Zarghami, Amin van der Mei, Ingrid Hussain, Mohammad Akhtar Claflin, Suzi B Bessing, Barnabas Simpson-Yap, Steve Ponsonby, Anne-Louise Lechner-Scott, Jeanette Broadley, Simon Blizzard, Leigh
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Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)
People with multiple sclerosis face significant employment-related challenges, with little known of the drivers of these outcomes. We examined prospective trajectories of employment-related outcomes up to 11 years following a first episode of central nervous system (CNS) demyelination (FCD). Participants were aged 18-59 years, at FCD, with at least...
Mishra, Prabhaker Singh, Ratender Kumar Nath, Alok Pande, Shantanu Agarwal, Anil Sanjeev, Om Prakash Gupta, Devendra Singh, Prateek Ghatak, Tanmoy Hashim, Zia
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Most of the reported risk score models for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality are based on the levels of inflammatory markers, comorbidities or various treatment modalities, and there is a paucity of risk score models based on clinical symptoms and comorbidities. To address this need, age, clinical symptoms and comorbidities were used to...
Kounnavong, Thidatheb Vonglokham, Manithong Moji, Kazuhiko Okumura, Junko
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International health
This study investigated alcohol consumption prevalence among adolescents in school settings in Lao People's Democratic Republic and identified factors associated with alcohol consumption to establish better school-based interventions. Self-administered questionnaires containing items assessing alcohol drinking behaviour and underlying factors were ...
Notari, Alessio Torrieri, Giorgio
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Pathogens and global health
We analyze risk factors correlated with the initial transmission growth rate of the recent COVID-19 pandemic in different countries. The number of cases follows in its early stages an almost exponential expansion; we chose as a starting point in each country the first day di with 30 cases and we fitted for 12 days, capturing thus the early exponent...
Huang, Qingmei Wu, Fulei Zhang, Wen Stinson, Jennifer Yang, Yang Yuan, Changrong
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Nursing open
To identify subgroups of cancer patients with distinct self-care self-efficacy profiles and to explore factors that can be used to predict those at risk of low self-efficacy. A secondary analysis of data pooled from two cross-sectional surveys was performed. In total, 1,367 Chinese cancer survivors were included in the analysis. Latent profile anal...
Dabo, Bashir Pelucchi, Claudio Rota, Matteo Jain, Harshonnati Bertuccio, Paola Bonzi, Rossella Palli, Domenico Ferraroni, Monica Zhang, Zuo-Feng Sanchez-Anguiano, Aurora
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European journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation (ECP)
Prior epidemiologic studies on the association between diabetes and gastric cancer risk provided inconclusive findings, while traditional, aggregate data meta-analyses were characterized by high between-study heterogeneity. To investigate the association between type 2 diabetes and gastric cancer using data from the 'Stomach Cancer Pooling (StoP) P...
Andreas, Sylke Schulz, Holger Volkert, Jana Lüdemann, Jonas Dehoust, Maria Sehner, Susanne Suling, Anna Wegscheider, Karl Ausín, Berta Canuto, Alessandra
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The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
While incidence rates of depression and anxiety disorders in the elderly have been comprehensively investigated, the incidence rates of other mental disorders have rarely been researched. The incidence rate and predictors of various mental disorders in the elderly were evaluated in different European and associated countries. A cross-sectional and ...
Pichler, Theresia Marten-Mittag, Birgitt Hermelink, Kerstin Telzerow, Eva Frank, Tamara Ackermann, Ulrike Belka, Claus Combs, Stephanie E Gratzke, Christian Gschwend, Jürgen
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Psycho-oncology
To improve allocation of psychosocial care and to provide patient-oriented support offers, identification of determinants of elevated distress is needed. So far, there is a lack of evidence investigating the interplay between individual disposition and current clinical and psychosocial determinants of distress in the inpatient setting. In this cros...
Warwas, Britta Cremers, Florian Gerull, Karsten Leichtle, Anke Bruchhage, Karl L Hakim, Samer G Schild, Steven E Rades, Dirk
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Anticancer research
Many head-and-neck cancer patients receive radiotherapy, which may be associated with significant toxicities. Xerostomia is considered one of the most debilitating late adverse events. This study was performed to identify risk factors for xerostomia. Several characteristics were investigated for associations with late xerostomia in 159 patients irr...
Gündüz, Ahmet Kaan Mirzayev, Ibadulla Dinçaslan, Handan Özalp Ateş, Funda Seher
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European journal of ophthalmology
To evaluate the risk factors leading to recurrence and new tumor (NT) development in patients with retinoblastoma after intravenous chemotherapy (IVC) and to review the treatment outcomes. The records of 166 retinoblastoma cases (having 246 affected eyes) who underwent six-cycle IVC (vincristine, etoposide, and carboplatin) as primary treatment bet...
