Wu, Kenneth Mendes, Polyana L Sykes, Jenna Stephenson, Anne L Mathur, Sunita
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Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society
There is conflicting evidence regarding the presence of limb muscle impairments in adults with cystic fibrosis (CF), and the factors associated with these muscle impairments. The objectives of this study were to compare limb muscle size and function between adults with CF and healthy controls; and to examine their associations with demographic and ...
Kwon, Albert Lazar, David Devadas, Srinivas Ford, Bryan
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Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Existing anonymity systems sacrifice anonymity for efficient communication or vice-versa. Onion-routing achieves low latency, high bandwidth, and scalable anonymous communication, but is susceptible to traffic analysis attacks. Designs based on DC-Nets, on the other hand, protect the users against traffic analysis attacks, but sacrifice bandwidth. ...
Cunningham, Jasmyn E. A. McCague, Hugh Malin, Ashley J. Flora, David Till, Christine
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Environmental Health
Background Fluoride from dietary and environmental sources may concentrate in calcium-containing regions of the body such as the pineal gland. The pineal gland synthesizes melatonin, a hormone that regulates the sleep-wake cycle. We examined associations between fluoride exposure and sleep outcomes among older adolescents and adults in Canada. Meth...
Egger, Dennis Miguel, Edward Warren, Shana S Shenoy, Ashish Collins, Elliott Karlan, Dean Parkerson, Doug Mobarak, A Mushfiq Fink, Günther Udry, Christopher
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Despite numerous journalistic accounts, systematic quantitative evidence on economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains scarce for most low- and middle-income countries, partly due to limitations of official economic statistics in environments with large informal sectors and subsistence agriculture. We assemble evidence from ov...
Bruckner, Tim A Parker, Daniel M Bartell, Scott M Vieira, Veronica M Khan, Saahir Noymer, Andrew Drum, Emily Albala, Bruce Zahn, Matthew Boden-Albala, Bernadette
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Clinic-based estimates of SARS-CoV-2 may considerably underestimate the total number of infections. Access to testing in the US has been heterogeneous and symptoms vary widely in infected persons. Public health surveillance efforts and metrics are therefore hampered by underreporting. We set out to provide a minimally biased estimate of SARS-CoV-2 ...
Hori, Ai Yoshii, Shiho Isaka, Yukari Wada, Koji
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundSince 2019, aiming to eliminate periodic rubella outbreaks, the Japanese government has provided a rubella immunization program targeting men born in fiscal years 1972 to 1978, who lacked the opportunity to be vaccinated against rubella in childhood. This study aimed to explore the factors associated with participation in the rubella vacc...
Park, Yong-Beom Kim, Seong Hwan Ha, Chul-Won Han, Jung-Won Noh, Jin-Wook
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Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA
To investigate the diagnostic accuracy of radiographic signs for complete discoid lateral meniscus and whether a predictive model combining the radiographic signs can improve its diagnostic accuracy in adults. A total of adult 119 knees with complete discoid lateral meniscus confirmed by arthroscopy and 119 age- and sex-matched knees with normal me...
Pasipanodya, Elizabeth C Montoya, Jessica L Campbell, Laura M Hussain, Mariam A Saloner, Rowan Paolillo, Emily M Jeste, Dilip V Letendre, Scott L McCutchan, J Allen Heaton, Robert K
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ObjectiveNeurocognitive performance among older persons, including those living with HIV (people living with HIV [PLWH]), exhibits significant heterogeneity, suggesting subpopulations with differing profiles of neurocognitive impairment (NCI). Metabolic factors are associated with NCI, but their relationships to cluster-derived NCI profiles are unk...
Dan, Jennifer M Mateus, Jose Kato, Yu Hastie, Kathryn M Yu, Esther Dawen Faliti, Caterina E Grifoni, Alba Ramirez, Sydney I Haupt, Sonya Frazier, April
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Understanding immune memory to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is critical for improving diagnostics and vaccines and for assessing the likely future course of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyzed multiple compartments of circulating immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 in 254 samples from 188 COVID-19 cases, including 43 samples ...
Soltani, Sanaz Keshteli, Ammar H Esmaillzadeh, Ahmad Adibi, Peyman
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Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility
Background/Aims Despite huge evidence on the link between adherence to dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) eating pattern and several metabolic abnormalities, the association of this diet with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has not been investigated so far. We aim to examine the association between adherence to the DASH diet and prevalen...