Leontine Alkema, Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen et al.
BACKGROUND: Under natural circumstances, the sex ratio of male to female mortality up to the age of 5 years is greater than one but sex discrimination can change sex ratios. The estimation of mortality by sex and identification of countries with outlying levels is challenging because of issues with ...
Clara Calvert, Meredith Brockway, Helga Zoëga, Jessica E. Miller et al.
Preterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of infant mortality worldwide. Changes in PTB rates, ranging from -90% to +30%, were reported in many countries following early COVID-19 pandemic response measures ('lockdowns'). It is unclear whether this variation reflects real differences in lockdown impac...
John Echeverri‐Gent
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes The author wishes to express special appreciation to Ajay Shah and Susan Thomas for their gracious help and in some cases co-participation in fieldwork, as well as for their generous sharing of their ideas about India's equity markets. A...
Christina Sølund, Martin Schou Pedersen, Ulrik Fahnøe, Jonathan Filskov et al.
The introduction of direct-acting antiviral (DAA) treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected patients has greatly increased treatment success rates. However, viral response kinetics to DAA treatment may depend on pre-existing resistance-associated substitutions (RASs) in HCV. The aim of this stud...
Md Jamal Uddin, Claus Thorn Ekstrøm, Nicoline Hemager, Camilla A J Christiani et al.
Abstract We aimed to investigate to which degree the home environment and/or primary caregivers’ level of functioning mediate the association between parental mental illness (eg, schizophrenia) and child psychopathology. We used data from the nationwide Danish High Risk and Resilience Study—VIA7. Th...
Katalin Vincze, Agnieszka Szwajda, Alexander Ploner, Robert Karlsson et al.
To investigate whether antidiabetic drugs have a biological basis to be repurposed in PD prevention, we applied a drug target Mendelian randomization framework to assess associations between genetic variation in antidiabetic drug targets and PD risk or age at onset (AAO). Instrumental variables (IVs...
Jante S. Sinnige, Marry R. Smit, M. Raisul Alam, Mohammed N. H. Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: The "Personalized Mechanical Ventilation Guided by Lung UltraSound in Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome" (PEGASUS) study aims to evaluate personalized mechanical ventilation (MV) in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) compared to the standard of care....
Ahmed M. Abdel-Azeem, Mohamed A. Abdel-Azeem, Wan Mohd Aizat, Md. Khokon Miah Akanda et al.
Álvaro Martínez Barrio, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Guangyi Fan, Nima Rafati et al.
Full text Figures and data Side by side Abstract eLife digest Main text Data availability References Decision letter Author response Article and author information Metrics Abstract Ecological adaptation is of major relevance to speciation and sustainable population management, but the underlying gen...
Hamid Abachi, Rosni Abdullah, Sanjay Ahuja, Jaafar Alghazo et al.