Shiv Kumar Sarin, Chandan Kumar Kedarisetty, Zaigham Abbas, Deepak Amarapurkar et al.
The first consensus report of the working party of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) set up in 2004 on acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) was published in 2009. Due to the rapid advancements in the knowledge and available information, a consortium of members from co...
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 ...
Patrick Munk, Christian Brinch, Frederik Duus Møller, Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global health. Understanding the emergence, evolution, and transmission of individual antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is essential to develop sustainable strategies combatting this threat. Here, we use metagenomic sequencing to analyse ARGs in 7...
Aminu K. Bello, Adeera Levin, Meaghan Lunney, Mohamed A. Osman et al.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the global capacity (availability, accessibility, quality, and affordability) to deliver kidney replacement therapy (dialysis and transplantation) and conservative kidney management. DESIGN: International cross sectional survey. SETTING: International Society of Nephrology (I...
Anna Kopf, Mesude Bicak, Renzo Kottmann, Julia Schnetzer et al.
Ocean Sampling Day was initiated by the EU-funded Micro B3 (Marine Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology) project to obtain a snapshot of the marine microbial biodiversity and function of the world's oceans. It is a simultaneous global mega-sequencing campaign aiming to generate the ...
Yeoungjee Cho, Aminu K. Bello, Adeera Levin, Meaghan Lunney et al.
Rationale & Objective Approximately 11% of people with kidney failure worldwide are treated with peritoneal dialysis (PD). This study examined PD use and practice patterns across the globe. Study Design A cross-sectional survey. Setting & Participants Stakeholders including clinicians, policy makers...
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...
Htay Htay, Aminu K. Bello, Adeera Levin, Meaghan Lunney et al.
Rationale & Objective Hemodialysis (HD) is the most common form of kidney replacement therapy. This study aimed to examine the use, availability, accessibility, affordability, and quality of HD care worldwide. Study Design A cross-sectional survey. Setting & Participants Stakeholders (clinicians, po...
Ananda Tiwari, Sangeet Adhikari, Shuxin Zhang, Tamunobelema Solomon et al.
The emergence of new variants of SARS-CoV-2 associated with varying infectivity, pathogenicity, diagnosis, and effectiveness against treatments challenged the overall management of the COVID-19 pandemic. Wastewater surveillance (WWS), i.e., monitoring COVID-19 infections in communities through detec...
Karen Saylors, David J. Wolking, Emily Hagan, Stephanie Martinez et al.
In an effort to strengthen global capacity to prevent, detect, and control infectious diseases in animals and people, the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) PREDICT project funded development of regional, national, and local One Health capaci...
Jeppe Thagaard, Glenn Broeckx, David B. Page, Chowdhury Arif Jahangir et al.
The clinical significance of the tumor-immune interaction in breast cancer is now established, and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) have emerged as predictive and prognostic biomarkers for patients with triple-negative (estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and HER2-negative) breast cancer ...
Emily K. Yeung, Aminu K. Bello, Adeera Levin, Meaghan Lunney et al.
OBJECTIVES: The Global Kidney Health Atlas (GKHA) is a multinational, cross-sectional survey designed to assess the current capacity for kidney care across all world regions. The 2017 GKHA involved 125 countries and identified significant gaps in oversight, funding and infrastructure to support care...
David B. Page, Glenn Broeckx, Chowdhury Arif Jahangir, Sara Verbandt et al.
Modern histologic imaging platforms coupled with machine learning methods have provided new opportunities to map the spatial distribution of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment. However, there exists no standardized method for describing or analyzing spatial immune cell data, and most reporte...
Rajesh Sharma, Hedayat Abbastabar, Deldar Morad Abdulah, Hassan Abidi et al.
Background: Cancers represent a challenging public health threat in Asia. This study examines the temporal patterns of incidence, mortality, disability and risk factors of 29 cancers in Asia in the last three decades. Methods: The age, sex and year-wise estimates of incidence, mortality, and disabil...
The Antibiotics for Children With Diarrhea (ABCD) Study Group, Tahmeed Ahmed, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Muhammad Waliur Rahman et al.
Importance: World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines do not recommend routine antibiotic use for children with acute watery diarrhea. However, recent studies suggest that a significant proportion of such episodes have a bacterial cause and are associated with mortality and growth impairment, espec...
Visha Kumari Venugopalan, Rajib Nath, Kajal Sengupta, Arpita Nalia et al.
Soil moisture and air temperature stress are the two major abiotic factors limiting lentil ( Lens culinaris Medik.) growth and productivity in the humid tropics. Field experiments were conducted during winter seasons (November to March) of 2018–2019 and 2019–2020 on clay loam soil (AericHaplaquept) ...
Ahmed M. Sayed, Sara Morsy, Gehad Mohamed Tawfik, Sadiq Naveed et al.
BACKGROUND There is preliminary evidence for lavender as an anxiolytic agent through various routes of administration. Our goal is to elucidate the best route of administration for lavender as a treatment for anxiety. METHODS Thirteen electronic search engines were systematically scanned for relevan...
Brendon L. Neuen, Aminu K. Bello, Adeera Levin, Meaghan Lunney et al.
National strategies for addressing chronic kidney disease (CKD) are crucial to improving kidney health. We sought to describe country-level variations in non-communicable disease (NCD) strategies and CKD-specific policies across different regions and income levels worldwide. The International Societ...
Tanmoy Shankar, Ganesh Chandra Malik, Mahua Banerjee, Sudarshan Dutta et al.
Rice is the lifeline for more than half of the world population, and in India, in view of its huge demand in the country, farmers adopt a rice–rice cropping system where the irrigation facility is available. As rice is a nutrient-exhausting crop, sustainable productivity of rice–rice cropping system...
Rakhi Maiwall, Shiv Kumar Sarin, Suman Kumar, Priyanka Jain et al.
BACKGROUND AND AIM: There is limited data on predictors of acute kidney injury in acute on chronic liver failure. We developed a PIRO model (Predisposition, Injury, Response, Organ failure) for predicting acute kidney injury in a multicentric cohort of acute on chronic liver failure patients. PATIEN...