Implication of Natal Care and Maternity Leave on Child Morbidity: Evidence from Ghana [PDF]
Global Journal of Health Science, 12(9) (2020), 2020 Failure to receive post-natal care within first week of delivery causes a 3% increase in the possibility of Acute Respiratory Infection in children under five. Mothers with unpaid maternity leave put their children at a risk of 3.9% increase in the possibility of ARI compared to those with paid maternity leave.
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Current Landscape of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy in COVID Induced Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome [PDF]
Acta Scientific MICROBIOLOGY (ISSN: 2581-3226), Volume 5 Issue 8
August 2022, 2022 The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 outbreak in Chinas Hubei area in late 2019 has now created a global pandemic that has spread to over 150 countries. In most people, COVID 19 is a respiratory infection that produces fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Patients with severe COVID 19 may develop ARDS.
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Seasonal association between viral causes of hospitalised acute lower respiratory infections and meteorological factors in China: a retrospective study [PDF]
The Lancet Planetary Health, 2021, 2020 Acute lower respiratory infections caused by respiratory viruses are common and persistent infectious diseases worldwide and in China, which have pronounced seasonal patterns. Meteorological factors have important roles in the seasonality of some major viruses.
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Deposition distribution of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in the human airways upon exposure to cough-generated aerosol [PDF]
Scientific Reports 2020, 10, 22430, 2020 The new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been emerged as a rapidly spreading pandemic. The disease is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks. The pathogen of COVID-19 is the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
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Alpha-1 adrenergic receptor antagonists to prevent hyperinflammation and death from lower respiratory tract infection [PDF]
Elife 10 (2021): e61700, 2020 In severe viral pneumonia, including Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the viral replication phase is often followed by hyperinflammation, which can lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome, multi-organ failure, and death. We previously demonstrated that alpha-1 adrenergic receptor ($\alpha_1$-AR) antagonists can prevent hyperinflammation and ...
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Use of mathematical modelling to assess respiratory syncytial virus epidemiology and interventions: A literature review [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of acute lower respiratory tract infection worldwide, resulting in approximately sixty thousand annual hospitalizations of <5-year-olds in the United States alone and three million annual hospitalizations globally. The development of over 40 vaccines and immunoprophylactic interventions targeting RSV
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Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals key epigenetic targets in SARS-CoV-2 infection [PDF]
, 2020 COVID-19 is an infection caused by SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2), which has caused a global outbreak. Current research efforts are focused on the understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in SARS-CoV-2 infection in order to propose drug-based therapeutic options.
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Detection of COVID-19 Using Heart Rate and Blood Pressure: Lessons Learned from Patients with ARDS [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 The world has been affected by COVID-19 coronavirus. At the time of this study, the number of infected people in the United States is the highest globally (7.9 million infections). Within the infected population, patients diagnosed with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are in more life-threatening circumstances, resulting in severe ...
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Non-Markov stochastic dynamics of real epidemic process of respiratory infections [PDF]
Physica A, 331, 2004, p. 300-318, 2004 The study of social networks and especially of the stochastic dynamics of the diseases spread in human population has recently attracted considerable attention in statistical physics. In this work we present a new statistical method of analyzing the spread of epidemic processes of grippe and acute respiratory track infections (ARTI) by means of the ...
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Elastic $k$-means clustering of functional data for posterior exploration, with an application to inference on acute respiratory infection dynamics [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 We propose a new method for clustering of functional data using a $k$-means framework. We work within the elastic functional data analysis framework, which allows for decomposition of the overall variation in functional data into amplitude and phase components. We use the amplitude component to partition functions into shape clusters using an automated
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