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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Neuropsychological complications may impair the qualitative prognosis of patients with pediatric brain tumors. However, multifaceted evaluations cannot be conducted in all patients because they are time consuming and burdensome for patients.
Ami Tabata +9 more
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Burden of myocardial infarction attributable to road-traffic noise: A pilot study in Belgrade
Noise and Health, 2014 The aim of this pilot study was to calculate the disability-adjusted life years (DALY) as a quantification of the burden of myocardial infarction (MI) attributable to road-traffic noise in Belgrade, Serbia. Exposure to road-traffic noise was estimated on
Katarina Paunovic, Goran Belojević
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Archives of Medical Science, 2023 Introduction No survey has evaluated hypertensive heart disease (HHD) burden with statistics from the Risk Factors Study, Injuries, and the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) 2019.
Jili Qian +4 more
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Leishmaniasis: new approaches to disease control. [PDF]
, 2003 The leishmaniases afflict the world's poorest populations. Among the two million new cases each year in the 88 countries where the disease is endemic (fig 1), it is estimated that 80% earn less than $2 a day.
Croft, Simon L +3 more
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The Impact of Risk Factors Reduction Scenarios on Hospital Admissions, Disability-Adjusted Life Years and the Hospitalisation Cost of Cardiovascular Disease in Thailand [PDF]
, 2020 Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is considered to be one of the leading health issues in Thailand. CVD not only contributes to an increase in the number of hospital admissions year by year but also impacts on the rising health care expenditure for the ...
Collins, Karen +5 more
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Tracking Motor Progression and Device‐Aided Therapy Eligibility in Parkinson's Disease
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To characterise the progression of motor symptoms and identify eligibility for device‐aided therapies in Parkinson's disease, using both the 5‐2‐1 criteria and a refined clinical definition, while examining differences across genetic subgroups.
David Ledingham +7 more
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Severity of injuries in different modes of transport, expressed with disability-adjusted life years (DALYS) [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Health impact assessment (HIA) studies are increasingly predicting the health effects of mode shifts in traffic. The challenge for such studies is to combine the health effects, caused by injuries, with the disease driven health effects, and ...
Tainio, Marko +4 more
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Frailty Exacerbates Disability in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background To evaluate frailty in severe progressive multiple sclerosis (PMS) and to investigate the underlying mechanisms. Methods This prospective, cross‐sectional, multicenter study enrolled a late severe PMS group requiring skilled nursing (n = 53) and an age, sex, and disease duration‐matched control PMS group (n = 53).
Taylor R. Wicks +10 more
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Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundIn Central Asia, respiratory diseases, particularly tuberculosis (TB), are widespread communicable diseases that significantly impact both individuals and health systems, posing a substantial burden.
Oyunzul Amartsengel +8 more
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Using surveys to calculate disability-adjusted life-year
Alcohol research : current reviews, 2013 Mapping a certain disease into a system of disabling attributes allows researchers to compare diseases within a common framework. To quantify the total burden of morbidity (e.g., morbidity attributable to alcohol use), so-called disability weights (DWs) must be generated. General-population surveys can be used to derive DWs from health valuation tasks.
Wiedermann, Wolfgang, Frick, Ulrich
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