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BMC Medicine

Ausgabe 1/2018

Inhalt (243 Artikel)

Open Access Opinion

The health impacts of climate-related migration

Patricia Schwerdtle, Kathryn Bowen, Celia McMichael

Open Access Research article

Identifying older adults at risk of harm following elective surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Jennifer Watt, Andrea C. Tricco, Catherine Talbot-Hamon, Ba’ Pham, Patricia Rios, Agnes Grudniewicz, Camilla Wong, Douglas Sinclair, Sharon E. Straus

Open Access Research article

Influence of demographic changes on the impact of vaccination against varicella and herpes zoster in Germany – a mathematical modelling study

Johannes Horn, Oliver Damm, Wolfgang Greiner, Hartmut Hengel, Mirjam E. Kretzschmar, Anette Siedler, Bernhard Ultsch, Felix Weidemann, Ole Wichmann, André Karch, Rafael T. Mikolajczyk

Open Access Research article

Risk of fracture among patients with polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis: a population-based study

Zoe Paskins, Rebecca Whittle, Alyshah Abdul Sultan, Sara Muller, Milica Blagojevic-Bucknall, Toby Helliwell, Samantha Hider, Edward Roddy, Christian Mallen

Open Access Research article

Deprescribing preventive cardiovascular medication in patients with predicted low cardiovascular disease risk in general practice – the ECSTATIC study: a cluster randomised non-inferiority trial

Clare H. Luymes, Rosalinde K. E. Poortvliet, Nan van Geloven, Margot W. M. de Waal, Yvonne M. Drewes, Jeanet W. Blom, Nynke Smidt, Willem J. J. Assendelft, Wilbert B. van den Hout, Wouter de Ruijter, Mattijs E. Numans

Open Access Commentary

Micronutrient powders to combat anaemia in young children: do they work?

Hans Verhoef, Emily Teshome, Andrew M. Prentice

Open Access Research article

Efficacy of melatonin for sleep disturbance following traumatic brain injury: a randomised controlled trial

Natalie A. Grima, Shantha M. W. Rajaratnam, Darren Mansfield, Tracey L. Sletten, Gershon Spitz, Jennie L. Ponsford

Open Access Research article

Vaginal dysbiosis increases risk of preterm fetal membrane rupture, neonatal sepsis and is exacerbated by erythromycin

Richard G. Brown, Julian R. Marchesi, Yun S. Lee, Ann Smith, Benjamin Lehne, Lindsay M. Kindinger, Vasso Terzidou, Elaine Holmes, Jeremy K. Nicholson, Phillip R. Bennett, David A. MacIntyre

Open Access Research article

Rotavirus vaccine impact and socioeconomic deprivation: an interrupted time-series analysis of gastrointestinal disease outcomes across primary and secondary care in the UK

Daniel Hungerford, Roberto Vivancos, Jonathan M. Read, Miren Iturriza-Gόmara, Neil French, Nigel A. Cunliffe

Open Access Research article

Single low-dose primaquine for blocking transmission of Plasmodium falciparum malaria – a proposed model-derived age-based regimen for sub-Saharan Africa

W. Robert Taylor, Htee Khu Naw, Kathryn Maitland, Thomas N. Williams, Melissa Kapulu, Umberto D’Alessandro, James A. Berkley, Philip Bejon, Joseph Okebe, Jane Achan, Alfred Ngwa Amambua, Muna Affara, Davis Nwakanma, Jean-Pierre van Geertruyden, Muhindo Mavoko, Pascal Lutumba, Junior Matangila, Philipe Brasseur, Patrice Piola, Rindra Randremanana, Estrella Lasry, Caterina Fanello, Marie Onyamboko, Birgit Schramm, Zolia Yah, Joel Jones, Rick M. Fairhurst, Mahamadou Diakite, Grace Malenga, Malcolm Molyneux, Claude Rwagacondo, Charles Obonyo, Endalamaw Gadisa, Abraham Aseffa, Mores Loolpapit, Marie-Claire Henry, Grant Dorsey, Chandy John, Sodiomon B. Sirima, Karen I. Barnes, Peter Kremsner, Nicholas P. Day, Nicholas J. White, Mavuto Mukaka

