Attention bias modification: the Emperor's new suit?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mucin 4 (MUC4) plays an important role in protecting and lubricating the epithelial surface of reproductive tracts, but its role in the pathogenesis of endometriosis is largely unknown. METHODS:To correlate MUC4 polymorphism with the risk of endometriosis and endometriosis-related infertility, we performed ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Chang CY,Chang HW,Chen CM,Lin CY,Chen CP,Lai CH,Lin WY,Liu HP,Sheu JJ,Tsai FJ

更新日期：2011-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bangladesh, India and Nepal are working towards the elimination of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) by 2015. In 2005 the World Health Organization/Training in Tropical Diseases launched an implementation research programme to support integrated vector management for the elimination of VL from Bangladesh, India an...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Joshi AB,Das ML,Akhter S,Chowdhury R,Mondal D,Kumar V,Das P,Kroeger A,Boelaert M,Petzold M

更新日期：2009-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many developing countries, the majority of births are attended by traditional birth attendants, who lack formal training in neonatal resuscitation and other essential care required by the newly born infant. In these countries, the major causes of neonatal mortality are birth asphyxia, infection, and low-b...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Matendo R,Engmann C,Ditekemena J,Gado J,Tshefu A,Kinoshita R,McClure EM,Moore J,Wallace D,Carlo WA,Wright LL,Bose C

更新日期：2011-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Although clinical nutrition is a frequently used intervention in inpatient care, high quality trials proving its effectiveness and safety when used in the acutely-ill polymorbid medical inpatient population are largely lacking. From an evolutionary perspective, illness-related low appetite is protective and part of th...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Schuetz P

更新日期：2017-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When an outbreak of a novel pathogen occurs, some of the most pressing questions from a public-health point of view relate to its transmissibility, and the probabilities of different clinical outcomes following infection, to allow an informed response. Estimates of these quantities are often based on househo...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： House T,Inglis N,Ross JV,Wilson F,Suleman S,Edeghere O,Smith G,Olowokure B,Keeling MJ

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prognostic significance of tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) in adult classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) remains controversial. Here, we report a meta-analysis of the association of CD68 and CD163 infiltration on the clinical outcome of adult cHL. METHODS:A comprehensive search to identify relevant artic...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Guo B,Cen H,Tan X,Ke Q

更新日期：2016-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mind-body nexus has been a topic of growing interest. Further data are however required to understand the specific relationship between mood and anxiety disorders and individual physical health conditions, and to verify whether these psychiatric disorders are linked to overall medical burden. METHODS:Th...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Sanna L,Stuart AL,Pasco JA,Kotowicz MA,Berk M,Girardi P,Brennan SL,Williams LJ

更新日期：2013-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interventions to alleviate stigma are demonstrating effectiveness across a range of conditions, though few move beyond the pilot phase, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Implementation science offers tools to study complex interventions, understand barriers to implementation, and genera...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Kemp CG,Jarrett BA,Kwon CS,Song L,Jetté N,Sapag JC,Bass J,Murray L,Rao D,Baral S

更新日期：2019-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Iron deficiency without anemia is related to adverse symptoms that can be relieved by supplementation. Since a blood donation can induce such an iron deficiency, we investigated the clinical impact of iron treatment after a blood donation. METHODS:One week after donation, we randomly assigned 154 female don...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Waldvogel S,Pedrazzini B,Vaucher P,Bize R,Cornuz J,Tissot JD,Favrat B

更新日期：2012-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2015, the Zika virus spread from Brazil throughout the Americas, posing an unprecedented challenge to the public health community. During the epidemic, international public health officials lacked reliable predictions of the outbreak's expected geographic scale and prevalence of cases, and were therefore ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Akhtar M,Kraemer MUG,Gardner LM

更新日期：2019-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Major depression, although frequent in primary care, is commonly hidden behind multiple physical complaints that are often the first and only reason for patient consultation. Major depression can be screened by two validated questions that are easier to use in primary care than the full Diagnostic and Statis...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Lombardo P,Vaucher P,Haftgoli N,Burnand B,Favrat B,Verdon F,Bischoff T,Herzig L

