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Seroprevalence and risk factors of porcine cysticercosis in Mpwapwa district, eastern-Central Tanzania

Justine Daudi Maganira, Noel Mark Makwinya, Beda John Mwang'onde • Parasite Epidemiology and Control (2025)

Porcine cysticercosis, caused by the larval stage of Taenia species, poses significant health and economic challenges in low and lower-middle-income regions. This study assessed the seroprevalence and risk factors associated with the transm...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.parepi.2025.e00445

Prevalence of gastric varices in cirrhotic patients presenting with upper GI bleed at Shifa International hospital: an insidious threat

Talia Azad, Muhammad Umair, Shaheer Alam, Ayesha Ibrar et al. • The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine (2025)

Abstract Introduction Liver cirrhosis (LC) is a serious condition occurring as a result of chronic liver disease. Amongst its various complications, acute variceal bleeding is the most feared, which presents as esophageal, gastroesophageal,...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s43162-025-00573-z

Plasma Exchange for ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: An International Survey of Patient PreferencesPlain Language Summary

David Collister, Mark Farrar, Lesha Farrar, Paul Brown et al. • Kidney Medicine (2023)

Rationale & Objective: We sought to elicit patient preferences regarding the use of plasma exchange in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) and its tradeoffs of risk of kidney failure and risk of serious infec...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2022.100595

Highly Purified versus Filtered Crude Collagenase: Comparable Human Islet Isolation Outcomes

Yong Wang, Daniel Paushter, Shusen Wang, Barbara Barbaro et al. • Cell Transplantation (2011)

This study was designed to retrospectively compare the impact of crude Sigma V collagenase (Sigma V, n = 52) with high-purified Serva NB1 collagenase (Serva NB1, n = 42) on human islet isolation outcomes. A three-step filtration was applied...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3727/096368911X564994

Predicting hospital admissions from individual patient data (IPD): an applied example to explore key elements driving external validity

Rafael Perera, Marjan Van Den Akker, Kym I E Snell, Joerg J Meerpohl et al. • BMJ Open (2021)

Objective To explore factors that potentially impact external validation performance while developing and validating a prognostic model for hospital admissions (HAs) in complex older general practice patients.Study design and setting Using ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045572

Survival Impact of Nephroureterectomy for De Novo Stage IV Nonmetastatic and Metastatic Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma

Wei-Yu Lin, Wei-Yu Lin, Wei-Yu Lin, Wei-Yu Lin et al. • Frontiers in Surgery (2022)

BackgroundWhether nephroureterectomy (NU) provides survival benefits in patients with stage IV upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) remains unclear. We compared the effect of chemotherapy (CT) alone with that of CT combined with NU (CT +...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fsurg.2022.903123

Epidemiology of Drowning Incidents among Children at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital Oman

Niranjan Lal Jeswani, Muhammad Faisal Khilji, Syed Rizvi, Abdullah Al Reesi • Oman Medical Journal (2021)

Objectives: We sought to study the epidemiology of drowning among children reported at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital in Oman. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of the patients who presented to the emergency department with a h...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5001/omj.2021.104

Epigenetic Mechanisms and Nephrotic Syndrome: A Systematic Review

Samantha Hayward, Kevon Parmesar, Gavin I. Welsh, Matthew Suderman et al. • Biomedicines (2023)

A small subset of people with nephrotic syndrome (NS) have genetically driven disease. However, the disease mechanisms for the remaining majority are unknown. Epigenetic marks are reversible but stable regulators of gene expression with uti...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11020514

Epidemiology and risk factors of dementia

Wiesje M. van der Flier • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry (2005)

ementia refers to a syndrome that is characterised by progressive deterioration of cognitive functions.Neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as apathy, agitation, and depression, are also common.With increasing loss of function, a patient is grad...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.2005.082867 PMC: 1765715

Epidemiology of Bladder Cancer

Kalyan Saginala, Adam A. Barsouk, John Sukumar Aluru, Prashanth Rawla et al. • Medical Sciences (2020)

Based on the latest GLOBOCAN data, bladder cancer accounts for 3% of global cancer diagnoses and is especially prevalent in the developed world. In the United States, bladder cancer is the sixth most incident neoplasm. A total of 90% of bla...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/medsci8010015 PMC: 7151633

Epidemiology: Beyond the Basics

Robert McCarter • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (2000)

Epidemiology: Beyond the BasicsAuthors: SZKLO, Moyses, MD, DrPH (Johns Hopkins Univ.); NIETO, F. Javier, MD, PhD (Johns Hopkins Univ.) Bibliographic Data: (ISBN: 0–8342-0618–8, Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2000, $55.00) 495 pages, soft cover Aud...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/00005768-200006000-00031

Review on the Worldwide Epidemiology of Uveitis

Elisabetta Miserocchi, Giovanni Fogliato, Giulio Maria Modorati, Francesco Maria Bandello • European Journal of Ophthalmology (2013)

PURPOSE: We describe the worldwide epidemiology of uveitis through a systematic literature review. METHODS: Data obtained from the most relevant studies published until November 2012 were reported. RESULTS: Results of our research were stru...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5301/ejo.5000278

Epidemiology of Nosocomial Pneumonia

Donald Edward Craven, Kathleen A. Steger • CHEST Journal (1995)

"Keep an open mind toward pneumonia. Our grandchildren will be interested and are likely to have as many differences of opinion.. as we have." William Osier, circa 1900 As Osier predicted nearly a century ago, controversies ^* * persist ove...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.1378/chest.108.2_supplement.1s

Nutritional Epidemiology

Walter Churchill Willett • Oxford University Press eBooks (2012)

Abstract This book is about the complex relationships between diet and risks of important diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. The book starts with an overview of research strategies in nutritional epidemiology—still a relat...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199754038.001.0001