Monika Arora, Aastha Chugh, Neha Jain, Masuma Pervin Mishu et al.
INTRODUCTION: Smokeless tobacco (ST) was consumed by 356 million people globally in 2017. Recent evidence shows that ST consumption is responsible for an estimated 652 494 all-cause deaths across the globe annually. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) was negotiated in 2003 and ra...
Joshua Robert Breedon, Charles R. Marshall, Gavin Giovannoni, David A. van Heel et al.
Abstract Polygenic risk scores aggregate an individual’s burden of risk alleles to estimate the overall genetic risk for a specific trait or disease. Polygenic risk scores derived from genome-wide association studies of European populations perform poorly for other ancestral groups. Given the potent...
Siti Nadirah Ab Rahim, Nani Nordin, Wan Farhana Azwanee Wan Omar, Sarah Zulkarnain et al.
Magnesium (Mg2+) is a predominantly intracellular cation that plays significant roles in various enzymatic, membrane, and structural body functions. As a calcium (Ca2+) antagonist, it is imperative for numerous neuromuscular activities. The imbalance of body Mg2+ concentration leads to clinical mani...
Md. Eram Hosen, Sumaiya Jahan Supti, Shopnil Akash, Md. Ekhtiar Rahman et al.
An excessive amount of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is commonly associated with actinic keratosis (AK) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) by secreted virulence products that induced the chronic inflammation leading to skin cancer which is regulated by staphylococcal accessory regulator (...
Le Huu Nhat Minh, Gehad Mohamed Tawfik, Sherief Ghozy, Mohammad Rashidul Hashan et al.
BACKGROUND: Breastfeeding is beneficial to both mother and infant. However, overlap of lactation with pregnancy and short recuperative intervals may impact mothers nutritionally. We aimed to investigate the possible effects of pregnancy during breastfeeding. METHODS: In October 2018, we searched sys...
Ole Frithjof Norheim, Angela Y. Chang, Sarah Bolongaita, Mariana Barraza-Lloréns et al.
BACKGROUND: Although death in old age is unavoidable, premature death-defined here as death before age 70 years-is not. To assess whether halving premature mortality by 2050 is feasible, we examined the large variation in premature death rates before age 70 years and trends over the past 50 years (1...
William Romano, Omar Sharif, Madhusudan Basak, Joseph Gatto et al.
Social media platforms are vital resources for sharing self-reported health experiences, offering rich data on various health topics. Despite advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) enabling large-scale social media data analysis, a gap remains in applying keyphrase extraction to health-re...
Yuxuan Ren, Christopher R. Oxford, Dandan Zhang, Xuan Liu et al.
Characterizing black carbon (BC) on a fine scale globally is essential for understanding its climate and health impacts. However, sparse BC mass measurements in different parts of the world and coarse model resolution have inhibited evaluation of global BC emission inventories. Here, we apply global...
Alina Pervez, Areesha Ahmer, Omar Mahmud, Russell Seth Martins et al.
BACKGROUND: Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are a helpful tool for the evidence-based management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2D). The aim of this systematic review was to synthesize and appraise the scope and quality of South Asian T2D CPGs. METHODS: This PROPSERO registered (CRD42023425150) s...
Omar Sharif, Madhusudan Basak, Tanzia Parvin, Ava Scharfstein et al.
Social media sites have become a popular platform for individuals to seek and share health information. Despite the progress in natural language processing for social media mining, a gap remains in analyzing health-related texts on social discourse in the context of events. Event-driven analysis can...
Julia Zöllner, Binur Orazumbekova, Sam Hodgson, David A. van Heel et al.
British Pakistani and Bangladeshi (BPB) women have disproportionately high rates of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), with prevalence estimates up to three times higher than in the general population. They are also at increased risk of progressing to type 2 diabetes, leading to significant health...
Enrico Virgilio, Sylvia Tielens, Georgia Bonfield, Fang‐Shin Nian et al.
Understanding the genetic causes of diseases that affect pancreatic β cells and neurons can give insights into pathways essential for both cell types. Microcephaly, epilepsy, and diabetes syndrome (MEDS) is a congenital disorder with two known etiological genes, IER3IP1 and YIPF5. Both genes encode ...
Badreddine Dahou, Zakaria Abidli, Sara El Fellaq, Amine Rkhaila et al.
Objectives: The objective of this work is to assess the psychological impact of Covid-19 through the study of all variables likely to influence the mental health of patients declared positive for Covid-19. This investigation aims to integrate a protocol of psychological therapeutic followup of patie...
Sandra J. MacLean, Fahimul Quadir
Introduction - pluralisms and the changing global economy - ethnicities in crises of governance in Asia and Africa, Fahimul Quadir, Sandra J. MacLean and Timothy M. Shaw. Part 1 Governance and economy: globalization, capital and governance in a newly industrializing plural society - Malaysia during ...
Kate Burley, Lucy Fitzgibbon, David A. van Heel, Shaheen Akhtar et al.
BackgroundBlood platelets are mediators of atherothrombotic disease and are regulated by complex sets of genes. Association studies in European ancestry populations have already detected informative platelet regulatory loci. Studies in other ancestries can potentially reveal new associations because...