Open Access Research article

Built environmental characteristics and diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

N. R. den Braver, J. Lakerveld, F. Rutters, L. J. Schoonmade, J. Brug, J. W. J. Beulens

Open Access Research article

Elucidating the impact of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine programme on pneumonia, sepsis and otitis media hospital admissions in England using a composite control

Dominic Thorrington, Nick Andrews, Julia Stowe, Elizabeth Miller, Albert Jan van Hoek

Open Access Debate

Rethinking Disability

Alarcos Cieza, Carla Sabariego, Jerome Bickenbach, Somnath Chatterji

Open Access Research article

Near-death experiences, attacks by family members, and absence of health care in their home countries affect the quality of life of refugee women in Germany: a multi-region, cross-sectional, gender-sensitive study

Jenny Jesuthasan, Ekin Sönmez, Ingar Abels, Christine Kurmeyer, Jana Gutermann, Renate Kimbel, Antje Krüger, Guenter Niklewski, Kneginja Richter, Ulrich Stangier, Anja Wollny, Ulrike Zier, Sabine Oertelt-Prigione, Meryam Shouler-Ocak

Open Access Research article

Metabolic characterization of menopause: cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence

Qin Wang, Diana L. Santos Ferreira, Scott M. Nelson, Naveed Sattar, Mika Ala-Korpela, Debbie A. Lawlor

Open Access Research article

Melatonin and health: an umbrella review of health outcomes and biological mechanisms of action

Pawel P. Posadzki, Ram Bajpai, Bhone Myint Kyaw, Nicola J. Roberts, Amnon Brzezinski, George I. Christopoulos, Ushashree Divakar, Shweta Bajpai, Michael Soljak, Gerard Dunleavy, Krister Jarbrink, Ei Ei Khaing Nang, Chee Kiong Soh, Josip Car

Open Access Research article

Chronic morbidity, deprivation and primary medical care spending in England in 2015-16: a cross-sectional spatial analysis

Evangelos Kontopantelis, Mamas A. Mamas, Harm van Marwijk, Andrew M. Ryan, Peter Bower, Bruce Guthrie, Tim Doran

Open Access Research article

Circadian pathway genetic variation and cancer risk: evidence from genome-wide association studies

Simone Mocellin, Saveria Tropea, Clara Benna, Carlo Riccardo Rossi

Open Access Research article

International core outcome set for clinical trials of medication review in multi-morbid older patients with polypharmacy

Jean-Baptiste Beuscart, Wilma Knol, Shane Cullinan, Claudio Schneider, Olivia Dalleur, Benoit Boland, Stefanie Thevelin, Paul A. F. Jansen, Denis O’Mahony, Nicolas Rodondi, Anne Spinewine

Open Access Research article

The human fetal adrenal produces cortisol but no detectable aldosterone throughout the second trimester

Zoe C. Johnston, Michelle Bellingham, Panagiotis Filis, Ugo Soffientini, Denise Hough, Siladitya Bhattacharya, Marc Simard, Geoffrey L. Hammond, Peter King, Peter J. O’Shaughnessy, Paul A. Fowler

Open Access Commentary

Genomic screening for monogenic forms of diabetes

Leslie G. Biesecker

Open Access Research article

Reproducibility of clinical research in critical care: a scoping review

Daniel J. Niven, T. Jared McCormick, Sharon E. Straus, Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, Lianne Jeffs, Tavish R. M. Barnes, Henry T. Stelfox

Open Access Research article

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment adherence in migrants: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Laura B. Nellums, Kieran Rustage, Sally Hargreaves, Jon S. Friedland

Open Access Research article

A personalized intervention to prevent depression in primary care: cost-effectiveness study nested into a clustered randomized trial

