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Factors Associated With Condom Use With Non-Commercial Partners Among Sexually-Active Transgender Women In Cambodia: Findings From A National Survey Using Respondent-Driven Sampling., Siyan Yi, Amelia Plant, Sovannary Tuot, Phalkun Mun, Srean Chhim, Navy Chann, Pheak Chhoun, Carinne M. Brody

BACKGROUND: Globally, the prevalence of HIV among transgender women is much higher than that of the general adult population. This can be explained by the persistently low rate of consistent condom use among this population. This study was therefore conducted to explore factors associated with consistent condom use among sexually-active transgender women in Cambodia, specifically with their non-commercial partners.

METHODS: Data used for this study were collected as part of the National Integrated Biological and Behavioral Survey 2016. Participants were recruited from the capital city of Phnom Penh and 12 other provinces with high burden of HIV using the Respondent-Driven …

Global, Regional, And National Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (Dalys) For 359 Diseases And Injuries And Healthy Life Expectancy (Hale) For 195 Countries And Territories, 1990–2017: A Systematic Analysis For The Global Burden Of Disease Study 2017, Hmwe Hmwe Kyu, Degu Abate, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Solomon M. Abay, Cristiana Abbafati, Mohammad Tavakkoli, Nooshin Abbasi, Hedayat Abbastabar, Foad Abd-Allah, Jemal Abdela, Ahmed Abdelalim, Ibrahim Abdollahpour, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Gbd 2017 Dalys And Hale Collaborators

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BACKGROUND: How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health, and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time all have implications for policy, planning, and provision of services. We comparatively assessed the patterns and trends of healthy life expectancy (HALE), which quantifies the number of years of life expected to be lived in good health, and the complementary measure of disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), a composite measure of disease burden capturing both premature mortality and prevalence and severity of ill health, for 359 diseases and injuries for …

Systematic Overview Of Hepatitis C Infection In The Middle East And North Africa, Karima Chaabna, Sohaila Cheema, Amit Abraham, Hekmat Alrouh, Albert B. Lowenfels, Patrick Maisonneuve, Ravinder Mamtani

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AIM: To assess the quality of and to critically synthesize the available data on hepatitis C infections in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to map evidence gaps. METHODS: We conducted an overview of systematic reviews (SRs) following an a priori developed protocol (CRD42017076736). Our overview followed the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses guidelines for reporting SRs and abstracts and did not receive any funding. Two independent reviewers systematically searched MEDLINE and conducted a multistage screening of the identified articles. Out of 5758 identified articles, 37 SRs of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in populations …

Risk Factors For Microvascular Complications Of Diabetes In A High-Risk Middle East Population, Sohaila Cheema, Patrick Maisonneuve, Mahmoud Zirie, Amin Jayyousi, Hekmat Alrouh, Albert B. Lowenfels, Ravinder Mamtani

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Aims: Much of the diabetes burden is caused by its complications. This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors for diabetic microvascular complications (retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy) in a high-risk population. Methods: We collected information via a structured questionnaire and directly from the patient's record on 1034 adult type 2 diabetic patients who were attending outpatient clinics in Qatar. Results: The mean age of the patients was 55 +/- 10 years, and the mean duration of diabetes was 12.4 +/- 8.9 years. Forty-five percent had one or more microvascular complications. Shared risk factors for multiplicity and for …

Hypertension Associated With Atrial Fibrillation, Wilbert S. Aronow

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Incidence, Risks, And Types Of Infections In Pediatric Long-Term Care Facilities, Lisa Saiman, Philip Maykowski, Meghan Murray, Bevin Cohen, Natalie Neu, Gordon R. Hutcheon, Elaine Larson

NYMC Faculty Publications

Importance: The population of infants, children, and adolescents cared for at pediatric long-term care facilities is increasing in complexity and size and thus consumes substantial health care resources. Infections are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in this population, but few recent data describe their incidence and effects.

Objectives: To describe the types of infections diagnosed in residents of pediatric long-term care facilities, calculate infection rates, and identify risk factors for respiratory tract infections (RTIs).

Design, Setting, and Participants: This prospective cohort study, which was part of a larger trial called Keep It Clean for Kids, was conducted from …

Hepatitis C Virus And Nonliver Solid Cancers: Is There An Association Between Hcv And Cancers Of The Pancreas, Thyroid, Kidney, Oral Cavity, Breast, Lung, And Gastrointestinal Tract?, S Qadwai, T Rehman, Jonathan Barsa, Z Solangi, Edward Lebovics

NYMC Faculty Publications

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is known for its oncogenic potential and has been found to be associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. It has also been postulated that HCV may play a role in the development of other extrahepatic solid tumors of other organs of the body since it has been isolated from the vessel wall, kidney, and oral mucosa. In this article, we have reviewed epidemiological studies that have been done to look into the relationship of HCV with nonliver solid cancers of the pancreas, thyroid, renal, oral cavity, breast, and lung and nonpancreatic gastrointestinal cancers. Based …

Orthogonal Decomposition Of Left Ventricular Remodeling In Myocardial Infarction, Xingyu Zhang, Pau Medrano-Gracia, Bharath Ambale-Venkatesh, David A. Bluemke, Brett R. Cowan, J. Paul Finn, Alan H. Kadish

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BACKGROUND: Left ventricular size and shape are important for quantifying cardiac remodeling in response to cardiovascular disease. Geometric remodeling indices have been shown to have prognostic value in predicting adverse events in the clinical literature, but these often describe interrelated shape changes. We developed a novel method for deriving orthogonal remodeling components directly from any (moderately independent) set of clinical remodeling indices.

RESULTS: Six clinical remodeling indices (end-diastolic volume index, sphericity, relative wall thickness, ejection fraction, apical conicity, and longitudinal shortening) were evaluated using cardiac magnetic resonance images of 300 patients with myocardial infarction, and 1991 asymptomatic subjects, obtained from …