2026 April - 16 articles
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic increased stress experienced by children through individual-, family-, and community-level factors, with potential sex-specific impacts on behavioural outcomes. Children’s resilience may buffer these effects. T...
This study evaluates the performance of a semi-dynamic negative binomial model with cubic spline smoothing to characterize the spatiotemporal dynamics of COVID-19 mortality in Peru, a setting marked by significant data inconsistency and reporting del...
Background: Religious affiliation has traditionally served as a coping strategy during stressful events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Pregnant women faced heightened stress during the pandemic due to concerns about their health as well as that of th...
Background and Objective: After SARS-CoV-2 infection, Long COVID (LC) syndrome has occurred in a high proportion of patients, affecting their health. The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of LC, as well as its risk and protective factor...
Background: The clinical course of COVID-19 is highly variable, ranging from asymptomatic infection to critical illness with hyperinflammation and multiorgan failure. Oxidative stress plays a central role in COVID-19 pathogenesis, and genetic polymor...
Coronavirus disease-2019 COVID-19 exhibits marked inter-individual variability in susceptibility and clinical outcomes, suggesting a role for host genetic factors. Vitamin D exerts immunomodulatory effects through the vitamin D receptor (VDR), and ge...
Health crises hinder the provision of intensive care for critical obstetric conditions such as preeclampsia and eclampsia, where timely decision making and system capacity directly impact maternal and fetal outcomes. This study compared the clinical...
The concurrent occurrence of COVID-19 and the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake resulted in a “compound disaster” in Japan. This retrospective study, spanning 11 years (2015–2025), examines the impact of these crises on trends in cardi...
For vaccine-preventable diseases, vaccination uptake is among the best public health behaviors to prevent infection, disease and death. However, public confidence in this behavior has waned in recent years alongside the twin respiratory threats of in...
Previous studies have suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed children to an increased risk of greater body weight accumulation; however, the evidence found is limited to examining relatively short periods in children from Asian, European, and N...
Objective: Dental professionals are routinely exposed to infectious agents through contact with blood, saliva, and aerosols. This cross-sectional survey aimed to evaluate and compare knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported practices related to infect...
COVID-19 is increasingly recognized as a multisystemic disease with significant neurocognitive consequences. However, its specific impact on spatial memory, a cognitive domain essential for daily navigation and functional independence, remains insuff...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with increased psychological distress globally. However, the independent psychological impact of prior COVID-19 infection remains heterogeneous, particularly in primary healthcare populations. Thi...
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed healthcare education, increasing the shift to digital tools and establishing a hybrid curriculum blending online learning with traditional clinical practice. This study aims to understand how this shift impacts the e...
The neuroinvasive and neurotropic character of coronaviruses is a likely reason for neurological complications which may occur during acute COVID illness and sometimes persist or newly emerge in the post-acute phase. Terminology and temporal classifi...
Objectives: While the previous literature has established that meteorological conditions are associated with COVID-19 mortality fluctuations, the relative effect of each of these highly correlated factors remains unclear. This study aims to conduct a...