Anna Fernández, Juan M. Mendive, Sonia Conejo-Cerón, Patricia Moreno-Peral, Michael King, Irwin Nazareth, Carlos Martín-Pérez, Carmen Fernández-Alonso, Antonina Rodríguez-Bayón, Jose Maria Aiarzaguena, Carmen Montón-Franco, Antoni Serrano-Blanco, Inmaculada Ibañez-Casas, Emiliano Rodríguez-Sánchez, Luis Salvador-Carulla, Paola Bully Garay, María Isabel Ballesta-Rodríguez, Pilar LaFuente, María del Mar Muñoz-García, Pilar Mínguez-Gonzalo, Luz Araujo, Diego Palao, María Cruz Gómez, Fernando Zubiaga, Desirée Navas-Campaña, Jose Manuel Aranda-Regules, Alberto Rodriguez-Morejón, Juan de Dios Luna, Juan Ángel Bellón

Open Access Correspondence

Adaptive designs in clinical trials: why use them, and how to run and report them

Philip Pallmann, Alun W. Bedding, Babak Choodari-Oskooei, Munyaradzi Dimairo, Laura Flight, Lisa V. Hampson, Jane Holmes, Adrian P. Mander, Lang’o Odondi, Matthew R. Sydes, Sofía S. Villar, James M. S. Wason, Christopher J. Weir, Graham M. Wheeler, Christina Yap, Thomas Jaki

Open Access Research article

Class-modeling analysis reveals T-cell homeostasis disturbances involved in loss of immune control in elite controllers

José M. Benito, María C. Ortiz, Agathe León, Luis A. Sarabia, José M. Ligos, María Montoya, Marcial Garcia, Ezequiel Ruiz-Mateos, Rosario Palacios, Alfonso Cabello, Clara Restrepo, Carmen Rodriguez, Jorge del Romero, Manuel Leal, María A. Muñoz-Fernández, José Alcamí, Felipe García, Miguel Górgolas, Norma Rallón

Open Access Research article

The Cambridge Prognostic Groups for improved prediction of disease mortality at diagnosis in primary non-metastatic prostate cancer: a validation study

V. J. Gnanapragasam, O. Bratt, K. Muir, L. S. Lee, H. H. Huang, P. Stattin, A. Lophatananon

Open Access Debate

Hospital Mortality – a neglected but rich source of information supporting the transition to higher quality health systems in low and middle income countries

Mike English, Paul Mwaniki, Thomas Julius, Mercy Chepkirui, David Gathara, Paul O. Ouma, Peter Cherutich, Emelda A. Okiro, Robert W. Snow

Open Access Research article

Large-scale external validation and comparison of prognostic models: an application to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Beniamino Guerra, Sarah R. Haile, Bernd Lamprecht, Ana S. Ramírez, Pablo Martinez-Camblor, Bernhard Kaiser, Inmaculada Alfageme, Pere Almagro, Ciro Casanova, Cristóbal Esteban-González, Juan J. Soler-Cataluña, Juan P. de-Torres, Marc Miravitlles, Bartolome R. Celli, Jose M. Marin, Gerben ter Riet, Patricia Sobradillo, Peter Lange, Judith Garcia-Aymerich, Josep M. Antó, Alice M. Turner, Meilan K. Han, Arnulf Langhammer, Linda Leivseth, Per Bakke, Ane Johannessen, Toru Oga, Borja Cosio, Julio Ancochea-Bermúdez, Andres Echazarreta, Nicolas Roche, Pierre-Régis Burgel, Don D. Sin, Joan B. Soriano, Milo A. Puhan

Open Access Opinion

Are dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson’s disease dementia the same disease?

