Blood Trihalomethanes and Human Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Miaomiao Fu, Pengyu Xue, Zhuorong Du, Jingsi Chen, Xiaojun Liang, Jiafu Li

“…In the future, further epidemiological and animal model studies on THMs should be conducted to obtain more accurate conclusions.…”
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Child maltreatment, cognitive functions and the mediating role of mental health problems among maltreated children and adolescents in Uganda by Herbert, E. Ainamani

“…Executive functions were assessed by the Tower of London task and working memory by the Corsi Block Tapping task, while mental health problems were assessed using the Child PTSD Symptom Scale for PTSD and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC). …”
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Application of Bioinformatics Tools for the Prediction of Helper MicroRNAs for Improvement of Oncolytic Virus Efficacy by Nasrin Rastegarvand, Hoorieh Soleimanjahi, Ehsan Arefian, Mahmoud Reza Pourkarim

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Predictors of depression among Chinese college students: a machine learning approach by Lin Luo, Junfeng Yuan, Chenghan Wu, Yanling Wang, Rui Zhu, Huilin Xu, Luqin Zhang, Zhongge Zhang

“…Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), with a score of ≥ 16 indicating depression risk. …”
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Serum Matrix Metalloproteinases and Risk of Urologic Cancers: A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Study by BoWen Yang, XiaoYu Zeng, HanYu Wang, JiuHuan Feng, ShuFang Hou

“…Many observational epidemiological studies have reported an association between matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and urologic cancers. …”
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FEATURES OF THE CLINICAL COURSE OF PSORIASIS IN PATIENTS WITH OBESITY by Ya.O. Yemchenko, K.Ye. Ischeikin

“…According to the results of clinical and epidemiological studies, psoriasis affects about 3-4% of the population of our planet, regardless of gender, age, and ethnic group, and the specific gravity of this pathology in the general structure of skin diseases reaches, from the data of different authors, from 1% to 40 %. …”
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Disruption of seasonal influenza circulation and evolution during the 2009 H1N1 and COVID-19 pandemics in Southeastern Asia by Zhiyuan Chen, Joseph L.-H. Tsui, Jun Cai, Shuo Su, Cécile Viboud, Louis du Plessis, Philippe Lemey, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Hongjie Yu

“…We leveraged genetic, epidemiological, and airline travel data between 2007-2023 to characterise the dispersal patterns of influenza A/H3N2 and B/Victoria viruses both out of and within Southeastern Asia, including during perturbations by the 2009 A/H1N1 and COVID-19 pandemics. …”
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Spatiotemporal Distributions of Sheep and Goat Pox Disease Outbreaks in the Period 2013–2019 in Eastern Amhara Region, Ethiopia by Sileshi Aregahagn, Belege Tadesse, Bethelihem Tegegne, Yalelet Worku, Seid Mohammed

“…In Ethiopia, there are seroprevalence epidemiological studies on the disease. However, the spatiotemporal clustering of sheep and goat pox incidence has not been investigated. …”
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Inhaling arsenic aggravates airway hyperreactivity by upregulating PNEC-sourced 5-HT in OVA-induced allergic asthma by Xue Lu, Zhu-Xia Tan, Ya-Xin Yao, Ze-Yan Li, Yan-Yan Zhu, Qian-Qun Yang, Zhao Li, Kun Peng, Yan Wang, De-Xiang Xu

“…Increasing epidemiological evidence has proved that early-life exposure to inorganic arsenic (As) elevates the risks of childhood asthma. …”
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Non-communicable airway disease and air pollution in three African Countries: Benin, Cameroon and The Gambia by B. Awokola, H. Lawin, O. Johnson, A. Humphrey, D. Nzogo, L. Zubar, G. Okello, S. Semple, E. Awokola, G. Amusa, N. Mohammed, C. Jewell, A. Erhart, K. Mortimer, G. Devereux, B.H. Mbatchou-Ngahane

“…METHODOLOGY: We recruited patients with a diagnosis of CAD from four clinics in the three countries. We collected epidemiological, spirometric and home air pollution data. …”
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Impact of extreme heat on health in Australia: a scoping review by Patrick Amoatey, Zhiwei Xu, Chinonso Christian Odebeatu, Neha Singh, Nicholas J. Osborne, Dung Phung

“…A total of 64 articles met the inclusion criteria and were included in our review. Most were epidemiological studies [56 (87.5%)], which accumulatively considered 85 different cause-specific diseases linked to deaths, hospital admissions, emergency department (ED) presentations, and ambulance callouts, while eight studies focused on heat vulnerability index (HVI) assessment. …”
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A Comparative Study on the Paradoxical Relationship Between Heavy Metal Exposure and Kidney Function by Jee Hyun Rho, Seungho Lee, Jung-Yeon Kwon, Young-Seoub Hong

“…This study examined the effects of heavy metal exposure—lead, mercury, and cadmium—on kidney function in residents of environmentally vulnerable areas compared to the general population in Korea. <b>Methods</b>: Epidemiological studies in vulnerable areas and official data from the Fourth Korean National Environmental Health Survey were analyzed to assess blood levels of lead and mercury and urinary cadmium. …”
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A Scoping Review of Eosinophilic Pneumonia and Antidepressants: An Association Not to Be Overlooked by Jaron Steiner, Leonie Steuernagel, Fotios Drakopanagiotakis, Konstantinos Bonelis, Paschalis Steiropoulos

