Honor Bixby, James Bentham, Bin Zhou, Mariachiara Di Cesare et al.
Abstract Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2...
Marjan Walli-Attaei, Philip Joseph, Annika Rosengren, Clara K Chow et al.
BACKGROUND Some studies, mainly from high-income countries (HICs), report that women receive less care (investigations and treatments) for cardiovascular disease than do men and might have a higher risk of death. However, very few studies systematically report risk factors, use of primary or seconda...
Trishul Siddharthan, Matthew R. Grigsby, Dina Goodman, Muhammad Ashique Haider Chowdhury et al.
RATIONALE: Forty percent of households worldwide burn biomass fuels for energy, which may be the most important contributor to household air pollution. OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between household air pollution exposure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) outcomes in 13 reso...
Lisa M Force, Jonathan M Kocarnik, Miranda L May, Kayleigh Bhangdia et al.
Background Cancer is a leading cause of death globally. Accurate cancer burden information is crucial for policy planning, but many countries lack up-to-date cancer surveillance data. To inform global cancer-control efforts, we used the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GB...
William Checkley, Hassen Ghannem, Vilma Irazola, Sylvester Kimaiyo et al.
Noncommunicable disease (NCD), comprising cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, are increasing in incidence rapidly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Some patients have access to the same treatments available in high-income countries, but mos...
Matthew R. Grigsby, Trishul Siddharthan, Muhammad Chowdhury, Ali Tanweer Siddiquee et al.
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic status (SES) is a strong social determinant of health. There remains a limited understanding of the association between SES and COPD prevalence among low- and middle-income countries where the majority of COPD-related morbidity and mortality occurs. We examined the associat...
Carine Claeys, Khalequ Zaman, Ghassan Dbaibo, Ping Li et al.
Background Despite the importance of vaccinating children younger than 5 years, few studies evaluating vaccine prevention of influenza have been reported in this age group. We evaluated efficacy of an inactivated quadrivalent influenza vaccine (IIV4) in children aged 6-35 months. Methods In this pha...
He-Da Zhang, Linhong Jiang, Junchen Hou, Siying Zhou et al.
AIM: To study the role of hsa_circ_0072995 in regulating the invasion and migration of breast cancer cells. MATERIALS & METHODS: Hsa_circ_0072995 expression was confirmed by quantitative real-time PCR; evaluating the migration and invasion of breast cancer cells through transwell assay; predicating ...
Sabuj Kanti Mistry, Miranda Shaw, Freya Raffan, George E. Johnson et al.
The objectives of this review were to map and summarize the existing evidence from a global perspective about inequity in access and delivery of virtual care interventions and to identify strategies that may be adopted by virtual care services to address these inequities. We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE...
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...
Matthew R. Grigsby, Trishul Siddharthan, Suzanne L. Pollard, Muhammad Ashique Haider Chowdhury et al.
The relationship of body mass index (BMI) with lung function and COPD has been previously described in several high-income settings. However, few studies have examined this relationship in resource-limited settings where being underweight is more common. We evaluated the association between BMI and ...
Mizanur Md Rahman, Alba Miranda-Ribera, Cristina Lecchi, V. Bronzo et al.
The present study was designed to investigate the capability of bovine neutrophil granulocytes to produce the minor acute phase protein alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein (AGP, Orososmucoid). Bovine neutrophils contain a high MW (50-60kDa) AGP isoform (PMN-AGP), as determined by Western blotting and confirm...
Ahlam Abuawad, Miranda J. Spratlen, Faruque Parvez, Vesna Slavkovich et al.
BACKGROUND: Water-borne arsenic (As) exposure is a global health problem. Once ingested, inorganic As (iAs) is methylated to mono-methyl (MMA) and dimethyl (DMA) arsenicals via one-carbon metabolism (OCM). People with higher relative percentage of MMA (MMA%) in urine (inefficient As methylation), ha...
Jefferson Eduardo Silveira Miranda, Fabiano Rodrigues de Melo, Ricardo Keichi Umetsu
Understand the spatial distribution of wildlife roadkill is necessary to design mitigation measures minimizing damage to the fauna and the human population. Thus, we aimed to analyze the spatial distribution of wildlife roadkill in the Brazilian savanna ("Cerrado") to test whether roadkill hotspots ...
Robert E. Lane, Soumia Cheref, Regina Miranda
= 0.93). Participants completed measures of hopelessness, depressive symptoms, and suicidal ideation. Bangladeshi American ethnicity was associated with significantly lower levels of suicidal ideation than Asian Indian ethnicity. There was a non-significant trend for Pakistani American ethnicity to ...