Kurt A. Jellinger, Amos D. Korczyn

Open Access Research article

Prevalence, risk factors and behavioural and emotional comorbidity of acute seizures in young Kenyan children: a population-based study

Symon M. Kariuki, Amina Abubakar, Martha Kombe, Michael Kazungu, Rachael Odhiambo, Alan Stein, Charles R. J. C. Newton

Open Access Research article

Antidepressant use and risk of adverse outcomes in people aged 20–64 years: cohort study using a primary care database

Carol Coupland, Trevor Hill, Richard Morriss, Michael Moore, Antony Arthur, Julia Hippisley-Cox

Open Access Research article

Lactate clearance as a prognostic marker of mortality in severely ill febrile children in East Africa

A. Aramburo, Jim Todd, Elizabeth C. George, Sarah Kiguli, Peter Olupot-Olupot, Robert O. Opoka, Charles Engoru, Samuel O. Akech, Richard Nyeko, George Mtove, Diana M. Gibb, Abdel G. Babiker, Kathryn Maitland

Open Access Correction

Correction to: Outcomes of notifications to health practitioner boards: a retrospective cohort study

Matthew J. Spittal, David M. Studdert, Ron Paterson, Marie M. Bismark

Open Access Research article

Genetic variation in clusterin and risk of dementia and ischemic vascular disease in the general population: cohort studies and meta-analyses of 362,338 individuals

Liv Tybjærg Nordestgaard, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, Katrine Laura Rasmussen, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

Open Access Research article

Syrian refugees in Greece: experience with violence, mental health status, and access to information during the journey and while in Greece

Jihane Ben Farhat, Karl Blanchet, Pia Juul Bjertrup, Apostolos Veizis, Clément Perrin, Rebecca M. Coulborn, Philippe Mayaud, Sandra Cohuet

Open Access Research article

Fatty fish intake and cognitive function: FINS-KIDS, a randomized controlled trial in preschool children

Jannike Øyen, Ingrid Kvestad, Lisa Kolden Midtbø, Ingvild Eide Graff, Mari Hysing, Kjell Morten Stormark, Maria Wik Markhus, Valborg Baste, Livar Frøyland, Berthold Koletzko, Hans Demmelmair, Lisbeth Dahl, Øyvind Lie, Marian Kjellevold

Open Access Research article

Impact of atopy on risk of glioma: a Mendelian randomisation study

Linden Disney-Hogg, Alex J. Cornish, Amit Sud, Philip J. Law, Ben Kinnersley, Daniel I. Jacobs, Quinn T. Ostrom, Karim Labreche, Jeanette E. Eckel-Passow, Georgina N. Armstrong, Elizabeth B. Claus, Dora Il’yasova, Joellen Schildkraut, Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, Sara H. Olson, Jonine L. Bernstein, Rose K. Lai, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Matthias Simon, Per Hoffmann, Markus M. Nöthen, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Stephen Chanock, Preetha Rajaraman, Christoffer Johansen, Robert B. Jenkins, Beatrice S. Melin, Margaret R. Wrensch, Marc Sanson, Melissa L. Bondy, Richard S. Houlston

Open Access Research article

Clinical assessment is a neglected component of outbreak preparedness: evidence from refugee camps in Greece

Amanda M. Rojek, Kassiani Gkolfinopoulou, Apostolos Veizis, Angeliki Lambrou, Lyndsey Castle, Theano Georgakopoulou, Karl Blanchet, Takis Panagiotopoulos, Peter W. Horby, Angeliki Angeletopoulou, Persephoni Dimitsaki, Angeliki Karatza, Athina Kourouni, Maria Moschovou, Evangeli Petroudi, Artemis Stoli

Open Access Research article

Sleep deficiency and motor vehicle crash risk in the general population: a prospective cohort study

Daniel J. Gottlieb, Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen, Matt T. Bianchi, Charles A. Czeisler

Open Access Research article

Comparison of treatment effect sizes from pivotal and postapproval trials of novel therapeutics approved by the FDA based on surrogate markers of disease: a meta-epidemiological study

Joshua D. Wallach, Oriana Ciani, Alison M. Pease, Gregg S. Gonsalves, Harlan M. Krumholz, Rod S. Taylor, Joseph S. Ross

