Publications by authors named "N Pol"
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- Patients with Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases (IMIDs) on immunosuppressive therapy are at higher risk for vaccine-preventable infections, prompting this study to assess their vaccination rates against guidelines.
- A survey sent to IMID patients at a Rotterdam hospital revealed that while 92% were vaccinated per national guidelines, many still lacked vaccinations for measles and diphtheria/tetanus/polio, and only a fraction received regular pneumococcal and influenza vaccines.
- The study concludes that vaccination rates for these patients do not meet guidelines, and suggests focused efforts to improve vaccination compliance, especially for measles, diphtheria/tetanus/polio, and regular pneumococcal and influenza vaccinations.
Crime comes with enormous costs, not only financial but also in terms of loss of mental and physical health and, in some cases, even loss of life. Recidivism is responsible for a considerable percentage of the crimes, and therefore, society deems reducing recidivism a priority. To reduce recidivism, several types of interventions can be used, such as education and employment-focused rehabilitation programs which are intended to improve psychological and social factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have an attenuated serologic response to COVID-19 vaccination. It is unclear whether an impaired immune response in vaccinated IBD patients impacts the susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection and occurrence of severe COVID-19.
Objectives: To evaluate SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infection rates and the disease course of COVID-19 in vaccinated IBD patients.
Adolescence and young adulthood are important periods of transition and therefore for action and intervention to ensure future sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Caregiver-adolescent communication about sex and sexuality is a protective factor for SRH, but there are often barriers to this. Adults' perspectives are limited within the literature but important as they should lead this process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe search for a first-order phase transition gravitational wave signal in 45 pulsars from the NANOGrav 12.5-year dataset. We find that the data can be modeled in terms of a strong first order phase transition taking place at temperatures below the electroweak scale.
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