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AIM: To describe feeding characteristics (such as breast feeding and complementary feeding) and determine the nature of feeding difficulties of infants in a primary health-care clinic (PHC) in South Africa. METHODS: A total of 200 infants aged 6-12 months (mean = 8.54, standard deviation = 2.18) received a feed…

AIMS/INTRODUCTION: This study examined the association among sedentary time (ST), physical activity (PA), glycated hemoglobin and body composition in Japanese type 2 diabetes patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients with type 2 diabetes who visited the outpatient clinic at Kawasaki Medical School Hospital,…

BACKGROUND: Despite the increasing incidence of cancer worldwide, the knowledge about the trend of cancer incidence in Ethiopia is limited. The paucity of core cancer diagnostic services like pathology, diagnostic imaging technology, and the absence of a comprehensive national cancer registry masked the exact magnitude…

BACKGROUND: COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the healthcare systems into confusion worldwide, resulting in major modifications on the practice due to fear of exposure to this virus and its fatal consequences. OBJECTIVE: the study aimed to establish the prevalence of COVID-19 in cardiac arrest patients. METHODS: single-ce…

Greenspace is widely related to mental health benefits, but this relationship may vary by social group. Gentrification, as linked to processes of unequal urban development and conflict, potentially impacts health outcomes. This study explores the relationships between greenspace and mental health and between gentrifica…

Lifelong benefits of breastfeeding are far-reaching. However, optimal breastfeeding practices may be negatively affected by the marketing of different forms of breast milk substitutes. In addition, whether market factors have a different impact on migrants' breastfeeding practices when compared to natives has been poor…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: This systematic review with meta-analysis (PROSPERO: CRD42021249336) was performed to estimate the pooled lifetime prevalence of bipolar symptoms (BS) and bipolar disorder (BD) in people with epilepsy (PWE). METHODS: A search was performed on June 5, 2021, in 4 databases (MEDLINE/PubMed, Ovi…

BACKGROUND: ATTR cardiac amyloidosis (CA) can be diagnosed with Tc-99m-PYP scintigraphy. There are two recommended interpretative approaches: the quantitative heart-to-contralateral lung ratio (H/CL) at 1 hour and the semi-quantitative visual system at 3 hours. This study's aim was to compare both approaches and to app…

Two important challenges are inherent in the design of studies using prescription data from electronic health records: how to define the minimum level of adherence that would qualify as "continuous drug use" and how to handle stockpiling of medications. Generally, the sensitivity of a study's conclusions to these desig…

BACKGROUND: The relationship between ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and mortality varies from study to study, and its entity is uncertain due a considerable variation in the attributable mortality. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between VAP frequency and mortality in a cohort of mechanica…

The core objective of this study is to examine the impact of less social connectedness and testing fear on employee health. This study also investigates the mediating role of psychological strain between the relationship of less social connectedness, testing fear and employee health. Furthermore, this study also assess…

BACKGROUND: Communication within healthcare settings is crucial for a therapeutic relationship between nurse and patient especially in preventing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among adolescent girls. The school health programme in South Africa provides an opportunity to provide HIV prevention services among adoles…

INTRODUCTION: Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) is a third-generation nucleoside analogue commonly used as a first-line therapy for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. However, it is associated with nephrotoxicity, which can occur through mechanisms such as mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) depletion a…

The p-value has changed from a versatile tool for scientific reasoning to a strict judge of medical information, with the usual 0.05 cutoff frequently deciding a study's significance and subsequent clinical use. Through an examination of five critical care interventions that demonstrated meaningful treatment effects ye…

Glenn and colleagues carefully conducted a realist review of initiatives introduced in high-income countries intended to improve financial well-being (FWB) or reduce financial strain (FS) during the early days of the pandemic. They found that these initiatives were underpinned by either neoliberal or social equity ideo…

Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) 1915(c) waivers are the most prominent funding mechanism for the long-term services and supports (LTSS) of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). This study's aim was to conduct an in-depth national analysis of fiscal year (FY) 2021 HCBS 1915(c)…

Clinical reasoning is a core ability in the health professions, but the term is conceptualised in multiple ways within and across professions. For interprofessional teamwork it is indispensable to recognise the differences in understanding between professions. Therefore, our aim was to investigate how nurses, physician…

Suicide risk is associated with vulnerabilities and specific life events. The study's objective was to explore the relevance of data from forensic documentation on suicide deaths to the design of person-centered preventive strategies. Descriptive and thematic analyses were conducted of forensic observations of 286 deat…

The study's main purpose is to estimate the impact of the financial structure of Asian economies on the healthcare sector from 2000 to 2019. For empirical estimation, we relied on two-stage least square (2SLS) and generalized method of moment (GMM) estimation techniques. Two different proxies, infant mortality and life…

In research on sexual assault victims' help-seeking, proxy data sources are often utilized because outreach to survivors immediately postassault may increase a study's risk-to-benefit ratio. Victim advocates and services providers are common proxy respondents, but empirical research comparing the accuracy of their info…