Open Access Research article

Liver toxicity associated with tuberculosis chemotherapy in the REMoxTB study

Conor Duncan Tweed, Genevieve Helen Wills, Angela M. Crook, Rodney Dawson, Andreas H. Diacon, Cheryl E. Louw, Timothy D. McHugh, Carl Mendel, Sarah Meredith, Lerato Mohapi, Michael E. Murphy, Stephen Murray, Sara Murthy, Andrew J. Nunn, Patrick P. J. Phillips, Kasha Singh, M. Spigelman, S. H. Gillespie

Open Access Research article

Hepatitis B in Moroccan-Dutch: a quantitative study into determinants of screening participation

Nora Hamdiui, Mart L. Stein, Aura Timen, Danielle Timmermans, Albert Wong, Maria E. T. C. van den Muijsenbergh, Jim E. van Steenbergen

Open Access Correspondence

The perceived organizational impact of the gender gap across a Canadian department of medicine and proposed strategies to combat it: a qualitative study

Reena Pattani, Christine Marquez, Camellia Dinyarian, Malika Sharma, Julie Bain, Julia E. Moore, Sharon E. Straus

Open Access Debate

Real-world evidence: How pragmatic are randomized controlled trials labeled as pragmatic?

Rafael Dal-Ré, Perrine Janiaud, John P. A. Ioannidis

Open Access Research article

Consumption of meat in relation to physical functioning in the Seniors-ENRICA cohort

Ellen A. Struijk, José R. Banegas, Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo, Esther Lopez-Garcia

Open Access Research article

General and disease-specific pain trajectories as predictors of social and political outcomes in arthritis and cancer

Richard J. E. James, David A. Walsh, Eamonn Ferguson

Open Access Research article

Small contribution of gold mines to the ongoing tuberculosis epidemic in South Africa: a modeling-based study

Stewart T. Chang, Violet N. Chihota, Katherine L. Fielding, Alison D. Grant, Rein M. Houben, Richard G. White, Gavin J. Churchyard, Philip A. Eckhoff, Bradley G. Wagner

Open Access Research article

Prediction of autonomic dysreflexia during urodynamics: a prospective cohort study

Matthias Walter, Stephanie C. Knüpfer, Jacquelyn J. Cragg, Lorenz Leitner, Marc P. Schneider, Ulrich Mehnert, Andrei V. Krassioukov, Martin Schubert, Armin Curt, Thomas M. Kessler

Open Access Research article

Medical end-of-life practices in Swiss cultural regions: a death certificate study

Samia A. Hurst, Ueli Zellweger, Georg Bosshard, Matthias Bopp, Karin Faisst, Felix Gutzwiller, Christoph Junker, Milo Puhan, Margareta Schmid

Open Access Research article

Performance of InSilicoVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Abraham D. Flaxman, Jonathan C. Joseph, Christopher J. L. Murray, Ian Douglas Riley, Alan D. Lopez

Open Access Research article

Differences in the health transition patterns of migrants and non-migrants aged 50 and older in southern and western Europe (2004–2015)

Matias Reus-Pons, Clara H. Mulder, Eva U. B. Kibele, Fanny Janssen

Open Access Research article

Efficacy and safety of methylene blue in the treatment of malaria: a systematic review

G. Lu, M. Nagbanshi, N. Goldau, M. Mendes Jorge, P. Meissner, A. Jahn, F. P. Mockenhaupt, O. Müller

Open Access Research article

Clinical trial registration and reporting: a survey of academic organizations in the United States

Evan Mayo-Wilson, James Heyward, Anthony Keyes, Jesse Reynolds, Sarah White, Nidhi Atri, G. Caleb Alexander, Audrey Omar, Daniel E. Ford, Nidhi Atri, Hila Bernstein, Yolanda P. Davis, Keren Dunn, Carrie Dykes, James Heyward, M. E. Blair Holbein, Anthony Keyes, Evan Mayo-Wilson, Jesse Reynolds, Leah Silbert, Niem-Tzu ( Rebecca) Chen, Sarah White, Diane Lehman Wilson

