Why and How to Treat Chronic Hepatitis C by Stephanos J Hadziyannis

“…If hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is left untreated in the population, then the number of liver-related deaths will soon double and the need for liver transplantation may increase to five times that seen today. …”
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The impact of war on animal welfare: the Imperial Japanese Navy’s manipulation of pigeon behavior in WW II by Cheng Peng, Zi-qi Luo, Lin-hui Guo, Yi-fei Zhu

“…Furthermore, the prolonged shortage of specialized military personnel led to inadequate care and neglect of the pigeons, resulting in the outbreak of infectious diseases and then deaths that could have been avoided among the birds. …”
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Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure among Adults in an Urbanized Village in Delhi by Yukti Bhandari, Jugal Kishore, Abhilasha Yadav, Aritrik Das

“…Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is also associated with adverse health effects, causing 1.2 million deaths worldwide each year. In Delhi, 28.0% had SHS exposure at public places. …”
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND-BASED CONFLICT: THE IMPACT ON FOOD SECURITY IN NIGERIA by OGUIKE MIRIAM ADAEZE UJU

“…As a result of climate change, the number of land-based conflicts and deaths increased due to violence conflict within communities, groups, individuals and states. …”
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Pedestrian Safety in South Africa: A Comprehensive Analysis by Mmakwena Modipa

“…Numerous factors contribute to the elevated rate of pedestrian deaths in the country. One of the significant issues in South Africa is the lack of prioritization of pedestrian safety. …”
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A Holling Type II Discrete Switching Host-Parasitoid System with a Nonlinear Threshold Policy for Integrated Pest Management by Mengqi He, Sanyi Tang, Robert A. Cheke

“…., biological and chemical measures are implemented together, assuming that the chemical immediately precedes the biological inputs to avoid pesticide-induced deaths of the natural enemies. First, the existence and local stability of the equilibria of two subsystems were studied, and the existence and coexistence of several types of equilibria of a nonlinear switching system were analysed. …”
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A review on the crisis of antibiotic resistance and the strategies to combat resistance by S. Niveda, O. M. Fasalu Rahiman, P. K. Sreenadh, M. L. Lal Prasanth

“…Due to this, millions of deaths are occurring worldwide every year as infections are becoming difficult to treat as a result of resistance to the antibiotics that are used to treat them. …”
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Exploration of the procedures and practices for providing student support services in a nursing college in South Africa by Thembekile Skakane, Ntombifikile Mtshali, Sandiso Ngcobo

“…Contributory factors are retirements, resignations, recent increased deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the reduced production of nurses because of high attrition rates. …”
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Cutting the Difficult Papilla: Ancillary Techniques in the Performance of Endoscopic Sphincterotomy by Claude Liguory, Jean Francois Lefebvre, Didier Bonnel, Gary C Vitale

“…Early complications of standard endoscopic sphin-.lerotomy included bleeding, perforation, pancreatitis and cholangitis, comprising 4.3% of the 1040 sphincterocomies. There were five deaths (mortality rate 0.5%) and laparotomy was required in six patients (0.6%). …”
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Long-Term Followup after Electrocautery Transurethral Resection of the Prostate for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia by F. Kallenberg, T. A. Hossack, H. H. Woo

“…Early complication rates were low, with no blood transfusions, TUR syndrome, or deaths occurring. Urethral stricture rate was higher than anticipated at 14%. …”
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Estimating the Prevalence of Opioid use Disorder in the Cincinnati Region using Probabilistic Multiplier Methods and Model Averaging by Peter J. Mallow, Nila Sathe, Michael Topmiller, Jennifer Chubinski, Dillon Carr, Roni Christopher

“…The models used counts of overdose deaths, non-fatal overdoses, and treatment admissions as benchmark data. …”
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Pediatric achalasia. Single-center study of interventional treatment by Andrzej Grabowski, Wojciech Korlacki, Michał Pasierbek, Roksana Pułtorak, Filip Achtelik, Maciej Ilewicz

“…Results: Twelve laparoscopic cardiomyotomies were performed with concomitant fundoplications, 10 Toupet and 2 Dor and one redo procedure. There were no deaths. Two perforations were repaired promptly. The success rate was 82%, though with subsequent dilatations. …”
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Tumor-initiating and metastasis-initiating cells of clear-cell renal cell carcinoma by Dinh-Xuan Pham, Tien Hsu

“…Abstract Clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common subtype of kidney malignancy. ccRCC is considered a major health concern worldwide because its numbers of incidences and deaths continue to rise and are predicted to continue rising in the foreseeable future. …”
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A Pandemia de Covid-19 no Brasil : a pobreza e a vulnerabilidade social como determinantes sociais by Simone Affonso da Silva

“…About a year after the notification of the first case of Covid-19 in the world, we have a very bad scenario in Brazil, since the country occupies, respectively, the 3rd and 2nd positions in the ranking of countries with the highest number of confirmed cases and with the highest number of deaths. In this article we will analyse the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspective of social determinants of health, in particular some risk factors to which a large part of the Brazilian population is exposed: poverty and social vulnerability. …”
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Health-Promoting Behaviors in Bulgaria: A Cross-Sectional Study on Non-Communicable Diseases and Lifestyle by Sophia Lazarova, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova

“…(1) Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a global health issue causing millions of deaths annually. Bulgaria has one of the highest rates of premature mortality due to NCDs in the European Union, mostly attributed to poor lifestyle habits. …”
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Analysis and Simulation of Thermodynamic Diagrams of Convective and Destructive Storms in Mountainous Regions (Case Study: Meshkinshahr City) by Dariush Yarahmadi, Jamid Mirhashemi, Habib Ariantabar

“…This caused a lot of financial losses, including the deaths of 33 people in the city. In this study, from the thermodynamic conditions of the atmosphere corresponding to this rainy day, the network data, temperature, geopotential height and relative humidity with a spatial resolution of 0.125 * 0.125 with steps of 25 and 50 hPa from 1000 to 200 hPa are used. …”
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Laboratory diagnostics of alcohol intoxication in patients with alcohol-induced liver disease by A. I. Pavlov, A. I. Khazanov

“…It account for 3,5 times more deaths (78,0%), than all viral LC. Results of these investigations demonstrated, that at testing only for asialotransferrin positive result was obtained only in 3 (5,4%) patients admitted to the hospital with severe manifestations of acute alcoholic hepatitis. …”
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A Potential Role of MicroRNA in the Renal Cancer and Its Tumor Microenvironment by Daniel Chikere Ali, Siva Bharath Merugu

“…Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) accounts for approximately 2.2% of all diagnosed cancers and 1.8% of cancer-related deaths. Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most prevalent subtype of RCC, accounting for approximately 70–80% of all cases. …”
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Organoids and spheroids: advanced in vitro models for liver cancer research by Mirella Pastore, Alessia Giachi, Elena Spínola-Lasso, Fabio Marra, Chiara Raggi

“…Liver cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, highlighting the need for innovative approaches to understand its complex biology and develop effective treatments. …”
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Predictores de vasoespasmo cerebral sintomático en la hemorragia subaracnoidea espontánea by Ezequiel López Espinosa, Miguel Ángel Serra Valdés, Maira Sarmiento Matamoros

“…<strong>Background:</strong> subarachnoid hemorrhage accounts for only 2 to 5 % of all cerebrovascular diseases; however it causes approximately 25 % of all deaths related to them. <br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to identify the factors contributing to the prediction of symptomatic cerebral vasospasm in patients diagnosed with subarachnoid hemorrhage. …”
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