Home Medication Review among Patients with Chronic Diseases in Rural Villages of Pahang, Malaysia: A Case Report by Norny Syafinaz Ab Rahman, Nur Alyaa Anisa Mat Harom, Nor Ilyani Mohamed Nazar

“…The first case describes a 62-year-old single Malay female with multiple chronic conditions, including Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), hypertension, dyslipidemia, and bronchial asthma, managed with eight prescribed medications. …”
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Sevoflurane Inhibits the Th2 Response and NLRP3 Expression in Murine Allergic Airway Inflammation by Lixia Wang, Binshan Zha, Qiying Shen, Hongyun Zou, Cheng Cheng, Huimei Wu, Rongyu Liu

“…The NLRP3 independent of inflammasomes participated in the pathogenesis of allergic asthma in this model.…”
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Retrospective evaluation of patients admitted to the intensive care unit due to obstetric reasons in terms of maternal near-miss, a five-year case-control study by Özgür Erdem, Süleyman Cemil Oğlak, İzzettin Toktaş, Seher Baydemir, Ahmet Yosunkaya, Ali Erdem

“…The frequency of co-morbidities (Diabetes mellitus, Hypertension, Asthma, Hypothyroidism, etc.) in patients diagnosed with MNM (n = 48; 26.67%) was found to be 5.5 times that of the control group (n = 25; 6.20%) (p < 0.001). …”
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Association of exposure to second-hand smoke during childhood with blood DNA methylation by Marta Cosin-Tomas, Thanh Hoang, Cancan Qi, Giulietta S. Monasso, Ryan Langdon, Simon Kebede Merid, Lucinda Calas, Paula de Prado-Bert, Rebecca Richmond, Vincent VW Jaddoe, Liesbeth Duijts, John Wright, Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Regina Grazuleviciene, Marianna Karachaliou, Gerard H. Koppelman, Erik Melén, Olena Gruzieva, Martine Vrijheid, Paul Yousefi, Janine F. Felix, Stephanie J. London, Mariona Bustamante

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Prevalence and Economic Impact of Acute Respiratory Failure in the Prehospital Emergency Medical Service of the Madrid Community: Retrospective Cohort Study by Ana María Cintora-Sanz, Cristina Horrillo-García, Víctor Quesada-Cubo, Ana María Pérez-Alonso, Alicia Gutiérrez-Misis

“…The anonymized medical records of patients treated with medical ALS, who received any of the following medical diagnoses, were extracted: ARF not related to chronic respiratory disease, ARF in chronic respiratory failure, exacerbations of COPD, APE, CHF, and bronchospasm (not from asthma or COPD). The prevalence of each pathology, its evolution from 2014 to 2020, and the economic impact of the Medical ALSs were calculated. …”
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Angiopoietin-2 and D-dimer add prognostic information to clinical risk in pulmonary arterial hypertension by Heather L. Clark, Daniel Lachant, Allison N. Light, Deborah Haight, Samia Lopia, Nigel Mackman, R. James White

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Clinical code usage in UK general practice: a cohort study exploring 18 conditions over 14 years by Christos Grigoroglou, Darren M Ashcroft, Evangelos Kontopantelis, David Reeves, Salwa S Zghebi, Rosa Parisi, Brian McMillan

“…Objective To assess the diagnostic Read code usage for 18 conditions by examining their frequency and diversity in UK primary care between 2000 and 2013.Design Population-based cohort studySetting 684 UK general practices contributing data to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) GOLD.Participants Patients with clinical codes for at least one of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, hypertension (HT), coronary heart disease, atrial fibrillation (AF), heart failure, stroke, hypothyroidism, chronic kidney disease, learning disability (LD), depression, dementia, epilepsy, severe mental illness (SMI), osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and cancer.Primary and secondary outcome measures For the frequency ranking of clinical codes, canonical correlation analysis was applied to correlations of clinical code usage of 1, 3 and 5 years. …”
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Association between weight-adjusted waist-index and symptoms of sleep apnea in US adults: results from 2015–2018 national health and nutrition examination survey by Edmore Madondo, Paddington T. Mundagowa, Ayesha Mukhopadhyay, Debra Bartelli, Yu Jiang, Fawaz Mzayek

