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PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2021 Apr 19;15(4):e0007944. Epub 2021 Apr 19.

Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda.

Rabies is a vaccine-preventable fatal zoonotic disease. Uganda, through the veterinary surveillance system at National Animal Disease Diagnostics and Epidemiology Centre (NADDEC), captures animal bites (a proxy for rabies) on a monthly basis from districts. We established trends of incidence of animal bites and corresponding post-exposure prophylactic anti-rabies vaccination in humans (PEP), associated mortality rates in humans, spatial distribution of animal bites, and pets vaccinated during 2013-2017. Read More

Crit Care Med 2021 Apr 19. Epub 2021 Apr 19.

Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King's College London, London, United Kingdom. Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Mount Sinai Hospital, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada. Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. College of Pharmacy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland Inaugural Research Chair in Geriatric Emergency Medicine, Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada. St Michael's Hospital and Li Ka Shing Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada. School of Pharmacy, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Wellcome-Wolfson Institute of Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland. School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Hull York Medical School, University of York, York, United Kingdom. Watford General Hospital, Watford, United Kingdom.

Objectives: Delirium in critically ill adults is highly prevalent and has multiple negative consequences. To-date, trials of interventions to prevent or treat delirium report heterogenous outcomes. To develop international consensus among key stakeholders for a core outcome set for future trials of interventions to prevent and/or treat delirium in critically ill adults. Read More

Environ Sci Technol 2021 Apr 19. Epub 2021 Apr 19.

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430065, China.

Several recent studies in China have associated raised mortality risks with chronic exposure to ambient PM. However, cohort evidence covering general populations and more homogeneous regions is extensively scarce. We conceived a nationwide perspective cohort study from 2010 through 2018, by enrolling 30 946 adult men and women aged 16-110 years from 25 provincial regions in mainland China. Read More

Am J Transplant 2021 Apr 18. Epub 2021 Apr 18.

Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Fine particulate matter (PM ), a common form of air pollution which can induce systemic inflammatory response, is a risk factor for adverse health outcomes. Kidney transplant (KT) recipients are likely vulnerable to PM due to comorbidity and chronic immunosuppression. We sought to quantify the association between PM and post-KT outcomes. Read More

J Thorac Oncol 2021 Apr 15. Epub 2021 Apr 15.

Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address:

Introduction: Understanding trends in the annual incidence, mortality and disability adjusted life years (DALYs) for tracheal, bronchus and lung (TBL) cancers globally is important to enable appropriate targeting of resources for prevention, clinical practice improvement, and research. The aim of this study was to determine the global, regional and national burden of TBL cancer in 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019 by age, sex and socio-demographic index (SDI).

Methods: Estimates were produced through various data inputs including: cancer registries (n =5,318), vital registration (n =22,553), vital registration-sample (n =825) and verbal autopsies (n =516). Read More