Retrospective analysis and forecasting of the spread of viruses in real time: the case of COVID-19 in St. Petersburg and Moscow in 2020–2021 by Victor V. Zakharov, Yulia E. Balykina

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Incidence and risk factors for Graves’ orbitopathy in patients who underwent anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive treatment during medical treatment for Graves’ disease: investi... by Natsuko Watanabe, Jaeduk Yoshimura Noh, Ai Kozaki, Ran Yoshimura, Ai Yoshihara, Nami Suzuki, Masako Matsumoto, Miho Fukushita, Aya Kinoshita, Azusa Aida, Hideyuki Imai, Shigenori Hiruma, Toshu Inoue, Kosuke Inoue, Kiminori Sugino, Koichi Ito

“…The GO score based on these factors may be useful in managing GO.…”
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Impact of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination on the subsequent incidence of COVID-19: a multicentre prospective cohort study among UK healthcare workers – the SIRE... by Nick Andrews, Mary Ramsay, Maria Zambon, Victoria Hall, Sarah Wallace, Susan Hopkins, Jean Timeyin, Tim J G Brooks, Amoolya Vusirikala, Meera Chand, Andre Charlett, Sakib Rokadiya, Colin S Brown, Madhumita Shrotri, Peter D Kirwan, Michele Cole, Natalie Gillson, Ana Atti, Sarah Foulkes, Andrew Taylor-Kerr, Blanche Oguti, Jasmin Islam

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Hybrid versus vaccine immunity of mRNA-1273 among people living with HIV in East and Southern Africa: a prospective cohort analysis from the multicentre CoVPN 3008 (Ubuntu) studyRe... by Nigel Garrett, Asa Tapley, Aaron Hudson, Sufia Dadabhai, Bo Zhang, Nyaradzo M. Mgodi, Jessica Andriesen, Azwidihwi Takalani, Leigh H. Fisher, Jia Jin Kee, Craig A. Magaret, Manuel Villaran, John Hural, Erica Andersen-Nissen, Guido Ferarri, Maurine D. Miner, Bert Le Roux, Eduan Wilkinson, Richard Lessells, Tulio de Oliveira, Jackline Odhiambo, Parth Shah, Laura Polakowski, Margaret Yacovone, Taraz Samandari, Zvavahera Chirenje, Peter James Elyanu, Joseph Makhema, Ethel Kamuti, Harriet Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha, Sharlaa Badal-Faesen, William Brumskine, Soritha Coetzer, Rodney Dawson, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Andreas Henri Diacon, Samantha Fry, Katherine Margaret Gill, Zaheer Ahmed Ebrahim Hoosain, Mina C. Hosseinipour, Mubiana Inambao, Craig Innes, Steve Innes, Dishiki Kalonji, Margaret Kasaro, Priya Kassim, Noel Kayange, William Kilembe, Fatima Laher, Moelo Malahleha, Vongane Louisa Maluleke, Grace Mboya, Kirsten McHarry, Essack Mitha, Kathryn Mngadi, Pamela Mda, Tumelo Moloantoa, Cissy Kityo Mutuluuza, Nivashnee Naicker, Vimla Naicker, Anusha Nana, Annet Nanvubya, Maphoshane Nchabeleng, Walter Otieno, Elsje Louise Potgieter, Disebo Potloane, Zelda Punt, Jamil Said, Yashna Singh, Mohammed Siddique Tayob, Yacoob Vahed, Deo Ogema Wabwire, M. Juliana McElrath, James G. Kublin, Linda-Gail Bekker, Peter B. Gilbert, Lawrence Corey, Glenda E. Gray, Yunda Huang, Philip Kotze, Sharlaa Badal-Faesen, Kagisho Baepanye, Veronique Bailey, Katekani Baloyi-Oseh, Mumtaz Booley, Johannes Louis Botha, Yolande Brown, Valerie Brown, Lisa Bunts, Soritha Coetzer, Myron Cohen, Shirley Collie, Rodney Dawson, Pallabi Deb, Hana El Sahly, Jill El-Khorazaty, Andries Engelbrecht, Marianne Gildea, Dhevium Govender, Jen Hanke, Jayla Harris, Simone Hendricks, Nick Hopkinson, Haley Howell, Nzeera Ketter, Kentse Khuto, Faatima Laher Omar, Leolin Katsidzira, Kim Linton, James Ludwig, Bongile Mabilane, Matshidiso Malefo, Ndiitwani Mamushiana, Daciana Margineantu, Jeanine May, Fatima Mayat, Cindy Molitor, Yeshnee Naidoo, Michelle Nebergall, Alan Nguyen, Sarah Nikles, Bianca Noronha, Melissa Peda, Tamara Phiri, Shanthie Pillay, Sureshnee Pillay, Lori Proulx-Burns, Laurie Rinn, Lisa Sanders, Carrie Sopher, Smitha Sripathy, Michael Stirewalt, Houriiyah Tegally, Sara Thiebaud, Alicia Toledano, Stephanie Van Wyk, Shamaya Whitby, Stephany Wilcox, Eduan Wilkinson, Haven Wilvich, Charles Wiysonge, Nelisiwe Xaba, Ntokozo Xulu

