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Dengue in hospitalized children with sickle cell disease: A retrospective cohort study in the French departments of America

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2020
Background: To describe the characteristics of dengue in sickle cell children and try to identify risk factors of severity. Methods: In this retrospective study, we describe the evolution according to genotype (SS or SC and controls) and severity ...
Narcisse Elenga, Donald Celicourt, Blandine Muanza, Gisèle Elana, Sévérine Hocquelet, Vanessa Tarer, Frédéric Maillard, Gérard Sibille, Lydia Divialle Doumdo, Marie Petras, Benoit Tressières, Maryse Etienne-Julan   +11 more
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Health‐Related Quality of Life and Symptom Severity Among Patients With PIK3CA‐Related Overgrowth Spectrum: A Mixed‐Methods Study to Understand Real‐World Experience With Alpelisib Treatment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background PIK3CA‐related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) includes several rare overgrowth disorders resulting from somatic gain‐of‐function mutations in PIK3CA. Despite treatment advances, including the recent approval of alpelisib for PROS in the United States, literature detailing the patient experience with PROS is limited.
Vamsi Bollu, Kaitlin LaGasse, Cory D. Saucier, Kimberly Raymond, Miranda Lauher‐Charest, Lauren Crowder, Beilei Cai, Mary Lisha Paul, Denise Adams   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing pharmacogenomic research in US Hmong populations: prevalence of key single nucleotide variations in California Hmong

Frontiers in Pharmacology
IntroductionIn collaboration with the Minnesota Hmong community, we have previously discovered significant differences in allele frequencies for key Single Nucleotide Variations (SNVs) within Very Important Pharmacogenes (VIPs) between Hmong and East ...
Boguang Sun, Tou Thao, Kathleen Culhane-Pera, Eric Yang, Mai Yang Thor, Pao Yang, Metta Xiong, Zoua Vang, Robert J. Straka   +8 more
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FUT2 secretor genotype and susceptibility to infections and chronic conditions in the ALSPAC cohort [version 2; referees: 2 approved]

Wellcome Open Research, 2018
Background: The FUT2 (fucosyltransferase-2) gene determines blood group secretor status. Being homozygous for the inactive “non-secretor” rs601338(A) allele confers resistance to certain infections (e.g. Norovirus, Rotavirus) and susceptibility to others
Meghan B. Azad, Kaitlin H. Wade, Nicholas J. Timpson   +2 more
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Health Savings Account - Eligible High Deductible Health Plans: Updating the Definition of Prevention [PDF]

, 2014
High-deductible health plans (HDHPs) are an important and growing part of the health insurance landscape. By some estimates, as many as 80 percent of large employers may offer an HDHP in 2014.
A. Mark Fendrick, Elizabeth Q. Cliff, Kaden Milkovich, Kathryn Spangler, M. Richard McKellar, Michael Chernew, Stephen Parents   +6 more
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Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parental perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year-old children: Focus group findings from Worcester Massachusetts

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022
Vaccine hesitancy is a long-standing public health issue. The present work describes parental perceptions of COVID-19 vaccination for 5- to 11-year-old children, to aid in vaccination efforts.
Melissa Goulding, Grace W. Ryan, Princilla Minkah, Amy Borg, Maricelis Gonzalez, Nelly Medina, Pamela Suprenant, Milagros C. Rosal, Stephenie C. Lemon   +8 more
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Parents Online [PDF]

, 2002
Presents findings from surveys conducted between 2000 and 2002. Looks at the use of the Internet and other technology by parents with a child at home, in comparison with non ...
Katherine Allen, Lee Rainie
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Serological Benefit of SARS‐CoV‐2 Vaccination Relative to Infection in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at risk of severe outcomes from SARS‐CoV‐2 (SCV2). In the post‐pandemic context, where most children have been infected with SCV2, there are limited data on whether vaccination remains beneficial in children with ALL.
Janna R. Shapiro, Freda Qi, Karen Colwill, Alina D. Dorogy, Ying Liu, Michelle Science, Anne‐Claude Gingras, James M. Rini, Sumit Gupta, Sarah Alexander, Shelly Bolotin, Tania H. Watts   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

2A4U: A Visual Reward System Development

Journal of ICT in Education, 2021
This paper describes a visual reward web-based system that can be used by parents to educate and motivate their children to achieve great performance in terms of good behavior and good academic achievement.
Muhammad Munif Abdul Manaf, Azniah Ismail   +1 more
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