Open Access Research article

Human antibodies activate complement against Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites, and are associated with protection against malaria in children

Liriye Kurtovic, Marije C. Behet, Gaoqian Feng, Linda Reiling, Kiprotich Chelimo, Arlene E. Dent, Ivo Mueller, James W. Kazura, Robert W. Sauerwein, Freya J. I. Fowkes, James G. Beeson

Open Access Research article

Migration and tuberculosis transmission in a middle-income country: a cross-sectional study in a central area of São Paulo, Brazil

Julia Moreira Pescarini, Vera Simonsen, Lucilaine Ferrazoli, Laura C. Rodrigues, Rosangela S. Oliveira, Eliseu Alves Waldman, Rein Houben

Open Access Opinion

When complexity science meets implementation science: a theoretical and empirical analysis of systems change

Jeffrey Braithwaite, Kate Churruca, Janet C. Long, Louise A. Ellis, Jessica Herkes

Open Access Research article

The Daily Mile makes primary school children more active, less sedentary and improves their fitness and body composition: a quasi-experimental pilot study

Ross A. Chesham, Josephine N. Booth, Emma L. Sweeney, Gemma C. Ryde, Trish Gorely, Naomi E. Brooks, Colin N. Moran

Open Access Research article

Analysing the role of complexity in explaining the fortunes of technology programmes: empirical application of the NASSS framework

Trisha Greenhalgh, Joe Wherton, Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Jenni Lynch, Gemma Hughes, Christine A’Court, Sue Hinder, Rob Procter, Sara Shaw

Open Access Research article

Guillain–Barré syndrome risk among individuals infected with Zika virus: a multi-country assessment

Luis Mier-y-Teran-Romero, Mark J. Delorey, James J. Sejvar, Michael A. Johansson

Open Access Research article

Serum magnesium levels and risk of coronary artery disease: Mendelian randomisation study

Susanna C. Larsson, Stephen Burgess, Karl Michaëlsson

Open Access Research article

Healthcare costs and utilization associated with high-risk prescription opioid use: a retrospective cohort study

Hsien-Yen Chang, Hadi Kharrazi, Dave Bodycombe, Jonathan P. Weiner, G. Caleb Alexander

Open Access Research article

High burden of birthweight-lowering genetic variants in Africans and Asians

Fasil Tekola-Ayele, Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Azmeraw T. Amare

Open Access Research article

Spatio-temporal mapping of Madagascar’s Malaria Indicator Survey results to assess Plasmodium falciparum endemicity trends between 2011 and 2016

Su Yun Kang, Katherine E. Battle, Harry S. Gibson, Arsène Ratsimbasoa, Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia, Stéphanie Ramboarina, Peter A. Zimmerman, Daniel J. Weiss, Ewan Cameron, Peter W. Gething, Rosalind E. Howes

Open Access Research article

Effective coverage of essential inpatient care for small and sick newborns in a high mortality urban setting: a cross-sectional study in Nairobi City County, Kenya

Georgina A. V. Murphy, David Gathara, Jacintah Mwachiro, Nancy Abuya, Jalemba Aluvaala, Mike English, Sam Ochola, Robert Ayisi, Aggrey Wasunna, Fred Were, Catherine Mutinda, Beth Maina, Cecilia Mutiso, David Githanga, David Kimutai, Rachel Musoke, Roseline Ochieng, William Macharia, Rachel Nyamai

Open Access Research article

Pretreatment chest x-ray severity and its relation to bacterial burden in smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis

