Mobile application adjunct to the WHO basic emergency care course: a mixed methods study by Juma A Mfinanga, Hendry R Sawe, Anya L Greenberg, Andrea G Tenner, Alexandra Friedman, Paulina Nicholaus, Christian C Rose, Newton Addo, Catherine Reuben Shari, Upendo N George, Michael J Losak

“…We assessed whether a mobile application adjunct (BEC app) can have positive impact on knowledge acquisition and retention compared with the BEC course alone and evaluated perceptions, acceptability and barriers to adoption of such a tool.Design Mixed-methods prospective cohort study.Participants Adult healthcare workers in six health facilities in Tanzania who enrolled in the BEC course and were divided into the control arm (BEC course) or the intervention arm (BEC course plus BEC app).Main outcome measures Changes in knowledge assessment scores, self-efficacy and perceptions of BEC app.Results 92 enrolees, 46 (50%) in each arm, completed the BEC course. 71 (77%) returned for the 4-month follow-up. …”
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Predictive effect of estimated glomerular filtrate rate by creatinine or cystatin C on mortality in patients with coronary artery disease by Shiqun Chen, Yang Zhou, Guoxiao Liang, Wanying Wu, Zhigang Huang, Lile Shi, Yuwei Gao, Xia Gu, Dongmei Wang

“…We aim to evaluate the predict effect of creatinine-based eGFR (eGFRcr), cystatin C-based eGFR (eGFRcys), and both creatinine and cystatin C-based eGFR (eGFRcr-cys) in CAD patients.Methods A total of 23,178 patients with CAD were included from CIN-II cohort study. The association of eGFRcr, eGFRcys and eGFRcr-cys with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality was detected by Cox regression analysis. …”
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Models based on dietary nutrients predicting all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in people with diabetes by Fang Wang, Yukang Mao, Jinyu Sun, Jiaming Yang, Li Xiao, Qingxia Huang, Chenchen Wei, Zhongshan Gou, Kerui Zhang

“…The retrospective cohort study collected 5060 participants with DM from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999–2018. …”
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Prevalence, management, and outcomes of haemorrhagic events in left ventricular assist device recipients by Laetitia Pourtau, Maxime Beneyto, Jean Porterie, Jerome Roncalli, Montse Massot, Caroline Biendel, Pauline Fournier, Romain Itier, Michel Galinier, Olivier Lairez, Clement Delmas

“…Methods and results We conducted a retrospective, single‐centre, cohort study including all patients who received an LVAD from January 2008 to December 2019 in our tertiary centre (Rangueil University Hospital, Toulouse, France). …”
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Developing a clinical prediction model to modify empirical antibiotics for non-typhoidal Salmonella bloodstream infection in children under-five in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Bieke Tack, Daniel Vita, Jules Mbuyamba, Emmanuel Ntangu, Hornela Vuvu, Immaculée Kahindo, Japhet Ngina, Aimée Luyindula, Naomie Nama, Tito Mputu, Justin Im, Hyonjin Jeon, Florian Marks, Jaan Toelen, Octavie Lunguya, Jan Jacobs, Ben Van Calster

“…Methods Data were collected during a prospective cohort study in children (> 28 days—< 5 years) admitted with severe febrile illness to Kisantu district hospital, DR Congo. …”
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Associations of fasting plasma glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin levels at less than 24 weeks of gestation with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: the BOSHI study by Seiya Izumi, Noriyuki Iwama, Hirotaka Hamada, Taku Obara, Mami Ishikuro, Michihiro Satoh, Takahisa Murakami, Masatoshi Saito, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Takashi Sugiyama, Shinichi Kuriyama, Nobuo Yaegashi, Kazuhiko Hoshi, Yutaka Imai, Hirohito Metoki, the BOSHI Study Group

“…Totally, 1,178 participants were included in this prospective cohort study. HDP, FPG, HbA1c, and potential confounding factors were included in multiple logistic regression models. …”
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Baseline atherogenic index of plasma and its trajectory predict onset of type 2 diabetes in a health screened adult population: a large longitudinal study by Yongbing Sun, Xinbei Lin, Zhi Zou, Caiwen Zhao, Ao Liu, Jing Zhou, Zhonglin Li, Xiaoling Wu, Shewei Dou, Jiadong Zhu, Tao Li, Xue Lv, Yong Wang, Yongli Li