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Global burden of musculoskeletal disorders and attributable factors in 204 countries and territories: a secondary analysis of the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study by Binyan Wang, Ding Ye, Shiwen Liu, Shuzhen Fan, Yaxuan Wang, Yuxuan Zhan

“…The age-standardised incidence rate and age-standardised DALY rate in 2019 (incidence: AAPC=−0.32, 95% CI −0.34 to −0.31; DALYs: AAPC=−0.05, 95% CI −0.06 to −0.04) were lower than those in 1990. …”
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Anxiety, Depression, and Stress Reaction/Adjustment Disorders and Their Associations with Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs Among Newly Diagnosed Patients With Breast Cance... by Dingwei Dai, Henriette Coetzer, Sean R. Zion, Michael J. Malecki

“…**Discussion:** Of patients with anxiety, depression, or stress reaction/adjustment disorder, those with incident psychiatric disorders had higher healthcare costs, suggesting that new-onset psychological distress may contribute to higher costs incurred by the payer. …”
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Novel Intuitionistic Fuzzy Fault Tree Analysis for Effective Infectious Medical Waste Management by Rocky Khajuria, Komal, Morteza Yazdani

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Association of accelerated phenotypic aging, genetic risk, and lifestyle with progression of type 2 diabetes: a prospective study using multi-state model by Lulu Pan, Yahang Liu, Chen Huang, Yifang Huang, Ruilang Lin, Kecheng Wei, Ye Yao, Guoyou Qin, Yongfu Yu

“…It has the potential to be combined with genetic risk to identify early T2D incidence risk and may guide interventions throughout T2D progression while tracking their effectiveness.…”
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Association of a Liver Allocation Policy Change With Domestic Travel for Liver Transplantation by Katie Ross-Driscoll, PhD, MPH, Chandrashekhar Kubal, MD, PhD, Arrey-Takor Ayuk-Arrey, MPH, Jonathan Fridell, MD, David Axelrod, MD, MBA

“…After AC, traveling beyond a neighboring region was associated with an increased hazard of transplant for patients with a MELD score <15 (cause-specific hazard ratio [csHR]: 1.25; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.11-1.40), MELD score 15–24 (csHR: 1.19; 95% CI, 1.07-1.31), and MELD score 25–34 (csHR: 1.15; 95% CI, 1.01-1.32). …”
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Risk of renal complications and death in young and middle-aged Swedes with parental type 1 diabetes: a nation-wide, prospective cohort study by Torbjörn Lind, Marie Fredriksson, Emma Persson, Anna Möllsten

“…Introduction This study aimed to investigate if individuals with childhood-onset type 1 diabetes having a parent with the same condition (parental diabetes) had worse metabolic control and an increased risk of death and renal failure compared with those with parents without type 1 diabetes (sporadic diabetes).Research design and methods We conducted a population-based cohort study using data from the Swedish Childhood Diabetes Register, including cases with onset of type 1 diabetes before the age of 15 and recorded between 1977 and 2010. The cohort was linked to national registers to compare mortality, renal failure, and glycated hemoglobin (HBA1c) levels.Results We identified 16 572 incident cases of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes. …”
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Lifestyle risk factors for overweight and obesity among rural Indian adults: a community-based prospective cohort study by Rajesh Kumar Rai, Sabri Bromage, Jan-Walter De Neve, Anamitra Barik

