Tian, Xinyi Niu, Kaifan Cao, Hong Zhan, Gonghao Zhang, Yan Xu, Feng Shangguan, Wangning Gao, Ye
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
BackgroundPruritus is one of the most common side effects of epidural morphine administered for post-surgery analgesia, and pregnant women tend to be highly susceptible. The relative contributions of morphine concentration, local anesthetics, and level of pain to pruritus after epidural morphine for post-cesarean delivery analgesia remain unclear. ...
Priyamvada, Khushbu Bindroo, Joy Sharma, Madan Prashad Chapman, Lloyd A. C. Dubey, Pushkar Mahapatra, Tanmay Hightower, Allen W. Bern, Caryn Srikantiah, Sridhar
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Parasites & Vectors
BackgroundWith visceral leishmaniasis (VL) incidence at its lowest level since the 1960s, increasing attention has turned to early detection and investigation of outbreaks.MethodsOutbreak investigations were triggered by recognition of case clusters in the VL surveillance system established for the elimination program. Investigations included ascer...
Baset, Zekrullah Abdul-Ghafar, Jamshid Parpio, Yasmin Nadeem Haidary, Ahmed Maseh
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BMC Cancer
BackgroundBreast cancer is the second most common causes of women’s death, worldwide. Data on risk factors associated with female breast cancer in the Afghan population is very limited. The aim of our study was to identifying risk factor associated with female breast cancer in Afghanistan.MethodsA retrospective case-control study was conducted with...
Mentis, Alexios-Fotios A. Dardiotis, Efthimios Efthymiou, Vasiliki Chrousos, George P.
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BMC Medicine
BackgroundThe etiologies of chronic neurological diseases, which heavily contribute to global disease burden, remain far from elucidated. Despite available umbrella reviews on single contributing factors or diseases, no study has systematically captured non-purely genetic risk and/or protective factors for chronic neurological diseases.MethodsWe pe...
Zhang, Jiahui Wang, Ting Li, Rongrong Ji, Wei Yan, Yongdong Sun, Zhichao Tan, Jiahong Wu, Jinfeng Huang, Li Chen, Zhengrong
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BMC Infectious Diseases
BackgroundRecently, many cases of pneumonia in children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection have been shown to have varying degrees of intrabronchial mucus plug formation. The clinical, laboratory, radiological characteristics, and treatment of patients with Mycoplasma infection are analyzed in this study. The risk factors for M. pneumoniae pneumo...
Johansson, Magnus Jansson-Fröjmark, Markus Norell-Clarke, Annika Linton, Steven J.
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Sleep Science and Practice
BackgroundThe aim of this investigation was to examine the longitudinal association between change in insomnia status and the development of anxiety and depression in the general population.MethodsA survey was mailed to 5000 randomly selected individuals (aged 18–70 years) in two Swedish counties. After 6 months, a follow-up survey was sent to thos...
Xie, Lihua Hu, Xuantao Li, Wenzhao Ouyang, Zhengxiao
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BMC Nephrology
BackgroundNephropathy associated metabolic disorder induces high incidence of fragility fracture in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. As the risk factors and prognosis of fragility fracture in ESRD patients are unclear, more research is needed. This study aimed to evaluate various risk factors for ESRD-related fragility fractures, explore fa...
Wang, Haosheng Wang, Kai Lv, Bin Xu, Haotian Jiang, Weibo Zhao, Jianwu Kang, Mingyang Dong, Rongpeng Qu, Yang
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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
BackgroundThe aim of this study was to determine the risk factors and develop a nomogram for blood transfusions after posterior lumbar spinal fusion (PSL).MethodsWe conducted a retrospective, single-center study based on 885 patients receiving PSL, and data was obtained from May 2015 to September 2019. Univariable and multivariable logistics regres...
Islam, Rafiqul Hossain, Md. Tarek Chakma, Nantu Khanom, Afroza Mazumder, Tapas Islam, Md. Tauhidul
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Systematic Reviews
BackgroundChronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is increasingly contributing to the disease burden in South Asia. This review will summarize the prevalence and risk factors of COPD in South Asia and the interventions regarding COPD that have been introduced in South Asian countries.MethodThis scoping review will primarily follow Arksey and O...
Ashiri, Alireza Rafiei, Abdollah Beiromvand, Molouk Khanzadeh, Abdollah Alghasi, Arash
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Parasites & Vectors
BackgroundStrongyloidiasis, one of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), can be fatal in immunocompromised patients. Available data on Strongyloides stercoralis infection in high-risk patients in Iran are limited. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of S. stercoralis infection and associated risk factors among high-risk p...
