2858 papers
This cross-sectional study of 429 clinical health professions students in southwestern Uganda reveals that poor sleep quality is highly prevalent (71.6%) and significantly associated with low physical activity, elevated blood pressure, and central obesity, highlighting the need for integrated wellness interventions.
This scoping review of 30 global studies highlights a critical lack of perioperative-specific, patient-centered, and African evidence on cultural competence in nursing, thereby establishing the urgent need for context-specific research and interventions within Ghanaian surgical care settings.
This retrospective study of 24 post-keratoplasty patients found that while no statistically significant differences existed among autorefractor, topographic, and Holladay EKR keratometric methods for IOL power calculation, autorefractor and topographic measurements demonstrated greater consistency and lower variability than EKR.
This cross-sectional study of 93 children aged 6–23 months in a Pretoria informal settlement identified seven distinct dietary patterns and found that while dietary diversity was moderate, high stunting rates persisted, with a notable negative association between reliance on legumes and nuts and height-for-age z-scores, suggesting that such dietary choices reflect resource constraints rather than optimal nutrition.
A community-based study of 301 women in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, reveals that while health-seeking behaviors are common, knowledge of diabetes and hypertension is poor and sustained preventive lifestyle practices are infrequent, with asset ownership identified as the sole independent predictor of engagement in preventive care, suggesting a need for interventions that address financial barriers and structural access rather than relying solely on health education.
This study utilizes integrated urine metabolomic and proteomic profiling to identify specific purine metabolism-related biomarkers, such as APRT, PNP, HPRT1, and guanosine, for predicting coronary artery lesions and guanine for detecting IVIG non-response in Kawasaki disease patients.
This qualitative study in Uganda reveals that while novel antenatal technologies hold promise for improving maternal care in low-income settings, their successful implementation relies on addressing interconnected challenges related to user acceptability, clinical workflow integration, and broader health system readiness.
This multicenter prospective study demonstrates that while lung ultrasound findings do not differentiate COPD, specific cardiac POCUS patterns (poor parasternal and preserved subcostal views) combined with clinical factors accurately identify COPD, achieving an AUC of 0.94 and a high negative predictive value.
This cross-sectional study of 495 community-dwelling older adults in the UAE reveals a 29.7% prevalence of sarcopenia risk, identifying poor physical performance, cognitive impairment, and inadequate nutritional status as key independent predictors while highlighting the need for comprehensive geriatric screening and interventions.
This retrospective study of 102 patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer treated with definitive chemoradiotherapy found that a low pretreatment prognostic nutritional index (PNI ≤ 43.5) is an independent predictor of worse progression-free and overall survival, whereas other immune-nutritional markers like NLR and PLR showed no significant association.