Suzanna Awang Bono, Edlaine Faria de Moura Villela, Ching Sin Siau, Won Sun Chen et al.
Vaccination is fast becoming a key intervention against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted cross-sectional online surveys to investigate COVID-19 vaccine acceptance across nine Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs; N = 10,183), assuming vaccine effectiveness at 90% and 95%. The prevalenc...
Andrew Mente, Mahshid Dehghan, Sumathy Rangarajan, Matthew McQueen et al.
Background The relation between dietary nutrients and cardiovascular disease risk markers in many regions worldwide is unknown. In this study, we investigated the effect of dietary nutrients on blood lipids and blood pressure, two of the most important risk factors for cardiovascular disease, in low...
Xufen Zeng, Krista A Varady, Xiangdong Wang, Giovanni Targher et al.
Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) or metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), has become the leading cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. Optimal dietary intervention strategies for MAFLD are not standardized. This study aimed to achieve conse...
Fyezah Jehan, Sunil Sazawal, Abdullah H Baqui, Muhammad Imran Nisar et al.
Importance: Worldwide, preterm birth (PTB) is the single largest cause of deaths in the perinatal and neonatal period and is associated with increased morbidity in young children. The cause of PTB is multifactorial, and the development of generalizable biological models may enable early detection an...
Kamala Thriemer, Albino Bobogare, Benedikt Ley, Clarice Samo Gudo et al.
The goal to eliminate malaria from the Asia-Pacific by 2030 will require the safe and widespread delivery of effective radical cure of malaria. In October 2017, the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network Vivax Working Group met to discuss the impediments to primaquine (PQ) radical cure, how these ...
Domenico L. Gatti, Bharati Mitra, Barry P. Rosen
nucleotide-binding site Corey, Pauling,Koltun space-filling model Life may have first arisen in deep oceanic hydrothermal vents that were rich in metals such as arsenic, lead, copper, and zinc (1Rasmussen B. Nature. 2000; 405: 676-679Crossref PubMed Scopus (297) Google Scholar). Maintaining suitable...
Ramy Abou Ghayda, Keum Hwa Lee, Young Joo Han, Seohyun Ryu et al.
The aim of this study is to provide a more accurate representation of COVID-19's case fatality rate (CFR) by performing meta-analyses by continents and income, and by comparing the result with pooled estimates. We used multiple worldwide data sources on COVID-19 for every country reporting COVID-19 ...
Edsel Ing, Neil R. Miller, Angeline Nguyen, Wanhua Su et al.
Purpose: To develop and validate neural network (NN) vs logistic regression (LR) diagnostic prediction models in patients with suspected giant cell arteritis (GCA). Design: Multicenter retrospective chart review. Methods: An audit of consecutive patients undergoing temporal artery biopsy (TABx) for ...
Virendra Singh, Arka De, Rohit Mehtani, Paolo Angeli et al.
Sabrina Xin Zi Quek, Evelyn Xiu Ling Loo, Alla Demutska, Chun En Chua et al.
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Gastrointestinal manifestations of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may mimic irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and social distancing measures may affect IBS patients negatively. We aimed to study the impact of COVID-19 on respondents with self-reported IBS. METHODS...
Guoliang Yuan, Md Mahmudul Hassan, Degao Liu, Sung Don Lim et al.
Global demand for food and bioenergy production has increased rapidly, while the area of arable land has been declining for decades due to damage caused by erosion, pollution, sea level rise, urban development, soil salinization, and water scarcity driven by global climate change. In order to overco...
Mingqing Lu, Yanfeng Yao, Hang Liu, Xuekai Zhang et al.
Nipah virus (NiV), a bat-borne paramyxovirus, results in neurological and respiratory diseases with high mortality in humans and animals. Developing vaccines is crucial for fighting these diseases. Previously, only a few studies focused on the fusion (F) protein alone as the immunogen. Numerous NiV ...
Supa Pengid, Karl Peltzer, Edlaine Faria de Moura Villela, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo et al.
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to investigate, using Andersen's model of health care utilization, factors associated with COVID-19 testing among adults in nine low- and middle- income countries. METHODS: In between 10 December 2020 and 9 February 2021, an online survey was organized in nine low- and m...
Kaushik Basu, Ravi Kanbur
Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, advancing the cause of a human development focused policy agenda, and a tolerant and democratic polity....
Pooja Agarwal Jayagobi, Chengsi Ong, Pui Chan Cynthia Pang, Anng Anng Wong et al.
INTRODUCTION The KK Human Milk Bank (KKHMB), the first and only human milk bank in Singapore, was established in August 2017 to provide safe pasteurised donor human milk (PDHM) to vulnerable preterm and sick infants with insufficient own mother’s milk, as the use of donor human milk (DHM) is potenti...