Clinical Characteristics of COVID-19 in Neonates and Infants Younger Than 3 Months by Fatemeh Varshoei, Mohammad Sadegh Rezai, Roya Farhadi, Azin Hajialibeig, Saeid Mohammadi, Masoud Moradi, Fatemeh Hosseinzadeh

“…Objectives: To better understand COVID-19 in young children, we evaluated the epidemiological, clinical, and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection in neonates and 1-3 months old infants and compared the differences between the two groups. …”
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Is Gestational Diabetes Mellitus an Important Contributor to Metabolic Disorders in Trinidad and Tobago? by M. Clapperton, J. Jarvis, K. Mungrue

“…Hope Women's Hospital and to describe its epidemiological pattern. Design. A retrospective observational study (Jan 2005 to Dec 2007). …”
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A Real-Time PCR Assay for Bat SARS-Like Coronavirus Detection and Its Application to Italian Greater Horseshoe Bat Faecal Sample Surveys by Andrea Balboni, Laura Gallina, Alessandra Palladini, Santino Prosperi, Mara Battilani

“…Numerous studies have been carried out to identify new bat viruses related to SARS-coronavirus (bat-SARS-like CoVs) using a reverse-transcribed-polymerase chain reaction assay. …”
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The Frequency of Intestinal Parasitic Infections in COVID-19 Patients: A Case-Control Study in Tehran, Capital of Iran by Ali Taghipour, Majid Pirestani, Ramin Hamidi Farahani, Mohammad Barati

“…RNA extraction was performed, and then real time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) assay was applied to detect viral RNA. …”
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Seroprevalence of Foot and Mouth Disease Virus Infection in Some Wildlife and Cattle in Bauchi State, Nigeria by Y. J. Atuman, C. A. Kudi, P. A. Abdu, O. O. Okubanjo, A. Abubakar, Y. Wungak, H. G. Ularamu

“…Despite the endemic nature of FMD in Nigeria, little is known about the epidemiology of the disease at the wildlife-livestock interface level. …”
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Serum Matrix Metalloproteinases and Risk of Urologic Cancers: A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Study by BoWen Yang, XiaoYu Zeng, HanYu Wang, JiuHuan Feng, ShuFang Hou

“…Many observational epidemiological studies have reported an association between matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and urologic cancers. …”
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Auditory Hallucinations in Acute Stroke by Yair Lampl, Mordechai Lorberboym, Ronit Gilad, Mona Boaz, Menachem Sadeh

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CONSORT-DEFINE explanation and elaboration: recommendations for enhancing reporting quality and impact of early phase dose-finding clinical trialsResearch in context by Jan Rekowski, Christina Guo, Olga Solovyeva, Munyaradzi Dimairo, Mahtab Rouhifard, Dhrusti Patel, Emily Alger, Deborah Ashby, Jordan Berlin, Oliver Boix, Melanie Calvert, An-Wen Chan, Courtney H. Coschi, Johann de Bono, Thomas R. Jeffry Evans, Elizabeth Garrett–Mayer, Robert M. Golub, Kathryn S. Hayward, Sally Hopewell, John D. Isaacs, S. Percy Ivy, Thomas Jaki, Olga Kholmanskikh, Andrew Kightley, Shing Lee, Rong Liu, Israel Maia, Adrian Mander, Lynley V. Marshall, James Matcham, Richard Peck, Khadija Rerhou Rantell, Dawn P. Richards, Lesley Seymour, Yoshiya Tanaka, Moreno Ursino, Christopher J. Weir, Christina Yap

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A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of Lifestyle Intervention and Pioglitazone for Normalization of Glucose Status in Chinese with Prediabetes by Yingying Luo, Hongyuan Wang, Xianghai Zhou, Cuiqing Chang, Wei Chen, Xiaohui Guo, Jinkui Yang, Linong Ji, Sanjoy K. Paul

