Influence of sacroiliac joint variation on clinical features of axial spondyloarthritis: a comparative analysis by Denis Poddubnyy, Torsten Diekhoff, Sevtap Tugce Ulas, Fabian Proft, Valeria Rios Rodriguez, Judith Rademacher, Juliane Greese, Katharina Ziegeler, Carolina Dominguez Aleixo, Maximilian Lindholz

“…There was no significant difference in IBP between the groups (adjusted OR=0.614 (95% CI 0.274, 1.377), p=0.236). Sex-stratified analysis revealed no statistically significant results.Conclusion Our analysis suggests that clinical phenotypes do not significantly differ between patients with axSpA with and without atypical joints.…”
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Oral phenotype and scoring of vascular Ehlers–Danlos syndrome: a case–control study by Lisa Golmard, Ariane Berdal, François Côme Ferré, Michael Frank, Bruno Gogly, Adrien Naveau, Hafida Chérifi, Joseph Emmerich, Frédérick Gaultier, Xavier Jeunemaitre, Benjamin P J Fournier

“…The authors aimed to check this assumption since bibliographical search related to gingival recession in vEDS proved scarce.Design Prospective case–control study.Setting Dental surgery department in a French tertiary hospital.Participants 17 consecutive patients with genetically proven vEDS, aged 19–55 years, were compared with 46 age- and sex-matched controls.Observations Complete oral examination (clinical and radiological) with standardised assessment of periodontal structure, temporomandibular joint function and dental characteristics were performed. …”
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Pre-injury frailty and clinical care trajectory of older adults with trauma injuries: A retrospective cohort analysis of A large level I US trauma center. by Oluwaseun Adeyemi, Corita Grudzen, Charles DiMaggio, Ian Wittman, Ana Velez-Rosborough, Mauricio Arcila-Mesa, Allison Cuthel, Helen Poracky, Polina Meyman, Joshua Chodosh

“…We limited the data to adults 65 years and older, who had trauma injuries and frailty screening at ED presentation (N = 2,862). …”
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Secular trends of epidemiologic patterns of chronic kidney disease over three decades: an updated analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 by Jing Liu, Xue Li, Yongping Liu, Xiaodong Sun, Xiaojin Feng, Ningning Hou, Zhenna Chen

“…Objectives To assess the characteristics of the global death burden imposed by chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the attributable risk factors from 1990 to 2019 to help inform a framework for policy discussions, resource allocation and research priorities.Design A population-based observational study.Setting The death data and relative risk factors were obtained from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2019 database.Main outcome measures Based on the GBD database, we estimated the death burden attributable to CKD stratified by sociodemographic index (SDI), geographic location, sex, age group, time period and risk factors from 1990 to 2019.Results Over three decade study period, the global number of CKD-related deaths increased from 0.60 million (95% uncertainty interval (UI): 0.57–0.63 million) in 1990 to 1.43 million (95% UI: 1.31–1.52 million) in 2019. …”
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The association between pretransplant malignancy and post-transplant survival and cancer recurrence in bilateral lung transplantation: An analysis of 23,291 recipients by Wongi Woo, MD, Hye Sung Kim, MD, Ankit Bharat, MBBS, Young Kwang Chae, MD, PhD, MBA

“…However, after adjusting for age, sex, and race through propensity score matching, the survival difference between the groups became nonsignificant (HR 1.05, 95% CI 0.97-1.13, p = 0.229). …”
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Incidence and risk factors for mortality of vertebral osteomyelitis: a retrospective analysis using the Japanese diagnosis procedure combination database by Hideo Yasunaga, Hirotaka Chikuda, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Toru Akiyama, Kazuo Saita

“…Dependent variables included patient characteristics (age, sex and comorbidities), procedures (haemodialysis and surgery) and hospital factors (type of hospital and hospital volume).Results Overall, 58.9% of eligible patients were men and the average age was 69.2 years. …”
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Mortality and risk of cardiac complications among immediate survivors of accidental electric shock: a Danish nationwide cohort study by Christian Torp-Pedersen, Sam Riahi, Lars Køber, Steen Møller Hansen, Peter Søgaard, Rikke Mortensen, Søren Hjortshøj

“…We examined whether electric shock patients have an increased risk of developing cardiac disease, cardiac arrhythmias or death compared with the general Danish population.Design Matched cohort study.Setting A nationwide study in Denmark from 1994 to 2011.Participants We identified 11 462 Danish patients who visited an emergency ward or were admitted to a hospital due to electric shock from 1994 to 2011. …”
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Role of prescribed medication in the development of iron deficiency anaemia in adults—a case–control study by Orouba Almilaji, Jonathon Snook, Kiran Prabhu, Elizabeth Williams, Frazer Warricker

