Sugary drink warnings: A meta-analysis of experimental studies.

abstract：BACKGROUND:We simulated tobacco control and pharmacological strategies for preventing cardiovascular deaths in India, the country that is expected to experience more cardiovascular deaths than any other over the next decade. METHODS AND FINDINGS:A microsimulation model was developed to quantify the differential effect...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Basu S,Glantz S,Bitton A,Millett C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nina Finley and co-authors discuss public involvement in planning and reporting medical research. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Finley N,Swartz TH,Cao K,Tucker JD

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The response to the next influenza pandemic will likely include extensive use of antiviral drugs (mainly oseltamivir), combined with other transmission-reducing measures. Animal and in vitro studies suggest that some strains of influenza may become resistant to oseltamivir while maintaining infectiousness (f...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Lipsitch M,Cohen T,Murray M,Levin BR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Experimental studies have suggested that dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors provide cardiovascular protective effects. We performed a randomized study to evaluate the effects of sitagliptin added on to the conventional therapy compared with conventional therapy alone (diet, exercise, and/or drugs, exc...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Oyama J,Murohara T,Kitakaze M,Ishizu T,Sato Y,Kitagawa K,Kamiya H,Ajioka M,Ishihara M,Dai K,Nanasato M,Sata M,Maemura K,Tomiyama H,Higashi Y,Kaku K,Yamada H,Matsuhisa M,Yamashita K,Bando YK,Kashihara N,Ueda S,

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is growing concern that racial and ethnic minority communities around the world are experiencing a disproportionate burden of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We investigated racial and ethnic disparities in patterns of COVI...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Rentsch CT,Kidwai-Khan F,Tate JP,Park LS,King JT Jr,Skanderson M,Hauser RG,Schultze A,Jarvis CI,Holodniy M,Lo Re V 3rd,Akgün KM,Crothers K,Taddei TH,Freiberg MS,Justice AC

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Earlier puberty is widely linked with future obesity and cardiometabolic disease. We examined whether age at puberty onset likely influences adiposity and cardiometabolic traits independent of childhood adiposity. METHODS AND FINDINGS:One-sample Mendelian randomisation (MR) analyses were conducted on up to ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Bell JA,Carslake D,Wade KH,Richmond RC,Langdon RJ,Vincent EE,Holmes MV,Timpson NJ,Davey Smith G

更新日期：2018-08-28 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:Envenoming resulting from snakebites is an important public health problem in many tropical and subtropical countries. Few attempts have been made to quantify the burden, and recent estimates all suffer from the lack of an objective and reproducible methodology. In an attempt to provide an accurate, up-to-da...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Kasturiratne A,Wickremasinghe AR,de Silva N,Gunawardena NK,Pathmeswaran A,Premaratna R,Savioli L,Lalloo DG,de Silva HJ

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sales visits by pharmaceutical representatives ("drug detailing") are common, but little is known about the content of these visits or about the impact of visit characteristics on prescribing behavior. In this study, we evaluated the content and impact of detail visits for gabapentin by analyzing market rese...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Steinman MA,Harper GM,Chren MM,Landefeld CS,Bero LA

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For more than a decade, most parts of Somalia have not been under the control of any type of government. This "failure of state" is complete in the central and southern regions and most apparent in Mogadishu, which had been for a long period in the hands of warlords deploying their private militias in a batt...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Odenwald M,Hinkel H,Schauer E,Neuner F,Schauer M,Elbert TR,Rockstroh B

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Oncolytic viruses hold much promise for clinical treatment of many cancers, but a lack of systemic delivery and insufficient tumor cell killing have limited their usefulness. We have previously demonstrated that vaccinia virus strains are capable of systemic delivery to tumors in mouse models, but infection ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Kirn DH,Wang Y,Le Boeuf F,Bell J,Thorne SH

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a major global health issue, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), that is associated with poor physical and mental health, but its association with breastfeeding practices is understudied. Both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Caleyachetty R,Uthman OA,Bekele HN,Martín-Cañavate R,Marais D,Coles J,Steele B,Uauy R,Koniz-Booher P

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Opioid misuse and deaths are increasing in the United States. In 2017, Ohio had the second highest overdose rates in the US, with the city of Cincinnati experiencing a 50% rise in opioid overdoses since 2015. Understanding the temporal and geographic variation in overdose emergencies may help guide public po...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Li ZR,Xie E,Crawford FW,Warren JL,McConnell K,Copple JT,Johnson T,Gonsalves GS

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The National Health Service (NHS) in England introduced a population-wide programme for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention in 2009, known as NHS Health Checks. This research aimed to measure the cardiovascular risk management and cardiovascular risk factor outcomes of the health check programme during s...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Alageel S,Gulliford MC

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rates of diseases and injuries and the effects of their risk factors can have substantial subnational heterogeneity, especially in middle-income countries like Mexico. Subnational analysis of the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors can improve characterization of the epidemiological transition and...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Stevens G,Dias RH,Thomas KJ,Rivera JA,Carvalho N,Barquera S,Hill K,Ezzati M

