Prospects for passive immunity to prevent HIV infection.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fibre is promoted as part of a healthy dietary pattern and in diabetes management. We have considered the role of high-fibre diets on mortality and increasing fibre intake on glycaemic control and other cardiometabolic risk factors of adults with prediabetes or diabetes. METHODS AND FINDINGS:We conducted a ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Reynolds AN,Akerman AP,Mann J

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To explore the possibility that antibody-mediated complement lysis contributes to viremia control in HIV-1 infection, we measured the activity of patient plasma in mediating complement lysis of autologous primary virus. METHODS AND FINDINGS:Sera from two groups of patients-25 with acute HIV-1 infection and ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Huber M,Fischer M,Misselwitz B,Manrique A,Kuster H,Niederöst B,Weber R,von Wyl V,Günthard HF,Trkola A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Development of noninvasive molecular assays to improve disease diagnosis and patient monitoring is a critical need. In renal transplantation, acute rejection (AR) increases the risk for chronic graft injury and failure. Noninvasive diagnostic assays to improve current late and nonspecific diagnosis of reject...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Roedder S,Sigdel T,Salomonis N,Hsieh S,Dai H,Bestard O,Metes D,Zeevi A,Gritsch A,Cheeseman J,Macedo C,Peddy R,Medeiros M,Vincenti F,Asher N,Salvatierra O,Shapiro R,Kirk A,Reed EF,Sarwal MM

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ovarian cancer kills approximately 15,000 women in the United States every year, and more than 140,000 women worldwide. Most deaths from ovarian cancer are caused by tumors of the serous histological type, which are rarely diagnosed before the cancer has spread. Rational design of a potentially life-saving e...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Brown PO,Palmer C

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria remains a serious health problem because resistance develops to all currently used drugs when their parasite targets mutate. Novel antimalarial drug targets are urgently needed to reduce global morbidity and mortality. Our prior results suggested that inhibiting erythrocyte Gs signaling blocked invas...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Murphy SC,Harrison T,Hamm HE,Lomasney JW,Mohandas N,Haldar K

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is evidence that a young child's risk of dying increases following the mother's death, but little is known about the risk when the mother becomes very ill prior to her death. We hypothesized that children would be more likely to die during the period several months before their mother's death, as well ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Clark SJ,Kahn K,Houle B,Arteche A,Collinson MA,Tollman SM,Stein A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H. Bart van der Worp and colleagues discuss the controversies and possibilities of translating the results of animal experiments into human clinical trials. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： van der Worp HB,Howells DW,Sena ES,Porritt MJ,Rewell S,O'Collins V,Macleod MR

更新日期：2010-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Perinatal mortality and morbidity continue to be major global health challenges strongly associated with prematurity and reduced fetal growth, an issue of further interest given the mounting evidence that fetal growth in general is linked to degrees of risk of common noncommunicable diseases in adulthood. Ag...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Kiserud T,Piaggio G,Carroli G,Widmer M,Carvalho J,Neerup Jensen L,Giordano D,Cecatti JG,Abdel Aleem H,Talegawkar SA,Benachi A,Diemert A,Tshefu Kitoto A,Thinkhamrop J,Lumbiganon P,Tabor A,Kriplani A,Gonzalez Perez R,He

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity is associated with low-grade chronic inflammation, and serum markers of inflammation are independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the molecular and cellular mechanisms that link obesity to chronic inflammation and CVD are poorly understood. METHODS AND FINDINGS:Acute-phase...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Yang RZ,Lee MJ,Hu H,Pollin TI,Ryan AS,Nicklas BJ,Snitker S,Horenstein RB,Hull K,Goldberg NH,Goldberg AP,Shuldiner AR,Fried SK,Gong DW

