Published in Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)
Few studies to date have analyzed the epidemiology of acute kidney injury (AKI) in children with cancer in developing countries. The aim of this study was to assess the incidence, risk profile and outcomes of AKI in Chinese children hospitalized with cancer. This multi-center study analyzed Chinese children hospitalized with cancer in 2013-2015. El...
Published in BMC Medicine
BackgroundEvidence has pointed towards differences in the burden of arteriosclerosis according to its location and sex. Yet there is a scarcity of population-based data on aggregated sex-specific cardiovascular risk profiles, instead of single risk factors, and mortality risk according to the location of arteriosclerosis. We assessed sex-specific c...
Published in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
BackgroundAdolescents in residential care are a vulnerable population with many problems in several life areas. For most of these adolescents, these problems persist after discharge and into adulthood. Since an accumulation of risk factors in multiple domains increases the likelihood of future adverse outcomes, it would be valuable to investigate w...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundUnderstanding sexual activity is necessary to prevent sexually transmitted infections. Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa suggests that 10–20% of youth aged 15–24 are sexually active before reaching 15 years, yet estimating sexual activity remains challenging. This study explored the use of multiple sexual health outcomes to identify sexual...
Many project management and scheduling studies have modelled activity durations as a range of values to express the stochastic nature of projects in progress. A wide variety of simulation models have been proposed that all rely on pre-defined statistical probability distributions for the durations of project activities. Ideally, these distributions...
Published in Preventive medicine
While smoking prevalence in the U.S. and other industrialized countries has decreased substantially, this change has been unevenly distributed, with dramatic decreases in certain subpopulations but little change or even increases in others. Accordingly, considerable attention has been fruitfully devoted to identifying important risk factors for smo...
Published in Current Cardiology Reports
Purpose of the ReviewThis review article synthesizes recent research findings on the psychological context of Type D personality and the mechanisms through which Type D affects disease progression and prognosis among patients with coronary heart disease (CHD).Recent FindingsOne in four patients with CHD has a Distressed (Type D) personality, which ...
Published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
BackgroundAnticoagulation therapy is a standard treatment for stroke prevention in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) that have risk factors for stroke. However, anticoagulant increases the risk of bleeding, especially in Asians. We aimed to investigate the risk profiles and pattern of antithrombotic use in patients with NVAF in ...
Published in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
After controlled individual's propensity to be shot (e.g., inherent traits), the concurrence of situational risks emerged as significant triggers of gunshot assault. The findings suggest potential for community-based gunshot violence interventions.
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd The US DOE-funded National Risk Assessment Partnership (NRAP) has developed an integrated assessment model (NRAP-IAM-CS) that can be used to simulate carbon dioxide (CO2) injection, migration, and associated impacts at a geologic carbon storage site. The model, NRAP-IAM-CS, incorporates a system-modeling-based approach while tak...
