Marriage, schooling and poverty shape teen births in Mozambique, survey finds
A cross-sectional analysis of Mozambique's 2022–2023 Demographic and Health Survey finds that marriage, larger households, limited utility access and lower ...
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India’s COVID-19 Lockdown Widened Nutrition Gaps Between Rich and Poor
A national cross-sectional analysis of NFHS-5 data found that undernutrition improved for most Indians after the 2020 lockdown but gains ...
One in Three Children with Epilepsy at Ugandan Hospitals Shows Intellectual Impairment
A cross-sectional study of 386 children and adolescents with epilepsy at Uganda's two national referral hospitals found that 34.7 percent ...
War-related distress behaviors linked to childhood anemia in Yemen study
A cross-sectional study of 600 Yemeni children found that caregiver-reported war-related distress behaviors were associated with lower hemoglobin and higher ...
Reduced Kidney Function Found in Nearly One in Eight Tested South African Adults
A national analysis of South African public-sector laboratory records found eGFR below 60 in 12.69 percent of tested adults, with ...
Nutritional Self-Care and Income Linked to Better Diets in Iranian Chronic Disease Patients
A cross-sectional study of 400 patients in Saravan, Iran, found nutritional self-care, income, and age were significant predictors of dietary ...
Hepatitis B and C remain common across community and hospital populations in Nasarawa State, Nigeria
A cross-sectional study of 852 adults in Nasarawa State, Nigeria, found PCR-confirmed hepatitis B prevalence of 12.91% and hepatitis C ...
Most Tanzanian Clinicians Know a Little About AI but Few Actually Use It
A survey of 320 healthcare professionals at Bugando Medical Centre in Tanzania found 70 percent had moderate knowledge of artificial ...
Personality Profiles May Shape How APOE Risk Relates to Memory in Middle-Aged Women
In a cross-sectional study of 192 cognitively healthy middle-aged adults, significant associations between APOE and PICALM variants and memory or ...
Discharge Planning Quality Linked to Better Quality of Life in Dialysis Patients
A cross-sectional study of 370 Indonesian haemodialysis patients links perceived discharge planning quality to quality of life through transition readiness, ...
Inflammation marker shows U-shaped link to medication use in acute depression
A retrospective cross-sectional study of 492 acute-phase depression inpatients reports a U-shaped association between serum hs-CRP levels and current psychiatric ...
Beyond Airflow: Lung Diffusion and Heart Strain Track Depression and Anxiety in COPD
In 56 stable Japanese COPD outpatients, depressive and anxiety symptoms correlated with impaired lung diffusion capacity and echocardiographic pulmonary hemodynamic ...
Vitamin D Deficiency Tracks With Liver Scarring in Biliary Atresia Infants
A cross-sectional study of 50 Egyptian infants found that all children with biliary atresia were vitamin D deficient or insufficient, ...
Inflammatory Blood Indices Show No Link to Erectile Dysfunction in Young Men with HIV
A cross-sectional study of 308 young men living with HIV in Italy found no significant association between erectile dysfunction and ...
Depression Severity Tied to Higher Odds of Self-Medication in Dhaka College Teens
A cross-sectional study of 450 Dhaka college students found that higher depression severity was associated with roughly two- to four-fold ...
Most new tuberculosis patients in Kampala face long diagnostic delays, study finds
A cross-sectional study of 368 newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients in Kampala found that 58.2 percent experienced diagnostic delays longer than ...
Three in four young women in Ugandan fishing communities carry an STI, yet few seek care
A cross-sectional study of 400 Ugandan adolescent girls and young women in Lake Victoria fishing communities found 73.5 percent had ...
Diet and Lifestyle Habits Linked to Comorbid Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Chinese Adolescents
A survey of 57,031 adolescents in Yunnan, China, links breakfast, fruit and vegetable consumption, limited screen time, and adequate sleep ...
Optical coherence tomography finds no lamina cribrosa curvature change in thyroid orbitopathy
A cross-sectional OCT study of 92 participants found no significant differences in lamina cribrosa curvature parameters between thyroid orbitopathy patients ...
Children with Cancer Say Physical Pain Is Managed, but Anxiety Often Is Not
A survey of 210 children with cancer and their mothers in northwest Iran found physical symptoms were well managed while ...
