Silicosis prevalence and related issues in India: a scoping review by Mukti Khetan, Bontha V. Babu

“…This review systematically examines the prevalence, risk factors, regional differences, and diagnostic tools specific to India’s high-risk industries. …”
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Post-traumatic enophthalmos: diagnosis and rehabilitation by M.B. Gushсhina, D.S. Afanasyeva

“…Considering current materials for plastic surgery, surgical techniques for enophthalmos correction, and risk factors for post-traumatic enophthalmos development in the late period, it seems to be important to develop single-step surgical strategy for orbital reconstruction, correction of enophthalmos, and prevention of its further development and/or progression.…”
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Comparison of Endogenous Endophthalmitis in Patients with and Without COVID-19 Infection by Ehsan Namvar, Mehdi Moallem, Mehrdad Afarid, Alireza Bolkheir

“…Age, sex, presenting and final visual acuity, systemic diseases and risk factors for EE, anterior segment and fundus findings, hospitalization due to COVID-19, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, systemic steroid therapy, results of the sepsis workup, causative microorganism, types of treatment (pars plana vitrectomy vs. intravitreal or antifungal antibiotics), and follow-up period were recorded. …”
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Association of Tobacco Use and Oral Cancer in a South Asian Population: A Case–control Study by Amra Sultana, Pushpanjali Krishnappa, Vivek Verma, Denny John, K. M. Shwetha, M. M. Sanjana, Anitha R. Sagarkar

“…Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the risk factors associated with oral cancer among people residing in the field practice area of dental institution. …”
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Influencing Factors of Pressure Ulcer in Critically Ill Patients by Li WANG, Qianting CAI, Ping CHEN

“…Univariate <italic>logistic</italic> regression showed that higher age (<italic>OR</italic>=1.055,95%<italic>CI</italic>: 1.015-1.097), urinary incontinence (<italic>OR</italic>=4.500,95%<italic>CI</italic>: 1.094-18.503), higher fall score (<italic>OR</italic>=3.201,95%<italic>CI</italic>: 1.769-5.792) were risk factors, while higher education level (<italic>OR</italic>=0.318,95%<italic>CI</italic>: 0.108-0.938), higher Braden score (<italic>OR</italic>=0.396,95%<italic>CI</italic>: 0.233-0.675), Q2H turning over (<italic>OR</italic>=0.222,95%<italic>CI</italic>: 0.054-0.914) and more caregivers (<italic>OR</italic>=0.058,95%<italic>CI</italic>: 0.008-0.424) were the protective factors for pressure ulcer. …”
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Factors associated with contracting border malaria: A systematic and meta-analysis. by Tichaona Fambirai, Moses Chimbari, Tafadzwa Mhindu

“…The use of insecticide-treated nets (ITN) (POR 0.61 95% CI, 0.50 0.76) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) (POR 0.61 95% CI, 0.47 0.79) were protective. Risk factors for border malaria are comparable to non-border malaria. …”
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Information needs for cancer screening and associated factors of information-seeking behaviour: a qualitative systematic review by Mingyao Zhou, Yuqing Wu, Dan Wang, Fang Cheng

“…Their information needs focus on disease risk factors, signs and symptoms, the importance of screening, the benefits and harms of screening, the detailed screening process, and screening results and explanations. …”
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Analysis of the Stockholm Public Health Cohort: Exploring How Ultraviolet Radiation and Other Factors Associate with Skin Cancer by Lina U. Ivert, Henrik Dal, Ylva Rodvall, Bernt Lindelöf

“…A forward stepwise regression was applied to select significant risk factors among all the factors included. We tentatively tested >30 variables separately for any relationship with each of the three skin cancers. …”
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The refugees and health crisis: migration policy management and government response to Afghan migrants by Kalsoom B. Sumra, Muhammad Mumtaz, Naqib Ullah Khan, Helen Huifen Cai, Qiong Yuan

“…It indicates that Afghan refugees are unable to access relief packages, and there is insufficient communication of risk factors. The lack of government facilities is due to the harder closed-door policy of the Pakistani government which has worsened the vulnerability of Afghan refugees after the sudden victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan. …”
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Theory-based mobile phone text messaging intervention for blood pressure control (TEXT4BP) among hypertensive patients in Nepal: study protocol for a feasibility randomised control... by Buna Bhandari, Padmanesan Narasimhan, Abhinav Vaidya, Rohan Jayasuriya

“…Introduction Uncontrolled blood pressure is one of the main risk factors for cardiovascular disease and death in Low-income and middle-income countries. …”
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Types of Complications and Associated Factors in Patients Undergoing Permanent Cardiac Pacemaker Implantation: A Systematic Review by Sugiharto F, Asmara AD, Sari WP, Freitas LA, Ramdani D, Anna A, Nuraeni A, Trisyani Y, Purnomo Y

