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    A sex-specific Mendelian randomization-phenome-wide association study of body mass index

    Zhu Liduzi Jiesisibieke, Io Ieong Chan ... C Mary Schooling
    Higher body mass index has a wide range of harmful health effects, which sometimes appear to be more pronounced in men, suggesting that higher BMI may be one of the factors contributing to differences in lifespan between men and women.
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    Assessing healthy vaccinee effect in COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness studies: a national cohort study in Qatar

    Hiam Chemaitelly, Houssein H Ayoub ... Laith J Abu-Raddad
    A pronounced and consistent healthy vaccinee effect has been identified in rigorously conducted vaccine effectiveness studies, specifically within the first 6 months post-vaccination and among older or clinically vulnerable individuals, likely driven by lower vaccination rates among severely ill populations.
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    Menopausal hormone therapy and the female brain: Leveraging neuroimaging and prescription registry data from the UK Biobank cohort

    Claudia Barth, Liisa AM Galea ... Ann-Marie G de Lange
    A big-data approach shows the effects of menopausal hormone therapy on female brain health might vary depending on the duration of use and history of gynaecological surgery.
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    Shining light on the dark matter of pertussis: evidence for an asymptomatic carriage state from a longitudinal cohort of mother/infant dyads

    Christian E Gunning, Christopher J Gill, Pejman Rohani
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    From multiplicity of infection to force of infection for sparsely sampled Plasmodium falciparum populations at high transmission

    Qi Zhan, Kathryn E Tiedje ... Mercedes Pascual
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    1. Medicine
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    Five-Year Survival Outcomes for Breast Cancer Patients Across Continental Africa: A Contemporary Review of Literature with Meta Analysis

    Augustina Badu-Peprah, Ernest Kissi Kontor ... Nityanand Jain
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
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    Estimation of Rotavirus Vaccine Effectiveness Based on Whole Genome Sequences

    Jiye Kwon, Jose Jaimes ... Virginia E Pitzer
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    Understanding Pain in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Health Risks and Treatment Effectiveness

    Tess Cherlin, Stephanie Mohammed ... Shefali S Verma
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    Founder effects arising from gathering dynamics systematically bias emerging pathogen surveillance

    Bradford P Taylor, William P Hanage
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    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.