patients of COVID -19.…”
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New Pathogens in Blood Donors and Patients in Albania by Irena Seferi, Viola Shano, Brunilda Dakavelli, Vjollca Duro, Shpetim Qyra, Anyla Bulo

“…The findings emphasize the necessity for improved screening protocols, continuous epidemiological surveillance, and targeted public health interventions to address the risks associated with these pathogens. …”
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Absence of the Genetic Marker IS6110 from a Strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolated in Ontario by Susan T Howard, Matthew T Oughton, Albert Haddad, Wendy M Johnson

“…However, the insertion element IS6110, which is used for epidemiological tracing of M tuberculosis, was not detected in this strain by either restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis or by polymerase chain reaction. …”
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Deformities due to Leprosy in Children under Fifteen Years Old as an Indicator of Quality of the Leprosy Control Programme in Brazilian Municipalities by Francisco Carlos Félix Lana, Angélica da Conceição Oliveira Coelho Fabri, Fabiana Nascimento Lopes, Ana Paula Mendes Carvalho, Fernanda Moura Lanza

“…The present study aims at analysing the degree of deformity in leprosy cases diagnosed in children under 15 years old and its relationship with operational and epidemiological factors. This epidemiological cross-sectional study was carried out at municipalities of three microregions in a Brazilian hyperendemic area. …”
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Lung Cancer Risk and Genetic Polymorphisms in DNA Repair Pathways: A Meta-Analysis by Chikako Kiyohara, Koichi Takayama, Yoichi Nakanishi

“…We conducted a meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies on the association between genetic polymorphisms in both base excision repair and nucleotide excision repair pathways, and lung cancer. …”
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Tea and depression by Klaus W. Lange, Yukiko Nakamura, Katharina M. Lange, Hui Zhao

“…ABSTRACT: The available evidence, which derives from studies investigating mechanistic effects of tea, research on animal models as well as epidemiological studies and intervention trials in humans, suggests that compounds contained in tea may have the potential to aid in the prevention of depression or in its treatment as an addition to established therapies. …”
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Albinism in the Ancient Mediterranean World by John L. Hilton

“… The discovery of DNA in the 20th century and recent biomedical research into the human genome in Southern Africa have shed much light on the diag-nostic, epidemiological, and sociological aspects of albinism. …”
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Review of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in China by Lingna Ye, Qian Cao, Jianfeng Cheng

“…In this review article, we provide the latest epidemiological trends in incidence, prevalence, and mortality of IBD patients in China and summarize the risk factors and genetic susceptibility of Chinese IBD patients. …”
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Inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathies and patient management during the COVID-19 pandemic. Literature review by R. Bunevičiūtė, A. Klimašauskienė

“…Environmental and epidemiological changes may increase the incidence of the demyelinating polyneuropathies. …”
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Open access data platforms as research tools: an incomplete academic task in the Cuban context by Mayelín Mirabal Sosa, Armando Humberto Seuc JO, Yanet García Serrano, Karen Alfonso Sagué, Darily Losada Gandarilla, Carlos Moncada Menéndez

“…Emphasis is placed on the importance of open access to databases in general, particularly those generated by epidemiological research of national scope. The possible reasons why this area is insufficiently developed in our country are discussed. …”
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Persistent Pain Prevalence and Medical Management by Eldon Tunks

“…In this issue, Moulin et al (pages 179-184) report an epidemiological survey of persistent pain and medical treatment of this pain in Canada. …”
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Modelling the spatial-temporal progression of the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic in Chile by Raimund Bürger, Gerardo Chowell, Pep Mulet, Luis M. Villada

“…The stability of the disease-freeequilibrium of this model is analyzed and compared with thecorresponding stability in each region, concluding that stability mayoccur even with some regions having basic reproduction numbersabove 1.The transmission model is used along with epidemiological data to explorepotential factors that could have driventhe spatial-temporal progression of the pandemic. …”
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Mortality Related to Chagas Disease and HIV/AIDS Coinfection in Brazil by Francisco Rogerlândio Martins-Melo, Alberto Novaes Ramos, Carlos Henrique Alencar, Jorg Heukelbach

“…This study describes epidemiological and clinical aspects of deaths related to Chagas disease and HIV/AIDS coinfection in Brazil, 1999–2007. …”
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Health status and living conditions of families ascribed to the Family Health Units by Tatiana de Oliveira Sato, Patricia Driusso, Regina Helena Vitale Torkomian Joaquim, Thelma Simões Matsukura, Marcia Regina Cangiani Fabbro, Ana Cláudia Garcia de Oliveira Duarte, Ana Silvia Moccellin, Tania de Fátima Salvini, Silvia Helena Zem-Mascarenhas

“…In this context, the Primary Health Care appears as the gateway to the needs and health problems of the population, making it important to know the demographic and epidemiological profile for the development of their actions. …”
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The prevalence of frailty among older adults with maintenance hemodialysis: a systematic by Juanjuan Li, Wenyi Xiao, Lijuan Wang, Miao Zhang, Yurong Ge

“…Abstract Background To evaluate the epidemiological data on the prevalence of frailty and prefrailty in individuals aged 60 years or older on MHD patients. …”
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Spatio-temporal distribution of Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya in Cali, Colombia: 2014-2016 by José F. Fuertes-Bucheli, Gladys Pérez-Arizabaleta, Andrea Quiroz-Caicedo, Robin A. Olaya, Hoover O. León-Giraldo, Robinson Pacheco-López

“…Materials and methods: Multi-method descriptive ecological and exploratory study of confirmed and suspected cases reported to the epidemiological surveillance system between 2014 and 2016. …”
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Insights from a cluster of tuberculosis outbreak in a psychiatric hospital—Shandong Province, 2024 by Shulei Wang, Peilin Diao, Jingyu Liu, Shiwen Wang, Yuelei Wang, Xiaomin He

“…Background: This study analyzes the epidemiological characteristics, investigation, and management of a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in July 2024 at a psychiatric hospital in Yantai City, Shandong Province. …”
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Prevalence of toxoplasmosis in children between one and six years of age by Rolando Sánchez Artigas, Antonio Miguel Peña Laurencio, Edisson Javier Fiallos Brito, Silvia Carolina Villacrés Gavilanes, Ariagna Martínez Pérez

“…Quota probabilistic sampling was used and demographic and epidemiological variables were collected. A sample of 200 children was obtained, from whom serum was taken through venipuncture. …”
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Serum Uric Acid Is Associated with Metabolic Syndrome and Insulin Resistance among Health Personnel from Peru by Brenda M. Galindo-Yllu, Ricardo Rojas-Humpire, Carlos J. Toro-Huamanchumo, Rosmery Gutierrez-Ajalcriña, Anderson N. Soriano

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