“…However, no prospective cohort study has comprehensively evaluated both the immediate risk stratification through baseline AIP and the long-term risk assessment through multi-time point AIP trajectories in health screened adults in relation to T2DM risk. …”
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Immune checkpoint inhibitor‐related type 1 diabetes incidence, risk, and survival association by Fumika Kamitani, Yuichi Nishioka, Miyuki Koizumi, Hiroki Nakajima, Yukako Kurematsu, Sadanori Okada, Shinichiro Kubo, Tomoya Myojin, Tatsuya Noda, Tomoaki Imamura, Yutaka Takahashi

“…Materials and Methods The study is a large retrospective cohort study, performed using the DeSC Japanese administrative claims database comprising 11 million patients. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of CART Cell Therapy in Aggressive B‐Cell Lymphomas Involving the Gastrointestinal Tract by Lixia Ma, Yimeng Dou, Rui Liu, Teng Xu, Fan Yang, Peihao Zheng, Shaomei Feng, Yuelu Guo, Hui Shi, Fei Xue, Biping Deng, Xiaoyan Ke, Kai Hu

“…Therefore, we conducted a retrospective cohort study to address this gap in knowledge. Methods During the period from May 2019 to August 2022, a total of 26 patients recurrent/refractory with recurrent/refractory B‐cell lymphoma involving the gastrointestinal tract enrolled. …”
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Differences in the response to TNF inhibitors at distinct joint locations in patients with psoriatic arthritis: results from nine European registries by Adrian Ciurea, Seraphina Kissling, Andrea Götschi, Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg, Simon Horskjær Rasmussen, Bálint Tamási, Burkhard Möller, Michael J. Nissen, Bente Glintborg, Anne Gitte Loft, Almut Scherer, René Bräm, Karel Pavelka, Jakub Závada, Joao Madruga Dias, Paula Valente, Bjorn Gudbjornsson, Olafur Palsson, Vappu Rantalaiho, Ritva Peltomaa, Catalin Codreanu, Corina Mogosan, Florenzo Iannone, Marco Sebastiani, Gareth T. Jones, Gary J. Macfarlane, Isabel Castrejon, Ziga Rotar, Brigitte Michelsen, Johan K. Wallman, Irene van der Horst-Bruinsma, Oliver Distler, Mikkel Østergaard, Merete Lund Hetland, Raphael Micheroli, Caroline Ospelt

“…Methods Bionaive PsA patients from nine European countries were included in this observational cohort study if ≥ 1 joint was swollen at the initiation of a first TNFi as monotherapy or added to methotrexate. …”
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Increasing prevalence of thyroid autoimmunity in childhood type 1 diabetes in the pre-COVID but not during the COVID era by Vivien Herczeg, Eszter Muzslay, Diána Czipó, Lili Terkovics, Johanna Takács, Réka Garai, Réka Garai, Fanni Kovács, Andrea Luczay, Anna Körner, Péter Tóth-Heyn

“…Our study aimed to analyze the prevalence of thyroid autoimmunity (TA) over a 10-year period spanning pre-pandemic and pandemic years in a population who are regularly screened for thyroid disturbances.Materials and methodsThis single-center retrospective cohort study analyzed data from 1,361 children and young adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D) treated between 2013 and 2022 in Hungary’s largest pediatric endocrinology center. …”
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Development and validation of the age-associated dementia policy (AgeD-Pol) computer simulation model in the USA and Europe by Anand Viswanathan, Lee H Schwamm, Krishna P Reddy, Emily P Hyle, Fatma M Shebl, Kenneth A Freedberg, Julia H A Foote, Yiqi Qian, Shibani S Mukerji, Nattanicha Wattananimitgul, Ankur Pandya

“…We first performed internal validation using data from the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) cohort study. We then performed external validation of the model using data from the Framingham Heart Study, the Rotterdam Study and Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC). …”
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Hyperglycemia and Correlated High Levels of Inflammation Have a Positive Relationship with the Severity of Coronavirus Disease 2019 by Wen Zhang, Chuanwei Li, Yu Xu, Binfeng He, Mingdong Hu, Guoqiang Cao, Li Li, Shuang Wu, Xia Wang, Chun Zhang, Jianping Zhao, Jungang Xie, Zihui Xu, Qi Li, Guansong Wang

