Global Burden of Disease Long COVID Collaborators, Sarah Wulf Hanson, Cristiana Abbafati, Joachim G.J.V. Aerts et al.
Importance: Some individuals experience persistent symptoms after initial symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection (often referred to as Long COVID). Objective: To estimate the proportion of males and females with COVID-19, younger or older than 20 years of age, who had Long COVID symptoms in 2020 and 2021 ...
Siddhartha Shankar Bhattacharyya, Gerard H. Ros, Karolina Furtak, Hafiz M.N. Iqbal et al.
Soil carbon sequestration (SCS) refers to the uptake of carbon (C) containing substances from the atmosphere and its storage in soil C pools. Soil microbial community (SMC) play a major role in C cycling and their activity has been considered as the main driver of differences in the potential to sto...
Siddhartha Shankar Bhattacharyya, Fernanda Figueiredo Granja Dorilêo Leite, Casey L. France, Adetomi O. Adekoya et al.
Tillage is a common agricultural practice and a critical component of agricultural systems that is frequently employed worldwide in croplands to reduce climatic and soil restrictions while also sustaining various ecosystem services. Tillage can affect a variety of soil-mediated processes, e.g., soil...
Sarah Wulf Hanson, Cristiana Abbafati, Joachim G.J.V. Aerts, Ziyad Al‐Aly et al.
Importance: While much of the attention on the COVID-19 pandemic was directed at the daily counts of cases and those with serious disease overwhelming health services, increasingly, reports have appeared of people who experience debilitating symptoms after the initial infection. This is popularly kn...
Nora B. Sutton, Geert M. van der Kraan, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, Gerard Muyzer et al.
While millions of people drink arsenic-contaminated tube well water across Bangladesh, there is no recent scientific explanation which is able to either comprehensively explain arsenic mobilization or to predict the spatial distribution of affected wells. Rather, mitigation strategies have focused o...
Robert J. Lentz, Henri G. Colt, Heidi Chen, Rosa Cordovilla et al.
OBJECTIVE: To characterize associations between exposures within and outside the medical workplace with healthcare personnel (HCP) SARS-CoV-2 infection, including the effect of various forms of respiratory protection. DESIGN: Case-control study. SETTING: We collected data from international particip...
Rajeev K. Singla, Ronita De, Thomas Efferth, Bruno Mezzetti et al.
BACKGROUND: The development of digital technologies and the evolution of open innovation approaches have enabled the creation of diverse virtual organizations and enterprises coordinating their activities primarily online. The open innovation platform titled "International Natural Product Sciences T...
Jordan Bamford, Gonnie Klabbers, Emma Curran, Michael Rosato et al.
Black and minority ethnic communities are at higher risk of mental health problems. We explore differences in mental health and the influence of social capital among ethnic minority groups in Great Britain. Cross-sectional linear and logistic regression analysis of data from Wave 6 (2014-2016) of th...
Rosario Morales-Espinosa, Gloria Soberón‐Chávez, Gabriela Delgado, Luisa Sandner-Miranda et al.
Various genomic islands, PAPI-1, PAPI-2, PAGI-1, PAGI-2, PAGI-3, and PAGI-4, and the element pKLC102 have been characterized in different P. aeruginosa strains from diverse habitats and geographical locations. Chromosomal DNA macroarray of 100 P. aeruginosa strains isolated from 85 unrelated patient...
Serban Radian, Yoan Diekmann, Plamena Gabrovska, Brendan J. Holland et al.
The aryl hydrocarbon receptor interacting protein (AIP) founder mutation R304* (or p.R304*; NM_003977.3:c.910C>T, p.Arg304Ter) identified in Northern Ireland (NI) predisposes to acromegaly/gigantism; its population health impact remains unexplored. We measured R304* carrier frequency in 936 Mid Ulst...
Shahidul Islam Khan, Nazmin Ahmed, Kamrul Ahsan, Mahmud Abbasi et al.
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating neurological disorder that has a substantial detrimental impact on a person's quality of life. The estimated global incidence of SCI is 40 to 80 cases per million people and around 90% of cases are traumatic. Various etiologies can be recognized for SCI, and...
Emilie Isager Howe, Marina Zeldovich, Nada Anđelić, Nicole von Steinbüechel et al.
BACKGROUND: Despite existing guidelines for managing mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), evidence-based treatments are still scarce and large-scale studies on the provision and impact of specific rehabilitation services are needed. This study aimed to describe the provision of rehabilitation to pati...
Francesca Graziano, Rosa Maria Gerardi, Gianluca Scalia, Giacomo Cammarata et al.
Medicine has made progress towards gender equality, currently achieving almost equal distribution between men and women amongst graduates. However, more still needs to be done since most surgical subspecialties are still lacking adequate female representation and this persisting gender gap is partic...
Ali Noor, Surayya Khatoon, Moinuddin Ahmed, Abdul Razaq
In Astore valley, 26 species of plants under 17 genera and 13 families were found to be used as folkmedicine. The study reveals that the villagers from remote area use medicinal plants for the treatment of joint pain, bone fracture, urine problem, asthma, diabetes, blood pressure and for the treatme...
Pieter A. Zuidema, Peter Groenendijk, Mizanur Rahman, Valérie Trouet et al.
Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential of tropical forests to capture carbon in woody biomass and act as a long-term carbon dioxide sink. To evaluate this risk, we assessed drought impacts in 483 tree-ring chronologies from across the tropics and ...