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Prevalence and Determinants of Catastrophic Healthcare Expenditures in Iran From 2013 to 2019 [PDF]

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Objectives: Protecting people against financial hardship caused by illness stands as a fundamental obligation within healthcare systems and constitutes a pivotal component in achieving universal health coverage. The objective of this study was to analyze
Abdoreza mousavi, Farhad lotfi, Samira Alipour, Aliakbar Fazaeli, Mohsen Bayati   +4 more
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Real‐World Performance of CSF Kappa Free Light Chains in the 2024 McDonald Criteria

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Kappa free light chains (KFLCs) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have a similar performance to CSF‐restricted oligoclonal bands (OCB) for multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis. To help with implementation, we set out to resolve several remaining uncertainties: (1) performance in a real‐world cohort and the 2024 McDonald criteria; (2 ...
Maya M. Leibowitz, Ryan Cooper, Stefania Kaninia, Kathryn I. Challis, Will Greenway, Maria Bonello, Mahmoud Elbahnasawi, Deborah T. Shode, Dominika Gajdasik, Victor Iliev, Alison M. E. Whitelegg, Ian Galea   +11 more
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Development of Scenarios for Health Expenditure in the New EU Member States: Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia [PDF]

The report is a result of the Ageing, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure (AHEAD) project within the EC 6th Framework programme.
Agnieszka Sowa, Ewa Kocot, Stanislawa Golinowska   +2 more
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Complementarity of Long‐Reads and Optical Mapping in Parkinson's Disease for Structural Variants

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Long‐read sequencing and optical genome mapping technologies have the ability to detect large and complex structural variants. This has led to the discovery of novel pathogenic variants in neurodegenerative movement disorders. Thus, we aimed to systematically compare the SV detection capabilities of OGM and ONT in Parkinson's disease.
André Fienemann, Theresa Lüth, Susen Schaake, Carolin Gabbert, Marius Möller, Hauke Busch, Katja Lohmann, Jonas A. Gustafson, Danny E. Miller, Kensuke Daida, Manabu Funayama, Nobutaka Hattori, Samia Ben Sassi, Faycel Hentati, Matthew J. Farrer, Kristian K. Ullrich, Christine Klein, Joanne Trinh   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Validity of a Wearable Digital Insole for Assessing Gait ON and OFF in Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Gait impairment is a distinctive symptom of Parkinson's disease that negatively impact mobility. We assessed the validity of wearable digital insoles against a validated reference gait analysis system for measuring select gait characteristics in patients with Parkinson's disease. Methods A comparative analysis between digital insoles
Deborah A. Hall, Kimberly Kwei, Rolando J. Acosta, Bharatkumar Koyani, Erin Robertson, Pratyush Rai, Roland Barge, Emily Timm, Nicollette L. Purcell, Natasha Desai, Dhanesh Patel, Ana‐Maria Visoiu‐Knapp, Samuel Stuart, Rinol Alaj, Matthew F. Wipperman, Oren Levy, Joan A. O'Keefe   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

The evolution of animal-based dietary structure has contributed to the increase of healthcare expenditures in China

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
The trends of diversified diets in China have generated a growing number of nutritional health problems, and healthcare investment is bearing a large burden from the diets, hindering the economic progress of the country and its residents toward affluence.
Yuanyuan Zhu, Yan Zhang, Xiaohua Zhu, Yuan Luo, ZhenFa Tu   +4 more
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Catastrophic health expenditure: A comparative analysis of smoking and non-smoking households in China.

PLoS ONE, 2020
INTRODUCTION:Smoking is hazardous to health and places a heavy economic burden on individuals and their families. Clearly, smoking in China is prevalent since China is the largest consumer of tobacco in the world.
Zhigang Zhong, Han Wei, Lian Yang, Tingting Yao, Zhengzhong Mao, Qun Sun   +5 more
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Sex Differences in Medication Discontinuation in Axial Spondyloarthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We examined sex differences in medication discontinuation among patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) initiating tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi), interleukin‐17 inhibitors (IL‐17i), or JAK inhibitors (JAKi). Methods Using data from the Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) Registry (2003–2025), we assessed ...
Rachael Stovall, Cinthia Blat, Eric Roberts, Jean W. Liew, Katherine Wysham, Namrata Singh, Janna Friedly, Lianne S. Gensler, Gabriela Schmajuk, Jinoos Yazdany   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health and dental care expenditures in the United States from 1996 to 2016.

PLoS ONE, 2020
IntroductionAs total health and dental care expenditures in the United States continue to rise, healthcare disparities for low to middle-income Americans creates an imperative to analyze existing expenditures.
Man Hung, Martin S Lipsky, Ryan Moffat, Evelyn Lauren, Eric S Hon, Jungweon Park, Gagandeep Gill, Julie Xu, Lourdes Peralta, Joseph Cheever, David Prince, Tanner Barton, Nicole Bayliss, Weston Boyack, Frank W Licari   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Looking Closely on Who Benefits from Public Subsidies in Health Care: a Gender Perspective [PDF]

Do men benefit more than women from government expenditures in health care? Or do women have the upper hand? Using a sex-differentiated incidence analysis of the various Department of Health program expenditures, this Notes' authors assess who indeed ...
Manasan, Rosario G., Villanueva-Ruiz, Eden C.   +1 more
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