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Asian J Psychiatr 2021 Feb 5;58:102579. Epub 2021 Feb 5.

Faculty of Medicine, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran. Electronic address:

Introduction: The present study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of depression in Iranian children.

Method: This meta-analysis was registered in PROSPERO with code (CRD42020216632) and performed based on the MOOSE protocol and PRISMA guidelines. Title and abstract of articles were searched without time limit until April 2020 in international databases PubMed/Medline, Scopus, Embase, Science Direct, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, EBSCO, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Iranian databases. Read More

PLoS One 2021 8;16(3):e0247940. Epub 2021 Mar 8.

University Hospital for Respiratory Diseases"St. Sophia", Sofia, Bulgaria.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) augments the likelihood of having left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD)-precursor of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). LVDD shares overlapping symptomatology (cough and dyspnea) with COPD. Stress induced LVDD is indicative of masked HFpEF. Read More

PLoS One 2021 8;16(3):e0247365. Epub 2021 Mar 8.

Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan, Republic of Korea.

Background: Meibomian glands exist beneath the palpebral conjunctiva; thus, it is invisible to the naked eye without infrared imaging. This study used meibography to group patients with meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) and assessed the effects of hyperthermic massage and mechanical squeezing in both groups.

Materials And Methods: Patients with MGD were divided into two groups, according to the degree of meibomian gland loss: group 1, in which the sum of eyelid scores ranged from 0 to 4 (mild to moderate gland loss) and group 2, in which the sum of eyelid scores ranged from 5 to 6 (severe gland loss). Read More

Am J Trop Med Hyg 2021 Mar 8. Epub 2021 Mar 8.

1Division of Rheumatology, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Most studies on chronic chikungunya virus (CHIKV) arthritis include patients treated with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), likely altering the expression of clinical manifestations and outcome. Therefore, we sought to evaluate the clinical features and correlates in DMARD-naive patients with chronic CHIKV arthritis. We conducted a case-control study in adult patients with serologically confirmed CHIKV infection in Puerto Rico. Read More

J Nephrol 2021 Mar 8. Epub 2021 Mar 8.

Kidney and Hypertension Unit, Joslin Diabetes Center, One Joslin Place, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.

Purpose: Erectile dysfunction, which has been associated with mortality in the general population, is common in individuals on hemodialysis. Our aim was to determine the relationship between erectile dysfunction, coronary artery calcification and mortality in incident hemodialysis patients.

Materials And Methods: A prospective cohort of incident adult dialysis patients with no history of coronary artery disease underwent coronary artery calcification measurement by ECG-triggered multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) scan at baseline and at least 12 months later. Read More