“…The association between WWI and symptoms of sleep apnea was consistent across different age groups, gender, asthma, and physical activity groups. Conclusion WWI was positively associated with increased odds of sleep apnea symptoms and the association showed a dose–response relationship. …”
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How Does Indonesian Chronic Disease Patient Adhere to Their Treatment? A Cross-Sectional Analysis of 11,408 Subjects by Pradipta IS, Aprilio K, Ningsih YF, Pratama MAA, Gatera VA, Alfian SD, Iskandarsyah A, Abdulah R

“…Treatment nonadherence was notable in subjects with liver disease (61.8%), tuberculosis (59.8%), digestive diseases (57.9%), other lung diseases (56.8%), psychiatric diseases (51.6%), asthma (51.2%), and hypertension (50%). Treatment nonadherence was associated with socioeconomic-related factors of being aged 15– 65 years, living in rural areas, having history of formal education, and having a household size of 2– 6 people. …”
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Air Pollution Levels Related to Peak Expiratory Flow Rates among Adult Asthmatics in Lampang, Thailand by Wanwisa Chujit, Phongtape Wiwatanadate, Athavudh Deesomchok, Khajornsak Sopajaree, Kamal Eldeirawi, Ying I. Tsai

“…This year-long study, which was conducted from November 2015 till October 2016 and resulted in 12,045 data points from 33 participants, assessed the relationships (with a 95% confidence interval [CI]) between measured air pollutant (CO, NO2, O3, SO2, PM2.5 and PM10) concentrations and peak expiratory flow rates (PEFRs) among adults with asthma in the district of Mae Moh in Lampang, Thailand. …”
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Periplanta americana extract regulates the Th17/Treg cell balance via Notch1 in ulcerative colitis by Yanqiu Zheng, Yanqiu Zheng, Huibiao Li, Shiyu Qi, Fan Xiao, Jinbin Song, Shiyin Liu, Xinlin Chen, Yanwu Li, Muyuan Chen

“…BackgroundPeriplanta americana extract (PAE), a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) from Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, has been used to treat ulcerative colitis (UC), various types of wounds and ulcers, infantile malnutrition, palpitation, asthma, and so on. However, the exact mechanisms of PAE in UC have still not been fully revealed. …”
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Relieving or Aggravating the Burden: Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) of Electronic and Conventional Cigarette Users (Dual Users) in Indonesia by Faizal R. Moeis, Risky K. Hartono, Renny Nurhasana, Aryana Satrya, Teguh Dartanto

“…Results Our study finds: (1) dual users are positively associated to report having NCDs, such as liver failure (AOR=2.38; 95% CI: 2.32–2.44), diabetes (AOR=1.53; 95% CI: 1.50–1.57), hypertension (AOR=1.49; 95% CI: 1.48–1.51), and gum diseases (AOR=1.74; 95% CI: 1.73–1.74) compared to single users and(2) e-cigarette single users are positively associated with reporting to have NCDs and dental problems, such as asthma (AOR=3.11; 95% CI: 3.01–3.22), diabetes (AOR=16.01; 95% CI: 14.57–17.59), broken tooth (AOR=1.04; 95% CI: 1.03–1.06) and they have disease complication compared to conventional cigarette single users. …”
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Suitability of Measures of Pharmacy-Based Medication Adherence for Routine Clinical Use Among Patients with Chronic Diseases: A Systematic Review by Jannah W, Khoiry QA, Alfian SD, Abdulah R

“…This review included English studies on assessing medication adherence for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and diabetes, using pharmacy databases and providing full-text access. …”
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T7 DNA polymerase treatment improves quantitative sequencing of both double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses by Billaud, Maud, Theodorou, Ilias, Lamy-Besnier, Quentin, Shah, Shiraz A., Lecointe, François, De Sordi, Luisa, De Paepe, Marianne, Petit, Marie-Agnès

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Post Covid-19 Syndromes, The Time line of Covid by Nadia Shams, Zaid Umar, Lubna Meraj, Neelam Ayub, Muhammad Waseem, Kazim Abbas Virk

