Phillip J. Bishop, Ariadne Angulo, Jordan Lewis, Robin D. Moore et al.
The current mass extinction episode is most apparent in the amphibians. With approximately 7,000 species, amphibians are dependent on clean fresh water and damp habitats and are considered vulnerable to habitat loss (deforestation), changes in water or soil quality and the potential impacts of clima...
Mohammed Eslam, Jian‐Gao Fan, Ming‐Lung Yu, Vincent Wai‐Sun Wong et al.
Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) affects over one-fourth of the global adult population and is the leading cause of liver disease worldwide. To address this, the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) has created clinical practice guidelines focused ...
Christine Marie George, Lauren Oldja, Shwapon Biswas, Jamie Perin et al.
Undernutrition is estimated to be an underlying cause of over half of all deaths in young children globally. There is a growing body of literature suggesting that increased exposure to enteric pathogens is responsible for environmental enteropathy (EE), a disorder associated with impaired growth in ...
Tatsuo Kanda, George Lau, Lai Wei, Mitsuhiko Moriyama et al.
In the direct-acting antiviral (DAA) era for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, sustained virological response (SVR) is very high, but close attention must be paid to the possible occurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and reactivation of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in patients with co-infection w...
Christine Marie George, Vanessa Burrowes, Jamie Perin, Lauren Oldja et al.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between faecal contamination in child play spaces, enteric infections, environmental enteropathy (EE) and impaired growth among young children. METHODS: A prospective cohort study was conducted of 203 children 6-30 months of age in rural Bangladesh. Stool s...
Raphaël Cinotti, Julio Mijangos, Paolo Pelosi, Matthias Hænggi et al.
Purpose Neurocritical care patients receive prolonged invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV), but there is poor specific information in this high-risk population about the liberation strategies of invasive mechanical ventilation. Methods ENIO (NCT03400904) is an international, prospective observation...
Laura Benneyworth, Jonathan M. Gilligan, John C. Ayers, S. L. Goodbred et al.
National drinking water assessments for Bangladesh do not reflect local variability, or temporal differences. This paper reports on the findings of an interdisciplinary investigation of drinking water insecurity in a rural coastal south-western Bangladesh. Drinking water quality is assessed by compa...
John C. Ayers, S. L. Goodbred, Gregory George, David Fry et al.
BACKGROUND: High salinity and arsenic (As) concentrations in groundwater are widespread problems in the tidal deltaplain of southwest Bangladesh. To identify the sources of dissolved salts and As, groundwater samples from the regional shallow Holocene aquifer were collected from tubewells during the...
Masao Omata, Tatsuo Kanda, Lai Wei, Ming‐Lung Yu et al.
The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) convened an international working party on "APASL consensus statements and recommendations for management of hepatitis C" in March 2015 to revise the "APASL consensus statements and management algorithms for hepatitis C virus infection...
Lauri Miller, Scott H. Kurtzman, Kathleen Anderson, Yanping Wang et al.
We hypothesize that interleukin-1α, β, and receptor antagonist (IL-1α, IL-1β, and IL-1ra, respectively) are present and tumor cell associated in human breast cancer (HBC). We believe the levels of these cytokines in breast tumor homogenates relate to other known prognosticators of patient survival (...
Gong Feng, Giovanni Targher, Christopher D. Byrne, Yusuf Yılmaz et al.
Background & Aims: This study used the Global Burden of Disease data (2010-2021) to analyze the rates and trends of point prevalence, annual incidence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in 204 countries. Methods: Total numbers...
Ashok Choudhury, Manoj Kumar, Barjesh Chander Sharma, Rakhi Maiwall et al.
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is an early marker of sepsis and ongoing inflammation and has been reported in large proportion of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) patients. Whether sepsis is the cause or the result of liver failure is unclear and is vital to ...
Harshad Devarbhavi, Ashok Choudhury, Manoj Kumar Sharma, Rakhi Maiwall et al.
OBJECTIVES: Acute insults from viruses, infections, or alcohol are established causes of decompensation leading to acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF). Information regarding drugs as triggers of ACLF is lacking. We examined data regarding drugs producing ACLF and analyzed clinical features, labora...
Douglas F. Levinson, Peter Holmans, Claudine Laurent, Brien P. Riley et al.
Reports of substantial evidence for genetic linkage of schizophrenia to chromosome 1q were evaluated by genotyping 16 DNA markers across 107 centimorgans of this chromosome in a multicenter sample of 779 informative schizophrenia pedigrees. No significant evidence was observed for such linkage, nor ...
Laurent Cormier, Odile Majérus, Daniel R. Neuville, Georges Calas
High‐temperature neutron diffraction and Raman spectra have been obtained on M 2 O–2B 2 O 3 (M=Li, Na, K) glasses and melts. Both techniques indicate a coordination change of boron atoms: the tetrahedral boron sites present in the glasses are converted into triangular boron sites. These changes of t...