Month: <span>July 2024</span>
Month: July 2024

Investigating the causal association between obesity and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma and underlying mechanisms

Sci Rep. 2024 Jul 8;14(1):15717. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-66414-1. ABSTRACT Obesity is a global health concern and independent risk factor for cancers including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, …

Exploring the course of functional somatic symptoms (FSS) from pre- to late adolescence and associated internalizing psychopathology – an observational cohort-study

BMC Psychiatry. 2024 Jul 8;24(1):495. doi: 10.1186/s12888-024-05937-3. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Functional somatic symptoms (FSS), which commonly cannot be attributed to well-defined organic pathology, often co-occur with …

Physical health complications in children and young people with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID): a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ Paediatr Open. 2024 Jul 8;8(1):e002595. doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2024-002595. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a feeding and eating disorder with known acute …

COVID-19 pandemic effects on neonatal inpatient admissions and mortality: interrupted time series analysis of facilities implementing NEST360 in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania

BMC Pediatr. 2024 Jul 8;23(Suppl 2):657. doi: 10.1186/s12887-024-04873-1. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The emergence of COVID-19 precipitated containment policies (e.g., lockdowns, school closures, etc.). These policies disrupted …

Community health promotion and medical provision and impact on neonates (CHAMPION2) and support to rural India’s public education system and impact on numeracy and literacy scores (STRIPES2): an update to the study protocol (v 11) for a cluster randomised trial in Madhya Pradesh, India

Trials. 2024 Jul 8;25(1):462. doi: 10.1186/s13063-024-08245-z. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: This update outlines amendments to the CHAMPION2/STRIPES2 cluster randomised trial protocol primarily made due to the COVID-19 …

Association between neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and epidural-related maternal fever in Chinese parturients: a prospective cohort study

J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2024 Dec;37(1):2376657. doi: 10.1080/14767058.2024.2376657. Epub 2024 Jul 8. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: Epidural analgesia could increase the risk of maternal fever during …

Characteristics of retinal vascularization in reactivated retinopathy of prematurity requiring treatment and clinical outcome after reinjection of ranibizumab

Sci Rep. 2024 Jul 8;14(1):15647. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-66483-2. ABSTRACT This study aimed to determine whether the state of retinal vascularization after anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) …

Socioeconomic inequities during COVID 19 pandemic increase preterm birth and low birth weight in the most underprivileged

J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2024 Dec;37(1):2375015. doi: 10.1080/14767058.2024.2375015. Epub 2024 Jul 8. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The mitigation measures implemented to face the healthcare emergency brought …