Epidemiology and Global Health

Epidemiology and Global Health

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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Understanding Pain in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Health Risks and Treatment Effectiveness

    Tess Cherlin, Stephanie Mohammed ... Shefali S Verma
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Compelling
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Founder effects arising from gathering dynamics systematically bias emerging pathogen surveillance

    Bradford P Taylor, William P Hanage
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Lifestyles and their relative contribution to biological aging across multiple-organ systems: Change analysis from the China Multi-Ethnic Cohort study

    Yuan Zhang, Dan Tang ... Xing Zhao
    Healthy lifestyle changes, particularly improvements in diet and smoking, were inversely related to comprehensive and organ-specific biological aging in Southwest China, highlighting key intervention targets to limit aging.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Variation of malaria dynamics and its relationship to climate in western Kenya during 2008-2019: a wavelet approach

    Alexis Martin-Makowka, Bryan O Nyawanda ... Penelope Vounatsou
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Convincing
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Protection afforded by post-infection SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses: A cohort study in Shanghai

    Bo Zheng, Bronner P Gonçalves ... Caoyi Xue
    The observation that an additional vaccine dose provides protection against Omicron variant reinfection in previously vaccinated and infected individuals will help guide future COVID-19 vaccination policies in China and globally.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Global risk mapping of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 and H5Nx in the light of epidemic episodes occurring from 2020 onward

    Marie-Cécile Dupas, Maria F Vincenti-Gonzalez ... Simon Dellicour
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Serum metabolome indicators of early childhood development in the Brazilian National Survey on Child Nutrition (ENANI-2019)

    Marina Padilha, Victor Nahuel Keller ... Gilberto Kac
    A panel of serum biomarkers, including dietary and microbial-derived metabolites related to the gut-brain axis, were identified as potential for tracking children at risk of early childhood developmental delays.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Persistent cross-species transmission systems dominate Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 epidemiology in a high incidence region: A genomic epidemiology study

    Gillian AM Tarr, Linda Chui ... Tim A McAllister
    E. coli O157 infections in humans are closely linked to strains circulating in local cattle populations, with some strains persisting as long as 13 years.

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    Indian Council of Medical Research, India
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    McGill University, Canada
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    University of Michigan, United States
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