Brooks Morgan, Matthew R. Grigsby, Trishul Siddharthan, Muhammad Chowdhury et al.
Background Asthma‐chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap (ACO) represents the confluence of bronchial airway hyperreactivity and chronic airflow limitation and has been described as leading to worse lung function and quality of life than found with either singular disease process. Obje...
Laura Nicolaou, Tahmeed Ahmed, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Pascal Bessong et al.
BACKGROUND: While head circumference (HC) has been related to intracranial volume and brain size, its association with cognitive function remains unclear. We sought to understand the relationship among various biological and socioeconomic risk factors, HC and cognitive development. METHODS: We analy...
Paul Kelly, Kelley VanBuskirk, David Coomes, Samer Mouksassi et al.
BACKGROUND: Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is an asymptomatic intestinal disorder associated with growth impairment, delayed neurocognitive development, and impaired oral vaccine responses. OBJECTIVES: We set out to develop and validate a histopathologic scoring system on duodenal biopsies ...
Christopher Lwanga, Peace Aber, Kirkby D. Tickell, Moses M. Ngari et al.
BACKGROUND: Although mortality risk associated with HIV is well described, HIV-exposed uninfected (HEU) young children are also at increased risk of hospitalization and death as compared to HIV-unexposed uninfected (HUU) children. The drivers of poor outcomes among HEU children remain unknown, limit...
Dennis Emuron, Trishul Siddharthan, Brooks Morgan, Suzanne L. Pollard et al.
Observational studies investigating household air pollution (HAP) exposure to biomass fuel smoke as a risk factor for pulmonary tuberculosis have reported inconsistent results. To evaluate the association between HAP exposure and the prevalence of self-reported previous pulmonary tuberculosis. We an...
Carlos F. Gaymer, Daniel Wagner, Rocío Álvarez-Varas, Ben Boteler et al.
Arlie McCarthy, Daniel Steadman, Hannah Richardson, Jack Murphy et al.
Abstract Numerous policy and international frameworks consider that “destructive fishing” hampers efforts to reach sustainability goals. Though ubiquitous, “destructive fishing” is undefined and therefore currently immeasurable. Here we propose a definition developed through expert consultation: “De...
T Hussey, Africa Athanasius, George Mbogo, Brenda Mccoard et al.
M. Healy, R. R. O’Moore, E. M. Keane, Davis Coakley et al.
Christopher Lwanga, Peace Aber, Kirkby D. Tickell, Moses M. Ngari et al.
Background: HIV-exposed uninfected (HEU) young children are at increased risk of hospitalization and death as compared to HIV-unexposed uninfected (HUU) children. The drivers of poor outcomes among HEU children remain unknown, limiting the development of interventions to support this vulnerable popu...
Gul Muhammad, Baloch Corresp, Sheela Sundarasen, Karuthan Chinna et al.
Background.As of the present, the twenty-first century is experiencing what may be one of its most devastating events, in respect to infected and dead people by the virus.Now known to the world as COVID-19, the devastating disease of what has become a pandemic started its spread from Wuhan, China an...
Mohammad Saidur Rahman, Nabidur Rahman, Umme Habiba, Jubayer Rahman et al.
COVID-19 has increased all over the world. It has brought a significant change around the world. Although the COVID-19 infected patients are mainly suffering from infection but there are other areas to concern about. The burden of mental health problems of pre and post-COVID-19 has become a major co...
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