Publications by authors named "M Horino"
The COVID-19 pandemic presented a grave threat to the continuity of health services that UNRWA provides to 5.9 million Palestine Refugees in the Near East. UNRWA runs 140 primary health care clinics, providing approximately nine million medical consultations a year.
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- Gaza faces severe food insecurity, prompting the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to assess the nutritional status and food security of schoolchildren entering first grade in mid-2023.
- The study involved a systematic sampling of children during annual health exams at six clinics, where parents provided consent and data on household food security and dietary habits were gathered.
- Out of approximately 34,000 children examined, around 16,000 participated in the nutritional assessments, revealing critical insights into the children’s diet diversity and overall health in the context of food scarcity.
Objective: The present study investigated the association between head computed tomography (CT) findings and mortality in patients with COVID-19. Specifically, we focused on low-density lesions identified on head CT screenings.
Materials And Methods: We performed a single-center, retrospective cohort study based on data obtained from the medical charts of inpatients admitted to the Tokyo Metropolitan Hiroo Hospital between January 1 and December 31, 2021.
Introduction: Antenatal care is an essential component of primary healthcare, providing opportunities to screen, prevent, and treat morbidity to preserve the health of mothers and offspring. The World Health Organization now recommends a minimum of eight antenatal care contacts, instead of four, which is challenging in countries exposed to political violence and structural disparities in access to social, economic and healthcare resources as exist in Palestine. This study examines the compliance of the recommend standard of antenatal care in Palestine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Recent advances in omics techniques have allowed detailed genetic characterization of aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA). The pathogenesis of APA is characterized by tumorigenesis-associated aldosterone synthesis. The pathophysiological intricacies of APAs have not yet been elucidated at the level of individual cells.
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