“…In this retrospective cohort study, the clinical and biochemical characteristics of COVID-19 patients with or without diabetes were compared. …”
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Describing quality of life trajectories in young Hispanic women with breast cancer: 5-year results from a large prospective cohort by Bryan F. Vaca-Cartagena, Ana S. Ferrigno Guajardo, Hatem A. Azim Jr, Federico Rotolo, Antonio Olivas-Martinez, Alejandra Platas, Alan Fonseca, Fernanda Mesa-Chavez, Marlid Cruz-Ramos, Ana Rodriguez, Alejandro Mohar, Cynthia Villarreal-Garza

“…Methods: In this prospective longitudinal cohort study, women aged ≤40 with stage I-III BC completed the European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer Core QoL questionnaire at diagnosis and during 4 follow-up visits over 5 years, alongside demographic and clinical data collection. …”
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Effects of 24-hour urine-output trajectories on the risk of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients with cirrhosis: a retrospective cohort analysis by Jia Wang, Dongdong Niu, Xiaolin Li, Yumei Zhao, Enlin Ye, Jiasheng Huang, Suru Yue, Xuefei Hou, Jiayuan Wu

“…Thus, we explored the influence of 24-h urine-output trajectory on AKI in patients with cirrhosis through latent category trajectory modeling.Materials and Methods This retrospective cohort study examined patients with cirrhosis using the MIMIC-IV database. …”
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Urban environment during pregnancy, cognitive abilities, motor function, and externalizing and internalizing symptoms at 2–5 years old in 3 Canadian birth cohorts by Anne-Claire Binter, Dany Doiron, Martine Shareck, Tona Pitt, Sheila W. McDonald, Padmaja Subbarao, Wiliam D. Fraser, Suzanne C. Tough, Jeffrey Brook, Mònica Guxens

“…Method: We included 6,279 mother–child pairs from 3 Canadian population-based birth-cohorts (3D Cohort Study in Montreal, Quebec City, and Sherbrooke, AOF Study in Calgary, CHILD Study in Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto, and Winnipeg). …”
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Association between sleep duration and hypertension in southwest China: a population-based cross-sectional study by Yu Guo, Liming Li, Zhengming Chen, Qiang Sun, Pei Pei, Xianping Wu, Ningmei Zhang, Xiaofang Chen, Guojin Luo, John S Ji, Xiaoyu Chang, Xiaofang Chen*

“…We examined the association between sleep duration and hypertension in southwest China.Design Population-based cross-sectional study.Setting This study was part of the baseline survey of a large ongoing prospective cohort study, the China Kadoorie Biobank. Participants were enrolled in 15 townships of Pengzhou city in Sichuan province during 2004–2008.Participants 55 687 participants aged 30–79 years were included. …”
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Beta-Blockers After PCI for Stable Coronary Artery Disease and Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction by Safi U. Khan, MD, MS, Usman Ali Akbar, MD, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, MD, Kershaw V. Patel, MD, Amna Nadeem, MBBS, Samarth Thakkar, MD, Hassaan B. Arshad, MD, Salim S. Virani, MD, PhD, Khurram Nasir, MD, MPH, Sachin S. Goel, MD, Alpesh R. Shah, MD, William Zoghbi, MD, Neal S. Kleiman, MD

“…Methods: This retrospective cohort study employed target trial emulation and incident user design, utilizing the TriNetx database (2009-2024). …”
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Preconception diet quality and modified natural cycle in vitro fertilisation outcomes by Janine P.M. Faessen, Irene Homminga, Marion E.C. Buso, Ruxandra A. Nagy, Jannie van Echten-Arends, Edith J.M. Feskens, Uwe J.F. Tietge, Annemieke Hoek, Elske M. Brouwer-Brolsma

“…We studied associations between adherence to the Dutch guidelines for a Healthy diet 2015 and pregnancy chances among women receiving modified natural cycle in vitro fertilisation (MNC-IVF). This prospective cohort study utilised data from 109 women undergoing MNC-IVF between 2014 and 2018 at University Medical Centre Groningen enrolled in a study examining associations between metabolic profile of follicular fluid and oocyte quality. …”
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The effects of mother-infant bonding on children's strengths and difficulties by Tomoko Kawasaki, Yoshikazu Noda, Yoshiyuki Hirano, Akiko Kawanami, Kenichi Sakurai, Chisato Mori, Eiji Shimizu

“…We analyzed factors including maternal mental health and mother-infant bonding to predict subtype classes as a prospective cohort study. Methods: Data from Japan's Chiba Study of Mother and Child Health (C-MACH) were used. …”
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