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Evaluating a Pragmatic Strength Alternative for Frailty Measurement and Assessing Its Predictive Capacity Against Established Frailty Instruments in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Frailty occurs prematurely in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and is associated with poor health outcomes. We compared the performance of four frailty instruments, including a pragmatic alternative measure using chair sit‐to‐stand (STS), and evaluated their abilities to predict poor health outcomes.
Kylie E. Riggles, Hannah F. Brubeck, Adrienne D. Tanus, Courtney N. Loecker, Punyasha Roul, Bryant R. England, Elizabeth R. Wahl, James S. Andrews, Namrata Singh, Joshua F. Baker, Patricia P. Katz, Dolores M. Shoback, Jose M. Garcia, Ariela R. Orkaby, Katherine D. Wysham   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The evolution of disease: anthropological perspectives on epidemiologic transitions

, 2013
Background: The model of epidemiologic transitions has served as a guiding framework for understanding relationships between patterns of human health and disease and economic development for the past several decades.
Molly Zuckerman, Kristin Harper, George Armelagos, Ronald Barrett   +3 more
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XIS-humidity: a daily spatiotemporal machine-learning model for dew point in the contiguous United States

Environmental Research Communications
Health effects of humidity are theoretically important but have appeared inconsistently in epidemiological studies. Better measures of humidity may help. We construct a machine-learning model of dew point covering the US from 2003 through 2024, using the
Kodi B Arfer, Allan C Just
doaj   +1 more source

Formal and Informal Social Care in People With Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: A Cross‐Sectional Multicenter Survey

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) are leading causes of physical disability, necessitating support with activities of daily living. This study describes social care received by patients with RMDs in two disparate regions of England: Salford (urban) and Norfolk (rural).
Mehreen Somro, Karen Durrant, William G. Dixon, John McBeth, Alex MacGregor, Max Yates, Jenny H. Humphreys   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Associations of High‐Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin and N‐Terminal Pro‐B‐Type Natriuretic Peptide With Echocardiographic Features in Patients With Hypertension

The Journal of Clinical Hypertension
High‐sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs‐cTnT) and/or N‐terminal pro‐B‐type natriuretic peptide (NT‐proBNP) levels are associated with left ventricular structure and function in general populations, however, evidence regarding their relationship with ...
Mingdan Wang, Xihan Li, Lingyue Qiu, Zhen Wang, Jiamiao Li, Jiayi Sun, Lizhen Han, Na Yang, Yongchen Hao, Rong Hu, Yue Qi, Jing Liu   +11 more
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Gender differences in responses to an altruistic message regarding rubella vaccination

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundThe supplementary immunization activity (SIA) for the rubella vaccination of adult men born between 1962 and 1978 began in 2019 in Japan because of a vaccine gap in the cohort, as vaccination was not mandatory for those born in that period ...
Hideo Okuno, Hideo Okuno, Hiroshi Satoh, Satoru Arai, Motoi Suzuki, Toshiko Kikkawa   +5 more
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Epidemiology [PDF]

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 2017
openaire   +2 more sources

Risk of Retinopathy Associated with Long‐Term Use of Hydroxychloroquine in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to estimate the prevalence and cumulative incidence of hydroxychloroquine retinopathy (HCQ‐R) and its risk factors among patients receiving long‐term HCQ with rheumatic diseases through a systematic review and meta‐analysis of observational studies that used spectral‐domain optical coherence tomography (SD‐OCT) for screening ...
Narsis Daftarian, Chloe Yue, Steve D Levasseur, Hui Xie, J. Antonio Avina‐Zubieta   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Struggling with comorbid sleep disturbances: insights from the ELSA-Brasil study [PDF]

Sleep Science, 2020
Luciano F. Drager, Ronaldo B. Santos
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Wild Boar as Host of Japanese Encephalitis Virus in the Absence of Domestic Pigs

Viruses
Pigs are the most common amplifying hosts of the Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). In 2016, four residents on Tsushima Island who did not own pig farms were diagnosed with JE. Therefore, a serosurvey was conducted to estimate the risk and seroprevalence
Fuka Kikuchi, Ai Hayashi, Karen Yamada, Yusuke Matsui, Reiko Shimbashi, Yuji Noguchi, Kazunori Tachibana, Tetsuya Mizutani, Akihiko Tokaji, Akira Yoshikawa, Motoki Ihara, Kazunori Oishi, Hajime Kamiya, Satoru Arai, Motoi Suzuki   +14 more
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