Luregn J. Schlapbach, R. Scott Watson, Lauren R. Sorce, Andrew C. Argent et al.
Importance: Sepsis is a leading cause of death among children worldwide. Current pediatric-specific criteria for sepsis were published in 2005 based on expert opinion. In 2016, the Third International Consensus finitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) fined sepsis as life-threatening org...
L. Nelson Sanchez‐Pinto, Tellen D. Bennett, Peter E. DeWitt, Seth Russell et al.
Importance: The Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force sought to develop and validate new clinical criteria for pediatric sepsis and septic shock using measures of organ dysfunction through a data-driven approach. Objective: To derive and validate novel criteria for...
Vanessa Ha, John L. Sievenpiper, Russell J. de Souza, Viranda H. Jayalath et al.
BACKGROUND: Evidence from controlled trials encourages the intake of dietary pulses (beans, chickpeas, lentils and peas) as a method of improving dyslipidemia, but heart health guidelines have stopped short of ascribing specific benefits to this type of intervention or have graded the beneficial evi...
Russell J. de Souza, Mahshid Dehghan, Andrew Mente, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala et al.
BACKGROUND The association of nuts with cardiovascular disease and deaths has been investigated mostly in Europe, the USA, and East Asia, with few data available from other regions of the world or from low- and middle-income countries. OBJECTIVE To assess the association of nuts with mortality and c...
Suresh Sundram, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim, Lourdes Ladrido-Ignacio, Albert Maramis et al.
The psychological and psychiatric impact of great natural disasters are beginning to be understood leading to new methods of prevention, intervention and mitigation. There is limited data from the Asian continent, however, which has been the location of some of the greatest disasters of recent times...
Dipika Desai, Sujane Kandasamy, Jayneel Limbachia, Michael A. Zulyniak et al.
South Asians (i.e., people who originate from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh) have higher cardiovascular disease rates than other populations, and these differences persist in their offspring. Nutrition is a critical lifestyle-related factor that influences fetal development, and ...
Darryl P. Leong, Rita Yusuf, Romaina Iqbal, Álvaro Avezum et al.
BACKGROUND: Current strategies to prevent adverse cardiovascular outcomes focus primary prevention in high-risk groups and secondary prevention in people with known cardiovascular disease. We aimed to determine the proportion of events occurring in lower-risk groups globally. METHODS: We included pe...
R.S.M De Barros, F Tufró, Roberto Canay, M Carroli et al.
The identity and social representation of people linked to drugs depend on their interaction with the system that collects and analyses the critical data used to describe it. AIM: The aim of this study is to see if by adopting a non-institutional and non-formal approach the drug users' profile will ...