“…Overall, 23.0% (95% CI: 21.8%–24.3%) of adults experienced incidence of overweight/obesity, while 13.9% (95% CI: 12.4%–15.6%) experienced remission. …”
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Differences in Physical and Psychological Parameters in Sub-Elite, Male, Youth Soccer Players with Jumper's Knee Following Physical Therapy Compared to Healthy Controls: A Longitud... by Marc Niering, Thomas Muehlbauer

“…Current treatment methods may not reduce pain in the short term, especially not during a competitive season. …”
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A surveillance study to determine the accuracy of mild traumatic brain injury diagnosis in an emergency department: protocol for a retrospective cohort study by Ian D Cameron, Ilaria Pozzato, Ashley Craig, Bamini Gopinath, Mark Gillett, Annette Kifley, Kim Van Vu, Susanne Meares, Anthony Liang

“…Introduction Previous literature confirms that a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) may result in long-term emotional impacts and, in vulnerable subgroups, cognitive deficits. …”
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Gambaran Klinis dan Endoskopi Saluran Cerna Bagian Atas Pasien Dispepsia di Bagian RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Citra Yuriana Putri, Arnelis ., Asterina .

“…The results showed that the majority of dyspepsia patients’ complaints were heartburn (98.15%), the degree of complains is moderate (38.89%), the incidence of alarm sign most experienced by male, the most  risk factor of dyspepsia was the consumption of fatty foods (92.59%), the most endoscopic diagnosis of dyspepsia was gastritis (61.11%), and the most upper gastrointestinal lesion of dyspepsia was located in gastric (85.19%)</em><em></em></p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>dyspepsia, clinical findings, endoscopy</em>…”
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Risk of Stroke Associated with Temperature and PM2.5: Taiwan Stroke Registry-based Study by Fung-Chang Sung, Hei-Tung Yip, Cheng-Li Lin, Jiann-Shing Jeng, Jiunn-Tay Lee, Yu Sun, Cheng-Yu Wei, Po-Yen Yeh, Kuang-Hsi Chang, Shang-Yu Chien, Kai-Cheng Hsu, TSR team

“…We conclude that stroke incidence decreases as the weather gets warmer, whereas PM2.5 pollution may have little effect on stroke incidence. …”
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We Are on the Verge of Breakthrough Cures for Type 1 Diabetes, but Who Are the 2 Million Americans Who Have It? by Rebecca Smith, Samara Eisenberg, Aaron Turner-Phifer, Jacqueline LeGrand, Sarah Pincus, Yousra Omer, Fei Wang, Bruce Pyenson

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Blowin’ in the Nonisothermal Wind: Core-powered Mass Loss with Hydrodynamic Radiative Transfer by William Misener, Matthäus Schulik, Hilke E. Schlichting, James E. Owen

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Smoking as a risk factor for lung cancer in women and men: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Sanne A E Peters, Mark Woodward, Paul Mitchell, Rachel R Huxley, Gemma Taylor, Linda M O’Keeffe

“…Objectives To investigate the sex-specific association between smoking and lung cancer.Design Systematic review and meta-analysis.Data sources We searched PubMed and EMBASE from 1 January 1999 to 15 April 2016 for cohort studies. Cohort studies before 1 January 1999 were retrieved from a previous meta-analysis. …”
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Sex Differences in the Prognostic Value of Circulating Biomarkers in Patients Presenting With Acute Chest Pain by Gard Mikael Sæle Myrmel, MD, Nasir Saeed, Ole Thomas Steiro, MD, Hilde Lunde Tjora, MD, PhD, Jørund Langørgen, MD, PhD, Rune Oskar Bjørneklett, MD, PhD, Øyvind Skadberg, MD, Vernon Vijay Singha Bonarjee, MD, PhD, Øistein Rønneberg Mjelva, MD, Eva Ringdal Pedersen, MD, PhD, Kjell Vikenes, MD, PhD, Torbjørn Omland, MD, PhD, Kristin Moberg Aakre, MD, PhD

“…Sex-adjustment of hs-cTn and NT-proBNP may increase the accuracy of long-term CV prognostication in women and men.…”
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Episodic Cancer Pain: Patient Reporting, Prevalence, and Clinicodemographic Associations at Initial Cancer Pain Clinic Assessment by Paulo Reis-Pina, Anand Acharya, Antonio Barbosa, Peter G. Lawlor

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