“…There was history of mild COVID in 89(45.6%), moderate 71(36.4%), severe 32(16.4%) and life threatening 02(01%) having significant association with increased mean age and female gender (p<0.05). ninety four (48.2%) cases had post COVID syndromes. persistent fatigue (58), fever (29), myalgia’s (27),  dyspnea (26), persistent cough (19), weight loss/gain (18), smear positive TB (2), bronchitis (7), asthma exacerbations (3) and pleural effusion (1). …”
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Biomedical and candidate SN P markers of chronopathologies can significantly change affinity of ТАТА -binding protein for human gene promoters by D. A. Rasskazov, N. L. Podkolodnyy, O. A. Podkolodnaya, N. N. Podkolodnaya, V. V. Suslov, L. K. Savinkova, P. M. Ponomarenko, M. P. Ponomarenko

“…In the [–70; –20] region of promoters of 14 human genes (location of proven binding sites of ТВР), we found 32 known and candidate SNP markers of circadian- rhythm disturbances, including rs17231520 and rs569033466 (both: risk of chronopathologies in liver); rs35036378 (behavioral chronoaberrations); rs549858786 (rheumatoid arthritis with a chronoaberration of IL1B expression); rs563207167, rs11557611, and rs5505 (all three: chronopathologies of the tumor – host balance, blood pressure, and the reproductive system); rs1143627 (bipolar disorder with circadian dependence of diagnosis and treatment); rs16887226 and rs544850971 (both: lowered resistance to endotoxins because of the imbalance between the circadian and immune systems); rs367732974 and rs549591993 (both: circadian dependence of heart attacks); rs563763767 (circadian dependence of myocardial infarction); rs2276109 and rs572527200 (both: circadian dependence of asthma attacks); rs34223104, rs563558831, and rs10168 (circadian optima of treatment with methotrexate and cyclophosphamide); and rs397509430, rs33980857,rs34598529, rs33931746, rs33981098, rs34500389, rs63750953, rs281864525, rs35518301, and rs34166473 (all: neurosensory hearing loss and restless legs syndrome). …”
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Non-communicable airway disease and air pollution in three African Countries: Benin, Cameroon and The Gambia by B. Awokola, H. Lawin, O. Johnson, A. Humphrey, D. Nzogo, L. Zubar, G. Okello, S. Semple, E. Awokola, G. Amusa, N. Mohammed, C. Jewell, A. Erhart, K. Mortimer, G. Devereux, B.H. Mbatchou-Ngahane

“…Cough, wheeze and shortness of breath were reported across the countries. A diagnosis of asthma was present in 74.0%; 16.3% had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and 4.1% had chronic bronchitis. …”
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Exploring the Use of Smartwatches and Activity Trackers for Health-Related Purposes for Children Aged 5 to 11 years: Systematic Review by Lauren Thompson, Sydney Charitos, Jon Bird, Paul Marshall, Amberly Brigden

“…Other applications included using smartwatches to deliver interventions for emotional regulation and asthma management. In total, 9 commercial devices were identified, many of which delivered minimal data feedback on the smartwatch or activity tracker, instead relying on a partner app running on a linked parental smartphone with greater functionality. …”
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Prevalence of communicable, non-communicable diseases, disabilities and related risk factors in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan: Findings from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Integrated Populat... by Ziaul Haq, Saima Afaq, Muhammad Ibrahim, Zala, Muhammad Asim

“…<h4>Objectives</h4>The objective of this study was to present the demographic characteristics and the burden of locally-specific CDs (hepatitis B and C, TB, AIDS), NCDs (diabetes, renal diseases, asthma, epilepsy, coronary heart diseases, cancer, hypertension, cholesterol, thalassemia), and disabilities (congenital, post-disease, post-injury, paralysis) stratified by sex, age and setting in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.…”
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Effects of Sublingual Duster Mite Drops on Lung Function and Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Children with Multiple and Single Allergic Respiratory Diseases by Li Wang, Tao Ai, Ronghua Luo, Yinghong Fan, Huiling Liao, Wanmin Xia, Cheng Xie, Yaping Duan, Yanru Liu

“…The rhinitis score, daytime and night symptom score of asthma, VAS score, drug score, pulmonary function, and FeNO level before and after treatment were evaluated and compared between the two groups. …”
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