Adenoviral infection in children admitted with severe acute respiratory infection at tertiary care hospital from North India: A case series by Rajarshi Bera, Pallavi Pallavi, Sonal Saxena, Shashi Chawla, Urmila Jhamb, Romit Saxena

“…The majority (68.4%) were infants, 25 (65.7%) were immunocompetent, and 13 (34.2%) had an underlying comorbidity. Twenty-seven (71%) patients required mechanical ventilation and 5 (13.1%) were managed on a heated high-flow nasal cannula. …”
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Personalised Lung Cancer Screening (PLuS) study to assess the importance of coexisting chronic conditions to clinical practice and policy: protocol for a multicentre observational... by Yi Guo, Dongyu Zhang, Rafael Meza, Jihyoun Jeon, Dejana Braithwaite, Gerard A Silvestri, Michael K Gould, Jiang Bian, Bruno Hochhegger, Shama D Karanth, Christopher G Slatore, Martin Tammemagi, Mattthew Schabath, Meghann Wheeler, Frederic J Kaye

“…We will fit a multivariable logistic regression model to estimate the adjusted ORs of comorbidity, functional limitations and impaired pulmonary function adjusted for relevant covariates. …”
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Electroconvulsive treatment of a patient with Parkinson’s disease and moderate depression by John Erik Berg

“…Depression is a usual comorbidity in patients with Parkinson’s disease. It has been known for more than 50 years that electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) has a positive effect on the muscular symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. …”
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Why Bother About Clumsiness? The Implications of Having Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) by Christopher Gillberg, Björn Kadesjö

“…Conversely, children with ADHD and autism spectrum problems, particularly those given a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome, have a very high rate of comorbid DCD. Psychiatrists appear to be unaware of this type of comorbidity in their young patients. …”
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Colonic Angiodysplasia with a Huge Submucosal Hematoma in the Sigmoid Colon by Takayuki Shimizu, Daisuke Koike, Yukihiro Nomura, Kenji Ooe

“…Colonic angiodysplasia (AD) with bleeding as a comorbidity in the aging population is being increasingly reported. …”
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Hip Fracture. A Nine-Year Study. by Horacio Suárez Monzón, Rolando Delgado Figueredo, Eduardo Sarmiento Sánchez, Juan Carlos Cabrera Suárez

“…Variable such as age, sex, and topographical diagnosis, and surgical modality, scale of disability, comorbidity, complications, lethality, and second time of admission were taken into account and collected in the analyzed period of time and in specific clinical records elaborated for this purpose. …”
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Health, Complexity and non-communicable Diseases by Alfredo Darío Espinosa Brito

“…Many of them, despite their heterogeneity and multi-causality, share common risk -and protective- factors, which can be reversed with integrated actions. The frequent comorbidity of these diseases with other entities, polymorbidity, and the role of aging in their appearance are discussed. …”
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Schizophrenia-Like Psychotic Symptoms Associated to Leigh Syndrome by F. Jaballah, R. Ben Soussia Nouira, S. Mallouli, H. Boussaid, S. Younes, L. Zarrouk, S. Younes

“…Leigh syndrome (LS) is a mitochondrial disease characterized by subacute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy with an estimated incidence of 1:40,000 births. The comorbidity of psychotic symptoms noted in mitochondrial and psychiatric diseases has spurred interest in the effects of DNA mutations and psychiatric disorders. …”
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Effectiveness of Yoga as a Complementary Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review by Massimiliano Buoli, Francesca Legnani, Monic Mastroianni, Letizia Maria Affaticati, Enrico Capuzzi, Massimo Clerici, Alice Caldiroli

“…With the exception of one study, all had several methodological limitations such as the presence of confounding factors (e.g., psychiatric comorbidity) or a too limited sample of patients. However, globally yoga seems to ameliorate AN symptoms, especially those regarding emotional dysregulation. …”
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Neisseria meningitidis as a Cause of Septic Arthritis: An Unusual Case of Periprosthetic Joint Infection by A. Mc Carthy, J. M. Broderick, A. P. Molloy

“…At presentation, she denied trauma and any comorbidity which would predispose her to infection. …”
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Effects of long-term prophylaxis with bromhexine hydrochloride and treatment with high colchicine doses of COVID-19 by Krasimir Marinov, Tsanko Mondeshki, Hristo Georgiev, Violeta S. Dimitrova, Vanyo Mitev

