Naito, Toshio Yan, Yan Tabe, Yoko Seyama, Kuniaki Deshpande, Gautam A
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Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
Evidence of BNT126b2 vaccine effectiveness and breakthrough has been primarily demonstrated in populations outside of Asia; studies in the Western Pacific region are limited. Our retrospective cohort study assessed SARS-CoV-2 cases after vaccine rollout starting from mid-March 2021 at a tertiary hospital in Tokyo. Of 8,749 staff members, no fully v...
Ross, Jeremy L Jiamsakul, Awachana Avihingsanon, Anchalee Lee, Man Po Ditangco, Rossana Choi, Jun Yong Rajasuriar, Reena Gatechompol, Sivaporn Chan, Iris Melgar, Maria Isabel Echanis
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AIDS and behavior
Despite the mental health and substance use burden among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Asia-Pacific, data on their associations with HIV clinical outcomes are limited. This cross-sectional study of PLHIV at five sites assessed depression and substance use using PHQ-9 and ASSIST. Among 864 participants, 88% were male, median age was 39 years...
Mohanty, Salini Hu, Tianyan Yang, GyongSeon Khan, Tsz K Owusu-Edusei, Kwame Sukarom, Isaya
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Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
Use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) has greatly reduced the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). V114 (VAXNEUVANCE™, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. a subsidiary of Merck & Co. Inc. Kenilworth, NJ, USA) is a 15-valent PCV currently approved in adults in the United States, containing the 13 serotypes in licensed PCV13 and 2 addition...
Morales, Lucia Dzever, Sam Taylor, Robert
The main objective of this book is to offer an overview and a critical assessment of current connectivity issues in Asia and Europe, seen from an industrial perspective. Critical insights into the contemporary debate on connectivity during times of crisis, which has led to significant economic and social disruptions, are offered throughout the book...
Liu, Mingxu Yao, Huan Matsui, Hitoshi
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Environmental Research Letters
East and South Asia are major hotspots of crop straw burning worldwide, with profound impacts on air quality and climate change. The Northeast China Plain (NECP) and Punjab, India, are two of the most fertile areas for crop production, which have large-scale agricultural fires during post-harvest seasons. Leveraging established fire-emission databa...
Li, Chunbao
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Frontiers in Microbiology
Vouiller, Nolwen
"If we had no tiger, what could you wrote?", said Jagat on the 31st of July 2019, during my first three-month field trip to Nepal, during the monsoon season, on the border of Bardiya National Park, in the southwest of the country. This guide, like so many others, is passionate about the famous Panthera tigris tigris and does not hide it. However, s...
Sangthawan, Pornpen Klyprayong, Pinkaew Geater, Sarayut L. Tanvejsilp, Pimwara Anutrakulchai, Sirirat Boongird, Sarinya Gojaseni, Pongsathorn Kuhiran, Charan Lorvinitnun, Pichet Noppakun, Kajohnsak
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Frontiers in Public Health
Objective Universal health coverage can decrease the magnitude of the individual patient's financial burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD), but the residual financial hardship from the patients' perspective has not been well-studied in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). This study aimed to evaluate the residual financial burden in patients w...
Fujiwara, Aya Omura, Yuka Oono, Fumi Sugimoto, Minami Sasaki, Satoshi Takimoto, Hidemi
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Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)
Previous systematic reviews, which focused on sugar intake and its relation with health issues, were mainly conducted in Western countries, not Asian countries characterized by differences in dietary habits and disease prevalence. The scarcity of Asian studies may be attributed to the lack of assessment tools for estimating sugar intake. To provide...
Song, Eun Mi Yang, Suk-Kyun
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Intestinal research
Over the past decades, there has been a rapid increase in the incidence and prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Asia. The natural history of IBD in Asian patients could be different from that in Western patients due to variations in disease phenotypes and genotypes as well as the healthcare environment between the 2 populations. To ad...
