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Detection of lipoarabinomannan (LAM) in urine is an independent predictor of ...
Abstract Background Simple immune capture assays that detect mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan (LAM) antigen in urine are promising new tools for the diagnosis of HIV-associated... -
Association between periodontal disease and mortality in people with CKD: a m...
Abstracts Background Periodontal disease occurs relatively prevalently in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD), but it remains indeterminate whether periodontal disease is... -
Relation of multi-marker panel to incident chronic kidney disease and rapid k...
Abstract Background Few investigations have evaluated the incremental usefulness of multiple biomarkers representing varying physiological pathways for predicting risk of renal... -
Use of biologically-based complementary medicine in breast and gynecological ...
Abstract Background Biologically-based complementary medicines (BB-CAM) including herbs and nutritional supplements are frequently taken by breast- and gynecological cancer... -
Status of metered dose inhaler technique among patients with asthma and its e...
Abstract Objective In Asthma management, poor handling of inhalation devices and wrong inhalation technique are associated with decreased medication delivery and poor disease... -
Role of ethambutol and rifampicin in the treatment of Mycobacterium avium com...
Abstract Background A three-drug regimen (macrolide, ethambutol, and rifampicin) is recommended for the treatment of Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease (MAC-PD).... -
Association between sexual violence and unintended pregnancy among adolescent...
Abstract Background Unintended pregnancy has dire consequences on the health and socioeconomic wellbeing of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) (aged 15–24 years). While... -
A randomized, 29-day, dose-ranging, efficacy and safety study of daprodustat,...
Abstract Background Daprodustat is a hypoxia-inducible factor-prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor currently being investigated as a treatment for anemia of chronic kidney disease (CKD)... -
Detailed analysis of sputum and systemic inflammation in asthma phenotypes: a...
Abstract Background The technique of induced sputum has allowed to subdivide asthma patients into inflammatory phenotypes according to their level of granulocyte airway... -
The association between daily 500 mg calcium supplementation and lower pregna...
Abstract Background Evidence suggests that daily supplementation of 1500 to 2000 mg of calcium during pregnancy reduces pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH). However, the... -
Using record linkage to validate notification and laboratory data for a more ...
Abstract Background Infectious disease burden is commonly assessed using notification data. Using retrospective record linkage in Western Australia, we described how well... -
Obstetric violence and its associated factors among postnatal women in a Spec...
Abstract Objective Obstetric violence is an often overlooked obstacle to quality maternal health care service utilization. In the study setting, there was limited evidence on... -
Development and validation of a score to identify in the Emergency Department...
Abstract Background Risk stratification methods developed on the basis of predicting illness severity are often used to prioritise patients on the basis of urgency. Illness... -
Design and rationale of the QUAZAR Lower-Risk MDS (AZA-MDS-003) trial: a rand...
Abstract Background CC-486 is an oral formulation of the epigenetic modifier azacitidine. In an expanded phase 1 trial, CC-486 demonstrated clinical and biological activity in... -
MaveDB: an open-source platform to distribute and interpret data from multipl...
Abstract Multiplex assays of variant effect (MAVEs), such as deep mutational scans and massively parallel reporter assays, test thousands of sequence variants in a single... -
Tuberculosis and its association with CD4+ T cell count among adult HIV posit...
Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) and HV have been intertwined and makeup a deadly human syndemic worldwide, especially in developing countries like Ethiopia. Previous... -
Efficacy of Jia Wei Yang He formula as an adjunctive therapy for asthma: stud...
Abstract Background Over the past two or three decades, the prevalence of asthma has significantly increased worldwide; therefore, effective treatment without side effects is of... -
Assessment of partograph utilization and associated factors among obstetric c...
Abstract Objectives Partograph is one of the best effective obstetric tools used to monitoring labor and prevent prolonged or obstructed labor which accounts for about 22% of... -
Imbalanced Randomization in Vaccine Clinical Safety Trials
Clinical safety and immunogenicity data in vaccines are commonly dichotomized into responder and non- responder binary data. This paper expands upon Fagerland et al., [5] to... -
Cross-sectional comparison of critically ill pediatric patients across hospit...
Abstract Background Inpatient administrative data sources describe the care provided to hospitalized children. The Kids’ Inpatient Database (KID) provides nationally...