“…Healthcare providers should emphasize patients with risk factors to provide targeted monitoring and management. …”
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Genome-Wide Association Study of Metabolic Syndrome in Koreans by Seok Won Jeong, Myungguen Chung, Soo-Jung Park, Seong Beom Cho, Kyung-Won Hong

“…To identify the genetic risk factors of METS, we carried out a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for 2,657 cases and 5,917 controls in Korean populations. …”
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Effect of frailty on the short-term functional outcome of elderly patients with traumatic brain injury by Yujing Gu, Huiqin Cui, Yang Gu, Xiaojiang Liu

“…[Results] Among the 127 elderly patients with traumatic brain injury, 48 cases had frailty.A total of 34 patients died during hospitalization, and 63 patients had poor neurological outcome at 3 months follow-up.Compared with the non-frailty group, the frailty group was older, had a higher mortality rate during hospitalization, and had a higher proportion of poor neurological prognosis at 3 months after onset (P<0.05).Multivariate logistics regression analysis shows that age >75 years old, higher Glasgow coma score and clinical frailty score ≥5 were independent risk factors for poor neurological prognosis in elderly patients with traumatic brain injury at 3 months onset.The results of the ROC curve indicated that the area under the curve of the Glasgow coma score predicting poor neurological prognosis in elderly patients with traumatic brain injury at 3 months after onset was 0.643 (95%CI:0.532-0.727), which was increased to 0.874 (95%CI:0.782-0.931) when indicators of patient age, Glasgow coma score and clinical frailty score were applied. …”
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Association Of Functional Dyspepsia With Depression; Gut-Brain Axis And Mental Health by Nadia Shams, Fareya Usmani, Hina Andaleeb, Furquana Niaz, Lubna Meraj, Nargis Munir

“…Female gender, unemployment and low educational status being possible risk factors for depression among FD patients. As compared to normal healthy people, FD patients are likely to have depression at younger age. …”
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Factors Affecting the Presence of Renal Cortical Cysts in Kidney Donors by Sevim Nuran Kuşlu Çiçek, Amil Huseynov

“…Data on demographic information, cyst characteristics, comorbidities, and associated risk factors were collected and analyzed using statistical methods, including Binary Logistic Regression Analysis. …”
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Awareness of cardiovascular disease risk and care received among Australian women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a cross-sectional survey by Kaylee Slater, Rachael Taylor, Clare E. Collins, Melinda Hutchesson

“…Regardless of HDP type or SES, women post-HDP were less likely to receive assessment and management of lifestyle CVD risk factors compared to blood pressure. Most women felt supported in managing stress and mental health, but not for managing body weight, smoking and sleep. …”
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Intersection between individual, household, environmental and system level factors in defining risk and resilience for children in Kenya's ASAL: A qualitative study. by Esther Jebor Chongwo, Barack Aoko, Martha Kaniala, Moses Esala, Phillis Magoma, Eunice Njoroge, Susan Nyamanya, Joyce Marangu, Anil Khamis, John Ng'asike, Anja C Huizink, Amina Abubakar

“…These factors range from individual and biological aspects to family, community, systemic, and environmental level, including climatic challenges. Identified risk factors encompassed issues such as young caregiver's age, low literacy, mental health issues, drug abuse, domestic violence, malnutrition, poverty, lack of paternal involvement, early marriages, female genital mutilation, drought, heat stress, and insecurity. …”
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Maternal Deaths due to Obstetric Haemorrhage in Dodoma Regional Referral Hospital, Tanzania by Mzee M. Nassoro, Enid Chiwanga, Athanase Lilungulu, Deogratius Bintabara

“…The leading contributing factors were late referral from other health facilities, inadequate skills in managing PPH due to uterine atony, delays in performing caesarean section at DRRH, and inadequate preparation for managing PPH in patients with abruptio placentae and IUFD which are risk factors for the condition. There is a need of conducting supportive supervision, mentorship, and other modes of teaching programmes on the management of obstetric haemorrhage to health care workers of referring facilities as well as those at DRRH. …”
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Assessing the possibility of using portable and stationary non-mydriatic fundus cameras for diabetic retinopathy screening assisted by an artificial intelligence-based software pla... by A.O. Nevska, O.A. Pohosian, K.O. Goncharuk, O.O. Chernenko, I.V. Hymanyk, A.R. Korol

“…Material and Methods: In this prospective, open-label study, 609 subjects (1218 eyes) with either diagnosed diabetes mellitus (DM) or risk factors for DM were divided into two groups depending on whether the fundus camera was stationary or portable. …”
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A scalable tool for analyzing genomic variants of humans using knowledge graphs and graph machine learning by Shivika Prasanna, Ajay Kumar, Deepthi Rao, Eduardo J. Simoes, Praveen Rao

“…By analyzing genomic variants of humans, scientists can gain better understanding of the risk factors of complex diseases such as cancer and COVID-19. …”
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