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most UK medical schools use aptitude tests during student selection, but large-scale studies of predictive validity are rare. This study assesses the United Kingdom Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT), and its four sub-scales, along with measures of educational attainment, individual and contextual socio-economic...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： McManus IC,Dewberry C,Nicholson S,Dowell JS

更新日期：2013-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa remains challenging to measure relying on epidemiological modelling to evaluate the impact of investments and providing an in-depth analysis of progress and trends in malaria response globally. In malaria-endemic countries of Africa, there is increasing use of rout...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Alegana VA,Okiro EA,Snow RW

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The term 'lower value services' concerns healthcare that is of little or no value to the patient and consequently should not be provided routinely, or not be provided at all. De-adoption of lower value care may occur through explicit recommendations in clinical guidelines. The present study aimed to generate...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Wammes JJ,van den Akker-van Marle ME,Verkerk EW,van Dulmen SA,Westert GP,van Asselt AD,Kool RB

更新日期：2016-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinicians are less likely to prescribe guideline-recommended treatments to people with multimorbidity than to people with a single condition. Doubts as to the applicability of clinical trials of drug treatments (the gold standard for evidence-based medicine) when people have co-existing diseases (comorbidit...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Hanlon P,Hannigan L,Rodriguez-Perez J,Fischbacher C,Welton NJ,Dias S,Mair FS,Guthrie B,Wild S,McAllister DA

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The spatial spread of many mosquito-borne diseases occurs by focal spread at the scale of a few hundred meters and over longer distances due to human mobility. The relative contributions of different spatial scales for transmission of chikungunya virus require definition to improve outbreak vector control re...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Guzzetta G,Vairo F,Mammone A,Lanini S,Poletti P,Manica M,Rosa R,Caputo B,Solimini A,Torre AD,Scognamiglio P,Zumla A,Ippolito G,Merler S

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria at international borders presents particular challenges with regards to elimination. International borders share common malaria ecologies, yet neighboring countries are often at different stages of the control-to-elimination pathway. Herein, we present a case study on malaria, and its control, at the border be...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Al Zahrani MH,Omar AI,Abdoon AMO,Ibrahim AA,Alhogail A,Elmubarak M,Elamin YE,AlHelal MA,Alshahrani AM,Abdelgader TM,Saeed I,El Gamri TB,Alattas MS,Dahlan AA,Assiri AM,Maina J,Li XH,Snow RW

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The stratification of patients for treatment of prostate cancer is based on very general parameters like prostate-specific antigen, Gleason score, and TNM classification. We use these rough parameters for selection of active surveillance, active treatment, and even for the treatment selection in metastasized or castra...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Sedelaar JP,Schalken JA

更新日期：2015-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comorbidity between depressive and anxiety disorders is common. A hypothesis of the network perspective on psychopathology is that comorbidity arises due to the interplay of symptoms shared by both disorders, with overlapping symptoms acting as so-called bridges, funneling symptom activation between symptom ...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Groen RN,Ryan O,Wigman JTW,Riese H,Penninx BWJH,Giltay EJ,Wichers M,Hartman CA

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alcohol consumption is a leading contributor to death and disability worldwide, but previous research has not examined the effects of different patterns of alcohol consumption. The study objective was to understand the relationship between different alcohol consumption patterns and adverse health outcomes ri...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Jani BD,McQueenie R,Nicholl BI,Field R,Hanlon P,Gallacher KI,Mair FS,Lewsey J

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Three large new trials of unprecedented scale and cost, which included novel factorial designs, have found no effect of basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions on childhood stunting, and only mixed effects on childhood diarrhea. Arriving at the inception of the United Nations' Sustainable De...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Cumming O,Arnold BF,Ban R,Clasen T,Esteves Mills J,Freeman MC,Gordon B,Guiteras R,Howard G,Hunter PR,Johnston RB,Pickering AJ,Prendergast AJ,Prüss-Ustün A,Rosenboom JW,Spears D,Sundberg S,Wolf J,Null C,Luby SP,Hum

