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Evidence for a Direct Harmful Effect of Alcohol on Myocardial Health: A Large Cross‐Sectional Study of Consumption Patterns and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Biomarkers From Northwest Russia, 2015 to 2017

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020
Background Alcohol drinking is an increasingly recognized risk factor for cardiovascular disease. However, there are few studies of the impact of harmful and hazardous drinking on biomarkers of myocardial health.
Olena Iakunchykova, Maria Averina, Alexander V. Kudryavtsev, Tom Wilsgaard, Andrey Soloviev, Henrik Schirmer, Sarah Cook, David A. Leon   +7 more
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Time trends in smoking in Russia in the light of recent tobacco control measures: synthesis of evidence from multiple sources

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background The study aims at identifying long-term trends and patterns of current smoking by age, gender, and education in Russia, including the most recent period from 2008 during which tobacco control policies were implemented, and to estimate the ...
Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Elena Churilova, Dmitry A. Jdanov, Svetlana A. Shalnova, Odd Nilssen, Alexander Kudryavtsev, Sarah Cook, Sofia Malyutina, Martin McKee, David A. Leon   +9 more
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Ethnobotany of the Kiluhikturmiut Inuinnait of Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada

Ethnobiology Letters, 2012
The disparity in floral diversity between tropical and arctic regions is reflected in a paucity of ethnobotanical research among arctic cultures.  The Kiluhikturmiut Inuinnait are an Inuit subpopulation who inhabit the Kitikmeot Region of the Territory ...
Jonathan Duffy Davis, Sandra Anne Banack
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Occupational Allergic Sensitization Among Workers Processing King Crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) and Edible Crab (Cancer pagurus) in Norway and Identification of Novel Putative Allergenic Proteins

Frontiers in Allergy, 2021
Introduction: Asthma and allergy occur frequently among seafood processing workers, with the highest prevalence seen in the crustacean processing industry.
Marte R. Thomassen, Marte R. Thomassen, Sandip D. Kamath, Sandip D. Kamath, Sandip D. Kamath, Berit E. Bang, Berit E. Bang, Roni Nugraha, Shuai Nie, Nicholas A. Williamson, Andreas L. Lopata, Andreas L. Lopata, Andreas L. Lopata, Lisbeth Aasmoe, Lisbeth Aasmoe   +14 more
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Prevalence of symptoms, ever having received a diagnosis and treatment of depression and anxiety, and associations with health service use amongst the general population in two Russian cities

BMC Psychiatry, 2020
Background Little is known about the burden of common mental disorders in Russia despite high levels of suicide and alcohol-related mortality. Here we investigated levels of symptoms, self-reports of ever having received a diagnosis and treatment of ...
Sarah Cook, Alexander V. Kudryavtsev, Natalia Bobrova, Lyudmila Saburova, Diana Denisova, Sofia Malyutina, Glyn Lewis, David A. Leon   +7 more
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Effect of azithromycin on incidence of acute respiratory exacerbations in children with HIV taking antiretroviral therapy and co-morbid chronic lung disease: a secondary analysis of the BREATHE trial

EClinicalMedicine, 2021
Background: In the BREATHE trial weekly azithromycin decreased the rate of acute respiratory exacerbations (AREs) compared to placebo among children and adolescents with HIV-associated chronic lung disease (CLD) taking antiretroviral therapy (ART).
Amy Price, Grace McHugh, Victoria Simms, Robina Semphere, Lucky G Ngwira, Tsitsi Bandason, Hilda Mujuru, Jon O Odland, Rashida A Ferrand, Andrea M Rehman   +9 more
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The effect of azithromycin for management of HIV-associated chronic lung disease on right heart function: Results from the BREATHE trial

International Journal of Cardiology: Heart & Vasculature, 2021
Background: Right heart abnormalities and pulmonary hypertension (PH) may be secondary to chronic lung disease. Chronic lung disease is common in children with HIV.
Edith D. Majonga, Gugulethu Newton Mapurisa, Andrea M. Rehman, Grace McHugh, Tsitsi Bandason, Hilda Mujuru, Carmen Gonzalez-Martinez, Jon O. Odland, Neil Kennedy, Rashida A. Ferrand   +9 more
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Determination of copy number and circularization ratio of Tn916-Tn1545 family of conjugative transposons in oral streptococci by droplet digital PCR

Journal of Oral Microbiology, 2019
Background: Tn916 and Tn1545 are paradigms of a large family of related, broad host range, conjugative transposons that are widely distributed in bacteria and contribute to the spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs).
Tracy Munthali Lunde, Adam P. Roberts, Mohammed Al-Haroni   +2 more
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Azithromycin versus placebo for the treatment of HIV-associated chronic lung disease in children and adolescents (BREATHE trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Trials, 2017
Background Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related chronic lung disease (CLD) among children is associated with substantial morbidity, despite antiretroviral therapy.
Carmen Gonzalez-Martinez, Katharina Kranzer, Grace McHugh, Elizabeth L. Corbett, Hilda Mujuru, Mark P. Nicol, Sarah Rowland-Jones, Andrea M. Rehman, Tore J. Gutteberg, Trond Flaegstad, Jon O. Odland, Rashida A. Ferrand, the BREATHE study team   +12 more
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Know Your Heart: Rationale, design and conduct of a cross-sectional study of cardiovascular structure, function and risk factors in 4500 men and women aged 35-69 years from two Russian cities, 2015-18 [version 3; referees: 3 approved]

Wellcome Open Research, 2018
Russia has one of the highest rates of cardiovascular disease in the world. The International Project on Cardiovascular Disease in Russia (IPCDR) was set up to understand the reasons for this. A substantial component of this study was the Know Your Heart
Sarah Cook, Sofia Malyutina, Alexander V Kudryavtsev, Maria Averina, Natalia Bobrova, Sergey Boytsov, Soren Brage, Taane G. Clark, Ernest Diez Benavente, Anne Elise Eggen, Laila A Hopstock, Alun Hughes, Heidi Johansen, Kamila Kholmatova, Anastasiya Kichigina, Anna Kontsevaya, Michael Kornev, Darryl Leong, Per Magnus, Ellisiv Mathiesen, Martin McKee, Katy Morgan, Odd Nilssen, Ilya Plakhov, Jennifer K Quint, Alicja Rapala, Andrey Ryabikov, Lyudmila Saburova, Henrik Schirmer, Marina Shapkina, Suhail Shiekh, Vladimir M Shkolnikov, Michael Stylidis, Michael Voevoda, Kate Westgate, David A Leon   +35 more
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