S. E. Murthy, F. Chatterjee, A. Crook, R. Dawson, C. Mendel, M. E. Murphy, S. R. Murray, A. J. Nunn, P. P. J. Phillips, Kasha P. Singh, T. D. McHugh, S. H. Gillespie, Andreas Diacon, Madeleine Hanekom, Amour Venter, Kimberley Narunsky, B. Mtafya, N. Elias Ntinginya, Andrea Rachow, Evans Amukoye, B. Miheso, M. Njoroje, Noel Sam, D. Damas, Alphonce Liyoyo, A. Ahmad Mahayiddin, C. Chuchottaworn, J. Boonyasopun, B. Saipan, Shabir Lakhi, D. Chanda, J. Mcyeze, Alexander Pym, N. Ngcobo, Cheryl Louw, H. Veldsman, Gerardo Amaya-Tapia, T. Vejar Aguirre, D. K. Chauhan, R. K. Garg, N. K. Jain, A. Aggarwal, M. Mishra, S. Teotia, S. Charalambous, N. Hattidge, L. Pretorious, N. Padayachi, L. Mohapi, M. Gao, X. Li, L. Zhang, Q. Zhang, S. Aggarwal, Ketty Belizaire, Majda Benhayoun, D. Everitt, Ann Ginsberg, Martino Laurenzi, Bridget Rawls, Christopher Radali, Mel Spigelman, Almarie Uys, Christo van Niekerk, Anna L. C. Bateson, Matthew Betteridge, S. Birkby, Emily Bongard, Michael Brown, Holly Ciesielczuk, C. Cook, E. Cunningham, James Huggett, Robert Hunt, Clare Ling, Marc Lipman, Paul Mee, Felicity M. R. Perrin, Robert Shorten, K. Smith, Victoria Yorke-Edwards, Alimuddin Zumla

Open Access Research article

A cut-off of daily sedentary time and all-cause mortality in adults: a meta-regression analysis involving more than 1 million participants

Po-Wen Ku, Andrew Steptoe, Yung Liao, Ming-Chun Hsueh, Li-Jung Chen

Open Access Research article

Patterns of adiposity, vascular phenotypes and cognitive function in the 1946 British Birth Cohort

Stefano Masi, Georgios Georgiopoulos, Tauseef Khan, William Johnson, Andrew Wong, Marietta Charakida, Peter Whincup, Alun D. Hughes, Marcus Richards, Rebecca Hardy, John Deanfield

Open Access Commentary

Informing real-world practice with real-world evidence: the value of PRECIS-2

Gila Neta, Karin E. Johnson

Open Access Research article

Associations of discretionary screen time with mortality, cardiovascular disease and cancer are attenuated by strength, fitness and physical activity: findings from the UK Biobank study

Carlos A. Celis-Morales, Donald M. Lyall, Lewis Steell, Stuart R. Gray, Stamatina Iliodromiti, Jana Anderson, Daniel F. Mackay, Paul Welsh, Thomas Yates, Jill P. Pell, Naveed Sattar, Jason M. R. Gill

Open Access Commentary

Measuring and mapping the global burden of antimicrobial resistance

Simon I. Hay, Puja C. Rao, Christiane Dolecek, Nicholas P. J. Day, Andy Stergachis, Alan D. Lopez, Christopher J. L. Murray

Open Access Research article

Switching to dual/monotherapy determines an increase in CD8+ in HIV-infected individuals: an observational cohort study

