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Carlo Giunti A, Chung W. Kim • Oxford University Press eBooks
(2007)
This book deals with neutrino physics and astrophysics — a field in which some of the most exciting recent developments in particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology took place. The book discusses all the topics vital to the understandin...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198508717.001.0001
Dr Patrick T Wilson, MD, Frank Baiden, PhD, Joshua C Brooks, MPH, Marilyn C Morris, MD et al. • The Lancet Global Health
(2017)
Background: In low-income and middle-income countries, invasive mechanical ventilation is often not available for children at risk of death from respiratory failure. We aimed to determine if continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), a for...
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DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30145-6
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 +...
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DOI: 10.3389/fsurg.2022.903123
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...
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DOI: 10.5001/omj.2021.104
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/medsci8010015
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Kenneth Jay Rothman (2016)
1. Introduction to Epidemiologic Thinking 2. Pioneers in Epidemiology and Public Health 3. What is Causation? 4. Measuring Disease Occurrence and Causal Effects 5. Types of Epidemiologic Studies 6. Infectious Disease Epidemiology 7. Dealing...
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Chantal Rahérison, Pierre‐Olivier Girodet • European Respiratory Review
(2009)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is responsible for early mortality, high death rates and significant cost to health systems. The projection for 2020 indicates that COPD will be the third leading cause of death worldwide (from s...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1183/09059180.00003609
Fatima Al Dhaheri, Jens Thomsen, Dean Everett, David W. Denning • Journal of Fungi
(2024)
The United Arab Emirates has very little data on the incidence or prevalence of fungal diseases. Using total and underlying disease risk populations and likely affected proportions, we have modelled the burden of fungal disease for the firs...
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DOI: 10.3390/jof10050353
Xianying Cheng, Ping Wang, Li Cheng, Feng Zhao et al. • Frontiers in Medicine
(2025)
BackgroundCervical cancer incidence and mortality rates in the United States have substantially declined over recent decades, primarily driven by reductions in squamous cell carcinoma cases. However, the trend in recent years remains unclea...
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DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1579446
Patricia Gaona-Luviano, Lourdes Adriana Medina-Gaona, Kassandra Magaña-Pérez • Chinese Clinical Oncology
(2020)
Worldwide, ovarian cancer (OC) is the seventh most common type of malignant neoplasm in women and the eighth cause of mortality in them. The classification of OC is made by the possible origin of one of the three main components of the ovar...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21037/cco-20-34
Ann Öhman, Monica Burman, Maria Carbin, Kerstin Edin • BMC Public Health
(2020)
Abstract This article focuses on policy and law concerning violence against women as a public health issue. In Sweden, violence against women is recently recognized as a public health problem; we label this shift “The public health turn on ...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-08766-7
Ketaki Bhate, Hywel C Williams • British Journal of Dermatology
(2012)
Despite acne being an almost universal condition in younger people, relatively little is known about its epidemiology. We sought to review what is known about the distribution and causes of acne by conducting a systematic review of relevant...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.12149
Sajid Suleman • Elsevier eBooks
(1978)
This chapter introduces the foundational concepts of epidemiology as the scientific study of health and disease patterns in populations. It outlines the distinction between descriptive and analytical approaches, establishing the importance ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-745250-0.50015-1
Nusrat Homaira, Stephen P Luby, ASM Alamgir, Kariul Islam et al. • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
(2012)
OBJECTIVE: To estimate influenza-associated mortality in Bangladesh in 2009. METHODS: In four hospitals in Bangladesh, respiratory samples were collected twice a month throughout 2009 from inpatients aged ...
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Christopher Thron, Vianney Mbazumutima, Luis V. Tamayo, Léonard Todjihounde • Journal of Mathematics in Industry
(2021)
Abstract In epidemiology, the effective reproduction number R e $R_{e}$ is used to characterize the growth rate of an epidemic outbreak. If R e > 1 $R_{e} >1$ , the epidemic worsens, and if R e < 1 $R_{e}< 1$ , then it subsides and eventual...
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DOI: 10.1186/s13362-021-00107-6
Feng HUANG, Aitian PENG, Xiaobing SONG, Yiping CUI et al. • Guangdong nongye kexue
(2024)
Citrus melanose consists of a series of plant diseases caused by the fungal species of the genus Diaporthe. It has been reported with over 30 Diaporthe species on citrus, including several important fungal pathogens, endophytes, saprophytes...
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DOI: 10.16768/j.issn.1004-874X.2024.06.003
Daniel William Cramer, Stacey A. Missmer • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
(2002)
Advances in understanding the epidemiology of endometriosis have lagged behind other diseases because of methodologic problems related to disease definition and control selection. Nevertheless, a better picture of the epidemiology of endome...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb02761.x
James E. Banta • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
(1981)
If the American health community were to select a dean of epidemiology it would surely be Professor Abraham (Abe) Lilienfeld of the John Hopkins University. He and his son David have collaborated in producing one of the most lucid, stimulat...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1981.30.295
Charles H. Hennekens, Julie E. Buring, Sherry L. Mayrent (1987)
Epidemiology is the simplest and most direct method of studying the causes of disease in humans, and many major contributions have been made by studies that have demanded nothing more than the ability to count, to think logically, and to ha...
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Steven Hamley • Nutrition Journal
(2017)
Abstract Background A cornerstone of conventional dietary advice is the recommendation to replace saturated fatty acids (SFA) with mostly n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Many clinic...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12937-017-0254-5