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most adults infected with HIV achieve viral suppression within a year of starting combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). It is important to understand the risk of AIDS events or death for patients with a suppressed viral load. METHODS AND FINDINGS:Using data from the Collaboration of Observational HIV E...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Opportunistic Infections Project Team of the Collaboration of Observational HIV Epidemiological Research in Europe (COHERE) in EuroCoord.,Young J,Psichogiou M,Meyer L,Ayayi S,Grabar S,Raffi F,Reiss P,Gazzard B,Sharland M,Gutierrez F

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol drinking, obesity, and several other well-studied unhealthy lifestyle-related factors each have been linked to the risk of multiple chronic diseases and premature death, little is known about the combined impact on mortality outcomes, in particular among Chinese ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Nechuta SJ,Shu XO,Li HL,Yang G,Xiang YB,Cai H,Chow WH,Ji B,Zhang X,Wen W,Gao YT,Zheng W

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The contribution of low-penetrant susceptibility variants to cancer is not clear. With the aim of searching for genetic factors that contribute to cancer at one or more sites in the body, we have analyzed familial aggregation of cancer in extended families based on all cancer cases diagnosed in Iceland over ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Amundadottir LT,Thorvaldsson S,Gudbjartsson DF,Sulem P,Kristjansson K,Arnason S,Gulcher JR,Bjornsson J,Kong A,Thorsteinsdottir U,Stefansson K

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Global warming is predicted to indirectly result in more undernutrition by threatening crop production. Whether temperature rise could affect undernutrition directly is unknown. We aim to quantify the relationship between short-term heat exposure and risk of hospitalization due to undernutrition in Brazil. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Xu R,Zhao Q,Coelho MSZS,Saldiva PHN,Abramson MJ,Li S,Guo Y

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The anti-human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) monoclonal antibody trastuzumab improves outcomes in patients with node-positive HER2+ early breast cancer. Given trastuzumab's high cost, we aimed to estimate its cost-effectiveness by heterogeneity in age and estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone r...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Leung W,Kvizhinadze G,Nair N,Blakely T

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is recommended for uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax malaria in areas of emerging chloroquine resistance. We undertook a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis to compare the efficacies of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) and artemether-lumefan...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Commons RJ,Simpson JA,Thriemer K,Abreha T,Adam I,Anstey NM,Assefa A,Awab GR,Baird JK,Barber BE,Chu CS,Dahal P,Daher A,Davis TME,Dondorp AM,Grigg MJ,Humphreys GS,Hwang J,Karunajeewa H,Laman M,Lidia K,Moore BR,M

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CD4 cell count is a strong predictor of the subsequent risk of AIDS or death in HIV-infected patients initiating combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). It is not known whether the rate of CD4 cell decline prior to therapy is related to prognosis and should, therefore, influence the decision on when to in...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Wolbers M,Babiker A,Sabin C,Young J,Dorrucci M,Chêne G,Mussini C,Porter K,Bucher HC,CASCADE Collaboration Members.

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Violence against women by intimate partners remains unacceptably common worldwide. The evidence base for the assumed psychological impacts of intimate partner violence (IPV) is derived primarily from studies conducted in high-income countries. A recently published systematic review identified 13 studies link...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Tsai AC,Tomlinson M,Comulada WS,Rotheram-Borus MJ

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is a leading cause of maternal death in sub-Saharan Africa. Although the World Health Organization recommends use of oxytocin for prevention of PPH, misoprostol use is increasingly common owing to advantages in shelf life and potential for sublingual administration. There is a lac...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Atukunda EC,Siedner MJ,Obua C,Mugyenyi GR,Twagirumukiza M,Agaba AG

更新日期：2014-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) of houses provide effective malaria transmission control. There is conflicting evidence about whether it is more beneficial to provide both interventions in combination. A cluster randomised controlled trial was conducted to investigate wheth...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： West PA,Protopopoff N,Wright A,Kivaju Z,Tigererwa R,Mosha FW,Kisinza W,Rowland M,Kleinschmidt I

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since 1998 the serious public health problem in South East Asia of counterfeit artesunate, containing no or subtherapeutic amounts of the active antimalarial ingredient, has led to deaths from untreated malaria, reduced confidence in this vital drug, large economic losses for the legitimate manufacturers, an...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Newton PN,Fernández FM,Plançon A,Mildenhall DC,Green MD,Ziyong L,Christophel EM,Phanouvong S,Howells S,McIntosh E,Laurin P,Blum N,Hampton CY,Faure K,Nyadong L,Soong CW,Santoso B,Zhiguang W,Newton J,Palmer K

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：BACKGROUND:Growing prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) in the ageing population and its associated life-changing health and resource implications have led to a need to improve its early detection. Primary care is an ideal place to screen for AF; however, this is limited by shortages in general practitioner (GP) reso...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Savickas V,Stewart AJ,Rees-Roberts M,Short V,Bhamra SK,Corlett SA,Mathie A,Veale EL

更新日期：2020-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nutritional supplements may improve development of infants born small (preterm or small for gestational age [SGA]) but may increase the risk of later metabolic disease. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the effects of macronutrient supplements for infants born small on later develo...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Lin L,Amissah E,Gamble GD,Crowther CA,Harding JE

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00