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Deriving and validating a risk prediction model for long COVID-19: protocol for an observational cohort study using linked Scottish data by Jennifer K Quint, Aziz Sheikh, Chris Robertson, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Emily Moore, Colin R Simpson, Luke Daines, Eleftheria Vasileiou, Syed Ahmar Shah, Rachel H Mulholland, Vicky Hammersley, Steven Kerr, Ting Shi, David Weatherill, Elisa Pesenti

“…We will investigate the potential indicators of long-COVID by performing a matched analysis between those with a positive reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) test for SARS-CoV-2 infection and two control groups: (1) individuals with at least one negative RT-PCR test and never tested positive; (2) the general population (everyone who did not test positive) of Scotland. …”
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Effectiveness of direct patient outreach with a narrative naloxone and overdose prevention video to patients prescribed long-term opioid therapy in the USA: the Naloxone Navigator... by Jason M Glanz, Ingrid A Binswanger, Shane R Mueller, Komal J Narwaney, Nicole M Wagner, Stanley Xu, Courtney R Kraus, Kris Wain, Sheila Botts

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Global, regional, and national trends in drug use disorder mortality rates across 73 countries from 1990 to 2021, with projections up to 2040: a global time-series analysis and mod... by Soeun Kim, Hayeon Lee, Selin Woo, Hyeri Lee, Jaeyu Park, Tae Kim, Guillaume Fond, Laurent Boyer, Masoud Rahmati, Lee Smith, Guillermo F. López Sánchez, Elena Dragioti, Christa J. Nehs, Jinseok Lee, Hyeon Jin Kim, Jiseung Kang, Dong Keon Yon

“…From 1990 to 2021, the increase in the number of DUD deaths globally can be attributed to two prominent factors: epidemiological change and population growth. In HICs, the impacts of epidemiological changes for increasing DUD mortality rates were particularly prominent compared to other factors. …”
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MICRO RNA: A PROSPECTIVE DIAGNOSTICBIOMARKER IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE by Syeda Uroosa Hashmi, Ameer Haider Ali

“… Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by cognitive decline that impairs individuals' ability to perform normal activities independently. Epidemiological data indicates that over 50 million people globally are affected by AD, and no existing drugs have successfully reversed its progression. …”
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Overview of Celiac Disease in Russia: Regional Data and Estimated Prevalence by Lyudmila V. Savvateeva, Svetlana I. Erdes, Anton S. Antishin, Andrey A. Zamyatnin

“…As an autoimmune disease, CD is manifested in the small intestine in the form of a progressive and reversible inflammatory lesion due to immune response to self-antigens. …”
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Family Practitioners and Sexually Transmitted Diseases by Marc Steben

“…Tertiary prevention is aimed at limiting disease progression or reversing damage, but such measures are usually quite expensive and of limited value. …”
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A guide for the generation of repositories of clinical samples for research on Chagas disease. by Nieves Martínez-Peinado, Juan Carlos Gabaldón-Figueira, Roberto Rodrigues Ferreira, María Carmen Thomas, Manuel Carlos López, Tania Cremonini Araújo-Jorge, Belkisyolé Alarcón de Noya, Soledad Berón, Janine Ramsey, Irene Losada Galván, Alejandro Gabriel Schijman, Adriana González Martínez, Andrés Mariano Ruiz, Gimena Rojas, Roberto Magalhães Saraiva, Oscar Noya-González, Andrea Gómez, Rosa A Maldonado, Jimmy Pinto, Faustino Torrico, Ivan Scandale, Fernán Agüero, María-Jesús Pinazo, Joaquim Gascón, Alejandro Marcel Hasslocher-Moreno, Julio Alonso-Padilla, NHEPACHA Network (New Tools for the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Chagas Disease)

“…Furthermore, determining the efficacy of Chagas disease treatment is complicated, given the slow reversion of serological anti-T. cruzi antibody reactivity, which may even take decades to occur. …”
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Predictors of direct oral anticoagulant concentrations in the trauma population by Laura Adams, Alan M Smith, Louis Perkins, Dmitri Lerner, Jarrett Santorelli, Leslie Kobayashi

“…We were unable to detect an association between anti-Xa levels and clinical outcomes.Level of evidence III—Prognostic and Epidemiological.…”
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