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Population-specific DPYD variants and fluoropyrimidine toxicity risk: an analysis using public genomic databases

Clinical Medicine
Introduction: Fluoropyrimidines (FP), including 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and capecitabine, are widely used chemotherapeutic agents. However, their toxicity varies significantly among patients, often because of genetic differences in DPYD, which encodes ...
Suvam Banerjee, Souvik Sengupta
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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Heterogeneity in the Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors by Ethnicity and Birthplace Among Asian Subgroups: Evidence From the 2010 to 2018 National Health Interview Survey

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Background Asian people in the United States have different sociodemographic and health‐related characteristics that might affect cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk by ethnicity and birthplace.
Arum Lim, Sabrina Elias, Chitchanok Benjasirisan, Samuel Byiringiro, Yuling Chen, Ruth‐Alma Turkson‐Ocran, Cheryl R. Dennison Himmelfarb, Yvonne Commodore‐Mensah, Binu Koirala   +8 more
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Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
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Unveiling Lived Realities: Narratives of South Asian Indian Women in Academia

Social Sciences
This paper will focus on illustrating through qualitative personal narratives the lived realities of three South Asian Indian women in academia across the continuum of their experiences personally, professionally, and as academics within the field of ...
Gita Seshadri, Shruti Singh Poulsen, Rajeswari Natarajan-Tyagi   +2 more
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Appropriate Medical Therapy Primarily Modifies Type 2 and Severity Biomarkers in Chronic Rhinosinusitis

International Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Appropriate medical therapy (AMT) is first‐line treatment for patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). We evaluated inflammatory structure, treatment‐induced changes, and biomarker‐outcome associations in AMT‐managed patients. Methods Fifty‐one CRS patients were evaluated before and after AMT which included a combination of oral ...
Asher C. Park, Brooke N. Gleason, Eli Stein, Saied Ghadersohi, Atsushi Kato, Stephanie Shintani‐Smith, David B. Conley, Kevin C. Welch, Robert C. Kern, Bruce K. Tan   +9 more
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Correction: Integration of metabolites from meta-analysis with transcriptome reveals enhanced SPHK1 in PDAC with a background of pancreatitis

BMC Cancer, 2022
Vijayasarathy Ketavarapu, Vishnubhotla Ravikanth, Mitnala Sasikala, G. V. Rao, Ch. Venkataramana Devi, Prabhakar Sripadi, Murali Satyanarayana Bethu, Ramars Amanchy, H. V. V. Murthy, Stephen J. Pandol, D. Nageshwar Reddy   +10 more
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Prevalence and Impact of Thyroid Disorders on Maternal Outcome in Asian-Indian Pregnant Women

Journal of Thyroid Research, 2011
Aims. To establish the prevalence and the effect of thyroid dysfunction on pregnancy outcomes in Asian-Indian population. Subjects and Methods. The study cohort comprised of 483 consecutive pregnant women in the first trimester attending the antenatal ...
Vimal Nambiar, Varsha S. Jagtap, V. Sarathi, A. Lila, S. Kamalanathan, T. Bandgar, P. Menon, N. Shah   +7 more
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Zebrafish and CRISPR—A synergistic approach to decipher and cure human diseases

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Zebrafish, with high genetic homology to humans, serves as a powerful vertebrate model for disease modeling and drug discovery. Integration of CRISPR/Cas9 technology enables precise genome editing, facilitating the development of translational models for human diseases.
Manikandan Sivaprakasam, Aashika Raagavi Jeanpierre, Salma Mohammed, Rajesh Srinivasan, Aman Kumar Mohanty   +4 more
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Leptin and adiponectin in relation to body fat percentage, waist to hip ratio and the apoB/apoA1 ratio in Asian Indian and Caucasian men and women

Nutrition & Metabolism, 2006
Background Asian Indian immigrants have an increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease (CVD); however, there is very little data examining how the adipokines leptin and adiponectin relate to CVD risk factors such as body fat percentage (BF ...
Sniderman Allan, Al-Amri Maha, Smith Jessica, Cianflone Katherine   +3 more
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