Published in Emerging Infectious Diseases
Demographic and clinical indicators have been described to support identification of coccidioidomycosis; however, the interplay of these conditions has not been explored in a clinical setting. In 2019, we enrolled 392 participants in a cross-sectional study for suspected coccidioidomycosis in emergency departments and inpatient units in Coccidioide...
Published in Stroke
The role of stroke etiology subtype in patients with acute large vessel occlusion on the occurrence of hemorrhagic transformation (HT) after endovascular treatment is poorly studied, and which factors mediate their relationship remains largely unknown. We utilized nationwide registry data to explore the association of stroke subtype (cardioembolism...
Acute fatty liver of pregnancy(AFLP) is a rare but very urgent obstetric disease in clinical. It is a common cause of liver failure in pregnancy and often needs to be admitted to the department of critical care medicine because of the rapid development of acute hepatic dysfunction and severe acute renal dysfunction. The etiology and pathogenesis of...
Published in Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement
The objective of this study was to discern health risk factors for chronic disease by age and sex in a Canadian cohort. Participants of the Atlantic Partnership for Tomorrow's Health (PATH) cohort with health risk factor data (physical activity, smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, body mass index [BMI]) were included (n = 16,165). Multivariable log...
Published in Acta ophthalmologica
After decades of investigation, the role of near work in myopia remains unresolved, with some studies reporting no relationship and others finding the opposite. This systematic review is intended to summarize classic and recent literature investigating near work and the onset and progression of myopia, potential mechanisms and pertinent clinical re...
Published in International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society
Stroke not only substantially increases the risk of incident dementia early after stroke but also the risk remains elevated years after. We aimed to determine the risk factors of dementia onset more than three to six months after stroke or transient ischemic attack. This is a single-center prospective cohort study. We recruited consecutive subjects...
Published in Community dentistry and oral epidemiology
In this cross-sectional study in a large community-based sample of preschool-age children, we sought to identify distinct clusters of modifiable early childhood oral health-related behaviours (OHBs) and quantify their association with clinical and parent-reported measures of early childhood oral health. We relied upon a questionnaire (n = 8033; 11%...
Published in International journal of injury control and safety promotion
In developing nations, road traffic crashes involving pedestrians have become a foremost worry. Presently, most of the road safety assessment projects and selection of interventions are still restricted to traditional methods that depend on historical crash data. However, in low and middle-income countries such as India, the availability, reliabili...
To examine the detection rate of placenta previa and placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) by routine mid-pregnancy obstetric ultrasound and to estimate risk factors and prevalence within this cohort. This was an observational cohort study with prospectively collected data. Women attending routine mid-pregnancy obstetric ultrasound at the Sahlgrenska Uni...
The increasing prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is contributing to the rising global burden of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and intergenerational cycle of chronic metabolic disorders. Primary lifestyle interventions to manage GDM, including second trimester dietary and exercise guidance, have met with limited success due to late implement...
