Published in Clinical Epidemiology
Purpose Comorbidity indices are often used to measure comorbidities in register-based research. We aimed to adapt the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) to a Swedish setting. Methods Four versions of the CCI were compared and evaluated by disease-specific experts. Results We created a cohesive coding system for CCI to 1) harmonize the content between...
Published in Journal of Inflammation Research
Equivalent to regulatory T cells, a novel B cell populace, called regulatory B cells (Bregs), has been found to exert a negative immune regulatory role. These subsets of cells account for 0.5% of human B cells from the periphery that expand after activation upon certain stimuli depending on the nature of the microenvironment and provide a variety o...
Published in Health promotion practice
Africa has the highest rates of child mortality and diseases in the world. Research suggests that sport can be an effective way to enhance health knowledge and behaviors among at-risk youth in Africa. Scoping reviews explore both the breadth and depth of a research topic, which allows researchers to conduct a detailed analysis and synthesis of stud...
`titrebRésumé`/titrebLes thérapies complémentaires et alternatives sont un domaine de recherche en expansion dans le monde de la santé. La spiritualité a été la source d’inspiration pour de nombreux travaux sur des approches thérapeutiques complémentaires comme la prière, l’accompagnement spirituel ou des stratégies de coping basée sur la religion ...
The purpose of this article is to explain about of the legal vacuum within the current labour and social security law regulations. There are the labour risks in the telework and the recently introduction of this figure in the Ecuador Law, thetreatment is not the correct way, it does not have its own legal regime. These would be subject to the appli...
Published in Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
The spread of COVID-19 has become a significant threat to economic activity throughout the world, and it has made life particularly difficult for research institutions. According to a report published by Spain’s largest public research body, Cybermetrics Labs, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC) is ranked first among the l...
Published in Frontiers in Genetics
Published in Environmental Epigenetics
Environmental exposures such as chemical toxicants can alter gene expression and disease susceptibility through epigenetic processes. Epigenetic changes can be passed to future generations through germ cells through epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of increased disease susceptibility. The current study used an epigenome-wide association stu...
Published in BMJ Global Health
Introduction Despite increasing utilisation of institutional healthcare in India, many healthcare facilities (HCFs) lack access to basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. WASH services protect patients by improving infection prevention and control (IPC), which in turn can reduce the burden of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Ho...
Published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
Genome organization plays a crucial role in gene regulation, orchestrating multiple cellular functions. A meshwork of proteins constituting a three-dimensional (3D) matrix helps in maintaining the genomic architecture. Sequences of DNA that are involved in tethering the chromatin to the matrix are called scaffold/matrix attachment regions (S/MARs),...