“…Multivariable logistic regression modelling was used to calculate ORs for the association between IDA presentation and each medication class, adjusted for age, sex and coprescribing. For those classes showing significance, it was also used to calculate risk differences between those in the IDA group with or without haemorrhagic lesions on investigation.Results A total of 1210 cases were analysed—409 in the IDA group, and 801 in the control group. …”
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Death and disappearance: Measuring racial disparities in mortality and life expectancy among people in state prisons, United States 2000-2014. by Bryan L Sykes, Ernest K Chavez, Justin D Strong

“…Gains in the mortality decline were disproportionately experienced by Non-Hispanic White and Non-Hispanic Black men, with the latter experiencing the greatest gains in life-expectancy of any demographic group. …”
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How do serum cytokine levels change in myocarditis and inflammatory dilated cardiomyopathy relative to healthy individuals? A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Romuald Wojnicz, Piotr Lewandowski, Maciej Baron, Marcin A Rojek, Marcin Goławski, Karol Krystek, Magdalena Żegleń, Pascal Zytkiewicz, Jakub Kancerek, Klaudia Gabriela Lis, Jakub Warecki, Jakub Kufel, Kamila Kuśpiel

“…Subgroup analysis will be stratified by age, sex, sample size, New York Heart Association scale, cardiac Troponin T, N-terminal prohormone of brain natriuretic peptide, C reactive protein, number of lymphocytes per mm2 in the endomyocardial biopsy.Ethics approval and dissemination This study does not require ethics approval. …”
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Migraine and subsequent chronic kidney disease risk: a nationwide population-based cohort study by Ming-Ju Wu, Chew-Teng Kor, Chia-Chu Chang, Shuo-Chun Weng, Chia-Lin Wu, Ping-Fang Chiu, Der-Cherng Tarng

“…Objective We compared the incidence and risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) between subjects with new-onset migraine and matched controls without migraine in this large-scale retrospective cohort study.Design Population-based cohort study.Setting 8880 subjects with migraine and 503 070 subjects without migraine were enrolled between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2013, all diagnosed to be without kidney disease. …”
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Prevalence and correlates of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and psychological distress among women of reproductive age with delayed conception in urban and peri-urban low to mid-... by Barsha Gadapani Pathak, Gitau Mburu, Ndema Habib, Rita Kabra, Aiysha Malik, James Kiarie, Ranadip Chowdhury, Neeta Dhabhai, Sarmila Mazumder

“…Factors associated with psychological distress were: (i) a higher total number of children that women intended to have in their lifetime, (ii) longer duration of trying to get pregnant (> 18 months), (iii) continuous effort trying to achieve pregnancy, (iv) women's perception that conception is taking long, (v) social isolation, (vi) being emotionally or verbally abused by husband and family members, and (vii) having other co-morbidities such as hypertension, irregular menstrual cycles, irregular bleeding between regular cycles, abnormal vaginal discharge or pain during sex.…”
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Inequalities in physical comorbidity: a longitudinal comparative cohort study of people with severe mental illness in the UK by Tim Doran, Darren M Ashcroft, Evangelos Kontopantelis, David Reeves, Siobhan Reilly, Claire Planner, Ivan Olier, Linda Gask

“…Objectives Little is known about the prevalence of comorbidity rates in people with severe mental illness (SMI) in UK primary care. We calculated the prevalence of SMI by UK country, English region and deprivation quintile, antipsychotic and antidepressant medication prescription rates for people with SMI, and prevalence rates of common comorbidities in people with SMI compared with people without SMI.Design Retrospective cohort study from 2000 to 2012.Setting 627 general practices contributing to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, a UK primary care database.Participants Each identified case (346 551) was matched for age, sex and general practice with 5 randomly selected control cases (1 732 755) with no diagnosis of SMI in each yearly time point.Outcome measures Prevalence rates were calculated for 16 conditions.Results SMI rates were highest in Scotland and in more deprived areas. …”
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Does binge drinking between the age of 18 and 25 years predict alcohol dependence in adulthood? A retrospective case–control study in France by Marie-Pierre Tavolacci, Joel Ladner, Pierre Déchelotte, Quentin Berthon, Damiano Cerasuolo, Alexandre Baguet

