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The Color of COVID-19: Structural Racism and the Disproportionate Impact of the Pandemic on Older Black and Latinx Adults.
(The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2021-02)
<h4>Objectives</h4>The aim of this evidence-based theoretically informed article was
to provide an overview of how and why the COVID-19 outbreak is particularly detrimental
for the health of older Black and Latinx ...
Long-term dynamics of death rates of emphysema, asthma, and pneumonia and improving air quality.
(Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis, 2014)
BACKGROUND: The respiratory tract is a major target of exposure to air pollutants,
and respiratory diseases are associated with both short- and long-term exposures.
We hypothesized that improved air quality in North Carolina ...
Dysferlin, annexin A1, and mitsugumin 53 are upregulated in muscular dystrophy and localize to longitudinal tubules of the T-system with stretch.
(Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology, 2011-04)
Mutations in dysferlin cause an inherited muscular dystrophy because of defective
membrane repair. Three interacting partners of dysferlin are also implicated in membrane
resealing: caveolin-3 (in limb girdle muscular dystrophy ...
Awareness of Cervical Cancer Causes and Predeterminants of Likelihood to Screen Among Women in Haiti.
(Journal of lower genital tract disease, 2017-01)
Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in Haiti. Given
this high disease burden, we sought to better understand women's knowledge of its
causes and the sociodemographic and health correlates of ...
Antibiotic overuse for acute respiratory tract infections in Sri Lanka: a qualitative study of outpatients and their physicians.
(BMC Fam Pract, 2018-03-01)
BACKGROUND: Acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) are a common reason for antibiotic
overuse worldwide. We previously showed that over 80% of outpatients presenting to
a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka ...
Chikungunya as a cause of acute febrile illness in southern Sri Lanka.
(PLoS One, 2013)
BACKGROUND: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) re-emerged in Sri Lanka in late 2006 after a
40-year hiatus. We sought to identify and characterize acute chikungunya infection
(CHIK) in patients presenting with acute undifferentiated ...
Factors affecting pitch discrimination performance in a cohort of extensively phenotyped healthy volunteers.
(Scientific reports, 2017-11-28)
Despite efforts to characterize the different aspects of musical abilities in humans,
many elements of this complex area remain unknown. Musical abilities are known to
be associated with factors like intelligence, training, ...
Feeling superior is a bipartisan issue: extremity (not direction) of political views predicts perceived belief superiority.
(Psychological science, 2013-12)
Accusations of entrenched political partisanship have been launched against both conservatives
and liberals. But is feeling superior about one's beliefs a partisan issue? Two competing
hypotheses exist: the rigidity-of-the-right ...
Clinical and pathological characteristics of HIV- and HHV-8-negative Castleman disease.
(Blood, 2017-03)
Castleman disease (CD) comprises 3 poorly understood lymphoproliferative variants
sharing several common histopathological features. Unicentric CD (UCD) is localized
to a single region of lymph nodes. Multicentric CD (MCD) ...
Loss of PRDM1/BLIMP-1 function contributes to poor prognosis of activated B-cell-like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
(Leukemia, 2017-03)
PRDM1/BLIMP-1, a master regulator of plasma-cell differentiation, is frequently inactivated
in activated B-cell-like (ABC) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients. Little
is known about its genetic aberrations and ...