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Seven of 15 clinical trial participants treated with a nucleoside analogue (fialuridine [FIAU]) developed acute liver failure. Five treated participants died, and two required a liver transplant. Preclinical toxicology studies in mice, rats, dogs, and primates did not provide any indication that FIAU would b...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Xu D,Nishimura T,Nishimura S,Zhang H,Zheng M,Guo YY,Masek M,Michie SA,Glenn J,Peltz G

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous epidemiological studies suggest that working-aged persons with a history of moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) may have an increased risk for developing neurodegenerative disease (NDD) while persons with a history of mild TBI do not. In this comprehensive nationwide study in Finland, we...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Raj R,Kaprio J,Korja M,Mikkonen ED,Jousilahti P,Siironen J

更新日期：2017-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a heterogeneous early-onset retinal dystrophy, accounts for approximately 15% of inherited congenital blindness. One cause of LCA is loss of the enzyme lecithin:retinol acyl transferase (LRAT), which is required for regeneration of the visual photopigment in the retina. MET...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Batten ML,Imanishi Y,Tu DC,Doan T,Zhu L,Pang J,Glushakova L,Moise AR,Baehr W,Van Gelder RN,Hauswirth WW,Rieke F,Palczewski K

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prognostic models are abundant in the medical literature yet their use in practice seems limited. In this article, the third in the PROGRESS series, the authors review how such models are developed and validated, and then address how prognostic models are assessed for their impact on practice and patient outcomes, ill...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Steyerberg EW,Moons KG,van der Windt DA,Hayden JA,Perel P,Schroter S,Riley RD,Hemingway H,Altman DG,PROGRESS Group.

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this Perspective on the clinical trial by Rita Alloway and colleagues, Simon Ball explains the benefits to healthcare systems and individual patients of the bioequivalence established between generic and brand-name formulations of an immunosuppressive drug in transplant recipients. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Ball S

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Assessing the mortality impact of the 2009 influenza A H1N1 virus (H1N1pdm09) is essential for optimizing public health responses to future pandemics. The World Health Organization reported 18,631 laboratory-confirmed pandemic deaths, but the total pandemic mortality burden was substantially higher. We estim...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Simonsen L,Spreeuwenberg P,Lustig R,Taylor RJ,Fleming DM,Kroneman M,Van Kerkhove MD,Mounts AW,Paget WJ,GLaMOR Collaborating Teams.

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Socioeconomic adversity in early life has been hypothesized to "program" a vulnerable phenotype with exaggerated inflammatory responses, so increasing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in adulthood. The aim of this study is to test this hypothesis by assessing the extent to which the association between...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Stringhini S,Batty GD,Bovet P,Shipley MJ,Marmot MG,Kumari M,Tabak AG,Kivimäki M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence suggests that variations in fasting glucose and insulin amongst those without frank type 2 diabetes mellitus are important determinants of cardiovascular disease. However, the relative importance of variations in fasting insulin, glucose, and glycated haemoglobin as risk factors for cardiovascular d...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Lawlor DA,Fraser A,Ebrahim S,Smith GD

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification and characterization of tumor suppressor genes has enhanced our understanding of the biology of cancer and enabled the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. Whereas in past decades, a handful of tumor suppressors have been slowly identified using techniques such as link...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Chan TA,Glockner S,Yi JM,Chen W,Van Neste L,Cope L,Herman JG,Velculescu V,Schuebel KE,Ahuja N,Baylin SB

更新日期：2008-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To reduce the risk of drug-induced haemolysis, all patients should be tested for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency (G6PDd) prior to prescribing primaquine (PQ)-based radical cure for the treatment of vivax malaria. This systematic review and individual patient meta-analysis assessed the uti...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Ley B,Winasti Satyagraha A,Rahmat H,von Fricken ME,Douglas NM,Pfeffer DA,Espino F,von Seidlein L,Henriques G,Oo NN,Menard D,Parikh S,Bancone G,Karahalios A,Price RN

更新日期：2019-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Hannah Leslie and co-authors discuss priorities in individual countries for health system reform. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Thapa G,Jhalani M,García-Saisó S,Malata A,Roder-DeWan S,Leslie HH

更新日期：2019-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent decades, increased attention has been focused on the impact of disabilities and medicinal drug use on road safety. The aim of our study was to investigate the association between prescription medicines and the risk of road traffic crashes, and estimate the attributable fraction. METHODS AND FINDIN...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Orriols L,Delorme B,Gadegbeku B,Tricotel A,Contrand B,Laumon B,Salmi LR,Lagarde E,CESIR research group.

