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Serum FRAP Levels and Pre-eclampsia among Pregnant Women in a Rural Community of Northern India [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Introduction: There is a balance between the oxidative and the anti-oxidative forces in human body. Some studies document decreased level of anti-oxidant in pre-eclampsia while other studies showed normal level of anti-oxidant in pre-eclampsia and ...
Anant Gupta, Shashi Kant, Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, Shyam Prakash, Mani Kalaivani, Chandrakant S. Pandav, Sanjay Kumar Rai, Puneet Misra   +7 more
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Socioeconomic and demographic determinants of birth weight in southern rural Ghana: evidence from Dodowa Health and Demographic Surveillance System

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2016
BackgroundLow birth weight (LBW) is one of the major factors affecting child morbidity and mortality worldwide. It also results in substantial costs to the health sector and imposes a significant burden on the society as a whole.
Alfred Kwesi Manyeh, Vida A Kukula, G. Odonkor, Rosemond Akepene Ekey, A. Adjei, S. Narh-Bana, D. E. Akpakli, M. Gyapong   +7 more
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Epidemiology of malaria in the Taabo health and demographic surveillance system, south-central Côte d'Ivoire [PDF]

, 2016
A deep understanding of the local epidemiology of malaria is essential for the design and implementation of setting-specific control and elimination efforts.
Silué, Kigbafori D., Fidèle K. Bassa, Kigbafori D. Silué, Bassirou Bonfoh, Bassa, Fidèle K., Siaka Koné, Utzinger, Jürg, Bonfoh, Bassirou, Mamadou Ouattara, Koné, Siaka, Adiossan, Lukas G., Lukas G. Adiossan, Traoré, Mahamadou, Ouattara, Mamadou, N'Goran, Eliézer K., Baikoro, Nahoua, N'Cho, Moussan, Nahoua Baikoro, Mahamadou Traoré, Jürg Utzinger, Eliézer K. N’goran   +20 more
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Dementia Incidence in Individuals With Parkinson's Disease in the Framingham Heart Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Limited information exists on incident dementia in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) in US community‐based samples. We examined cognitive statuses and PD diagnoses of 183 individuals in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) to establish incident dementia, mortality rates, associations with sex, age at PD onset, and education level.
Joshi Dookhy, Michael Cummings, Eden Price, Yulin Liu, Santiago Gutierrez‐Gomez, Sarah O'Shea, Samuel Frank, Rhoda Au, Ashita S. Gurnani, Ting Fang Alvin Ang, Jesse Mez, Ludy C. Shih   +11 more
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Stunting and its determinant factors among children aged 6–59 months in Ethiopia

Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2017
Background Though Ethiopia has implemented different nutritional interventions, childhood stunting on which literature is limited continues as a severe public health problem.
Amare Tariku, Gashaw Andargie Biks, Terefe Derso, Molla Mesele Wassie, Solomon Mekonnen Abebe   +4 more
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Consistency and Sensitivity Evaluation of the Saudi Arabia Mental Health Surveillance System (MHSS): Hypothesis Generation and Testing

JMIR Formative Research, 2022
BackgroundPublic health surveillance systems should be evaluated periodically, and the evaluation should include recommendations for improving the system’s quality and efficiency.
Nora A Althumiri, Mada H Basyouni, Nasser F BinDhim   +2 more
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Rural community perceptions of antibiotic access and understanding of antimicrobial resistance: qualitative evidence from the Health and Demographic Surveillance System site in Matlab, Bangladesh

Global Health Action, 2019
Background The use of large quantities of antimicrobial drugs for human health and agriculture is advancing the predominance of drug resistant pathogens in the environment.
Moyukh Chowdhury, Jennifer Stewart Williams, H. Wertheim, W. Khan, Abdul Matin, J. Kinsman   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Relationship Between Child Survival and Malaria Transmission: An Analysis of the Malaria Transmission Intensity and Mortality Burden Across Africa (MTIMBA) Project Data in Rufiji Demographic Surveillance System, Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2014
The precise nature of the relationship between malaria mortality and levels of transmission is unclear. Due to methodological limitations, earlier efforts to assess the linkage have lead to inconclusive results.
Honorati Masanja, Abdulla, Salim, Susan F Rumisha, Masanja, Honorati, Smith, Thomas A., Salim Abdulla, Smith, Thomas A, Thomas A Smith, Vounatsou, Penelope, Rumisha, Susan F, Penelope Vounatsou, Rumisha, Susan F.   +11 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
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Early Clinical, Imaging, and Pathological Characteristics of SRPK3/TTN‐Digenic Myopathy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective SRPK3/TTN‐digenic myopathy was recently established as a skeletal muscle myopathy caused by digenic inheritance. This study characterizes the early clinical presentation of SRPK3/TTN‐digenic myopathy in one previously reported and seven newly identified pediatric patients.
Rotem Orbach, Sandra Donkervoort, Carola Hedberg‐Oldfors, Giovanni Baranello, Dimah Saade, Precilla D'Souza, Ruchee Patel, Eva Michael, A. Reghan Foley, Diana Bharucha‐Goebel, S. Jin Haugland, Meghan McAnally, Omer Abdul Hamid, Katherine Chao, Ellen F. Macnamara, Alan H. Beggs, Anna Sarkozy, Juliane Mueller, Steven A. Moore, Richard S. Finkel, Cynthia J. Tifft, Francesco Muntoni, Anders Oldfors, Carsten G. Bönnemann   +23 more
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