Cristina Mussini, Patrizia Lorenzini, Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri, Giulia Marchetti, Stefano Rusconi, Andrea Gori, Silvia Nozza, Miriam Lichtner, Andrea Antinori, Andrea Cossarizza, Antonella d’Arminio Monforte, A. d’Arminio Monforte, A. Antinori, A. Castagna, F. Castelli, R. Cauda, G. Di Perri, M. Galli, R. Iardino, G. Ippolito, A. Lazzarin, G. C. Marchetti, C. F. Perno, G. Rezza, F. von Schloesser, P. Viale, F. Ceccherini-Silberstein, A. Cozzi-Lepri, E. Girardi, S. Lo Caputo, C. Mussini, M. Puoti, M. Andreoni, A. Ammassari, C. Balotta, A. Bandera, P. Bonfanti, S. Bonora, M. Borderi, A. Calcagno, L. Calza, M. R. Capobianchi, A. Cingolani, P. Cinque, A. De Luca, A. Di Biagio, N. Gianotti, A. Gori, G. Guaraldi, G. Lapadula, M. Lichtner, G. Madeddu, F. Maggiolo, G. Marchetti, S. Marcotullio, L. Monno, S. Nozza, E. Quiros Roldan, R. Rossotti, S. Rusconi, M. M. Santoro, A. Saracino, M. Zaccarelli, I. Fanti, L. Galli, P. Lorenzini, A. Rodano, M. Shanyinde, A. Tavelli, F. Carletti, S. Carrara, A. Di Caro, S. Graziano, F. Petrone, G. Prota, S. Quartu, S. Truffa, A. Giacometti, A. Costantini, V. Barocci, G. Angarano, C. Santoro, C. Suardi, V. Donati, G. Verucchi, C. Minardi, T. Quirino, C. Abeli, P. E. Manconi, P. Piano, B. Cacopardo, B. Celesia, J. Vecchiet, K. Falasca, L. Sighinolfi, D. Segala, P. Blanc, F. Vichi, G. Cassola, C. Viscoli, A. Alessandrini, N. Bobbio, G. Mazzarello, C. Mastroianni, I. Pozzetto, I. Caramma, A. Chiodera, P. Milini, G. Rizzardini, M. C. Moioli, R. Piolini, A. L. Ridolfo, S. Salpietro, C. Tincati, C. Puzzolante, N. Abrescia, A. Chirianni, G. Borgia, R. Orlando, G. Bonadies, F. Di Martino, I. Gentile, L. Maddaloni, A. M. Cattelan, S. Marinello, A. Cascio, C. Colomba, F. Baldelli, E. Schiaroli, G. Parruti, F. Sozio, G. Magnani, M. A. Ursitti, A. Cristaudo, V. Vullo, R. Acinapura, G. Baldin, M. Capozzi, S. Cicalini, L. Fontanelli Sulekova, G. Iaiani, A. Latini, I. Mastrorosa, M. M. Plazzi, S. Savinelli, A. Vergori, M. Cecchetto, F. Viviani, P. Bagella, B. Rossetti, A. Franco, R. Fontana Del Vecchio, D. Francisci, C. Di Giuli, P. Caramello, G. C. Orofino, M. Sciandra, M. Bassetti, A. Londero, G. Pellizzer, V. Manfrin, G. Starnini, A. Ialungo

Open Access Research article

Is telephone health coaching a useful population health strategy for supporting older people with multimorbidity? An evaluation of reach, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness using a ‘trial within a cohort’

Maria Panagioti, David Reeves, Rachel Meacock, Beth Parkinson, Karina Lovell, Mark Hann, Kelly Howells, Amy Blakemore, Lisa Riste, Peter Coventry, Thomas Blakeman, Mark Sidaway, Peter Bower

Open Access Research article

Efficacy and safety of ascending doses of praziquantel against Schistosoma haematobium infection in preschool-aged and school-aged children: a single-blind randomised controlled trial

Jean T. Coulibaly, Gordana Panic, Richard B. Yapi, Jana Kovač, Beatrice Barda, Yves K. N’Gbesso, Jan Hattendorf, Jennifer Keiser

Open Access Minireview

Transient portal vein thrombosis in liver cirrhosis

Xingshun Qi, Xiaozhong Guo, Eric M. Yoshida, Nahum Méndez-Sánchez, Valerio De Stefano, Frank Tacke, Andrea Mancuso, Yasuhiko Sugawara, Sien-Sing Yang, Rolf Teschke, Ankur Arora, Dominique-Charles Valla

Open Access Opinion

Zika vaccines and therapeutics: landscape analysis and challenges ahead

Annelies Wilder-Smith, Kirsten Vannice, Anna Durbin, Joachim Hombach, Stephen J. Thomas, Irani Thevarjan, Cameron P. Simmons

Open Access Research article

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