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients treated with cardiotoxic chemotherapies, the presence of cardiovascular risk factors and previous cardiac disease have been strongly correlated to the onset of cardiotoxicity. The influence of overweight and obesity as risk factors in the development of treatment-related cardiotoxicity in breast ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Kaboré EG,Guenancia C,Vaz-Luis I,Di Meglio A,Pistilli B,Coutant C,Cottu P,Lesur A,Petit T,Dalenc F,Rouanet P,Arnaud A,Arsene O,Ibrahim M,Wassermann J,Boileau-Jolimoy G,Martin AL,Lemonnier J,André F,Arveux P

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:At the beginning of June 2020, there were nearly 7 million reported cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide and over 400,000 deaths in people with COVID-19. The objective of this study was to determine associations between comorbidities listed in the Charlson comorbidity index and mortality am...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Harrison SL,Fazio-Eynullayeva E,Lane DA,Underhill P,Lip GYH

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is a common childhood illness caused by serotypes of the Enterovirus A species in the genus Enterovirus of the Picornaviridae family. The disease has had a substantial burden throughout East and Southeast Asia over the past 15 y. China reported 9 million cases of HFMD bet...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Takahashi S,Liao Q,Van Boeckel TP,Xing W,Sun J,Hsiao VY,Metcalf CJ,Chang Z,Liu F,Zhang J,Wu JT,Cowling BJ,Leung GM,Farrar JJ,van Doorn HR,Grenfell BT,Yu H

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pedometers can increase walking and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) levels, but their effectiveness with or without support has not been rigorously evaluated. We assessed the effectiveness of a pedometer-based walking intervention in predominantly inactive adults, delivered by post or through p...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Harris T,Kerry SM,Limb ES,Victor CR,Iliffe S,Ussher M,Whincup PH,Ekelund U,Fox-Rushby J,Furness C,Anokye N,Ibison J,DeWilde S,David L,Howard E,Dale R,Smith J,Cook DG

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Christian Lienhardt and co-authors discuss the conclusions of the PLOS Medicine Collection on advances in clinical trial design for development of new tuberculosis treatments. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Lienhardt C,Nunn A,Chaisson R,Vernon AA,Zignol M,Nahid P,Delaporte E,Kasaeva T

更新日期：2020-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases, especially those of a global nature, require rapid epidemiological analysis and information dissemination. The final products of those activities usually comprise internal memoranda and briefs within public health authorities and original research published in peer-...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Xing W,Hejblum G,Leung GM,Valleron AJ

更新日期：2010-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Philippe Calain discusses the health and environmental hazards of extractive industries like mining and explores the tensions that arise when medical humanitarian organizations are called to intervene in emergencies involving the extractive sector. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Calain P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trachoma is the world's leading cause of infectious blindness. The World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed the SAFE strategy in order to eliminate blindness due to trachoma by 2020 through "surgery," "antibiotics," "facial cleanliness," and "environmental improvement." While the S and A components have ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Stocks ME,Ogden S,Haddad D,Addiss DG,McGuire C,Freeman MC

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preventive chemotherapy represents a powerful but short-term control strategy for soil-transmitted helminthiasis. Since humans are often re-infected rapidly, long-term solutions require improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). The purpose of this study was to quantitatively summarize the relati...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Strunz EC,Addiss DG,Stocks ME,Ogden S,Utzinger J,Freeman MC

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00