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Clinical, Behavioral and Neuroradiological Phenotype in an Italian Cohort of Patients With Xia Gibbs Syndrome: A Multicenter Cross‐Sectional Study and Systematic Literature Review

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Heterozygous variants in the AHDC1 gene are associated with Xia Gibbs Syndrome (XGS), a genetic disorder with a highly variable phenotype. Cognitive impairment, motor delay, language delay, neonatal hypotonia, and sleep apnea are considered “cardinal” signs of the disease.
Giulia Cinelli, Stefania Della Vecchia, Patrizia Bergonzini, Elisa Caramaschi, Elisabetta Spezia, Claudia Parenti, Simona Filomena Madeo, Laura Lucaccioni, Cavalleri Francesca, Marisa Pugliese, Federico Raviglione, Clara Colonna, Olga Calabrese, Ilaria Stanghellini, Maria Carmen Marongiu, Enrico Biagioni, Anna Rita Ferrari, Roberta Battini, Lorenzo Iughetti   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Verbal autopsy of 80,000 adult deaths in Tamilnadu, South India

BMC Public Health, 2004
Background Registration of the fact of death is almost complete in the city of Chennai and not so in the rural Villupuram district in Tamilnadu, India.
Peto Richard, Gajalakshmi Vendhan
doaj   +1 more source

Probabilistic Cause-of-Death Assignment Using Verbal Autopsies [PDF]

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2016
In regions without complete-coverage civil registration and vital statistics systems there is uncertainty about even the most basic demographic indicators. In such regions the majority of deaths occur outside hospitals and are not recorded. Worldwide, fewer than one-third of deaths are assigned a cause, with the least information available from the ...
McCormick, Tyler H, Li, Zehang Richard, Calvert, Clara, Crampin, Amelia C, Kahn, Kathleen, Clark, Samuel J   +5 more
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Psychiatric and Cognitive Features in Italian Women With the FMR1 Premutation: A Comprehensive Assessment Using SCID‐5 and Standardized Cognitive Measures

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women with the FMR1 premutation (PM) are at increased risk for fragile X‐associated conditions (FXPAC), including cognitive and psychiatric features collectively termed fragile X‐associated neuropsychiatric disorders (FXAND). This study is the first to systematically investigate cognitive and psychiatric features in Italian female premutation ...
Federica Alice Maria Montanaro, Randi J. Hagerman, Giuseppina Spano, Flora Tassone, Giancarlo Logroscino, Andrea Bosco   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Classifying perinatal mortality using verbal autopsy: is there a role for nonphysicians?

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Background Because of a physician shortage in many low-income countries, the use of nonphysicians to classify perinatal mortality (stillbirth and early neonatal death) using verbal autopsy could be useful.
Wallace Dennis, McClure Elizabeth M, Tshefu Antoinette, Pasha Omrana, Chomba Elwyn, Mazariegos Manolo, Thorsten Vanessa, Phiri Mutinta, Garces Ana, Jehan Imtiaz, Ditekemena John, Engmann Cyril, Goldenberg Robert L, Carlo Waldemar A, Wright Linda L, Bose Carl   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Validating the InterVA model to estimate the burden of mortality from verbal autopsy data: a population-based cross-sectional study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: In countries with incomplete or no vital registration systems, verbal autopsy data are often reviewed by physicians in order to assign the probable cause of death.
Sebsibe Tadesse
doaj   +1 more source

Supporting Aged Care Worker Wellbeing: A Qualitative Document Analysis of the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aged care work is physically and emotionally demanding. Workers can feel disempowered, vulnerable and at increased risk of experiencing work‐related stress. This in turn can result in sub‐optimal care and staff shortages. This study aimed to investigate what provisions exist within Australia's strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards to ...
Sharon Stoddart, Kate Churruca, Maree Saba, Janet C Long, Peter D. Hibbert, Amy Nguyen, Viviana Wuthrich, Bronwyn Newman, Leonard C. Gray, Hilda Bø Lyng, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Louise A Ellis   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing verbal autopsy cause of death findings as determined by physician coding and probabilistic modelling: a public health analysis of 54 000 deaths in Africa and Asia

Journal of Global Health, 2015
Background: Coverage of civil registration and vital statistics varies globally, with most deaths in Africa and Asia remaining either unregistered or registered without cause of death.
Peter Byass , Kobus Herbst, Edward Fottrell , Mohamed M. Ali, Frank Odhiambo, Nyaguara Amek, Mary J. Hamel, Kayla F. Laserson, Kathleen Kahn, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Paul Mee, Jon Bird, Robert Jakob , Osman Sankoh , Stephen M. Tollman   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sex Differences in the Association of Simultaneous Decline in Blood Pressure and Decline in Cognition during Aging

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Both high and declining blood pressure (BP) are associated with risk of cognitive decline in older adults, and women have higher rates of hypertension and faster cognitive decline in late‐life. In old age, the relationship between changes in BP and changes in cognition is complex, and although sex differences in cognitive function and decline
Nicholas W. Baumgartner, Ana W. Capuano, Lisa L. Barnes, David A. Bennett, Zoe Arvanitakis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Synergism of verbal autopsy and diagnostic pathology autopsy for improved accuracy of mortality data [PDF]

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Commentary This series provides an important opportunity to consider how diagnostic pathology autopsy could be used in conjunction with verbal autopsy to provide more accurate cause of death and mortality data in all countries, and specifically in those countries with inadequate or nonexistent death registrations systems.
Murray Jill, Fligner Corinne L, Roberts Drucilla J   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources