The Frequency of Intestinal Parasitic Infections in COVID-19 Patients: A Case-Control Study in Tehran, Capital of Iran by Ali Taghipour, Majid Pirestani, Ramin Hamidi Farahani, Mohammad Barati

“…In conclusion, more epidemiological and clinical research studies are needed to better understand the status and interaction of IPI in COVID-19 in Iran and other countries.…”
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Characterising COVID-19 school and childcare outbreaks in Canada in 2021: a surveillance study by Kaitlin Patterson, Erin McGill, Demy Dam, Anna Bellos, Cameron Mark Coulby, Rachel McCormick

“…This paper describes outbreak trends observed in school and childcare settings from January to December 2021 when many public health measures were in place.Methods School and childcare outbreak data from five jurisdictions were included, representing 76% of the total Canadian population. Epidemiological curves were generated, trends in outbreak settings and cases’ age distribution over time were examined and descriptive statistics on outbreak size were calculated.Results In 2021, most school and childcare outbreaks were in primary schools (42%). …”
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Clinical Oral Health Recommended Care and Oral Health Self-Report, NHANES, 2013-2014 by R. Constance Wiener, Nilanjana Dwibedi, Chan Shen, Patricia A. Findley, Usha Sambamoorthi

“…The purpose of this study was to determine the concordance of self-reported responses to oral health questions versus clinically evaluated recommended need for oral healthcare by calibrated dentists to determine usefulness of the questions for epidemiological studies. We additionally examined other factors associated with concordant self-reports versus clinical evaluations. …”
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FMD EPIDEMIC PROCESS CHARACTERISTICS IN RUSSIA IN 2010 – FIRST QUARTER OF 2019 by V. P. Semakina, T. P. Akimova, A. K. Karaulov

“…The research was aimed at studying some characteristics of the FMD epidemic process in the Russian Federation. The undertaken epidemiological analysis covers the Russian Federation regions where FMD outbreaks were reported between 2010 and March 2019. …”
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Pretreatment with serine protease inhibitors impairs Leishmania amazonensis survival on macrophages by Patrícia de Almeida Machado, Pollyanna Stephanie Gomes, Elaine Soares Coimbra, Herbert Leonel de Matos Guedes

“…Abstract Background Leishmaniases are neglected tropical diseases with great clinical and epidemiological importance. The current chemotherapy available for the treatment of leishmaniasis presents several problems, such as adverse effects, toxicity, long treatment time, and parasite resistance. …”
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Vitamin D Supplementation and Hemoglobin Levels in Hypertensive Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Jana B. Ernst, Andreas Tomaschitz, Martin R. Grübler, Martin Gaksch, Katharina Kienreich, Nicolas Verheyen, Winfried März, Stefan Pilz, Armin Zittermann

“…Epidemiological evidence suggests that circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels are inversely associated with hemoglobin (Hb) levels and anemia risk. …”
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Exploring the bidirectional causality between neuroticism and frailty: a Mendelian randomization analysis by Yuhang Xing, Rui Pu, Mengdie Fu, Zhikang Wang, Zhen Wang, Xiaopeng Shang, Guoli Yang, Zhiwei Jiang

“…Abstract Background Epidemiological studies have confirmed the relationship between personality trait neuroticism and physical health. …”
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Sex steroid hormones mediate the association between neonicotinoids and obesity among children and adolescents by Qian Su, Jinzhu Luo, You Zhou, Miao Liu, Shaohua Zeng, Yin Li, Jieying Gao

“…Toxicological and epidemiological studies suggest that exposure to neonicotinoid may be linked to the development of childhood obesity. …”
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Immunohistochemical Profile of p62/SQSTM1/Sequestosome-1 in Human Low- and High-Grade Intracranial Meningiomas by Antonio Ieni, Cristina Pizzimenti, Vincenzo Fiorentino, Mariausilia Franchina, Antonino Germanò, Giovanni Raffa, Maurizio Martini, Guido Fadda, Giovanni Tuccari

“…Although, recently, p62 expression has been analyzed in different neurodegenerative and glial neoplastic diseases, no available information have been reported in meningiomas, which have an high epidemiological relevance being the second most common category of intracranial tumors after gliomas. …”
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Implicit bias assessment by career stage in medical education training: a narrative review by Alisha Crump, May Saad Al-Jorani, Sunya Ahmed, Ekas Abrol, Shikha Jain

“…Study findings highlight notable gaps within the sequential assessment of implicit bias, specifically at the pre-medical training level. Longitudinal epidemiological research is needed to examine the long-term effect of implicit biases on existing healthcare disparities.…”
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Environmental Factors Associated with Mosquito Vector Larvae in a Malaria-Endemic Area in Ratchaburi Province, Thailand by Tanawat Chaiphongpachara, Prasit Yusuk, Sedthapong Laojun, Chaekki Kunphichayadecha

“…Different species of Anopheles mosquitoes have different epidemiological characteristics, behaviors, and ecological requirements, and so an understanding of their biology and ecology in a particular area is critical for successful disease control. …”
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Association between remnant cholesterol and depression in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: a population-based cohort study by Yang Zhou, Yan Lin, Yanhui Yang, Wang Lei, Juan Xu, Yuanzeng Zhu

“…Based on the 10-item Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10), depression was indicated by scores ≥ 12. …”
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The Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and the Sand Fly: Knowledge and Beliefs of the Population in Central Morocco (El Hajeb) by Karima El-Mouhdi, Abdelkader Chahlaoui, Mohammed Fekhaoui

“…Methods. Based on the epidemiological data of leishmaniases in the province of El Hajeb, we conducted a field survey and personal interviews in April and May 2019, among 281 persons belonging to the localities where leishmaniases were registered. …”
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A Mathematical Model for the Within-Host Dynamics of Malaria Parasite with Adaptive Immune Responses by Jemal Muhammed Ahmed, Getachew Tashome Tilahun, Shambel Tadesse Degefa

“…The most important threshold value in the epidemiological model known as the basic reproduction number, R0, which is used to determine the stability of the steady state, is investigated. …”
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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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