Anxiety, Depression, and Stress Reaction/Adjustment Disorders and Their Associations with Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs Among Newly Diagnosed Patients With Breast Cance... by Dingwei Dai, Henriette Coetzer, Sean R. Zion, Michael J. Malecki

“…**Discussion:** Of patients with anxiety, depression, or stress reaction/adjustment disorder, those with incident psychiatric disorders had higher healthcare costs, suggesting that new-onset psychological distress may contribute to higher costs incurred by the payer. …”
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Novel Intuitionistic Fuzzy Fault Tree Analysis for Effective Infectious Medical Waste Management by Rocky Khajuria, Komal, Morteza Yazdani

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Association of accelerated phenotypic aging, genetic risk, and lifestyle with progression of type 2 diabetes: a prospective study using multi-state model by Lulu Pan, Yahang Liu, Chen Huang, Yifang Huang, Ruilang Lin, Kecheng Wei, Ye Yao, Guoyou Qin, Yongfu Yu

“…It has the potential to be combined with genetic risk to identify early T2D incidence risk and may guide interventions throughout T2D progression while tracking their effectiveness.…”
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Association of a Liver Allocation Policy Change With Domestic Travel for Liver Transplantation by Katie Ross-Driscoll, PhD, MPH, Chandrashekhar Kubal, MD, PhD, Arrey-Takor Ayuk-Arrey, MPH, Jonathan Fridell, MD, David Axelrod, MD, MBA

“…After AC, traveling beyond a neighboring region was associated with an increased hazard of transplant for patients with a MELD score <15 (cause-specific hazard ratio [csHR]: 1.25; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.11-1.40), MELD score 15–24 (csHR: 1.19; 95% CI, 1.07-1.31), and MELD score 25–34 (csHR: 1.15; 95% CI, 1.01-1.32). …”
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Risk of renal complications and death in young and middle-aged Swedes with parental type 1 diabetes: a nation-wide, prospective cohort study by Torbjörn Lind, Marie Fredriksson, Emma Persson, Anna Möllsten

“…Introduction This study aimed to investigate if individuals with childhood-onset type 1 diabetes having a parent with the same condition (parental diabetes) had worse metabolic control and an increased risk of death and renal failure compared with those with parents without type 1 diabetes (sporadic diabetes).Research design and methods We conducted a population-based cohort study using data from the Swedish Childhood Diabetes Register, including cases with onset of type 1 diabetes before the age of 15 and recorded between 1977 and 2010. The cohort was linked to national registers to compare mortality, renal failure, and glycated hemoglobin (HBA1c) levels.Results We identified 16 572 incident cases of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes. …”
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Associations of Retinal Microvascular Density and Fractal Dimension with Glaucoma: A Prospective Study from UK Biobank by Qi Chen, MD, Suyu Miao, MD, Yuzhe Jiang, MD, Danli Shi, MD, PhD, Weiyun You, MD, Lin Liu, MD, PhD, Mayinuer Yusufu, MTI, Yufan Chen, MD, Ruobing Wang, MD, PhD

“…In the Cox proportional hazards regression model post-PSM, we found that incident glaucoma has significant negative associations with arteriolar VSD (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.24, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.11–0.52, P < 0.001), venular VSD (HR = 0.34, 95% CI 0.15–0.74, P = 0.007), arteriolar FD (HR = 0.24, 95% CI 0.10–0.60, P = 0.002), and venular FD (HR = 0.31, 95% CI 0.12–0.85, P = 0.022). …”
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Lifestyle risk factors for overweight and obesity among rural Indian adults: a community-based prospective cohort study by Rajesh Kumar Rai, Sabri Bromage, Jan-Walter De Neve, Anamitra Barik

“…Overall, 23.0% (95% CI: 21.8%–24.3%) of adults experienced incidence of overweight/obesity, while 13.9% (95% CI: 12.4%–15.6%) experienced remission. …”
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Differences in Physical and Psychological Parameters in Sub-Elite, Male, Youth Soccer Players with Jumper's Knee Following Physical Therapy Compared to Healthy Controls: A Longitud... by Marc Niering, Thomas Muehlbauer

“…Current treatment methods may not reduce pain in the short term, especially not during a competitive season. …”
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Understanding the scale and nature of avoidable healthcare-associated harm for prisoners in England: protocol for a retrospective cross-sectional study by Andrew Carson-Stevens, Maria Panagioti, Adrian Edwards, Jenny Shaw, Stephen Campbell, Carl de Wet, Kate Davies, Anthony Avery, Stuart Hellard, Melanie Jordan, Caroline Sanders, Isobel Joy McFadzean, Jane Senior, Darren M. Ashcroft, Caroline Stevenson, Tim Millar, Saied Ibrahim, Thomas Hewson, Sandra Flynn, Thomas Purchase, Florian Walter, Sioned Gwyn, Richard N. Keers, Ellie Thompson, Verity Wainwright

