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Challenges for co-morbid chronic illness care and policy in Australia: a qualitative study [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: In response to the escalating burden of chronic illness in Australia, recent health policies have emphasised the promotion of patient self-management and better preventive care.
Dugdale, Paul, Glasgow, Nicholas, Jeon, Yun-Hee, Jowsey, Tanisha, Kljakovic, Marjan, Usherwood, Tim   +5 more
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A real-life study of the positive response to DAA-based therapies for hepatitis C in Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
A retrospective cohort of 11,308 chronic hepatitis C infected patients treated with regimens that included Sofosbuvir (SOF), Daclatasvir (DCV), Simeprevir (SMV), or an association of Ombitasvir, Veruprevir/Ritonavir and Dasabuvir (3D) with or without ...
Simone Monzani Vivaldini, Rachel Abraão Ribeiro, Gláucio Mosimann Júnior, Karen Cristine Tonini, Gerson Fernando Mendes Pereira, Wildo Navegantes de Araújo   +5 more
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Is the onset of disabling chronic conditions in later childhood associated with exposure to social disadvantage in earlier childhood? A prospective cohort study using the ONS Longitudinal Study for England and Wales [PDF]

, 2013
Background: The aetiology of disabling chronic conditions in childhood in high income countries is not fully understood, particularly the association with socio-economic status (SES).
Blackburn, Clare, Read, Janet, Spencer, Nick   +2 more
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Physical activity and risk of testicular cancer: a systematic review

BMC Cancer, 2018
Background Physical activity has been implicated as a risk factor in the development of testicular cancer (TC), but the relationship remains controversial. This systematic review pooled available evidence regarding this association. Methods Using Boolean
Stephanie Huang, Virginia Signal, Diana Sarfati, Caroline Shaw, James Stanley, Katherine McGlynn, Jason Gurney   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk factors for incidence and persistence of disability in chronic major depression and alcohol use disorders: longitudinal analyses of a population-based study [PDF]

, 2014
BackgroundMajor depression and alcohol use disorders are risk factors for incidence of disability. However, it is still unclear whether a chronic course of these health conditions is also prospectively associated with incidence of disability.
Ayuso-Mateos, J., Caballero, F., Cabello, M., Chatterji, S., Cieza, A.   +4 more
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Health Information and Monitoring of Sexually Transmitted Infections (SIM study): a single-center, parallel, three-arm randomized controlled trial protocol for enhancing adherence to syphilis treatment and follow-up

Trials, 2022
Background Syphilis has recently resurfaced as a significant public health problem. Since the 2000s, isolated syphilis outbreaks have increasingly occurred in North America, Europe, and Australia; in Brazil, there have been progressive increases in both ...
Eliana M. Wendland, Vanessa M. de Oliveira, Luana Giongo Pedrotti, Flavia M. A. Souza, Gerson F. M. Pereira, Antonio Gerbase   +5 more
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Association between empirically derived dietary patterns with blood lipids, fasting blood glucose and blood pressure in adults - the India migration study

Nutrition Journal, 2018
Background Dietary patterns (DPs) in India are heterogenous. To date, data on association of indigenous DPs in India with risk factors of nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases (cardiovascular disease and diabetes), leading causes of premature death ...
Krithiga Shridhar, Ambika Satija, Preet K. Dhillon, Sutapa Agrawal, Ruby Gupta, Liza Bowen, Sanjay Kinra, A. V. Bharathi, D. Prabhakaran, K. Srinath Reddy, Shah Ebrahim, for the Indian Migration Study group   +11 more
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Chronic conditions in adolescents

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 2017
The health problems related to the nervous system are on rise in young infants leading to high mortality amongst this age group. A chronic medical condition (CC) is present in this age group to the tune of 10-20%. We searched the electronic database PubMed for pre-clinical as well as clinical controlled trials reporting variable chronic conditions ...
Jin, Mingwei, An, Qi, Wang, Lei
openaire   +3 more sources

Understanding Health Risks for Adolescents in Protective Custody [PDF]

, 2019
Children in child welfare protective custody (e.g., foster care) are known to have increased health concerns compared to children not in protective custody. The poor health documented for children in protective custody persists well into adulthood; young
Beal, Sarah J., Crosby, Imani, Greiner, Mary V, Nause, Katie   +3 more
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Working towards integration: Advancing Care Coordination & TeleHealth Deployment (ACT) Programme [PDF]

, 2014
This poster gives a summary of the ACT Programme, the sites participating, diseases covered, numbers of patients, project timetable and the aim to provide a ‘toolbox’ of best practice.
Bescos, Cristina, Davidson, Rosemary, Newman, Stanton   +2 more
core   +4 more sources