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Continuous positive airway pressure for children with undifferentiated respiratory distress in Ghana: an open-label, cluster, crossover trial

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30145-6

Effect of Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet on Maternal Iron Related Biochemical Parameters during Pregnancy and Gestational Weight Gain

María Morales-Suárez-Varela, Isabel Peraita-Costa, Alfredo Perales-Marín, Beatriz Marcos Puig et al. • Life (2023)

Gestation is a crucial life stage for both women and offspring, and outcomes are affected by many environmental factors, including diet. The Mediterranean dietary pattern (MD) is considered a healthy eating pattern that can provide the nutr...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/life13051138

Protocol for a mixed methods process evaluation for a randomised controlled trial to improve shared decision-making about, and uptake of, osteoporosis medicines: the iFraP study [version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Terence W O'Neill, Robert Horne, Clare Jinks, Christian D Mallen et al. • NIHR Open Research (2026)

Background High quality shared decision-making (SDM) conversations involve people with or at risk of osteoporosis and clinicians working together to decide, where appropriate, which evidence-based medicines best fit the person’s life, belie...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3310/nihropenres.13751.3

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

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

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

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

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

EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF INCLISIRAN BY BASELINE BODY MASS INDEX: A POST HOC POOLED ANALYSIS OF THE ORION-9, ORION-10 AND ORION-11 PHASE III RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS

Lawrence A Leiter, David G Kallend, Wolfgang Koenig, Ulf Landmesser et al. • American Journal of Preventive Cardiology (2023)

Therapeutic Area: ASCVD/CVD Risk Factors Background: Excessive bodyweight, often associated with dyslipidemia, may affect the pharmacology of drugs. Inclisiran, a small interfering RNA targeting PCSK9 hepatic mRNA, is an effective LDL-C low...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpc.2022.100403

Personal preventive protocols and travel patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic

Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, Ali Jafari-Khounigh, Hamid Sharifi, Mahdi Rezaei et al. • Russian Open Medical Journal (2025)

Background — Travel restrictions and adhering to health protocols while traveling was among the key strategies to combat COVID-19 pandemic. Objective — The present study aims to measure and evaluate travel patterns and compliance with COVI...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15275/rusomj.2025.0102

Knowledge, attitude, and practices of pediatricians about children’s oral health

Elham Bozorgmehr, Tayebeh Malek Mohammadi, Abolghasem Hajizamani, Aliasghar Vahidi et al. • Journal of Oral Health and Oral Epidemiology (2012)

BACKGROUND: Many pediatric oral diseases are preventable if physicians recognize and encourage preventive care and refer patients to dentists whenever necessary. Parents usually visit pediatricians for routine care during the first few year...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ)

Hyperuricemia and dementia – a case-control study

Bettina Engel, Willy Gomm, Karl Broich, Wolfgang Maier et al. • BMC Neurology (2018)

Abstract Background There is evidence that uric acid may have antioxidant and neuroprotective effects and might therefore alter the risk for neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia. So far, the relation between serum uric acid (SUA) lev...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12883-018-1136-y

Epidemiology of COPD

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...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1183/09059180.00003609