Claire Wainwright, J.S. Elborn, Bonnie W. Ramsey, Gautham Marigowda et al.
BACKGROUND: Combination treatment with the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulators tezacaftor (VX-661) and ivacaftor (VX-770) was designed to target the underlying cause of disease in patients with cystic fibrosis. METHODS: through week 24 (calculated as a percentage) ..
John P. Clancy, Lieven Dupont, Michael W. Konstan, Joanne Billings et al.
RATIONALE: Arikace is a liposomal amikacin preparation for aerosol delivery with potent Pseudomonas aeruginosa killing and prolonged lung deposition. OBJECTIVES: To examine the safety and efficacy of 28 days of once-daily Arikace in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients chronically infected with P aeruginos...
Konstantinos Ν. Fountoulakis, Grigorios N. Karakatsoulis, Seri Abraham, Kristina Adorjan et al.
Introduction There are few published empirical data on the effects of COVID‐19 on mental health, and until now, there is no large international study. Material and methods During the COVID-19 pandemic, an online questionnaire gathered data from 55,589 participants from 40 countries (64.85% females a...
Claude Gascon, Thomas M. Brooks, Topiltzin Contreras‐MacBeath, Nicolas Heard et al.
Humans depend on biodiversity in myriad ways, yet species are being rapidly lost due to human activities. The ecosystem services approach to conservation tries to establish the value that society derives from the natural world such that the true cost of proposed development actions becomes apparent ...
David A. Wiedenfeld, Allison C. Alberts, Ariadne Angulo, Elizabeth L. Bennett et al.
Some conservation prioritization methods are based on the assumption that conservation needs overwhelm current resources and not all species can be conserved; therefore, a conservation triage scheme (i.e., when the system is overwhelmed, species should be divided into three groups based on likelihoo...
Ramy Abou Ghayda, Keum Hwa Lee, Young Joo Han, Seohyun Ryu et al.
The aim of this study is to provide a more accurate representation of COVID-19's case fatality rate (CFR) by performing meta-analyses by continents and income, and by comparing the result with pooled estimates. We used multiple worldwide data sources on COVID-19 for every country reporting COVID-19 ...
Konstantinos Ν. Fountoulakis, Grigorios N. Karakatsoulis, Seri Abraham, Kristina Adorjan et al.
Introduction During the COVID-19 pandemic various degrees of lockdown were applied by countries around the world. It is considered that such measures have an adverse effect on mental health but the relationship of measure intensity with the mental health effect has not been thoroughly studied. Here ...
Jon E. Swenson, Hüseyin Ambarlı, Jon M. Arnemo, Leonid Baskin et al.
This chapter comprises the following sections: names, taxonomy, subspecies and distribution, descriptive notes, habitat, movements and home range, activity patterns, feeding ecology, reproduction and growth, behavior, parasites and diseases, status in the wild, and status in captivity.
Marco Solmi, Trevor Thompson, Andrés Estradé, Agorastos Agorastos et al.
Background The Collaborative Outcome study on Health and Functioning during Infection Times (COH-FIT; www.coh-fit.com) is an anonymous and global online survey measuring health and functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to test concurrently the validity of COH-FIT items ...
Marco Solmi, Trevor Thompson, Andrés Estradé, Agorastos Agorastos et al.
, penalized cubic splines, linear regression, correlation analyses were conducted. Analyzing 121,066/142,364 initiated surveys, WHO-5/P-score worsened intra-pandemic by 11.1±21.1/13.2±17.9 points (effect size d=0.50/0.60) (comparable results in representative/weighted non-probability samples). Perso...
Chowdhury Arif Jahangir, David B. Page, Glenn Broeckx, Claudia Aura Gonzalez et al.
Recent advances in the field of immuno-oncology have brought transformative changes in the management of cancer patients. The immune profile of tumours has been found to have key value in predicting disease prognosis and treatment response in various cancers. Multiplex immunohistochemistry and immun...
Konstantinos Ν. Fountoulakis, Grigorios N. Karakatsoulis, Seri Abraham, Kristina Adorjan et al.
Abstract Background The prevalence of medical illnesses is high among patients with psychiatric disorders. The current study aimed to investigate multi-comorbidity in patients with psychiatric disorders in comparison to the general population. Secondary aims were to investigate factors associated wi...
Marco Solmi, Trevor Thompson, Samuele Cortese, Andrés Estradé et al.
There is no multi-country/multi-language study testing a-priori multivariable associations between non-modifiable/modifiable factors and validated wellbeing/multidimensional mental health outcomes before/during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, studies during COVID-19 pandemic generally do not report...
Marco Solmi, Trevor Thompson, Samuele Cortese, Andrés Estradé et al.
OBJECTIVE: To identify the COVID-19 pandemic impact on well-being/mental health, coping strategies, and risk factors in adolescents worldwide. METHOD: , penalized cubic splines, linear regression, and correlation analyses were conducted. RESULTS: Analyzing 8,115 of 8,762 initiated surveys (represent...
Sk Shaheenur Islam, Konstantinos Pateras, S. M. Lutful Kabir, Polychronis Kostoulas et al.
We aimed to estimate the overall apparent prevalence, true prevalence, and the spatial, temporal, and test-specific burden of bovine tuberculosis in Bangladesh. PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and BanglaJOL were searched for bovine tuberculosis publications in Bangladesh from 1 Janua...