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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to compare patient-reported voice handicap and auditory-perceptual measures of voice between healthy individuals and COVID-19 patients, as well as to investigate the effect of clinical factors on voice quality.
Methods: COVID-19 patients ( = 138) and 90 healthy controls were included in the study. The Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V) was used to grade voice samples based on overall severity, roughness, breathiness, strain, pitch, and loudness.
Dental development in children born to Zikv-infected mothers: a case-based study.
Arch Oral Biol
February 2020
University of Pernambuco, School of Dentistry - Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Camaragibe, Pernambuco, Brazil. Electronic address:
Background: In Brazil, in October 2015, an outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection and an increase in newborns with microcephaly suggested a relationship between maternal infection and microcephaly in children.
Objective: First, to assess the presence of dental bud sin 13 infants with a confirmed diagnosis of congenital ZIKV syndrome, born to mothers infected with the virus during pregnancy; second, to evaluate the dental development of these children at a 36-month follow-up.
Design: Case-based longitudinal study.
Perceptions about supervised injection facilities among people who inject drugs in Philadelphia.
Int J Drug Policy
February 2018
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, MPH Program, United States; Center for Public Health Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania, United States; University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, United States.
Background: People who inject drugs (PWID) are at high risk for infectious diseases, skin and soft tissue infections, and overdose. However, these harms are all avoidable when sterile injection equipment, hygienic places to inject, and medical care are accessible. Unfortunately, many PWID in the U.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvaluation of vitamin D levels in children with primary epistaxis.
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol
October 2016
Adiyaman University, School of Medicine Department of Infectious Disease, Adiyaman, Turkey.
Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether there is a relationship between 25-hydroxy vitamin D [25(OH)D 3] values and incidences of primary epistaxis among children.
Methods: A total of 42 cases and 55 matched controls were included in our study. The study group and control group were well matched for age and gender.