“…Effects of long-term prophylaxis with BHH are present with two cases of elderly women with severe comorbidity. After long-term prophylactic use of BHH from 3 to 6 months, one did not fall sick from COVID-19 and the other passes it almost asymptomatically, even though all their family members fell ill. …”
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Surgical Management of Giant Genital Condyloma Acuminata by Using Double Keystone Flaps by Peri Eriad Yunir, Chaidir A. Mochtar, Agus Rizal A. H. Hamid, Chaula L. Sukasah, Rainy Umbas

“…We report a case of giant genital condyloma acuminata in a 35-year-old male patient with HIV comorbidity treated by wide surgical excision. Excision defect was covered with split thickness skin graft (STSG) and double keystone flaps. …”
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Assessing the Role of Clinicopathologic Factors in Outcome Prediction in Subjects Having Oropharyngeal Carcinoma Associated with Human Papillomavirus and Managed with Surgery by Harsh Kumar, Rameet Sandhu, Ritesh Upadhyay, Aanchal Aggarwal, Rathi Rela, Sahana Karthik

“…The recurrence-free survival and overall survival rates [age, number of lymph nodes involved, stage of tumor, and Charleston comorbidity index] in the study subjects were 83% and 71% and 62% and 79%, respectively. …”
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Seroprevalence against SARS-CoV-2 after booster vaccination in a prison in Alicante (Spain) by Ana C. Montagud, Raul Moragues, Nancy Vicente-Alcalde, Nancy Vicente-Alcalde, Emilia Montagud, José Antonio Hurtado-Sánchez, José Antonio Hurtado-Sánchez, José Tuells, José Tuells

“…The vaccines administered in the last dose were Biontech/Pfizer and Moderna in 88.6% of the cases. 59.5% of sample had suffered from COVID-19 and 67.0% did not have any clinical comorbidity. In the regression analysis, it was observed that the variables with a stronger statistical relationship with presence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies were: the number of years since last vaccine dose was received (aOR: 0.08; 95%CI: 0.05; 0.16) the number of vaccine doses received (aOR: 4.8; 95%CI: 2.9; 8.0) and presenting any comorbidity (aOR: 4.3; 95%CI: 2.4; 8.0). …”
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Neuropsychiatric Outcome of an Adolescent Who Received Deep Brain Stimulation for Tourette's Syndrome by S. J. Pullen, C. A. Wall, K. H. Lee, S. M. Stead, B. T. Klassen, T. M. Brown

“…Furthermore, despite significant baseline psychiatric comorbidity, this patient reported no suicidal ideation following electrode implantation. …”
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Vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane peeling for stellate nonhereditary idiopathic foveomacular retinoschisis: a case report by O.S. Pyrozhkova, M.M. Umanets

“…Results: The patient had no somatic comorbidity and complained only of a gradual deterioration in vision over two years. …”
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Statistical Modeling of HIV, Tuberculosis, and Hepatitis B Transmission in Ghana by Clement Twumasi, Louis Asiedu, Ezekiel N. N. Nortey

“…The validity of these comorbidity assertions was statistically determined by exploring the conditional dependencies existing among HIV, TB, and HB through Bayesian networks or directed graphical model. …”
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A Family with a High Incidence of Migraine and Vestibular Migraine and a Case of Menière’s Disease by Marco Familiari, Omar Gatti, Iacopo Cangiano, Roberto Teggi

“…Therefore, in those cases, the differential diagnosis between the two disorders can be difficult. Moreover, a comorbidity with migraine in MD patients is widely reported, up to the hypothesis of a possible MD-VM overlapping syndrome. …”
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Beneath the surface: unveiling the gut–brain axis in anorexia and depression by Fatima Shahid, Zain Afridi, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Nabeel Saddique, Javed Iqbal, Anurag Jha

“…Abstract Anorexia nervosa (AN) and depression are complex conditions with high comorbidity, impacting mental and physical health. Recent research suggests gut microbiota plays a significant role in their development and progression. …”
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Depression and anxiety symptoms among Afghan war widows and their associated factors: A cross-sectional analytical study by Naqib Ahmad Dost, Muhammad Haroon Stanikzai, Massoma Jafari

“…There were significant differences in the prevalence of mental health symptoms across our population with different sociodemographic and health-related profiles (in particular, time since widowhood, household income, history of comorbidity, and level of social support). Conclusion: The stark prevalence of mental health issues among Afghan war widows underscores an overlooked humanitarian crisis. …”
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