“…Case reports meeting the diagnostic criteria for acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP) or chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (CEP) were included in the review. Clinical, epidemiological, laboratory, radiology and bronchoscopy data, implicated antidepressant and dosage, and therapeutic interventions were reported. …”
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From Traditional Typing to Genomic Precision: Whole-Genome Sequencing of <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> Isolated from Refrigerated Foods in Chile by Julio Parra-Flores, Beatriz Daza-Prieto, Pamela Chavarria, Miriam Troncoso, Anna Stöger, Guillermo Figueroa, Jetsi Mancilla-Rojano, Ariadnna Cruz-Córdova, Aleksandra Martinovic, Werner Ruppitsch

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of WGS in the typing of 16 <i>L. monocytogenes</i> strains isolated from refrigerated foods in Chile, highlighting its advantages in pathogen identification and the improvement of epidemiological surveillance and food safety. Using cgMLST, a cluster was identified comprising 2 strains with zero allele differences among the 16 strains evaluated. …”
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Single postoperative infusion of zoledronic acid to improve patient-reported outcome after hip or knee replacement: study protocol for a randomised, controlled, double-blinded clin... by Jonas Ranstam, Jörg Schilcher, Ewa Roos, Jonathan Brandt, Håkan Ledin, Per Aspenberg

“…Several clinical trials suggest that bisphosphonates lead to improved implant fixation and one small study even indicates better functional outcome. Furthermore, in epidemiological studies, bisphosphonates have been shown to decrease the rate of revision for aseptic loosening by half. …”
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First Detection of <i>Wolbachia</i> in Namibian Bird Ectoparasites (Acariformes: Syringophilidae) with a Description of New Quill Mite Species by Eliza Glowska-Patyniak, Katarzyna Kaszewska-Gilas, Izabella Laniecka, Julia Olechnowicz, Kamila Ostrowska, Wiktoria Dmuchowska, Brian K. Schmidt, Jan Hubert, Artur Trzebny

“…However, we did not find any other endosymbiotic bacteria or any that could be of epidemiological importance. Since the mite taxa we tested were previously unknown to science, we conducted comprehensive morphological and molecular systematic analyses on them. …”
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Addressing challenges in vector control: a review of current strategies and the imperative for novel tools in India’s combat against vector-borne diseases by Kuldeep Singh, Amit Sharma, Manju Rahi, Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, Gaurav Kumar, Rajendra Baharia, Sam Joy

“…Though focusing on India’s public health concerns, the new tools enumerated here can be tested by any country with similar epidemiological and environmental conditions. The promising new vector control tools are insecticide-treated nets with synergist and/or pyrrole chlorfenapyr, alternatives/additions to synthetic pyrethroids like neonicotinoids, clothianidin for indoor residual spray, newer formulations such as Bacillus sphaericus for use in larvicides, attractive toxic sugar baits, especially to curtail outdoor transmission, endectocides like ivermectin for use in animals/humans, insecticidal paints, spatial repellents, insecticide-treated wearables and others. …”
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Assessing the impact of long-term inhaled corticosteroid therapy on patients with COVID-19 and coexisting chronic lung disease: A multicenter retrospective cohort study by Adela Pina Belmonte, Manuel Madrazo, Laura Piles, Manuel Rubio-Rivas, Lucía de Jorge Huerta, María Gómez Antúnez, Juan Francisco López Caleya, Francisco Arnalich Fernández, Martin Gericó-Aseguinolaza, Paula Maria Pesqueira Fontan, Nicolás Rhyman, Marina Prieto Dehesa, Juan Luis Romero Cabrera, Gema María García García, Gonzalo García-Casasola, Ane Labirua-Iturburu Ruiz, Francisco Javier Carrasco-Sánchez, Sara Martínez Hernández, Maria de los Reyes Pascual Pérez, José López Castro, José Luis Serrano Carrillo de Albornoz, José F. Varona, Ricardo Gómez-Huelgas, Juan-Miguel Antón-Santos, Carlos Lumbreras-Bermejo

“… # Methods A multicenter retrospective cohort study was designed, including patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Epidemiological and clinical data were collected at admission and at seven days, and clinical outcomes were collected. …”
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O Serogroup-Specific Touchdown-Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction for Detection and Identification of Vibrio cholerae O1, O139, and Non-O1/Non-O139 by Adisak Bhumiratana, Achiraya Siriphap, Nutsarin Khamsuwan, Jednipit Borthong, Kaknokrat Chonsin, Orasa Sutheinkul

“…The potential benefit of using this TMPCR tool would augment the serotyping method used in epidemiological surveillance and monitoring of V. cholerae serogroups, O1, O139, and non-O1/non-O139 present in clinical and environmental samples.…”
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Prevalence of common conditions and associated mortalities of dogs treated at the small animal clinic, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda by James Okwee-Acai, Benard Agwai, Patrick Mawadri, Christine Kesiime, Methodius Tubihemukama, Joseph Kungu, Benard Odur

“…This points to the need for epidemiologic surveillance of dog diseases and community sensitisation for improved control of dog diseases.…”
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