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Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis, Okeleji Olayinka, Mariam Z. Quraishi, Lakshmi V. Srivaths, Deborah L. Brown, Neethu M. Menon, Ricardo A. Mosquera, Ashwin P. Patel, James M. Stark, Aravind Yadav   +9 more
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Factors Determining Intention to Use Contraception Among Sexually Active Women in South Africa: A Multilevel Modelling Approach

Advances in Public Health
Conclusion: The results showed that age, population group, parity, ideal number of children, desire to delay childbearing, exposure to family planning messages/advice, and province were key predictors of women’s intention to use contraception.
Germinah Motshegwa, Mluleki Tsawe, Onalenna Legotlo, Marinkie Malatji, Shirley Mathabatha, Reamogetse Phateng, Kenneth Pule Tshabalala, Jaqueline Seima, Mary Berries, Tsholofelo Seokamo   +9 more
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Prevalence and determinants of unmet need for contraception among women in low and high-priority segments for family planning demand generation in Nigeria

Archives of Public Health, 2022
Plain Language Summary Existing studies have identified diverse predictors of unmet need for contraception. These predictors cut across individual, household, community, and health facility levels.
Bola Lukman Solanke, Olufemi Mayowa Adetutu, Semiu Adebayo Rahman, Daniel Alabi Soladoye, Michael Olumide Owoeye   +4 more
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Sociophysics Simulations III: Retirement Demography

, 2005
This third part of the lecture series deals with the question: Who will pay for your retirement? For Western Europe the answer may be ``nobody'', but for Algeria the demography looks more promising.Comment: For 8th Granada seminar (AIP Conf.
Stauffer, Dietrich, Zekri, Lotfi
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Pazopanib Combined With Vincristine and Irinotecan in Relapsed Wilms Tumor: Encouraging Outcomes in a Heavily Pretreated Pediatric Cohort

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background While Wilms tumor (WT) typically has a favorable prognosis, relapsed cases—especially those with high‐risk histology—remain therapeutically challenging after intensive frontline therapy. The combination of vincristine and irinotecan has demonstrated activity in pediatric solid tumors, and pazopanib, a multi‐targeted tyrosine kinase ...
Maria Debora De Pasquale, Alessandro Crocoli, Giuseppe Maria Milano, Pierluigi Di Paolo, Francesca Diomedi Camassei, Ida Russo, Annalisa Serra   +6 more
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How to measure multidimensional quality of life of persons with disabilities in public policies - a case of Poland

Archives of Public Health, 2022
Background The aim of this paper is to construct a tool that can be used to measure multidimensional quality of life of persons with disabilities in comparison with population without disabilities for the purpose of monitoring of the UN Convention on the
Izabela Grabowska, Radosław Antczak, Jan Zwierzchowski, Tomasz Panek   +3 more
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Evaluating the Genetic Overlap Between Congenital Heart Disease and Neuroblastoma Risk

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children with congenital heart disease (CHD) have elevated neuroblastoma (NB) risk, potentially due to shared neural crest origins. We analyzed rare exonic de novo single‐nucleotide variants in 702 CHD and 454 NB trios from the Neuroblastoma Epidemiology in North America Study, Gabriella Miller Kids First Program, and a published cohort. Seven
Ji Yun Tark, Alexander Renwick, Yao Yu, Aniko Sabo, Andrew F. Olshan, Sharon E. Plon, Chad D. Huff, Philip J. Lupo   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Molecular characterization of rotavirus group A strains circulating prior to vaccine introduction in rural coastal Kenya, 2002-2013 [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2019
Background: Kenya introduced the monovalent Rotarix® rotavirus group A (RVA) vaccine nationally in mid-2014.  Long-term surveillance data is important prior to wide-scale vaccine use to assess the impact on disease and to investigate the occurrence of ...
Betty E. Owor, Mike J. Mwanga, Regina Njeru, Robert Mugo, Mwanajuma Ngama, Grieven P. Otieno, D.J. Nokes, C.N. Agoti   +7 more
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RT‐PCR–Based Detection of Bone Marrow Involvement in Ewing Sarcoma: Diagnostic Validity and Prognostic Relevance

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background In Ewing sarcoma (EwS), metastases, including those to bone marrow (BM), are the main factors influencing prognosis. Although reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT‐PCR) offers greater sensitivity, the current EWING protocol defines BM metastases solely using light microscopic detection.
Thanh Pham, Andreas Ranft, Victor Rechl, Susanne Jabar, Wolfgang Hartmann, Kim Falkenberg, Heribert Jürgens, Norbert Graf, Torsten Keßler, Markus Metzler, Thomas Klingebiel, Thorsten Simon, Martin Benesch, Uta Dirksen   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The initial journey of an Endangered penguin: implications for seabird conservation

Endangered Species Research, 2013
Seabirds can disperse widely in search of prey, especially during non-breeding periods. Conservation measures predominately focus on protecting breeding colonies, but juvenile survival and recruitment can have critical impacts on population dynamics.
RB Sherley, K Ludynia, T Lamont, JP Roux, RJM Crawford, LG Underhill   +5 more
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