“…Prisons will be purposively sampled for maximum variation of characteristics based on prison category (open, local, training, high security, female), type (publicly and privately run) and prison population size, to sample approximately 15 000 patient records. We will focus on two samples: an enhanced risk sample of prisoners, considered to be at the most risk of healthcare-associated harm, and a random sample of prisoners excluded from the enhanced risk sample, to estimate the incidence of avoidable harm, and express this as ‘per 100 000 patients per year’. …”
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Risk of Stroke Associated with Temperature and PM2.5: Taiwan Stroke Registry-based Study by Fung-Chang Sung, Hei-Tung Yip, Cheng-Li Lin, Jiann-Shing Jeng, Jiunn-Tay Lee, Yu Sun, Cheng-Yu Wei, Po-Yen Yeh, Kuang-Hsi Chang, Shang-Yu Chien, Kai-Cheng Hsu, TSR team

“…We conclude that stroke incidence decreases as the weather gets warmer, whereas PM2.5 pollution may have little effect on stroke incidence. …”
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We Are on the Verge of Breakthrough Cures for Type 1 Diabetes, but Who Are the 2 Million Americans Who Have It? by Rebecca Smith, Samara Eisenberg, Aaron Turner-Phifer, Jacqueline LeGrand, Sarah Pincus, Yousra Omer, Fei Wang, Bruce Pyenson

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A surveillance study to determine the accuracy of mild traumatic brain injury diagnosis in an emergency department: protocol for a retrospective cohort study by Ian D Cameron, Ilaria Pozzato, Ashley Craig, Bamini Gopinath, Mark Gillett, Annette Kifley, Kim Van Vu, Susanne Meares, Anthony Liang

“…Introduction Previous literature confirms that a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) may result in long-term emotional impacts and, in vulnerable subgroups, cognitive deficits. …”
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Gambaran Klinis dan Endoskopi Saluran Cerna Bagian Atas Pasien Dispepsia di Bagian RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Citra Yuriana Putri, Arnelis ., Asterina .

“…The results showed that the majority of dyspepsia patients’ complaints were heartburn (98.15%), the degree of complains is moderate (38.89%), the incidence of alarm sign most experienced by male, the most  risk factor of dyspepsia was the consumption of fatty foods (92.59%), the most endoscopic diagnosis of dyspepsia was gastritis (61.11%), and the most upper gastrointestinal lesion of dyspepsia was located in gastric (85.19%)</em><em></em></p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>dyspepsia, clinical findings, endoscopy</em>…”
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Blowin’ in the Nonisothermal Wind: Core-powered Mass Loss with Hydrodynamic Radiative Transfer by William Misener, Matthäus Schulik, Hilke E. Schlichting, James E. Owen

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Smoking as a risk factor for lung cancer in women and men: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Sanne A E Peters, Mark Woodward, Paul Mitchell, Rachel R Huxley, Gemma Taylor, Linda M O’Keeffe

“…Objectives To investigate the sex-specific association between smoking and lung cancer.Design Systematic review and meta-analysis.Data sources We searched PubMed and EMBASE from 1 January 1999 to 15 April 2016 for cohort studies. Cohort studies before 1 January 1999 were retrieved from a previous meta-analysis. …”
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Childhood overweight and obesity and back pain risk: a cohort study of 466 997 children by Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Andrew J Carr, Antony J Palmer, Talita Duarte-Salles, Jose Luis Poveda, Daniel Martinez-Laguna, Carlen Reyes, Jeroen de Bont, Alan Silman

“…Models were adjusted for age, sex, socioeconomic status and nationality.Participants Children seen at age 4 years at paediatric primary care clinics between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2013 and followed up until 31 December 2016 or age 15 years.Outcome measures Incident back pain registered by paediatricians at primary care using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Health Related Problems, 10th Edition code M54.Results 466 997 children were followed for a median 5.0 years (IQR 5.1). …”
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Sex Differences in the Prognostic Value of Circulating Biomarkers in Patients Presenting With Acute Chest Pain by Gard Mikael Sæle Myrmel, MD, Nasir Saeed, Ole Thomas Steiro, MD, Hilde Lunde Tjora, MD, PhD, Jørund Langørgen, MD, PhD, Rune Oskar Bjørneklett, MD, PhD, Øyvind Skadberg, MD, Vernon Vijay Singha Bonarjee, MD, PhD, Øistein Rønneberg Mjelva, MD, Eva Ringdal Pedersen, MD, PhD, Kjell Vikenes, MD, PhD, Torbjørn Omland, MD, PhD, Kristin Moberg Aakre, MD, PhD

“…Sex-adjustment of hs-cTn and NT-proBNP may increase the accuracy of long-term CV prognostication in women and men.…”
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Episodic Cancer Pain: Patient Reporting, Prevalence, and Clinicodemographic Associations at Initial Cancer Pain Clinic Assessment by Paulo Reis-Pina, Anand Acharya, Antonio Barbosa, Peter G. Lawlor

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Interaction effect between overweight/obesity and alcohol consumption on hypertension risk in China: a longitudinal study by Xiaoqin Wang, Zhaozhao Hui, Jiaru Sun, Paul D Terry, Xiaohan Ren, Shuangyan Lei, Caihua Wang, Mingxu Wang

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The prediction value of serum anion gap for short-term mortality in pulmonary hypertension patients with sepsis: a retrospective cohort study by Jinhua Zhu, Zeying Zhang, Yefei Lei, Zhenrong Ouyang, Shelby Kutty, Qiming Liu, Yunbin Xiao, Yunbin Xiao

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