更新日期：2019-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extended use of combined pharmacotherapies to treat tobacco dependence may increase smoking abstinence; few studies have examined their effectiveness. The objective of this study was to evaluate smoking abstinence with standard nicotine patch (NRT), extended use of combined formulations of nicotine replaceme...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Tulloch HE,Pipe AL,Els C,Clyde MJ,Reid RD

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Caregivers may promote the uptake of science into patient care and the practice of evidence-informed medicine. The purpose of this study was to determine whether caregiver-mediated (non-clinical caregiver-delivered) interventions are effective in improving patient, caregiver, provider, or health system outco...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Fiest KM,McIntosh CJ,Demiantschuk D,Leigh JP,Stelfox HT

更新日期：2018-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-stroke dementia (PSD) or post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) may affect up to one third of stroke survivors. Various definitions of PSCI and PSD have been described. We propose PSD as a label for any dementia following stroke in temporal relation. Various tools are available to screen and assess cognition, wi...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Mijajlović MD,Pavlović A,Brainin M,Heiss WD,Quinn TJ,Ihle-Hansen HB,Hermann DM,Assayag EB,Richard E,Thiel A,Kliper E,Shin YI,Kim YH,Choi S,Jung S,Lee YB,Sinanović O,Levine DA,Schlesinger I,Mead G,Milošević V,Ley

更新日期：2017-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The likelihood of recurrence in patients with breast cancer who have HER2-positive tumors is relatively high, although trastuzumab is a remarkably effective drug in this setting. Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 protein (STAT3), a transcription factor that is persistently tyrosine-705 phosp...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Sonnenblick A,Brohée S,Fumagalli D,Vincent D,Venet D,Ignatiadis M,Salgado R,Van den Eynden G,Rothé F,Desmedt C,Neven P,Loibl S,Denkert C,Joensuu H,Loi S,Sirtaine N,Kellokumpu-Lehtinen PL,Piccart M,Sotiriou C

更新日期：2015-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Migraine aura may be difficult to differentiate from transient ischemic attacks and other transient neurological disorders in pregnant women. The aims of the present study were to investigate and diagnose all pregnant women with transient neurological disorders of suspected central nervous system origin, and...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Ertresvg JM,Stovner LJ,Kvavik LE,Johnsen HJ,Zwart JA,Helde G,Bovim G

更新日期：2007-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Renal impairment is a major risk factor for mortality in various populations. Three formulas are frequently used to assess both glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) or creatinine clearance (CrCl) and mortality prediction: body surface area adjusted-Cockcroft-Gault (CG-BSA), Modification of Diet in Renal Disease...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Ferreira JP,Girerd N,Pellicori P,Duarte K,Girerd S,Pfeffer MA,McMurray JJ,Pitt B,Dickstein K,Jacobs L,Staessen JA,Butler J,Latini R,Masson S,Mebazaa A,Rocca HP,Delles C,Heymans S,Sattar N,Jukema JW,Cleland JG,Za

更新日期：2016-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human fetal adrenal glands are highly active and, with the placenta, regulate circulating progesterone, estrogen and corticosteroids in the fetus. At birth the adrenals are essential for neonate salt retention through secretion of aldosterone, while adequate glucocorticoids are required to prevent adrenal in...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Johnston ZC,Bellingham M,Filis P,Soffientini U,Hough D,Bhattacharya S,Simard M,Hammond GL,King P,O'Shaughnessy PJ,Fowler PA

更新日期：2018-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Functional somatic symptoms and disorders are common and complex phenomena involving both bodily and brain processes. They pose major challenges across medical specialties. These disorders are common and have significant impacts on patients' quality of life and healthcare costs. MAIN BODY:We outline five pr...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Burton C,Fink P,Henningsen P,Löwe B,Rief W,EURONET-SOMA Group.

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wide implementation of mammography screening has resulted in increased numbers of women diagnosed with breast carcinoma in situ. We aimed to determine the risk of invasive breast cancer in relatives of patients with breast carcinoma in situ in comparison to the risk in relatives of patients with invasive bre...

journal_title：BMC medicine

authors： Mukama T,Fallah M,Brenner H,Xu X,Sundquist K,Sundquist J,Kharazmi E

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00