INTRODUCTION: Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is highly infectious with no currently available vaccine. Prior to treatment, it is recommended to confirm HCV infection with either quantitative or qualitative nucleic acid test. Access to these assays in Nigeri...
BACKGROUND: Hyperglycaemia may contribute to failure to recover from pulmonary exacerbations in cystic fibrosis (CF). We aimed to evaluate the prevalence and mechanism of hyperglycaemia during and post-exacerbations.
BACKGROUND: There is no large contemporary data from India to see the prevalence of burnout in HCWs in covid era. Burnout and mental stress is associated with electrocardiographic changes detectable by artificial intelligence (AI).
BACKGROUND: The Medical Birth Registry of Norway (MBRN) provides national coverage of all births. While retrieval of most of the information in the birth records is mandatory, mothers may refrain to provide information on her smoking status. The prop...
BACKGROUND: Pediatric myocarditis is a rare disease with substantial mortality. Little is known regarding its prognostic factors. We hypothesize that certain comorbidities and procedural needs may increase risks of poor outcomes. This study aims to i...
Journal of the American Heart Association
Nov 3, 2020
Background Stroke is a major cardiovascular disease that causes significant health and economic burden in the United States. Neighborhood community-based interventions have been shown to be both effective and cost-effective in preventing cardiovascul...
Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes
Oct 14, 2020
BACKGROUND: The electronic medical record contains a wealth of information buried in free text. We created a natural language processing algorithm to identify patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) using text alone.
The prevalence of childhood and adolescence overweight an obesity is raising at an alarming rate in many countries. This poses a serious threat to the current and near-future health systems, given the association of these conditions with different co...
The prevalence of multimorbidity has been increasing in recent years, posing a major burden for health care delivery and service. Understanding its determinants and impact is proving to be a challenge yet it offers new opportunities for research to g...
Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology
Jul 4, 2020
Maps of disease burden are a core tool needed for the control and elimination of malaria. Reliable routine surveillance data of malaria incidence, typically aggregated to administrative units, is becoming more widely available. Disaggregation regress...