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Effectiveness of rTMS on Working Memory and Inhibitory Impairments in Patients With Post‐Stroke Executive Deficits

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Considerable efforts have been dedicated to developing effective treatments for post‐stroke executive impairment (PSEI), among which repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has shown great potential. This study aimed to investigate the therapeutic effects of high‐frequency rTMS on working memory (WM) and response ...
Mengting Lao, Rongwei Du, Zhujun Wang, Yang Gao, Meiling Cheng, Xianglong Wang, Wen Wu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epidemiological trends and characteristics of osteoarthritis in China during 1990–2021

Journal of Orthopaedic Translation
Background: This study aimed to comprehensively analyze the incidence, prevalence, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) of osteoarthritis (OA) in China from 1990 to 2021 by age, sex, joint sites, high body mass index (BMI) and sociodemographic ...
Sheng Chen, Mingjue Chen, Chao Chen, Chao Xie, Yihan Yu, Zengwu Shao, Guozhi Xiao   +6 more
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Economic Burden of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) of Injuries

Health, 2015
Economic burdens of injuries at the country level are unknown. In the current study we tried to explore the economic burden of DALYs loss due to injuries at the country level, then distributed according to the World Bank’s income groups. Methods: Data from the World Bank and the World Health Organization websites were used.
Dalal, Koustuv, Svanström, Leif
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Vaccine-preventable haemophilus influenza type B disease burden and cost-effectiveness of infant vaccination in Indonesia. [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: Most of Asia, including Indonesia, does not use Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccines. We estimated total vaccine-preventable disease burden and the cost-effectiveness of Hib conjugate vaccine in Indonesia.
Gessner, Bradford D, Griffiths, Ulla K, Linehan, Mary, Mercer, Dave, Mulholland, Edward Kim, Nadjib, Mardiati, Sedyaningsih, Endang R, Steinhoff, Mark, Sutanto, Agustinus, Walker, Damian G   +9 more
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[18F]Fluorodeprenyl‐D2 PET as a Tool to Monitor Disease Activity in GAD65‐Ab Autoimmune Encephalitis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate [18F]fluorodeprenyl‐D2 ([18F]F‐DED) positron‐emission tomography (PET) imaging as a biomarker of disease activity in autoimmune encephalitis (AIE) associated with glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 (GAD65) antibodies. Methods [18F]F‐DED PET was performed in 25 GAD65‐AIE patients and 8 controls using dynamic (0–60 min) and ...
Julia S. Dorneich, Jonathan A. Gernert, Hanna Zimmermann, Lisa Tagnin, Marianthi Zeinaki, Laura Sanzo, Letizia Vogler, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Justina Dargvainiene, Frank Leypoldt, Gérard N. Bischof, Robert Perneczky, Boris‐Stephan Rauchmann, Simon Lindner, Günter U. Höglinger, Rudolf A. Werner, Martin Kerschensteiner, Tania Kümpfel, Matthias Brendel, Franziska S. Thaler   +19 more
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How cost-effective is biofortification in combating micronutrient malnutrition?: An ex-ante assessment [PDF]

"Biofortification is increasingly seen as an additional tool to combat micronutrient malnutrition. This paper presents, for the first time, evidence on the costs and potential benefits of biofortification for a large number of countries in Africa, Asia ...
de Groote, Hugo, Garcia, James, González Carolina, Javelosa, Josyline, Johnson, Nancy, Manyong, Victor M., Meenakshi, J.V., Meng, Erika, Naher, Firdousi, Yanggen, David   +9 more
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Severity of injuries in different modes of transport, expressed with disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). [PDF]

, 2014
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 ...
de Nazelle, Audrey, Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J, Olkowicz, Dorota, Tainio, Marko, Teresiński, Grzegorz   +4 more
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Advancing Age Modulates Associations Between Cognitive Impairment and Brain Volumes in Early MS

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Cognitive impairment is common in multiple sclerosis (MS), but manifestations following the first demyelinating event are relatively unexplored. We investigated cross‐sectional associations between magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)–derived brain volumes and the presence of cognitive impairment outcomes five years after the first ...
Piriyankan Ananthavarathan, Marco Pitteri, Michael Foster, Sara Collorone, Sara Salama, Elisa Colato, Ferran Prados, Baris Kanber, Marios Yiannakas, Claudia A. M. Gandini Wheeler‐Kingshott, Indran Davagnanam, Frederik Barkhof, Declan Chard, Olga Ciccarelli, Ahmed Toosy   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global, regional, and national burden of tobacco-related neurological disorders from 1990 to 2021: Trends and future projections

Tobacco Induced Diseases
Introduction Tobacco use is as a major public health concern around the world, adversely impacting quality of life. Our study aims to analyze the trends in the burden of tobacco-related neurological disorders (ND) at global, regional, and national levels
Chenyang Zhang, Zhihan An, Jixuan Jiang, Jingyi Ge, Wanqiong Huang, Jialin Pei, Yiyao Liu, Jiayu Yao, Zirui Guo, Xuanxi Liu, Yanhui Cui   +10 more
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Stillbirths: how should its rate be reported, its disability-adjusted-life-years (DALY), and stillbirths adjusted life expectancy

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2019
Background A 2016 study standardized the definition of stillbirths. It estimated the rate as a proportion of total births. A 2015 paper addressed the problem of disability-adjusted life-years (DALY) for stillbirths.
Chander Kant
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