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Clin Transl Sci
January 2025
Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common global cause of chronic liver disease and remains under-recognized within healthcare systems. Therapeutic interventions are rapidly advancing for its inflammatory phenotype, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) at all stages of disease. Diagnosis codes alone fail to recognize and stratify at-risk patients accurately.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExpert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res
December 2024
US Medical Affairs, Vaccines, GSK, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Introduction: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination could improve health equity by protecting individuals who are disproportionally at increased risk of RSV infection and severe RSV-related outcomes. However, limited information is available about RSV-related disparities among United States (US) adults.
Areas Covered: We reviewed US-specific literature regarding disparities across adult populations in having risk factors for severe RSV disease (cardiopulmonary disease, diabetes, liver disease, kidney disease).
J R Soc N Z
February 2024
Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Starship Children's Hospital, Te Whatu Ora-Health New Zealand, Auckland.
This review summarises advances in research from Aotearoa, New Zealand (NZ) that have potential to reduce the inequitable distribution of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD). ARF incidence and RHD prevalence are unacceptably inequitable for Māori and Pacifica. Recent qualitative research has demonstrated mismatches between the lived experience of those with ARF/RHD and health service experience they encounter.
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November 2024
Emergency Medicine, Duzce University School of Medicine, Düzce, TUR.
Purpose Our aim was to analyse the Emergency Department (ED) admissions of patients aged 90 years and older (nonagenarians) and to provide the literature with data showing the needs and characteristics of this highly vulnerable group in the ED. Methods This was a retrospective, single-centre observational study from Türkiye. A total of 18,225 patients aged 65 years and older, who were admitted to the ED between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2023, were identified and included in the study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring the 2019 coronavirus pandemic, stay-at-home policies such as New York's (NY) NY on Pause dramatically reduced traffic congestion. Despite high traffic burden in NY's environmental justice communities, this reduction has not been evaluated through an environmental justice lens-our objective in this analysis. We obtained census tract-level traffic congestion data from Google traffic maps hourly for 2018-2020.
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