How much do delayed healthcare seeking, delayed care provision, and diversion from primary care contribute to the transmission of STIs? [PDF]
Objectives: To quantify the contribution of patient delay, provider delay, and diversion between services to delayed access to genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics. To describe the factors associated with delay, and their contribution to STI transmission.
Cassell, JA +44 more
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Mortality in Brazil according to gender perspective, years 2000 and 2010
: Objective: The article assessed the overall mortality in Brazil in 2000 and 2010. Methods: Data source was the Mortality Information System from Ministry of Health of Brazil.
Erly Catarina de Moura +4 more
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BackgroundThe impacts of air pollution on circulatory and respiratory systems have been extensively studied. However, the associations between air pollution exposure and the risk of noncommunicable diseases of other organ systems, including diseases of ...
Jiangshao Gu +6 more
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Polypharmacy Patterns in Multimorbid Older People with Cardiovascular Disease: Longitudinal Study
(1) Introduction: Cardiovascular disease is associated with high mortality, especially in older people. This study aimed to characterize the evolution of combined multimorbidity and polypharmacy patterns in older people with different cardiovascular ...
Noemí Villén +8 more
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Anesthesia for Genitourinary Surgery in the Elderly Patient
Genitourinary surgery is a subspecialty of surgery which includes a wide spectrum of diseases involving the male and female urinary tract, the male reproductive system, and the female pelvic floor.
Matadial, Christina M. +3 more
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Risk of cerebral palsy and childhood epilepsy related to infections before or during pregnancy.
Background and aimMaternal infections during pregnancy have been associated with several neurological disorders in the offspring. However, given the lack of specificity for both the exposures and the outcomes, other factors related to infection such as ...
Chun S Wu +6 more
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Since its establishment in 2016, the National Rare Diseases Registry System of China (NRDRS) has accumulated valuable case data and bio-specimen for basic and clinical research on rare diseases in China.
GUO Jian +7 more
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Auditory disorders and acquisition of the ability to localize sound in children born to HIV-positive mothers [PDF]
The objective of the present study was to evaluate children born to HIV-infected mothers and to determine whether such children present auditory disorders or poor acquisition of the ability to localize sound. The population studied included 143 children (
Succi, Regina Célia de Menezes [UNIFESP] +2 more
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Defining risky sexual behaviour in the UK: a latent class approach
This paper aims to define risky sexual behaviour in the UK with respect to the two most common bacterial sexually transmitted diseases: chlamydia and gonorrhoea.
Hinde, Andrew, Sonkin, Beth
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The relationship between HIV prevalence in MSM and available data on HIV testing: what limits do the observed set upon the unobserved? [PDF]
Estimates of total prevalent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections make an important contribution to public health planning. HIV test data has become increasingly important to the monitoring of the HIV epidemic, however a large proportion of HIV ...
McGarrigle, Christine Ann
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