“…Consecutive patients referred to the Department of Addictive Medicine of a university hospital between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2017 for alcohol dependence were included in the study. Controls were non-alcohol-dependent adults, defined according to an Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test score of less than 8, and were matched on age and sex with cases. …”
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Are noise and air pollution related to the incidence of dementia? A cohort study in London, England by Derek G Cook, Frank J Kelly, Iain M Carey, H Ross Anderson, David P Strachan, Richard W Atkinson, Sean D Beevers, David Dajnak, John Gulliver

“…Associations were more consistent for Alzheimer’s disease than vascular dementia.Conclusions We have found evidence of a positive association between residential levels of air pollution across London and being diagnosed with dementia, which is unexplained by known confounding factors.…”
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Access to water and sanitation among people with disabilities: results from cross-sectional surveys in Bangladesh, Cameroon, India and Malawi by Islay Mactaggart, Hannah Kuper, Sarah Polack, Mahfuzar Rahman, Wolf-Peter Schmidt, Kristof Bostoen, Joseph Chunga, Lisa Danquah, Amal Krishna Halder, Saira Parveen Jolly, Marielle Snel, Adam Biran

“…Objectives To assess access to adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) among people with disabilities at the household and individual level.Design Cross-sectional surveys.Setting Data were included from five district-level or regional-level surveys: two in Bangladesh (Bangladesh-1, Bangladesh-2), and one each in Cameroon, Malawi and India.Participants 99 252 participants were sampled across the datasets (range: 3567–75 767), including 2494 with disabilities (93–1374).Outcome Prevalence of access to WASH at household and individual level.Data analysis Age/sex disaggregated disability prevalence estimates were calculated accounting for survey design. …”
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Exploring the relationship between established HIV risk factors and depressive symptoms amongst young women without HIV in two sites in South Africa. by Zanenhlanhla Gumbi, Celia Mehou-Loko, Lindi Masson, Makhosazana Mdladla, Nokuthula Maphumulo, Jo-Ann Passmore, Sanele Mbeje, Linda Gail Bekker, Disebo Potloane, Heather Jaspan, Nina Radzey, Andrea Abrahams, Rushil Harryparsad, Pamela Mkhize, Hilton Humphries

“…Study inclusion criteria included being sexually active with at least one male partner, and not planning to relocate in the next 12 months. …”
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Multinational comparison of new antidepressant use in older adults: a cohort study by Robyn Tamblyn, David Westfall Bates, David L Buckeridge, Will Dixon, Alan J Forster, Nadyne Girard, Jennifer Haas, Bettina Habib, Siyana Kurteva, Jack Li, Therese Sheppard

“…Objectives We used an international pharmacosurveillance network to estimate the rate and characteristics of antidepressant use in older adults in countries with more conservative (UK) and liberal depression guidelines (Canada, USA).Setting Electronic health records and population-based administrative data from six jurisdictions in four countries (UK, Taiwan, USA and Canada).Participants A historical cohort of older adults (≥65 years) who had a new episode of antidepressant use between 2009 and 2014.Outcome measures The age and sex-standardised cumulative incidence of new episodes of antidepressant use in older adults was measured. …”
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Cross-sectional design and protocol for Artificial Intelligence Ready and Equitable Atlas for Diabetes Insights (AI-READI) by Gerald McGwin, Linda M Zangwill, Nicholas Evans, Shannon McWeeney, Cecilia S Lee, Bhavesh Patel, Jeffrey C Edberg, Cynthia Owsley, Aaron Lee, Cecilia Lee, Sally L Baxter, Michael Snyder, Samantha Hurst, Nicole Ehrhardt, Christopher Chute, Dawn S Matthies, Julia P Owen, Amir Bahmani, Sally Baxter, Edward Boyko, Aaron Cohen, Jorge Contreras, Garrison Cottrell, Virginia de Sa, Jeffrey Edberg, Irl Hirsch, Michelle Hribar, T.Y. Alvin Liu, Bonnie Maldenado, Sara Singer, Bradley Voytek, Joseph Yracheta, Linda Zangwill

“…Following Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable principles, AI-READI can be viewed as a model for future efforts to develop other medical/health data sets targeted for AI/ML. …”
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Mpox gastrointestinal manifestations: a systematic review by Rahul Ramakrishnan, Atira Shenoy, Ranganathan Madhavan, Damon Meyer

“…Although various papers explored transmission routes, one paper established a direct connection between anal-receptive sex transmission route and the development of a GI complication (proctitis). …”
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